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Hmmmm, Hello and welcome.
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I'm Jason White and this is Weird Reads, and today
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I'm going to be doing a bit of a solo
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thing for people on YouTube. You'll just be seeing the video,
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but everyone else this will also be a podcast episode
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as well. So basically what I'm going to be doing
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is I just want to talk about the year I've
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had so far doing Weird Reads, the podcast and all
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the interviews, and a look ahead when I'm planning on
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including some Patreon updates and what I've got going for
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the future. Also top five books that I've read during
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the summer. I read some really good ones, and instead
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of going through all the books, I thought I would
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just condense it into what my favorites were. Just because
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a book isn't there, it doesn't mean it wasn't a favorite.
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But I read some mind blowing books this summer and
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in the early fall, so I thought I would comb
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over them a little bit. So, as I mentioned, it's
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been a great year so far. I've talked to like
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Jonathan Jan's, John Pallisano, so many great guests. But we
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have a lot of really interesting guests coming up in
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the future. You know, I'm gonna save those for a
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little bit. I want to jump into the Patreon. I
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would the only reason why I'm running a Patreon is
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because it costs money to produce these podcasts what you
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listen to. It doesn't cost money to put videos up,
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record them and put them up on YouTube, but it
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does for the podcast, and I would like to I
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would like to make that a little more even so
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I'm not paying so much, excuse me. So I've set
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up a few tears here and also equipment like Patreon
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so far helped me buy this new microphone, which I
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absolutely love, so you know, the upgrade and stuff like that.
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And you know, if there ever comes to a point
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where I have some extras, extra money, I can use
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it to buy books. Everything is so far. The plan
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is everything will feed right back into the podcast and
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the YouTube channel, and I do plan on making videos
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again soon, like regular videos. All right, So getting onto
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the Patreon here, there's three tiers. One of them is
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very cheap. It's like buying me a coffee a month,
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and it's about a dollar American, about dollar dollar ten
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somewhere in there. And what you get a fair amount
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of stuff here. It's the weird reads Appreciation Tier, and
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I'll just read you what I got here on my description.
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Thank you so much for your support. Every little bit helps,
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and the money, as I said, helps pay for the
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services I use to bring bookish podcasts and videos. So
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what do you do? You get all the Weird Reads
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content here except for the free fiction and the Stephen
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King stuff. To get the free friction and Stephen King
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content together, you can join the Weird Reader tier. So
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I'll get to that in a minute. So what do
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you get? You get AD free episodes, because as you
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may have noticed, I do run a lot of ads here,
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and I do that for the exact same reason that
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I'm running a Patreon. I want to. I want to
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I want the channel to pay for itself and upgrades
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and all that fun stuff. So you get AD free episodes,
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you'll get a shout out, you get Patreon exclusive videos
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and podcast episodes. You can ask me a question and
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I'll answer it in the Patreon And so far that's it.
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But that's a fair amount of extra stuff that I do,
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and it's also it's only for a dollar and I've
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been adding to it a lot. So the next tier
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is the Stephen King Deadlights Club and for that it's
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for approximately three dollars a month. You get a lot
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of Stephen King content and of course my thanks, but
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you get a short shout out on the Short Bites
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a Stephen King podcast. You also receive extra commentary for
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me and guests regarding adapted Stephen King short stories. Plus
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there's videos and not videos, there's a lot of audio there.
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It has its own podcast. It's called the Dead Lights
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Club as well, and I record my thoughts on certain
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short stories and Stephen King related stuff. What else is there? Yeah,
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that's that's pretty much about it. So member shout outs,
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exclusive content and of course the ad free content. So
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that's the Dead Lights Club. And also if you have
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any suggestions, feel free to write something down deep down
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there in the darkness and let me know what you
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would like to see on here. And I'll add it
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next as the Weird Reader tier. And this is about
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five point fifty American around there. All my prices here
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in Canadian, so I haven't converted them as six dollars Canadian,
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which probably is about five something American, and you get
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everything in this tier. You get plus free fiction such
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as such as this. I gave away the ebook. If
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you go join now you can go find that post
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and download the epub for this well technically for free,
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but you also get you get shout outs at the
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beginning of a podcast episode. You also get access to
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exclusive videos and podcasts and Patreon only live streams. Now,
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I haven't done any live streams yet because there's not
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very many people on my Patreon, but if there ever
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is a lot of people there and they are interested
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in me doing a live stream, then I'll do that.
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I was thinking about hosting book club discussions on there.
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So you ask me a question and I'll answer it,
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and you also, as I said, receive free fiction. So
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just to run down the points here, you get live streams,
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digital book digital ebooks, member shout outs, ad free content, audio,
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Q and as, and behind the scenes content which this
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tier Weird Reader, which the Weird Reads appreciation level also gets.
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It's it's it's got its own podcast, and it's called
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the Weird Reader. And so I hope that some people
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will join and help me out, especially most importantly if
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you enjoy what I'm doing here. All right, so I'll
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get into some guests I have coming in the near future. Now,
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remember these are just scheduled guests. It's not necessarily meaning
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that it's going to happen. I've already had to knock
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back one of them. I was supposed to interview them today,
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but there's a lot of contact to read for this guest,
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and so I asked to give me a couple more months.
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I read every book before I before I go and
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talk to them. So I'm going to be having Jack Finn,
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Candice Nola is going to come on the show, Amanda
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Hedley is planned, Glenn Rolfe, Radardi Board and much more.
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Those are just five, I believe can't count. And yeah,
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so there's a lot more ahead. And I've also got
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some lined up for twenty twenty six, including Daniel brom So.
