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Brad A. LaMar when he’s not fighting evil witches and wizards or uncovering the true tales behind some of the most well-known nursery rhymes, is an educator who resides in the Indianapolis Metropolitan area in the US. He has taught science to middle school students for more than twenty-five-years. He is married to his wife Lori who he describes as a beautiful and supportive woman and has two grown up children Evan and Paige who are making their own way in the world. 

Having interviewed Brad a couple of times and chatted to him over the years I think it’s fair to say he’s a man whose head never really gravitated far from the fantasy world of childhood/teenage imaginations. 

The idea for the Celtic Mythos series came from his love of science fiction and fantasy and the underutilized and abundantly rich folklore of the Celtic people. They are so much more than leprechauns! Brad has always loved a good story, and upon reaching the mythos of the Celtic Isles he became enthralled in the type of story he could create.

Brad especially enjoys the way a story makes a reader think, laugh and react. He has worked hard to bring about those experiences in his best-selling YA fantasy series, Celtic Mythos.

As for The Goz Tales books and Winkerton Wolf well, Brad really has let his childhood memories of old nursery rhymes and their characters run riot as he puts a completely different spin on bygone tales cleverly entwined with detective twists.

Brad with all his books is clearly showing to his readers the breath and reach of his story telling skills.

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The Books

The Goz Tales

M&T’s Private Detection and Bakery

Independently Published by Narrative Retail

This is the first book in the Muff N Mann and Tom Thumb detective stories. Muff is a baker who works in the village bakery of Gosling, now Gosling isn’t a particularly nice place to live as it’s plagued with crimes all related to old nursery rhymes. Tom, Muff’s detective partner lives in the bread bin in the bakery shop as he is the size of a thumb, but his detective skills are quite astute when required. Muff and Tom’s reputation to solve mysteries has spread wide and far and they start to receive letters asking for help. This book starts off with the nursey rhyme “Jack and Jill” who we all know went up a hill to fetch a pale of water, but why did they go up the hill and furthermore why did they come tumbling back down again. Muff and Tom are tasked with revealing what’s behind this ancient rhyme and where it takes them and what other famous nursey rhyme characters they meet along the way is what this storyline/case is all about. There are thirteen chapters to this story for young children to fall in love with and discover how different characters from other nursey rhymes beautifully blend to crack this case.

M&T’s Private Detection and Bakery Case File:3LP
Independently Published by Narrative Retail
This book is available through NarrativeRetail.com as from August 2026

What has a billionaire pig who goes by the name of Norma Pigg, her three brothers, bad wolf, a Tv Judge and gumming all have in common. Well, the answer lies within this second book. Muff has had a visit to the bakery from Norma Pigg who hands him a note, he’s keen to take the case on, but all the others around him are very reluctant all most to the point of being hostile to the idea, even the judge advises Muff to leave well alone. However, Muff is undeterred with all the negativity and proceeds drawing those around him into the murky world of gumming in the next-door village of Grimm. We meet new nursey rhyme characters from more old nursey rhymes and as in the first book again the characters blend well to reveal all as to what’s going on here. The plot thickens, but who is really behind all the gumming shenanigans going on here.

PLUS

Winkerton Wolf: and the Civil Court Suit
Independently published by Narrative Retail
This book is available via NarrativeRetail.com

Well, is this a very short story about the three little piggies suing Winkerton the big bad wolf in court, or a very long poem with forty-three stanzas. Either way it’s an intriguing spin on the story of the three little piggies and the big bad wolf. Hmm… read it to formulate your own opinion. 

Young minds are going to enjoy these endearing ditties from old nursery rhymes. I did.

Enjoy!

For the above books go to www.narrativeretail.com 

Other Books by Brad A Lamar

The Celtic Mythos Series 
A YA Fantasy Series
Illustrated by Igor Adasikos

The Obsidian Dagger
(Celtic Mythos Book One)

This book is aimed at 9–12-year-olds, the action- packed fantasy story is set in magical Ireland and Scotland featuring two American teenagers who happen to be brother and sister. Brendan and Lizzie O’ Neal.  A mad witch with extremely powerful magical powers who possesses an Obsidian Dagger threatens to eradicate mankind and overpower the magic clans of the Celtic Isles, Brendan and Lizzie are forced to intervene. They join forces with a desperate Princess Dorian of the Leprechauns and with her two loyal companions, Rory and Biddy. The story is wonderfully foretold over twenty-one chapters of highly creative imaginary writing and is all about the journey they undertake, the dangers and wonders they face as they venture across the Celtic lands to hamper the evil witch’s plans. Combating the witch’s mutated forces will test take their physical and mental strengths to new limits and beyond. Brendan quickly realises that the lines between reality, mythology and divinity can be extremely blurring at times.

The Megalith Union
(Celtic Mythos Book Two)

This second book in the series is twenty-two chapters of high-octane drama, from chance encounters, celebrations, Druids secrets, anxieties, plans, battles, pomp and circumstance and much, much more. Brendan now a college freshman and just as life is settling down fate intervenes, and the adventures start all over again. Elathan, the golden god of Celtic lore is reborn out of the ashes of a dead king and iniquitous witch. Through Brendan and his family, Elathan steers the tendrils of destiny as he seeks to achieve ultimate power over man. Hampered by giants, alphyns and ruas Brendan, Princess Dorian. Lizzie with a new set of characters set about disentangling the mystery of the Ultimate foe. Can Brendan and his allies prevent the end of time? As the megalith union reveals itself. Looking in the past to prevent a future  where Elathan reigns supreme is vital for Brendan.  

The Dominion Pulse
(Celtic Mythos Book Three)

Twenty chapters of exhilarating, edge-of-the-seat chain of events are about to reveal themselves in this book. Ruthless enemies, bonds, hunts, hidden thoughts, demons, warnings and giant challenges are just some of the topical issues exposed here. After losing his father to Elathan, Brendan is forced to regroup, recuperate and come to terms with the colossal responsibility that has been imposed upon him. Faced with the golden god’s ruthless plans and powerful allies to seize control of Otherworld, Brendan and his friends must regenerate their own power and resources to stop Elathan. Time is short for the heroes as the power of the enemy intensifies. How can the goddess Bibe assist them.

The Bloodline Inheritance
(Celtic Mythos Book Four)

The fourth book in this breath-taking series. Here we have a further twenty-three chapters that are going to capture the imagination of young and not so young readers alike. The journey in this book touches upon, best laid plans, the unexpected, visions of the crown, harsh realities, trials, mind games, rallies for war, battle wounds and finally the emerald crown plus many more themes. In his quest for immortality, Elathan seeks the Emerald Crown of the world, which possesses an ancient magic whose power is menacing. As earth’s rightful protector, Brendan must stop Elathan in his tracks to save man. However, with Brendan under a poison curse of his mind, the others must step up to the plate before it’s too late.

Brad’s publishers for The Celtic Mythos series are TorchFlame Books.

www.torchflamebooks.com  go to the Author’s page scroll down to Brad A. laMar and there you will find more information about the series.

Social Media Sites

www.YouTube.com/blamaslamaful
www.linkedin.com/in/brad-lamar-b862937a
www.bradlamar.com (Under development)

Angler Island

Angler Island is a highly advanced, company-owned utopia of technological innovations that could help heal the world, but mysterious forces and insidious plots are at play. After a dangerous cruise-ship crash, Evan and his family join the residents of Angler Island banding together for the greater good and for the livelihood of all island survivors. Even finds some solace in meeting an alluring young woman named Taylor, but when he learns of a murderous plot, his world is sent into chaos. Action, adventure and danger await the people of Anger Island.

Publishers are Page Publishing.inc

Angler Island: The Crystal Cavern

With all the excitement and chaos behind him, Evan and his friends are ready to embrace the days ahead. Unfortunately, Kent and his henchman have other plans. Of course, Evan has Taylor, and everything will be amazing going forward…right? How will he react when a new threat to his relationship with Taylor and his existence on the island arrives.

Publishers are Page Publishing.inc

Zorp, The Twisted Breadman

In a world filled with dangerous natural phenomena, giant creatures that love to eat people, and overcooked stadium foods, lives the legend that is Zorp, the twisted breadman! The road was rocky for this pretzel genius, but the tale is exciting, humorous, and downright weird! Journey to this alien world and see what true courage, grit and food fights are about.

Publishers are Narrative Retail.

Brad this has been a wonderful experience for me to preview your books especially The Celtic Mythos series, and I’m glad that you accepted my invitation to come on the show. 

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Applestreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Brad, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you again about your fascinating books. This time ‘The M&T Detective series and Winterton Wolf and the Civil Court Suit illustrated by Kenji Gonzales.’  I wish you every success with it.

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The Author

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Abundance N Solomon is a health care support worker from Cambridge in the UK. He was born in Nigeria and moved with his family to the UK at the age of five. Strangely enough as a child he often thought what is life like after death. Despite all his childhood attempts to ascertain an answer he drew a blank, but he does know now. In his early teens his father sent him back to Nigeria to fulfil his secondary and tertiary education. While he was there at a military boarding school in Northern Nigeria, he turned his attention to the gospel and the more he became engrossed with its teachings the more his life took on a deeper spiritual meaning something that has remained with him right up to this present day. He came back to the UK where he undertook another degree, while completing that degree he got the inspiration to write the book.

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so, let’s look at the book.

The Book

Called to Glory as Abundance wants it to be read as, is a scriptural guide to understanding the true purpose of our calling in Christ and how to fulfil that calling. There are thirteen deeply thought-out chapters to this book, the viewpoints Abundance vividly express are backed up with considerable scriptural texts both from the old and new testaments. To give you an idea as to what you can expect from the book I’m listing the chapters.

Chapter 1: The Glory
Chapter 2: God is Light
Chapter 3: God is Love
Chapter 4: The Real Matrix
Chapter 5: The Master Key Principle
Chapter 6: Light Me Up
Chapter 7: Sheep and Goats
Chapter 8: The Royal Law
Chapter 9: The truth
Chapter 10: Knowing All Things
Chapter 11: Called to Glory
Chapter 12: Jesus- a Perfect Example
Chapter 13: The Era of the End-Time Giants

A powerful read, draw your own conclusions with regards to the message Abundance is conveying in his book.

Social Media Sites

Facebook: https//www.facebook.com/@gloriousseason
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/-@gloriousseason1
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@a.nsolomon104
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@GloriousSeason1
TikTok: https//www.tiktok.com/@kinggloriousseason
Twitter: https//www.x.com/@GloriousSKing

Publisher

WestBow Press www.westbowpress.com / bookstore/search Abundance N Soloman 

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Applestreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Abundance, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your book Called to Glory. I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you in the future.

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The Author

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Lynn Slaughter is a successful award-winning American author of nine books, ranging from romantic crime, fantasy and young adults.  She lives in Louisville in Kentucky in the USA, where she resides with her husband. Lynn has two grown up sons and five adorable grandchildren. However, she grew up in New York and Connecticut where she graduated from Smith College with a degree in Sociology, to that she added a masters.

While Lynn’s work in sociology formed an integral part of her life, in particular interacting with people from all backgrounds, she had another great passion that stemmed right back to her childhood and that was music and movement, more so the movement. Dance for Lynn was the very essence for getting up each day, juggling family life and a professional career had its challenges, but the enjoyment she got from dance outweighed the difficulties. Lynn chose to become a professional dancer specializing in modern dance, and throughout her career performed, choregraphed and taught.  As a dance educator she instilled in those that she taught an ethos and understanding that the art of movement to music was to be enjoyed and cherished, just like she did.

Like most things in life, there comes a time when a new path to follow calls and for Lynn that was writing. The love of books and the art of creative writing had for some time now co-existed with her passion for both dance and people. To refine her skills in creative fictional writing Lynn enrolled on a writing course at Seton Hill University where she obtained an MFA in writing popular fiction.

So, what of Lynn’s books, well if you love mystery, blended with intrigue and an element of romance and are looking for a new author to follow then look at Lynn Slaughter’s books. So, let’s have a sneak insight in to two of her books.

A few relatively unknown facts about Lynn are, she’s addicted to chocolate, the arts and her husband’s cooking.

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The Books

The Big Switch: Varney and Cedric

This latest narrative From Lynn Salughter is dynamically told over forty-five engrossing chapters. The book is split into two parts with the first part being considerably shorter than the second. There are two main protagonists to this story Varney and Cedric. Varney has been diagnosed with V.A.D. Vampire Adjustment Disorder, he hates the taste of blood and longs to be a human boy who can go to school and play basketball during the day. Cedric on the other hand is extremely unhappy as a human and fears that he’s turning into his bully of a father, something he dearly wishes he could control and avoid. For Cedric a vampire’s powers have long interested him and the thought of becoming a vampire would be beyond his wildest dream. Camilla, a friendly witch gives Varney and Cedric the opportunity to switch places on a temporary basis, this golden opportunity is a moment not to be missed for both, but should they reveal this brief transformation to anyone, the reversal will end with immediate effect. A trial period of thirty days has been set, after that if they like their new personas, the switch will be made permanent. 

Death in the End Zone

If you enjoyed Lynn’s book Missed Cue and the complex character homicide detective Caitlin O Connor, then you are going to enjoy this latest book as Caitlin grapples with the murder of two young budding footballers. Who Killed Elijah Williams a young black African American boy and Joey Mateo a white teenager whose bodies were found in a compromising position in the end zone of their high school’s football field. The story is interwoven with homosexuality, sibling squabbling; if these two aspects weren’t enough for Caitlin’s homicide team to deal with, throw in religious viewpoints, alcoholism and a whole host of complex matters especially Caitlin’s new man on the block. The cauldron around this contentious homicide case is well and truly coming to the boil. If Caitlin cannot get to the bottom of who’s behind these murders, she’ll be off the case and her reputation as a serious homicide detective will be severely damaged. She can kiss any chance of a career move goodbye. But maybe, just maybe romance could be on the upswing for her, feeling all maternal, hmm…

Other Books by Lynn Slaughter

Missing Mom

Sixty-two short, sharp, focused and intense chapters is what you can expect from Lynn Slaughter in this page-turning book of hers. It’s a book that’s cleverly telling two stories from different time periods that have a connection.

 Noelle is a seventeen-year-old aspiring ballet dancer who has serious doubts as to her mother’s disappearance, was it suicide or something more sinister.  What her investigation throws up, you’ll find absorbing, plus what of her romantic entanglement with Ravi another dancer will leave you guessing. 

Savannah’s story running alongside that of Noelle’s is equally fascinating, she’s a young woman from twenty years ago, her escape from an abusive marriage has close interrelatedness with Noelle’s investigation into her mother’s circumstances.

The two stories running parallel with each other blend smartly together to bring about an interesting overall narrative. Well done, Lynn!

Missed Cue

Forty-five spine-tingling chapters of crime and mystery are exposed in this book as Lynn Slaughter takes you on an intriguing journey of what happened to the ballerina Lydia Miseau whose death on stage in the final dress rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet leaves many open-ended questions, questions homicide detective Catlin O Connor needs to answer. The autopsy report reveals no apparent cause of death, so Caitlin must not only ferret out who may have harmed the ballerina, but how they did it. Her investigations lead her to believe that the person responsible, as in most murder cases, is close at hand but getting the evidence to support her theories is proving a little tricky, especially when you consider Lydia’s messed up personal life particularly when it comes to her dalliances come affairs with married men, which never bode well for all concerned. 

A clever book, well written and constructed, and worth a read, as is Missing Mom.

Deadly Set Up
Leisha’s Song
It Should Have Been You
While I Dance

Social Media Sites

Please visit Lynn’s webpage, where you’ll learn more about Lynn and her books. www.lynnslaughter.com

Awards

Missing Mom: Fire and Ice/Melange Books- Claymore Finalist.
Missed Cue: Melange Books 2023. NYC Big Book Award in mystery category, Silver Falchion Top Pick, Maincrest Media Book Award.
Deadly Set Up: Fire and Ice/Melange Books 2022, NYC Big Book Award Winner, Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Silver Medallist, Maincrest Media Book Award, Book Excellence Award, M&M Chanticleer International Awards Finalist, Imadjinn Award Finalist, Silver Falchion Finalist.
Leisha’s Song: Fire and Ice/Melange Books 2021, Agatha Nominee, Silver Falchion Award, Moon beam Bronze Medalist, Imadjinn Award for Best YA Novel.
It Should Have Been You: Page Street, Silver Falchion Finalist.
While I Dance: Write Words, Epic Finalist.

Publishers

The Big Switch: Varney and Cedric. 

Nightingale Books who are an imprint of Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie Publishers Ltd. www.pegasuspublishers.com / search author Lynn Saughter and there you’ll find the book.

Death in the end Zone, plus all her other books.

Melange Books, LLC www.melange-books.com 

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Apple TVstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Lynn, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you again about two more of your amazing books. I wish you all the best with them.

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Janet Dunne lives in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland; she’s a woman who has lived with bipolar disorder for some considerable time. Bipolar disorder is a lifelong mental health condition that causes extreme shifts in mood, energy, activity levels, and concentration. The characteristics of the disorder are intense emotional highs which come with irritable moods, little sleep, racing thoughts, rapid speech, impulsivity, and a distorted sense of grandiosity to manic depressions that leave a person with deep sadness, hopelessness, lack of energy, loss of interest in activities and potentially suicidal thoughts.  Like most disorders there are several types to bipolarism all depending on how severe the ups and downs are. Yes medication, talking therapies and lifestyle adjustments play vital roles in keeping symptoms stable, but at the end of the day this is a life long mental health issue. Janet’s book talks about her many experiences, good, bad and indifferent from childhood to current day. What Janet hopes to achieve with this book is for those living with bipolarism to see Janet’s perspective on bipolar disorder and how she has confronted many of her inner demons so to speak. On the other hand, those of us fortunate enough not to be living with a mental disorder of this nature, Janet’s wish by writing this book is that you get an inkling as to what it must be like for someone who has bipolar disorder and maybe adopt a more sympathetic approach when they are going through a rough patch. Both the book and Janet’s own life have many humorous antidotes and tales that are cleverly entwined in the storyline. 

A very insightful book as far as I’m concerned go check it out.

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Just to give you a heads-up as to what you can expect in the book, I’m listing the contents so that you can see the broad range of topical issues Janet talk about.

Overview of my Life and my Thinking
The Things I Learnt
The Treatment in Germany for Mental Illness 
Back in Ireland
Learning Yoga
A spiritual Healer
Another Healer I met Truly Helped
My Understanding on Depression
I Comfort Ate
Allowing Everyone their Space to be as they are
Fear
The Promise I made to Myself
Holding on to Feelings Stops the Flow of Life
Understanding and Logic
Another Journey I took was I Joined the Chistian Fellowship
Feelings are not You
Voices in my Head
Bipolar How I Came to this Point
Why has this Elation Affected me this Way?
Forgiveness and Understanding
Dignity, how it Gets Taken Away
Now I Know What You Did to the Jews
Put Yourself First
Sorry I Taught I was Finished
To the reader that doesn’t Understand Bipolar

Publishers

AuthorHouse www.authorhouse.com / Bookstore search Janet Dunne and there you’ll find her book.

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Applestreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Janet, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your book One Foot in the Right Direction. I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you in the future.

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Col. Charles Cone, USAF(Retired) of Farrington Hills, Michigan has led a life of service having reached a glorious century and not out, on the 5th of January this year. He entered the US Navy on the 22nd of February 1944 and having decided that career path was not for him, he transferred to the Air Force and was soon called up for duty for the Korean War. In 2006 he received the prestigious Master Pilot Award from the FAA for fifty years of accident/incident free flying, though at times some flights came perilously close to denying him that achievement. Col. Cone in addition to the pilot award has numerous military awards to his name including two Legion of Merits, an Air Medal and Presidential Unit Citation. Besides his military honours Col. Cone achieved a BSc from Ohio State University and a MSc in computer Science from Texas A&M University.

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In addition to his accomplishments as a decorated officer, Col. Cone has built a legacy of community service, including flying patients across America for medical procedures through Angel Flights. Col. Cone has also served as an officer of the Lions’ Clubs International and various Masonic organisations along with countless hours of supporting his local church. Adding to this illustrious list we must mention his work for the Penrickton Centre for Blind Children, the Greater Detroit Society for the Blind, The Salvation Army and Operation Able. Col. Cone is a proud recipient of the Spirit of Detroit Award and numerous international, national and local Lions’ Club honours. Col. Cone’s most recent accomplishment is the completion of his published memoirs.  So, as you can see Col. Cone is quite a distinguished guest and I’m led to believe he was offered a post of General but having spoken to his wife Jo of sixty-nine years who has now sadly passed he turned that position down. At the age of 100 is he still flying his beloved, most definitely. 

The Book

This outstanding book is an autobiography of Colonel Charles Cone’s own remarkable life from humble beginnings in a farmhouse in the town of Covington, Wyoming County, New York State to the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Air Force. The story highlights the pivotal points in his life both personally and professionally. Col. Cone’s life is expertly told with pinpoint accuracy over fifty-one exhilarating chapters. The adventures of where life took him are to say at least fascinating to completely absorbing, although at times hair-raising and not without risk, all loving backed up by his amazing wife Jo of sixty-nine years. The book reflects on a life configured around duty, service and resolute principles, incorporating the battle fields of Korea and Vietnam to boardrooms, church pews and community halls of post war America. This book is not just a memoir of his life; it’s a legacy and testament to who he is and the principles that he adopted over a hundred years. 

Enjoy this amazing Book about this astonishing life!!!

Website & Social Media sites

Please visit Charles’ webpage where you will learn more about the amazing life this centenarian has led. The gallery with the photos of some of the planes he has flown is fascinating. Plus, you can get the book from there.

www.charlescone.com

Publisher

Xlibris www.xlibris.com / bookstore/search/ author Charles Cone.

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Applestreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Charles, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your book, A Burning Desire to Fly. I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you in the future.

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Dr. Abraham was born on a poor farm in 1939, with ten siblings. “I did not even own a pair of shoes until I was 10 years old”. He developed a love for learning, and at seventeen, he became a communist. His eloquent speeches attracted large crowds, but deep inside he felt empty, and the longing for God only continued to grow. His life changed dramatically one night, as he entered a church and dedicated his life to God. Ever since he has been on a relentless path to know God better and to lead others to the truths of the Bible. He is a Pastor with three PhDs around theology, and specializes in Old Testament, Bible Prophecies, Divinity, Church History, Numerology and Typology, with more than thirty books written. His first book in English was The Tabernacle and the Church (by Wipf and Stock Publishers). His latest book is Russia’s Final Destination (a best seller in South America for forty years: Israel, Gog and the Antichrist), and soon to be released Sabbath, Grace and Glory (Should Christians keep the Sabbath?). One of his greatest achievements is being one of the scholars who translated the NIV Bible into Portuguese. He currently lives in South Florida with his wife Penha and son Junior.

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The Book

This powerful, provocative and exquisitely written book contains many stimulating theories on how some of todays issues around Russia, Israel and end times were predicted in biblical conjectures. 

Many of us have often wondered why Russia invaded Ukraine, does it have anything to do with Biblical prophecies surrounding Israel. Abraham a pastor with three doctorates in theology, grapples with that debate plus numerous other arguments in his book. In part 1 Abraham focuses on references the Bible makes about the nation of “Gog” now Russia. Abraham attests that Russia’s predicament with Ukraine today can be traced back to prophecies made in the Bible. In Part 2 Abraham draws attention to Israel’s current phase and attempts to address why antisemitism is on the rise. In Part 3 under End Times Abraham examines and explains what End Times looks like, including the Rapture of the Church, the world government (first beast), the Antichrist (second beast) identified by 666, Great Tribulation, Millenium, New Jerusalem and the glorious eternity with God. 

This convoluted book hasn’t been written as a cosy bedtime read, that’s not its purpose, its impetus is to make you stop and think how past Biblical prophesies are coming to the fore and playing their part in todays world be they good or just plain evil.

To give you more of an in-depth insight as to what you can expect from the book I’m revealing to you all the content page. 

Introduction
Foreword

Part 1: Russia
Russia and its Allies
Reasons for Israel’s Invasion
Final Destination

Part 2: Israel
Jews, a Suffering People
The Rising of Israel
God Fights for Israel

Part 3: The End of Times
The New Roman Empire
Removing Doubts
The Antichrist

The Final Outcome: Beasts, Seals, Millenium and Beyond
Bibliography

Social Media sites & Website

Please visit Abraham’s website www.amazon.com/author/dealmeida you can get all of his books from this site.

Awards

New Winner of Literary Global Independent Author Awards

Publisher

WestBow Press. www.westbowpress.com /Bookstore/search Abraham De Almeida

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Applestreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Abraham, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your book Russia’s Final Destination. I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you in the future.

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Griff Ruby is from Lompoc a small community town close to the stunning Pacific Coastline of California in the United States. He has been married to his wife Juliet for over twenty-Seven years. Griff like me was born in 1958 and for most of his life he has been searching for the true meaning of Christianity. That search took him on a journey as he explored various religious teachings, but he eventually settled on Catholicism, but even that is only the general neighbourhood since he speaks for a growing group of Catholics who believe that today’s Vatican no longer speaks for Catholicism. When you have a look at his books, you’ll see that he can be quite controversial, possibly putting him at odds with contemporary doctrine. What does he think of Vatican II? Well, I’ll let you draw your own conclusions as you peruse the pages. So, let’s turn to the book that we are going to focus on in this podcast interview.

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The Book

For nearly two thousand years the Roman Catholic Church withstood all the currents of change and history and maintained a closely guarded orthodoxy which has always served as the basis and centre of all Christianity. Yet, it is as if all of that has been arbitrarily swept away in the few years by Vatican II. Given what the church has always taught about itself being indefectible. How could this have happened? Did that Council have something to do with that terrible loss of faith? Can the real Catholic Church be found today, and if so, where?

The shocking answer to this, once seen and truly understood, is as every bit as glorious as the original resurrection of Christ Himself, a tremendous source of faith and inspiration. It is broad-based, longstanding miracle passing right before our eyes, have we but the Grace to see it for what it is.   

To give you a heads up as to what you can expect from Griff in this book, I’m revealing the contents so that you can get a flavour as to the tone of the book.

Book Contents

Protest of the Author
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: How to Identify the Roman Catholic Church
Chapter 2: Some Biblical and Liturgical Parallels to the Current Crisis
Chapter 3: The Juridical Impact of the Second Vatican Council, or How the Hierarchy Lost Control
Chapter 4: The Roman Catholic Church Versus the People of God
Chapter 5: Old Catholics, East Orthodox, and the Spectre of Dissent
Chapter 6: The Beginnings of Today’s Stand for the Earth
Chapter 7: The Advance of Marcel Lefebvre and the SSPX
Chapter 8: The Bishops of Pierre Martin Ngo Dinh Thuc
Chapter 9: The Advance of the Sedevacantists
Chapter 10: The Bishops of Marcel Lefebvre and Antonio De Castro Mayer
Chapter 11: The Advance of the Indult Priests and the FSSP
Chapter 12: The Catholic Lay Apostolates and Further Events
Conclusion
Epilogue
Afterword
Appendix A: The Pope Condemns Vatican II
Appendix B: Questions and Objections
Glossary
Sources and Bibliography

A lot or research has been undertaken by Griff to compile this thought-provoking and contentious book so give it a serious read and make your own mind up about the subject matters raised here.

Other books by Griff Ruby

Sede Vacante

Sede Vacante! The literal translation from the Latin to English is ‘Vacant Chair.’

And when you have read the book, you’ll understand why Griff gave his book this title. At first glimpse Griff sets out the purpose of the book and let’s be clear it’s not a bedtime read, it was never intended to be that; it’s a thought-provoking book with some interesting and at times controversial viewpoints. For me Griff has set the book out in a unique way, are they chapters? Or are they sections that can be viewed as chapters? Either way you decide but Griff has set them as doctrines and deductions. He starts off with sixteen doctrines closely followed towards the end with five deduction sections, at the end of most doctrines and deductions Griff challenges you with a series of findings and raw questions all done to simply make you think. Is Griff’s Ideological rhetoric to your taste hmm…maybe, maybe not but it’s well worth investigating. At the end of the book, you’ll find an exceptionally well written epilogue, a compelling table of basic premises, findings and questions, and finally an engaging Appendix around the sources of errors against the authority of the traditional Catholic Bishops.

This book is extremely well written, but as I have already hinted at its contents in places will certainly raise a few eyebrows. I would be interested to hear what the hierarchy in the Vatican would say about this book. So, look for yourself and formulate your own opinions.

Is God’s will being shaped to fit man’s needs rather than man shaping himself to meet God’s expectations? This question is at the heart of this book.

Social Media sites& Website

Please Visit Griff’s webpage for more about his work and books. www.the-pope.com

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com (MrUbipetrus)

Publisher

iUniverse. www.iuniverse.com search Griff Ruby

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley, and now on Roku, Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices and Apple Tv. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tv online and click Talking Books.

Thank you, Griff, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you again about your epic books. I wish you every success with them, especially this time The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church

(A guide to the Traditional Catholic community)

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Vicki Augustiniak lives in Troy in the state of Michigan in the USA.  She initially grew up in Inner City Detroit as the oldest of nine children, her father’s drinking issues made life at times challenging for the family something she has never forgotten. Her school days in a Catholic environment is where she learned about overseas missionaries and their work walking in the footsteps of Jesus, it was those profound experiences then, that led to her decision to do something similar hence her life today traveling to different parts of the world wherever Christ takes her.

In 1972 she became a nurse a decision she has never regretted, her experience working in numerous sections of the health system has enriched her life both professionally and spiritually. It is these facets of her life that form the core of who and what she is today, but more so why she does what she does today.

Vicki has been married to Rick for more than fifty years, she has two grown up children and six wonderful grandchildren, who outside the realms of traveling for Christ to support those less fortunate than herself and writing, keep her busy.

So, what is this third book in the series ‘Really, God’ about, well let’s get a sneak preview below.

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The Book

The series is about the experiences of one woman’s willingness to follow Christ wherever he leads.

This is the third book in the ‘Really, God ‘series, following on from her spiritual exploits in Bangladesh and South Africa. Twenty-three chronologically laid out chapters set out Vicki’s undertakings in Guatemala, this time to build well sites to provide clean fresh water to some of Guatemala’s poorest mountainous communities. Of course, being a retired nurse, she brings some of her medical expertise to carefully set-up clinics. What Vicki encounters along the way enriches her own beliefs in God and on numerous occasions throughout the book you see her sense of gratitude to God for her lifestyle in comparison to what she sees unfolding before her eyes as she criss-crosses Guatemala. Faith, adventure and a determination to follow Gods’ calling are at the heart of this book and series.

Contents

Chapter 1 – Me, drill a well?
Chapter 2- Who, me Retire?
Chapter 3 – Returning to Guatemala
Chapter 4 – Christmas in Mexico
Chapter 5 – Another Well? And more!
Chapter 6- First medical trip to Guatemala
Chapter 7- First medical with Hand of Hope
Chapter 8- Trip with Rotary
Chapter 9- Christmas in Mexico
Chapter 10- In Guatemala again!
Chapter 11 – Mexico with a grand-daughter, niece and friend
Chapter 12 – Return to Guatemala with Steve and Glen
Chapter 13 – A chance meeting
Chapter 14- Christmas 2019
Chapter 15 – Well and Spanish School
Chapter 16 – Mexico in the Summer
Chapter 17- Teach to Transform Training
Chapter 18 – A well and a medical outreach
Chapter 19- Christmas 2019
Chapter 20 – COVID 19
Chapter 21 – A Trip to El Salvador
Chapter 22 – Guatemala visit and Covid 19
Chapter 23 – Another well

Enjoy the book folks!!!

Other Books by Vicki in the ‘Really, God’ Series

Really, God-Bangladesh (Book One)

Really, God-South Africa (Book Two)

Social Media Sites

Please visit Vicki’s website to find out more about her and this wonderful book of hers. www.really-god-guatemala.com

Publisher

AuthorHouse. www.authorhouse.com Bookstore/Search Vicki Augustiniak RN.

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Applestreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Vicki, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your book Really, God-Guatemala. I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you in the future.

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Nick Hoffman was born in Brockway, Pennsylvania, in 1961. He graduated from high school in 1979 and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Finance in 1983.

He spent thirty tears with the Courier-Express daily newspaper in DuBois, Pennsylvania, including thirteen years as Managing Editor. He later served nine years at Varischetti Holdings, LP in Brockway as Community Initiatives Coordinator.

A lifelong golf enthusiast, Hoffman draws on this passion in his writing. In 2023, he retired and relocated to Omaha, Nebraska, to care for his father.

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The Book

The opening gambit on the front cover of the book really does summarise the overriding backdrop to the story of Nick and his late father’s close but in many respects distant relationship. You might feel what I have just said a contradiction in terms, yet when you read the book, you’ll see why I have said that. At times this father, son relationship incorporated around a game of golf is quite touching.

So, what is the opening ploy!

“Golf can be a tough sport.
The ball doesn’t always end up where we aim.
The same is true in life.
In both instances, the most important shot is the next one, as a father and son discover as they navigate the back 9 together.”

There are twenty-three short, punchy, concise and endearing chapters to this book, to whet your appetite with a snapshot view of those chapters, here are the titles.

On the Move
New Beginnings
Golden Sand
A Night to Remember
Adapting
Long, Winding Road
Let’s Get on with It
A Time for Thanks
Superman
Back to Normal
What Might Have Been
Let the Game Begin
My Turn?
Daddy, Don’t You Walk So Fast
“If This Is It, Son…”
Where Did “Normal” Go?
Slipping Away
A Week to Remember
A Quiet Interlude
One Way to Omaha
Something Isn’t Right
Home, Bittersweet Home
Mission Accomplished

Enjoy the book everyone!!!

The Other Book by Nick Hoffman

He Was There All the Time

Social Media Sites & Webpage

Please visit Nick’s Webpage to learn more about himself and his books.
www.bynickhoffman.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61564058759413
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-hoffman-163ba5a7/

Publisher

WestBow Press: www.westbowpress.com Click Bookstore? Search Nick Hoffman and there you’ll find Nick’s books.

Podcast Info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku, Amazon Firestick streaming devices, plus Apple TV. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Books.”

Enjoy!

Thank you, Nick, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your book, “Play It As It Lies” I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you again soon.

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Leon Lowe would describe himself as an author of many talents across a variety of genres, he has to date written thirty-six books with another seven in the pipeline. When you look at his work, you’ll see that he cleverly blends sci-fi with fantasy, thriller with comedy and adventure with romance. When you delve into his books, you’ll quickly realise the varied topics that he touches upon from education, criminology, healthcare, media, journalism, religion, spirituality, poetry, mediation plus a whole plethora of other topics. Most of his books tend to be short sharp and to the point, though he has compiled some lengthier editions to enhance his portfolio of writing. The subject matter of his book’s hawks back to his intense interest in business studies, social justice, the inner workings of the media, creative writing and social sciences. A broad spectrum of interests you might think, no wonder his books are so varied in content.

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But what’s this book about you may well ask! well let’s look at it. 

The Book

The book ‘Justice Duty’ is concise at fifty-eight pages, divided into twelve chapters each with intriguing titles that hint at a variety of themes. As the chapters are brief, I have on this occasion chosen to list them rather than giving you an overview picture as to what you can expect here from this book. 

Chapter 1: Enter the Academy
Chapter 2: Know the Difference
Chapter 3: Yukio the Hotelier
Chapter 4: Hotel Student
Chapter 5: The Candidate
Chapter 6: The Thief
Chapter 7: Hostile Takeover
Chapter 8: Yukio Never put the Hotel up for Sale
Chapter 9: False Report
Chapter 10: Final Warning
Chapter 11: Last Chance Saloon
Chapter 12: Give and Receive

I hope the above gives you a sense of what you can surmise from this short, animated book.

Publisher

Xlibris www.xlibris.com /bookstore/search Leon Lowe, there you’ll find all the books Leon has written including Justice Duty.

Podcast Info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku, Amazon Firestick streaming devices, plus Apple TV. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Books.”

Enjoy!

Thank you, Leon, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your book, “Justice Duty.” I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you again soon.

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Roselyn Teukolsky was born in Johannesburg in South Africa, where she graduated from the University of the Witwatersand with a B.Sc. in Maths and Chemistry. She emigrated at the age of twenty-three to the United States and soon found herself graduating from Cornell University with an M.S. in Mathematics Education. Roselyn is married with children and grandchildren. For Most of her life she taught Maths and Computer Science mainly at Ithaca High School in Upstate New York. Since retiring in 2009 she and her husband Saul used to split their time between Ithaca, New York State and Pasadena in California. Nowadays Roselyn and her husband Saul a professor of Physics have opted to stay in California having forsaken the beautiful New York State winters. I do wonder however if the Bridge games are better on the West Pacific Coastline.

Roselyn is also the author of ‘The Barron’s Review’ book for AP Computer Science, which is presently in its thirteenth edition. 

So, what can we expect in this second book of ‘The Madeline Geiger Thriller Series’ from Roselyn Teukolsky? Well let’s take a sneak preview.

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The Books

The first thing to point out is, that yes, the storyline is a series around the main characters especially Madeline, but the story within each book is very much on a stand-alone basis.

The Fourth Woman
Book Two of The Series

An intense thrilling story wrapped up in fifty-eight fast-paced enthralling chapters awaits your attention here. Madeline Geiger is a cybersecurity expert, extremely adept at keeping foreign unwanted cyber-attacks at bay. However, her personal life is a complete roller coast ride. This complex woman is exactly that, complex! For many a straightforward relationship around love, sex and friendship is one of life’s great privileges, but not Madeline. Her Professional life is just as chaotic. The story kicks off with a ransomware attack on her own computer that which not only puts her files under siege but her life and her mindset too. A new online date Vincent, a neurobiologist by profession is another complicated character thrown into the melting pot, his labyrinthine of characteristics that he has been given would put anybody with a balanced mind on guard. What dark science lurks behind Vincent’s Lab door? Who is Stalking Madeline from behind the screen and equally in her own life? Oh! And to compound matters her mother’s onset of dementia is becoming a real issue threatening to turn Madeline’s life upside down. 

So, for me this dark thriller weaving digital sabotage and psychological suspense into one heck of a plot is simply a must read. 

In the interview we will focus on the following chapters, one, two, nine, ten, fourteen, fifteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-seven, thirty-eight, forty-five, forty- six and fifty-two. By then you’ll have sufficient armoury to consider buying the book to see the full extent of what the book must reveal, who is the attacker, the suitor and what dark concealments skulk behind the door of Vincent’s lab. Hmm….

A Reluctant Spy
Book One of The Series

Forty-nine chapters of exhilarating, spine-tingling narratives all beautifully woven with unexpected twists and turns is what you can expect from this high-action thriller debut book from Roselyn. The energy and pace with which the storyline is foretold is staggering. A dead husband, a brilliant hacker, the FBI, a secret world of shadowy sex and money all set against the backdrop of an academic framework. Madeline Geiger’s life has stalled following a skydiving accident with her late husband. Who she thought he was and who she discovers he was through spying for the FBI couldn’t be more opposing. What of the Co-workers who worked alongside her late husband, and who’s the killer lurking close by in this tight- knit working environment? What do they hope to gain from their clandestine activities. Hmm…

Want to know the whole story?  Well, you’ll have to buy the book.

Is there a third book coming!!! 
Oh yes!
What’s the title!!!
The last Donor
And the Plot!!!
We’ll have to wait and see.
Only Roselyn knows the narrative here, all she will say is that Madeline finds herself heading for more trouble.

Enjoy the books everyone, I did for certain.

Awards

A reluctant Spy

NYC Big Book Award Winner 2025
The Independent Press Award Winner 2026

Social Media sites and Webpage

Please visit Roselyn’s website, there you’ll find more about who she is and what books she has written, plus you can order a copy of her book from there. www.roselynteukolsky.com

www.linkedin.com/in/roselyn-teukolsky-06785212
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roselynteukolsky
Twitter: www.X.com/@RTeukolsky
Instagram: https://www.instagram@RTeukolsky
Blue Sky: https://www.bluesky.com/rosteulolsky.bsky.social

Publisher

The books are published by Graveyard Press: www.graveyardpress.com . There you will find both ‘A Reluctant Spy’ and ‘The Fourth Woman.’

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Applestreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Roselyn, for giving me another amazing opportunity of interviewing you This time of course the second Book in The Madeline Geiger Thriller Series. As last time I wish you every success with it. Just like A Reluctant Spy.

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Cotton Bain is a development coach and author with roots in the Caribbean, specifically Old Providence Island off the Nicaraguan coastline, but he’s been living in Switzerland for a while now. He focuses on self-accountability, being prepared, and taking purposeful actions to achieve lasting success. Over the years, Cotton has positively influenced and supported a wide range of people, including sports personalities, businesses, entrepreneurs, and many others.

He’s super excited about his debut book, which explores how making deliberate and orderly decisions can lead to strong leadership and long-term fulfilment. So, let’s dive into his book!

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The Book

In “The Excellent Choice,” development coach Cotton Bain shares a guide to help you reach your full potential by making intentional choices every day. With over 20 years of coaching experience, Cotton talks about the importance of aligning your thoughts, actions, and habits with your personal vision. The book is filled with poetic insights and practical advice to help you tackle challenges with confidence and purpose. Whether you’re an athlete, entrepreneur, leader, or lifelong learner, this book encourages you to be your best self by making choices that honour your vision. It’s not just about motivation; it’s about transforming yourself and building resilience. So, choose excellence today!

