Nonsense-Free Kristin
Episodes
J. Manfred Weichsel – The Smut Double Standard No One Will Talk About
29 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
J. Manfred Weichsel is an indie author, editor, and New York background actor writing the kind of books the “write to market” gurus would tell you...
Jonathan Shuerger - Target Readers Like an Intel Marine
22 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Shuerger spent five years as a Marine Corps Crypto Logic Linguist studying Arabic and tracking ISIS targets in real time. Now he writes inten...
Alec Cizak - The Cancel Mob Wants Weakness. Don't Give It to Them
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Alec Cizak has been running Pulp Modern since 2011 and champions a simple but apparently radical idea: writers should be judged on the quality of thei...
Kaylena Radcliff - Christian Fiction Doesn't Have to be Satanic
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kaylena Radcliff is a speculative fiction author, managing editor of Christian History Magazine, homeschool mom, and wife of a church planter. She is ...
David Badurina - How to Maximize Your Output with AI (Without Letting It Write for You)
01 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
David Badurina is an author, music producer, showrunner, and what he calls a multimodal storyteller — someone building an entire creative universe a...
Nobody Is Coming to Save Conservative Art (And What to Do About It)
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Every year conservatives complain that Hollywood hates them, point to a handful of companies as proof that right wing art is thriving, then wait for a...
Seth Ring - How to Turn Web Serials Into a Seven Figure Indie Business
18 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Seth Ring has written 46 books, built a seven figure indie author business without an agent or a traditional publishing deal, and cracked the code on ...
Echo Chamberlain - Literary Fiction Lost the Plot (And the Readers)
11 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Traditional publishing isn’t just an American problem anymore. Gatekeepers have gone global, and authors in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand are s...
Serial Storytelling in the Age of Saturation
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Twitter Crush is available in its entirety on Amazon and wherever books are sold: https://buy.bookfunnel.com/i2x75bx6hv Web novels are not fan fic...
Phil Marshall: Ethical AI Audiobook Creation with Spoken
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Phil Marshall is not your typical tech founder. He’s a former surgeon, a sci-fi author, and the founder/CEO of Spoken, an AI-powered audiobook platf...
E.J. Free - Why Christian Fiction Feels Like Hallmark
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
E.J. Free is not your typical “Christian author.” He writes young adult fiction for boys, and he does it without sermonizing or softening reality ...
Joshua Lisec - Trump World’s Favorite Writer?
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Joshua Lisec is not your typical ghostwriter. With more than 110 books written across business, politics, health, and memoir, he has built a six-figur...
Hans Schantz - Defying Gatekeepers and Writing Real Science Into Science-Fiction
04 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Hans Schantz is not your typical author; he is a literal scientist with a background in antenna technology who believes modern physics took a wrong tu...
K.T. Carlisle - Trad Pub is Not the Finish Line: Why an Agency Insider Went Indie
28 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Is a traditional publishing deal actually the finish line, or is it just the beginning of a different struggle? In this episode, Kristin sits down wit...
John Van Stry - Harnessing Harem to Sell 1,000,000+ Copies
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Most authors dream of finishing one book a year; John Van Stry wrote twenty in two. The bestselling sci-fi author joins Kristin to explain how he tran...
Cary DiCristina - Why Men Stopped Reading Fiction (and How to Bring Them Back)
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Screenwriter turned indie novelist Cary DiChristina joins the show to discuss his 15-year journey through Hollywood and why he finally decided to bypa...
John Del Arroz - AI Writing, Cancel Culture & The Future of Publishing
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Science fiction author and Fandom Pulse founder John Del Arroz joins the show to discuss why he is arguably the most banned man in independent publish...
Jack Napier - On Women (Dating Dynamics, Trad-Con Traps, and Marketing Freedom)
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jack Napier joins to discuss his new book, On Women, described as 200 pages of “condensed Red Pill 101”. While the term “Red Pill” is often mi...
Melissa Cave - Crafting Believable Men in Romantasy, and Why BookTok Sucks at It
24 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Military veteran and fantasy author Melissa Cave joins the show to discuss why "Romantasy" has become a slur in the reading community and how she is f...
Nick Pecone - The Role Player’s Guide to Indie Success: Quests, Character Sheets, and Sales
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marketer and musician Nick Picone joins the show to discuss the “Iron Age” of media, why the DIY punk rock ethos is the only path forward for mode...
Kit Perez - The Machine is Designed to Reward Itself, Not You (And What to do About It)
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kit Perez joins to discuss the art and science of resistance in the publishing world, why Amazon is not evil but simply a machine designed to extract ...
John A. Douglas - Creating Masculine Fantasy in the Indie Sphere
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John A. Douglas joins to discuss the state of literature for men, the dominance of female-targeted content in traditional publishing, and why the most...
Boys Fiction - Why Teenage Boys Stopped Reading (And How to Fix It)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Where did all the adventure books for teenage boys go? Jeff Putnam—author and father of eight sons—explains why boys stopped reading, what happene...
Tim Grahl - Stop Writing Like S**t (A Craft Workshop)
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode DescriptionTim Grahl runs Story Grid and wrote The Shithead, and he has a controversial opinion: writing is a learnable skill, not magic. In t...
Episode 4: B.R. Keid - Military Sci-Fi, the Marine Corps, and Building an Indie Career
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
B.R. Keid served in the Marine Corps, deployed to Iraq in 2004, and now writes military sci-fi that actually feels like the military. In this Veterans...
Rian Stone: From Red Pill Nonfiction to Dystopian Fiction
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rian Stone didn’t start as a fiction writer. He built his career writing Red Pill nonfiction, then decided to pivot to dystopian fiction because he’...
The Dog Walker - Why Contemporary Fiction for Men Disappeared
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Traditional publishers love to say men don’t read. The truth? Men don’t read the books publishers keep making for them—or rather, NOT making for...
Devon Eriksen on Writing for Male Readers (and Getting Canceled for It)
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Devon Eriksen didn’t wait for permission from traditional publishing. He wrote Theft of Fire, a hard sci-fi thriller that male readers were starving...
Wolves in Shepherd's Clothing
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bjørn: Why are you doing this?Patrick: Because you let me. —From Speak No Evil (2022)The greatest films always leave themselves open to a number of...
Sweet November: My Lady-Bits Will Heal You
01 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
I will not lie to you: My reasons for renting Sweet November in 2003 were not virtuous. I had a massive crush on Jason Isaacs (of The Patriot fame and...
Pitch Black Warned You
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fictional Influence #3: Pitch Black (2000) warned you about being a followerDonate to victims of Hurricane Helene at Samaritan's Purse: https://www.sa...
Paradise Requires Violence
20 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fictional Influence #2: Paradise Requires Violence: Furiosa and Protecting What's YoursFictional Influence is a weekly blog and podcast by Kristin McT...
Why We Liked 90s Gays (But Not TikTok Gays)
13 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Collectively, the class of 1997 remembers the best teacher they ever had—Mr. Brackett. He was something of a cultural touchstone because of the way ...
Godzilla: Rooting for the End of Humanity
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Fictional Influence #4: Hollywood Hates Humans: Godzilla King of the MonstersFictional Influence is a weekly blog and podcast by Kristin McTiernanTo g...