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So yeah, I hope that you guys will hop on
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board and help me out. You can do so for
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a dollar fifty that's Canadian, it's closer to a dollar
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in American a month. That is dirt cheap, and you
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get a lot of stuff for that. And like I said,
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if you have any recommendations of what you'd like to
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see in the Patreon, because I suck it coming up
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with these kinds of ideas, just let me know. In
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the darkness there and I will do my best to
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apply it. So I do have some future plans for
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the Patreon as well. I plan on doing more reviews
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of books and short stories on the Weird Reader tier,
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and this may include reviews of old science fiction episodes
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that sometimes come up during interviews. I want to start
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its own show on the Patreon for the Weird Reader.
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I want to start talking about The Outer Limits and
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go through the episodes of that. I was watching the
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very first episode a couple of weeks ago and it
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absolutely blew my mind. And we've talked about the Outer
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Limits with like Daniel Brahm and other guest I think
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Mark Allen Gunnell's maybe and other guests and the Twilight
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Zone stuff like that, Tales from the Crypt. So I
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just want to go into a series. It'll all be
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on the Weird Reader podcast that you can access through
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the Patreon, and it'll be exclusive to that. Also, like
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I said, short stories and whatnot, I want to sort
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of dig into some short stories maybe from like Caitlin Kiernan,
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Thomas Leggotti, stuff like that, and I'll I'll read them
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and then I'll talk about them. For the Dead Lights Club,
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which is the Stephen King tier. I would love to
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do a giant Stephen King read along where we go
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through all the books chronologically. This is an interesting project
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and I might need some people to hop on board
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with me. I don't know, but if there are people
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who are willing to join in on that fun, then
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I'll do it and there will be a discord specifically
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for that should it happen. As for the Dead Light clubs,
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Deadlights Club, I plan to discuss Stephen King short stories,
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novella's novels, along with movie adaptations and news. So lots
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of fun stuff coming up on the Patreon, so please
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join up. You'll get it all for free. Not free.
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You can join as a free member, but you can
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get it for dirt cheap and almost free. Just to
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go to my patreon is. I'm sorry this sounds so
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much like an advertisement, but you know, I don't have
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very many Patreons, and I would absolutely love it if
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I had more. And that's at www dot patreon dot com.
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Forward slash Jason Underscore White. That should get you there.
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The link is always in the show notes, so just
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go and check that out. All right, I'm gonna stop
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talking about Patreon Now, I'm not usually very good at
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self promotion, and so I thought i'd make this video
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to at least half of the video to be that,
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and then the next half to be about the books.
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So top five books that I read of summer and fall.
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So let me see here all these books except for one.
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It's Somebody for Somebody that I talked to, and one
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of the books isn't that book, So I'm gonna save
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that for last. I'm gonna be one of those pricks,
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all right, So I'm going to start off at Imposter
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Syndrome by Mark Allen Gunnals. I had some interesting technical
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difficulties getting Mark Allen Gunnals on the on the show,
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and technically I haven't talked to him yet, so that's
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supposed to happen tomorrow. But we're to talk about Imposter Syndrome.
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And I read the book for that interview, and it
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was an incredible book. The book is exactly what the
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title suggests it is. It's about a young man who's
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he's not young anymore. Actually, I think he's approaching middle age,
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if not middle age. His father was a very well
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known writer. He was like one of the most popular
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writers in the world, and he tried being a writer himself,
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and he failed. He only failed really because he let
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himself fail. He suffers from imposter syndrome. And he also
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suffers from a terrible father. His father is a serious
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prick to him. And so his father dies and he
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inherits the house. He also inherits his father's literary series
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the book company. The publisher, the top five publisher who
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published his dad, wants him to finish off the series
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with the last book that his father had started writing.
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And so imposter syndrome sort of sinks his awful teeth
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into his neck and in jexit's venom and to his blood,
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and it just goes from there. The story, like I said,
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it's wild. You really don't know what's going on until
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the end, and even maybe at the end you don't know.
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It's very much you can't trust the narrator at all.
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There's some alcoholism involved, some suicide, suicidal ideation, and very
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much a lot of imposter syndrome. It's a psychological thriller
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slash horror, and I absolutely loved it. I hope you
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check it out. It's out now, I believe, and as
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I can't all these books, these books are going to
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make the top ten of the year, and I don't
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know where, but they're going to be there, and this
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one included, of course. Next up as Shit Show by
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Chris Pennettier. I saw Chris. He was on Instagram and
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he requested people to to Shit Show wasn't out yet,
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and he was requesting reviewers for the book, and I said, hey,
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I'll review your book if I get an e arc. Also,
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I be on my show if you want to talk
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about it, and he said yeah. So we got on
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the show and we talked about it. And Shit Show
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is a WoT it's about. You know, I forget the
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technical name, the sort of technician that the main character is,
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but he empties the porta potties that you see at
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work sites and concerts and circuses and whatnot. So that's
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his job. And people are going missing in the area.
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And his mother who's suffering from early on set maybe
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not early onset, but she has dementia, and she goes
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missing and he takes on a wild, crazy adventure to
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find her and bring her back home. I'm going to
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leave it at that. There is a dark carnival in here.
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It's very much a horror story, and like I said,
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it's a whot's very funny, but not in a I
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don't know it's I found it very funny and I
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enjoyed the humor in it. I kind of went off
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on that because I know some people don't like comedy
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in their horror, but I felt it worked very well
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in shit Show. I also read Requiem, which makes this list,
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where I talked with John Pallisano. This book, this book
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hits all the things for me. It's it's a science