Featured Guests K-Z
Benjamin Kerei
Benjamin Kerei is a New Zealand LitRPG author of Māori and European descent. He is mostly known for his novels ‘Oh, Great! I was Reincarnated as a Farmer’ and ‘Death, Loot & Vampires’ which is a polite way of saying he cannot stick to writing one series.
Dakota Krout
Dakota Krout is a celebrated author known for infusing fantasy novels with fun, punny, and clean humor. With multiple best-selling series—including 'Cooking With Disaster", "Divine Dungeon", "Completionist Chronicles", and "Full Murderhobo"— Dakota’s work, renowned for its wit and creativity, earned a place as one of Audible's top 5 fantasy picks in 2017, a top 5 bestseller rank featured on the New York Times, and was chosen by Audible as "Among the top 100 Fantasy of All Time" in 2024. Dakota's journey in publishing has been filled with gratefulness, and a deep desire to continue bringing smiles and laughter to the readers. "I hope you Read Every Book With A Smile!" -Dakota Krout
Aleron Kong
Aleron Kong is an African-American physician turned WSJ Best Selling Author. His comedic fantasy opera, The Land, has eight novels and a main character that is an everyday kind of guy. The series has over 100,000 five-star reviews and has sold over 1,000,000 copies. Chosen as Audible’s Customer Favorite of the Year, it has wide appeal whether you are reading or listening. He will soon be branching out into the webcomic audience.
Johnathan McClain
Johnathan McClain is an award winning actor, screenwriter, novelist and audiobook narrator. As an actor, his extensive resumé includes a notable turn as Megan Draper's agent, Alan Silver, on the final season of AMC's critically acclaimed drama Mad Men as well as appearing as the lead of the TV Land comedy series, Retired at 35, starring alongside late Hollywood icons George Segal and Jessica Walter, amongst dozens of other TV series, films, and plays. As a writer and producer, Johnathan's feature film debut, The Outfit, co-written with Oscar winner Graham Moore and starring Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, Dylan O’Brien, and Johnny Flynn, was produced by FilmNation and distributed internationally by Focus Features in the spring of 2022. In the fall of 2024 Podium Entertainment, one of the world’s leading publishers of science fiction and fantasy, released the debut novel in the Meet Your Maker series, a pentalogy of high fantasy novels which Johnathan is co-authoring with bestselling fantasy writer Seth McDuffee and for which he also narrates the audiobooks. As an audiobook narrator, Johnathan has recorded approximately 200 titles ranging from sci-fi, to romance, to non-fiction, to fantasy, to thrillers, to historical fiction, and everything in between. In the words of Ryan Rimmel, author of the Audible bestselling Noobtown series, “Johnathan can do anything.” He is the recipient of multiple Audiofile Earphone Awards, SOVAS nominations, and an Audie for his narration of Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff’s #1 NY Times bestselling sci-fi novel, Illuminae, which won the Audie Award for audiobook of the year for multi-voiced narration in 2016. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Laura.
Hunter Mythos
Raised out of the 305, Hunter Mythos takes his pet gator out on walks and spends his weekends getting into Kung Fu matches with someone's grandmother to get the best avocado from the stores. Outside of those accounts of being your everyday Florida Man, he likes to read, watch sitcoms, and spend his time writing into existence new universes.
Brian J. Nordon
Brian J. Nordon is a LitRPG Author from Dundalk, Ireland. He got his break on Royal Road, where his debut story, Wildcards: The Dread Pirate, hit the top ten in the site-wide rankings. After learning more about writing as a craft, and making a lot of mistakes throughout, Brian created a side-project just for himself.
It was a story that would incorporate the invaluable feedback he gained from his readers, and would finally quiet the voices in the back of his head that demanded he write it. Quest Academy was born, and got picked up by The Legion Publishers. It’s Brian’s first proper foray into publishing, and he’s so proud of it, he’s putting his own name on it.
Outside of writing, Brian works as a Recruiter for a video game company in Dublin. He spends his time interviewing writers and designers of some of the most critically acclaimed role-playing games in the world. He lives alone and is constantly torn between traveling the world, or getting a dog. If everything works out, he may very well do both.
David North
David North is the author of Guardian of Aster Fall (a LitRPG fantasy epic series with over 22,000 ratings on Amazon) and River of Fate (a cultivation progression epic). His works are available on Amazon, Kindle, and Audible. His works often hit the Top 100 Kindle Bestseller list.
Andrea Parsneau
Narrator, voice actor and all around character only begin to describe the force of nature that is Andrea Parsneau. If a diverse cast of characters capable of emotional depth and comedic delivery is what you are looking for in your audiobooks, you have found your match!
Miles Gallup aka Plum Parrot
Plum Parrot is the pen name of author MC Gallup, who grew up in Southern Arizona and spent much of his youth wandering around the Sonoran Desert, hunting imaginary monsters and building forts. He studied creative writing at the University of Arizona and, for a number of years, attempted to teach middle schoolers to love literature and write their own stories. If he’s not out walking his big Airedale Terrier, you can find him writing, reading his favorite authors, or playing D&D with friends and family.
Ryan Rimmel
Author of Noobtown, Fifth Era Apocalypse
Daniel Schinhofen
Daniel Schinhofen has published over sixty books since 2016. He has name recognition in the genres of LitRPG and Gamelit. Daniel has published books ranging from western to Celtic fantasy and onto zombie apocalypse. His books have been known to touch on mental trauma, discrimination, and other human conditions. A best-selling author on Amazon multiple times, his many series have achieved name recognition in the genre. His well-known series include; Alpha World, Binding Words, Aether’s Revival, Luck’s Voice, and more. When not slavishly typing away at the next book, Daniel tries to unwind with video games, or going for walks around his neighborhood.
Travis Deverell “Shirtaloon”
Hammock enthusiast and author of He Who Fights With Monsters, the story of a man who fights evil and make sandwiches. After he finds some pants.
Shami Stovall
Shami Stovall is an award-winning author of multiple genres. She loves gaming, reading, and John. Before she was an author, she got a degree in history, and graduated law school only to do very little with those skills. Don’t be surprised if her books include accurate legal details.
Eric Ugland
Eric ran away from Seattle to join the circus. And then he came to his senses, and moved to Manhattan. Now he's a novelist in Maine. Don't worry, it doesn't make sense to him either.
Shawn Wilson
Father of 6, Destroyer of Keyboards, Shawn writes with all gas and dreams of being locked in a room with no distractions. How else can one write 2,000,000 words in a year?