Broadcasting to the Tribe of Storytellers: An Interview with Daniel Ford and Sean Tuohy of the Writer’s Bone Podcast
by Jessica A. Kent
February 19, 2020
Two writers walk into a bar…
…and start a podcast.
Daniel Ford and Sean Tuohy recorded a teaser video at J. J. Foley’s on January 21, 2014, introducing a new podcast – Writer’s Bone – that the two were starting. The forty minute first episode, which premiered five days later, features the founders bantering about pop culture, the books they read as kids, and how they both became writers (Ford is a fiction writer; Tuohy is a screenwriter). The voices echo, and the audio cuts out at one point. But it was a start. The goal was to talk to writers, as many as they could find, about the art of storytelling.
Tuohy wrote a Facebook post the day after the episode aired, saying, “One pod down. How many more is unknown.”
Now, six years to the day from when the first episode premiered, the 400th episode of the Writer’s Bone podcast dropped on January 26, 2020, with Tuohy and Ford still at the helm of the popular interview series that sticks to its roots of conversations with writers and storytellers of all kinds. The 400th episode was recorded live at Belmont Books and featured Ford and Tuohy interviewing local authors James Charlesworth and Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne about their debut novels, their process, and what they’re excited to read in 2020.
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