Social Media Sites & Website

Please visit Cotton’s webpage, where you will learn more about him and the book. Plus, you can obtain the book from there, www.cottonbain.com 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/cotton-bain-69589568
Facebook: https//www.facebook.com/cottonbain
Instagram: https//www.Instagram.com/cottonbain

Publisher

Archway Publishing. www.archwaypublishing.com You can get Cotton’s book from the publisher’s webpage, click bookstore and search ‘The Excellent Choice.’

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku, Amazon Fire Stick and Applestreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Cotton, for giving me this wonderful opportunity to interview you about your fascinating book ‘The Excellent Choice.’ I wish you every success with it.

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Dr Augustine Jeyaraj is a physician and liver transplant surgeon whose calling in medicine has always been guided by a deep sense of purpose and compassion. Beyond the operating room, he has been a lifelong student of Scripture and in 2003 that following took on a new meaning as he converted to Catholicism. 

For the past fifteen years Dr Jeyaraj has focused a lot of his energy into the rich spiritual heritage of the church particularly the writings of the early fathers, the wisdom of the mystics and the pensive theological viewpoints of the saints. From his investigatory findings his first book in thisseries ‘The Word in Their Voices’ was published in July of this year. The aim of this book and the series is to highlight the heartfelt beauty of Christian heritage in a modern approachable style.

Dr Jeyaraj lives in Singapore with his wife and three children, not forgetting Cosmo the family cavapoo. When not operating or writing, he enjoys reading a good science fiction book, a game of chess and of course cheering on his favourite football teams. He enjoys an eclectic ensemble of musical tastes especially songs that carry an ethical message of truth and meaning.

When you look at his life, his work, his Christian thinking you’ll start to see how this book and the others to follow in the series have evolved, so let’s turn our attention to this first book of his.

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The Book

There are ten sectors to this book, or would you say chapters hmm…, possibly. Could you describe them as ten areas of powerful considerations of spiritual guidance for the modern world, yes. Could you describe them as significant environments of poetic writings with underlining scriptorial content, yes. Are the writings in this book set out in such away inviting the reader to encounter venerated Scripture as a living drama as opposed to mere written passages from the bible’s past, yes. How you view the contents of this book I leave up to you once you have read it, you might agree with me or not but read it.

Book’s Contents

The Two Popes
Ordo Armoris
Good Friday-Easter Sunday: Meditation
Good Friday Bible Study
From Law to Life: Sin, Conversion and the Flame of the Spirit
Holy Spirit
Martyrdom for Christ: Still very much Alive
Writings: Reflective Meditations
Ruth
Hebrew

For Dr Augustine who has spent a life in healing and researching of the body this is a new venture for him as he embarks on a journey of deeper healing of the soul. All the poems in the book are paired with reflection and scriptural insight designed to enlighten the reader as they travel their own spiritual path.

Social Media Sites & Webpage

Publisher

Partridge: www.partridgepublishing.com/singaporeBookstore/search Augustine Jeyaraj and there you’ll find the book.

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley. The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley and now on the Roku and Amazon Fire Stick streaming devices. Plus, Apple Tv. Download the Experts and Authors app on your television or visit https://www.ExpertsandAuthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Augustine, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of chatting to you about your amazing book, ‘The Word in Their Voices.’ I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you soon.

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Rusty Reece is an author born and raised in California, with a background in mathematics and a long career in aerospace and teaching. His passion for science fiction and fantasy, sparked by reading J.R.R. Tolkien, influenced the style of this first book.

Early Life and Education

Rusty was born near San Diego, moved to Eureka at age fourteen, graduated high school in 1967, earned a BA in Mathematics from Occidental College in1971, and an MA from the University of Colorado in 1973. He chose family over PhD studies after his first daughter was born.

Career and Interests

Rusty worked in aerospace for 32 years, starting part-time at JPL during college, and taught mathematics at El Camino Community College for 15 years. He has been an avid reader of science fiction and fantasy since age twelve.

Book and Media presence

Rusty’s book, ‘The Warrior & The Dragon,’ reflects his passion for fantasy fiction. His work is available for purchase on his website, Amazon, other book outlets and his publisher iUniverse. He also participates in podcasts and social media to promote his book.

So, let’s turn our attention to the book. 

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The Book

Why the title of the book ‘The Warrior & The Dragon’ you might well ask? The reason is simple; Jason the main protagonist takes on the configuration of both, giving him a split personality which allows him to achieve his objectives. What he accomplishes as a warrior and what he fulfils as a dragon is quite revealing.

For those of you that love a blend of science fiction and fantasy this first-time book of Rusty’s will be ideal for you if you’re looking to add a new author to your collection. This thrilling book contains sixteen glorious chapters that will take you to another space as the characters and story engage with your wildest imaginations.

Weary from the Succession War, Jason seeks peace in Smoky Springs. Tasked with delivering an athame and unlocking his inner magic, he is pursued by Erlender, a necromancer who covets the Kalasha he carries. He meets Akela, a wolf who can take on a human form. Akela assists Jason to transform into a dragon. In his dragon form Jason accomplishes things that he is unable to do so as a man, such as protecting the community from kidnapping attempts. Jason teaches his people how to protect themselves especially from evil sorcerers from the beyond. Cold whispers from chilling windsafter six years of endeavours leave Jason in a compromising position. What is that scenario? To find that out, with all the spills and thrills that form the backdrop to this fast-paced book, you’ll simply have to get the book to discover who did what and when.

Chapters

Chapter 1: Daughter of the Storm
Chapter 2: Two Are Better Than One
Chapter 3: Flying
Chapter 4: Jason Meets the Healer
Chapter 5: Terlingua
Chapter 6: The Dragon and the Wolf Pack
Chapter 7: Dragons Shed
Chapter 8: The Girl with the Golden Voice
Chapter 9: Jason Prepares
Chapter 10: Teach Your Children Well
Chapter 11: The Dragon Revealed
Chapter 12: It was a Dark and Stormy Night
Chapter 13: Terlingua Raided
Chapter 14: The Fire Awakens
Chapter 15: Drake Departs
Chapter 16: Endings and Beginnings

Enjoy!

Social Media Sites and Webpage

Please visit Rusty’s webpage where you’ll learn more about him and the book. Plus, you can buy the book from Rusty’s website. www.rustyreece.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572172084547

Publisher

IUniverse. www.iuniverse.com /Bookstore/Search Rusty Reece. You can purchase the book from this link.

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley. The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley and now on Roku, Apple TV and Amazon Fire Stick streaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your television or visit https://www.ExpertsandAuthors.tv online and click TALKING BOOKS.

Rusty, thank you, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to chat to you for the first time about yourself and your book‘The Warrior & The Dragon.’ It’s been a blast!

Enjoy the book everyone!!!

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Linda Harkey is a multi-award-winning children’s author formerly from Angel Fire in the Sangre De Christo Mts in the U.S. state of New Mexico, now Oklahoma City in the state of Oklahoma. When she lived with her late husband Mike on their thirty-acre ranch in Angel Fire she was surrounded with spectacular scenery and wildlife such as black bears, mountain cougars and elk. It had its advantages and disadvantages living ten thousand feet above sea-level something Linda is going to miss very much, but since the passing of her beloved husband Mike earlier on this year that lifestyle was proving too much of a challenge for her and she has decided to move back to Oklahoma. 

Linda is a past teacher and an enthusiastic hunting dog owner for more than thirty years. Plus, she has spent at least twenty odd years as a volunteer docent at two of Oklahoma’s outstanding museums. Linda was married to Mike a retired surgical pathologist for more years than she cares to recall, she has two children and three grandchildren to date, and one great grandchild, again to date. 

R.I.P Mike, who was ‘The Master’ character in the books. 

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The Book

Nini the German shepherd is devasted when her favourite toy goes missing. Determined to find it, she teams up with her trusty-brother, Lobo, for a snowy backyard search. Their playful antics lead them to unexpected clues and a surprise encounter with Speedy, a pack rat with a secret. This sweet and funny tale celebrates friendship, honesty and perseverance. Young readers are reminded even small adventures can lead to bigger things in life. The illustrations are bright, vivid and really bring this amazing story of the missing Pink Piggy to life. 

Like in most of her books at the end of this book are some activities for kids to complete and enjoy. For Linda enjoying books and stories within are fundamental to a child’s upbringing. 

Young Readers are going to enjoy this book
With its wonderful illustrations

List of Characters starring in this book!!!

Pink Piggy: A cute cuddly toy
Nini: A black and tan German shepherd
Lobo: Nini’s brother the black German shepherd
Speedy: The pack rat

Other Books

The Great Animal Escape

Well, what can I say about this latest children’s book Linda Harkey has put out, Well! It’s WOW! WOW! WOW! She’s poured her heart and soul into it. It’s the story of four farmyard animals venturing out on a journey from Cowlick Ranch to Rancher Girard’s Cow Retirement Ranch. What unfolds on this daring escape, simply to avoid the dreaded Cooking School hmm…! Well let’s find out. 

Middle-Grade Readers are going to love this book!!!

List of Characters Starring in this book

Lova-Bull: A small but powerful dark-red Hereford Bull
Mud-Pie: A Black Angus Cow
Bernie: A Silver Black Raven Chick
Blue Moon: The Chihuahuan Raven
Gracie: The Gray Burro
The Huntress: A Cougar with her two cubs.

The story is told across nine chapters all backed by bright, vivid, adorable illustrations done by Jeff Yesh.

List of Chapters 

Chapter 1: Going to Cooking School
Chapter 2: Planning the Escape
Chapter 3: Escape from Cowlick Ranch
Chapter 4: The Lightning Storm
Chapter 5 Four-Wheeled, Two-Eyed Monsters
Chapter 6: Safe at Duck Pond
Chapter 7: The Huntress
Chapter 8: Ravens to the Rescue
Chapter 9 Ready for Retirement Life

Desert Friends 2nd Edition Travels with the Pack

This is the second book in Linda Harkey’s latest series of ‘Travels With The Pack’ aimed at 4–8-year-olds. The story is set in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona and tells the adventurous tales of the day in the life of four enchanting and irresistiblecharacters. Rodney is a brown-and-black speckled roadrunner who along with his best friend Quincy a Gambel’s quail chat away to each other as they go about their daily activities including lunch options, up to the point when Gator and Tripod two German shorthaired pointers appear on the scene. On seeing Gator, Quincy is reminded that the quail hunting season must be back in force but before that stark reality hits him an unexpected turn of events takes them all by surprise putting Tripod the three-legged pointer in a precarious predicament. The friends create a cunning plan to restore order back into their day especially Tripods.

Social Media sites & Webpage

Please visit Linda’s webpage to find out more about herself and all her books and awards: www.harkeybooks.com

www.storyymonsters.com/bookstore/lindaharkey
www.facebook.com.harkeybooks
www.instagram.comharkeybooks

Awards For The Case of The Missing Pink Piggy

Beyond Border International Film Festival Winner 2025
Makizhmithran International Film Festival Winner 2025 Best Writer
Best International Writer & Best Original Book- Toronto 2025
World Class Film Awards Best Original Story
Telluride Indie Film Festival Winner 2025

Awards for Linda’s other Books.

Linda has countless literary awards too many to mention, we’d need another podcast interview just to talk about all her awards, so let’s just settle with the fact she is a multi-award-winning author. Have a look at her webpage to see what they are.

Publisher

Story Monster Press: www.storymonsterspress.com  . You can get Linda’s latest book from her publisher, click the link, head for/Store/search Linda Harkey.

Podcast Info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Book” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestick streaming devices plus Apple TV. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors App or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and clock on “Talking Books.” 

Thank you, Linda, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your latest book in your Children series, “The Case of The Missing Pink Piggy.” I wish you every success with it and look forward to working again with you soon

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Molly Arbuthnott is a teacher, editor and academic from Perthshire in Scotland. She is passionate about the promotion of children’s literature. With a solid understanding of literature and the ability to read, she believes you can take on the world.

She uses her experiences from life as inspiration for her writing. Teaming up with numerous fantastic illustrators has helped her to breathe life into the stories. Each story is loosely based on family or friends who have been important in her life whilst also trying to tell stories in an honest and gentle way, singing praise to the things we must celebrate in our world. Teaching children to look out for others, work as a team and not be afraid of doing the right thing that is important. Such lessons might then filter through and be reflected in the way we live in the magical world around us.

Each book teams up with the charity which is associated with the theme of the book in some way. Part of the profits from the book sales are then donated to the designated charities.

Possessing an affinity for the world of books, Molly often finds herself at bookstores, libraries, schools and book festivals throughout the UK and the world, sharing interactive and engaging writing and storytelling workshops. Her, podcast ‘My Favourite Books,’ engages both young and not so young to chat about common book interests.

Molly is keen to ensure young minds through smart innovation see nature in its most natural format and once they have seen that natural beauty the world has to offer, then right from an early age they will start to understand how important it is to protect earth’s delicate balance, plus respect and appreciate it more. Some of her books open this burning emotion of hers to young kids to explore and contemplate.

The world of academia Is at the heart and soul of this young Scottish woman’s life, she has taught in Italy, Africa as well as the UK. Molly has several degrees from prestigious universities like St Andrew’s in Scotland and Cambridge in England, she’s recently completed a M.Ed. in Children’s Literature from Glasgow University.

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Eamonn is a bat who loves the light, while his bat friends sleep during the day, Eamonn explores Australia’s sunlit wonders, helping where he can while sipping nectar and soaking in the natural beauty of the world. However, one mysterious flower whose instinct is to flower at night gives Eamonn a challenge to get it to flower during the day so that it can bask in Australia’s glorious sunshine.

This is a gentle tale about being different, following your instincts and the quite magic of Kindness. The message to young readers is all about the merit of perseverance, friendship and embracing light even in dark times.

The Illustrations are beautiful and young readers will enjoy them.

Other Books by the Author

Eddie the Duckling
Peanut the Hamster
Oscar the Italian Cat
Oscar the Ferry Cat
Oscar the Hebridean Cat
George and the Steam Museum
Simon the Sloth
Conrad the Spider
Athena the Cheetah
David the Pizzly Bear
Angus the Robin

Social Media Sites and webpage

Webpage: www.mollyarbuthnott.co.uk
Instagram: www.instagram.com/molly_arbuthnott_books
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mollyarbuthnottbooks
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/molly-arbuthnott-8b528764

Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/mollyarbuthnott@mollyarbuthnottsearch Molly Arbuthnott
Wiitia: www.wikitia/mollyarbuthnott.com
https://ventsmagazine.com/2024/01/25/author-molly-arbuthnotts-recipe-for-success-baking-books-and-budding-chefs

How to Create an Enchanting Children’s Book? “Oscar the Ferry Cat,” Author Molly Arbuthnott Tells All

https://peanutthehamster.evenbrite.co.uk

Publisher

Jellybean Books. 

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley. The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley, and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stick streaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your television or visit: www.Expertsandauthors.tv online and click TALKING BOOKS.

Enjoy!

Molly, I wish you all the best in your new adventures and once again thank you for giving me another interview to talk about your fabulous children’s series, this time of Course Eamonn the Bat.

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Bill Boushka was born in 1943 and raised as an only child in Arlington Virginia in the USA.  His primary educational years where in his words ‘good,’ he enjoyed music especially the piano though he struggled with social integration. Bill’s later years in academia saw him expelled for coming out as gay in 1961. Despite that set back he went on to graduate and earn anMA in Mathematics. In 1968 he was drafted into the U.S Military which for him brought about a whole new set of issues around forced same-sex dormitory and housing accommodation. While considerable progress has been made with regards to sexuality in the U.S Armed Services with society adopting a more conciliarity tone, many areas of gender identity still need to be addressed both in and out of the Armed Services especially around transgender persons and women’s bathrooms spaces. Bill’s own experiences growing up as a gay man lie at core of his writing, so let’s give you a heads-up as to what you can expect from his work.

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This is the third book in the series under the prefix of ‘Do Ask, Do Tell.’ The universal theme of the series looks at self-direction and distinctive accountability and how these principles apply to gay rights, equality and of course free speech. While the other two books focus on their own areas of concerns and involvements that have impacted Bill and the wider gay community over time, I really want to focus on the third book. 

The book is in two parts, Part one headed up Non Fiction comprises a prologue and six nonfiction chapters about problem areas, with the recreation of a variety of incidents at various stages of the author’s life. The sequence of events isnot chronological as in the other books. Part two is headed up Fiction and comprises three short stories written at different times, the first story written in 1969 is around Bill’s own fictionalised account of what he experienced in the military with regards to Basic Combat Training then. The second written in 1981 relays the story of two former college roommates reuniting via a road trip through countryside heavily ruined by coal strip-mining. And the last story written in 2013 talks about a bizarre road adventure coupled with acceptance of an ‘instant family’ scenario, like it or not.

The Books Layout

Part 1
Non-Fiction

Foreword
Chapter 1: Music Rules the World
Chapter 2: The Virtue of Maleness
Chapter 3: Broadcast Yourself
Chapter 4: Just Mainframes, and then a Huckster
Chapter 5: Eldercare
Epilogue
Pictures

Part II
Fiction

Notes on Part II
Story 1: The Proles: Chapter 4. “Interlude”
Story 2: Expedition
Story 3: The Ocelot the Way He Is
Bibliography
Glossary

Other Books in the Series

Book One
Do Ask, Do Tell: A Gay Conservative Lashes Back: Individualism, Identity, Personal Rights, Responsibility and Community in a Libertarian Third Millennium.

Book Two
Do Ask, Do Tell: When Liberty Is Stressed: Updates to Bill of Rights II; Essays on Challenges to Free Speech and to Other Liberties.

Social Media Sites and Webpage

Please visit Bill’s webpages, there you’ll learn more about him and his writing. You can also get the book from there. www.authorbillboushka.com
www.johnwboushka.com
www.johnwboushkablog.wpcomstaging.com
www.doaskdotell.info
www.doaskdotell.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/johnboushkabooks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/john.boushka
X: https://x.com/JBoushka
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/jboushka

Publisher

Xlibris. If you want to explore Bill’s book you can go to www.xlibris.com /bookstore/ search Bill Boushka.

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley. The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley and now on the Roku and Amazon Fire Stick streaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your television or visit https://www.ExpertsandAuthors.tv online and click TALKING BOOKS.

Enjoy!

Thank you, Bill, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of allowing me to interview you about your fascinating book ‘Do Ask, Do Tell: Speech Is a Fundamental Right; Being Listened to Is a Privilege.’ I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you in the future.

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A K Cooper-Elliott was born in Germany but now resides in Yorkshire a beautiful and breath-taking county in the UK. Those that live there would arguably say that it’s the best county in the UK, but those that are not domiciled there may possibly disagree, but without a doubt the Yorkshire Dales are renowned for their natural surroundings.

A K is married with two grown up children that have fled the nest. Due to the early onset of Multiple Sclerosis, A K had to retire at a relatively early age from her high-flying executive career in procurement and accountancy, the demands of the job and her functionality issues were becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. With the decision reluctantly taken to step away from the world of high finance, A K turned to writing, giving her a new focus in life, a focus that can be fitted around her physical abilities, for a person living with M.S. some days can be more challenging than others, on a bad day not much gets done.

As far as A K can remember she has always loved books, reading a variety of genres. From reading to writing A k’s life has evolved, she writes both children and adults books, but for the purpose of this podcast we’re going to concentrate on her latest children’s books in The Lilly Everlea series.’ 

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The Books

Hey! It’s Me! It’s Lilly Everlea

The two stories that make up this book

Lilly and The Ruby Ring
Lilly and The Time Marrow

Lilly and The Ruby Ring

When Mrs Lemming’s ruby ring is stolen, Lilly Everlea and her gardener Terrance investigate the case. After finding a note pushed under his office door, Professor Everlea reveals the names of the culprits to Sergeant Smiffy. Everyone is surprised apart from Lilly and Terrance who solve the case.

Lilly and The Time Marrow

When all the cats in the village fall asleep, Lilly finds out that the link is connected to Mr Muggles’ catnip.

Terrance has created a time machine in the form of a metal marrow. Lilly and Terrance travel back to 1898 to stop the production of the catnip. Professor Muggles is stunned when Terrance introduces him to chamomile tea instead of using catnip. This changes the history of Professors Muggles’ catnip, but someone’s interference could ruin the ingredient. Can Lilly and Terrance stop the intruder from the sabotaging the Muggles’ recipe

Hey! It’s me Again! It’s Lilly Everlea

The two stories that make up this book

Lilly and The Haunted Rectory
Lilly and The Featherbark Lane Mystery

Join Lilly Everlea, a spirited young detective, and her trusty companion, Terrance the gardener, in two thrilling mysteries that will test their wit and courage.

Lilly and The Haunted Rectory

When mysterious bangs echo through the churchyard at night, Lilly’s village of Ducksdale is on edge. With Reverend Dentin away at the rectory vacant, two eerie shadows appear in the windows after sunset. A peculiar stranger arrives, exchanging new silver coins for blueberry ice cream at knotty’s Ice Cream Parlour. Eaves dropping on her father’s conversation with Sergeant Smiffy, Lilly and Terrance take it upon themselves to investigate. Will Lilly Everlea solve the riddle of the haunting before her father and the authorities? Can the enigmatic coins hold the hey to the strange occurrences in the village.

Lilly and the Featherbark Lane Mystery

Halloween approaches, casting a shadow of fear over Ducksdale. The legend of the white figure returning to Featherbark Lane sends shivers down the villager’s spines. Determined to uncover the truth, Lilly, Terrance and their friend Emily Knott embark on a quest to unravel the secrets behind the ghostly apparition. As the Everlea Halloween party unfolds, Emily Knott unveils a startling revelation. But what is this mysterious white thingy that continues to terrorize the village?

Other Book in The Lilly Everlea Series

Hey! It’s me! Lilly Everlea! I’m Here Again!

The three stories that make up this book

Lilly and The Nutcracker Soldiers
Lilly and Mr Meadow’s Christmas Stocking
Lilly and Mrs Knott’s Missing Marshmallows

If you want to know about the adult books A K Cooper-Elliott has written, check out her website www.akcooperelliott.com

Publisher

Michael Terence Publishing: www.mtp.agency (For some of her books)

Social Media Sites & Webpage

Please visit the webpage to found out more as to who AK Cooper-Elliott is and what she writes about. Webpage: www.akcooperelliot.com

YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhyG-E7v7wLd7SsJN6VOXg/about
Twitter: www.twitter.com/akcooperelliot
Facebook: www.facebook.com/p/AK-Cooper-Elliot-100090021086938
Pinterest: www.pinterest.co.uk/alcooperelliot
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/ak-cooper-elliot-926387224

The Podcast

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on the Roku and Amazon Fire Stick streaming devices.Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit https://www.ExpertsandAuthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

If you wish to purchase any of AK Cooper-Elliot’s books you can head to her webpage www.akcooperelliot.com to the publisher’s www.mtp.agency for some of her books, or simply click the Amazon links above.

A K, thank you, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to chat to you again about yourself and your latest book editions of‘The Lilly Everlea Series.’ It’s been a blast!

Enjoy the books everyone!!!

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P J Ellis is a retired graphic designer who lives in the suburbs of Atlanta Georgia with her cat Kitty. In her earlier days she was an accountant before transitioning to the world of graphic design at a Fortune 500 media company. Pamela has had an infinity with books going as far back as to that of her youth.  However, like most of us a busy career got in the way, and it wasn’t until she retired did, she turn to her long-held passion of writing. The first book is done, the second is in the process and the third and final one that will complete the series is still whirring around in her head. 

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This debut novel is a romantic thriller. However, lurking among the pages are scenes of murder, kidnappings and mysterious episodes, they do say love can be blind. As the story develops it becomes clear to Selena she needs to tread carefully when it comes to those to whom she can place her trust in and those she should be on guard with. As a former fashion model with some considerable notoriety in her own right and with amorous suitors coming at her from every angle, why did she make the ill-judged choice of marriage to Victor LaRoche, was it her youthful inexperience in life? Or attraction to his considerable wealth and charm? Whatever the reason she quickly realises Victor has a dark sinister side to him that comes out in the form of abuse both mentally and physically. As her life spirals into an ever-increasing battle of abuse she faces an uncertain future, but a fresh future she is determined to find, unfortunately Victor has other ideas for her and no matter where she hides and escapes to, he finds her and is determined to destroy her, even after he remarries, he still pursues her. Why? What is his motive? Well, you need to read the book to find out the reasons.

Selena eventually settles in Andersonville, Georgia an infamous town, with a new home and career has she finally escaped the clutches of Victor’s reach, or will she have to face him off for one more time, will she be left with no alternative but to make Andersonville her final stand-off. With events that are going off around her she’s on edge, decisions must be made, but what decisions and how will things pan out?

To muddy the waters a fascinating child comes into play, the role that child plays is intriguing to say the least, add a curious widowed detective into the melting pot whose principal role is that of a new lover and protector, and the narrative takes on a whole new aspect all creatively done to keep you the reader guessing as to the outcome. 

As the plot develops Victor’s behaviour becomes more erratic and volatile, to what far-reaching lengths is he prepared to go in his pursuit of Selena? And what extreme measures must she take to protect herself?  Well to find out the answer to those questions again you need to read the book.

Social Media Sites

Awards

Bookfest Book Awards
SPR Book Awards 2024
Los Angeles Book Festival 2025
London Book Festival
Literary Global Independent Author Awards 2024 Finalist 
Speak Up Talk Radio International Firebird Book Awards

Publisher

iUniverse: www.iuniverse.com /bookstore/ search/P J Ellis- After You, My Dear.

Podcast Info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For Video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestick streaming devices plus Apple TV. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors App or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Book.” 

Thank You, Pam, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your book “After You, My Dear: I Will Always Follow You.” I wish you every success with it and look forward to working again with you soon.

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Bruce Martin is a British author who has lived in the realm of make believe for a very long time, that is not to say he’s an astute person with a business mind and a clear vision with regards to his future, a future in words. Like most of us his life has been a rollercoaster ride and upon reflection had he been diagnosed earlier on in his childhood with OCD/ADHD things might have turned out differently.  How Bruce, saw the world then and to a certain degree now and how the world saw him particularly his parents could best be described as two very stark pictures, where the pictures in black and white or white and black. Bruce is now in his fifties, a single parent to his three-year-old daughter and having almost reconciled his disorderly youth days to the past he now focuses and relishes on his creativity way of thinking, something that has always been at the core of who he is as a person. It’s this creativity in particular his penchant for everything mystical, fantasy and possibly make believe that this debut book of his came about, so let’s turn our attention to the book, a book as the title alludes to somewhere between realm and reality.

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Twenty-one chapters of exhilarating gothic fantasy awaits you here, and for young adults to whom this book is mainly written for, well! you’re in for a surprise as the author takes you on his lopsided version of Alice in Wonderland. This dark tale of magic and deceit told by an eclectic bunch of remote from reality creatures and the authors own conceptualization of how he perceives the Mad Hatter, Rabbit and the Queen of Hearts will at times make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. A chilling tale indeed, beautifully written and masterly composed.

Alison Wilde is plucked and plunged into the Netherworld; her earthly world has diminished to a mere fleeting memory and her new dark world filled with werewolves and other horrifying mystical creatures is less than comforting. Her so-called new friends endeavour to steer her through this dark murky world where dark evil forces are at play to destroy the very fabric of the universe. Alison has a destiny which is thwarted at every stage by the evil that lurks in the mystical universe she finds herself in. What is her destiny? Who are the dark forces at play? Why do they want to destroy the universe? Will Alison overcome those that seek to destroy her and achieve her desired result? 

Want to know the answers to the questions above? Well, you’ll have to read the book.

Social Media sites and Webpage

Please visit Bruce’s webpage, there you will learn more about him and the book, plus you can order the book from there. www.brucemartin-author.co.uk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/17Aw2BJeXq
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brucemartin.author
LinkedIn: https://Linkedin.com/in/bruce-martin-515175294

Publisher

Cranthorpe Millner publishers: www.cranthorpemillner.com

Podcast Info.

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku, Amazon Firestick streaming devices, plus Apple TV. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click “Talking Books.”

Enjoy!

Thank you, Bruce, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your book “Dream Walker.” I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you again soon.

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Olive Clarke is a British author who has led an interesting life right from her childhood days. She taught herself to read from a very early age and her passion for both reading and writing has supported her right up to this very day. Olive would often scramble up her favourite tree and even hide under the bed covers or anywhere she could find solitude to let her imagination run riot with stories and characters. Often her vivid creativity would scare her, leaving her thinking where on earth did that story emerge from? Olive is now eighty-one, bed bound having suffered a stroke some years ago, but as she puts it, “my body is wrecked, but my mind is as sharp as a needle and I still take great pleasure in delighting others with my books, thus while I have the ability to write, I will continue to do so until I can’t; but that will be a sad day for me if that was to happen. So, I continue to write, for it does keep me out of mischief.”

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Wildcats and spirituality set in a topography that mirrors the well-known Peak District National Park in the United Kingdom is at the core of this exhilarating novel which is intelligently constructed and beautifully written. Kahmet a wildcat is the implausible hero dominating the scenes here. The Immeasurable standards required from him to maintain his position are high, he has many attributes to his name, but he is a flawed character which leaves him exposed to unguarded challenges. 

A marauding tribe of nearby wildcats inflicts brutal chaos on the scene, the battles are ferocious and dramatic, leaving untold damaged pathways in their wake and cats from all sides left licking their wounds. Will good conquer evil as the drama unfolds? 

Seeing the world though the eyes of wildcats in all the developing flash situations is unique, yet we are allowed to see the warmth and sweetness that exists between the individual cats as they each have their moment on the centre stage.

As the story draws to its closing moments you will see, imperfections rectified, inequalities put right, and shortcomings settled. But what of the protection of the Ultimate Authority; I’ll leave that for you to fathom that out for yourselves.

This is an exceptional book, both in terms of the narrative and writing style and when you have read all sixty-seven chapters I think you’ll agree with me. 

The story has been assembled into eight very distinctive parts and just to give you an idea as to how this has been done, I have listed the parts of the book below which should give you a flavour as to what you can expect.

Did I enjoy this distinctive book? Yes, very much. Do I recommend you read it? Oh Yes!!!

My favourite Wildcat was Hedgerow. But the position of Moon Cat intrigued me, and the edge around spirituality was subtle and tasteful.

Part 1: Autumn Fruits
Part 2: Winter Threatens
Part 3: Winter Bites
Part 4: The Storm Breaks
Part 5: Spring Fever
Part 6: Cuckoo in the Nest
Part 7: Summer Shadows
Part 8: Harvest Home

Other Books By Olive Clarke

Incoming Tide
The Homecoming
The Golden Claw

Social Media Sites & Webpage.

Please visit Olive’s webpage where you’ll learn more about her as an author, plus see her books. www.oliveclarkebooks.com 

Publisher

AuthorHouse; www.authorhouse.com /Bookstore/search Olive Clarke and there you’ll find her books. 

Podcast info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku, Amazon Firestick streaming devices, plus Apple TV. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Books.”

Enjoy!

Thank you, Olive, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your book, “The Blessing of The Sun.” I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you again soon.

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Monique Worgess is a young British author from London in the UK; she was born in Jamaica and lived there until she was eleven when she moved to the UK with her family. Monique spent ten years in retail a career she cherished and loved, her colleagues often saw her as a workaholic, promotions ensued but at a personal cost. In 2022 Monique took a career break, to reflect on what had occurred in the past and revalue what really matters to her. This so-called revaluation has created a new persona, her passion for a healthier mindset with strategic disciplines in place is at the essence of who the new Monique is today. This mini break gave her the opportunity to sit down and compose this book, a book about sharing her experiences so that others can reflect on their own lives and identify what they need to do to adjust for a better life. 

So, let’s take a snapshot view of the book.

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The Book

This is a small book of five stimulating chapters that touch upon the delicate issues surrounding low esteem, introversive behaviours, coercive control circumstances and interrelationship awareness with others both personally and professionally. The subject matters raised in the book are told through the eyes of the author herself whose own experiences have led to this book. In a way this is Monique talking about the dilemmas she faced, how she dealt with them and how she transgressed over the years to become the version of herself, that she is today.

When you look at the book it’s compiled of the following: 

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 Introvert
Chapter 2 Am I Free
Chapter 3 Did it Start Here
Chapter 4 Is low Self Esteem an Excuse
Chapter 5 Emerging and Healing 
Appendix: Healing Process Starter Checklist
About the Author

For me a pivotal section of the book is the Introduction, for two reasons. 1) Monique starts to open up with lively debate around the various topics she’s raising and 2) she gives you an insight as to what the forth coming chapters hold, reveal so to speak, hence the reason for highlighting it in the interview. 

Social Media Sites

Please visit Monique’s website where you’ll learn more about her and this amazing book of hers. Plus, you can get the book from there as well. www.itsoktofeellikethis.com 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/monique.a.worgesstheauthor/profilecard/?igsh=MW5uZmJzYnI3cWJyNw==

Publisher

Balboa Press UK. www.balboapress.com bookstore/ search Monique Worgess. There you’ll find her book to purchase.

Podcast info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social media platforms. For video content, search “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku, Amazon Firestick streaming devices plus Apple TV. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Books.”

Enjoy!

Thank you, Monique, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your book “It’s OK to Feel Like This…!” I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you again soon.

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Jane M McCabe is an American author (both adult and Children’s), painter, former teacher and associate editor, she was born in Billings, Montana where she attended various school levels before attending the University of Washington in Seattle where she obtained a BA in Art and a minor in English. From there she progressed to obtaining an MA in Fine Art Painting at San Francisco Art Institute in 1967. The following Three years Jane attended Luther Seminary in St Paul’s, Minnesota and I think I would be justified in saying this was the start of Jane’s earnest religious pilgrimage, a pilgrimage that she has been on right up to this very day. The path she chose to satisfy her unquenchable thirst for religious discernment is very much in evidence in this book of hers. 

Apart from her theological findings Jane has diversified in to teaching, painting, writing, illustrating, editing and delivering one man shows all of which she has done at various stages of her illustrious life. Boredom does not exist in Jane’s world, life is for living, exploring and pursuing your dreams even if they don’t always turn out as you expect. Always be prepared to give it ago is her stance. Jane has criss-crossed America in her pursuit of a worthwhile lifestyle and careers. Would she do it all over again if age was on her side, who knows.

So, let’s turn our attention to the Children’s books she has written, edited and illustrated.

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The Books

The Remarkable Story of The Very First Flower

This is the story of a little flower that bloomed a hundred million years ago, she was the first flower to emerge on the planet, the dinosaurs were dying off and mammals started to replace them. The little flower was very lonely as she was the only flower to exist. However, her fruit and seeds transformed the landscape and soon she was surrounded by countless other flowers, just like her. The book is aimed at 5–6-year-olds. Parents and Grandparents will love reading this book to the younger generation as a bedtime read. The Illustrations are amazing, bright and jovial.

The Little Blue Lamb
Written by Wayne F Maxwell Jr
Edited & Illustrated by Jane M McCabe

This book was written by Wayne F Maxwell; however, Jane edited the book and did the illustrations. It’s a story of a blue lamb called Heather, she’s a little confused as to her colour. She encounters Mary and Joseph on a donkey on their way to Bethlehem. Joseph gives her a drink and Mary rocks her to sleep. While asleep Heather dreams of an angel who tells her to follow the star to wherever it goes. The star takes Heather to a humble stable, inside she finds the Baby Jesus in a manger. When he touches her, she realises it’s okay to be blue. The illustrations that accompany this story are wonderful. A great Christmas story for kids.

The Worm Who wanted to Fly
(Caterpillar)

This is a children’s book for very small children. It’s the story of a worm who wants to fly; actually, he’s a caterpillar, the story and the wonderful illustrations tell the tale of the various stages a caterpillar goes through to become a magnificent butterfly. An Adorable book for a bedtime read.

Celeste, Oliver and the Holey Wall

Another adorable children’s story aimed at 5-8-year-olds with amazing illustrations that really do extenuate the story of Princess Celeste and Prince Oliver. The scene is an apple orchard that separates their two kingdoms, yet the dividing wall has a whole in it which allows Prince Oliver and Princess Celeste to meet up and play. However, Prince Oliver is rather curt at times and Princess Celeste has the whole filled in to keep him away. But not for long, for he soon hatches a plan to get round the wall.

Social Media Sites

Please visit Jane’s website there you’ll get an understanding of who she is, especially her writing and her paintings: www.janemmccabe-mywork.squarespace.com The website is a fascinating journey of her life. Seriously look. A true artist!

Jane uses the following social media outlets:

LinkedIn: www.linkedIn.com/in/jane-mccabe-1514ab36
(Jane Madison McCabe)
Facebook: www.facebook.com/janemmccabe
Instagram: www.instagram.com/janemmccabe

Publishers

The Remarkable Story of The Very First Flower: -Sel- published by Jane herself.
The Little Blue Lamb: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
The Worm that Wanted to Fly: – Self-published by Jane herself. 
Celeste, Oliver and The Holey Wall: – Self-published by Jane herself.

Podcast Info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku, Amazon Firestick streaming devices plus Apple Tv. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Books.” 

Enjoy!

Thank you, Jane, for giving me another opportunity to interview you about your writing, this time your children’s books. I wish you every success with them and look forward to working with you again soon.

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Helmut Portmann is an American author born in Switzerland but now residing in Covington a small community town in the state of Louisiana, USA where he lives with his wife Julie, son Alex, rescued husky Gabriel and adopted cat sisters Pearl and Amethyst. Helmut has done a variety of jobs over the years since graduating from college, his first job saw him logging oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, but that was soon followed by working on the US Army’s Pershing Tactical Nuclear Missile System in Europe during the Cold War. Returning to the US he became an analyst hunting Soviet submarines, which led to him being put in charge of a program that protected US submarines being detected. Helmut has also worked in the US navy’s mine warfare laboratory to help lead their unmanned systems programs. He ultimately ended up as a director of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Data Buoy Centre, deploying buoys across the world’s great oceans to measure weather and climate changes, plus tsunami occurrences. A varied career you might say, but we mustn’t forget his drumming experiences. Now a days a more sedate lifestyle is pursued and at the heart of that changed manner of living is writing, so let’s turn our attention to this second book of his.

Helmut says you need to read the books in sequence to get the full effect of what the Alex Beck series is about.

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The Books

Remora!
Book Three

This series keeps on giving and clearly Helmut is becoming more audacious and confident both in terms of the storyline and the characters. The narrative this time is told over, not forty, not fifty-six chapters as in the two preceding books, but seventy-six short, vigorous and explosive chapters. By the end of the book Alex, Catherine and Eva’s relationships become more defined both in terms of their working roles within the CIA and their personal alliances and entanglements. 

But what’s the backdrop to this story?

Well, the US Navy is losing ships in unprovoked terrorist attacks in the Middle East, initially around Yemen. These attacks according to the CIA’s sources are believed to stem from the new terrorist group Hezbollah backed by Iran, with specialist Scuba divers trained in West Germany to attach limpet mines to the sides if ships. These attacks the CIA firmly believe have been carefully orchestrated to cause maximum disruption to the US’s operations within the Middle East. The US of course been seen by the Iranian authoritarian regime then and possibly still today as the ‘Great Satan.’

Alex Beck, reformed analyst, now CIA agent is tasked with operating a small team of highly specialised operatives to neutralise the situation and bring Hezbollah’s scuba diving activities to an abrupt end. Thus, restoring the smooth day to day running of US naval activities within the region.

Just like the previous two books the narrative told here is all-embracing, all-consuming and extremely compelling. Another great book from Helmut Portmann. 

Enjoy! I did.

Phantom of the Gulf
Book two

Wow you are in for another treat here with this second book of the series, fifty-eight blistering chapters, jam-packed with high-end drama and secrecy await your inspection, just like the first book. The U.S. Navy detect unrecognisable sonar activity bouncing off an esoteric object moving among the drilling platforms of America’s Oil and Gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The echoes suggest some kind of submersible running on batteries, what is it? who’s behind this operation? and more importantly what’s it doing there? Both the Navy and the CIA know that this area has a strong attraction to America’s foes and that any non-native activity needs to be investigated especially if the Navy’s highly classified SOSUS acoustic system is struggling to identify what is lurking below the waterline? Is Cuba with overseas support up to something here?  Is there a possible sabotage attempt looming from the Cubans in response to the Bay of Pigs invasion attempt carried out by their arch-rival the USA. 

Whatever is unfolding under the waters off the Gulf of Mexico, the CIA need to carry out secretive investigations as a matter of great urgency. Alex Beck heads up a team to hunt down this mysterious object that has the U.S. authorities flummoxed and referring to as the Phantom of the Gulf.

What a powerful read!

Adios El Jefe Castro!
A Revenge Plot to Assassinate Fidel
Book One

Forty, well executed eye-catching chapters await your attention, if you consider Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton in your reading repertoire then Helmut’s book will appeal to you. The characters Alex, Ana, Angel, Ludo, Carlos, Raul and Jose blend well together as they combine the Cubans’ hatred for Fidel Castro (El Jefe) Cuba’s revolutionary leader from 1959 to 2008, with a strong desire to assassinate him, as well as overthrowing the brutal regime whose tactics to  keep him in power involved, rape, murder and torture, something as young children all of them witnessed to some extent, before escaping to the U.S. Would they achieve what America failed to do? Revenge can be sweet, but it can also be all consuming and that consumption can come at a considerable price. A price would these exiled Cubans from childhood be prepared to pay, if so by what measures and how far would they go to plicate their retribution, or do their interests diminish over time? Plus, what role does a cold war nuclear missile system in Europe play? Hmm…

A breathtaking read. What’s the outcome? Well! read the book.

