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- 121 - Land of Opportunity by Linda Dooks
The Author
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
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 book. I loved your zany character it made me laugh while we were putting this podcast together.
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Wed, 24 Apr 2024 - 51min - 120 - Legacy of The Melkizadek By Arthur Rutledge
The Author
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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The Book
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
Publisher
AuthorHouse: www.authorhouse.com Search Bookstore/Arthur Rutledge
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, Arthur, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to talk to you about your book ‘Legacy of The Melchizedek.’
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Wed, 24 Apr 2024 - 40min - 119 - An American Abduction: Is It Fiction Or Is It Happening? by James A Johnson
The Author
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 ResponseIt’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.comSocial Media Sites
https://www.facebook.com/authorjamesajohnson1
https://www.instagram.com/jjsbooks52
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-johnson-085410291Publisher
Writer Cosmos.
www.writercosmos.comPodcast 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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Wed, 17 Apr 2024 - 41min - 118 - The Name I Choose by Holly Brough
The Author
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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The Book
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:
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 FictionPodcast 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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Mon, 08 Apr 2024 - 42min - 117 - Moods of a Lake: and Selected Poems by Neil M. Noble
The Author
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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The Book
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-AJPodcast 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 the Roku and Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.
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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 - 37min - 116 - The Angel Falls Series by Charlene Tess & Judi Thompson
The Authors
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.
Check out our video chat here!
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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Mon, 25 Mar 2024 - 41min - 115 - We Will Never Forget by Gennie de Lange
The Author
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.
Here is a look at our video chat:
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:
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
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, 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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Tue, 19 Mar 2024 - 34min - 114 - The Forbidden Zone 1940 by Anne Angelo (Told by son Hugh Hyland)
The Author
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.
Check out our video chat here!
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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Sun, 17 Mar 2024 - 42min - 113 - BROADWAY 2020 The Ghost Light Year by Matt Petosa
A quote from Hugh Jackman
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.comPublisher
iUniverse
https://www.iuniverse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/837199-broadway-2020-the-ghost-light-yearPodcast 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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Fri, 08 Mar 2024 - 38min - 112 - Bitter or Better: The Melisa Schonfield Story
The Author
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.
Check out our video chat here!
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/schonfieldPublishers
Dorrance Publishing Co
www.dorrancebookstore.com
Search Bitter or Better by Melisa SchonfieldNew Publisher
www.urlinkpublishing.com
Search books under the Featured section, Melisa SchonfieldPodcast 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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Mon, 04 Mar 2024 - 52min - 111 - Everything has Meaning by Scott Roux
The Author
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.
Check out our video chat here!
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.comAwards
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-2023Publisher
Zamiz Press
www.Zamizpress.com Author Scott Roux
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 app on your television or visit:www.Expertsandauthors.tv online and click TALKING BOOKS.
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Wed, 28 Feb 2024 - 57min - 110 - He is Back: Ten pieces of Evidence by Salty Yeom
The Author
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.
Check out our video chat here!
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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Fri, 23 Feb 2024 - 28min - 109 - Storytime with Bob
The Story
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!!!
Check out our video chat here!
The Author
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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Fri, 23 Feb 2024 - 28min - 108 - A Boy’s Tail by Mark Rogers
The Author
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.
Check out our video chat here!
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
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 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.
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Fri, 23 Feb 2024 - 34min - 107 - “Peanut the Hamster” and “Oscar the Ferry Cat” by Molly Arbuthnott
The Author
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.
Check out our video chat here!
The Books
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-8b528764Tiktok: www.tiktok.com/mollyarbuthnott@mollyarbuthnott search Molly Arbuthnott
Wiitia: www.wikitia/mollyarbuthnott.comFREEDOM!!OSCAR THE FERRY CAT/by Molly Arbuthnott/Kids Books Read Aloud/ Kids Books Online9youtube.com)
How to Create an Enchanting Children’s Book? “Oscar the Ferry Cat,” Author Molly Arbuthnott Tells All
https://peanutthehamster.evenbrite.co.uk
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.
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.’
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Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 31min - 106 - The Story of my Soul by Helen P. Slater
The Author
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.
Social Media Site
www.thestoryofmysoul.com
www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088874367758
www.instagram.com/helenp.slater
www.twitter.com/helenpslater40Other 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
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 Crowley.
Thank you, Helen, for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about your book ‘The Story of my Soul.’
