MNINS: Season 3, Episode 12 – Uncharted 4: The Future of Storytelling

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 12 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer chat about the Uncharted game series, including the latest release, A Thief’s End, and how gaming may be the future of storytelling. Mobile Users Listen Here […]

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MNINS: Season 3, Episode 11 – The Castle Collapse, Or How to Destroy a Series in One Horrible Finale

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 11 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer chat about The Castle Collapse – how horrendous writing killed the show and discuss just about everything wrong with the Castle series finale. Mobile Users Listen […]

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MNINS: Season 3, Episode 10 – Reluctant Heroes – Harry Potter, Hans Solo, Katniss Everdeen, John McClane and Gabby Wells

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 10 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer chat about Reluctant Heroes – Harry Potter, Hans Solo, Katniss Everdeen, John McClane and Gabby Wells. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes In this […]

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MNINS: Season 3, Episode 9 – Page Turners and MI:3

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 9 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer chat about the concept of page turners and use the film Mission Impossible: III as a cinematic example of one.  THIS EPISODE CONTAINS MI:3 SPOILERS! Mobile […]

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MNINS: Season 3, Episode 8 – Let’s Create a Character

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 8 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer talk about their approaches to creating characters and whip one up on the fly. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes In this episode: Writing […]

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MNINS: Season 3, Episode 7 – Smarter Artist Summit Recap

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 7 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve).   In this episode, Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer chat about Pete’s amazing experiences at the Smarter Artists Summit writers conference. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes In this […]

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MNINS: Season 3, Episode 5 – Listener Request – Character vs. Plot Driven Stories

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 5 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Per listener request, Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer talk about the differences between stories driven by characters versus those driven by plot. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes In […]

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MNINS: Season 3, Episode 3 – Lost & Found Special

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 3 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer spend some time going over the creation of the second Gabby Wells Thriller novel, Lost & Found. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on ITunes In this […]

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Company Business – 2015

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Running a small business like Sonlight Press, LLC is a challenge. Getting your novels written and out to the public is even harder.  Putting those two together requires a bit of money and a lot of faith. Here’s where my money went this past year. They say Editing and Book Covers are the most important parts […]

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MNINS: Season 3, Episode 2 – Gaming Stories

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 2 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer chat about the video game Gone Home and how it is the closest thing to playing a novel in gaming today and why virtual reality adoption has […]

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The 7 Books I Read During My Recovery

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During my recent recovery from my sixth Crohns intestinal surgery, I took the time to read as much as possible. I’m usually more of a TV binger or classic movie-watcher, but I was determined to shut off the technology and sit down with the growing stack of books on my desk. Here’s what tickled my […]

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The 27 Things I Miss from a Pre-Internet World

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The internet is amazing. For the first time in human history, information and global access are at our fingertips 24 hours a day and the technology providing that access has us connected like never before, altering how we live our lives from sunrise to sunset. But, living through the pre and post internet eras, I […]

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MNINS: Season 3, Episode 1 – Surgeries, Stories and Star Wars

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Welcome to Season 3, Episode 1 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling (with People Not Named Steve). Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer chat about all of the things that occurred over the holidays, goals for 2016, That Catholic Girl VLog, a reading binge, and a small little movie […]

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2015 – Writing Year in Review

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This year was very much an overall representation of my creative life… big goals, almost realized, yet undermined by my health. I started out this year having published nothing. I had spent years learning, writing, re-writing and trashing most of my work. 2015 was the year things finally started to come together. I started this […]

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MNINS: Season 2, Episode 10 – Childhood Friendships and Story Telling

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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 10 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling with People Not Named Steve. Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer talk about how childhood friendships evolve as you move into adulthood and how to properly present that in fiction. Mobile Users Listen Here or Subscribe on […]

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MNINS: Season 2, Episode 9 – Allowing Stories to Take the Paths They Need to Take

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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 9 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling with People Not Named Steve. Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer talk about how stories can veer off the planned path and how that can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on how you […]

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MNINS: Season 2, Episode 8 – Authentic Catholic Characters

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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 8 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling with People Not Named Steve. Pete Bauer and Dorothea Bauer talk about how bad Hollywood is at portraying authentic Catholic Characters, the two sides of faith, stupid angels and the Dan Brown Flaw. Mobile Users Listen […]

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Paperback Rewards

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In a digital world, writing can sometimes feel like I’m moving ones and zeros in a virtual world where nothing is real.  Even when I’ve finished the book and output it into various ebook formats, it still doesn’t feel like I’ve completed my goal until I hold the paperback novel in my hand. This week […]

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MNINS: Season 2, Episode 6 – Finding New Life in an Old Series

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Welcome to Season 2, Episode 6 of My Name Is Not Steve – The Podcast by Storytellers about Storytelling with People Not Named Steve. This time we talk about attempts to bring new life into old material, using NCIS, Castle and Dr. Who as examples and how that relates to Gabby Wells. Mobile Users Listen […]

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