Social Media Sites

Please visit Helmut’s webpage where you will learn more about him as an author, as well as gaining more insight as to what his books are about, and who the main characters are. You can also purchase the books from his webpage, plus get a sneak preview as well. You will find that the books are available in various formats, all available on Amazon. 

www.helmutportmann.com 

Publisher

Amazon KDP

Podcast Information

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestick streaming devices. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandautjhors.tv and click on “Talking Books.”

Enjoy!

Thank you, Helmut, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your phenomenal books that make up the Alex Beck Thriller series, I wish you every success with them.

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Linda Chrisman is a children’s American author from northern California with two published books under her belt.  She has however, written other poems and stories something she has done since childhood. Linda has also penned feature stories for her small-town newspaper. 

As Director of Patient Care Services at her local hospice, her work there along with ensuring the smooth running of a large family household of seven keeps her busy; to that we must add providing tag-team caregiving with her husband for her elderly mother. How on earth she finds time to write I fail to understand, but I suppose if you’re determined to do it, you somehow find a way. 

So, let’s turn our attention to her book that we are featuring in this podcast Interview.

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The Book

This is a delightful children’s book aimed at 4–10-year-olds. The illustrations done by Linda herself are bright, vivid, creative and engaging, young minds will love them. The story is based on Linda’s own experience as a child whose hair would easily get tangled in the wind. The prospect of her Nana with a hairbrush in hand was enough to bring about tears, her Nana would distract Linda while detangling her hair by scolding the wild animals she said were causing her tangles. This process Linda used both on her own daughters and granddaughters. Linda has entwined this everyday experience into a ridiculous rhyme for young children to enjoy.

Other Book
Written and Published

One Smiling Grandma

This book is a charming and heartwarming children’s book that beautifully captures the joy, imagination, and loved shared between a grandmother and her grandchildren. With rhythmic storytelling and whimsical illustrations, the book takes young readers on a delightful adventure filled with fairy ponies, magic thrones and playful sunflowers. This book was on Amazon’s Best Sellers list for March 2025.

Social Media Sites

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/linda.chrisman262?mibextid=wwXlfr&mibextid=wwXlfr
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lchrisman80?igsh=MXN5aR1dw5wd-WxyMQ%3D%3D&utm_-source=gr
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/lindachrisman
Pinterest: https://pin.it/4gb6A87b4
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@lindachrisman2572?si=zgEiqFr4TIK9IDcF

Publisher

Xlibris: www.xlibris.com / bookstore/ search Linda Elliott Chrisman to get a copy of her book.

Podcast info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For Video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku, Amazon Firestick streaming devices, plus Apple TV. Too access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Books.”

Enjoy!

Thank you, Linda, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your book, “There’s a Hedgehog in My Hair. I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you again soon.

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Fish Nealman is an award-winning literary fiction author renowned for his evocative storytelling and meticulously crafted narratives. Living amidst the tranquil, low-lying mountains of rural New Jersey, he channels inspiration from his global travels, seamlessly integrating diverse cultural elements into his work. His novels transport readers to vivid locales, both familiar and exotic, offering an authentic lens into the human experience. Celebrated for creating unforgettable characters and extraordinary plots, his stories resonate on a profound emotional level. Each book invites readers on a journey where richly detailed settings, heartfelt exploration and timeless themes converge to create truly memorable literary adventures.

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The Book

This outstanding award-winning book sheds light on the all-embracing threads of humanity that commonly unite us all, whether we envisage that in our daily lives or not. The story is beautifully woven together by four striking and impressive characters whose backgrounds are very much at odds with each other yet have a common thread when it comes to humanity and mankind. Cardinal LaMacchia (Otto) has his own strong views on how the Catholic church should interact with society. Rabbi Rahabi (Ezekiel- alias Eli in the book) comes from a very strong Jewish background, but his journey from personal greed to impassion for those around him especially young people, is striking. Dr Herzog (Linda) is a highly educated woman whose approach to the scriptures of the bible and how those teachings should be illuminated and presented to the public tangibly suggests her approach to humanity is more on the agnostic side. Iman Martin, his upbringing is in stark contrast to the others; the foster care system that he endured as a child really shaped his viewpoints as to how humans should face themselves and tackle social issues. These are the four dominant protagonists that carry this story forward in its entirety. As you can see, they come from different backgrounds, beliefs but they share a common fundamental connection around humanity and that of a flat tire. What these four set out to achieve here is to grapple with their personal challenges and spiritual trials and come up with a purposeful mission to draft a Redeclaration of Independence for the United States so to ensure equality is key to the way forward for all. 

The book has other characters that support this transformative journey around equality and humanity, even a waitress (Camila) plays a significant role.

The first part of the book gives you the backdrop to the big four players, the second part you start to see how they come together, and the third part well, read the book and find out for yourself!

Part I
1: Otto
2: Ezekiel
3: Linda
4: Martin

Part II
5: Hermanos
6: Unreasonable Times
7: Otto and Eli
8: Otto, Eli and Linda
9: Camila
10: And Martin

Part III
11: Sequoia
12: Miller
13: Teehee
14: Lilith
15: Equality
16: Geronimo
17: Daniel

Other Books
Esteban Series

Esteban: Love’s Ordeal

Esteban: Love’s Irony

Esteban Love’s Triumph

Social Media Sites & Webpage

Please visit Fish’s webpage where you can learn more about the author and his books.
www.tales.fish

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fishnealman/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fishnealman
Meta: // www.x.com/fish_tales_fish
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fish-nealman
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fishnealman261?lang=en

Publisher

The Paper House: www.thepaperhousebooks.com

Awards

The Bookfest Award Winner. First Place for Literary Fiction.

Jersey City. NJ – Fish Nealman ‘s ‘The Flat Tire’ won first place at The BookFest Awards Spring 2025. The book is honoured in the category of Fiction-Literary- Contemporary.

The BookFest honours authors who create outstanding works of fiction and non-fiction. Its mission is rooted in the belief that literature has a transformative power and a desire to support and celebrate those who create it.

Desiree Duffy, Founder of BookFest, says, “I am delighted to announce Fish Nealman as the author of a First Place Award at The BookFest Awards. This year’s competition was exceptional, and Fish Nealman should be very proud of this outstanding accomplishment.”

Fish Nealman says, “Being selected as a first-place winner of The BookFest Awards is an incredible honour. I am grateful to be recognised for The Flat Tire.

Podcast info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestick streaming devices plus Apple TV. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Books.”

Enjoy!

Thank you, Fish, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your book The Flat Tire. I wish you every success with it and look forward to working again with you soon.

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Jane M McCabe is an American author, painter, former teacher and associate editor, she was born in Billings, Montana where she attended various school levels before attending the University of Washington in Seattle where she obtained a BA in Art and a minor in English. From there she progressed to obtaining an MA in Fine Art Painting at San Francisco Art Institute in 1967. The following Three years Jane attended Luther Seminary in St Paul’s, Minnesota and I think I would be justified in saying this was the start of Jane’s earnest religious pilgrimage, a pilgrimage that she has been on right up to this very day. The path she chose to satisfy her unquenchable thirst for religious discernment is very much in evidence in this book of hers. 

Apart from her theological findings Jane has diversified in to teaching, painting, writing, illustrating, editing and delivering one man shows all of which she has done at various stages of her illustrious life. Boredom does not exist in Jane’s world, life is for living, exploring and pursuing your dreams even if they don’t always turn out as you expect. Always be prepared to give it ago is her stance. Jane has criss-crossed America in her pursuit of a worthwhile lifestyle and careers. Would she do it all over again if age was on her side, who knows.

So, let’s turn our attention to the book.

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The Book

This articulate book, which is extremely well written and though out, is really the authors own personal journey of exploration around some of the world’s great religions. The divine teachings within those religious sects hold numerous messages, whether we as individual humans allow these messages/ teachings to infiltrate our minds without preconceived prejudices getting in the way is another matter. Jane herself had many predetermined thoughts before she embarked on her life-long religious pilgrimage, she has dipped her toe into Lutheranism, Islam and Christianity, what she has learnt is to keep an open mind when exploring religions. So, when you read her book about her personal journey of doctrinal theories keep an open mind as she tells the story of prophecy as one narrative, acknowledging Mohammed as a prophet in the Judeo-Christian tradition and at the same time equating stories from the Koran with their biblical translations. 

To give you an idea as to the contents of the book in a little more detail I’m listing the titles of each chapter.

Chapter 1: From the Beginning of Time to the Time of Abraham, about 2000 BC.
Chapter 2: Revelation to the Ancient Hebrews, from Abraham to the Birth of Jesus, from about 2000 BC to AD 1.
Chapter 3: Revelation to Jesus and the Early Christians, from AD1 to AD 320.
Chapter 4: The Conversion of Constantine and the Nicene Council, from AD 320 to AD 570.
Chapter 5: Revelation to Mohammed from AD 570 to AD 632.
Chapter 6: The Koran. Part 1: Old Testament References.
Chapter 7: The Koran, Part 2: New Testament References.

Other Novels, Poetry & Children’s Book’s by Jane M McCabe

The Remarkable Story of The Very First Flower
The Worm Who Wanted to Fly
A Basket of Birds
Celeste, Olive & the Holey Wall
A Moroccan Story
An Old Song, A New Song

Social Media Sites

Please visit Jane’s website there you’ll get an understanding of who she is, especially her writing and her paintings: www.janemmccabe-mywork.squarespace.com The website is a fascinating journey of her life, seriously take a look. A true artist!

Jane uses the following social media outlets:

LinkedIn: www.LinkedIn.com/in/jane-mccabe1514ab36 Jane (Madison) McCabe.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/janemmccabe 
Instagram: www.instagram.com/janemmccabe.

Publishers

Xlibris: www.xlibris.com Bookstore search Jane M McCabe. 

Awards

Podcast Info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For Video content, search “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestick streaming devices and Apple Tv. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Books.”

Enjoy!

Thank you, Jane, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your book Revelation! I wish you every success with it.

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Rosa Allison is a devoted mother, entrepreneur, medical professional and transformational coach who lives to inspire, uplift, and serve. A divorced mother of two, Rosa knows first-hand the strength it takes to rebuild a shattered life as she helps others facing a similar situation to the one, she herself was forced to face, seek healing and inner peace. 

Rosa is the founder of Rosa Speaks, RAM Management, and Love Outreach Corporation, where she empowers individuals and families through faith-based life, business and spiritual coaching. Rosa’s heart belongs to Christ, and His love is the foundation of everything she does. Whether supporting people in crisis, guiding clients through change, or speaking life on social media, Rosa leads with compassion, truth and transparency. Her mission is simple yet powerful, to be a vessel of God’s love, helping others rediscover hope, walk in purpose and live authentically. Rosa is proof that with faith, resilience and grace, transformation is not just possible- it’s promised.

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The Book

This is a small book in size a mere sixty-six pages, but as to the story within, well that is an entirely different sequence of events, for this is the story of part of Rosa the author’s life, carefully and creatively told over sixteen revealing and impassioned chapters. The book touches on suicide, neglect, abuse, faith and incredible pertinacity to forge a new life for herself. It’s a powerful narrative sensitively told. 

Social Media Sites & Webpage

Please visit Rosa’s webpage where you will learn more about her and her work, plus get a copy of her book. www.araminabush.com It’s an AMAZING!website. 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RosaAllison/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Rosa_speaksss/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/Rosa.speaks/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/(podcast)-RosaSpeaks/

Publisher

Xlibris: www.xlibris.com /bookstore/ search R A Busayo and there you’ll find her book 

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms, search “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley. For video content, search “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku, Amazon Firestick streaming devices plus Apple TV. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Books.”

Thank you, Rosa, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your book ‘They Knew Me Not.’ I wish you every success with it and look forward to working with you in the future.

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Bryan is a distinguished veteran of both the 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) and the 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne), where he dedicated 25 years to serving his country with valour and distinction. Following his retirement from active duty, Bryan transitioned into the defence industry, where he continues to leverage the extensive knowledge and skills acquired throughout his U.S. military career.

His journey is one marked by a profound commitment to excellence, leadership, and innovation. Bryan’s experience on the front lines and behind the scenes have equipped him with a unique perspective on the complexities and challenges of military operations. This deep understanding of tactical and strategic dynamics, combined with a natural flair for storytelling, has culminated in his debut novel.

In this work of military fiction, Bryan expertly weaves together a tapestry of fictional characters, locations and operations, all while grounding the narrative in real-world situations that reflect the authenticity of his experiences. His novel is not just a thrilling adventure but a tribute to the courage, resilience and camaraderie of those who serve.

Beyond his professional and literary achievements. Bryan is a person of diverse interests and passions. His life outside the military and defence sectors is filled with pursuits that enrich his writing and reflect the depth of his character.

With his first novel Bryan invites readers into a world where the lines between fiction and reality blur, offering a gripping, insightful and deeply engaging experience. His work promises not only to entertain but to illuminate the valour and integrity of those who dedicate their lives to serving others.

So, let’s look at Bryan’s work.

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The Books

Mendacity
Americas Best Are Secretly Dwelling Among You

 U.S. Special Forces Operator Brayden Smith the main protagonist in this epic military thriller story foretold over fifty-six gripping chapters, is a crack-shot sniper, a green beret and top graduate from his navy SARS class. However, his fall from grace in the Navy for disciplinary issues sets him on a different pathway, a pathway that requires all his expertise, but his new world in the heartlands of South America is a far cry from strict military operations. Embracing his new world exposes him to ruthless Colombian drug cartels, drug trafficking on an eye-watering scale, deceit, extortion, espionage, political intrigue and government corruption in the corridors of power, brutal covert operations that require all his military know how and humour. To this concoction of pursuits Brayden will need his razor-sharp mind to ascertain what’s relevant and what’s irrelevant to accomplish his mission. With any luck he might survive it.

Mendacity
Part 2 The Seeds of Corruption
Coming Soon!!!

Plunge deeper into the shadows with Brayden in Mendacity II: The Seeds of Corruption, where alliances are fragile, and betrayal runs deep. As new threats emerge and old enemies resurface, Brayden grapples with a world that punishes loyalty and rewards deception. His quest for truth pulls him further into a tangled web of conspiracy, where each revelation brings him closer to danger- and further from the man he once was. With relentless suspense, shocking twists, and moments of raw humanity, this powerful sequel explores how far one man will go to expose the truth, even as the cost grows higher with every step.

Social Media sites & Webpage

Please visit Bryan’s webpage, there you’ll find more about Bryan himself and the book. You can get the book from his webpage. www.thebryanclark.com 

– Check out this amazing webpage.
Email: bryan@blacktridentpublishing.com
X.com: @bryanCMendacity
YouTube: @Bryanclarkauthor

Publisher

Black Trident Publishing. www.blacktridentpublishing.com read the sections headed Author, Books and About, to understand what Bryan Clark is about and what drives him.

Awards

Mendacity: Americas Best Are Secretly Dwelling Among You.
International Impact Book Awards- Winner.

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This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestick streaming devices and Apple TV. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Books.” 

Enjoy!

Thank you, Bryan, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your book Mendacity. I wish you every success with it and look forward to working again with you soon.

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Helmut Portmann is an American author born in Switzerland but now residing in Covington a small community town in the state of Louisiana, USA where he lives with his wife Julie, son Alex, rescued husky Gabriel and adopted cat sisters Pearl and Amethyst. Helmut has done a variety of jobs over the years since graduating from college, his first job saw him logging oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, but that was soon followed by working on the US Army’s Pershing Tactical Nuclear Missile System in Europe during the Cold War. Returning to the US he became an analyst hunting Soviet submarines, which led to him being put in charge of a program that protected US submarines being detected. Helmut has also worked in the US navy’s mine warfare laboratory to help lead their unmanned systems programs. He ultimately ended up as a director of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Data Buoy Centre, deploying buoys across the world’s great oceans to measure weather and climate changes, plus tsunami occurrences. A varied career you might say, but we mustn’t forget his drumming experiences. Now a days a more sedate lifestyle is pursued and at the heart of that changed manner of living is writing, so let’s turn our attention to this second book of his.

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Helmut says you need to read the books in sequence to get the full effect of what the series is about.

The Books

Phantom of the Gulf
Book two

Wow you are in for another treat here with this second book of the series, fifty-eight blistering chapters, jam-packed with high-end drama and secrecy await your inspection, just like the first book. The U.S. Navy detect unrecognisable sonar activity bouncing off an esoteric object moving among the drilling platforms of America’s Oil and Gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico. The echoes suggest some kind of submersible running on batteries, what is it? who’s behind this operation? and more importantly what’s it doing there? Both the Navy and the CIA know that this area has a strong attraction to America’s foes and that any non-native activity needs to be investigated especially if the Navy’s highly classified SOSUS acoustic system is struggling to identify what is lurking below the waterline? Is Cuba with overseas support up to something here?  Is there a possible sabotage attempt looming from the Cubans in response to the Bay of Pigs invasion attempt carried out by their arch-rival the USA. 

Whatever is unfolding under the waters off the Gulf of Mexico, the CIA need to carry out secretive investigations as a matter of great urgency. Alex Beck heads up a team to hunt down this mysterious object that has the U.S. authorities flummoxed and referring to as the Phantom of the Gulf.

What a powerful read!

Adios El Jefe Castro!
A Revenge Plot to Assassinate Fidel
Book One

Forty, well executed eye-catching chapters await your attention, if you consider Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton in your reading repertoire then Helmut’s book will appeal to you. The characters Alex, Ana, Angel, Ludo, Carlos, Raul and Jose blend well together as they combine the Cubans’ hatred for Fidel Castro (El Jefe) Cuba’s revolutionary leader from 1959 to 2008, with a strong desire to assassinate him, as well as overthrowing the brutal regime whose tactics to  keep him in power involved, rape, murder and torture, something as young children all of them witnessed to some extent, before escaping to the U.S. Would they achieve what America failed to do? Revenge can be sweet, but it can also be all consuming and that consumption can come at a considerable price. A price would these exiled Cubans from childhood be prepared to pay, if so by what measures and how far would they go to plicate their retribution, or do their interests diminish over time? Plus, what role does a cold war nuclear missile system in Europe play? Hmm…

A breathtaking read. What’s the outcome? Well! read the book.

Social Media Sites

Please visit Helmut’s webpage where you will learn more about him as an author, as well as gaining more insight as to what his books are about, and who the main characters are. You can also purchase the books from his webpage, plus get a sneak preview as well. You will find that the books are available in various formats, all available on Amazon. 

www.helmutportmann.com 

Publisher

Amazon KDP

Podcast Information

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestick streaming devices. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandautjhors.tv and click on “Talking Books.”

Enjoy!

Thank you, Helmut, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your phenomenal books that make up the Alex Beck Thriller series, I wish you every success with them.

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Comfort Khumalo Keil is no shrinking violet, she was born in a small town called Hlatikulu in Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland). Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father a government employee. At a very young age she found herself divorced and in a dark place and with nowhere to go and with a UK visa in her hand she flew to the UK for what she believed was going to be the start of a new beginning. But that new life never really transpired, in fact quite the contrary, nearly destitute and with more failed relationships to her name she left for the USA, but again her life there followed a similar disappointing path. Canada called, life there was on the up, but not without setbacks, nevertheless now in a sustainable relationship Comfort returned to the USA and now lives in Tucson Arizona.  She’s a wife, and a mother of three enjoying life’s activities such as, reading, writing, travelling, cooking and doing all the normal things a contented person does in life. Throughout her somewhat tumultuous life the two things that have remained constant and are still important to her today, are her steadfast faith in God and the firm belief in second chances coupled with an ethos of never give up, a message that comes across strongly in her book. A book all about her.

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So, let’s explore these books to see what it reveals about Comfort Khumalo Keil and all her exploits.

The Books

It’s All Because of my Mother:
That my Story had an Auspicious Beginning…

Second Interview March 25th

Eighteen chapters of exhilarating story telling based on Comfort’s memoirs of her mother and how that relationship impacted on her own life. It’s a rich and varied read with fascinating aspects of African culture, history and traditions rubbing side by side with modern life. However, two poignant messages from Comfort’s mother drawn on her own experiences and practises that comes across in the book are, ‘education is key to a better life,’ and ‘love comes in many guises not necessarily through affection, but by providing the basics to survive.’

In this second interview out of the eighteen chapters we’ll focus on the following which should give you a strong indication as to the book’s overriding subject matter.

Chapter One: Born Strong-Willed
Chapter Three: Personal Space
Chapter Five: My Mother Accepting Another Woman
Chapter Seven: Possible Darkness Following My Father’s Rivalry
Chapter Eleven: My Mother’s Ideologies – Extreme Warnings
Chapter Thirteen: My Mother, My Hero…
Chapter Sixteen: My Mother’s Relocation- Off to South Africa, Yay!

The Indebted Beneficiary of Countless Second Chances
My Treacherous Broken Journey

First Interview March 13th

A life so far, wrapped up in thirty-one exhilarating chapters; you might well ask yourself how one person in such a short time can experience so much. Well! Comfort Khumalo Keil has, for this book is her story laid bare, the adventures, the pitfalls, the relationships, the homeless days on the streets, the men, the abuse, the money and the lack of it, the journey’s travelled in search for a better life, plus lots more. However, the two things that sustained her throughout her turbulent years are her faith and the belief in second chances, to which believe you me this author has had many. Her journey starts in Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, then to the Uk, followed by the USA, Canada and back to the USA. When you read this reservoir of anecdotes that portray her early years, you’ll be left aghast, but the overriding message to the narrative foretold here is quite simply “Never give up, and firmly believe in God’s overall sovereignty, for there is always light at the end of the dark tunnel.”

What a read this book is, if Comfort Khumalo Keil was a famous Hollywood star around the time when Jackie Collins was writing her books about Hollywood wives and had chosen to write Comfort’s story, she would easily have had another best seller on her hands. So, embrace this book especially the poignant conclusions right at the very end of this dynamic book on page 603. Yes 603! It’s a big book, for Comfort has a lot to say in her debut novel. 

Social Media Sites

Please visit comfort’s webpage where you’ll learn more about her and this fascinating book about herself, she has written. www.comfortkkeilbooks.com 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/comfort-khumalo-99a22926 

Instagram: www.instagram.com/comfort.khumalo_keil?igsh=MTVrMXYZjOWFIYW8zZA%D3%3D&utm_source=qr

Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/19tv7WfEyi/?mibextid=wwXlfr

Awards

International Impact Book Awards 2024 winner.
The BookFest Awards Spring 2024 second place-Non-Fiction.

Publisher

Check out Comfort’s books at her publishers.

Archway Publishing: www.archwaypublishing.com   Bookstore/ search Comfort Khumalo Keil 

Reach Publishers: www.reachpublishers.org 

Podcast Info

This Podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For the video content. Search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestick streaming devices. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click “Talking Books.”

Thank you, Comfort for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview about your book. I wish you great success with it.

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A K Cooper-Elliot was born in Germany but now resides in Yorkshire a beautiful and breath-taking county in the UK. Those that live there would arguably say that it’s the best county in the UK, but those that are not domiciled there may possibly disagree, but without a doubt the Yorkshire Dales are renowned for their natural surroundings.

A K is married with two grown-up children that have fled the nest. Due to the early onset of Multiple Sclerosis, A K had to retire at a relatively early age from her high-flying executive career in procurement and accountancy due to the demands of the job and her functionality issues that were becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. With the decision reluctantly taken to step away from the world of high finance, A K turned to writing, giving her a new focus in life, a focus that can be fitted around her physical abilities. For a person living with M.S. some days can be more challenging than others, on a bad day not much gets done.

As far as A K can remember she has always loved books, reading a variety of genres. From reading to writing A K’s life has evolved, she writes both adult and children’s books, but for the purpose of this podcast we’re going to focus on one of her adult series; The Templeton-Miller Dynasty Series. So, let’s explore this series.

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The Books

Victorium

This is the third book in the series which was published this March 2025.Twenty chapters of exhilarating prose await you in this bewitching tale that encompasses zeal, a romantic affair of forbidden and unlawful intimacy of the time, hidden demons that need to be vanquished and dreams that are crying out to be met. 

The story is set in 1941 and evolves around a favoured and affluent orphan Peter Thomas-Kernell the adopted son of society actress Martha Thomas-Kernell and her film director husband David Jackman-Grace. Peter’s driven focus to establish himself in a managerial position in the film industry comes at a great price, a price despite his privileged background he can ill afford.  Earl Westwood a well-established director in his own standing in the film industry is not someone to be trifled with and attracting precarious fixations with this man is perilous to say the least, especially for those who are determined to succeed in the film industry like Peter. As we all know ill Judgements can cost.

Peter’s choice to take on a new identity in the form of the debonair Sebastian Dupont to disguise his true sexuality works to a certain point, but he still must deal with his hidden demons and nemeses that haunt him wherever he goes. Oliver Montrose his fledgling lover is there in support, but who is it loitering in the dark shadows that wants to obliterate the eloquent and stylish Sebastian Dupont? and why?

Another magnificent book from AK Cooper-Eliott, her best yet!

Themis

This is the follow-on book to Aeternum, and as it’s AK’s latest book she wanted this podcast interview to mainly focus on this book but highlighting the fact that this is a series and you do need to read the books in sequence, so we are drawing attention to Aeternum as well.

In a world where power, love and ambition collide, young prodigy W J Pulman’s life takes an extraordinary turn. At just sixteen, WJ is already breaking boundaries, entering the prestigious Lex University’s law program thanks to a generous donation from Theo- James Miller, a media mogul with a vision to create a new breed of lawyers for his empire. As an executive lawyer for Millers-Lions Film Corporation, WJ is thrust into the upper echelons of high society.

In 1938, WJ, Theo-James, and their colleague Howard Levy travel to London to scout film locations, but fate has something far more significant in store. At the glamourous Banquet of Tranquillity, WJ encounters Elizabeth, a captivating woman who sweeps him off his feet. A whirlwind romance ensues, and within weeks, WJ and Elizabeth marry abroad a ship bound for New York, alongside their closest friends and new couples Eleanor Templeton-Jones and Emily Taylor-Bartley.

As WJ rises in the world of law and politics, Elizabeth’d deepest desire for a child seems out of reach. Her visit to a mysterious psychic foretells both Joy and heartbreak on the horizon. When Elizabeth finally gives birth, their happiness is short-lived. A sinister pair Thelma and Paul Friedman enter their lives, intent on tearing the couple apart. Obsessed with WJ and Elizabeth, the Friedman’s siblings will stop at nothing to destroy their marriage.

When tragedy strikes, WJ must turn to the shadowy power of The Society to protect his family and seek vengeance. Will the Pullman dynasty survive the dark forces conspiring against them, or will their legacy be shattered?

Aeternum

Twenty-three chapters of delectable prose awaits you here, this is the first book in the series and here we find Lady Eleanor Templeton-Jones a rising actress and Theo-James Miller a charismatic film director. 

In the depts of teenage boredom, Lady Eleanor Templeton- Jones and her brothers find solace in The Banquet of Tranquillity, a night that changes their lives forever. Eleanor, at seventeen, meets Theo-James Miller, a charismatic film director who becomes the love of her life. Together, they embark on a journey to America, seeking fame and of course fortune.

As Eleanor rises to become a celebrated actress, she becomes entangled in Theo-James’ family’s dark secrets. Struggling to conceive, Eleanor’s world transforms when she acquires Templeton House in Switzerland. The birth of her son, Henry leads her away from the limelight and into the realm of motherhood.

Amidst power struggles and revenge, Theo-James’ hidden double life threatens to unravel their dynasty. The Templeton-Millers rise to prominence, but at what cost? With the allure of glamour, ambition and treachery Aeternum unveils a mesmerizing tale of love and betrayal within the captivating world of the Templeton-Millers.

Social Media sites & Webpage

Please visit AK’s webpage to find out more about her and all the books she has written: www.akcooperelliot.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhyG-E7v7wLd7SsJN6VOX/about
Twitter/X: www.x.com/akcooperelliot
Facebook: www.facebook.com/p/AK-Copper-Elliot-100090021086938
Pinterest: www.pinterest.co.uk/akcooperelliot
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ak-cooper-elliot-926387224
TikTok: akcoop2

Publisher

Michael Terence Publishing. www.mtp.agency  Books AK Cooper-Elliot

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The Video is available on YouTubesearch Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts an Authors App on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Ak, for allowing me to interview you again, this time about The Templeton-Miller Dynasty Series. I wish you every success with the books and look forward to working with you soon.

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Roselyn Teukolsky was born in Johannesburg in South Africa, where she graduated from the University of the Witwatersand with a B.Sc. in Maths and Chemistry. She emigrated at the age of twenty-three to the United States and soon found herself graduating from Cornell University with an M.S. in Mathematics Education. Roselyn is married with children and grandchildren. For Most of her life she taught Maths and Computer Science mainly at Ithaca High School in Upstate New York. Since retiring in 2009 She and her husband Saul split their time between Ithaca, New York State and Pasadena, California, where Saul is a physics professor at two universities, Cornell and Caltech. Let’s just say both herself and her husband are smart, so guess where they spend the winter months! 

Roselyn is also the author of ‘The Barron’s Review’ book for AP Computer Science, which is presently in its twelfth edition. 

And of course, I cannot but mention her passion for playing Bridge, especially with her husband Saul. In fact, we had to schedule all our zoom meetings to put this podcast interview together around her Bridge schedule. Not to mention Roselyn’s Zoom eyebrows, we won’t talk about them for they had a mind of their own and have now been banished to the computer bin.

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So, what can we expect in this debut thriller novel of Roselyn Teukolsky? Well let’s take a sneak preview.

The Book

Forty-nine chapters of exhilarating, spine-tingling narratives all beautifully woven with unexpected twists and turns is what you can expect from this high-action thriller debut book from Roselyn. The energy and pace with which the storyline is foretold is staggering. A dead husband, a brilliant hacker, the FBI, a secret world of shadowy sex and money all set against the backdrop of an academic framework. Madeline Geiger’s life has stalled following a skydiving accident with her late husband. Who she thought he was and who she discovers he was through spying for the FBI couldn’t be more opposing. What of the Co-workers who worked alongside her late husband, and who’s the killer lurking close by in this tight- knit working environment? What do they hope to gain from their clandestine activities. Hmm…

In this podcast interview we’re going to focus on the following chapters which should give you a snapshot insight to the overall plot within. The chapters are One, Five, Ten, Eleven, Seventeen, Twenty-three, Twenty-eight, Thirty-two and Forty-one.

Want to know the whole story?  Well, you’ll have to buy the book.

A Special Review of A Reluctant Spy

“Roselyn Teukolsky’s A Reluctant Spyis a fabulous read—smart, engrossing and so utterly compelling I raced through the pages at warp speed. An outstanding debut! I can’t wait to read what Teukolsky pens next!”

Karen Dionne, #1internationally bestselling author of The Marsh King’s Daughterand The Wicked Sister.

Forth coming Book—the sequel.

The Fourth Woman

Madeline, a cyber-security expert with her own business, is now 33, a widow living in Boston. In The Fourth Woman,she is stalked by a neurobiologist whom she meets through an online dating site. Struggling to get rid of him, she discovers he’s after even more than sex, love and marriage. It will take all of Madeline’s courage and computer expertise to extricate herself from this man’s web.

Social Media Sites

Please visit Roselyn’s website, there you’ll find more about who she is and what books she has written, plus you can order a copy of her book from there. www.roselynteukolsky.com

www.linkedin.com/in/roselyn-teukolsky-06785212
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/roselynteukolsky
Twitter: www.X.com/@RTeukolsky

Publishers

This book and its sequel will be published by Graveyard Press.

Graveyard Press: www.graveyardpress.com , There you will find ‘A Reluctant Spy’ by Roselyn Teukolsky.

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Roselyn, for giving me the amazing opportunity of interviewing you about your debut book. I wish you every success with it.

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Linda Dooks was born and raised in a farming community in North Yorkshire a proud county of the UK. As child she would often doodle stories in a notebook, a notebook she hid from her parents who thought writing when other chores needed to be attended to, a waste of time, they often wondered why Linda dilly-dallied when taking the dog for a walk, the walk was brief but a necessary activity to get some doodling done. A trip to the local library on a Saturday was very often the hi-light of Linda’s week. The librarian there would keep all of Linda’s short stories she had written in a box under the counter, so that she could revisit them, plus allow her to read some of her favourite authors, Agatha Christie and Arthur Conon Doyle. 

Having left school to earn a living and learning that her librarian had died, Linda forgot about the box under the counter and often thinks what happened to it, but she didn’t forget about her desire to write, and picked that up again after the birth of her children. Linda joined a writing class in Hemsley, North Yorkshire, and with renewed encouragement wrote her children’s stories based on the North York Moors Railway adventures, maybe one day she will publish them. Let’s hope so.

Now retired from the local council and having more time to focus on the one thing she has loved throughout her life, Linda has written this debut novel, with the full support of her husband Peter and children Emma and Richard, plus a few other friends from nearby writing fraternities. So, let’s turn our attention to the book.

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Book Two

Land of Opportunity Book Two

This is Linda’s latest book in the series

This is a smaller book than her first novel in the series but that’s not to say it’s any less lacking in substance, quite the contrary in fact. The story is a continuation from where the first book left off, so to get the bigger picture as to the characters and the narrative you need to read the books in sequence otherwise this new book of Linda’s isn’t going to be so meaningful to you. Like her first book it’s an easy read and again the scenes are very much reminiscent to the period leading up to WW1. 

It has been ten years since Rose Watson the main character left England, searching for a new life on the streets of New York with Agnes a companion she met on board the ship that took her away from a harrowing life back home. Her life has changed considerably, and adapting to a new set of circumstances proved to be more challenging than she anticipated. You need to be tough to survive the everyday occurrences of New York, street gangs and gang warfare are prominent round every corner.

Rose’s work at the Charity Board Society continues to shock and astound her as more and more immigrants arrive in New York via Ellis Island in search of a new life, a life free of penury and degradation. What shocks her the most is children arriving on their own abandoned by their families for all sorts of unfathomable reasons especially girls. Now married to Thomas Blackwood a wealthy successful businessman Rose has her own family and what she has learnt over the years she puts to good use to support and guide the upcoming next generation of young hopefuls that she sees around her trying to make a more prosperous life for themselves. But these are uncertain times as WW1 looms. So, what does lie ahead for Rose and all the characters that are in this second book. Well! You’ll have to read the books starting with the first book. 

Again, you’ll find the research Linda has undertaken to ensure the storyline is authentic and true to the period of that time is exemplary. The book like the first has many twists and turns, romance, murder, high society and gang warfare it’s all there wrapped up in forty- four exhilarating chapters. 

Book One

Land of Opportunity

Sixty-five stunning but brief chapters are wrapped up in this book to bring you a scintillating story about the character Rose Watson a sixteen-year-old girl born in North Yorkshire in the UK in 1897. Her early years were profoundly impacted upon by the death of her mother, which left her in an uncompromising family situation with an uncaring father and a precarious unwanted situation with regards to her brother whose advances towards her probably bordered on incestuous had she allowed matters to unfold. Growing up in a male dominated farming community with little sympathy Rose needed to escape her world of drudgery and unpalatable attention, a new world called with new prospects but equally a world adorned with new dangers.

Rose emigrates to America, New York to be precise, the boat journey across the Atlantic from Liverpool to Ellis Island New York was long and arduous. Agnes a budding singer who she meets lures her into New York’s dubious and dangerous underworld. Rose quickly learns that the tough streets of New York are not paved in gold. Rose’s one saving grace is that of Thomas Blackwood an American who she met while travelling to America. Does romance come her way or does another cruel lesson of life lurk around the corner. Hmm…I know what happens, but if you want to find out, then this historical fiction book which has been carefully researched to bring a sense of authenticity to it, is waiting for you to flick through its pages. So, flick through them.

The narrative is very well written, it’s an easy read, but a read packed with the reality of those times and what life was like then for a young girl braving a new adventure.

To learn more about Linda and her book head to her webpage www.lindadooks.com

Social Media Sites

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556560133968
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-dooks-6851a41a3

Award

International Impact Book Awards: Winner

Publisher

Blossom Springs Publishing. www.blossomspringpublishing.com / search bookstore/historical/ Linda Dooks

Podcast Info 

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Linda, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to chat to you about yourself and your books. I loved your zany character it made me laugh while we were putting this podcast together for the second time.

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John Minkler is an American author form Fresno in California, family and supporting young adults is at the fundamental heart of what he does each day. John’s three children and seven grandchildren feature heavily in his life and the one thing they enjoy doing together is making ‘magic’ movies. 

John has had an illustrious career in education, he was a history come civics teacher and administrator since 1971, to those credentials we must add Coordinator at the Fresno County Office of Education, Director of the Centre for Multicultural Cooperation, Consultant for the Education Commission of the States, but more importantly Cofounder of the Academy for Civic and Entrepreneurial Leadership.  An impressive Curriculum Vitae you might say. Well to that fine list we now must incorporate, author.

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What’s the book about? Well, let’s turn our attention to that.

The Book

John’s not written this book for self-glorification or pecuniary rewards; he’s written it to highlight the work the Civic Education Center to which he is one of the directors does for young adults of all backgrounds, creeds, genders, and abilities in and around the Fresno area of California. While the book is predominately focused on empowering young American high school students, the general ethos can be adopted by any one across the globe who work in close conjunction with middle grade students.  When you look at the website the first thing that hits you is the message “Youth Voice Matters,” and under those very apt words is the following statement, “They have the power to make positive change in your school…the power to create their own future and improve their community. We are here to help them along the way.” The Book is to give the wider audience an insight as to what empowering young minds can do and achieve. 

To give you a heads up as to what you can expect from John’s book I’m listing the chapters as a means of enticement:

Chapter 1: Civic Intelligence
Chapter 2: Unity from Diversity
Chapter 3: The Allegory of the Cave
Chapter 4: Secrets of the Great Seal
Chapter 5: Democracy in Action
Chapter 6: Honour Our Ancestors 
Chapter 7: Systems and Synergy
Chapter 8: Rites of Passage
Chapter 9: Othering and Belonging
Chapter 10: American Civic Values
Chapter 11: Apology to Youth
Chapter 12: Creating our Future

As you can see some very interesting topics are covered off here in John’s book, so have a peak at it and see what thought-provoking subject matters are exhibited between these pages such as democratic principles, system thinking plus civic values and problem-solving matters. 

Social Media Sites 

Youth Voice Matters!

Please visit the website www.civicedcenter.org there you’ll find out about the work John and others do to support young adults from all backgrounds, ethnic groups and abilities. You can also get the book by scanning the QR code on the screen.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/john.minkler1

Publisher

Xlibris www.xlibris.com click bookstore and search for John Minkler, Ph.D. 

Podcast Info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For the video content. Search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestick streaming devices. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv and click on “Talking Books.” 

Thank you, John, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your thought-provoking book. I wish you every success with it.

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JT Crowley talks with Comfort Khumalo Keil author of The Indebted Beneficiary of Countless Second Chances: My Treacherous Broken Journey 

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A life so far, wrapped up in thirty-one exhilarating chapters; you might well ask yourself how can one person in such a short time experience so much. Well! Comfort Khumalo keil has, for this book is her story laid bare, the adventures, the pitfalls, the relationships, the homeless days on the streets, the men, the abuse, the money and the lack of it, the journey’s travelled in search for a better life, plus lots more. However, the two things that sustained her throughout her turbulent years are her faith and the belief in second chances, to which believe you me this author has had many. Her journey starts in Eswatini, formerly known as Swaziland, then to the Uk, followed by the USA, Canada and back to the USA. When you read this reservoir of anecdotes that portray her early years, you’ll be left aghast, but the overriding message to the narrative foretold here is quite simply “Never give up, and firmly believe in God’s overall sovereignty, for there is always light at the end of the dark tunnel.”

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What a read this book is, if Comfort Khumalo Keil was a famous Hollywood star around the time when Jackie Collins was writing her books about Hollywood wives and had chosen to write Comfort’s story, she would easily have had another best seller on her hands. So, embrace this book especially the poignant conclusions right at the very end of this dynamic book on page 603. Yes, 603! It’s a big book, for Comfort has a lot to say in her debut novel. 

Social Media Sites
Please visit comfort’s webpage where you’ll learn more about her and this fascinating book about herself, she has written. https://www.comfortkkeilbooks.com 

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/comfort-khumalo-99a22926  Instagram: www.instagram.com/comfort.khumalo_keil?igsh=MTVrMXYZjOWFIYW8zZA%D3%3D&utm_source=qr Facebook: www.facebook.com/share/19tv7WfEyi/?mibextid=wwXlfr

Awards
International Impact Book Awards 2024 winner.
The BookFest Awards Spring 2024 second place-Non-Fiction.