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Wed, 07 Feb 2024 - 38min - 105 - Sister Lost by Heather Hancock
The Author
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.
Social Media Sites
https://linktr.ee/heatherhancock_author
Publisher
Precious Pearls Publishing
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.tv online and click TALKING BOOKS.
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Thu, 01 Feb 2024 - 34min - 104 - MARYELLEN IS STUCK!!! by MaryEllen Perlini and Illustrated by Gail Jacaian
The Author
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/maryellenperliniPublishers
Xlibris- www.xlibris.com/search bookstore/ MaryEllen Perlini
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 Sticksteaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click Talking Books.
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Mon, 29 Jan 2024 - 29min - 103 - Finding Peace by Dr Rebecca I Payne
The Author
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.
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-paynePublisher
AuthorHouse: www.authorhouse.com Search Bookstore/ Finding Peace by Dr Rebecca I. Payne
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 Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit :www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.
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Wed, 24 Jan 2024 - 38min - 102 - A Sprig of White Heather and a Scottish Lass by Anne Angelo
The Author
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.
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.
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 opportunity to talk to you about your late mother’s book.
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Wed, 20 Dec 2023 - 35min - 101 - Real Estate Investing as a Lucrative Hobby and Tax Shelter by Daryl Deliman
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 YouTubesearch Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on Rokuand Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit https://www.ExpertsandAuthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS OR J T CROWLEY.
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 IncomeThere 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
Publisher
Authorhouse.
Webpage: www.authorhouse.com /Bookstore/search Daryl Deliman.
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Tue, 19 Dec 2023 - 46min - 100 - Walter Stephen Geeding Collection
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 Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit https://www.Expertsandauthors.tv online and click TALKING BOOKS.
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.
Check out our video chat here!
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 ReleasedJack 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 EditingThey’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 stageThe 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/@walterstephengeedingAwards
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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Fri, 08 Dec 2023 - 50min - 99 - Sharon Lynn and A Cotswold Crimes Mysteries Series
The Author
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…
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.
Other Books by Sharon Lynn
Malice Domestic 16: Mystery Most Diabolical
Malice Domestic 15: Mystery Most Theatrical
Malice Domestic 14: Mystery Most EdibleSoWest; 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/sharonlwritesThe Podcast
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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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Fri, 08 Dec 2023 - 48min - 98 - The Lilly Everlea Series
The Author
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-926387224The 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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Sat, 02 Dec 2023 - 33min - 97 - Frank Talaber Collection
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 YouTubesearch Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on Rokuand Amazon Fire Stickstreaming devices. Download the Experts and Authors appon your television or visit https://www.Expertsandauthors.tvonline and click TALKING BOOKS.
The Author
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 OneThis 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 OneEighteen 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 OneThirteen 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 songsAutumn’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/Frank38Awards 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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Wed, 22 Nov 2023 - 43min - 96 - The Heroes by Thomas Trese
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.’
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 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.
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Fri, 10 Nov 2023 - 55min - 95 - The Secret Life of Bears by Joann Slead
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 Rokuand Amazon Fire TVstreaming and cable channels under ExpertsandAuthors.tv. E&Atv click TALKING BOOKS SHOW.
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.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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Fri, 10 Nov 2023 - 28min - 94 - Talking Books with Brad A. LaMar
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 Roku and Amazon Fire TV cable streaming channels under ExpertsandAuthors,tv,E&Atv click TALKING BOOKS SHOW.
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.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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Wed, 08 Nov 2023 - 42min - 93 - The David V. Mammina Collection
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 YouTubesearch Talking Books hosted by J T Crowleyand now on Rokuand Amazon Fire TVstreaming channels under ExpertsandAuthors.tv. E&Atv click TALKING BOOKS SHOW.
The Author
David Mammina is an award-winning dark fantasy author from Long Island New York in the U.S. His novels are constructively created with characters of substantial bearing at the heart of his story telling. David’s ability to hold the reader’s attention throughout of all his books is simply breath-taking as the plots twists and turn. Apart from writing page-turners, David also teaches history to middle and high school students with learning disabilities and won the Distinguished Service Award in 2019. Themes of his acclaimed work include redemption of fallen heroes, good versus evil and the unity of those split by their differences in the face of adversity. The narratives foretold within the books are set in post-apocalypse, fantasy realms and current day. David Mammina’s visionary concepts around the storylines and the characters enclosed will appeal to those of you who love a good fiction read especially fantasy and in particular dark fantasy. Besides writing and teaching, David has created a deck building card game based around characters from his books. If you go to his website www.mamminabooks.com and click on card games, there you’ll see what I’m talking about. You can build your frontline defences with chosen warriors and sorcerers from the books and equally bring about the defeat of your opponent’s forces thus obliterating the evil powers they are capable of inflicting on others. Having chatted to David over the last two years I get the sense from the way he speaks he clearly supports Indie artists both in the writing and creative fraternity to develop and flourish. Another of his attributes is supporting those in society who come from a disadvantaged background, encouraging them to be who they are and not what those around them, what then to be. Accept people for who they are.
