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Book Club 2 | David Petrie’s Party Hard

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Join the club as Madeline Turnipseed interviews author and LTN Community member David Petrie about Party Hard, the first book in the Pixel Dust series.

Party Hard by David Petrie | Published by Mountaindale Press | 537 Pages





Episode Hosts

Madeline Turnipseed
Assignment Editor
Assignment Editor at Love Thy Nerd, Madeline lives in Kansas where she takes care of people, plays games, watches, reads, writes, and makes things.

Episode Producer

Bubba Stallcup
CEO + PRESIDENT + FOUNDER
Bubba is the CEO, President and Founder of LTN, host of the Free Play Podcast and the Church Nerds Podcast. He is also a full-time Nerd-Culture Missionary. Bubba, and his wonderful wife Anna, have 4 children who are pretty good most of the time. A communal gamer at heart who loves to get in and play games with other people #gameNightIStheRightNight

Episode Guests

image of David PetrieDAVID PETRIE

David is a fashion/food-obsessed writer and the resident social justice rouge at Mountaindale Press. His first book (Party Hard) was published in late 2018 and has been hitting the keyboard ever since.

Prior to finding his calling as a writer, David worked as a designer for over a decade and ran an indie board game company on the side. In his spare time, David is an avid video and board game enthusiast. He has also been known to dabble in tabletop RPGs, and by dabble, he means derail entire campaigns.

David lives north of Boston with his wife and two adopted cats.



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