Publisher
Check out Comfort’s book at her publishers.
Archway Publishing: www.archwaypublishing.com   Bookstore/ search Comfort Khumalo Keil 

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Christine Burton is an American author who was born in the U.S. state of Wisconsin to Polish-German descent parents, she presently resides in Harvest, a small community town close to the Alabama-Tennessee state line. Christine has had an illustrious career, she holds a degree in Business Management, Paralegal and to that a doctorate in Naturopathy. Her working experiences took her into the fields of medicine, law, teaching and food services; quite a broad avenue of choices one could say. However, to create this book she has drawn on her experiences of the food industry and education. While working with K12 students, Christine quickly realised that young minds of all sexes, abilities and cultures easily engaged with creative and practical ideas. When involving students to create and make something for themselves and their friends and family they found it to be fun and alluring. Thus, the concept of showing teens of all ages making delectable food and sharing that food with their friends and family was a great way to show important nutritional lessons in life. Making and creating foods based around age and lifestyles of teens was the foundation for this book.  Now retired so to speak, Christine has put all those wonderful recipes in this book so that more people, especially teens, can discover the joy of creating awesome food not only for themselves but their friends as well. Ultimately to appreciate the delights of what cooking good food can do for them. So, let’s turn to the book.

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The Book

This book is a perfect blend of cooking and baking base recipes; while all can enjoy the simple step by step recipes, it’s mainly for young teens of all backgrounds and abilities to start to explore and enjoy the art of cooking/baking. The author is implying that at times you may want to cook and bake having both sections convenient for you. When you open the book, you’ll quickly realize there is a baking section with useful hints and tips followed by the main cooking section, where a vast array of delightful culinary dishes awaits your attention. The baking section focuses on breads and yummy desserts, but the cooking section with close on two hundred mouth-watering ideas and healthy meals is accompanied by some wonderful untouched photography showing you what your creations will look like. Does it matter if they don’t turn out as you expect them to, no! Each recipe includes suggestions and tips to guide you through making your expectations a positive reaction. It’s the participation and for young adults to socialise and interact with their friends and understand making healthy enjoyable meals can be fun as well as educational. Sitting down with family and friends to share a meal is one of the most gratifying parts of life in general. 

Just to give you an idea as to some of the recipes in the book here are some for you to contemplate:

Blueberry and Pistachio Salad Wraps
Chessy potato Tarts
Daikon Sausage Rolls
Harvest Mini Quiches
Sea Pods
Steak and Egg Frittata Stuffed Mushrooms
Pears in Raisin Nutmeg Sauce
Corned Beef with Horseradish Butter
Flank Steak with Anchovy Butter
Five-Cheese Cavatelli
Blackened Chicken Cutlets
Twice-Baked Acorn Squash

Plus, lots! Lots! More succulent delights!

Social Media sites

Please go to Christine’s webpage where you will learn more about her and her phenomenal cookbook: www.teenscookbook.com

Awards

The book can be found on the New York Times Best Seller List and has received the Notable Indie Award, plus The Gold Seal of Literacy Excellence award.

Publisher

Trafford: www.trafford.com head to bookstore and search Christine Burton

Podcast info

Thank you, Christine, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your culinary book, a book for everyone but ideally aimed at young teenagers. What a great idea!

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Helmut Portmann is an American author born in Switzerland but now residing in Covington a small community town in the state of Louisiana, USA where he lives with his wife Julie, son Alex, rescued husky Gabriel and adopted cat sisters Pearl and Amethyst. Helmut has done a variety of jobs over the years since graduating from college, his first job saw him logging oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico, but that was soon followed by working on the US Army’s Pershing Tactical Nuclear Missile System in Europe during the Cold War. Returning to the US he became an analyst hunting Soviet submarines, which led to him being put in charge of a program that protected US submarines being detected. Helmut has also worked in the US navy’s mine warfare laboratory to help lead their unmanned systems programs. He ultimately ended up as a director of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Data Buoy Centre, deploying buoys across the world’s great oceans to measure weather and climate changes, plus tsunami occurrences. A varied career you might say, but we mustn’t forget his drumming experiences. Now a days a more sedate lifestyle is pursued and at the heart of that changed manner of living is writing, so let’s turn our attention to this first book of his.

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The Book

Forty, well executed eye-catching chapters await your attention, if you consider Tom Clancy and Michael Crichton in your reading repertoire then Helmut’s book will appeal to you. The characters Alex, Ana, Angel, Ludo, Carlos, Raul and Jose blend well together as they combine the Cubans’ hatred for Fidel Castro (El Jefe) Cuba’s revolutionary leader from 1959 to 2008, with a strong desire to assassinate him, as well as overthrowing the brutal regime whose tactics to  keep him in power involved, rape, murder and torture, something as young children all of them witnessed to some extent, before escaping to the U.S. Would they achieve what America failed to do? Revenge can be sweet, but it can also be all consuming and that consumption can come at a considerable price. A price would these exiled Cubans from childhood be prepared to pay, if so by what measures and how far would they go to plicate their retribution, or do their interests diminish over time? Plus, what role does a cold war nuclear missile system in Europe play? Hmm…

A breathtaking read. What’s the outcome? Well! read the book.

Social Media Sites

Please visit Helmut’s webpage where you will learn more about him as an author, as well as gaining more insight as to what the book is about, and who the main characters are. You can also purchase the book from his webpage, plus get a sneak preview as well. You will find that the book is available in various formats, all available on Amazon. 

www.helmutportmann.com 

Publisher

Xlibris; www.xlibris.com  bookstore search H.H.Portmann

Podcast Information

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestick streaming devices. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandautjhors.tv and click on “Talking Books.”

Enjoy!

Thank you, Helmut, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your phenomenal book Adios El Jefe! I wish you every success with it.

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A unique Conflation of the Four Gospels into a Single Continuous Narrative, Explicated by the Author’s Commentary

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Peter Boaz Jones was born Klaus Jurgen Clodt in Albrechts, Germany towards the end of WW2. In 1948 he moved with his family to the UK. A German name at that time would have made life extremely difficult for him, so for all the obvious reasons his name was changed to Peter Jones. What it is today, came about by using his father’s last name, as a middle name, as his bank in the 90s requested he use one. When I look at Peter’s life, I think it would be fair to say that he has pursued a variety of Christian denominations some of whom he no longer has an affiliation to, and others still breathe Christian values that are important to him. Similarly, when you look at his working life, he has again dabbled his toes into a cross section of professions, accountancy to HGV driver, just to name but two of them.  I think it would be open-minded of me to say that Peter has walked many paths of interest in his life, but the one overriding factor that has been constant throughout his time on this planet has been the Bible and what that book has revealed to him I think I can justifiably say forms the basis of his highly interesting book that we are about to reveal. 

So, let’s take the latch off the door and enter Peter Boaz Jones’ world of Christian thinking, as we uncloak the contents of this very absorbing book.

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The Book

This is a well-executed and cultivated submission, showing how well the four gospels really do work well in relation to each other depicting the life and ministry of Jesus, despite their individual formations that some in the Christian communities see and judge as slightly being at odds with each other. What Peter has successfully achieved here by drawing attention to the similarities and differences in each gospel is giving the reader differing angles to consider and contemplate on, sufficient to want them to delve further into the book to ascertain what really is at the heart of his ideological thinking. 

When you open the book apart from the dedication, acknowledgements, notes, introduction and appendices sections there are fifty-four wonderfully compiled chapters. Now in this interview we are not going into all aspects of the book, but as a means of giving you a flavour as to what you can expect the following chapters will be openly discussed, they are:

Chapter 1: The Beginning of the Gospel
Chapter 6: Jesus Begins to Call his Disciples
Chapter 9: On the Mount
Chapter 18: By Seaside Near Jesus’ House
Chapter 30: Contraposition of Pharisees
Chapter 35: The Work of the Spirit
Chapter 39: Rides into Jerusalem Again
Chapter 49: Jesus’ Death

Enjoy the book is all I say, as Peter Boaz Jones takes you on a Christian journey with a twist.

Social Media sites

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peter-boaz-jones-b275a099
Facebook: www.facebook.com search Peter Boaz Jones 
www.book2look.com/book/tYpjWtse

Awards

Gold Christian Book Award Winner.
New York Book Festival Award 2023

Publishers

AuthorHouse. www.authorhouse.com Bookstore/ search Peter Boaz Jones.

Podcast info

This Podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books”hosted by J T Crowley on all major social platforms. For video content search for “Talking Books”hosted by J T Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestickstreaming devices. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authorsapp or visit: www.expertsandauthors.tvand click on “Talking Books.”Enjoy!

Thank you, Peter, for giving me the golden opportunity of chatting to you about your book. I wish you well with it and any future publications.

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Lynn Slaughter is a successful award-winning American author of seven books, six novels and one nonfiction.  She lives in Louisville in Kentucky in the USA, where she resides with her husband. Lynn has two grown up sons and five adorable grandchildren. However, she grew up in New York and Connecticut where she graduated from Smith University with a degree in Sociology, to that she added a masters. 

While Lynn’s work in sociology formed an integral part of her life, in particular interacting with people from all backgrounds, she had another great passion that stemmed right back to her childhood and that was music and movement, more so the movement. Dance for Lynn was the very essence for getting up each day, juggling family life and a professional career had its challenges, but the enjoyment she got from dance outweighed the difficulties. Lynn chose to become a professional dancer specializing in modern dance, and throughout her career performed, choregraphed and taught.  As a dance educator she instilled in those that she taught an ethos and understanding that the art of movement to music was to be enjoyed and cherished, just like she did.

Like most things in life, there comes a time when a new path to follow calls and for Lynn that was writing. The love of books and the art of creative writing had for some time now co-existed with her passion for both dance and people. To refine her skills in creative fictional writing Lynn enrolled on a writing course at Seton Hill University where she obtained an MFA in writing popular fiction.

So, what of Lynn’s books, well if you love mystery, blended with intrigue and an element of romance and are looking for a new author to follow then look at Lynn Slaughter’s books. So, let’s have a sneak insight in to two of her books.

A few relatively unknown facts about Lynn are, she’s addicted to chocolate, the arts and her husband’s cooking.

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The Books

Missing Mom

Sixty-two short, sharp, focused and intense chapters is what you can expect from Lynn Slaughter in this page-turning book of hers. It’s a book that’s cleverly telling two stories from different time periods that have a connection.

 Noelle is a seventeen-year-old aspiring ballet dancer who has serious doubts as to her mother’s disappearance, was it suicide or something more sinister.  What her investigation throws up, you’ll find absorbing, plus what of her romantic entanglement with Ravi another dancer will leave you guessing. 

Savannah’s story running alongside that of Noelle’s is equally fascinating, she’s a young woman from twenty years ago, her escape from an abusive marriage has close interrelatedness with Noelle’s investigation into her mother’s circumstances.

The two stories running parallel with each other blend smartly together to bring about an interesting overall narrative. Well done, Lynn!

Missed Cue

Forty-five spine-tingling chapters of crime and mystery are exposed in this book as Lynn Slaughter takes you on an intriguing journey of what happened to the ballerina Lydia Miseau whose death on stage in the final dress rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet leaves many open-ended questions, questions homicide detective Catlin O Connor needs to answer. The autopsy report reveals no apparent cause of death, so Caitlin must not only ferret out who may have harmed the ballerina, but how they did it. Her investigations lead her to believe that the person responsible, as in most murder cases, is close at hand but getting the evidence to support her theories is proving a little tricky, especially when you consider Lydia’s messed up personal life particularly when it comes to her dalliances come affairs with married men, which never bode well for all concerned. 

A clever book, well written and constructed, and worth a read, as is Missing Mom.

Other Novels

Deadly Set Up
Leisha’s Song
It Should Have Been You
While I Dance

Social Media Sites

Please visit Lynn’s webpage, where you’ll learn more about Lynn and her books. www.lynnslaughter.com

Awards

Missing Mom: Fire and Ice/Melange Books- Claymore Finalist.
Missed Cue: Melange Books 2023. NYC Big Book Award in mystery category, Silver Falchion Top Pick, Maincrest Media Book Award.
Deadly Set Up: Fire and Ice/Melange Books 2022, NYC Big Book Award Winner, Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards Silver Medallist, Maincrest Media Book Award, Book Excellence Award, M&M Chanticleer International Awards Finalist, Imadjinn Award Finalist, Silver Falchion Finalist.
Leisha’s Song: Fire and Ice/Melange Books 2021, Agatha Nominee, Silver Falchion Award, Moon beam Bronze Medalist, Imadjinn Award for Best YA Novel.
It Should Have Been You: Page Street, Silver Falchion Finalist.
While I Dance: Write Words, Epic Finalist.

Podcast info

This podcast you can listen to on “Talking Books” hosted by JT Crowley on all major social podcast platforms. For video content, search for “Talking Books” hosted by JT Crowley on YouTube. Additionally, you can watch it on Roku and Amazon Firestick streaming devices. To access it on your television, download the Experts and Authors app or visit www.expertsandauthors.tv online and click on “Talking Books.” Enjoy!

Thank you, Lynn, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about two of your amazing books. I wish you all the best with them.

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Adrian Winney is an award-winning author from Scotland in the UK. He was born in Lowestoft in England and has been married to his wife Maggie for more years than he cares to recall. The story of Tosher was in Adrian’s head for some considerable time and it was his wife who finally persuaded him to put pen to paper and publish all those ideas that had been floating in his head. Adrian’s life like so many people’s lives has been a life of contrast, he spent thirteen years in the Royal Air Force working in avionics both in the UK and Germany. In addition to his career in the Royal Air Force he worked in the Gas and Oil Industry for over twenty-five years which took him all over Europe and eventually onto the Nort Sea Rigs. Life on the platform rigs can be challenging at the best of times as the weather conditions in the North Sea can be perilous. However, after an industrious career complex medical issue imposed a more subdued lifestyle on Adrian, these changes profoundly affected both his physical and mental health. Adapting to new circumstances has come with difficult choices, some good, some bad but one of the better ones was writing, especially in the genres he loves best, them being, historical, adventure and science fiction which are prevalent in this first book of his, so let’s turn to the book.

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The Book

When you open this book, you’ll discover twenty-three chapters brimming with history, adventure and fascination. The story is set in the eighteen hundreds in London in the Uk and tells the story of Tosh and Jack Tanner’s lives around the sewers beneath the streets of London. At that time working in the sewers was dangerous and at times violent, you needed to know whom you good trust to survive. Tosh is a foundling who Jack Tanner takes under his wings, their life is far from easy, yet Jack manages to instil in Tosh a means of survival by whatever means. From a foundling to a streetwise young man Tosh cleverly engineers a path for himself, but that path is littered with tragedy, strife and mistrust, coupled with a degree of rightful revenge undertaken with brutal tactics. Can revenge ever be justified by rightful means in a person’s mind? Tosh seems to think so but would you the reader agree with Tosh’s actions – You need to read the story to formulate your own viewpoints on how Tosh conducts himself throughout this whole gripping sequence of events – Hmm…is all I say. The cast of characters blend well together and compliment the overall tale, which I must admit has been well composed to make a real page-turning narrative. It’s certainly worth a read. 

Enjoy! I did.

Awards

Certificate of Award
This Outstanding Creator Award is Proudly Presented to Adrian Winney for ‘Tosher’
Best Fiction Book of Fall 2022 (Honourable Mention) Fantasy (3RD -Place), Action & Adventure (2nd-Place), Teen/YA (3rd Place). Best Character (Honourable Mention) Best Supporting Character (Winner)

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Bookshosted by J T Crowley. The video is available on YouTubesearch Talking Bookshosted by J T Crowley and now on Rokuand Amazon Fire Stick streaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your Roku or Amazon Firestickdevice or visit: www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click Talking Books Show.

Thank you, Adrian, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your stunning book Tosher. I wish you every success with it.

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Molly Arbuthnott is a teacher, editor and academic from Perthshire in Scotland. She is passionate about the promotion of children’s literature. With a solid understanding of literature and the ability to read, she believes you can take on the world.

She uses her experiences from life as inspiration for her writing. Teaming up with four fantastic illustrators has helped her to breathe life into the stories. Each story is loosely based on family or friends who have been important in her life whilst also trying to tell stories in an honest and gentle way, singing praise to the things we must celebrate in our world. Teaching children to look out for others, work as a team and not be afraid of doing the right thing that is important. Such lessons might then filter through and be reflected in the way we live in the magical world around us.

Each book teams up with the charity which is associated with the theme of the book in some way. Part of the profits from the book sales are then donated to the designated charities.

Possessing an affinity for the world of books, Molly often finds herself at bookstores, libraries, schools and book festivals throughout the UK, sharing interactive and engaging writing and storytelling workshops. Her, podcast ‘My Favourite Books,’ engages both young and not so young to chat about common book interests.

Molly is keen to ensure young minds through smart innovation see nature in its most natural format and once they have seen that natural beauty the world has to offer, then right from an early age they will start to understand how important it is to protect earth’s delicate balance, plus respect and appreciate it more. Some of her books open this burning emotion of hers to young kids to explore and contemplate.

The world of academia Is at the heart and soul of this young Scottish woman’s life, she has taught in Italy, Africa as well as the UK. Molly has several degrees from prestigious universities like St Andrew’s in Scotland and Cambridge in England, she’s recently completed a M.Ed. in Children’s Literature from Glasgow University.

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The Books

Eddie the Duckling

This is the latest children’s book Molly has put out and as the title alludes to it’s all about an extraordinary duckling called Eddie. Eddie has different characteristics to him which puts him aside from his other brothers and sisters in the brood, for a start he didn’t have the lightening bolt of brown courage that every duck had encrusted on their heads. Eddie struggled to keep up with his siblings in a whole host of mannerisms particularly being courageous, however an encounter with a ferocious hawk changed matters considerably as suddenly in his panic he began to produce in conjunction with his feathers a beautiful musical tone. All the other animals around the pond were taken aback with Eddie’s musical performance even the hawk was put off his stride. Eddie’s musical escapade had saved not only his family but all the other animals nearby from a predatory attack. The illustrations that accompany the story are bright, vivid and bold and enhance the storyline wonderfully. I love the animals playing the various musical instruments especially the beaver playing the grand piano. Clearly Eddie has found his forte.

Well done Molly on delivering another amazing story backed up with imaginary illustrations.

A story about never giving up for things always turn out all right in the end.

Peanut the Hamster

Paul is a writer; a famous writer and Peanut is a hamster. A Strange combination you might think, but they help each other out, the perfect symbiotic partnership.

Paul writes stories and Peanut provides the inspiration. Life steams along as they travel together on the sleeper train. Then, one day. Peanut goes missing and, with him, all of Paul’s story ideas.

All that Paul is left with is an old peanut. A reminder of the life he once had, but fate had other plans in store.

A story about faith, hope and never giving up.
You never know what’s around the corner!

Oscar the London Cat
One of the Oscar and Friends Series

Oscar is an adventurous Siamese cat whose curiosity can at times get him into all sorts of entanglements. In this book Oscar and Mercy, his close companion who accompanies him on several exciting exploits throughout the series find themselves caught up in changing of the guard routines in London, a far cry from their lives on the ferry boat back home in Scotland. Oscar and Mercy’s decision to curl-up for the night in Captain James’ Bearskin hat brings them to London. Read the story of how the two cats lead the Queen’s Guard and meet the Queen. A great story that captures the long and proud military tradition that is the Queen’s Guard. The illustrations wonderfully enrich the story. 

Other Books by the Author
Oscar the Italian Cat
Oscar the Ferry Cat
Oscar the Hebridean Cat
George and the Steam Museum
Simon the Sloth
Conrad the Spider
Athena the Cheetah
David the Pizzly Bear
Angus the Robin

Social Media Sites
Webpage: www.mollyarbuthnott.co.uk
Instagram: www.instagram.com/molly_arbuthnott_books
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mollyarbuthnottbooks
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/molly-arbuthnott-8b528764

Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/mollyarbuthnott@mollyarbuthnott search Molly Arbuthnott
Wiitia: www.wikitia/mollyarbuthnott.com
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How to Create an Enchanting Children’s Book? “Oscar the Ferry Cat,” Author Molly Arbuthnott Tells All

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The Podcast Information

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit: www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Molly, I wish you all the best in your new adventures and once again thank you for giving me another interview to talk about your fabulous children’s series ‘Oscar and Friends.’ Plus Eddie and Peanut.

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B L Pleisch is an American author from the state of New Hampshire. The home she shares with her husband she describes as moderate but is surrounded by forest which at this time of the year (late Fall) is possibly the place to be, as the trees near to her put on their autumnal colours of rich scarlets, golds and wonderful oranges. Bonnie has three children and seven grandchildren at the last count all of whom she is extremely proud of. Not forgetting of course her new goldendoodle puppy.

Bonnie has long held a passion to write, right from the age of thirteen. At some stage in her life, she was given an old typewriter which belonged to her grandmother and from that day forward to the present she has been hitting the keys churning out a whole host of literary work. Like most authors when she submitted her stories, she received countless rejections, one agent who bothered to replied stated that her plots didn’t have enough sex, drugs and rock and roll in them. Bonnie heeded that advice and when you look at her books there is plenty of those elements. Bonnie self-publishes her books and is still ever hopeful, even now as a mature lady in her early sixties, for someone to take her work on. Here’s hoping! So, without further to do let’s turn to her books. 

Where does she get her ideas from, well she does watch a lot of detective series on TV 

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The Books

The Gem Hammond Detective Series

This series is a futuristic police detective series built around the characters Gem Hammond and her partner Ryan Summer. America 2335 is a very different place as to what it is today, it’s a period of chaos and turmoil, the post social-communist movement has changed America, the Union has gone and in its place is a darker vulnerable civilization albeit with a few powerful figures at the helm.

Deadly Campus Book 1

A series of heart-pumping chapters of thrills, spills and misadventures awaits your attention in this first of the series. Detective Gem Hammond is the main character throughout the books with the added support of her boyfriend Captain Ryan Summer and a whole host of other well-defined characters built into the narrative to get this stunning storyline told. It’s 2035. The murder of Gem Hammond’s sister lies at the heart of the story, was she killed as the latest victim of the campus killings? Or was she liquidated for her involvement with the PPF (Patriots Freedom Fighters)? As the investigation widens, and more students fall victim to the killer the case takes many unexpected turns cumulating with Gem Hammond herself being on the killer’s hit list. 

Abandon me Not Book 2

The plot thickens as B L Pleisch takes us on another journey that surrounds the murder of Gem Hammond’s sister. It’s foretold over nine short chapters with a prologue and epilogue to enhance the narrative. Gem Hammond is still shaken from her sister’s murder. The PPF (Patriots Freedom Fighters) have intensified their efforts on the government forces with numerous assaults. Whose baby has been abandoned on Gem’s doorstep and how successful will her mother’s rescue be from a top prison camp. Again, BL PLeisch twists and turns the plotline to keep you gripped.

Forsake me Not Book 3

This is by far the biggest book in the series so far, B L PLeisch treats us to nine spine-tingling chapters. The story with a Christmas scene. Gem is decorating the family home like nothing before as it’s the first Christmas for Belle. Like most of B L Pleisch’s books the storyline rapidly intensifies as she takes you on a roller-coaster of a ride, who are the missing boys? Why have they been taken? whose body has been found? Why are Gem’s dreams haunting her? And what relevance do they have to the situation she is confronted with? Hmm…

Read the book along with the other two books that make up the series to find the answers to the questions.

Forthcoming Book 

Protect me Not Book 4

Wait and see what this one is about.

Other Books

The Guardian WIT Series 
WIT (World Investigation Team)

In the 2040s-2050s, a new era of psychic powers has emerged and with it a new breed of heroes. Marna Farlow is a level seven psychic with multiple abilities so are her sister’s eight genetically altered children. Together, they form an unstoppable collective force, guided by the wise and experienced Fred Keys, their aim to confront and overcome the darkest corners of the psychic world. In amongst all what’s taking place Marna must cope with her own personal struggles of grief and new love in the guise of Tanner an average man with psychic powers who challenges her heart and mind. With a deepening relationship Marna and Tanner confront the evil that seeks to destroy them. Welcome to B L Pleisch’s world of deadly psychic criminals, love, power and redemption where good and evil are challenged.

Generation L Book 1

Marna’s life in this first book of the Guardian WIT series is undoubtably reformed when her sister pleads with her to save her eight genetically altered children, each possessing far reaching psychic powers. Marna’s determined to protect her sister’s children from the sinister Rick Bradshaw, however, they must rely on their collective strength and Marna’s unique ability to survive in adverse situations. A thrilling tale of psychic powers, family bonds and the fight for survival. 

Recover The Missing Book 2

Marna Farlow is back in a cross-continental adventure. With the death of Rick Bradshaw an unknown threat emerges. 

A new enemy is after her, one far more threatening than Rick Bradshaw, though it is believed the two are linked inextricably through Bradshaw’s wife Raquel. There are nineteen chapters to this epic book, the world of psychics is about to explode in your face, from the opening attack on the top security psychic prison, the escape of deadly prisoners, through to the abduction of Marna’s sister’s youngest children who themselves are powerful psychics, the journey Marna and Guardian embark on to track their whereabouts brings them into contact with the murky underground activities of the terrorist group the Liberatores an active assassination cell. The story culminates in a race between Fred Keys and Guardian against Pierre Lamontage and the Liberatores. The wars between these warring factions burns fiercely on two fronts and they are the real world and the dream if you die in one world, you die in both.

Gems of Jealousy Book 3

Marna’s story continues, Tanner and Marna have it all, but one woman has the ultimate power to take it all away. A woman whose expertise in ‘Black Magic’ far outstrips that of her nearest rivals. Guardian has its work cut out to avoid a blood feud, the origins of which go back in time. Who comes out on top? Well, you’ll have to read the book to seek the answer. All eleven chapters.

Forthcoming Books 

Targeted by Design Book 4
The Secret of the Rings Book 5

What’s about to be revealed in these books? Well, we’ll have to wait and see only B L Pleisch knows the answer here. Or does she?  

Social Media sites and webpage

Please visit Bonnie’s webpage to see everything about her and her books. www.blpleiscch.com

You can order copies of her books from the above webpage click Store 

Amazon author page: www.amazon.com/blpleisch

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/b-l-pleisch-8757a832b
Facebook: www.facebook.com/p/-blpleisch-110875847486197
Pinterest: www.pinterest.com/blpleisch
Twitter/x: www.x.com/@blpleisch
Instagram: www.instagram.com/bonniepleisch@blpleisch

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms, search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors App on your Roku or Amazon Firestick Device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Bonnie, for giving me the opportunity to interview you about your books. I wish you every success with them.

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Teresa Rowlands (Trish) lives in the Sydney area of Australia, she has two great passions in life, her family and writing for young children. Trish believes a young child who loves reading is a child prepared for whatever they must face further down the line. How long has Trish been writing, well the answer to that is more years than she cares to recall. 

Trish is always grateful to Wal her husband for all the support he gives her, plus the support she receives from her son and daughter and grandchildren who are given the unenviable task of proofing her stories. If the grandchildren say yes, then the story is published. So, let’s have a look at four of her books. 

Trish is also grateful to the Camden Writers and Scribblers group for their support as well. Camdenwritersinc@gmail.com

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The Books

There are Fairies, Ladybirds and Butterflies in my Garden: Illustrated by John Dunn

A very simple story of three fairies, six ladybirds, and nine butterflies that appear in a garden. Nicola, Teagan, and Brianna are all invited to the garden by a mystery little character who appears at the end of the book. The illustrations are big, bold, brash, and fun. Everything a very young child needs in a lovable book like this. Fun! Fun! Fun…

This book comes with a CD as the words to the story have been put to music, the tunes and the lyrics are by the author herself. Thanks go to Gavin Antoniou, Reece Anderson and Phinemm Nelson of Vocalise Music and Performing Arts Academy, for putting it all together. 

The Boy who had a Rainbow Dog: Illustrated by John Dunn

A delightful story of a boy looking for his dog Gyps, only to find her in a darken barn having given birth to seven puppies, each one a colour of the rainbow.  A sweet, enchanting story beautifully backed by bright, vivid and big illustrations.

Nicholas’ Christmas Prayer: Illustrated by John Dunn

What can I say about this adorable Christmas tale about a boy and his Christmas prayers for a special family Christmas. The illustrations will take you back to your own Christmas experiences as a child. 

Our Little Elephant: Illustrated by Paola Nadar

This is the story of Reid a young elephant who lived with his mum Boo and dad Ricky in the forest. Poor Reid he kept on bumping into things and falling over, so one day his mum took him to see Dr L E Phant. Reid laughed at the doctor which made him angry, he told them Reid should get his eyes tested, which they did. The fun Reid, Boo and Ricky had at the optometrist picking glasses is sweet. Reid, now with his new glasses could play to his heart’s content without bumping into things and falling over. What a joyous kid’s story. Again, the illustrations bring the story to life.

Other Books

Teresa in addition to these four books has written other books:

Blusher’s First Christmas
Boo Hoo Tree
Chunky’s Coming of Age 
Chassie’s Cry for Help
My Pal Buddy
Remmie and Ziggy’s Backyard Adventure
The Duck Who Couldn’t Quack.

Social Media & Webpage

Please go to Teresa’s webpage, there you’ll find all sorts of things about Teresa and her books, but most importantly where to get the books from.

www.awesomekidsbooks.com.au

email: teresa@awesomekidsbooks.com.au
Mailbox: PO Box 139 Macarthur Square LPO NSW 2560 Australia

Publishers

Teresa Rowland is self-published 

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms, search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors App on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tv Online and click TALKING BOOKS. 

Thank you, Teresa, for allowing me to interview you for the second time re your children’s books which are simply amazing. I wish you every success with the books.

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The Alex Boyd Thriller Series. Crescent City Carnage BOOK SIX 

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The Author

Mel Harrison is an American author from The Villages in Florida where he presently lives with his wife Irene to whom he has been married to for some considerable time. He spent twenty-eight years working for the U.S. Department of State. Most of his career years were spent working in the Diplomatic Security Service, he was assigned to the embassies in Saigon, Quito, Rome. London(twice). Seoul and Islamabad. While serving at the various embassies he worked as a Regional Security Officer (RSO) a special agent of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) responsible for regional security at that those sites. In acknowledgement of his outstanding achievements in his field of high sensitivity he was awarded the department’s Award of Valour and the worldwide RSO of the year award.

Prior to joining the U.S. Foreign Service, he graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Economics, followed by post graduate work at The American University. The Department of State assigned him to the NATO Defence College in Rome for Political-Military studies. Did Mel enjoy his time the various embassies, most definitely! In fact, when you look at his books, they are all based on his experiences at the time of his watch while working in those countries. The stories and characters have been modified somewhat for diplomatic reasons. On all his overseas assignments his wife Irene accompanied him as she followed her own diplomatic career at the embassies albeit working in a slightly different field of diplomatic expertise.

Life after being a special agent for the U.S. State Dept saw Mel working in corporate security or consulting work for ten years, this work very often entailed trips to Latin America and The Middle East, something he equally enjoyed in addition to his world of security and counter-espionage.

Mel has written six books in the Alex Boyd Thriller series so far, but for the purpose of this podcast interview we’re mainly focusing on his latest Book ‘Crescent City Carnage.’ However, you can click the Amazon Links below of the other five books that make up the series to see what they are about.

The Book

Crescent City Carnage

There are fifty-three heart-pounding chapters to keep you the reader engrossed for days as Mel Harrison takes you on another spine-tingling, topsy-turvy, high -action thriller ride through the streets of New Orleans and elsewhere. 

Alex Boyd and Rachel Smith are on their long-awaited annual leave and have chosen to visit their friend and colleague Simone Ardoin in New Orleans in the U.S. State of Louisiana. What’s Simone got herself into here hmm…! Simone’s callous murder has left her well-connected parents traumatised. They turn to Alex and Rachel to work alongside the NOPD to flush out who’s behind this act of barbarism.

The city of course is synonymous with its Laissez-Faire perspective on life and corruption. However, having agreed to give moral support to Simone’s parents Alex and Rachel set out with NOPD to expose who’s responsible for Simone’s death and the circumstances leading up to her murder. Alex ascertains full support from the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Office in New Orleans. Pointing the finger and identifying the killer is one thing, tracking and finding them is a whole different ball game, and is proving to be far trickier than expected. Does the killer have inside sources to assist them from being easily apprehended, plus enabling them to outsmart the NOPD at every turn? Maybe!  The more the story develops the more Mel Harrison twists and weaves a spiders-web of hot and cold trails.  What Alex and Rachel discover is that New Orleans’ streets and communities have their own unwritten codes of law and are very reluctant to break them. But crack them, they must if they want to get to the bottom of what’s going on here and catch who’s responsible for Simone’s demise. The clock is ticking. Some holiday this has turned out to be for Alex and Rachel.

Here’s a look at our video chat:

Characters and Acronyms

U.S. State Department

DS: Diplomatic Security Service, US Department of State
RSO: Regional Security Officer, Diplomatic Security
Alex Boyd- Special Agent, Diplomatic Security Service, Regional Security Officer U.S. Embassy London
Rachel Smith- Political Counsellor U.S. Embassy London
Simone Ardoin- Office of Italian Affairs U.S. Department of State Washington D.C.
Susan Witt- Special Agent/ Agent-in-Charge of DS Resident Agency New Orleans
Scott Fellows- DS Special Agent New Orleans
Pete Fong DS Special Agent New Orleans
Isabelle Lewis- DS Special Agent Houston Field Office
Jim Riley – Director, Diplomatic Security Washington D.C.
Tommy Rogers- RSO U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince Haiti
Luis Torres -DS Special Agent New Orleans
Burt Warner- DS Special Agent Houston Field Office

New Orleans

NOPD-New Orleans Police Dept
DEA-Drug Enforcement Administration U.S. Government
Edouard ‘Papa Ed’ Ardoin – Simone’s father and founder of his law firm
Camille Ardoin- Medical doctor, Simone’s mother and wife of Papa Ed
Jules Baptiste- Haitian born gang leader living in New Orleans
Vern Borelon- Regional Director New Orleans Drug Enforcement Agency
Destiny- Girlfriend of Jules Baptiste
Detective ‘Fast Tim’ Kelly – Detective New Orleans Police Department (NOPD)
Janet ‘Mon Glow’ Ross- Local Resident, tattoo artist and partner of Billy Whiteman
Claude Toussaint- Criminal, works for Jules Baptiste
Captain Jim Wells- NOPD friend of Papa Ed Ardoin
Sgt. John Washington- NOPD detective
Bill Westbrook- FBI Special Agent in charge of New Orleans office
Billy Whiteman- Local resident, graphic artist, boyfriend of Moon Glow

NorthShore New Orleans

Billy Landry- Sheriff St Tammany Parish
Vinnie Fiore- Deputy St Tammany Parish

List of Chapters discussed in this podcast

Chapter 3: Playing with Fire
Chapter 6: Condolences
Chapter 11: A Celebration of Life
Chapter 15: Break in the Case
Chapter 22: The Trap
Chapter 31: Witness Protection
Chapter 37: Undercover
Chapter 44: Shocking Developments
Chapter 48: The Snitch 

Other Books in the Series

Death in Pakistan (Book One)

The Ambassador is Missing (Book two)

Moving Target (Book Three)

Terror in Cairo (Book Four)

Spies Among Us (Book Five)

Social Media Sites

Https://www.linkedin.com/in/mel-harrison-b859841ba
Https://www.facebook.com/mel.harrison.7771

Awards

Spies Among Us: Indie Reader Discovery Awards – Winner 2024 Mystery/ Suspense/ Thriller Winner!

Publishers

AHA Publishers: www.ahapublishers.com / search ‘Book’s we’ve published: Mel Harrison.’

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku and Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thanks, Mel, for giving me another wonderful opportunity to talk to you about the latest book in The Alex Boyd Thriller Series. Book Six. I wish you every success with it.

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The Author

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David Rice was born in Australia but spent most of his childhood growing up in and around Tauranga on New Zealand’s North Island. The Bay of Plenty region like most of New Zealand is an area of outstanding natural beauty. He now lives in a small community with his wife and family called Iluka a coastal village at the mouth of the Clarence River in north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. 

David was the fifth child of seven, born to a father of Irish Catholic origin and a mother of English heritage. His childhood was far from idyllic something he puts down to his mother’s narcissistic mannerisms, her own background was far from ideal with her father abandoning her and her six siblings for a younger woman in 1928. Her mother, David’s grandmother faced a daunting life and with not been able to support her children in a variety of areas, she suffered from depression and anxiety issues. As a result of his grandmother’s predicament his mother developed as he sees it a covert narcissistic personality disorder, which left emotional and psychological scars on his father and the rest of the family. 

Curiously, not all his siblings took David’s viewpoint on his mother’s narcissistic traits, some of them saw her as a normal loving person, for David though right from the tender age of four his relationship with his mother was strewn with pain, and anxiety which gave rise to complex mental health issues something that he suffered with right up to 2008 when he finally plucked up the courage to readdress with the support psychological expertise. 

David, to this day firmly believes his mother controlled with absolute positioning his older siblings, and had he not fled the situation his own mental wellbeing would be in a dire situation. David’s long-term relationship with his mother was virtually non-existent apart from a fleeting letter, for years they never spoke. David’s mother died this year at the age of ninety-five and it’s only now that he feels he can express his views through poems and advice for others who find themselves in a similar situation. 

What David wants most for his readership to get from his book is three things: 

Healing
Spirituality
Connection

So, let’s turn our attention to this extraordinary book he has written.

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The Book

This book for me is a tale of two halves telling the true story of how David and his family were faced with a narcissistic mother and the consequences that ensued, both physically and mentally. The first half of the narrative is foretold in poetry, six poems to be precise and the second half is more of a dossier of David and his siblings own growing up experiences of trauma and child abuse at the hands of their mother, the narcissistic traits she displayed, coping mechanisms to deal with ‘Black Sheeping’, anxiety disorders, along with suggestions of how to face narcissistic behaviours on a daily basis. 

The story is foretold around a nautical theme, hence the references to shipping terminology and the wonderful photographs of amazing ships. The members of the family have all been given ship’s names to add a sense of authenticity to the nautical theme that runs through the book. Who’s who can be found under Ships Name. Why the nautical theme? why write the book in this unique way?  Why the subject matter of narcissism, trauma and child abuse? Well! Read the book to find out and form your own opinions as to David’s story. Mine was that the book was a tale of two halves, hence my reason for setting my write up as I did.

The Poems

Sailors on’t Sea of Life
Th’ Bob
Th’Fleet
The Piha Run
Th’Healing
Th’ Gypsy Curse

The Latter suggestion Section
(Food for thought)

Nyree’s Critique
Fleet History
Acknowledgements
Afterword
Definition of a Narcissistic Mother
Definition of ‘Black Sheeping’
Final Words
Anxiety Disorders
Suggested Daily Practices

Social Media Sites and Webpage

Please have look at David’s webpage where you will find out more as to who David Rice is and why he wrote the book, plus you can order the book from there to.

www.sailingawaybydavidrice.com

Publishers

Balboa Press. www.balboapress.com.au bookstore/search David Rice

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms, Search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors App on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandautjors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, David, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to chat to you about your insightful and thought-provoking book. I wish you every success with it.

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The Author

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A K Cooper-Elliot was born in Germany, but now resides in Yorkshire a beautiful and breath-taking county in the UK. Those that live there would arguably say that it’s the best county in the UK, but those that are domiciled there may possibly disagree, but without a doubt the Yorkshire Dales are renowned for their natural surroundings.

A K is married with two grown-up children that have fled the nest. Due to the early onset of Multiple Sclerosis, A K had to retire at a relatively early age from her high-flying executive career in procurement and accountancy due to the demands of the job and her functionality issues that were becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. With the decision reluctantly taken to step away from the world of high finance, A K turned to writing, giving her a new focus in life, a focus that can be fitted around her physical abilities. For a person living with M.S. some days can be more challenging than others, on a bad day not much gets done.

As far as A K can remember she has always loved books, reading a variety of genres. From reading to writing A K’s life has evolved, she writes both adult and children’s books, but for the purpose of this podcast we’re going to focus on one of her adult series; The Templeton-Miller Dynasty Series. So, let’s explore this series.

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The Books

Themis

This is the follow-on book to Aeternum, and as it’s AK’s latest book she wanted this podcast interview to mainly focus on this book but highlighting the fact that this is a series and you do need to read the books in sequence, so we are drawing attention to Aeternum as well.

In a world where power, love and ambition collide, young prodigy W J Pulman’s life takes an extraordinary turn. At just sixteen, WJ is already breaking boundaries, entering the prestigious Lex University’s law program thanks to a generous donation from Theo- James Miller, a media mogul with a vision to create a new breed of lawyers for his empire. As an executive lawyer for Millers-Lions Film Corporation, WJ is thrust into the upper echelons of high society.

In 1938, WJ, Theo-James, and their colleague Howard Levy travel to London to scout film locations, but fate has something far more significant in store. At the glamourous Banquet of Tranquillity, WJ encounters Elizabeth, a captivating woman who sweeps him off his feet. A whirlwind romance ensues, and within weeks, WJ and Elizabeth marry abroad a ship bound for New York, alongside their closest friends and new couples Eleanor Templeton-Jones and Emily Taylor-Bartley.

As WJ rises in the world of law and politics, Elizabeth’d deepest desire for a child seems out of reach. Her visit to a mysterious psychic foretells both Joy and heartbreak on the horizon. When Elizabeth finally gives birth, their happiness is short-lived. A sinister pair Thelma and Paul Friedman enter their lives, intent on tearing the couple apart. Obsessed with WJ and Elizabeth, the Friedman’s siblings will stop at nothing to destroy their marriage.

