Posting horror stories anonymously on Reddit can lead to some unexpected places. For Marcus Kliewer, those places included a book deal and a Netflix sale. No pressure on your next post.

In this episode of StoryCentric, Andrew Buckley sits down with Marcus to explore the winding road from growing up in Kelowna and experimenting with film, stop motion, and screenwriting to finding his creative home in prose. Marcus shares how returning to Reddit during the pandemic opened doors he hadn’t expected, why he values the creative control of novels, and what happens when Hollywood comes knocking.

They also dig into his early fascination with horror, the storytelling lessons he brought over from screenwriting, and the creative choices behind his audio collection, Please Remain Seated. It’s a candid conversation about sudden success, the pressure to chase the next big moment, and remembering why you wanted to tell stories in the first place.

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Hollywood is built to say no, and Thomas Dean Donnelly has spent 30 years figuring out how to keep going regardless. The screenwriter whose credits include Sahara and Doctor Strange joins StoryCentric to trace his journey from movie-obsessed kid to USC Film School, selling his first screenplay in his mid-20s, and surviving the highs, lows, and occasional chaos of a career in Hollywood. Tom gets candid about imposter syndrome, endless rewrites, networking without “networking,” working with Christopher Vogler, and why writers need to separate creative drafting from critical editing. We also dig into his pivot from screenwriting to indie publishing, his bestselling spy thriller series, and why reinvention might be one of the most important skills a working writer can have.

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Kindrie Grove builds worlds across books, paintings, illustrations, and bronze sculpture. The multidisciplinary artist and author joins StoryCentric to trace her journey from growing up on a horse farm outside Calgary to creating the expanding Stone Guardian universe. Kindrie shares her unconventional discovery-writing process, why paintings and sculptures often appear before the scenes they inspire, and how she balances fine art, commissions, self-publishing, and a growing readership. We also dig into Kickstarter, print-on-demand, the fantasy authors who shaped her work, and why she sees her books and artwork not as separate careers, but as pieces of one interconnected creative world.

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