Check out our video chat here!
The Three Books talked about in the Interview.
Death or Volentus
This is David Mammina’s latest book, in his opening blurb he states that this book would be a perfect read for fans of gothic horror, steampunk, and dark fantasy. I must confess I’ve never heard of steampunk as a genre, so when I looked it up it’s a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retro-futuristic technology and aesthetics inspired by, but not limited to, 19th century industrial steam-powered machinery. So, there you go everyone, if steampunk is your thing well this book could be for you. The Narrative is about a fiendish figure who engages in a precarious mission to set free his nemesis from a perverted cult. Volentus is a necromancer (black magic sorcerer) whose formidable powers involve raising corpses to do his bidding and leading vast armies of the undead. Playing by his own rules and partnering up with an exceptionally talented vampire who would give no second thought to slicing off Volentus’ head if he suspected betrayal. You would think two powerful collaborators would easily control their destiny, but as in all of David Mammina’s books you must expect the unexpected.
This isn’t a particularly big book by David Mammina’s standards when it comes to writing epic plots. The ten chapters that tell the story are creatively well done interspersed with the odd symbolic images, out of the ten chapters I asked him to highlight two chapters that would show the book in its best light, he chose Chapter two ‘Three Years Lost One Golden Peril,’ and chapter five ‘All That Matters.’ Now I don’t always agree with David’s choice, but on this occasion I do. Look at those chapters to see why we both agree. Have a look at David’s webpage www.mamminabooks.com to find out more about the book.
Torn Asunder
This book which was put out in February 2022 is a novella of 181 pages. David Mammina has divided the story very cleverly into three acts and those acts contain twelve chapters excluding the epilogue which he heads up ‘Goodbye Is Not The End.’ The story involves around the Knights Templar; now there are many books that have been written about the Knights Templar with varying degrees of credence to them, but what caught my attention with this book and for me distinguishes it from others is the dexterity of the characteristics David has given to the characters to bring about a tale of clashes and conflicts that create a brilliant sense of realism that the reader can easily sense. The story starts in Nicaea 1328 AD and relays the account of how the world has changed for the Knights Templar of the eastern Byzantine Empire. Their defining role is somewhat diminished to escorting pilgrims and merchants through treacherous landscapes harbouring assassins and an encroaching Ottoman army, but on this occasion who is the girl they have been asked to chaperon to safety. If you want to know you’re going to have to read the book for I’m not about to reveal that. I asked David what parts of the book he thought best reflected the story and he hinted at chapter three in act one ‘Honoured Pass,’ and chapter eight in act two ‘The Lion’s Maw.’ For me however, chapter five in act one, ’Rite of Passage,’ and ‘Terminus’ chapter ten in act two. In ‘Rites of Passage I particularly enjoyed the scene where some of the knights were enjoying a supper of chickens, legumes and bread with some Georgian wine telling each other tales of their previous adventures as they sat across from each other around the fire. Have a look on David’s webpage www.mamminabooks.com to find out more about the book.
The Angels of Resistance
This is a substantial book that followers of dark fantasy and epic sci-fi buffs are going to want to read. If you’ve never read one of David Mammina’s books well take a look at this monster of a creation, he has written all six hundred and fifty six pages are stuffed with fast-moving plots, dangerous villains, demons, supernatural escapades and occurrences it’s a Mad Max meets Game of Thrones scenario built around a hero who lost everything to an evil force, a force that has never been confronted before an unknown quantity. I asked David to signal out two chapters that he felt really captured the essence if the book, I know that’s a difficult question for an author to pick out certain chapters particularly when you have written a book of this magnitude and complexity, but he did. For David Part one chapter eleven, ‘The Smoking Embers’ and in part two ‘The Reckoning.’ Why those chapters you might ask, well I’ll ask him in the interview, but for me chapter fourteen in part one ‘The Siege’ and chapter six in part two ‘The Eve of War.’ In ‘The Siege,’ the tense sex scene is sensitively written but packed with emotions and the role of the dagger plays a significant part with significant complications to follow. In ‘The Eve of War,’ what is it that burns within Shina and why is she the key to the demon plague’s conquest? The storyline is gripping. Have a look on David’s webpage www.mamminabokks.com to again find out more about this blockbusting saga.