When tragedy strikes, WJ must turn to the shadowy power of The Society to protect his family and seek vengeance. Will the Pullman dynasty survive the dark forces conspiring against them, or will their legacy be shattered?

Aeternum

Twenty-three chapters of delectable prose awaits you here, this is the first book in the series and here we find Lady Eleanor Templeton-Jones a rising actress and Theo-James Miller a charismatic film director. 

In the depts of teenage boredom, Lady Eleanor Templeton- Jones and her brothers find solace in The Banquet of Tranquillity, a night that changes their lives forever. Eleanor, at seventeen, meets Theo-James Miller, a charismatic film director who becomes the love of her life. Together, they embark on a journey to America, seeking fame and of course fortune.

As Eleanor rises to become a celebrated actress, she becomes entangled in Theo-James’ family’s dark secrets. Struggling to conceive, Eleanor’s world transforms when she acquires Templeton House in Switzerland. The birth of her son, Henry leads her away from the limelight and into the realm of motherhood.

Amidst power struggles and revenge, Theo-James’ hidden double life threatens to unravel their dynasty. The Templeton-Millers rise to prominence, but at what cost? With the allure of glamour, ambition and treachery Aeternum unveils a mesmerizing tale of love and betrayal within the captivating world of the Templeton-Millers.

Awards

Social Media sites & Webpage

Please visit AK’s webpage to find out more about her and all the books she has written: www.akcooperelliot.com
YouTube; www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhyG-E7v7wLd7SsJN6VOX/about
Twitter/X www.x.com/akcooperelliot
Facebook: www.facebook.com/p/AK-Copper-Elliot-100090021086938
Pinterest: www.pinterest.co.uk/akcooperelliot
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ak-cooper-elliot-926387224

Publisher

Michael Terence Publishing. www.mtp.agency  Books AK Cooper-Elliot

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The Video is available on YouTubesearch Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts an Authors App on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Ak, for allowing me to interview you again, this time about The Templeton-Miller Dynasty Series. I wish you every success with the books and look forward to working with you soon.

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The Author

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Linda Harkey is a multi-award-winning children’s author formerly from Angel Fire in the Sangre De Christo Mts in the U.S. state of New Mexico, now Oklahoma City in the state of Oklahoma. When she lived with her late husband Mike on their thirty-acre ranch in Angel Fire she was surrounded with spectacular scenery and wildlife such as black bears, mountain cougars and elk. It had its advantages and disadvantages living ten thousand feet above sea-level something Linda is going to miss very much, but since the passing of her beloved husband Mike earlier on this year that lifestyle was proving too much of a challenge for her and she has decided to move back to Oklahoma. 

Linda is a past teacher and an enthusiastic hunting dog owner for more than thirty years. Plus, she has spent at least twenty odd years as a volunteer docent at two of Oklahoma’s outstanding museums. Linda was married to Mike a retired surgical pathologist for more years than she cares to recall, she has two children and three grandchildren to date, and one great grandchild, again to date. 

R.I.P Mike, who was ‘The Master’ character in the books. 

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The Book

Well, what can I say about this latest children’s book Linda Harkey has put out, Well! It’s WOW! WOW! WOW!She’s poured her heart and soul into it. It’s the story of four farmyard animals venturing out on a journey from Cowlick Ranch to Rancher Girard’s Cow Retirement Ranch. What unfolds on this daring escape, simply to avoid the dreaded Cooking School hmm…!Well let’s find out. 

Middle-Grade Readers are going to love this book!!!

List of Characters Starring in this book

Lova-Bull: A small but powerful dark-red Hereford Bull
Mud-Pie: A Black Angus Cow
Bernie: A Silver Black Raven Chick
Blue Moon: The Chihuahuan Raven
Gracie: The Gray Burro
The Huntress: A Cougar with her two cubs.

The story is told across nine chapters all backed by bright, vivid, adorable illustrations done by Jeff Yesh.

List of Chapters 

Chapter 1: Going to Cooking School
Chapter 2: Planning the Escape
Chapter 3: Escape from Cowlick Ranch
Chapter 4: The Lightning Storm
Chapter 5 Four-Wheeled, Two-Eyed Monsters
Chapter 6: Safe at Duck Pond
Chapter 7: The Huntress
Chapter 8: Ravens to the Rescue
Chapter 9 Ready for Retirement Life

Awards and Recommendations for Linda’s book The Great Animal Escape

Outstanding Creator Awards- Winner- Best Children’s Book of Summer 2024(2nd Place)
Rural Life/Farm (2nd Place)
Comedy/Humour (2nd Place)
Animals (1st Place)
Best Character (Honourable Mention)
Best Villain (Honourable Mention)
Cutest Character (Honourable Mention)
Best Team (Honourable Mention)
Funny/Strange/Bizarre (Honourable Mention)
Coolest Character (Honourable Mention)

NYC Big Books Award – Chapter Books 2024
Best International Book-Winner Best Cinematic Project of the Year 2024
Summer 2024 Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards- Best Book Juvenile Fiction
Children’s Book Council, Every Child a Reader
Ideal International Film Festival: The Great Animal Escape- Selected
S.O.F.A. Film Festival- The Great Animal Escape-Selected (Animals, Wildlife, Environment, Conservation)
London Movie Awards: Gold Award Feature Script 2024
New Mexico Books Association, Southwest Books Design and Production Award- Winner 2024
World Film Festival in Cannes: Best Original Story-Winner 2024
Best Indie Book & Best Writer: Telluride New Stories Film Festival 2024

Other Books

Hickory Doc’s Tale Series
All about the adventures of a pack of German Shorthaired Pointer Hunting Dogs

Hickory Doc’s Tales: The Pack First Generation
Solitary Toes and Brown-Headed Cowbirds (A Hickory Doc’s Tale)
Doc, Willie and the Pack: Secrets. Gifts, Family (A Hickory Doc’s Tale)
Doc’s Dog Days (A Hickory Doc’s Activity Book)
The Remarkable Story of Willie the Crow (A Hickory Doc’s Tale)

Chatty the Hen Pheasant Travels with the Pack
Blake Jake’s Unusual Day Travels with the Pack
Desert Friends 2nd Edition Travels with the Pack
The Wayward Path of the Devil and Mr Snake in the Garden of Eden

Publishers

Story Monsters Press: www.storymonsterspress.com / store/ search Linda Harkey.
Archway Publishers: www.archwaypublishing.com/bookstore/lindaharkey

Social Media Sites & Webpage

Please visit Linda’s webpage to find out more about herself and all her books and awards: www.harkeybooks.com

www.storymonsters.com/bookstore/lindaharkey
www.facebook.com.harkeybooks/
www.instagram.comharkeybooks

Awards For Linda’s other Books

Linda has countless literary awards too many to mention, we’d need another podcast interview just to talk about them, so let’s just say she’s a multi-award-winning author and leave it at that. Have a look at her webpage to see what they are.

Podcast Info 

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms, search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors App on your Roku or Amazon Firestick Device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Linda, for coming back on my show to talk about your latest book 
‘The Great Animal Escape’
What a book! I wish you every success with it and of course with all your other multi-award-winning-Children’s books. Zeke is still my favourite character out of all your books, even though he thought he was a cut above all the other dogs in the pack.

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Charles and Gloria live in the Cairn’s area of Queensland in Australia, an area of outstanding natural beauty. Cairn’s itself is often referred to as the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef. Charles and Gloria recently got married due to their religious thinkings and ethos. The path to this union has due to cultural background differences not been an easy journey, yet a journey that brought them ever closer having lost loving spouses from previous relationships. So, let’s have a look at their individual backgrounds.

Charles:

Charles was born in Kecskemet 1939 in Hungary to a German Mother and Hungarian father. Growing up as a child in war-torn Hungary and Germany life was austere. On his tenth birthday he can recall arriving in Port Philip Bay, Melbourne, Australia. The family moved several times in those early years in and around the state of Victoria. Charles quickly learnt to speak English. He attended services at the German Lutheran Church.  Charles graduated from the Universities of Melbourne and Tasmania in Chemistry and Biophysics respectively with a doctorate to follow. While at University he met his Czech born teacher wife Milena who sadly passed away in 2021. Charles’ children Paul and Jennifer have broadly speaking followed in their father’s footsteps into the scientific world. Science and religion often come into conflict as one deals in hard evidential facts and the other on belief from the bible. So, a scientist and a religious person is rare but that is who Charles Pallaghy is. His second marriage to Gloria, as for he is concerned has been a blessing, but it took some convincing to get his son and daughter to accept the situation. Plus, the fact moving from Melbourne to Cairns they thought he was mad. But as Charles said to me off screen,” it’s warmer in Northern Queensland than Melbourne and now that he’s of a certain age he needs all the warmth he can get.”

Gloria:

Gloria was born in the Sepik River area of Papua New Guinea; her parents were Catholics, and her grandparents whom she knew very little about apart from the fact the tribe in their early days partook in cannibalism, something that goes against everything Gloria herself stands for. Gloria at a young age met Casper a Christian and over a period converted to Christianity. Both herself and Casper attended Bible school, their reward was to serve as senior pastors in charge of the Port Moresby Assembly of God church. Their successful work there attracted unwanted attention from within their own families who tried their level best to destroy them by means of powerful witchcraft practises, something that is very much in evidence in Papua New Guinea. These ancient customs are even maintained by some of those in the Christian community. Gloria’s own husband Casper was determined to bring Christianity to his own village, a village where witchcraft was prevalent, even his own brother used it to oppose him. Shortly after returning to his ancestral village Gloria’s husband passed away under suspicious circumstances, was witchcraft a part of his demise, some of the family would side with that outcome. However, this left Gloria with two children destitute and vulnerable in a male dominated society whose treatment of women was nothing short of pure prime evil. Gloria endured the wrath of her male misogynist societal background for years but that did not stop her from becoming a schoolteacher actively mentoring and preparing young people for the world they were about to venture out into. Gloria eventually moved to Australia, but throughout her life even when she thought God had abandoned her, she kept her Christian faith. So, you can see how different Charles and Gloria’s life’s have been.

Since Charles and Gloria got married two books have emerged and this is what this podcast is about the merging of two very different religious upbringings coming together under one roof with fortitude and determination. So, let’s turn our attention to the books.

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The Books

Merging Jew and Gentile for Perfection

When you open this book, you’ll find thirteen chapters of highly interesting conversational areas around two of the world’s great faiths, Christianity and Judaism. Both faiths have their own distinguishing benchmarks, roots, followers and yet what Charles and Gloria have achieved here with this book of theirs is commonality with a unique touch of rationality. Two great religions can co-exist together when given a chance, this is what Charles and Gloria want everyone to see not only through this book but equally through their recent marriage.

To give you a brief outline as to what is in the book I’m highlighting the chapter headings as well as the Overview.

Contents

Overview
Chapter 1 Our Present State of Chaos
Chapter 2 Ancient Israel Exiled from the Promised Land
Chapter 3 Astounding Privileges Through the Blood 30
Chapter 4 Practical Reality of Genesis 1:26
Chapter 5 Gloria and Charles
Chapter 6 Merging Gentile and Jewish Christians: Perfection
Chapter 7 The Bride of Christ
Chapter 8 Those Not in the Bride of Christ
Chapter 9 Ignore the Old Testament at Your Peril
Chapter 10 Restoration of a United Israel
Chapter 11 Messages and Power of the “Chuppah’
Chapter 12 What Can We Say Therefore?
Chapter 13 Let the Love of God Rule Our Hearts: Lessons from Our Marriage

Immortal to the End:
A Challenging True Story of the Supernatural

Eleven chapters of stimulating subject matters revolving around visions, walking in faith, near-death experiences, unity, the second coming and the supernatural glory of God plus other fields of intrigue circumventing religious aspects are on display in this book that Charles has penned.

Again, to give you a brief outline as to what you can expect from Charles’ book here, I’m listing the chapter headings.

Contents

Chapter 1 The Lady in a Black Fur Coat
Chapter 2 My First Vision and Overview
Chapter 3 Walking by Faith
Chapter 4 In the Middle of a crooked Generation
Chapter 5 Near- Death Experiences
Chapter 6 Chosen
Chapter 7 The Hope of Unity
Chapter 8 Satanic Backlash
Chapter 9 Marriage Supper of the Lamb
Chapter 10 Rapture of All Believers Before the Second Coming
Chapter 11 The Supernatural Glory of God

Some very compelling topics of discussion are revealed here. Charles is not averse to controversy when it comes to his religious viewpoints. Have a read is all I say.

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Social Media Sites

Please look at the website www.endtimespallaghy.com  there you’ll find more information about who Charles and Gloria are and their books.

Publishers

Bookside Press: www.booksidepress.com click Bookshelf and scroll through the books and you’ll soon come across Charles and Gloria’s books.

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors App on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Charles and Gloria for giving me the amazing opportunity of interviewing you both about your books. I wish you every success with them.

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Natasha Burrell is a mother of three, who lives on a live style block on the Canterbury Plains of New Zealand’s South Island. If you have ever been there, you’ll fully understand when I say it’s a breathtaking place as is the whole of New Zealand. Before devoting her life to her children, she was a veterinarian, animals and the care of animals have always been a passion of hers, and while she’s not practising now, she still has a menagerie of livestock around her that keeps her busy. When you read her children’s book, you’ll see it does have a certain vet’s angle to it. So, let’s turn to the book.

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The Book

Follow a veterinary tale about a cat who ran across the road in front of a paramedic 

The book revolves around compassion and kindness to animals and is aimed at 5–6-year-olds. It’s a sweet, charming story about a cat that got knocked down by a paramedic on her way to a call out. The story is based on a true event that took place close to Dunedin. The narrative tale of St John the cat tells the journey from his accident to his recovery process to becoming lifelong friends with the paramedic. The illustrations are relevant, engaging and easy for a young child to understand the story. A nice book for a bedtime read to be enjoyed by a young child on their own depending on their reading ability or a shared moment with a parent or grandparent. Children who love animals and might want to work in pet rescue situations or who are thinking of becoming veterinarians will find this book very interesting. 

I enjoyed it, there again I’m just a big kid at heart like most so-called grownups!

Social Media Sites

Please visit Natasha’s webpage where you’ll find out more about her and her amazing book. www.natashaburrell.com

Publishers

Xlibris: www.xlibris.com / bookstore/search/Natasha Burrell

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Natasha, for giving me the amazing opportunity of interviewing you about your book. I wish you every success with it.

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James M Corkill is a veteran and retired Federal Firefighter of thirty-two-years from Washington State in the United States. Prior to those years in the fire service, he was an electronic technician and in his spare time he studied mechanical engineering something he enjoyed very much.

Writing was never at the heart of James’ life but in 1997 he embarked on a new mission in life and that was to write. James worked on his first Book Dead Energy for several years and with his wife’s failing health due to cancer he rushed to get it published in 2002 so that he could proudly hold up a copy to his wife before she passed. Throughout the writing process of that book, he very much welcomed the mentoring skills of Hugh Barnett Cave the British and Jamaican horror author who he met in 1997. 

After his wife’s death life turned into a downward spiral for James with alcohol being at the core of his daily life, it took some considerable time for him to adjust and come to terms with the loss of his soulmate who had for many years being at the very heart as to he was.  In 2013 he bumped into a total stranger who had read his first book Dead Energy, that stranger encouraged him to write again. He quit the booze and relaunched the Alex Cave series with gusto and to date there are seven books in the series so let’s turn to the books to see what they are about.

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The Books

The Alex Cave Thriller Series

Action Adventure, Science Fiction Mystery Thrillers

The first three books of the series are in themselves a mini-series.

The Energy Saga Trilogy 

Dead Energy
Cold Energy
Red Energy

The other four books that make up The Alex Cave Series are very much part of the network, but the storylines are loosely independent of each other.

Gravity
Pandora’s Eyes
DNA
Parallel

You do, however need to read The Energy Saga Trilogy before you open the other books as those plots what make much sense to you.

Dead Energy

This book is a phenomenal ride when it comes to, nail-biting suspense accompanied with electrifying dramas. Alex Cave is the main character, he worked for the American Intelligence service the CIA, his work there involved complex and challenging projects. When is wife is murdered Alex steps away from the CIA for a quieter life as a geology teacher, but his new life didn’t last long. The Director of National Security Martin Donner reaches out to Alex asking for assistance as crude oil tankers across the globe are being attacked, not only tankers but oil refineries and oil pipelines vital to providing civilisation with basic amenities are also targeted. What has happened to that missing crude oil? What are those innocuous vials of crystal powder? Who are Reverend Menno Simons and his followers? And what’s their beef around environmental issues connected to crude oil? Want to know? Well, you’ll have to read the book.

Cold Energy

The second book in the overall series and The Energy Saga Trilogy, is another all-engrossing chain of dynamic events, spills and thrills. The story revolves around a frozen ocean that freezes within minutes. The consequence of this seismic event impacts the world’s climatic patterns. If the situation isn’t brought under control quickly then civilization as we know it could be faced with unequivocable ecological issues. Alex as a geophysicist is called to investigate the situation. The advanced alien technology discovered on the Aleutian Islands is stolen and sent to COBRA a private top-secret research facility close to Yellowstone National Park. The top scientists there are baffled with what they have been presented with. What is this alien technology? Who’s behind the snatch? And who on Alex’s secret mission on board the research vessel is jeopardising proceedings? Hmm…

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Red Energy

Alex Cave is faced with a new set of troubles like those he had to confront in the previous book. This time the story is about the rapidly expanding Polar Ice Sheet. The Ice sheet has spread thousands of square miles within a matter of minutes. Alex receives a message from a friend in Northern Canada. The Ice this time is crystal clear. Alex heads north and again he ventures onto the research vessel Mystic and again he encounters an uncooperative crew, particularly the captain. What secrets he uncovers is simply mind-blowing.

Hmm…what an exciting trilogy and start to the overall series.

Gravity

A science fiction narrative that incorporates giant globules of molten rock floating up out of an ancient glacier, a dormant volcano deep within a mountain that Alex and friend O’ Conna explore, what they discover is frightening. Who is Janis Sloan?  What’s her motive to stealing? And has she bitten off more than she can chew with the device she has stolen and abandoned? What is the device that has the capability of dragging satellites and the International Space Station back to earth and more horrifyingly attract a gold asteroid to collide with the earth, the consequences of which are simply unimaginable. 

This is a real page turner of a book, no wonder it has four awards.

Pandora’s Eyes

The colour of your eyes will determine your fate in this book. Alex Cave is confronted with another set of worrying factors that have the potential to jeopardise Earth’s functionality. What are the four artifacts Alex has unearthed? Where are they presently? What is the connection between the devices that have gone missing and Pandora a blue-eyed woman who has just been awoken? Why does she determine brown eyes as a degenerative gene? What of her ultimatum for all brown-eyed humans to be voluntarily killed to save her own kind? 

A fascinating read.

DNA

DNA and social media postings will determine who will be chosen to survive a coming apocalypse. Mya Austin is an archaeologist for the Sioux Nation, she has discovered a Colorado cave that has a 25-thousand-year-old drawing depicting two human visitors from space. The message written below the drawing in ancient Sioux indicates that they will return in 25-thousand-years. Carbon dating determines that their return is imminent sometime this year. To verify her understanding she needs the support of a geophysicist to resolve the age of the rock strata, alas Alex Cave is brought into the equation. The two humans from space have indeed returned in the characters Vesta and Paul. The news they bring is not good, and they offer to take five hundred people back with them for a new life. But Alex is suspicious of Vesta’s intentions and when the real reason for their return is exposed Alex and his team embark on a concerted effort to change the course of time and ultimately earth’s future. 

Parallel

Some experiments should never be attempted, Ex-CIA operative and geophysicist Alex Cave searches for the source of seismic activity in the Pacific Ocean. What he discovers is an ancient alien laboratory, getting in is the easy part but getting out is far more complex. 

A deep sinister storyline full of intrigue. A great read.  

Social Media sites

Linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/james-m-corkill-20905791

Awards

Dead Energy: Script Summit Screenplay Contest- Finalist 2022

                             Screen Writers Network- Recommendation of Documentation 2022

Cold Energy: Best Indie Book Award Winner

Red Energy: Best Indie Book Award Winner

Gravity: Best Indie Book Award Winner

                 Readers’ Favourite Book Award Winner

                 The Independent Author Network Award- Finalist

                 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book (Notable) 2015

Pandora’s Eyes: Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book (Notable) 2022

DNA: Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book (Notable) 2022

Publisher

James M Corkill (Author)

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click Talking Books.

Thanks, James, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to review your amazing Alex Cave Series of Books. I wish you well with all your writing endeavours.

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Scott C Meischen is an author, teacher, consultant and encourager according to the call of God. Scott grew up in the Christian church but understood that as a young adult, his faith was nothing more than a cultural legacy of Christianity. Professionally trained and in the daily practice of truth (and falsehood) detection (as an internal auditor and single father of three) he found his way (at the prompting of God the Holy Spirit) to authentic biblical faith in the Faith: authentic, orthodox Christianity. Led by God and aided by many outstanding ministries, he found his way to the New Life, which was only made possible by engaging in an authentic love relationship with Jesus Christ. Today, Scott ministers in his local church as a faithful member, Bible teacher and Christian apologist to those also seeking a Jesus-sourced New Life, a Live Wise life. Scott lives with his wife, Debbie, their six adult children and their spouses, and eleven grandchildren in the Central Texas area. He is a graduate of Texas A&M University, the University of Texas, and is a certified Public Accountant (CPA) and a Distinguished Toastmasters (DTM).

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The Book

This soul searching, enriching book for me is written for the person who as the title suggests is probing for a more fulfilled life, a life spiritually enhanced with God’s wisdom and love, a life where Christian values are at the heart of their everyday activities. The book is extremely well written and although it’s quite lengthy in total it carries some significant messages that we can all learn from. Scott has broken the main thrust of the ideology behind his philosophical approach into three journeys. The first journey is headed up ‘The Salvation Journey’ and comprises five areas of spiritual exploration. The second Journey headed up as ‘The Sanctification Journey’ has six areas of topical debate about further exploratory avenues to consider to lead a Live Wise Christian life. And finally, the third journey ‘The Glorification Journey,’ with one area of consideration. But I have to say to fully understand and appreciate the over-riding concept of the book you would be well advised to spend some time getting to grips with the Glossary and Acronyms section that fronts the book as Scott does draw heavily on this segment for pure reference points to substantiate his ideological thinking’s throughout the book as a Whole. Has this book been written as a bedtime cosy read! No. It’s a guidebook as the subtitle alludes to, to help people enrich their spiritual lives and overall make them better people as they progress through life with all its complexities and uncertainties.

Social Media Sites

Please visit Scott’s webpage to find out more about him and his book. www.scottmeischen.com 

Publisher

LifeRich Publishing. www.liferichpublishing.com  Bookstore/ search Scott Curtis Meischen  

Podcast Info

This Podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available to watch on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.

Thank you, Scott for giving me this wonderful opportunity to review and chat about your enlightening book. I wish you every success with it and that it reaches the audience you intended it to.

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Theresa Fochtman is from Cheney a small farming community near Spokane in Washington State in the USA. For most of her life she has had to face challenging medical issues many of those circumvent around her diagnosis of Gastroparesis. What is Gastroparesis also known as delayed gastric emptying or gastric stasis?  It’s a chronic medical condition that causes the stomach to empty its contents more slowly than normal and sometimes a solid mass called a Bezoar develops. It’s a debilitating condition that can have a huge impact on a person’s mental health along with well-being. At times it has governed, consumed not only Theresa’s life but those close to her like her husband and daughter. Theresa has been treated for various gastrointestinal concerns over the years like Gastroparesis, Chron’s Disease, IBS and GI motility matters, had numerous surgical operations to correct her medical condition some successful, some not and some reversed. The outcome has made Theresa a more determined person, her focus in life now is in supporting others who find themselves in similar circumstances and situations that she has had to adjust to. So, let’s turn to her book to see what culinary pleasures await us.

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The Book

Her book is a recipe book of delicious meals she has created to enhance the lives of people with gastrointestinal issues particularly those who have an aversion to fruits and vegetables, but equally the book contains a selection of recipes for all to try and create not just those with gastrointestinal issues.

The book is a collection of thirty delicious recipes. In this podcast we’re going to focus on eight of Theresa’s culinary delights to give you a sneak insight as to what you can expect from the book, and those meals are listed below.

Nutella and Sourdough
Lemon cake
Avocado Salad
Wasabi Devilled Eggs
Salmon Filets
Parmesan Baked Potato Fries
Chicken Thigh glazed Donut Sandwich
Ground Chicken Meatballs

As Theresa says, “Food is Life.” So, let’s enjoy her food.

Social Media Sites 

Tiktok page is @theresafochtman
https://facebook.com search Theresa M Fochtman

Publishers

Xlibris: www.Xlibris.com Bookstore/search Theresa Fochtman

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click Talking Books Show.

Thank you, Theresa for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about your recipe book of incredible meals. I with you every success with it and with your new adventures.

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Pam Henry Smith is an American author from Hot Springs, Arkansas in the U.S. She grew up in Pine Bluff and following her parent’s divorce she and her sister Paula spent a lot of time with both sets of grandparents and the wonderful relationships they had with them is really the backbone to the tale in this debut book. Pam’s father was a successful businessman who was probably a workaholic, but still had time for his daughters. Her mother to whom Pam was close to, worked in finance and flourished in her own right. I think having chatted to Pam that both she and her sister inherited traits from their parents and both sets of grandparents which has made them both survivors.

Pam taught for for thirty-two-years at elementary level something she both enjoyed and excelled at, this enthusiasm for education she has passed on to all her students plus her three children and now grandchildren with whom she has a very close bond with. 

Divorce is tough for kids having to deal with a completely new set of rules, something Pam and Paula found hard to adjust to, nevertheless adjust they did, but for Pam it taught her to be tough, independent with a loving caring attribute to her nature, this enduring quality she developed she has passed on, not only to her own children and grandchildren to who as I have already hinted at she cherishes wholeheartedly, but equally all of her students she taught over the years, in particular encouraging young girls to be strong when pursuing their choices in life. 

Retirement means different things to different people, for Pam it’s the opportunity to follow new adventures and now that she has dipped her toe into the world of writing, who knows what will be coming down the line, hopefully more books. Pam has always been a strong advocate for literacy and maybe now that she has more time to devote to this passion of hers, we’ll see her flourish as a successful author. Watch this space is all I say.

So, let’s have a sneak preview as to what this debut book of hers is all about.

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The Book

This is a children’s book and depending on the individual child’s reading ability a book for them to read themselves or with a parent/grandparent. Either way for me it’s a great bedtime read. The author in her interview notes to me sees the book as a book for all generations to simply enjoy. So, what is the book about? Well, it’s the story of a brightly coloured Amazon parrot called Mack, and it’s a true tale. The story is delightfully told over twenty-four pages against the backdrop of bright wonderful illustrations that really do set the scene. The narrative starts on the journey home from a summer trip to Disneyland in 1964 when the author’s father bought a parrot both for the author and her sister plus grandparents. Mack brought a lot of joy to the family, equally frustration, for Mack wasn’t to everyone’s taste, particularly grandad Guy as Mack’s incessant chattering often got on his nerves. It’s really a story of how an adorable pet can tighten the bonds of family relations, particularly grandchildren and grandparents. The author herself spent a lot of time with her grandparents of both sets and to this day still cherishes those special times with them and of course Mack the Amazon parrot with all his cheek and bravado.

The book is a special book for grandchildren and grandparents to enjoy those treasured moments that leave us all with an indelible mark on our lives. 

Publishers

Xlibris US www.xlibris.com / bookstore/search/ Pam Smith

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Pam, for giving me this amazing opportunity to talk to you about your children’s book Meet Mack. I wish you every success with it.

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Peter Boaz Jones was born Klaus Jurgen Clodt in Albrechts, Germany towards the end of WW2. In 1948 he moved with his family to the UK. A German name at that time would have made life extremely difficult for him, so for all the obvious reasons his name was changed to Peter Jones. What it is today, came about by using his father’s last name, as a middle name, as his bank in the 90s requested he use one. When I look at Peter’s life, I think it would be fair to say that he has pursued a variety of Christian denominations some of whom he no longer has an affiliation to, and others still breathe Christian values that are important to him. Similarly, when you look at his working life, he has again dabbled his toes into a cross section of professions, accountancy to HGV driver, just to name but two of them.  I think it would be open-minded of me to say that Peter has walked many paths of interest in his life, but the one overriding factor that has been constant throughout his time on this planet has been the Bible and what that book has revealed to him I think I can justifiably say forms the basis of his highly interesting book that we are about to reveal. 

So, let’s take the latch off the door and enter Peter Boaz Jones’ world of Christian thinking, as we uncloak the contents of this very absorbing book.

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The Book

This is a well-executed and cultivated submission, showing how well the four gospels really do work well in relation to each other depicting the life and ministry of Jesus, despite their individual formations that some in the Christian communities see and judge as slightly being at odds with each other.  What Peter has successfully achieved here by drawing attention to the similarities and differences in each gospel is giving the reader differing angles to consider and contemplate on, sufficient to want them to delve further into the book to ascertain what really is at the heart of his ideological thinking. 

When you open the book apart from the dedication, acknowledgements, notes, introduction and appendices sections there are fifty-four wonderfully compiled chapters. Now in this interview we are not going into all aspects of the book, but as a means of giving you a flavour as to what you can expect the following chapters will be openly discussed, they are:

Chapter 2: The Annunciations
Chapter 5: Jesus Prepares for his Mission
Chapter 8: From Galilee to Jerusalem
Chapter 29: Hypocrisy of Some of the Hierarchy
Chapter 34: The Kingdom of God
Chapter 43: The Last Supper
Chapter 45: MT Olives and Gethsemane
Chapter 51: Jesus Fulfils Scripture

Enjoy the book is all I say, as Peter Boaz Jones takes you on a Christian journey with a twist.

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Social Media sites

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/peter-boaz-jones-b275a099
Facebook: www.facebook.com search Peter Boaz Jones 
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Awards

Gold Christian Book Award Winner.
New York Book Festival Award 2023

Publishers

AuthorHouse. www.authorhouse.com Bookstore/ search Peter Boaz Jones.

Podcast info

This Podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley. 

Thank you, Peter, for giving me the golden opportunity of chatting to you about your book. I wish you well with it and any future publications.

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Her Righteousness Ekhosuehi Ibie is a Nigerian lady living in London in the UK, she is a Christian who has been in confrontation with the kingdom of darkness for over twenty years. She is a strong Christian who genuinely believes in the power of God, due largely to the fact that darkness is afraid of her, she was able to counter all their false accusations with the word of God. She decided to write prayers while under attack. As a result, she has a prayer for almost every situation in life. She has a prayer anointing and has been using her gift to make a difference privately and internationally. This is one area in which darkness has attacked her the most, by wrestling with her prayers to disprove them and coming in between herself and her daughter to disprove her prayers to her daughter. Ekhhosuehi was shocked by the extent of the unity of forces of darkness against Christians. One of the strongmen she came to know revealed to Ekhosuehi that darkness attacks Christians to confuse them. To discredit the Bible and draw people away from God. However, Ekhosuehi did not let them discourage her especially when they threatened her daughter. The plight of darkness is the same as Christ said in The New Testament, to steal, kill and destroy. However, God has proven over and over again that He is above all gods and Powers.

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The Book

This prayer book is a collection of powerful, insightful and purposeful spiritual messages. Some of the prayers are reflective, others are thought-provoking, but they cover a large area of everyday life dealing with the forces of darkness that collude with evil to distract, hide and confuddle those seeking a more righteous Christian path to the true meaning of the Lord’s reign. Darkness and evil verses light and the truth with spiritual intuition is at the very core of this insightful prayer book of Christian substance.

When you look at the prayer book which took some considerable time for the author to compile, you’ll see that Her Righteousness has grouped the meaningful prayer under eight categories which are laid out as follows:

Family Prayers
Prayers for Health and Wellbeing
Marriage and Troubled Marriages
Activating Angelic Assistance
Prayers for the Day and Night
Prayers for Spiritual Warfare
General Prayers
Prayers for the Nations

A note from the author is equally a significant and essential part of this book.

Social Media Sites & Webpage

Please have a look at Her Righteousness’ webpage for more information about the author herself and where you can order a copy of the book. www.herrighteousnessekhosuehiibie.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sibie1
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hr-ekhosuehi-susu-ibie-50b31621/

Publishers

AuthurHouse: www.authorHouse.com Bookstore/ search/ Her Righteousness Ekhosuehi Ibie

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The Video is available to watch on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.

Thank you, your righteousness for giving me the opportunity to interview you about your prayer book Spiritual Empowerment
Using Your Authority As A Christian 
I wish you every success with it and any future follow ups.

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Dr Barry Wren has had a distinguished medical career in Australia operating in the field of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. His later years in the profession saw him working in the field of gynaecological endocrinology particularly around the area of hormonal changes in older women and the impact those changes had on those women. Broadly speaking his work in this critical and important area of medicine earned him one of Australia’s highest decorated awards “The Australia Medal.” His work and commitment to his area of expertise led to a professorship and has taken him to many far-flung places across the globe. This glittering career stemmed from very humble beginnings on a farm, (Sheep station) I believe they call them in Australia, sitting at home with his three siblings around the kitchen table under the watchful eye of his mother who was determined to ensure that the postal lessons were done before working on the farm with his father. The days of no electricity, no radio, limited phone access and the nearest neighbours with children of a similar age being eight kilometres made for a happy childhood but equally a very restricted childhood, but that was rural life in the 1930’s in New South Wales, Australia. Can you image a ten-year-old today having no smart phone in their hand and no wi-fi connection, life wouldn’t be worth rolling out of bed for. What a change!!!

At fourteen Barry was selected to attend a proper school in Sydney, an agricultural school. From there Barry aspired to Sydney University and on a whim, he chose medicine eventually specialising in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Thirty-nine years as consultant gynaecologist at The Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney opened his eyes as to how women in general were being treated by men and society.  Dr Barry quickly learnt that there was more to be a gynaecologist than just being a doctor who dealt with births and medical complications and issues. Barry has written numerous books and countless papers on the menopause, so this latest book of his ‘Sex! (For Females Only) is another masterpiece for him to proudly display on the bookshelf. 

So, lets turn our attention to the book, but first I must get him off the golf course to talk about it.

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The Book

This book is an anthology written to re-examine the chronological events that have evolved over time to bring about today’s social exchange of views in respect to female gender inequality. Dr Barry takes us back thousands of years to explore how man then perceived how a woman should be viewed in society and equally how women positioned themselves in that same civilization, compared to how a woman’s position in the wider community is regarded today. The path has been slow and imbalanced as different cultures and communities have adopted different stances. The more liberally minded nations have moved at a far faster pace than some of the moreover far right ultra conservative sovereign states, who many in the world today still consider have along way to go on the road of social and political emancipation.

The book is short in stature, no more than seventy odd pages, but what it lacks in size it certainly doesn’t disappoint when it comes to the content and the brilliance of the writing seen, something you would rightly expect from a highly educated and professional author like Dr Barry G Wren. 

When you open the book the contents page reveals fourteen short powerful chapters, those chapters are headed up as follows:

Sex! (for females only)
The Heritage of Sex
Sex Politics
Sex Education
Sex for Sale
Sex- Is It Lawful?
Sex-Historical Mythology
Sex and Mythology
Sex Hormones
Sex- Significance of Hormone Receptors
Sex, Myths, and Creation
Sex and Menopause
Sex-Menopause
Sex- Gender Dissonance 

A powerful and insightful read is how I would describe this book.

Publisher

Xlibris: www.xlibris.com.au Bookstore/Search Barry Wren

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley, and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS

Thank you, Dr Barry Wren AM FRSN for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your insightful book. I wish you every success with it.

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Bernard Heys is a British author from Lancashire in the UK. He was born in 1939 at the start of WW2, when life for most people in Britain and Europe came to an abrupt halt as they started to grapple with the prospect of uncertainty as war progressed. However, despite this disadvantaged start Bernard’s life both personally and professionally went from strength to strength, he was married to Mary his wife for some considerable time and as he puts it blessed with children. His accomplished career transgressed across a whole range of fascinating areas of Industry as well as running his own management, technical and consultancy company for twenty-five years. In Bernard’s eyes the world was his oyster and having the wonderful opportunity to converse with so many nationalities across so many continents has left him the richer in spirit for what he has truly received. 

Due to ill-health issues at the age of seventy-two Bernard opted for a quieter life and focused on something he had longed to do but didn’t have the time, that something was writing, so let’s turn our attention to one of his books.

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The Book

The Stealthy Viral Pimpernel

Where governments and those in the know open enough with the public particularly the British government when it came to the Covid Pandemic of 2020? This, book aims to get to the heart of the matter especially concerning governmental failings coupled with duplicity surrounding PPE scandals and contractual dealings which at the time appeared compliant but ongoing investigations and enquiries are highlighting like this book, areas of concern. The author has some very interesting viewpoints for you all to consider.

Boris Johnson the former British Conservative Prime Minister in this book is The Stealthy Pimpernel now displaced. The Viral refers to Covid which remains, hence the title. The Pimpernel has gone but the virus remains. Did those in power hold the public hostage as to what was really going on behind the scenes. This commanding book chronicles the absorbing but disorderly diary of holistic government failures from November 2019 – November 2023.

Anthology of 25 Poems and Lyrics

Bernard has another book out that can be found both on Amazon and Xlibris’ website. Checkout the Amazon link below.

Publisher

The second edition has been published by Xlibris: www.xlibris.com Bookstore /search Bernard (Bernie) Heys.

Please visit his website www.theradcliffelad.com

Social Media Sites

Linkedin page: www.linkedin.com/in/bernard-heys-7191b61a
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheRadcliffeLad.co.uk

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms searchTalking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click Talking Books.

Thank you, Bernie, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your book. I wish you every success with it.

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Timothy Powel is an American author from Lansing, Michigan in the U.S. As a child he hated English with a passion and that disdain for the English language continued right throughout his school days, something I can resonate with. However, in the early 1970’s he undertook a Journalism course and that was the initial spark along with a lot of encouragement from numerous tutors over a prolonged period to re-engage with the written word. Looking back at his life which has taken him down many paths both professionally and personally a lot has happened, but the one constant thing that has remained steadfast throughout his adult life is the love of language, odd that for a person who as a child loathed the very prospect of picking up a book to read let alone a pen to write. How our oddities of likes and dislikes change over time. 

The idea and concept for writing his book goes back to 1993 when Timothy watched a pair of nesting geese close to where he lived, twenty-five years later he completed the story and first published it. The aim of the book is to encourage young minds to enjoy reading and at the same time have fun discovering the beauty of the wildlife that comes into our lives everyday no matter where that encounter takes place, in the open wilderness or in our back gardens. So, let’s have a sneak preview at Timothy J Powell’s book.

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The Book

This is an endearing story about two geese Gilda and Glen raising their brood off six goslings from the moment of hatching to their first flight, the victory flight that will take them to warmer waters and new adventures. For Meeme, Shuely, Freely the first three goslings to hatch and Ricky, Lucy and Mikey the last three to hatch exciting times lie ahead so do dangers, dangers they must face and avoid. The story is told against the backdrop of wonderful vivid illustrations bringing to life a community of wildlife around Timmy’s Pond. The Goldfinch family and Bluey and Bluetta the Herons add to the enchanting story. Yes, it’s a cute story for 8–10-year-olds depending upon their reading ability to enjoy, but equally it has a message for young children, mainly give nesting birds respect and space while they rear and protect their young ones. It’s also a book Grandparents and Parents can enjoy reading and sharing with the young ones.

Publisher

Xlibris: www.xlibris.com Bookstore/search Timothy Powell.

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.

Thank you, Timothy, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your amazing book. I wish you every success with it.

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Griff Ruby is from Lompoc a small community town close to the stunning Pacific Coastline of California in the United States. He has been married to his wife Juliet for over twenty-five years. Griff like me was born in 1958 and for most of his life he has been searching for the true meaning of Christianity. That search took him on a journey as he explored various religious teachings, but he eventually settled on Catholicism, but even that is only the general neighbourhood since he speaks for a growing group of Catholics who believe that today’s Vatican no longer speaks for Catholicism. When you have a look at his books, you’ll see that he can be quite controversial, possibly putting him at odds with contemporary doctrine. What does he think of Vatican II? Well, I’ll let you draw your own conclusions as you peruse the pages. So, let’s turn to the book that we are going to focus on in this podcast interview.

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The Book

Sede Vacante! The literal translation from the Latin to English is ‘Vacant Chair.’

And when you have read the book, you’ll understand why Griff gave his book this title. At first glimpse Griff sets out the purpose of the book and let’s be clear it’s not a bedtime read, it was never intended to be that; it’s a thought-provoking book with some interesting and at times controversial viewpoints. For me Griff has set the book out in a unique way, are they chapters? Or are they sections that can be viewed as chapters? Either way you decide but Griff has set them as doctrines and deductions. He starts off with sixteen doctrines closely followed towards the end with five deduction sections, at the end of most doctrines and deductions Griff challenges you with a series of findings and raw questions all done to simply make you think. Is Griff’s Ideological rhetoric to your taste hmm…maybe, maybe not but it’s well worth investigating. At the end of the book, you’ll find an exceptionally well written epilogue, a compelling table of basic premises, findings and questions, and finally an engaging Appendix around the sources of errors against the authority of the traditional Catholic Bishops.

