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Today our guest is Summer McGaha from North Carolina. She has been storytelling for most of her life, but only really discovered it was her passion in 2006. She began writing an age-gap love story named The Adoption Elopement. The story grew for four years, by which point, she's changed the name to Myrian's Journal and after almost a decade, a new plot for the characters have begun to grow. She is currently writing the sequel. We have conducted an interview with Summer. How did your story's title 'Myrian's Journal' evolved from "The Adoption Elopement"? Why did you need to change its title? The title The Adoption Elopement, was spawned from a plot point I'd had from the beginning, that Myrian and Krayper would run away together. I began to see how impulsive that decision would have been for them, and I didn't want them to feel like they needed to be secretive about their relationship. The purity of their relationship meant that th...

North Carolina singer, author and spiritual seeker Gideon Smith is recognized for his bluesy seventies retro rock that has gathered worldwide acclaim. We caught up with the razor sharp zen master of the microphone to hear the latest news on his music and writing. Gideon has been immersed in doom metal, classic reggae and rap and gives us the inside on the new music.  What have you been up to since the last time we talked about your music? In the last few years, I have recorded sporadically and written many new songs for various side projects. The main sideband that people have heard thus far is my doom metal band Cemetery Crows . It is Black Sabbath worship with death metal vocals and touches of psychedelia, blues, and gothic rock. The response on it has been awesome. I’m very thankful people dig it. I have collaborated on new material with my good friend Kim and hope to finish the new stuff in the next year. We will also have several guests coming down. The material ...

Based in North Carolina, singer and rugged zen master Gideon Smith is recognized for his bluesy seventies retro rock that has gathered worldwide acclaim. His songs have been featured on television shows like The Sopranos and more. When he was young he once visited Jim Morrison's grave in Paris and has a life long love for the Doors music. These days he is writing new material and doing his best to spread a positive vibe through words and music. We have conducted an interview with him. Which song of yours was featured on a television show on 'The Sopranos? My song “Draggin’ The River” was featured in an episode of the show years ago, it is a bluesy song from the first album. I am really thankful to have been a part of it somehow. Everyone loved the show. I am honored my music was on there somewhere along the history. It was a great series, such a classic show. How do The Doors' music and the lead singer Jim Morrison inspire you? Jim always inspires me as a...

Michael "Lyfelong" Foster is a Filmmaker who is based out of Charlotte, NC. We have conducted with him an interview about his latest project, " Reel Lyfe Cinema vol. 1 ". It is a feature length compilation project consisting of short films that I toured with on the national and international film festival circuit. How long did you take to create your latest feature length compilation project "Reel Lyfe Cinema vol. 1"? It was actually created over the course of four years. That was mainly because once one of the short films were complete I would take it on the festival circuit to see how it fared with audiences. That's how I determined what films would make it on the project. The responses I received from people from all over the world that told me how a particular film spoke to them really moved me and inspired me to keep creating. I have other films that are good and received good responses, but I just didn't feel like they fit the them...

Chelsey is a Creative Strategist working for The PARAGRAPH Project , a brand strategy firm based out of Durham, North Carolina. They're launching a Kickstarter on October 5th for our Discovery Toolkit. The Toolkit is a distillation of everything we've learned over the past 11 years that can help start a marketing project off on the right foot. We have conducted an interview with Chelsey. What is so unique about 'The PARAGRAPH Project'? At PARAGRAPH we’re all about applying creativity to every step of the strategic development process. We apply a creative approach to every project to help our clients uncover previously overlooked opportunities. We've worked with everyone from startups to Fortune 500 companies and get them to think about their challenges in completely different ways. Our style offers an alternative to the traditional forms of research and strategy that are either uninspired or over-intellectualized. What is the 'Discovery Toolkit...