Award-winning TV producer, editor, journalist, blogger, and author, DAVID DAYEN, discusses his career and influences with AMANDA FRYE.   DAVID DAYEN is a contributor to SALON.COM, THE INTERCEPT, THE GUARDIAN, POLITICO, THE HUFFINGTON POST, and a featured guest on the NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT, MSNBC, CNN, and NPR, among many others.  He is also the author of CHAIN OF TITLE.  In this best-selling book DAVID DAYEN examines one of the great stories of our time: "HOW THREE ORDINARY AMERICANS UNCOVERED WALL STREET'S GREAT FORECLOSURE FRAUD."  Read this interview and learn about what it takes to SUCCEED AS A FREELANCE JOURNALISTtoday, and, on a lighter side, as a JEOPARDY contestant. Multi-talented MATT KRAUSE found the common denominator for being a filmmaker, award-winning novelist, blogger, video-blogger, and much more.  He called himself STORYTELLER MATT.  In his interview with AMANDA FRYE, STORYTELLER MATT tells his own story. What it was like to grow up in a small Kansas town, break into Hollywood, collaborate with his feline muse HANK on a series of novels, and to embark on a spiritual tour of the Old World.   To read about STORYTELLER MATT click right HERE… Legendary author, journalist, publisher, and creative thinker, BEVERLY RUSSELL, discusses her new memoir DEADLINE DIVA with AMANDA FRYE.  In this interview, BEVERLY RUSSELL also looks back at her long career from writing for LONDON'S FLEET STREET NEWSPAPERS to being a RENOWNED MAGAZINE EDITOR IN NEW YORK.Of special interest is her view on the FUTURE OF JOURNALISM and INDEPENDENT BOOK PUBLISHING.  Read it all here... DEANNE STILLMAN’s award-winning nonfiction books exploring the deserts of the American West are bestsellers--they are studied in college classes alongside the works of KRAKAUER, CAPOTE, MAILER, and DIDION. HUNTER S. THOMPSON called DEANNE "an important American writer." Cultmachine had a chance to ask DEANNE STILLMAN about researching and weaving together her amazingly structured narratives into page-turners about "the promise and failure of the American dream and how the desert has shaped our mythologies and lives." Read the interview here... Cultmachine's Shannon Luster talks to Hi-Desert Renaissance man Kurt Schauppner about writing novels, poetry, stage plays, acting, composing, publishing, running a newspaper, and the soul-saving solitude of the California Hi-Desert. Check it out... SHARON JORDAN, the author of TIME SHADOWS, "talks shop" about psychology, writing novels, direct publishing, acting, and what it means to be an actor-novelist. A must read for all you writers & readers out there. THE KINGS OF CINEMA Cultmachine talks to SCOTT VOISIN, author of the must-read CHARACTER KINGS.