This book is extremely well written, but as I have already hinted at its contents in places will certainly raise a few eyebrows. I would be interested to hear what the hierarchy in the Vatican would say about this book. So, look for yourself and formulate your own opinions.

Is God’s will being shaped to fit man’s needs rather than man shaping himself to meet God’s expectations? This question is at the heart of this book.

Other Books by Griff Ruby

The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church: A Guide to the Traditional Roman Catholic Church.

For nearly two thousand years the Roman Catholic Church withstood all the currents of change and history and maintained a closely guarded orthodoxy which has always served as the basis and centre of all Christianity. Yet, it is as if all of that has been arbitrarily swept away in the few years by Vatican II. Given what the church has always taught about itself being indefectible. How could this have happened? Did that Council have something to do with that terrible loss of faith? Can the real Catholic Church be found today, and if so, where?

The shocking answer to this, once seen and truly understood, is as every bit as glorious as the original resurrection of Christ Himself, a tremendous source of faith and inspiration. It is broad-based, longstanding miracle passing right before our eyes, have we but the Grace to see it for what it is.   

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Social Media Sites

Please Visit Griff’s webpage for more about his work and books. www.the-pope.com

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com (MrUbipetrus)

Publishers

iUniverse. www.iuniverse.com search Griff Ruby

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley, and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tv online and click Talking Books.

Thank you, Griff, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about your epic book. I wish you every success with it.

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Annielean is from a small community town not far from Toronto in Canada, her life has had many ups and downs but what has been steadfast throughout her entire life is her faith which at times greatly challenged her. Annielean is a mother, a widow and a whole host of other things, but the 5th June 1999 was a very important day in her life, for that was the day she was ordained. Ordination for those in the religious life means different things but, for Annielean it means dedicating her life be that long or short to the Lord’s workings, something she sees as an absolute privilege. Her favourite scriptural passage is John 3:16 KJV: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Being inspired by the Holy Spirit, Annielean began to write, portraying Christ’s love through these poems of divine power. So, let’s turn to the books.

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The Books

Poems of Divine Power

A unique blend of one hundred and seventeen poems of testimonies, prayers and prophecy of divine power all about Annielean’s spiritual journey to the cross and salvation, driven and inspired by the Holy Spirit. 

By means of giving you a brief insight as to what you can expect from Annielean’s book I’m listing some of the poem titles.

The Promise.
Forgiveness.
Mysteries Entwined.
God’s Plea.
The Father’s Love
Ascension of Hope.
Eternal Passion.
Faith in Glory.
The Wanton.
Nature in Christ.
Is Christ Alone.

Poems of Divine Power II

Author Annielean offers a second volume of poems. This collection of poems is around God’s word is still relevant today and that hope, peace and understanding inspired by Jesus Christ can still be achieved in this troublesome and complex world that we all find ourselves in today. Like in the first book at the end of most of the poems is a note that contains a biblical reference as support for the reader to fully understand what the poem’s objectives are about. 

Social Media Sites

Please visit Antillean’s website to find out more about herself and her books: www.poemsofdivinepower.com

Publishers

Xlibris: www.xlibris.com  Bookstore/Search Annielean.

Awards

Notable Book: Pacific Book Review

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcasting platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.

Thank you, Annielean, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of reviewing your book of 117 amazing and inspiring spiritual poems. I wish you every success with it and I hope to get the chance to interview you about your second book of spiritually enriched poems. 

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Izaera lives as a free-minded person in the Toronto area of Canada. Firstly, he sees himself as a human being thus identifying with the rest of the world’s eight billion people. Secondly, he views his position on Mother Earth as a spiritual being, gifted with intellect, and manifested in this 3D realm called reality as the physical body known as Izaera. He references himself to a philosopher at heart and mechanic by trade. His overriding mission in life is to enlighten people as to who they are and how to reach deep inside themselves to release the original richness nature gifted them. Izaera also wants to show that the world of Naturist isn’t simply about nudity and getting your kit off, but more laying bare natures beauty, through tolerance, acceptance, forgiveness and fondness for each other.

So, let’s turn our attention to the book to see what entrancing viewpoints, opinions and concepts Izaera wants us to reflect upon and take on board.

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The Book

An introduction and fourteen curious chapters will take you on an eye-opening naturist journey. The book is written by an unashamed naturist talking about his own experiences and for him how liberating it is to shed one’s clothes at the end of a working day or week. For Izaera, discarding one’s garments is in many ways a means of casting aside worldly pressures that cloud our everyday judgements and reactions. Is this freeing lifestyle for everyone? Maybe not. But to some it is. 

Why has Izaera written this book?  Well with a non-mocking open mind he simply wants you to explore the options of what a naturist world looks like and what beneficial attributes could enhance your mental health, something which is on most people’s minds these days as we live in an ever increasing polarised and fractious world.

So let me whet your appetite as to what you can expect form this book by listing below the titles of each chapter.

What is Nature.
The Big Separation.
The New Mind.
The Environment.
Wealth vs Greed.
Don’t Buy Shit.
Education vs Schooling.
Reprogramming.
The Health of the Human Body.
Men Don’t Think.
Sex in the Naturist World.
Helping Others.
Enough Already.
Trying It All Together.

Social Media Sites

Please visit Izaera’s websites to gain more about the author and the book itself. www.proudnudist.com 
www.nakedshamelesshumanandfree.com

Publishers

Balboa Press: www.balboapress.com bookstore/ search Izaera 

Podcast info

This Podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Izaera for giving me a first-class ticket round your first published book. Now that you have dipped your toe into the world of writing, let’s hope more books will follow.

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Crystal Stewart is an award-winning author from Red Bluff, California, in the U.S. She best describes herself as a lightworker, mother, housewife, gardener, domestic goddess, baker, meditator. For me she’s all of these but with a wonderful zany attribute to compliment her overriding personality. On a professional note, Crystal is certified in numerous holistic practices which include, Clinically Certified Hypnotherapist, Theta Healing, Reiki, Metatronia Therapy. She’s a Reader and Energy Healer as well as a Spiritual Counsellor. One busy woman you might say. 

If you have a gift Crystal believes that you should pursue that gift, for that is what she has done with having the gift to interact with awakening souls. Her first experience of encountering awakening souls was when she was eight, her parents had separated when she was three and she moved with her mother to Florida who at the time went back to school to re-educate herself to get a better job to support her family. During that time Crystal stayed at her grandparents. One night she woke from a sound sleep because she could sense something was coming, initially she was frightened with the energy that was surrounding her, but when she later reflected on the situation, she realised she could see three Dickensian characters.  A reader later in her life explained the scenario to her and that these Dickensian characters were friends from another life just stopping by to say hello. This encounter and others that followed changed Crystal’s perception on both religious views and life in general, hence her decision to explore her gift and professionally help others who were experiencing similar things. 

During a meditation Crystal was asked to co-write this book with spirit, so let’s open the book and see what she has to say about awakening souls.

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The Book

This book is about people who are starting to awaken. Crystal talks about her own experiences around awakening and encourages those that are presently encountering such events and those who have witnessed such occurrences in the past to embrace what they have participated in rather than fear what they have observed.

To give you all a brief taste as to what topical areas Crystal touches upon, I’m listing some of them below.

Aurora.
Religion.
Dreams.
Vision.
Experiences in Different Houses.
Channelling.
Conversations.
Things Spirit wants you to know.

All Crystal asks of you when you look at her book is to keep an open mind.

Social Media Sites and Webpage

Please visit Crystal’s website to found out more about her and her captivating book. 

www.exploringyourgifts.com

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/crystalstewartpage

Awards

Literary Titan Silver Book Award

Publishers

Xlibris: www.Xlibris.com search bookstore/Crystal Stewart

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcasting platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley, and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Crystal, for sharing the experiences you have encountered both in your professional and personal life. I wish you well in your newfound career of writing.

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Lieutenant Commander Dave Lassam, RAN(Ret) Joined the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in February 1978 as a recruit medic. Dave quickly progressed through the medic training with great success. He was posted over the forthcoming years to the hospitals of HMAS Cerberus, Albatross and Melbourne. Further postings and promotions led to ‘Sailor of the Year’ at HMAS Huon, coupled with ‘Instructor of the Year’ at HMAS Cerberus. Fresh promotions followed which ultimately led to him becoming a Lieutenant Commander.

Throughout Dave’s distinguished career in the RAN he experienced his fair share of overseas operations, Bali, Astute, Slipper, Quickstep, Sumatra and Catalyst to name but a few. What he saw and experienced as a medic officer ultimately effected his mental health. In 2016 he retired from naval duties on the grounds of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, plus receiving treatment for Prostate Cancer.

Outside of naval life (Civvy Street) Dave’s medical background is often called upon, he has frequently attended road traffic incident scenes, plus on numerous occasions at dog shows being asked for his assistance when a medical emergency has come to light. 

Dave and his partner live in Melbourne, Australia, there house is dominated by dogs, dogs are their lives, hence the reference to the dog shows.

Why has Dave written this book about his life in the Royal Australian Navy, well let’s find out by turning our attention to the book.

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The Book

When I look at this book, I don’t see standardize chapters, what I see is a collection of 60 -70 events, events that have shaped and influenced Dave’s life both in naval service and in his private life. But, for LCDR Dave Cameron Lassam, the Australian navy has and always will be a significant part of his life.  

Just to give you all an idea of the events and topics that can be found in the book, I’m listing eight of them. The eight that we will be talking about in the interview that accompanies this written introduction.

HMAS Albatross 1979-80.
Deploying to the Indian Ocean.
Cockies.
HMAS Huon 1984-86.
The First Bali Bombing (12th October 2002) Headquarters Northern Command (HQNORCOM) and other Adventures.
Operation Sumatra Assist II. The Loss of a Sea King: Call Sign Shark02.
Operation Quickstep and Black Hawk Down.
USNS Mercy-2006.

Social Media Sites & Website

Please visit David’s website and social media sites to learn more about who he is, plus explore his book.

Website: www.davelassam.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dave.lassam
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/david-lassam-5b9b79116

Awards

Pencraft Awards: winner 2023 Literary Excellence.
American Writing Awards: Finalist 2023 History and Military.
Great Southeast Book Festival Award: Wild Card Entry- Winner.
Literary Titan: Gold Book Award-Non-Fiction.

Publisher

Xlibris: www.Xlibris.com.au / search bookstore /David Lassam

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcasting platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthores.tvonline and click TALKI NG BOOKS.

Thank you, Dave for giving me the wonderful opportunity of getting to know you and what your book means to you. I wish you every success with it.

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Rick Stuempfle is from Fenton in Southern Pennsylvania in the USA. For the past forty years he has been an active pastor for the United Church of Christ officiating in various roles of the church but mainly focusing on rebuilding challenging environments and reuniting congregations on what he sees as the right path. Rick does not see himself in the realms of conventionality and belonging, he prefers to see himself as a fitter in adapting to testing scenarios that need embracing and nurturing, all in the common cause of advancing the Lord’s work. Forty years of carrying out God’s work has for him being both a blessing and a privilege but being on pastoral call out duties 24/7 is something he doesn’t miss, as he immerses himself in new and more leisurely pursuits such as writing, but still maintaining a close relationship to the faith that has steered him on the righteous path for nearly if not all his life. 

So, let’s turn to the book.

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The Book

This is an outstanding book of exceptional quality, it falls under the genres of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Sword & Sorcery. For lovers of Tolkien this lengthy book is a must read.

There are two volumes to the book, the first volume has ten chapters, the second has twelve. As the subtitle alludes to it’s all about the reframing of a new world.

What causes a society or civilization to stand and fight or collapse and fall in the face of uncertain adversity is an integral part of the story creatively foretold in this spellbinding book? How will the Haafian’s fare in unchartered waters when pitied against the godless Kyykki? With the truth well and truly concealed who will prevail in this battle of power to survive into a new world?

Publishers

iUniverse: www.iuniverse.com Bookstore/ search The Saga of the Light Striper

Podcast info 

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Thank you, Rick for the wonderful experience of Chatting to you about your outstanding Book. I wish you every Success with it.

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Dr Emmett was a reconstructive plastic surgeon who after retirement from active surgery retrained for five years as an artist and sculptor. He simultaneously explored the nature, of the unconscious mind with a talented clairvoyant seeking the source of his inner voice, which had a profound influence on him stemming back to his childhood. He met Sri Sathya Sai Baba who sourced material for the clairvoyant, and was shown records of influences in his life, and in his previous lives. His father had been the only surgeon and doctor of Ayr North Queensland in WW2, thus an extremely busy person. With it being war time in Australia getting parts to fix things that broke were extremely difficult, so as a young boy he quickly learnt to be resourceful with repairs, the advice as to how to fix things Dr Emmett firmly believes came from his inner subconscious. 

Dr Emmett’s medical career was highly successful, but during his professional life he became interested in the subconscious responses from his patients stemming from his own beliefs and experiences in inner subconsciousness. Dr Emmett, aided by Sai Baba gained so much knowledge in this field he began to see how the inner mind could have a profound impact on humanity, thus he has continued right up to the present day to explore further into the philosophy that surrounds this area of expertise.

Furthermore, Dr Emmett understands that we live our lives in our everyday conscious level but need sleep, which is a higher conscious level. He also advocates that we use the subconscious everyday and that we can access the higher conscious at a higher frequency again, which connects to the divine energy. Sai Baba said his main teaching is that we have God within, God is absolute consciousness.

So, with the above in mind let’s turn to the book. 

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The story of consciousness describes the mystery we are, where we come from before birth and where we go after death, plus the thinking both in our mind, subconscious and beyond. It is the dimensions of rational awareness of mind and heart we use for our ego and creative life on earth, and in other dimensions around us. Consciousness is an inner energy which infiltrates our developing brains right from embryo status, it forms part of who we are as a human, and it functions at many levels. Dr Emmett considers that with out consciousness at its various levels we wouldn’t exist in the manner that we see ourselves today.

When you open the book, you will see nineteen very insightful chapters talking about a whole host of topics all wonderfully set out to serve as a testament to the boundless potential of the human mind and the importance of harnessing our consciousness for the better of ourselves and the world through the power of love, understanding and forgiveness. Dr Emmett brings a wealth of his own personal experiences to this book drawing on his medical background, artistic creativity and spiritual wisdom.

Here are some of the topics that Dr Emmett talks about.

Divine Bliss.
Energies Beyond.
Faith Inspires.
Patterns of Thinking.
Mother and Child.
Drugs.
Spirituality and Science.
The Sai Baba Trilogy, Prema Sai Baba.
Multidimensionality.
Make a Friend of God.
Astral Travel.
Cellular Consciousness.
The Aura
Near Death Experience.
Body Brain Level of Conscious Awareness.
Intuitive Children.

Other Books written by Dr Anthony J.Emmett

You can find these books on Dr Emmett’s webpage.
www.dranthonyjemmett.com.au

Power of the Mind: Know Yourself – Your Hidden Unconscious Mind.
North Queensland Country Surgeon.
The Joy and Power of Your Eternal Self.
The Magic Alchemy: Forgiveness.
The Way of Love: A Philosophy.
Healing: A Philosophy of the 21st Century.
Simple Spirituality: The Gift.
Conscious Reality: A Philosophy of the Eternal Self.
Plastic Surgeon to Sculptor: The Art of Life.
Anecdotal History of a Plastic Surgery- Personalities in the Development of Reconstructive Surgery.
The Path of History: Enter the Gates of Wisdom and Tear Down the Veil of Ignorance.
Autobiography of a Plastic Surgeon: Artist and Philosopher.
The Hidden Mystery.
Your Skin and the Sun: How to protect Your Skin in our Changing Environment- A guide for the Whole Family.
The Bare Facts: The Effect of Sun on Skin.
Malignant Skin Tumours (Edited by Anthony J.J. Emmett and Michael G.E. O’Rouke.

Social Media Sites and webpages

Please visit is website www.dranthonyjemmett.com.au there you will find more about Dr Emmett and his books.

Also visit his website www.drtonyemmett.com.au  there you’ll see his work on paintings and sculptures.

Publisher

Balboa Press www.balboapress.com.au  Bookstore/ search Dr Anthony J Emmett

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcasting platforms searchTalking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley, and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Dr Emmett for allowing me to chat to you about your extremely insightful book which I found fascinating. I wish you every success with it.

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Dr Pat Mosto is a Professor and Dean Emeritus from Rider University in Lawrence Township; New Jersey in the U.S. her area of expertise is around Environmental Sciences and Ecology. Dr Mosto presently lives in Reston a community town in Virginia close to Washington DC. She was born in Buenos Aires in Argentina from Italian abstraction, hence a hint at the origin of her recipes which were handed down to her from her mother when she emigrated to the USA. The Spanish influence of course stems from Argentina a beautiful country in South America, whose exquisite culinary delights are also at the heart of this book, so let’s turn to the book.

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The book is a collection of eleven Argentine recipes, the first half of the book is in English and the second part in Spanish: naturally so, with Argentina’s native tongue being Spanish. Each recipe covers off the history behind its making, along with how to prepare and cook it, plus the required ingredients. This is a great book for grandparents and parents alike to have fun in the kitchen teaching grandchildren and children how to enjoy good healthy meals. Most of us love messing around in the kitchen creating delicious nosh, even when it all goes pear shape, but that’s the fun of it, even the world’s great chefs mess up at times. The Proverb, “too many cooks spoil the broth,” springs to mind. But let’s have fun learning how to create and cook delicious meals with the young ones. The photos of how the dishes should turn out are very good.

What recipes can we expect to see in this book, well let’s have a look:

Empanadas
Milanesas
Matambre, Mushroom soup and Potato Salad
Gnocchi
Mini-Pizzas, Trout with Ham, and Ambrosia Salad
Octopus Casserole, Eggplant in Sweet and Sour sauce, and Bread Pudding
Arroz con pollo and Leek soup
Tapas
Lomitos with Rice
Pork Chops and Chicken Italian
Fondue

Publisher

Xlibris:  www.xlibris.com/bookstore search Cooking with Tita

Podcast Info

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Thank you, Pat for an inspiring chat about your recipe book from your childhood days in Argentina. I wish you every success with it.

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Dr Shirley McClerkin-Motley PhD lives in a small community called Cayce in South Carolina in the U.S. Dr Shirley has four grown up children, thirteen grandchildren, and seven godchildren. As a retired tenured professor and Social Work Department Chair at Coker University, life’s pace has slightly eased now giving her more time to focus on what really matters to her as a black African American with a deep faith, a faith that has been her rock throughout her life’s journey. Now it’s time to write, to write about an area in her life as I have already touched upon her steadfast belief in the scriptures.

Dr Shirley is a member of the International Society of Female Professionals, the Black Editors Network LLC, and Marquis Who’s Who among Professionals. As well as these societies Dr Shirley is listed in the 2024 Wall Street Journal’s Who’s Who Among Distinguished Leaders, and has appeared in Bold Journey, an online digital magazine.

Education was and still is a fundamental aspect of her life, she completed her undergraduate studies at Benedict College, where she received a miner in Child Abuse and Neglect, graduating Magna Cum Laude; her MSW from the University of South Carolina, where she received a USC Minority Fellowship. Dr Shirley was awarded a PhD from Capella University in Human Services with a specialization in Social and community services. None of this would have taken place if it wasn’t for the support from her family especially her two brothers; to these people she will always be indebted to and keeps them in her daily prayers as a profound sense of love and gratitude.

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The Book

Let me give you an insight as to what you can expect from Dr Shirley’s well thought out and cleverly written account around the last book in the bible Revelation. A lot of people write their own conclusions to the events and happenings occurring here and Dr Shirley is no exception. But, for me what makes this book stand head and shoulders above the others I have reviewed is its clarity with ease of reading and understanding. The message is succinct and clear.

When you open the book, these are the headings you’ll find that will guide you to Dr Shirley’s own suppositions and understandings to this renowned book in the bible.

Foreword
Introduction
Chapter 1 Salutation, Voice and Vision
Chapter 2 The First Four Letters (Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Thyatira)
Chapter 3 The Last Three Letters (Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea)
Chapter 4 Interlude: The Rapture of the Church
Chapter 5 Revelation Chapter 4: Translated to a Heavenly Scene
Chapter 6 Revelation Chapter 5: Behold the Lamb
Chapter 7 Revelation Chapter 6: Four Seals Horsemen
Chapter 8 Revelation Chapter 7: Interlude between the Sixth and Seventh Seals
Chapter 9 Revelation Chapter 8: The Seventh Seal
Chapter 10 Revelation Chapter 9: The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets
Chapter 11 Revelation Chapter 10: Another Strong Angel and the Open Book
Chapter 12 Revelation Chapter 11: The Measurement of the Temple, Two Witnesses, and the Seventh Trumpet

This is an inspiring Book and I encourage you all to take a look.

Social Media Sites

Please visit Shirley’s website to find out more as to who is Shirley McClerkin-Motley and what her book is about.

www.dr-shirleymcclerkin-motley.com

Publisher

WestBow Press: www.westbowpress.com Bookstore/search Shirley McClerkin-Motley

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley, and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tv online and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Dr Shirley for giving me the wonderful opportunity to chat to you about your book Reflections and Musings from the Book of Revelations: The Age of Apocalypse

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Linda Dooks was born and raised in a farming community in North Yorkshire a proud county of the UK. As child she would often doodle stories in a notebook, a notebook she hid from her parents who thought writing when other chores needed to be attended to, a waste of time, they often wondered why Linda dilly-dallied when taking the dog for a walk, the walk was brief but a necessary activity to get some doodling done. A trip to the local library on a Saturday was very often the hi-light of Linda’s week. The librarian there would keep all of Linda’s short stories she had written in a box under the counter, so that she could revisit them, plus allow her to read some of her favourite authors, Agatha Christie and Arthur Conon Doyle. 

Having left school to earn a living and learning that her librarian had died, Linda forgot about the box under the counter and often thinks what happened to it, but she didn’t forget about her desire to write, and picked that up again after the birth of her children. Linda joined a writing class in Hemsley, North Yorkshire, and with renewed encouragement wrote her children’s stories based on the North York Moors Railway adventures, maybe one day she will publish them. Let’s hope so.

Now retired from the local council and having more time to focus on the one thing she has loved throughout her life, Linda has written this debut novel, with the full support of her husband Peter and children Emma and Richard, plus a few other friends from nearby writing fraternities. So, let’s turn our attention to the book.

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The Book

Sixty-five stunning but brief chapters are wrapped up in this book to bring you a scintillating story about the character Rose Watson a sixteen-year-old girl born in North Yorkshire in the UK in 1897. Her early years were profoundly impacted upon by the death of her mother, which left her in an uncompromising family situation with an uncaring father and a precarious unwanted situation with regards to her brother whose advances towards her probably bordered on incestuous had she allowed matters to unfold. Growing up in a male dominated farming community with little sympathy Rose needed to escape her world of drudgery and unpalatable attention, a new world called with new prospects but equally a world adorned with new dangers.

Rose emigrates to America, New York to be precise, the boat journey across the Atlantic from Liverpool to Ellis Island New York was long and arduous. Agnes a budding singer who she meets lures her into New York’s dubious and dangerous underworld. Rose quickly learns that the tough streets of New York are not paved in gold. Rose’s one saving grace is that of Thomas Blackwood an American who she met while travelling to America. Does romance come her way or does another cruel lesson of life lurk around the corner. Hmm…I know what happens, but if you want to find out, then this historical fiction book which has been carefully researched to bring a sense of authenticity to it, is waiting for you to flick through its pages. So, flick through them.

The narrative is very well written, it’s an easy read, but a read packed with the reality of those times and what life was like then for a young girl braving a new adventure.

To learn more about Linda and her book head to her webpage www.lindadooks.com

Social Media Sites

https:// www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556560133968

https:// www.linkedin.com/in/linda-dooks-6851a41a3

Publisher

Blossom Springs Publishing. www.blossomspringpublishing.com / search bookstore/historical/ Linda Dooks

Podcast Info 

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Thank you, Linda, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to chat to you about yourself and your book. I loved your zany character it made me laugh while we were putting this podcast together.

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Arthur Rutledge was born in Houston, Texas in the USA, at the age of four his family moved to a small town called Fairfield where he grew up. Arthur now lives in Dallas the place synonymous with the assassination of John F Kennedy on the 22nd of November 1963.

He describes himself as a fiery motivated individual, putting that gene characteristic down to his genealogy routes stemming from his grandparents. On his Father’s side his grandmother was a native American from the Comanche people, his grandfather on the other hand was of Irish abstraction. On his mother’s side of the family his grandfather was of English heritage and his grandmother was of Irish stock. Well, there’s a hereditary line for the melting pot.

School wasn’t his forte, academia bored him, however his innate sense of practicality amongst the trades enabled him to have a very good lifestyle. Unfortunately, an incident took place in his life, the outcome of which saw him confined for thirty-three years in a U.S. state penitentiary.  It was there that the concept and the inner workings of this book began, so let’s turn our attention to the book to discover what it contains and holds for future readers.

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Legacy of the Melkizadek (Melchizedek) is the most intriguing and informative revelation from the Creator God of the entire history of the world! Those things uttered by the ‘Seven Thunders’ in (Rev.Ch.10), which John the Apostle was not allowed to write. The book also touches upon the history of Yahweh Yahshua the Creator God before he arrived in this sector of the galaxy. Also, included is a complete and thorough explanation of the Melchizedek priesthood, a priesthood that all believers are baptized into. The Book explains the relationship covenant (The Ten Commandments) in detail, plus grants a further discussion around the plan of salvation for man. 

The author has spent thirty-five-years looking at the numerous translations that are in existence, what misconceptions he has witnessed they have been readdressed in this book. When you open the book you will see, it’s a short book and that it has been divided up into several sections starting with the prologue, through to a list of appendages. This book is not intended to be a cosy bedtime read, more the book that makes you stop and think. Now, whether you agree or not with the authors views, interpretations around the legacy of the Melchizedek, I leave that judgement for you to ponder on, once you have read the book. It has many ideological points that may fascinate you, and I’ll say no more.

Social Media Sites

Please visit Arthur’s webpage where you find more information about Arthur himself and the book. www.legacyofthemelkizadek.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bookmadbookshelf/posts/pfbid036mPBNZLpdhRbiBhv1tfefXXp69eC8dYWYNVupTCov2qbVnnwpG3mkzztehrswfxjl

Publisher

AuthorHouse: www.authorhouse.com  Search Bookstore/Arthur Rutledge

Podcast Info

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Thank you, Arthur, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to talk to you about your book ‘Legacy of The Melchizedek.’

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James Allen Johnson was born in Berry a small farming rural town in the U.S. State of Alabama. James’ early years where certainly lean, but not dirt poor in comparison to some households back then. Coming from a large family of eight, all of whom had to work on the local white owned farms picking cotton and vegetables to support the family taught James a fundamental lesson in life, that being if you want something then you have to earn it by doing an honest day’s work. His father David worked in a nearby steel mill, his mother Kathleen worked as a domestic for one of the local white farmer’s families, so the family was slightly better off financially as opposed to those that relied solely on farm work. Like most black African Americans from the deep American South, the role of the church and God’s standing both back then and now played and still play a key fundamental part of both James’ family and community life. James’ faith is partly responsible for the coming about of this book, but I make it very clear this book is an alien adventure.

James currently lives in Tuscaloosa Alabama with his wife of forty-one -years Beatrice. He has three grown up children. James required a BSc in Accounting from the University of Alabama, with a further MBA. He runs his own business now that he is officially a retired civil service employee who was involved in the financial regulator side of things. Over here in the UK accountants or financial experts are commonly known as ‘Number Crunchers,’ no doubt, in the USA a similar term of endearment is attached to those in that line of profession. 

James has written numerous books but, ‘An American Abduction’ is his first published work that he put out last year so let’s briefly turn to the book.

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The Book

Do you love stories about UFO’s, aliens and mysterious abductions? Do you have a natural curiosity surrounding the supernatural?  if so, then this book is for you. So let Matt and Tangie take you a mystical, inexplicable journey. 

Forty-five chapters of page turning fiction, or happenings awaits the reader here. When you explore the book, you will note that each chapter has the same alien spaceship drawing at the beginning. The story is tense, gripping and has quite a few surprises along the way. You only have to look at the chapter titles to get a propensity for the narrative that lurks within those chapters and what visionary imaginations are going to rise from the pages. Let’s have a look at some of the titles to whet your appetite. 

First Abduction
Another Abduction
Opposites Attract
The Next Day
Graduation Weekend
Trip to Meet the Stranger
Abduction Kidnappers come Calling
Meeting in Columbia
The Albuquerque Visit
CIA Abduction Operation
Russian Response

It’s an intriguing read. Enjoy, I did. 
Human Kidnappings hmm!!!

Webpage

Visit James’ webpage to find out more about him and his book:
www.jjsnovels.com

Social Media Sites

https://www.facebook.com/authorjamesajohnson1
https://www.instagram.com/jjsbooks52
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-johnson-085410291

Publisher

Writer Cosmos.
www.writercosmos.com

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley, and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, James for a great chat which has given us a glimpse into your book ‘An American Abduction.’

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Holly Brough is from the state of Utah in the U.S. She’s married and has devoted most of her married life to her husband and three children. I can’t help but wonder how her life would have turned out had she not been diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis at the age of nineteen; would she have gone down the theatrical path of dance, acting and singing, something she had set her heart on. I can only image Holly herself wondering how her life would have been very different, had it not been for a cruel twist of faith, that took that dream away from her.

Despite some life changing events that have restricted, but not destabilized her life, the one thing that has steadfastly been at the backbone of who she is, is her faith in God, he has been the glue that has guided her through both the good and challenging times in her life, and that is something she is truly grateful for. Is he responsible for her turning not only to writing but painting as well, in her eyes probably so, for the past six years Holly has found water colour painting extremely therapeutic and exhilarating.

 Living with dyslexia, the prospect of writing a book somewhat daunted Holly and considering she didn’t really appreciate the enjoyment of reading until the birth of her first child, you start to get a sense of what an achievement writing this book means to Holly, and we can only hope that she continues to write with such voracity and vigour as more books roll off the conveyor belt. The one thing that sticks in her memory with regards to her literary skills, is what her scripture tutor told her, and that was to read the scriptures every day, by doing so she would overcome her limitations both in reading and comprehension. All I can say is that Holly must have swallowed the whole bible to write a book of this depth and intrigue. 

Let’s hope for more books, but on the note of books let’s turn our attention to this one.

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Forty-three chapters of highly imaginative storytelling, told through creative well-written prose awaits you all here. If I was a literary award scheme, this book would be rated ‘Gold star Plus,’ in the category ‘New Author Must Read.’

The story revolves around Amalia and is set in nineteenth century Spain. As a young Fifteen-year-old Amalia’s life takes a different course put her past cannot be eradicated. What of that past! well that’s a journey well worth exploring in the book. However, her future is equally precarious, Spanish patriarchal society, abusive controlling nobility, limiting choices, Royal frolicking’s, pregnancies followed by abandonment, and escaping for safety, only to be deceived into another layer of entrapment by a male dominated society whose cold-hearted approach leads to prostitution for survival. Is there a light at the end of the tunnel, but at what price? 

Want to know more? Well, I’m not going to divulge anything that will spoil your intrigue as to the very essence of what this magnificent plot reveals about Amalia and her life back then. You’ll have to buy and read the book to find out. Enjoy I did.

Social Media Sites

Visit Holly’s webpage here: 

www.hollybrough-tnic.com

Awards

American Writing Awards for animals and pets, general.
The New York Book Festival for Spiritual/religious.
Readers’ Choice Book Awards for best book for adults.
Bookfest Book awards, Literary- journey/adventure.
Firebird Books awards, Literary Fiction.
Pencraft Book awards, Cultural Fiction
Indies Today awards, religious/inspirational.
Literary Titan book award, for religion Fiction

Podcast info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your Roku or Amazon Firestick device or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tv online and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Holly for giving me the wonderful opportunity to chat to you about your book ‘The Name I choose.’

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Neil Grew up in and around Washington D.C, and for most of his life he has been involved in the construction industry. He’s been married for neigh on forty-four years, plus he proudly states he is a Scottish Rite Mason. Poetry has been at the heart of his life for a considerable amount of time and very often the poems are accompanied to music. In 2018, Neil published his poetry book Moods of a Lake: and selected poemswith illustrations to go with them, he’s currently working on a second book of poems, some short stories, a novella and a movie script, hmm…a busy guy. When you ask Neil what guides his life, he will say three things, but what those three things are, are revealed in his poetry, so when you read the poems, you need to search in between the lines for the message. Very clever.

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Moods of a Lake: and Selected Poems

This is a book of forty-five free standing poems, for Neil it’s a collection of poetry because of the interactions he has had with people and events over the years who have in someway moulded his life. The poems are in sequential order, and I suppose you could say form a snapshot view over the years of Neil’s life from early childhood to mature adulthood. The poems depict the many trials in Neil’s life from the good to the bad, from the exciting to the dreary, plus happy and sad times. I think it’s wonderful how someone, can analyse their life in a collection of poems that we have here. Neil Noble’s life in forty-five fleeting glimpses of honesty, combined with fascination. The one thing that I have learned from Neil is that his poetry speaks from the heart about all sorts of issues, for example the many sides to love’s different philosophical thinking’s. 

I’m led to believe that Neil sets his poetry to music, unfortunately that side of his poetry cannot be visualized in book format, but what can be visualized in book format are the illustrations by Jingfang Wang that cleverly accompany the poems, which for me brings a sense of reality to this wonderful book of poetry, built and created around Neil’s life in all its guises.

How to Connect with Neil

Visit Neil’s website here:

Webpage:www.neilnoble.net

Plus visit his social media sites:

www.facebook.com/neilnoble.79
www.linkedin.com/in/neilmnoble
For poetry: https://lnkd.in/dXHQggs
For Short stories: https://link.in/d5EV-AJ

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Charlene Tess and Judi Thompson are sisters who co-write mystery, thriller and romance novels under the name Tess Thompson, I’ll leave all of you to figure out how they came up with the pen name, let’s say it’s not rocket science. They were born in El Paso, Texas. Their father was a pilot and aircraft mechanic, their mother was an elementary school principal.

Charlene is married to the love of her life Jerry; she has two daughters and three grandchildren at the last count. She was an English and creative writing teacher who wrote her own grammar workbooks and lessons. Her Highly acclaimed series of grammar eBooks, ‘Simple Steps to Sentence Sense,’ are widely used.

Judi on the other hand lives near Houston and is married to Roger, she has two sons and seven grandchildren. Before retiring she worked in education as a speech language pathologist, educational diagnostician and as a special education supervisor. Like Charlene, a busy lady so to speak.

The sisters began writing together in 2002, with the publication of Accidental Angel. They have written twenty-two novels and five series together. Charlene lives in Denver Colorado in the US and Judi lives near Houston in Texas. You might wonder how on earth do they manage to write the books, well a lot of Zoom meetings, emails, texts, and good old fashion phone calls plus Dropbox. Old ways combined with the latest technological advances seem to work for these sisters who are self-published on Amazon.com.

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The Books

All the books in The Angel Fall Series are stand alone books and you can read them any order, ideally though I would suggest you read them in order of publication, for what makes them a series is the characters. While a lot of the books have very distinctive and separate storylines some of the characters are the same throughout the series but not necessarily in each book. Having said that the character Bella Morales, a blunt, self-opinionated, psychic takes centre stage in quiet a few of them. In this podcast we’re going to focus on two of the books that make up The Angel Falls series, so that you can get a feel for the series. Oddly enough we’re focusing on the first and the latest book, the ninth in the series. 

Angel Falls

The Story within this book is foretold across thirty-three chapters and two parts. The tension throughout the book is palpable like any good book should be. The characters are strong and highly developed as they take you on a twist-turning ride of psychic romance and intrigue. Just as you think you’re getting to grips with the story and the characters, Charlene and Judi twist the knife to unbalance you but keep your interest.

The narrative evolves around Russell’s loss of family from a tragic accident, he retreats to New Mexico Forest to come to terms with what has happened to his life. Maggie and her great-grandmother, psychic Bella own the resort he stumbles or possibly trespasses upon. For Russell life is about to change, equally so for Maggie, but who is sabotaging her business, why is love so complicated, what secrets lurk in Russell’s past and are those secrets devastating enough to make Maggie choose between her heart or cold hard facts. What role does Bella play in all this Drama, does she know what’s behind the knock on the door from the sheriff. Hmm…

Dark Flight

Thirty-one chapters of spine-tingling complex plots, twists and excitement lie between the pages of this ninth book in the series. Charlene Tess and her sister Judi Thompson are at it again with another psychic romance tale. ATF agent Matt Bentley’s past comes back to trouble him with the escape from a high-security prison of one of his former criminal offenders, Lyle. His escape means trouble for all involved in this sublimely written book as Lyle sets about an exhausting cycle of revenge. Matt’s initial fear is for the safety of his family, his wife Sunshine and two children; but will his actions be proportionate and will Bella’s psychic powers be up to scratch now that she’s in her ninth decade.  Will Bella’s powers be effective, or will they create their own problems and will Lyle’s revenge attempts succeed or be stopped in their tracks and by whom. Hmm…

Other Books

The Angel Fall Series

Crimson Roses: Book 2 (A Thrilling Romantic Mystery)
She can’t outrun the nightmare from her past.

Cold Vengeance: Book 3 (A Heart Pounding Romantic Mystery)
When Homicide Detective Flores’ ex-wife disappears, he suddenly finds himself on the wrong side of the two-way mirror as a person of interest.

Dark Moments: Book 4 (A Thrilling Romantic Mystery)
She made him want things he thought he could never have.

Dark Flames: Book 5 (A Thrilling Romantic Mystery)
She’s a widow mourning the loss of her husband, and he’s a driven AFT agent looking for a killer.

Dark Truths: Book 6 (A Thrilling Small Town Romantic Mystery)
Is a serial killer walking the quiet streets of Angel Falls?

Dark Memories: Book 7 (A Thrilling Romantic Mystery
Battered, bruised and barely alive, Rafael Aguilar escapes from his captors in Colombia.

Dark Mission: Book 8 (A Thrilling Romantic Mystery)
Jay Russo’s sister is missing.

Chance O’ Brien Series

When an Angel Whispers: Book One (A Gripping Serial Killer)
Macy Adams, a beautiful FBI agent with a tortured past, must track down the serial killer who nearly took her life in this gripping novel of murder, revenge and redemption.

Student Body: Book two (A Gripping Romantic Mystery)
Chance O’Brien is back with his wife, Macy, in another gripping thriller about murder and revenge.

The Devil Makes the Rules: Book 3 (A Psychological Romantic Suspense)
Brett Adams has a secret. A Secret that destroyed his marriage and carved the path he would take in life.

Night Ladies: Book 4 (A Gripping Serial Killer Thriller)
In the sweltering summer heat of Houston, a serial killer murders and mutilates prostitutes before posing a signature white lily next to their bodies.

Twisted Melody: Book 5 (A Gripping Serial Killer Thriller)
FBI agent Jesse Silva is on the hunt for a serial killer who’s targeting young blonde women. The killer’s MO is always the same. He strangles his victims and cuts off their hair.

Texas Plains Series

Christmas Candee: Book 1(A Small-Town Enemies to Lovers Romantic Comedy)
A sexy, no-nonsense judge. A gorgeous redhead gal from California in town on business.

July’s Heart: Book 2 (A Small-Town Enemies to Lovers Romantic Comedy)
Can opposites really attract?

Darby’s Magic: Book 3 (A Small Town Paranormal Romantic Comedy)
Is Darby O’Shea a witch or a beautiful woman with magical powers?

Secondhand Heart Series

Accidental Angel: Book 1(A Second Chance at Love Romance)
When Dena Quinn witnesses a serious car accident and pulls Doctor Shane Madden from his burning vehicle, he swears that she’s a guardian angel who saved his life.

Angel’s Heart: Book 2 (A Second Chance, Single Dad, Medical Romance)
A chance encounter leads to a journey of healing and romance.

Dixieland Danger Series

Stolen Laughter: Book 1(A Gripping Psychological Romantic Suspense Novel)
A romantic psychological thriller with twists and turns that will leave you breathless.

Terminal Identity: Book 2 (A Gripping Psychological Romantic Suspense Novel)
Someone is trying to kill Juliette Dreschler.

Social Media and Webpage Sites

To find out more about Judi and Charlene’s books visit there webpage and social media sites.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SistersWritingCrime

Website: www.sisterswritingcrime.com

YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/charlenetess

Amazon Author Pages:

www.amazon.com/author/charlenetess 

www.amazon.com/author/judithompson

Podcast Info 

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire StickStreaming Devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your television or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Charlene and Judi, I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk to you both about two of the nine books that make up The Angel Fall Series that you have both brilliantly created over the years.

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The Author

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Gennie de Lange, being dyslexic, has drawn on the innate artistic gift she was given. She grew up during WWII in her grandparents’ vast house and forested garden. Being taken to the ballet to see Peter and the Wolfwhen she was tiny reinforced her beliefs which many children share that toys and animals understand everything. Born in New Zealand in 1942, Gennie received her training at Wellington Polytechnic, The Hammersmith and Middlesex School of Art and The Chelsea Pottery in London.