OTHER BOOKS
(These books are also by David V Mammina)Redeem the Knight Trilogy
The ultimate and complete edition of Redeem the Knight series- Three books in one. Six hundred years after the assumed apocalypse, the New Vatican has raised an army of holy knights to usher in a rehabilitated world of order and light. Equipped with the Divine Mace and the Armour of God, these knights are exclusively chosen to defend righteousness and crush rebellious evil. While the holy order sets out to portray a greater example for the rest of the rising world, one of their own kind falls into darkness. A holy knight has committed terrible sins of vengeance against those allegedly responsible for killing his wife and child. In turn he has been exiled to Islandia, a nearby island to live out his days of solitude. This is the story of a disgraced paladin on a quest for redemption in a troubled world. Vol 1 Arl Baelin has been called upon to inspect suspicious hauntings in an infamous manor known as Midvein Mansion. However, in his quest to cleanse the mansion, he realises his path to redemption is not an easy one. Vol 2 After a clandestine band of sorcerers known as the Crimson Hoods rise out of ambiguity to take over Islandia, Arl Baelin, the controversial paladin turned national hero, must join forces with the Rising Sirens, a rag-tag group of freedom fighters, to take it back. Vol 3 Arl Baelin has one more test that he must pursue, a test that could save or destroy his world. In a final and deeply personal campaign to defeat his nemesis, the holy knight takes on his greatest challenge yet in a battle that holds all of the new world in the balance.
Of Freedom, Fear & Fantasy
Over ten years in the making, these unique short stories highlight seven uncanny moments in American history, present and future. Period pieces to excite, terrify and inspire, Of Freedom, Fear & Fantasy include several short stories told from different perspectives with the sole intention of expanding your horizons. Find yourself in the middle of epic battles at sea, get lost in the unknown horrors of the Old West, crack macabre cases in noir New York and even lead a risky mission on colonies of the moon.
Protector of Children
The Covert Alliance of Selective Termination is a secret society dedicated to silencing the most dangerous criminals in the country. For decades, this clandestine band of shadow assassins have slain thousands of suspect drug lords, terrorists, serial killers and everyone in-between. They see themselves as a noble and necessary evil, keeping the United States safe by their theory of ‘natural justice.’ But, what if one of their own kind succumbs to a different kind of fight, one for his own mind? Vincent Putnam has slain his fair share of demons, but also battles his share in his mind. Having been diagnosed with Schizophrenia, he suffers from visions and hallucinations that medication can’t fix. While a recurring dream names him the ‘Protector of Children,’ Putnam must still carty out the most secretive and personal mission of his life, A mission that will test his sanity to the extreme.
Paltronis
Theories of justice versus corruption are set here in Mammina’s dark fantasy fairy tale where a ghostly knight named Spirit Warrior dares to defend his people from an assortment of villains, including that of an evil, corrupt king and a vengeful sorcerer. In a quest to secure justice and peace, Spirit Warrior selflessly challenges all obstacles at once, giving rise to this epic saga, An excellent young adult novel for 7th grade readers up to veteran book worms! Containing fantastic sketches throughout. The Paltronis tale is told by Hanna the storyteller set in a fairy tale world with a dark twist.
Social Media Sites
Mammina Books website: www.mamminabooks.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/MamminaBooks
Instgram: www.instagram.com/davidvmammina
GoodReads: www.goodreads.com/author/show/2900229.David_V_Mammina
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/david-v-mammina-58326510
YouTube – Mammina Books & Games:https;// www.youtube.com/channel/UCNMWVqILg17sY9ngrp-0niQ
Awards
The Angels of Resistance(8 Awards) BRAG Medallion, Reader’s Favourite Silver Medal, Big Book Award, AudioBook Reviewer Award for Fantasy, Bronze Feathered Quill Book Award, Reader Ready Silver Medal, Maincrest Media Award, Fiction Grand Prize &Top Author of 2022 from Outstanding Creator Awards. (Honourable mention from Hollywood Book Festival).
