Shifting Realities: Crime, Sci-Fi, and the Art of Storytelling with Frank Scalise | Audio Signals Podcast With Marco Ciappelli

Guest: Frank Scalise

Website | https://franksaverio.com Website | https://frankscalise.com Website | https://frankzafiro.com

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Host: Marco Ciappelli, Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine [@ITSPmagazine] and Host of Redefining Society Podcast & Audio Signals Podcast

Website: https://www.marcociappelli.com

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Episode Title: 🎙️✨ Shifting Realities: Crime, Sci-Fi, and the Art of Storytelling with Frank Scalise

Guest: Frank Scalise

Short Intro: In this episode of Audio Signals, host Marco Ciappelli sits down with Frank Saverio / Zafiro / Scalise to explore the evolution of his writing career.

Show Notes:

🎙️✨ Shifting Realities: Crime, Sci-Fi, and the Art of Storytelling with Frank Saverio

📚 From crime-ridden streets to the vast unknown of space, author Frank Scalise (a.k.a. Frank Zafiro a.k.a. Frank Saverio) is no stranger to weaving gripping tales across multiple genres. With a background in law enforcement, he first made his mark writing gritty crime fiction before diving into the speculative realms of sci-fi and fantasy. But what drives a storyteller to switch between such different worlds?

In this episode of Audio Signals, host Marco Ciappelli sits down with Frank to explore the evolution of his writing career. They discuss the importance of keeping reader expectations clear (hence the multiple pen names), the unexpected parallels between crime fiction and sci-fi, and how storytelling serves as a powerful lens to examine society, human nature, and even our own mortality.

🚀 Frank’s latest sci-fi novel, Kemper’s House, is a thought-provoking exploration of space travel, time dilation, and the unsettling feeling of being a "man out of time." Inspired by both historical cycles and the rapid acceleration of technology, the book raises deep philosophical questions about progress, cultural shifts, and what it truly means to belong. In a distant future where humanity has finally unlocked the ability to travel at 87% the speed of light, an interstellar crew embarks on a deep-space mission after intercepting mysterious radio signals from a distant civilization. Captain Adrian Kemper leads the expedition to the Chiron system, but what they find is far different from what they imagined. By the time they arrive, nearly 1,000 years have passed on the distant planet, and civilization has either evolved or vanished entirely. But the real challenge comes when they return to Earth—another 1,500 years later.

🎸 Beyond writing, Frank also shares his passion for music—despite self-proclaimed struggles with guitar and rhythm. Whether it's crafting a novel, strumming a few chords, or reflecting on the changing world around him, one thing remains clear: storytelling is at the heart of it all.

📌 Join us on this conversation to uncover how Frank balances multiple creative identities, why genre-hopping makes for richer storytelling, and what’s next on his ever-expanding horizon.

📌 Discover more storytellers on Audio Signals: https://www.itspmagazine.com/audio-signals

Watch the video version on-demand on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnYu0psdcllQvnJ8eHUlVX8AuyhehtexA

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Resources

Kemper's House Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Kempers-House-Frank-Saverio-ebook/dp/B0CWGC6QGL

by Frank Saverio (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

What if the cost of first contact was leaving behind a world you’d never recognize upon return?

On the heels of discovering interstellar travel, humanity has stumbled upon the first signs of intelligent life in another system. Captain Adrian Kemper is selected to lead the expedition to Kyra-2B in order to make first contact with the Kyrans. He departs a world struggling to deal with overpopulation, knowing that the realities of space travel will mean the Earth he eventually returns to will no longer be home. Even the stone cottage he loves may not remain.

Despite this, Kemper accepts the mission. He leads an elite crew of optimistic scientists on a journey that will traverse hundreds of light years before reaching an alien world.

What they find is truly unexpected.

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