Kevin Tomlinson and Simeon Berry

On the 7/26/23 edition of Dr. Andy’s Poetry and Technology Hour:Podcaster and writer Kevin Tumlinson delves into his dedication to the production and publishing of his 70 books, under both his name and his pen name. His writing expands across many genres, from sci-fi to fantasy to philosophy. Tumlinson also writes advice books to guide the writers of the world, as this is a community he seeks to nurture and serve. He recounts his interesting methods of gaining wisdom through interviewing and seeking to understand people, as well as incredible advice about advertising, publishing, and purchasing as Director of Marketing & PR for Draft2Digital. He then shares an excerpt from his recent book, A Note From the Author, which he began the morning of his 50th birthday. The premise of the novel relies on Kevin’s daily chronicles in a notebook where he imparts one piece of wisdom a day, for 130 days. Poet Simeon Berry expresses his love for poetry podcasts and the constant companionship and inspiration that he finds in a spoken voice. He finds inspiration by capturing his thoughts on Google docs in order to preserve lines and notes about other writers and pop culture, as a sort of intellectual digi-diary. This method fueled his most recent poetry book. Berry points out the importance of learning your weaknesses, and his experience of smoothing weaknesses out through prose and revision. He then shares two poems; the first about a man inexplicably exhibiting concern during college, and the second about a recollection of moving to a city, familial dynamics, and the vast emotions that accompany these abstractions. <br/><br/>Kevin Tumlinson is a prolific writer and podcast host, with books available worldwide in multiple languages. He is the Director of Marketing & PR for Draft2Digital, the leading distributor of independently published books online. He prefers to be known as a writer of good books and good stories.Simeon Berry won the National Poetry Series for his first collection of poetry, Ampersand Revisited (Fence Books), and his second book of poetry, Monograph (University of Georgia Press). He has been an Associate Editor for Ploughshares and won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Individual Artist Grant, and his work has appeared in AGNI, Colorado Review, Blackbird, DIAGRAM, The Iowa Review, and many other journals. He lives in Massachusetts and is the Prose Poetry Editor for Pithead Chapel.Find out more about Dr. Andy's Poetry Night Reading Series in Davis, California by visiting http://www.poetryindavis.com. Invite your friends to sign up for the mailing list. To learn more about Dr. Andy’s tiny media fiefdom, visit his weekly newsletter at https://andyjones.substack.com and follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/andyojones.