Redeem the Knight Trilogy(5 Awards) Firebird Book Award, Indies Today Semi-Finalist, Reader Ready Gold Medal, Best Fantasy Series from Outstanding Creator Awards, Reader’s Favourite Silver Medal.
Torn Asunder(3 Awards) Author’s Circle Novel of Excellence. Second Place in Fiction from Outstanding Creator Awards, Firebird Book Award.
Paltronis(1 Award) Third Place in Fiction from Outstanding Creator Awards.
Thank you, David, for giving me the wonderful opportunity yet again to catch up with you and review your books.
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Fri, 03 Nov 2023 - 42min - 92 - The Arthurian Age Series by Sean Poage
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 Roku and Amazon Fire TV cable streaming channels under ExpertsandAuthors,tv,E&Atv click TALKING BOOKS SHOW.
The Author
Sean Poage is a historical fiction writer from Portland, Maine in the U.S. Travelling the world to see history up close for Sean, has been a long-time privilege. He grew up moving around all over the place with his family. Leaving High school with no career path or any idea of what he wanted to do in life, just like so many of us at that age, he joined the US Army. He served in the Military Police, he worked in law enforcement, field training and undercover drug investigations. His duties took him to Germany, Honduras, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Cuba just to name a few of the places. After serving several years he returned to civvy street working as a police officer in Florida as a patrolman, SWAT officer and gang investigator. Like the army these roles were physically challenging and after obtaining a BSc in Computer Networking Sean quietly transferred to the world of computing and is proud to call himself a computer geek or nerd. A return as an Army Reserve saw him back in Iraq, the second time as an investigator and the last time as a trainer supporting the Iraqi Police, Federal Police and Army in handling bomb scene investigations especially around IEDs.
Today Sean’s life is a little quieter, the only dangerous outings he and his family embark on are hiking and scuba diving, but the travelling in pursuit of historical facts and stories are still top of Sean’s adventures and probably will be for the rest of his life. Once a historical buff always a historical buff and as long as Sean is still alive the British King Arthur will carry on reigning.
Check out our video about it here!
The Books
The Retreat to Avalon (The Arthurian Age Book One)
Cover: Dmiitry Yahkovsky
Interior Sketches: Luka CacicThis book is quite a chunky book, so for those of you who love getting your teeth into a good-size book that’s going to take you on a historical journey starting in the 5th century AD then sit up and pay attention. The main story is masterfully told across twelve chapters, the historical detail, facts and what I would refer to as drawings as opposed to illustrations are meticulous, punctilious and painstaking researched all for the full effect of authenticity as you would expect from a book of this quality. However, stripping away the historical ingredients there lies within a phenomal story as I’ve already described as magisterially told that reveals the tale of Britain’s struggles with unmerciful invaders of that period ending, and an epoch of prosperity and tranquillity looming. Rome’s hold on its empire is showing signs of crumbling due to the constant onslaught of Barbarian attacks, internal corruption and civil war. Desperate for allies the last of the great Roman emperors looks to Britain for support particularly from the High King Arthur. Arthur believes the coming war is inevitable, but many within the realm are opposed to a fresh war, dissent and betrayal simmer beneath the surface of an already fractious allegiance between allies within the British kingdom, which could easily put Arthur’s grip on power in peril to the point of becoming undone, something Britain’s foes would easily exploit for their own advantage. Gawain son of Gwyar, a chieftain in northern Britain, is a young warrior craving fame and is swept up in Arthur’s wake as the king raises an army. Has Gawain bitten off more than he can chew by taking his people into one of the greatest battles of a generation? Most of us know that Gawain was known as the Green Knight in Arthurian legend and was one of the noble knights of King Arthur’s realm that sat at the round table.
The retreat to Avalon is the exciting beginning of the historical fiction trilogy The Arthurian Age, introducing readers to the origins of King Arthur and the world he lived and fought for.
The book also gives space to reference points, source information and backgrounds to the characters, who they were, their positions and the roles they had in the Arthurian Legends of King Arthur.
