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Podcast: Words and Nerds: Authors, books and literature.
Episode: QWS S5E1 Samantha Byres full episode
Description: QWS S5E1 Samantha Byres and Troy Hunter
New season, brand new episode! In QWS S5E1, Troy chats with Samantha Byres about her debut novel DEAD ENDS, a fantastic, dark, hilarious, queer, horny book about being trapped in the past in your 30s, being stuck with your family, about loss, and making many bad decisions while looking for a second chance.
They chat about how Sam manages to write comedy and drama together so well, how they write about messy sex, how Sam’s obsession with the 90s NZ TV show Sensing Murder (it’s on YouTube) informed her nove...