Her ceramic paintings have been exhibited in the USA, England, France and Switzerland as well as galleries in New Zealand. Talking about her ceramics, In New Zealand she ran pottery classes on a Saturday morning for children so that they could enjoy the art of creating things. 

Tales of war from her father were real. He had led a New Zealand dive bomber squadron, from which only half returned. The camaraderie, dare devil escapades, laughter, determination, and sacrifice that everybody was prepared to make and endure were part of life. Her father always felt he was here on borrowed time. It was her father’s stories from his war years that got Gennie interested in the history of war which made her aware of the goings on and why she delved so deeply into this subject matter.

For Gennie, life is a gamble. Being a ceramic artist, every time she puts her work in the kiln is a risk. The glazes that she paints with are all varying shades of powdery grey. After hours in the kiln at very high temperatures, her painted tiles emerge transformed like stained glass. Her exhibitions often sell out. The viewers relate to the subjects personally, and see the dramas of their own lives.

Now in her eighties, she has turned to using her own ceramic paintings as the background. The Observer, who is a worn velvet antique toy, views the devastation of war. The sale proceeds from this book (so far New Zealand only) are going to a family orphanage in Ukraine supporting children who have been separated from their parents. Gennie believes the young people of Ukraine will eventually have the spirit and determination to rebuild their country.

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The Book

The book is a collection of fifty very short poems about the terrible effects of war on people and the devastation left behind.  Each poem is accompanied by a picture of a ceramic painting on a tile done by Gennie de Lange herself. The images closely correlate to the message in the poems. They are bright, gregarious and most of them have a worn velvet antique toy in them, known as The Observer.

The author’s work is intense and attested, yet parallel with an edge of innocent freakiness when it comes to the childhood toy named ‘The Observer. The simplicity of the child’s toy pitted against the horrors and devastation of war. While Gennie’s work covers the general theme of war, she does touch upon what is happening in Ukraine at the present time. 

The poems and the accompanying artwork tell the story of war brilliantly. 

The Observer

The Observer is nearly a hundred years old. My father-law bought him after he left medical school in the 1920s. He needed support through life, as a third of his medical class had died from infections. There were no antibiotics in those days. During WWII The Observer was posted to Cairo where the doctor ran a prisoner of war hospital. Most of the men were Italian tailors who made uniforms until they realized it was more fun designing and making glamourous evening clothes for those on leave. After the war The Observer stood on the mantelpiece of the doctor’s surgery room, listening to how people coped with the unexpected sadness and pain in their lives. Nearly eighty years later The Observer looks on with knowing eyes.

Visit Gennie’s web site here:

www.genniedelange.com

Or connect with her on Facebook

www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553132803439&mibextid=ZbWKwL

Publisher

Xlibris NZ www.xlibris.com   or www.xlibris.co.nz Bookstore/ search Gennie De Lange

Podcast Info

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Thank you, Gennie, for this podcast interview, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed nipping to Auckland in New Zealand to talk to you about your wonderful book. By zoom of course!!!

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The Author

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Anne Angelo was born in 1911 in Invergordon, Ross Shire (now Ross and Cromarty) Highlands, Scotland in what can only best be described as a difficult family set up. As a child she grew up in an environment of hatred, dejection, fear and other social dissent. life was hard back then in a society where children and young adults were to be seen, not heard and certainly not to be believed. Anne’s dream was to be a pharmacist, but a ruthless father blocked that opportunity by refusing her to go to Edinburgh to sit her pharmacy examines, instead opting for marrying her off. Thank goodness times have in many ways changed. As a young woman Anne’s life was fortuitously driven by events beyond her control, the war years of the second world war like for all that lived through those times were extremely tough. In 1944 Anne gave birth to Hugh who I have the privilege of talking to about the books she wrote, he recalls his mother typing the manuscript in London in 1949, just before they left for New Zealand in 1950, followed by upping sticks again to Australia in 1959 following Hugh’s father’s death. Over the years Anne worked on and off the manuscripts with the aid of a ghost writer, tragically Anne passed away in 1999, so the scripts lay untouched until lockdown in 2020, when Hugh rediscovered the files and decided to get them published in memory of his late mother Anne.

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The Book

The Forbidden Zone 1940

This book is a continuation of the story of Anne Angelo’s experiences in the war years of the nineteen forties. Anne’s return to Lille in France, the ‘Phony war’ when she almost got killed driving ambulances. A romance with a dashing British Army Officer to whom she gave a sprig of white heather as a good luck memento. The romance was brief as the Germans invaded and closed the area as they prepared their invasion of England. Anne joined the French Resistance until she was betrayed to the Gestapo, she escaped home to Britain, where the dashing young Army Officer tracked her down with the sprig of white heather firmly in his grasp. Anne married the dashing British Army Officer who is Hugh’s father.

The book comprises thirty chapters of stimulating stories, some romantic, some hard-hitting and others simply telling what life for Anne was like in those days. It’s cleverly written, the pace and the tension are wonderfully balanced as the narrative reflects what people of that era had to endure, face and overcome. Every day was a battle to survive and only those lucky and strong-minded enough like Anne came out the other end.

Awards

The Forbidden Zone 1940

This Book has received five awards: Brew Book Excellence Award, Indies Today Award, Bookfest Book Award, Pencraft Book Awards and Readers’ Choice Book Awards.

A sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass

This Book has received seven awards: American Writing Awards, Indies Today Award, Brew Book Excellence Award, Bookfest Book Award, Readers’ Choice Book awards, Pencraft Book Awards and The Bookfest Honourable Mention Non-Fiction Award.

Other Books by Anne Angelo

A Sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass

This is the first part of the story of Anne Angelo, Hugh Hyland’s late mother. It’s a soul-stirring narrative told over twenty-one chapters, sublimely written depicting a life that faced innumerable, exacting and formidable circumstances that would have tested any person’s resolve. The issues and scenarios are delicately portrayed with a real touch of realism that makes you stop and think how people in difficult and testing situations make their mark. The book touches upon cultural and social background stigmas, educational, hereditary and race differentials all against a backdrop of hatred, heartache, fear, disenchantment and dejection, much of which Anne Angelo had to endure as a child and young adult. Anne had several blissful years living in France and touring in Europe and North Africa those years though where abruptly ended by the onset of WW2. The war years and the ensuing years had a profound impact on Hugh’s late mother as she rebuilt a new life for herself, a life so very different to that of her childhood, a life on the other side of the world. What of that life! Well, I’m not going to tell you, find out by seeing what she has to say. 

The Podcast

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on the Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit https://www.Expertsandaothors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Publisher

Xlibris

www.xlibris.com/search/bookstore -Anne Angelo.

Hugh, thank you, for giving me the second opportunity to talk to you about your late mother’s books.

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A quote from Hugh Jackman

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The Night the Lights Went Out on Broadway

Matt Petosaworks at the stage door for the Winter Garden Theatre. Everyday I’m greeted by him as I walk into the theatre. His kind, wise smile assures me that I am exactly where I’m meant to be and that everything is more than okay.

On March 13th, 2020, the Great White Way went dark for nearly two years, impacting one hundred thousand theatre employees from actors to stagehands and ushers. New York City without Broadway felt empty indeed.

This shut down was simply unprecedented. Broadway had stayed open through the Spanish Flu of 1812, two world wars and had only closed down once before, for two days after September 11th attacks.

The curtains fell on the longest shutdown in theatrical history. The only shining light that remained was the ghost light on each stage of every house. A beacon of hope in the tradition of “The Show Must Go On.”

These photographs represent those dark days.

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The Book

Normally, I write a dossier to give you all and idea as to what to expect in the book or books. This book however is a collection of Matt Petosa’s stunning photography that portrays the empty theatres of Broadway New York during Covid-19 lockdown. These theatres would be bustling with audiences and famous actors treading the boards. When you look at quite a few of the photographs you’ll notice a light on the stage. These are the Ghost Lights that stood silent in the theatres as a beacon of hope that one day the theatres would reopen. Hence, part of the book title,’ 2020 The Ghost Light Year.’

Look at some of the photographs for they tell their own story.

Find Matt Online

Webpage: www.broadway2020theghostlightyear.com
Webpage: www.mattpetosa.com 

Publisher

iUniverse
https://www.iuniverse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/837199-broadway-2020-the-ghost-light-year

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors app on your television or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Matt I would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk and look at the stunning photographs that you have so brilliantly created in this amazing book of yours.

Thank You

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Melisa Schonfield is a woman with a difference in her life. A difference, which up to a certain point was probably seen by those around her as an ideal middle-class American lifestyle. But one event that she says she was driven to, in order to protect her family changed all that. Did it! Most definitely. Melisa’s life before that occurrence was a devoted mother raising two successful children. She was the eldest of three, and only girl. Her father served in the Marines before supporting his family with a career in the cosmetic industry. Melissa was not always a New Yorker, she was born in Brooklyn and raised in northern New Jersey. She married a dentist, and for eight years played Army wife. Melisa graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in social work, that world was everything to her, she gained so much experience from the people she engaged with, her main focus was eventually in the field of psychotherapy, now that was an area, she had great affection for, but again one event but a stop to all that. What was this one event that changed Melisa’s life so much? A spell in prison! What for? Well, read the book to find out.

Life after prison is very different to what it was before, now divorced and with her licences to continue her work as a psychotherapist rescinded, Melisa now coaches people with some of their social and mental issues instead. Her daughter and grandson now live with her, and she has taken to writing with a more rigorous approach. This book is her documented viewpoint of circumstances that led up to her arrest, the trial and her experiences of New York state penal system. A gripping story from an author whose love of writing stems right back to her teenage years with her personal diaries which she kept under lock and key as a means of keeping her younger brothers’ beady eyes from seeing what she had written.

Why has Melisa written this book, for revenge! No. Would she liked to have said more! Yes. But for legal constraints and protective issues she’s given you a balanced view. Her real aim behind reason for publishing this book is to give hope and a voice to women who have been incarcerated for carrying out an act that they felt they had no other choice but to carry out. An act done to protect those they love.

So, let’s turn to the book.

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The Book

There are nine chapters to this extraordinary book that lays bare the documented circumstances that led up to Melisa’s arrest, the trial procedures and the experiences of life behind bars in a New York State Prison. Some of you might debate my calculation of nine chapters as only eight are listed, but I’m including the one chapter in part three of the book as the nineth chapter for that’s how I see. For me the foreword and the preface: just the facts, are two fundamental sections of the book for they alone set the scene with clarity and punctiliousness.  The Chapters are written in such away that yes, there’s a story coming across, but equally the facts surrounding the story are given to you as well. I think, the areas of the book, which are exceptionally written, that I personally found compelling were the Foreword, Chapter 1: The Dream, Chapter 3: Mama Bear, chapter 8: Life at Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, New York, and Part 3: The Light at the End of the Tunnel.

Is this book worth a read! Most definitely.

Social Media Sites

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/melisa-schonfield-39502b48
Tiktok: https://TikTok@freebirdgranny
Facebook: www.facebook.com/melisaSchonfield
Facebook: www.facebook.com/bitter_or_better_15g0717
Instagram: www.instagram.com/bitter_or_better_15g0717
YouTube: www.YouTube/schonfield

Publishers

Dorrance Publishing Co
www.dorrancebookstore.com
Search Bitter or Better by Melisa Schonfield

New Publisher

www.urlinkpublishing.com
Search books under the Featured section, Melisa Schonfield

Podcast Info

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit: www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Melisa I’m so glad that I reached out to you on LinkedIn, and that you agreed to come on the show, thus giving me the great opportunity to not only have the chance to read your book, but to be able to interview you about it. Thank you.

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Scott Roux was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the US, he splits his time between Boulder City Nevada and Antigo a small rural community in Wisconsin. He has a deep faith that has sustained him throughout his life. He attended a Catholic school before serving in the military. Scott while working as a sales executive for twenty-seven years obtained a degree in Marketing from a California University, all achieved while supporting a family of two, a son and a daughter. 

The relationship he had with his biological mother a native American and the role a loving Grandmother played is interesting. Scott’s father was very much in the boys’ lives, but what he experienced in one of the worst rampage shootings in Wisconsin in November 2004 impacted all concerned. This event is talked about in the book.

Despite the many ups and downs in Scott’s life the event that had the most impact on his life was the road accident he endured when a two-ton truck collided with his car, the traumatic brain injury he suffered changed his life completely as he could no longer carry out many of the normal everyday life events he so much enjoyed. Scott is still adapting to a different life, the road to a full recovery has and continues to be a slow process. 

In 2020 while on a trip to the Grand Canyon with his daughter two eagles buzzed them from above, for Native Americans the spirit of the eagle is a powerful totem (hence it’s the symbol of America) Scott took their presence as a sign to start writing this book of his, so let’s turn to the book.

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The Book

Thirty-one breath-taking chapters about the life of the author Scott Roux is what you can expect from this book. The events that unfold within the pages here are so profound and overpowering, that once read you can begin to understand how Scott’s life has been shaped and driven by these experiences.

The book is written with such amazing clarity, openness and frankness as Scott takes you on the journey of his life from birth to almost present day. When you look at the chapters, you’ll see Scott has chosen a quote from a variety of people to head them up, but each quote has some bearing to the contents within. Ultimately, Scott wants each of you to consider your own everyday meanings that impact your life, and how your past has influenced those meanings, and how the present impacts on them and how those every day meanings could influence your future. More importantly he wants you to momentarily reflect on three key areas that impact all our lives. Who am I? Why am I here? And what is life all about? 

Yes, Scott wants you to think about yourself and the chain of events that shape your very existence, but he’s done it in such a clever and highly imaginative way, all told against a backdrop of a confounding story about himself, which is riveting, tense and a real page-turner. 

The Native American connection is fascinating, hence the image on the cover. What is that connection? Well, you’ll have to read the book and watch the interview to find out for I’m not about to give that episode of his life away here.

Part of the royalty proceeds from the sale of the books will go to St Jude’s Ranch Senior centres and Mole Lake Reservation.

Social Media Sites

Webpage: www.Author-Scott-Roux.yolasite.com
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/scott-roux-04216972
Facebook: www.facebook.com/everything_matters1313
Instagram: www.instagram.com/everything_matters1313
Email: everythingmatters1313@gmail.com

Awards

American Bookfest Finalist 2022 finalist book cover and new age spiritual
The Book Fest second place 2023
Independent Author Network Finalist: The Ian Book of the Year Awards
Readers’ Choice – 5-star Review
Bookfest 2 place – 2023 New Age Angels
Independents Authors Finalist-2023

Publisher

Zamiz Press

www.Zamizpress.com Author Scott Roux

Podcast Information

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Salty Yeom is from Daegu in South Korea, he comes from a scientific and mathematical academic background. Salty has attended various universities in his home country but has long held a desire to extend his scholarly education in the sciences by attending the prestigious University of Stamford in the US. Salty strongly believes that education is a fundamental right that should be open to all, for education is key to knowledge and knowledge is key to a successful and fruitful life. Salty currently coaches young students in Maths. His religious thinking’s are quite unique, it’s almost as if he’s combining religious teaching with scientific evidence. Of course, those with a scientific mindset are nearly always looking to justify a theory, teaching with proven facts to support the ideology. For me life isn’t always so clinical and at times you simply have to go with your gut instinct, which as we all know doesn’t come with rhyme or reason attached to it.

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The Books

He is Back: Ten Pieces of Evidence

This is Salty’s second book, is it a follow on from his first book God’s Plan? Or is that just coincidental. Maybe if he writes more books on this subject matter, he might consider grouping all the books under a series. Who Knows!

But for the purpose of this podcast interview we’re mainly focusing on his book ‘He is Back: Ten Pieces of Evidence.’

In this book, Salty examines the prophecy of the second coming, proving evidence that our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ will be returning. When! well, that’s the big question and only God knows the answer to that question. The evidence Salty covers off in this book, is split into ten pieces (hence the subtitle) nicely divided into three Acts/parts. The book also finds Salty addressing such key areas such as:

What signals are given that could possibly indicate Jesus’ forthcoming return.

What conclusions can we draw from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Why must we be cautious of the existence of false Christs.

What signs pointed to Jesus’ initial arrival.

Salty also discusses the prophecies of the so-called Second Coming of Jesus in the New Testament, plus rejection of Jesus due to recognition issues surrounding his identity, form and appearance outside of Israel.

Other Books by Salty Yeom

God’s plan; Alpha & Omega of Covid-19

Salty Yeom’s debut book God’s Plan you might perceive as a book coming from a different angle pertaining to certain religious theories. I wouldn’t go as far as to say his views are radical, but they are certainly thought-provoking, so to ant erudite reader who likes a provocative book around religious ideologies then his is the book for you to analyse, and maybe challenge the author’s viewpoints.

The book touches on the recent pandemic of 2020 that besieged the world in so many ways. Was the Pandemic part of God’s plan as a sign of judgement on mankind or was it a menacing virus that wreaked havoc across the world with no intervention from a higher so-called being. Religion, whatever your views or beliefs certainly dominates our everyday lives. Salty Yeom I would say has some strong views here, which when I first chatted to him struck me as odd, particularly when you learn he comes from a scientific and mathematical background subjects that he teaches young students in Daegu, South Korea where he lives. My conception of scientists is that they find it hard to accept the bible’s version of man’s origin for they usually want evidence, proof so to speak rather than just believing, so for me Salty appears to have broken the mould here which for me is odd. It’s an intriguing read with interesting viewpoints, so go and have a look.

Social Media Sites

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@saltyyeom558

Publishers

Archway Publishing; www.archwaypublishing.com/ bookstore/search Salty Yeom

Awards

The Podcast

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms searchTalking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickgaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit: www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Salty, for giving me the second opportunity to chat and talk to you about your writing and books.

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The Story

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Spider Man in the Kingdom of the insects

Peter Parker worked in a very large scientific company dealing with things like radiation, which of course is how he came to be Spider Man. Now the company was working on how to miniaturize things to make them very very small. Peter was the lead scientist in this project as it was his idea and strong belief it could be done. He was working with fellow scientist Bart Black, who had long been in Peter’s shadow there at the company.

Peter had just made a major breakthrough in bringing about making things happen. Bart was always rather jealous of Peter and his brilliant mind which was full of imagination and creativity. So, the day finally came when Peter was ready to test his miniaturization machine on a large object. He picked a human dummy about his own size and placed it in the target zone where his new Gamma ray gun was to shoot it full of Gamma rays. He was looking to make the dummy the size of an insect.

He returned to the control room and told Bart to turn on the machine and fire it at the dummy. Unfortunately, the laser beam missed the dummy very narrowly. Peter told Bart to wait before trying again. You see, the laser gun was stationary and hard to move. Peter thought it would be easier to simply move the dummy a little so as to have a direct shot from where the gun was now aimed.

But before Peter could move the dummy to the right place, which was where he was standing, Bart fired the laser gun and hit Peter instead! Peter screamed out, ‘what have you done Bart?’ Bart just looked at him with a big smile and said, ‘I guess we’ll find out won’t we.’ Peter was in disbelief! He told Bart to press the alarm button and seal of the lab. Peter wasn’t really sure what might happen next.

So, a few minutes went by with seemingly nothing happening.  Then suddenly Peter began to feel something happening with his body. It reminded him of when the radioactive spider bit him. Only this time, he began to notice everything around him getting bigger. This didn’t make sense at first to him. Then he realized it wasn’t that things were getting bigger, but he was getting smaller!!!

‘It worked,’ he shouted out to Bart! ‘It sure did’ answered Bart with a devious smile on his face. Peter just kept getting smaller and smaller, till at last he stopped. Peter then asked Bart how small he was. Bart told him while laughing, ‘you’re as small as a spider.’ Peter Parker was so proud of this moment. Then Bart followed with, ‘and what do we do with pests like spiders? We get rid of them of course.’

It was at this moment! Peter understood this was no accident. Bart had done this on purpose. And now Bart was going to remove him from the picture altogether! Peter knew he better get out of there fast!! Bart was making his way down to the area where Peter was. Then Peter remembered, he might be small, but he as still Spider Man!! So, Spider Man he was.

Spider Man shot out his web to the upstairs area where Bart had just come from. Bart was busy trying to find Peter on the floor where he had been. The webbing, Spider Man shot out wouldn’t quite reach the upstairs. What was Spider Man to do then? Suddenly he saw a fly going in that direction and he shot his webbing at the moving fly. What luck! Spider Man got a direct hit on the flying insect as he flew upstairs.

Spider Man let go and was falling to the floor, so he thought. But all of a sudden, his fall was broken by of all things, a spider web! ‘You have got to be kidding me he thought.’ Then before he could think next, a great big spider came towards him and started to attack him. Spider Man quickly jumped on the spider’s back and rode him across the web. Spider Man next shot his webbing around the spider’s legs so the spider couldn’t move anymore.

Spider Man said, ‘see ya brother.’ and shot his trusty webbing at the ray gun. It was a direct hit right at the on/off switch! Meanwhile Bart was standing right on the target zone where he had zapped Peter previously with the ray gun. He had a completely frustrated look on his face. That’s when Spider Man tugged with all his might on his thread of webbing and pulled down the switch turning on the ray gun.

The powerful Gamma rays hit Bart right between the eyes. Then Spider Man turned the gun slightly by pulling on his webbing. Lastly, he tugged the switch down to REVERSE and the Gamma rays shot at the space next to Bart. Spider Man then leaped and soared downwards to that very spot. He landed successfully and stood there as the Gamma rays hit his little Spider Man body.

It was at this time. All the other scientists entered the seemingly empty control room to see Bart just standing there not knowing what to do or say. The scientists kept questioning him as to the whereabouts of Peter Parker. The something incredible happened. Peter started growing back to his original size. At the very same time Bart began to shrink until he was now the size of a spider!

Peter scooped his hand down and picked up Bart. Peter then said with a big smile on his face, ‘boy have I got a story to tell you guys!!!

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Bob Weatherly is from Florida in the USA; he’s been a deep-rooted spiritualist for as long as he can remember. Bob has a natural ability to tell stories something that comes across passionately in all that he writes. He went to Mararishi International University as well as Longwood University where he obtained a degree in History. In the past he has been a teacher and a park ranger two very contrasting careers you might say, nevertheless he enjoined these diverse pathways, to which we add his love of creative literature, hence his love of writing. He firmly believes that we and especially young adults/mature kids can overcome all our inner inhibitions and achieve the goals we set ourselves, be they big or small. For Bob the best way to subtlety conveys this message to the younger generations was through his creative storytelling, hence his choice to write for 9-12 -year-olds.

Other works by Bob Weatherly

Windows of Wonder: Eight Timeless Tales for Today and Tomorrow.

These fairy tales, ancient folklore, mythological adventure stories are written in a classical style and introduce kids to knights of the realm, damsels, aliens, witches, alchemists, Native American Indians, and other enthralling characters that lurk between the pages. All eight stories are very different but seated at the heart of each tale runs a common theme and that is we can overcome our own unassertiveness to accomplish matters. 

The Podcast

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Thank you, Bob for giving me the opportunity to chat to you again about your world of writing and song.

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Mark Rogers was born in Mansfield, Ohio in the U.S. and to this very day he still lives in the area. Mark has a mechanical engineering degree and retired as a journeyman diemaker for a domestic auto manufacturer. With family background in the automotive industry, his main interest is in old car hobby. Mark’s talents lie in many fields; he’s written many published articles for a car club magazine and published a data and historic reference book. But this is his first undertaking into the sci-fi fiction romance genre.

Mark was horribly bullied within his family for the first nineteen years of his life, equally he was bullied at school. This early stage of his life left an indelible mark on him, hence his decision to get involved with the ‘Trevor Project,’ a project that tackles issues around anti-bullying. 

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The Book

This book is a same sex sci-fi romance novel, its deeper message is about anyone who is in societal eyes different and how orthodox religious teachings prejudices those that are seen, viewed as non- compliant with historical scriptural teachings. The point of the book is to give support and understanding to anyone struggling with their religious practices and ideologies, and their individual sexuality. At times in the book the author Mark’s views in this sensitive area are quite determined and beguiling.

Social Media Sites

Webpage: www.aboystail.com

Publishers

Iuniverse; www.iuniverse.com/search bookstore/Mark Rogers

Podcast Information

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Molly Arbuthnott is a teacher, editor and academic from Perthshire in Scotland. She is passionate about the promotion of children’s literature. With a solid understanding of literature and the ability to read, she believes you can take on the world.

She uses her experiences from life as inspiration for her writing. Teaming up with four fantastic illustrators has helped her to breathe life into the stories. Each story is loosely based on family or friends who have been important in her life whilst also trying to tell stories in an honest and gentle way, singing praise to the things we must celebrate in our world. Teaching children to look out for others, work as a team and not be afraid of doing the right thing that is important. Such lessons might then filter through and be reflected in the way we live in the magical world around us.

Each book teams up with the charity which is associated with the theme of the book in some way. Part of the profits from the book sales are then donated to the designated charities.

Possessing an affinity for the world of books, Molly often finds herself at bookstores, libraries, schools and book festivals throughout the UK, sharing interactive and engaging writing and storytelling workshops. Her, podcast ‘My Favourite Books,’ engages both young and not so young to chat about common book interests.

Molly is keen to ensure young minds through smart innovation see nature in its most natural format and once they have seen that natural beauty the world has to offer, then right from an early age they will start to understand how important it is to protect earth’s delicate balance, plus respect and appreciate it more. Some of her books open this burning emotion of hers to young kids to explore and contemplate.

The world of academia Is at the heart and soul of this young Scottish woman’s life, she has taught in Italy, Africa as well as the UK. Molly has several degrees from prestigious universities like St Andrew’s in Scotland and Cambridge in England, she’s recently completed a M.Ed. in Children’s Literature from Glasgow University.

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The Books

Peanut the Hamster

Paul is a writer; a famous writer and Peanut is a hamster. A Strange combination you might think, but they help each other out, the perfect symbiotic partnership.

Paul writes stories and Peanut provides the inspiration. Life steams along as they travel together on the sleeper train. Then, one day. Peanut goes missing and, with him, all of Paul’s story ideas.

All that Paul is left with is an old peanut. A reminder of the life he once had, but fate had other plans in store.

A story about faith, hope and never giving up.
You never know what’s around the corner!

Oscar the Ferry Cat

Oscar is an ordinary cat until, one day, his life is turns upside down.

When he finds himself alone on a ferry boat, he begins to search for a new friend.

How will cope being on his own and will he ever find somewhere he can call home?

An inspirational story about friendship and coming to terms with loss.

Sarah Ferguson Duchess of York reading Oscar the Ferry Cat.

Important upcoming Book Launches

Oscar the Ferry Cat

Select Books publishing house is very pleased to announce the forthcoming release of ‘Oscar the Ferry Cat’ on May 14th, 2024, ISBN; 978-1-59079-566-8 in New York US. An illustrated children’s book by Scottish author and educator Molly Arbuthnott- It is beautifully illustrated with watercolours by Agnes Treherne. Oscar the Ferry Cat is the first instalment in the children’s series ‘Oscar and Friends.’ Additional releases are scheduled for next year.

Molly Arbuthnott is scheduling events for a book tour corresponding with the book’s May 14th ,2024 launch date. These will include a May 4th appearance at The Hudson Children’s Book Festival in Hudson NY, and various appearances at bookstores, libraries, and public schools in New York, New Jersey. Chicago IL, and Washington DC.

Oscar’s further adventures will accounted in the upcoming books of the series ‘Oscar and Friends.’ Including ‘Oscar the Hebridean Cat,’ which is currently scheduled for Spring 2025. These books were originally self-published by Molly Arbuthnott in the United Kingdom but will now be made readily available for an international readership in an enhanced edition by the New York based publishers Select Books.inc. Select Books is distributed by the independent Publishers Group (IPG). 

Peanut the Hamster

Candy Jar Books Publishing House is very pleased to announce the forthcoming release of ‘Peanut the Hamster’ on 29th February 2024; ISBN: 978-1-915439-56-7, an illustrated children’s book by Scottish author and educator Molly Arbuthnott- It is beautifully illustrated with watercolours by Anastasiia Morozova. Peanut the Hamster is the twelfth instalment in the children’s series ‘Oscar and Friends,’ with a further release of ‘Eddie the Duckling’ scheduled in December.

Social Media Sites

Webpage: www.mollyarbuthnott.co.uk
Instagram: www.instagram.com/molly_arbuthnott_books
Facebook: www.facebook.com/mollyarbuthnottbooks
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/molly-arbuthnott-8b528764

Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/mollyarbuthnott@mollyarbuthnott search Molly Arbuthnott
Wiitia: www.wikitia/mollyarbuthnott.com

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Awards

Oscar the Ferry Cat has received acknowledgement/accolades from the British Royal Family, The Principal of St Andrews, Alexander Mc Call Smith international author of the books ‘The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency,’ Sir David Attenborough, Dame Judi Dench, and Julie Andrews. Plus, the book has won ‘Best Cat in Literature’ from The British Library. A Blue Peter Badge, and a Bronze Award at the Wishing Shelf Book Awards. It has also been shortlisted for the Prestigious People’s Book Prize and aired on BBC Alba. It Is published In Greece with Celene Press and going to be Published In May In America with Select Books.

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This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley,and now on Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit: www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Molly, I wish you all the best in your new adventures and once again thank you for giving me another interview to talk about your fabulous children’s series ‘Oscar and Friends.’

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Helen Pauline Slater is a woman who has led a varied and adjustable life. Born in the sixties in Bristol in the UK, where she still lives today. As a child she would often take herself off into the woods to enjoy the beauty of the natural world and at the same time take the inner peace she found there to talk to God. Growing up she accomplished numerous academical successes cumulating in attending a University of Building & Construction an area she pursued in her professional life until she fell ill in 2018. 2018 was a low point in her life feeling disenchanted and betrayed by who she saw as her God she sought alternative divine routes. Helen reached out to divine guides that she believes took her on a new journey, a journey that she gives credence to resolving her state of mind at that time, bringing about the person who she is today.  Helen has long explored several spiritual paths from devotional singing, Buddhistic meditation and Shamanistic, along with alternative medicine approaches. I think it would be a fair assumption to say that Helen has an open mind approach to life, which when I looked at the book came across quite admirably. 

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The Book

This book has been a journey for Helen P. Slater as she reveals the experiences that have shaped her life and hopefully others to follow. The forty-nine chapters that make the narrative are remarkable, powerful and insightful. The areas of topical issues are breathtakingly written with a sublime touch of reality to them. Is the end of the world nigh! Is Yeshua, a common alternative form of the name Yehoshua in Hebrew, Iesous in Greek, Iesus in Latin and Jesus in English the saviour for all! Helen’s thought-provoking viewpoints may not be to everyone’s cup of tea, nevertheless, are intriguing and highly captivating. For those of you that have a spiritual perspective that is a fundamental part of your life, then this is a must-read book, very much written from the author’s own perceptive observations.

https://www.amazon.com/Story-my-Soul-Helen-Slater/dp/198228689X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1707324614&sr=8-1

Social Media Site

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Other Books

Wonders of the Soul

Within the pages of this book, the narratives of three remarkable women unfold as they converge upon a healing sanctuary presided over by Prue. Each of these women carries the weight of past traumas and challenges, stemming from their childhoods and echoing into their current relationships and self-perceptions. Prue possesses a remarkable gift- the ability to mend karmic wounds and heal emotional scars. However, her world is disrupted when Sean enters her life. Prue is resolute in her belief that she can heal him, and together, they embark on a journey of spiritual healing, allowing the pure essence of their love to flourish.

The Laws

Now it is time to transfigure our planet, so that we may all know the life of all lives to come, that we may dwell in Heaven on the Earth, and the Divine manifest in physical reality through us all.

Publisher

Balboa Press UK www.balboapress.com/ search Book store Helen P. Slater.

Podcast

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Heather Hancock is a multi-genre writer, poet, and author of the debut Christian contemporary novel Sister Lost. Heather has lived with Cerebral Palsy from birth, but that has not stopped her achieving most of her ambitions in life, despite the abuse and discrimination she faced all fuelled from ignorance and fearful misconceptions linked to the symptoms identified with Cerebral Palsy. When the abuse levels became unbearable leaving her suicidal as a teenager, she gave her life to Jesus and found her purpose for living. Her faith is the cornerstone to overcoming the bullying she received from kids at school, and other adults throughout her life.

Heather worked in the Canadian health care industry as a unit clerk for over twenty-two years. As a Christian, her faith is at the heart of all her daily regimes, habits and this is clearly evidenced in her writing, something she has done since she was eight.  However, her fascination with books and reading go back to her young days at the school library. When she’s not reading or writing, her favourite pastimes are crocheting and attending church online. 

Christian contemporary and speculative fiction as well as poetry are the main genres Heather enjoys writing about most, she has three poems and two short stories published in the Coffee House Writers Anthologies volume 1: Nonfiction & Poetry, and volume 2: Fiction Anthologies (2020).

Heather presently lives with her husband and cat Willow in a rural area of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. It can get very cold there in winter, believe you me.

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The Book

Two hundred and eighty-five pages depending on which version of the book you read awaits you the reader, the story is creatively told across forty-nine extremely well written and constructed chapters. The revelation that is revealed in Claire’s late grandmother’s will, would shatter any family member, for family relationships can be interesting at the best of times. When you think you know someone closely only to discover there’s an unknown part to them which they have chosen to keep hidden from you, and that invisible skeleton in the cupboard is revealed by a third party or as in this case in black and white print on a legal document, one can only start to comprehend the initial stirrings and feelings that person must initially be having.

Claire Langstrom the main character portraying this beautiful and sensitive story is a person who likes her own company, and society sees her very much as a loner, which is her choice, but what is revealed in her late grandmother’s will indicates in no certain terms she’s not alone. This revelation changes Claire’s entire thinking of who she is. The journey to ascertain the authenticity of what has been confessed will either end in joy or woe. It’s a story with themes of rejection, abandonment, and hate set against the backdrop of Canada’s early days of history particularly surrounding the treatment of some people facing a life with challenging disabilities. At the core of this narrative is a sensitive blend of faith, romance, and mystery magically woven together to create this epic tale.

https://www.amazon.com/Sister-Lost-Heather-Hancock/dp/1738776212/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1706813996&sr=8-1

Social Media Sites

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Publisher

Precious Pearls Publishing 

Podcast Information

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MaryEllen was born in northern Ontario, Canada to Italian Immigrants parents who emigrated to Canada from Italy after WW2. Like most first generation Canadians the choice was driven by the prospects of a better life both financially and circumstantial. The path that lay in front of her parents was far from easy, MaryEllen’s father died when she was ten years old leaving her mother whose native tongue wasn’t English struggling emotionally and financially with the prospects of raising a young family on her own, juggling multiple low paid jobs and balancing motherhood is no mean fate for any woman placed in that position. 

Early memories of relative impoverishment have been the driving force behind much of MaryEllen’s own life, her determination to succeed both financially and as a mother to her own children Kevin (24) and Erika (21) is what she gets out of bed for each day. Mary Ellen has been married for thirty-one years to a man she best describes as a bit of a spend thrift, especially when it comes to one of her spending ideological schemes. MaryEllen has done a variety of jobs to make sure the family accounts balance, particularly a social worker, though in her words not so much monetarisation rewarding, but enriching in so many other ways. Trying new ideas and projects to inject and infuse a sustainable interest in life is another core aspect of MaryEllen’s life hence the reason for her undertaking the task of writing this book, MaryEllen sees this an adventure, a new path to grow in her life, her husband reaction is, how much is this jaunt going to cost, and here she goes again. Oh, the joys of marriage, you can’t beat it.

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The Book

This is a short book of approximately forty-four pages that are highly illustrated with appropriate and vivid illustrations that sublimely support the overall narrative of the book, that being young adults can find motivating forces both within themselves and the environment around them. For me the book is aimed at 7–10-year-olds. What’s fascinating in the story is how a yellow hi-vis jacket transforms the main character MaryEllen from being stuck in life to becoming a confident youngster following a different path in life. Lockdown had a profound affect on MaryEllen like so many youngsters not being able to go out and see their friends, but how MaryEllen adapted after Lockdown is surprising.

Social Media Sites

Webpage; Details to follow.
Instagam: www.instagram.com/maryellenperlini

Publishers

Xlibris- www.xlibris.com/search bookstore/ MaryEllen Perlini

The Podcast

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Dr Rebecca I Payne sees herself as a New Yorker/New Jersey girl at heart and has spent the last numerous years punctiliously studying biblical texts. What she ascertained from her research has had a profound influence on her life, to the extent that her life as she knows and sees it today is a far cry from her carefree youth days. Dr Payne continues to seek God’s counsel and judgement in her daily routines something she learned from her religious studies around her Master of Arts degree in Biblical Exposition. In addition to her degree in Biblical Exposition Dr Payne has a doctorate in Business Administration. 

For Dr Payne life started in Queens, New York City, then to Brooklyn and finally East Orange in New Jersey where she presently lives. Like most of us her life has been a journey of ups and downs but over time the strength she has gained by the Lord’s guidance has as she sees it steered her and continues to steer her down the right path, a path that has opened new channels in her life, a life of confidence and spirituality and it is that journey that she writes about in her books.

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The Book

There are nine chapters to this poignantly composed small book of fifty-eight pages, the story and the message Dr Payne is getting across is told through the eyes of two main characters, Miss Mazey and Jamie as they face everyday life from a Christian understanding of how to lead a faithful journey. For me the chapters ‘The Path to Peace’ and ‘Hope through Pain,’ really stood out, but that’s my opinion, look for yourselves.

Other Books by Dr Rebecca I Payne

Shine The Light

This book is about one woman’s walk to Christ Jesus and the journey it took to get a deeper understanding of the relationship we can have with God, Christ and the Church.

https://www.amazon.com/Shine-Light-Rebecca-P-Woodall-ebook/dp/B079431BD4/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1X7QSIDOJAP7R&keywords=SHIne+the+light+payne&qid=1706116336&s=books&sprefix=shine+the+light+pay%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C323&sr=1-2

Reflections

This book explores the notions of who God wants us to be and suggests an interpretation of what He wants us to do. It presents us with a divine opportunity to ponder what we want from life, and it gives us the challenge to reflect the image of Christ Jesus. It is both dynamic and cathartic in life lessons and experiences, and the way we choose to live.

Social Media Sites

Webpage: www.drrebeccapayne.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ripbrightlyshining
Instagram: www.instagram.com/dr_rebecca_i_payne
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rebecca-payne

Publisher

AuthorHouse: www.authorhouse.com Search Bookstore/ Finding Peace by Dr Rebecca I. Payne

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Anne Angelo was born in 1911 in Invergordon, Ross Shire (now Ross and Cromarty) Highlands, Scotland in what can only best be described as a difficult family set up. As a child she grew up in an environment of hatred, dejection, fear and other social dissent. life was hard back then in a society where children and young adults were to be seen, not heard and certainly not to be believed. Anne’s dream was to be a pharmacist, but a ruthless father blocked that opportunity by refusing her to go to Edinburgh to sit her pharmacy examines, instead opting for marrying her off. Thank goodness times have in many ways changed. As a young woman Anne’s life was fortuitously driven by events beyond her control, the war years of the second world war like for all that lived through those times were extremely tough. In 1944 Anne gave birth to Hugh who I have the privilege of talking to about the books she wrote, he recalls his mother typing the manuscript in London in 1949, just before they left for New Zealand in 1950, followed by upping sticks again to Australia in 1959 following Hugh’s father’s death. Over the years Anne worked on and off the manuscripts with the aid of a ghost writer, tragically Anne passed away in 1999, so the scripts lay untouched until lockdown in 2020, when Hugh rediscovered the files and decided to get them published in memory of his late mother Anne.

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The Book

This is the first part of the story of Anne Angelo, Hugh Hyland’s late mother. It’s a soul-stirring narrative told over twenty-one chapters, sublimely written depicting a life that faced innumerable, exacting and formidable circumstances that would have tested any person’s resolve. The issues and scenarios are delicately portrayed with a real touch of realism that makes you stop and think how people in difficult and testing situations make their mark. The book touches upon cultural and social background stigmas, educational, hereditary and race differentials all against a backdrop of hatred, heartache, fear, disenchantment and dejection, much of which Anne Angelo had to endure as a child and young adult. Anne had several blissful years living in France and touring in Europe and North Africa those years though where abruptly ended by the onset of WW2. The war years and the ensuing years had a profound impact on Hugh’s late mother as she rebuilt a new life for herself, a life so very different to that of her childhood, a life on the other side of the world. What of that life! Well, I’m not going to tell you, find out by seeing what she has to say. 

https://www.amazon.com/Sprig-White-Heather-Scottish-Lass/dp/1669888371/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1703091723&sr=8-1

Other Books by Anne Angelo

The Forbidden Zone 1940

This is the second book in the series, but not the subject matter of this podcast interview, maybe that opportunity will arise soon, but to give you an insight as to what you can expect from the storyline, I’ll briefly fill you in. The book is available to read.

The book describes Anne’s return to Lille in France- the ‘Phony war’ when she almost got killed driving ambulances and a romance with a dashing British Army Officer to whom she gave a sprig of white heather as a good luck memento. The romance was brief as the Germans invaded and closed the area as they prepared their invasion of England. Anne joined the French Resistance until she was betrayed to the Gestapo, she escaped home to Britain, where the dashing young Army Officer tracked her down with the sprig of white heather firmly in his grasp. This book has been given five awards; Brew Book Excellence Award, Indies Today Award, Bookfest Book Award, Pencraft Book Awards and Readers Choice Book Awards.