Publishers’ website for both books www.perseidpress.com
The Strife of Camlann (The Arthurian Age Book Two)
Cover and Interior Sketches: Dmitry Yahkovsky
Another book packed full of history, drama, battles, thrills, tension with lots of gallant heroism. The cover gives you an idea as to what to expect. Again, it’s a fair size book clearly Sean Poage doesn’t do slim versions. The epic story is written across seventeen gripping chapters and like in the first book there are parts of the book given over to reference points for you to educate your mind about how life was back then, plus a little bit of background to the characters and the sources he has drawn upon to compile this fabled blockbuster of a series. But to give you a quick heads up to set the scene for you King Arthur’s men have returned to Britain to keep the peace between the fractious allies across the land. Gawain is war fatigued he wants to start a family and forget about the war, but he carries a heavy burden, an oath to maintain a terrible lie, is it a lie though? Looming Conflicts continue to erode what peace there is in the land. The course of history, the future of the Britons will be determined at Camlann.
Three Wicked Revelations
(The Arthurian Age Book Three- Coming shortly)
The Storyline to this book I’m sure is going to be equally as powerful, if not more with perhaps closure to some of the events that have taken place in the previous two books. Book 3 is a prequal to book 1. Book 1 starts when Arthur is already king and preparing for war in Gaul. Book 3 goes back to the beginning of Britain’s independence from Rome and through Arthur’s life up to book 1. I understand that Sean had to do it this way because of an unexpected publisher’s request to make the series a trilogy. Some of the background details in books 1 and 2 are explained in book 3.
Hengist is a novella coming out in November 2023. It’s based on the thesis by JRR Tolkien that the first Anglo- Saxon king in Britain, Hengist, is the same person described in Beowwulf and The Finnsburgh Fragment. Sean builds a story around his thesis to show hoe Hengist may have come to Britain in the first place, and how it led to conflict with Vortigern and Arthur.
Truly these books are an unparalleled read.
Social Media Sites
Blog: www.seanpoage.com
www.facebook.com/author.sean.poage
www.instagram.com/seanpoageauthor
Sean, thank you, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to interview you about yourself and your breathtaking “The Arthurian Age “series. I can’t wait to see what you reveal in the third book.
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Thu, 02 Nov 2023 - 52min - 91 - The Puppet Show by Jason King
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 onRokuand Amazon Fire TVstreaming and cable channels under ExpertsandAuthors.tv. E&Atv click TALKING BOOKS SHOW.
The Author
Jason King was born in Michigan but has lived at a medley of places across the U.S. Throughout his adult years he has done a variety of jobs, currently as he so succinctly puts it slinging coffees and sarcasms at the local Tim Horton’s coffee chain as a side-hobby. Some side-hobby I say. Jason served in the US Airforce, based at Seymour Johnson AFB in North Carolina, where he served as a Readiness Specialist. While there he met his now wife Beth (Joanne Elizabeth). However, at the time Beth was betrothed to a friend of his and it wasn’t until years later that through Facebook they reconnected, fate and destiny springs to mind here. Throughout his service years Jason served abroad and earned two associate degrees. But for Jason as throughout all his life, the passion and love of reading and writing is what sustained him as a youth and still so to this very day, perhaps more so now as he follows his holy grail of being a renowned author respected both by the public and peers in the profession. So, let’s turn to his book.
Check out our video about it here!
The Book
The book was initially published on Amazon in February 2022, it’s a fair size book of 588 pages. The story is creatively and imaginatively written by Jason and to those superlatives you must add exquisite style and grammar. The narrative is told over 24 chapters of reasonably equal length. The subject matter within the confines of the pages tells the story of superheroes and normal people alike who possess exceptional abilities (Metahumans) to deal with loss, challenges, fears and anger issues, it also talks about the lengths some people will go to in order to control others, for me these are the narcissist characters that are extremely head strong with grit and determination routed into their characteristic makeup to achieve their aims and goals.
Delving further into the book you come across the trouble-shooters, assorted characters that when you look at their characteristics you would assume where everyday folk that you meet on the street, but they are characters who can kick-ass and get the job done, whatever’s necessary to protect the status-quo of the world.
The main character Thomas Brody alias code-name Shocking Blue, Jason King sets up as one of the Metahumans a newly identified class of humanity who are beginning to play a more notable role in society, despite being around in human history for some considerable time, albeit in small numbers, the metahumans are coming to the fore. The characters and their mannerisms interact extremely well with each other as they rub side by side in the tense, action filled, gripping plot. As I would expect from an author of Jason king’s ability the chapters are dotted with twists, turns, the unexpected and sit of your pants thrills and spills.
What a great book, it had me hooked right from the impressive start.
Thank you, Jason, for giving me this wonderful opportunity to talk to you about your book The Puppet Show.
Publishers
iUniverse: www.iuniverse.com Bookstore/search/Jason king to get the book or you can click the Amazon link below.
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Thu, 02 Nov 2023 - 50min - 90 - Robert Leet Collection
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 Roku and Amazon Fire TV cable streaming channels under ExpertsandAuthors,tv,E&Atv click TALKING BOOKS SHOW.
The Author
Robert Leet lives with his wife in Western Massachusetts in the US surrounded by a wildlife sanctuary. The natural world and all it has to offer is very important to him and the fight to protect that sphere from man’s destructive ways is a fight he believes is well worth championing to preserve what we have today is around in the future for the younger generation to enjoy just as much as we do now.
Robert Leet has been a structural engineer for some considerable time, a career he thoroughly enjoyed and continues to do so right up to the present day, so far, he’s been responsible for the design of hundreds of buildings. A structural engineer with a mathematical analytical brain writing books! Well, you might think that odd, I did at first, but when you take a closer look at Roberts background particularly his mother’s influence on him as a young child growing up in the states in the 50s and 60s you start to see his love of books stems from his mother’s own enthusiasm for literature who always made sure books where a part of everyday family life. As a child he read books that took the creative side of his brain to the world of Greek and Norse gods as well as the heroes that came with them. Summer holidays were spent sitting in the cab of his father’s furniture truck criss-crossing America and invariably Robert would have his nose buried in a book to alleviate the boredom of the long hours spent couped up in father’s cab. Robert remembers that back in those days there where no interstate highways and America was in the grips of racial segregation with many states especially the southern states adopting the Jim Crow Laws, ‘Jim Crow’ being a pejorative term for an African American. The books he read as a young child and what he saw and witnessed growing up through academia and his professional career path has shaped the Robert Leet we see today. It’s a pity he didn’t feel confident enough to write his books until recently, but thank goodness he did, for when you read them you ‘ll see a lot of there background comes from his own background just like many authors do drawing upon their own experiences in life.
So, let’s turn to the books.
Check out our video chat here!
The Books
Timewise
This book is 400 pages of page-turning sequences and events that will crab the attention of all you science and time fiction addicts. The story is divided into 31 chapters that perfectly reveal the plot at various junctures as the author transports you to perilous places. The book is rife with tension, conflict and suspicion just like a novel of this nature should be. Ron Larsen the main character is a modest, self-effacing teenager with little ambition in life apart from earning some pocket money from his chess matches. Regina Russo is an aberrant physicist of renowned beauty and decadence with whom he develops a loving relationship. As that bond develops Regina takes on the role of mentor and entices Ron on a journey of discovery of what time is, but more importantly of what time is not. As they plummet into unchartered waters with experiments that are too dangerous to be revealed, they find themselves enmeshed in all sorts of situations. Fearing discovery as to their searchings they are compelled into secrecy, but the battles they have with a rogue FBI agent who considers them to be state terrorists really does muddy the waters, but this aspect of the story enhances the overall conspiracy buried within the pages.
For me the brilliance of the storyline along with the creative writing Robert Leet has adopted leaves me with nothing more to say, but ‘A job well done and executed.’
Resonant
This is the second book Robert Leet has written and it is in some ways very different to his first book Timewise which he planned several years beforehand. Resonant is a smaller book with the story been written very concisely in 24 Chapters and just over 200 pages. When you look at the introduction Robert Leet reiterates the concept of Timewise and that it tackled a subject Richard Feynman called the only inscrutable problem in Quantum Physics, namely making sense of the two-slit experiment. In Resonant he daringly examines another compulsive area in science which evolves around how reality aligns itself in levels of scale that oddly enough are divorced from each other. From small to large you have the various scientific fields of Quantum, Relativistic, Newtonian, Planetary, Astro physics alongside chemistry and biology. Now we all know each scientific area has its own origin and thinking but can they be viewed multilaterally as a seamless existence for the common good.
This conceptual visualisation is told through the eyes of an aging mathematician, an inner circle of friends, humpback whale language, nature of numbers, structure of matter, and conflicts with the US Navy and the whales themselves. Resonant is a mind-blowing book that stands on its own, cleverly written and extremely interesting to read.
Publishers for the above books are Porter Field Publishing. You can get the books on the website below.
Social Media sites
I’m extremely thankful to Robert for giving me this wonderful opportunity to interview him about his books which I found thoroughly absorbing. When I first looked at them, I thought this is an author I sincerely hope I get to interview, so when he accepted my invitation, I was over the moon, and I must confess I have loved working with him to create this podcast.