Anne married the dashing British Army Officer who is Hugh’s father.

Awards

This Book has received seven awards: American Writing Awards, Indies Today Award, Brew Book Excellence Award, Bookfest Book Award, Readers Choice Book awards, Pencraft Book Awards and The Bookfest Honourable Mention Non-Fiction Award.

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This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on the Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit https://www.Expertsandaothors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Publisher

Xlibris

www.xlibris.com/search/bookstore -Anne Angelo.

Hugh, thank you, for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about your late mother’s book.

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The Author

Daryl Deliman is from the Golden State of California in the United States. When he and his brother Torrance were growing up in eastern ’flatland’ they often dreamt of. Spoke of, planned for someday getting wealthy enough to move up, literally and figuratively, to the hills of Palos Verdes or bordering Rolling Hills Estate. As two of five children of an LA city schoolteacher, no major improvement was forthcoming or financially possible. They would ride their bikes through Palos Verdes, enjoy the ocean views and fantasize about one day owning a house there.

At high school, this financial or class structure was reinforced when he was dating a girl from Rolling Hills High School. She justified dating him, a ‘flatlander,’ to her friends and family as his status had improved having been accepted at Annapolis. Daryl was intrigued nonetheless as to how she presented him to her circle of friends.

Daryl worked as a western regional manager for major companies in the field of scientific lab equipment, he became a multimillionaire by investing in Southern California real estate. Daryl benefited by using tax advantages for sheltering income, which gave him more seed money to acquire additional properties. In this book, Daryl offers pragmatic steps for choosing ideal properties, how to finance those properties and how to weed out good tenants, plus how to upgrade properties by including accessory dwelling units (ADUs), as well as expanding a real estate portfolio while maintaining positive cashflow.

If you’re looking to make a quick buck Daryl very clearly states, then this book isn’t for you. His strategy is about Low-risk, patience and persistence. Seed money and/ or excess income, good credit, and endorsing support staff are required.

Daryl has been in the business of real estate investing in Southern California for more than thirty years, which includes acquiring many varied properties, upgrades of every sort, two recessions, one depression, an IRS audit, a BK Chapter 11 reorganisation, various partners, evictions, and most possible real estate issues. Prudence responses are offered to the inevitable real estate downturn doesn’t sink your plan.

Many working professionals, especially those subjected to heavy burden-tax-states like California, are alarmed at the increasing tax bite on hard earned incomes and are looking for some legal relief. Daryl also believes everybody should plan for their retirement, and rental income could be a safe hedge against inflation. He believes both important goals can be achieved here.

So, are you ready to get started in real estate investing? There are many benefits, and it often does not require major capital. Daryl’s presentations include specific successful plans and interviews with experts in the important areas of finance, property management, and tax shelters.

Let’s open the book.

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The Book

Real Estate
Investing as a Lucrative Hobby and Tax Shelter
Your Guide to Success in Generating Consistent Rental Income

There are fourteen chapters to this book that as the subtitle hints at takes you on a step-by-step transition from getting off the starting blocks to becoming an accomplished investor in real estate. The one thing this book emphasises is that investing in real estate is a long-term plan to creating your own wealth. There are gains, but equally there are pitfalls and it’s all about getting the balance right for achieving sustainable profitable growth that will stand the test of time and resilience. Investing in real estate isn’t about making a quick buck or dashing for the finishing line. Rome wasn’t built in a day.

When you open the book, you’ll discover Daryl touches upon a variety of matters that you might want to take into consideration when embarking on this investment journey, he talks about getting started by selecting the right property, negotiating the purchase price, financing the project, through to choosing and caring for your tenants and enquiry suitable trades people to maintain your property or properties. 

In the second half of the book Daryl talks about a variety of issues, from upgrading the property, embracing or avoiding housing authority concerns, expanding your real estate portfolio, tax benefits, anecdotes, partnerships, minimising losses and a few other topical subject matters you should be aware of. 

Overall, this short concise book is a comprehensive guide drawn up by Daryl Deliman with some supporting interviews which will enable you to create a sustainable profitable real estate portfolio for now and in the future. It’s well worth a read, but as I said Rome wasn’t built in a day. Real estate investing is a long-term strategy.

Social Media Sites

www.daryldeliman.com

Publisher

Authorhouse.

Webpage: www.authorhouse.com /Bookstore/search Daryl Deliman.

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The Author

Walter Stephen Geeding was born in Washington D.C.the son of an FBI agent, he would best describe himself as a renegade, runaway, adventurer, nomadic traveller, poet, Christian, prosecuting and defence attorney, and a novelist fifty years in the making. His motto in life is ‘No guts no glory,’ and when you look at his life it would be fair to say he has lived up to that motto.

In his younger days Walter led a nomadic life, crisscrossing America in all directions, what he saw, witnessed and experienced back then has had a profound impact on his life, to the extent many of those real-life experiences have infiltrated there way into his books and formed a significant footing for the main narratives within. For a man who in his youth was barely able to spell and with three failed marriages, with God’s guidance has managed to turn his life around to becoming a successful dedicated attorney both for defence and prosecution cases.  Not only did he skilfully turn around his professional life, but it can also be said he equally attuned his personal life now, married to Linda for neigh on thirty years, father to six children and grandfather to fourteen grandchildren. Life for Walter now is more blended, he has stepped away from the legal profession and now focuses on what he deems to be more fruitful and less stressful aspects of his life, family and writing. 

Walter presently lives in a cabin on Elk River in southwest Missouri a place he calls Solitaire, a place where he and Linda are at peace with their menagerie of dogs and cats, a place that keeps him sane and allows him to do what he now loves best, to write.

So, Let’s see what he writes about.

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The Books

The Endless Times Series

The Path of Kokopelli (Book One)

The story of The Path of Kokopelli the first book in this series is creatively told across twenty expressive and fertile chapters. It was put out on Amazon in September 2021. The narrative evolves around the time travel exploits of Jack and Jim two lifetime drinking soulmates that live a carefree life just scraping by. A mis-placed cabin draws their attention, the cabin’s persona reveals its expectations beyond their wildest fantasies of simple treasure hunting for easy money to pay their bar bills. The holy grail of adventures is about to come their way, these crazy characters are about to enter a different a world, a trading world of 1822 in New Mexico, the era of Kokopelli a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbacked flute player venerated by some native Americans in the Southwestern United States. In Pueblo mythology Kokopelli is depicted as carrying seeds, babies and blankets in his hump and offered them to the maidens of the villages. Kokopelli keeps Jim and Jack alive when they’re in the nineteenth century time travel period, William Becknell the first American trader allowed in New Mexico then, thinks there crazy, the Hidalgos those of Spanish and Portuguese nobility love their trade goods and the local Native Americans love the crazy two. Violent Spanish culture, savage Apache’s and the untamed 1822 era of New Mexico brings untold wealth to them. What a book! Packed with adventure.

Murphy’s Diggings (Book Two)

Jack and Jim, the main protagonists from The Path of Kokopelli are back with more spills and twists wonderfully foretold over twenty chapters of breath-taking imaginary plots. The book was initially put out in September 2022 and is equally inspiring to read as the first in the series. As you would expect the storyline and the characters have moved on, but still the two despite their wealth face a new set of issues, from thieving heirs, saving the Wyoming Ranch, killings, California Gold Rush in 1848, a millionaire philanthropist, the Murphy boys, a rich Mormon, two helpless Miwok native American boys and voices from the grave, plus more, all blended in a tale of high stakes, lawlessness and potential greed. Another gripping read by Walter Stephen Geeding. 

Making Tracks (Book Three)
Shortly to be Released

Jack and company travel the time road once again. A third trip takes them back to the making of the Transcontinental Railroad. Making Tracksmoves from Washington.D.C with it extravagant bribes, to ‘Hell on Wheels’ town North Platte, Nebraska until the pounding of the Golden Spike at Promontory, Utah, 1863-1869 in two months. Throw in 700 years of Migration as seen through the eyes of Dena (the people), hardy ancestors of the Apache and Pueblo, travelling from the Yukon, until vanishing in New Mexico, complete with living in Promontory Cave, Utah. Anything goes in the quest of the ‘Grand Dream,’ the biggest, most expensive, and fraudulent scheme in the history of the United States of the time. Observers, Indian scouts, migrating pilgrims, the two are right in the middle of it.

West Coast Turnabout (Book Four)
In Editing

They’re at it once more, trip number four, West Coast Turnaround,finds the two in big timber country, Oregon, then on to California, three years before the gold rush of 1848-49. San Francisco is still Yerba Buena, a sleepy trade town of 130, mostly Mexican, British and Scottish traders. John Sutter is still a land baron and Sutter’s Fort thrives; gold has yet to be seen in his mill. Sutter’s Indian soldiers enslave the other tribes to work his vast holdings. The Miwok Indians are a peaceful tribe, but not for long; slavers arrive, big change also comes by sea and overland. Both try to keep their Miwok friends alive while becoming enmeshed in Miwok mystical lore and customs. They employ the Miwok as miners to find enough gold for Jack’s friend, Eddie Gindler, to keep his land. The Syndicate has made a fatal move to take the now valuable property. Partially in both Arkansas and Missouri of the future, the property has been in his family for generations; Eddie will fight for it, and his life hangs in the balance. It’s a conundrum on a grand scale, where a man can lose his principles, or life, in the blink of an eye!

Gringos (Book Five)
At the Writing stage

The Colony Series

The End (Book One)

Twenty chapters of stimulating narrative evolving the character Steve, a beekeeper, lawyer, survivalist, prisoner and ally of the strange underground guardians that are trying to save what’s left of earth’s shambolic humanitarian affairs following a nuclear war whose scars have left earth’s surface in a frozen state. Walter Geeding is asking you to follow the main protagonists Steve’s escapades in this first book of the series from the courtrooms of a tiny county in mid -America to the limitless reaches of inner earth. The dangers that are encountered along the way by the guardians are graphically told, so are the exploits of their opponents who are equally determined in their own pursuits to end the journey of mankind come what may.

Narrations of Nui (Book Two)

In the first book bees disappeared, starvation and deprivation take hold on earth, in this book hidden in a cave Steve on the brink of starvation discovers an ancient guardian species known as the ‘Z,’ sent by the creator to preserve all of earth’s treasures, including man. Steve’s connection to the ‘Z’ is intriguing, what role the bees he raised, and an ancient unknown ancestor play is absorbing. Into the melting pot comes Zur a traitor sister to the ‘Z’ long thought dead, but cracks in earth’s crust brought about by relentless nuclear explosions gives Zur the escape method from her imprisonment which has lasted for hundreds of thousands of years. With her escape Zur can rekindle her determination to destroy man, all that stands in her way is three hundred humans in various ‘Z’ colonies. What monstrosities Zur despite some limitations can create concerns the queen of the ‘Z’ colony, so much so she sends Steve on a mission to go back in time to meet Nui his long dead grandfather who has faced Zur before. After journeying thousands of miles underground, Steve walks into another dimension of time meeting Nui Ashel. The story starts with Nui taking Steve across vast seas to a different place and time. The planet though is starting to thaw.

A great second story to the colony series.

The Beginning (Book Three)

The story in this book is just as riveting as the other two earlier books in the series. It tells the story of continuing struggles between the remaining ‘Z’ colonies and Queen Zur’s total intent to gain supremacy over a thawing earth now that she can create colonies of powerful giants. The attack scenes are thrilling and totalling absorbing. Steve has spent ten years with Nui his distant grandfather and he has returned to the surface. Will the final conflict result in a reborn earth for the ‘Z’ colonies or will Zur bring about an era of darkness with giants and evil filtrating a new aeon.

Stand Alone Books

Pictures of Life: Rhyming Mind Pictures

A collection of poems turned into pictures in the author’s head from events, actions, animals and sensory pictorial exhibits all presented to him, in his mind by God, nature and travels.

Even the Mice Get Fat

A collection of Christmas memoirs relived through poetry, short stories and song. All original works from the creative mind of the author himself.

Social Media Sites

Webpage: www.walterstephengeeding.com
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/walter-stephen-geeding-57954b218
Facebook: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064770610979
Instagram: www.instagram.com/solitaire.enterprises
YouTube: www.youtube.com/@walterstephengeeding

Awards

2022 International Book Awards Winner in the fiction. Western Division.

If you wish to buy or investigate any of Walter’s books, then the best place to go is his website or click the Amazon links above.

Walter, thank you, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to chat to you about yourself and your books. I wish you every success with this new writing career.

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Sharon Lynn was raised in Arizona but developed a heartfelt connection to the English countryside as a teenager while living in England. This affection for the English countryside has grown and matured with each visit she makes to the UK. The Cotswold area in particular won over her heart and that’s why the books are set there and hence the title of the series. As a professor of theatre, film and writing, Sharon coaches and mentors aspiring artists. Her short stories can be found in anthologies from Malice Domestic and Desert Sleuths. Sharon is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sister in Crime, International Thrillers Writers, and Blackbird Writers. Please sign up for her newsletter at www.sharonlwrites.com and www.blackbirdwriters.com

Sharon splits her time between Flagstaff, Arizona, and her boat in San Diego where she says the changing ocean tides and foggy mornings inspire her creative juices, as the keys on the keyboard almost type the storylines themselves. If only I say.

For me one of the most fascinating facts that I’ve learnt From Sharon about Flagstaff, is that it’s a designated International Dark City, due to its streetlights being kept to a bare minimum, thus allowing the Lowell Observatory to scan the night skies above following the stars as they shimmer into life. The nights are what Sharon refers to as ‘werewolf dark’ providing her with the perfect backdrop that sets up her creative mind as she hatches the next mystery and shadowy secret to the plots that adorn her books, with only her border collie mix by her feet for company. Her supportive husband must think to himself at times, where’s Sharon taking her readers now.

Well let’s find out by having a look at these books, below or at www.sharonlwrites.com

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The Books

Death Takes a Bath (Book One)

This is the first book in Sharon Lynn’s debut series A Cotswold Crimes Mysteries,forty glorious chapters of spine-tingling twists and turns with culprits and their motives splashed throughout the book set in the seemingly quaint old Roman Spa town (now designated a city) of Bath in the ceremonial county of Somerset in England. Maddie McGuire lands an archaeology internship at the Roman Baths there. A severed human ear placed on her doorstep kick starts the story, Maddie must get to the bottom of the significance of this ear, before she becomes the next victim or worse gets deported. Her relationship with the young constable Edward Bailey is interesting to say the least which is in stark contrast with her relationship with her aristocratic co-worker Simon Pacock whose sole purpose in the book is to subversively destroy her investigative findings. As the story unfolds Maddie encounters more danger as she discovers a body, with both ears intact. Who’s behind these macabre events and what’s their sinister intentions.  Hmm…

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Takes-Bath-Cotswold-Mystery/dp/1685122426/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1702054354&sr=8-1

Death Takes a Fall (Book Two)

This follow on book is just as absorbing as the first, Maddie McGuire finds herself in a precarious position tumbling over a cliff edge while hiking The Cotswold Way. What she discovers in the ancient woodlands terrify hers, but what awaits her back at the Roman Baths is equally disturbing, a new character has appeared on the scene in the guise of aristocratic Gwendolyn De Valence who has rather taken centre stage at the Roman Baths site. Maddie’s now boy friend Constable Edward Bailey turns out to have his own ill-omened secrets from the past. All the events that are revealed in this cleverly constructed storyline cumulate in a dangerous path for Maddie, a path she might not emerge from.

I found both books engaging, gripping and masterly constructed, and for me those of you who love to follow the author Elly Griffiths and her books, well you might want to take a look at this author and make comparative opinions for yourself. Is Sharon Lynn a new author following in the footsteps of Elly Griffiths. Judge for yourselves is all I say.

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Other Books by Sharon Lynn

Malice Domestic 16: Mystery Most Diabolical
Malice Domestic 15: Mystery Most Theatrical
Malice Domestic 14: Mystery Most Edible

SoWest; Killer Nights Desert Sleuths Anthology

Recipes to Kill For: Sisters in Crime Desert Sleuths Chapter Cookbook

Social Media Sites

Webpage: www.sharonlwrites.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/sharonlwrites
Instagram: www.instragram.com/sharonlwrites
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/sharonlwrites/
Twitter: www.twitter.com/sharonlwrites
Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/sharonlwrites
Bookbub: www.bookbub.com/authors/sharon-lynn
All Author: www.allauthor.com/author/sharonlwrites

The Podcast

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms, search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube by searching Talking Books by J T Crowleyand now on the Roku and Amazon Fire Stick streaming devices.Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit https://www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Awards

The short story Carne Diem is included in the Anthony Award Winning Best Anthology: Mystery Most Edible.

Publisher

Level Best Books

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A K Cooper-Elliott was born in Germany, but now resides in Yorkshire a beautiful and breath-taking county in the UK. Those that live there would arguably say that it’s the best county in the UK, but those that are not domiciled there may possibly disagree, but without a doubt the Yorkshire Dales are renowned for their natural surroundings. 

A K is married with two grown up children that have fled the nest. Due to the early onset of Multiple Sclerosis, A K had to retire at a relatively early age from her high-flying executive career in procurement and accountancy, the demands of the job and her functionality issues were becoming increasingly difficult to maintain. With the decision reluctantly taken to step away from the world of high finance, A K turned to writing, giving her a new focus in life, a focus that can be fitted around her physical abilities, for a person living with M.S. some days can be more challenging than others, on a bad day not much gets done.

As far as A K can remember she has always loved books, reading a variety of genres. From reading to writing A k’s life has evolved, she writes both children and adults books, but for the purpose of this podcast we’re going to concentrate on her children’s books; The Lilly Everlea series.’ 

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The Books

Children’s Books

The Lilly Everlea Series

Hey! It’s Me, Lilly Everlea. I’m Here Again! (Book Three)

Lilly Everlea the intrepid young detective, returns for more captivating adventures in three wonderful new mysteries.

Lilly and The Nutcracker Soldiers

When Lilly and her loyal butler attend choir practice for the Christmas carol concert, Mrs Lemmings has mysterious news – her six-foot Nutcracker dolls come to life at night and appear in different places throughout the house. When Lilly and Mr Meadows become snowed in at Mrs Lemming’s home, Lilly must uncover the truth about the dolls’ nocturnal activities. As she investigates, she spies a vital clue that could unravel the puzzle.

Lilly and Mr Meadow’s Christmas Stocking

Days before Christmas Lilly notices Mr Meadows secretly wandering around the house at night, clutching a pineapple-shaped Christmas stocking and she vows to find out why. While Everlea House buzzes with festive preparations, Lilly’s determination to uncover the truth reveals some heart-warming events surrounding the magical spirit of Christmas, not even Lilly’s famed powers of detection could have prepared her for.

Lilly and Mrs Knott’s Missing Marshmallows

As New Year’s Eve approaches, Terrance, Lilly’s inventive friend, creates blackcurrant marshmallows, which Knotty’s Ice Cream Parlour eagerly orders. However, when the marshmallows start to disappear, Lilly and her companion Emily Knott set a clever trap. With her new detective kit, a Christmas gift from her father, Lilly seeks to reveal the culprit and solve the case of the missing marshmallows.

Hey! It’s Me Again! It’s Lilly Everlea (Book Two)

Join Lilly Everlea, a spirited young detective, and her trusty companion, Terrance the gardener, in two thrilling mysteries that will test their wit and courage.

Lilly and The Haunted Rectory

When mysterious bangs echo through the churchyard at night, Lilly’s village of Ducksdale is on edge. With Reverend Dentin away at the rectory vacant, two eerie shadows appear in the windows after sunset. A peculiar stranger arrives, exchanging new silver coins for blueberry ice cream at knotty’s Ice Cream Parlour. Eaves dropping on her father’s conversation with Sergeant Smiffy, Lilly and Terrance take it upon themselves to investigate. Will Lilly Everlea solve the riddle of the haunting before her father and the authorities? Can the enigmatic coins hold the hey to the strange occurrences in the village.

Lilly and the Featherbark Lane Mystery

Halloween approaches, casting a shadow of fear over Ducksdale. The legend of the white figure returning to Featherbark Lane sends shivers down the villager’s spines. Determined to uncover the truth, Lilly, Terrance and their friend Emily Knott embark on a quest to unravel the secrets behind the ghostly apparition. As the Everlea Halloween party unfolds, Emily Knott unveils a startling revelation. But what is this mysterious white thingy that continues to terrorize the village?

Hey! It’s Me! It’s Lilly Everlea (Book One)

Lilly and The Ruby Ring

When Mrs Lemming’s ruby ring is stolen, Lilly Everlea and her gardener Terrance investigate the case. After finding a note pushed under his office door, Professor Everlea reveals the names of the culprits to Sergeant Smiffy. Everyone is surprised apart from Lilly and Terrance who solves the case.

Lilly and The Time Marrow

When all the cats in the village fall asleep, Lilly finds out that the link is connected to Mr Muggles’ catnip.

Terrance has created a time machine in the form of a metal marrow. Lilly and Terrance travel back to 1898 to stop the production of the catnip. Professor Muggles is stunned when Terrance introduces him to chamomile tea instead of using catnip. This changes the history of Professors Muggles’ catnip, but someone’s interference could ruin the ingredient. Can Lilly and Terrance stop the intruder from the sabotaging the Muggles’ recipe.

Adult Books

The Templeton-Miller Dynasty Series

Aeternum

At the age of seventeen, Lady Eleanor Templeton-Jones continually escaped her perils of boredom, assisted with the help of her brothers, Nathaniel and Rupert. Eleanor engaged herself in a world of glamour and glitz at the Banquet of Tranquillity. A harmonic evening in late March 1938 would change Eleanor’s destiny forever, creating the world-famous Templeton-Miller Dynasty.

The Heavenly Body Series

Stellar Nebula 

The Legacy of Allison Templeton-Miller, a singer-song writer battling to overcome success in a world of money and power. Trapped in wealth and glamour, things are not always as they seem. Can she make it on top or succumb to corruption?

Matrimonium

Thousands of spectators gather outside St Barnabas Cathedral to witness the enchanting wedding of Allison Templeton-Miller and Romano Mancini. A wonderful day captured the world’s attention. However. Married life did not come easy for the couple. Uncompromising work schedules fuelled jealousy and obsession. Would the fairy tale marriage survive?

Decessus

Millennium had arrived with vengeance. Allison Templeton-Mancini now forty-four endures sell out arena tours and unbelievable album sales. The number one female act in the world feels retirement is looking. Successfully nurturing her children including her husband Romano, she finds that everyone is fading around her. The death of her parents sends her world into turmoil, changing her life forever. Is this the end of Allison Templeton-Mancini

Social Media Sites

Webpage: www.akcooperelliot.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCUhyG-E7v7wLd7SsJN6VOXg/about
Twitter: www.twitter.com/akcooperelliot
Facebook: www.facebook.com/p/AK-Cooper-Elliot-100090021086938
Pinterest: www.pinterest.co.uk/alcooperelliot
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/ak-cooper-elliot-926387224

The Podcast

This podcast is available to listen to on all major social podcast platforms search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on the Roku and Amazon Fire Stick streaming devices.Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit https://www.ExpertsandAuthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.

Publisher

Michael Terence Publishing: www.mtp.agency.com (For some of her books)

If you wish to purchase any of AK Cooper-Elliot’s books you can head to her webpage www.akcooperelliot.com to the publisher’s www.mtp.agency.com for some of her books, or simply click the Amazon links above.

Angela, thank you, for giving me this wonderful opportunity to chat to you about yourself and your books. It’s been a blast!

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Frank Talaber was born in Beaverlodge, Alberta, where the claim to fame is a fox with flashing eyes in the only pub. When he was a young child he moved with his family to Edmonton, Alberta. He got tired of the endless winter months there and now a young independent man he moved to Chilliwack in British Columbia Canada the place he and his wife Jenny now call home. When you look at Chilliwack on Google Earth you can see the breath-taking beauty of the area with the Canadian Rockies in the background. Yes, they get snow in Chilliwack during the winter months and on the odd occasion Frank is forced to search out the snow shovel. A trip to nearby Vancouver is always on the cards for a bit of cosmopolitan life.

Frank is a licenced automotive technician by trade and has spent most of his life tinkering around under the bonnets of cars or managing automotive shops, many  a time he’s had to tell the local customers bringing in their old rust bucket bangers hoping for some miracle cure that will sustain their motor for the next few months that they’re not worth fixing, push’em down to the scrap yard, if your lucky you might get a few dollars for metal and parts. We’ve all been there at some stage of our lives.

What drives his wife Jenny to utter despair is when he gets up in the middle of the night to hammer out some sort of prosaic induced brilliance, which in the cool light of day turns out to be some mind-blowing pile of gibberish. However, people who have read Frank Talaber’s books describe him as a natural storyteller who writes like his soul is on fire and his pencil is his voice screaming. Literature written beyond the realms of genres, whose compelling thoughts are freed from the depths of the heart and subconscious before being poured onto the page. They, go further to say that they find his books, grabbing, hilarious at times and screaming everyday life. Those nightly moments of scribbling in a notepad haven’t always been fruitless, evidenced by these amazing books he’s published.

To date he has over fifty articles/short stories, sixty blog posts, over ten interviews under his belt as well as fifteen novels written or published. 

Frank was once asked, ‘where does all this creativity come from?’ he answered, ‘It’s the Gypsy blood from my mother’s Hungarian ancestry.’

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So, let’s have a look at the books.

The Books

The Ascension series
Seeds of Ascension: Spirits Awakening
Book One

This highly imaginative story of Roger Harrison’s circumstances is breath-takingly told over ten chapters. Lovers of Spiritual and science fiction genre are going to be enraptured with this book. A honeymoon with a difference! It certainly was for Roger who discovered a foreign object in his body in the shape of an alien piece of metal. What controlling powers does this metallic item possess and how are those powers going to evolve and impact on Roger’s life. With Roger’s life about to be thrown on an unexpected trajectory around the ascension of humanity something Philosophers and spiritualists alike have long debated and discussed; events unfold that have unforeseen consequences for humans and evolution. How Roger accomplishes matters is extremely intriguing. Throw into the melting pot, a guardian angel, alien hunters, a sixty-thousand-year-old Atlantean, efforts stopping some who would condemn possible humanities next phrase of evolution, a whole host of unpredicted activities, and you end up with the perfect storm of elements that bring this epic saga contained within to life. A powerful story creatively told.

The Ainsworth Chronicle Series
The Joining
Book One

Eighteen chapters of exhilarating twists and turns awaits those of you that love Urban Fantasy/Crime/Mystery and Paranormal genres. The Novel opens with a nearly naked FBI agent thumping down into the front lobby of the Fairmont Empress hotel in Victoria, BC. arguably one of the most haunted cities in the world and confronts the undercover female Detective Carol Ainsworth who has set herself up as one of the duty managers of the hotel. Two Mafia families are about to check in for a wedding. The drama quickly unfolds with the hanging of one of the Mafia Mob’s members and the abduction of Detective Carol’s nephew. Into the milieu you have an ageing psychic, an ancient curse, mafia romance, supernatural forces, a crystal skull and a whole host of other happenings that go to creating this spine-tinkling crime thriller epic tale. Let’s hope Detective Carol Ainsworth survives this investigation and sees her next case on the horizon.

The Stillwaters Run Deep Series
Raven’s Lament: 
Book One 

Thirteen chapters of glorious storytelling, written in an everyday easy style that’s what you want from a good book, and Frank Talaber gives that to you here in the first of his books that make up the Stillwaters Run Deep series. The narrative initially concerns the felling of an old growth forest, the sobbing trees as they were axed to their death. Within the old forest is rare tree which has something of noteworthy about it, with its felling by an unsuspecting environmentalist something unknowingly is released into the world. A local reporter going under the name Brooke Grant searches for answers. But, what his investigation reveals is highly intriguing, a shaman, love gained and lost, but to what and who? Are Brooke and this exceptional shaman really setting out to save a woman or something more sinister that threatens to change the world as we know it. What was it that was unleashed from that one rare tree in the old growth forest now felled?

Other Books by Frank Talaber 

Here are some of Frank Talaber’s other books that he has written which are not part of the Podcast interview, but you might want to go and look at, either on Amazon or his Webpage www.franktalaberpublishedauthor.wordpress.com

The Ainsworth Chronicles
(Urban Fantasy/Crime/Mystery/Paranormal Genre)

The Joining (Book One)
The Mystery of Ms Teak (Book Two)
Into the Dark Side (Soon to be released Book Three)

Other novels involving Carol Ainsworth

The Lure (Stillwaters Run Deep, Book Two)
The Awakening (Stillwaters Run Deep, Book Three)

The Stillwaters Run Deep Series
(Urban Fantasy Genre)

Raven’s Lament (Book One)
The Lure (Book Two)
The Awakening (Book three)

The Ascension Series
(Spiritual/Science Fiction Genre)

Spirits Awakening (Book One)
I’ll Bet Skywalker Never had Days Like This (Soon to be released Book Two)

Short Stories Anthology Series

What I’d say to Buddha if I Met Him in The pub (Vol 1)
What I’d say To Einstein If I Met Him on The Dance Floor (Vol 2)
What I say to Agatha Christie If I Met Her in The Knitting Club (Vol 3)

Novellas

Night’s I’ve Lain Awake:(Alone in Another’s Dreams)
Earthen Wind songs

Autumn’s Summer series

(Fantasy/Female self-awareness/Spiritual/Romance/Celtic Beliefs

Autumn’s Summer (Soon to be released Book One)

In Realms untold Book Two
(Spiritual/sword and Sorcery)

Social Media Platforms

Webpage: www.franktalaberpublishedauthor.wordpress.com
YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UCx5ki4gpdoKN-9KAIZzu53w
Twitter: www.twitter.com/FrankTalaber
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/frank-talaber-6a594481
eBooks on Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/profile/view/Frank38

Awards and Review,

Frank Talaber has received countless awards and reviews, too many to list here, If you want to know more about his awards and reviews then head to his webpage to take a peak at.www.franktalaberpublishedauthor.wordpress.com

Frank that you so much for coming on the show, to talk about yourself and your books, which I found gripping and enjoyable. Thank you.

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The Author

Thomas Trese grew up in Michigan, but now lives in Fort Worth in the U.S. state of Texas. His interest in to how the mind and brain functioned began in teenage years at high school. This desire to understand the inner thought process in this area intensified as he went through the various academia stages, they being attending the University of Michigan and Medical school which cumulated in a neurology residency. Shortly after that residency he up sticks with his family and headed for a sunnier setting in Texas, becoming the first neurologist of a new medical school there.

Over the years Thomas’ professional career path further developed as he entered private practice, serving as chief of staff at a main hospital and being on the national board of examiners of neurologists and psychiatrists.

It’s probably fair enough to say, that while Thomas’ professional life was flourishing his personal life for various reasons started to fray at the edges, Thomas would best describe it as a midlife crisis. But out of this testing time in his life surrounding marital issues a more modified Thomas Trese emerged as spirituality began to have a more profound affect not only on his day-to-day life, but on his whole approach to how he conducts life now as opposed to the past. Was this a Saul to Paul moment on the road to Damascus in his life?

Today Thomas is married to Dianne his third wife, who he describes as his wonderful wife, he goes on to say family life now is blended with six grandchildren and a young niece. Thomas retired some five years ago, but still has a medical license which allows him to do telemedicine monitoring of neurosurgical cases albeit remotely. And, in addition to writing fiction he has learnt to play steel guitar and become an exceptional cook in the kitchen. I’m led to believe his meatloaf causes quite a stir around the dining room table. I wonder if on his worldly travels he advocates to others around him his newfound culinary expertise. Maybe he’ll write a cookbook!

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The Book

The Heroes

When you look at this book, you’ll quickly establish there are three sections, Nashville, Midland/Odessa, and Chicago. Why the name to these three sections well that’s simply Thomas Trese telling you where the plot and the actions are primarily located. Within in each section there are numerous small chapters portraying a whole host of mini events, not only foretelling the accounts what’s going on in that point of the book but revealing some very interesting characters who bring their own characteristics to the overall theme of the book.

The story in brief is awork of religious fiction, offering the real faith journeys of ordinary people like a janitor, waitress, Uber driver, pizza delivery person and a social worker. It shares a message of faith moulded on adversity, teambuilding, plus reveals how God gifts the chosen as opposed to choosing those who are already prepared. 

So, what does a restauranteur from Seattle, an oil field foreman from west Texas and a burnt-out Chicago cop have in common, not much to start with but these three characters and seven other everyday Americans all connect in Nashville. Why Nashville? Well, all these individuals have answered an inner call to action that is to route out evil in their hometowns. There actions have caught the attention of a Christian TV network that brings them to Nashville for the Faith Hero Awards. Stephanie, Cody and Danny come in to contact with a spurious TV faith healer in Nashville, human and drug traffickers in Texas, and racial hate groups in Chicago while dealing with their own personal dilemmas around anger and control issues and substance abuse. Well, get your teeth into this lot is all I say.

The book with all its two hundred pages is exceptionally well composed, the characters and the narrative blend well to tell a story that for me is an easy read. This is a book that you can grapple with before turning the night light out. 

A great read. Well done, Tom. 

Social Media Sites

Webpage www.the-heroes-book.com

Publisher

WestBow press.

The book is available from the publisher’s website www.westbowpress.com  bookstore search Thomas Trese.

Thank you, Thomas, for giving me the wonderful opportunity if interviewing you about your fabulous book ‘The Heroes.’

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The Author

Joann Slead has a remarkable life. As a child she grew up on a farm in Kansas with a menagerie of farm animals. Riding the farm pigs thinking they were bucking broncos often got her and her brother into some rather sticky muddy situations, much to their mother’s disapproval.

After high school Joann attended Kansas State University (KSU) and following on from there she up sticks to the Golden State of California, where she obtained a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of California (USC) in Los Angeles. During her time at USC, she undertook the role of Undergraduate Political Advisor and was Adjunct Faculty in both Political Science and Public Administration. It was at this time in her life that she turned to Christianity as a way of life.

Progressing on from USC, Joann took a job as a relief worker at World Vision International, a large non-profit relief and development organisation. During her time with them she criss-crossed the world undertaking various projects to enrich lives of the underprivileged and disadvantaged, what she saw and witnessed on those missions had a profound impact on the rest of her life.

In 1966 Joann set up a sole proprietorship business providing services to non-profit organisations. Her portfolio includes countless technical documents for her clients, including major contributions to several books, designs and teaching of master’s degree classes on essential aspects of relief and development programs. Over the years she has served as speaker at several other non-profit organisations and churches.

Now Joann has elected to spend more time pursuing the things she enjoys most, such as writing Children’s books, telling stories and painting, particularly water colour sketches to which she best describes herself as still ‘A Novice.’ 

So, let’s have a look at her book.

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The Book

The Secret Life of Bears

By depicting Jesus in this book as the most lovey-dovey Papa Bear ever, Jesus’ love is shown in such a way that very young children relate easily to understanding that he is there for them no matter what their circumstances are. Jesus does not differentiate between social classes, creed, gender or background. A child is a child with a soul and that’s more important to Jesus above and beyond anything else.

What Joann Slead wants to do in this book is tickle your child’s heart as they learn all the things Papa Bear does for Baby Bear. It’s a sweet, enchanting book for 2–5-year-olds to enjoy reading or looking at as a bedtime read with a parent, grandparent or caring adult. The Illustrations are bright and vivid but relatable, creatively portrayed by Mohammed Daamouche giving colourful imagery in support of Joann’s simple but effective message, that being Jesus loves you, for who you are not what you are.

Social Media Sites

www.facebook.com/jslead1

www.instagram.com/jslead

www.linkedin.com/in/joann-slead

Webpage www.secretlifeofbears.com

Joann, thank you, for giving me this wonderful opportunity to chat to you both about yourself and your amazing book.

If you wish to purchase Joann’s book you can head to her webpage www.secretlifeofbears.com or alternatively go to her publisher’s webpage www.xlibris.com search bookstore Joann Slead.

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The Author

Brad A. LaMar when he’s not fighting evil Withes and wizards is an educator who resides in the Indianapolis Metropolitan area in the US. He has taught science to middle school students for more than twenty-five-years. He is married to his wife Lori who he describes as a beautiful and supportive woman and has two grown up children Evan and Paige who are making their own way in the world. 

The idea for the Celtic Mythos series came from his love of science fiction and fantasy and the underutilized and abundantly rich folklore of the Celtic people. They are so much more than leprechauns! Brad has always loved a good story, and upon reaching the mythos of the Celtic Isles he became enthralled in the type of story he could create.

Brad especially enjoys the way a story makes a reader think, laugh and react. He has worked hard to bring about those experiences in his best selling YA fantasy series, Celtic Mythos.

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The Books

The Obsidian Dagger
(Celtic Mythos Book One)

This book is aimed at 9–12-year-olds, the action- packed fantasy story is set in magical Ireland and Scotland featuring two American teenagers who happen to be brother and sister. Brendan and Lizzie O’ Neal.  A mad witch with extremely powerful magical powers who possesses an Obsidian Dagger threatens to eradicate mankind and overpower the magic clans of the Celtic Isles, Brendan and Lizzie are forced to intervene. They join forces with a desperate Princess Dorian of the Leprechauns and with her two loyal companions, Rory and Biddy. The story is wonderfully foretold over twenty-one chapters of highly creative imaginary writing and is all about the journey they undertake, the dangers and wonders they face as they venture across the Celtic lands to hamper the evil witch’s plans. Combating the witch’s mutated forces will test take their physical and mental strengths to new limits and beyond. Brendan quickly realises that the lines between reality, mythology and divinity can be extremely blurring at times.

The Megalith Union
(Celtic Mythos Book Two)

This second book in the series is twenty-two chapters of high-octane drama, from chance encounters, celebrations, Druids secrets, anxieties, plans, battles, pomp and circumstance and much, much more. Brendan now a college freshman and just as life is settling down fate intervenes, and the adventures start all over again. Elathan, the golden god of Celtic lore is reborn out of the ashes of a dead king and iniquitous witch. Through Brendan and his family, Elathan steers the tendrils of destiny as he seeks to achieve ultimate power over man. Hampered by giants, alphyns and ruas Brendan, Princess Dorian. Lizzie with a new set of characters set about disentangling the mystery of the Ultimate foe. Can Brendan and his allies prevent the end of time? As the megalith union reveals itself. Looking in the past to prevent a future  where Elathan reigns supreme is vital for Brendan.  

The Dominion Pulse
(Celtic Mythos Book Three)

Twenty chapters of exhilarating, edge-of-the-seat chain of events are about to reveal themselves in this book. Ruthless enemies, bonds, hunts, hidden thoughts, demons, warnings and giant challenges are just some of the topical issues exposed here. After losing his father to Elathan, Brendan is forced to regroup, recuperate and come to terms with the colossal responsibility that has been imposed upon him. Faced with the golden god’s ruthless plans and powerful allies to seize control of Otherworld, Brendan and his friends must regenerate their own power and resources to stop Elathan. Time is short for the heroes as the power of the enemy intensifies. How can the goddess Bibe assist them.

The Bloodline Inheritance
(Celtic Mythos Book Four)

The fourth book in this breath-taking series. Here we have a further twenty-three chapters that are going to capture the imagination of young and not so young readers alike. The journey in this book touches upon, best laid plans, the unexpected, visions of the crown, harsh realities, trials, mind games, rallies for war, battle wounds and finally the emerald crown plus many more themes. In his quest for immortality, Elathan seeks the Emerald Crown of the world, which possesses an ancient magic whose power is menacing. As earth’s rightful protector, Brendan must stop Elathan in his tracks to save man. However, with Brendan under a poison curse of his mind, the others must step up to the plate before it’s too late.

Brad’s publishers for The Celtic Mythos series are TorchFlame Books.

www.torchflamebooks.com  go to the Author’s page scroll down to Brad A. laMar and there you will find more information about the series.

Social Media Sites

www.YouTube.com/blamaslamaful

www.linkedin.com/in/brad-lamar-b862937a

www.bradlamar.com (Under development)

Awards

Other Books written By Brad A LaMar but not covered in this podcast.

Angler Island

Angler Island is a highly advanced, company-owned utopia of technological innovations that could help heal the world, but mysterious forces and insidious plots are at play. After a dangerous cruise-ship crash, Evan and his family join the residents of Angler Island banding together for the greater good and for the livelihood of all island survivors. Even finds some solace in meeting an alluring young woman named Taylor, but when he learns of a murderous plot, his world is sent into chaos. Action, adventure and danger await the people of Anger Island.

Publishers are Page Publishing.inc

Angler Island: The Crystal Cavern

With all the excitement and chaos behind him, Evan and his friends are ready to embrace the days ahead. Unfortunately, Kent and his henchman have other plans. Of course, Evan has Taylor, and everything will be amazing going forward…right? How will he react when a new threat to his relationship with Taylor and his existence on the island arrives.

Publishers are Page Publishing.inc

Zorp, The Twisted Breadman

In a world filled with dangerous natural phenomena, giant creatures that love to eat people, and overcooked stadium foods, lives the legend that is Zorp, the twisted breadman! The road was rocky for this pretzel genius, but the tale is exciting, humorous, and downright weird! Journey to this alien world and see what true courage, grit and food fights are about.

Publishers are Narrative Retail.

Brad this has been a wonderful experience for me to preview your books especially The Celtic Mythos series, and I’m glad that you accepted my invitation to come on the show. 

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