Thanks Robert.
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Thu, 02 Nov 2023 - 52min - 89 - Dr Penny Clauss Collection
The Podcast
This podcast is available to listen to on all the 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 TV streaming and cable channels under ExpertsandAuthors.tv. E&Atv Click TALKING BOOKS SHOW.
The Author
Dr Penny Clauss known as P.Clauss in the writing fraternity, is a veterinary surgeon from Dallas, Texas. As a child she loved reading books, so much so she would create stories in her head but keep them there, thinking that no one would be interested in her tales. How wrong she was. It wasn’t until years later that with encouragement from her husband David, a clockwork master, that she finally plucked up the courage to publish her writings. Let’s just say thank goodness she did, for her books are beautifully manuscripted with intriguing and at times spine-tingling thoughts and storylines. Penny has dipped her toe into various genres from illustrated children’s books to Christian Devotionals and lately Sci-Fi and dark fantasy.
Check out our video chat here!
The Books
Cat Hunters
This stunning exhilarating book I found gripping from start to finish, the forty-four chapters all pack powerful punches as the story reveals itself. The plot is set in bygone times with the fall of mankind when a great technological civilization folded, those that remain turn to non-human predators led by Cat-kind in order to survive. Humans no longer hunts cats, but hunts with them instead just to exist. Five unequivocal tribes co-exist, but to ensure peace is maintained between the tribes and that lands and resources are fairly apportioned the Hunter Tribe system is configured. Each of the five tribes has a spiritual leader elected to the Council of Spirits, for the Cat Hunters this is Kilala a young woman whose past has shown a deep bond with all cat-kind coupled with a strong ability to command the Sentinels. Despite her strong credentials for the role ahead of her Kilala still needs the support of a strong mentor to ensure she delivers due diligence with the powers she has acquired, as those powers are unknown and untested. Kilala has friends but equally she has treacherous enemies to contend with, enemies who are eager to see the Hunter Tribe system destroyed with the sole purpose of keeping autonomous ruling power for themselves. Can Kilala save the tribes from the reign of chaos and upheaval so that all who live in the Land of Ritigabid can do so peacefully. The other Hunter tribes are Dog, Bear, Eagle and Snake.
What a riveting book.
The Cloud Rider series
These books exist in a world far into the galaxy among ancient barriers of toxic clouds.
The Underlands Revealed- Book 1
In a world far into the galaxy, are two lands divided by an ancient barrier of toxic clouds, the Overlands and the Underlands. Centuries have passed since the genesis of the toxic cloud layer. The overlanders have no concept or knowledge of those beneath the clouds as the Underlanders struggle to live in a land of shadow and poison. An ancient prophecy told of a Reunitor that would be given the means and comprehension to free the lands of the toxic barrier and reunite the people would be gratified. Ka’star is a reckless narcissist young prince from one of the Overland Mountain top Kingdoms. Faced with an unexpected change to his life Ka’star finds himself in the Underlands with no way back to his kingdom. After struggling to adjust to his new life he realises he has a destiny beyond anything he had ever dreamed. Ailyean, the prophetess of the Underlands believes that the Reunitor has come, but when Ka’star is revealed as the Reunitor she’s baffled as to the creator’s choice, nevertheless she’s determined to see the prophecy of the reunification of the people and the lands fulfilled as had previously been foretold.
The Overlands Visited – Book 2
From the Overlands Mountain top Kingdoms to the clans of the Underlands, the pieces for an ancient power scattered throughout the Lands are brought together to fulfil the centuries old prophecy. Ka’star and Ailyean, along with their companions, are poised to complete their destiny. But a shadow hovers over their impending victory as both Ka’star and Ailyean find that their places of birth have been betrayed and their people oppressed. They come to realize that powers are in motion to threaten the anticipated joy of the removal of an ancient barrier and the freedom of the newly reunited land.
Mysteries Revealed – Book 3
The toxic cloud barrier has gone, the people of the Overlands and the Underlands are free to reunite. But not if the destroyer has his way. Determined to prevent reunification, he unleashes an evil arsenal…
War is on the Horizon, confusion intensifies, some of the Overlander Kingdoms are ready to invade the Underlander’s lands who are ill-prepared, doubts swirl around Ka ’star’s authenticity as the Reunitor as fresh Overlander claims immerge re the legitimacy of another Reunitor being the bona fide Reunitor. Old mysteries are answered but fresh ones appear, will the two lands reunite in this epic concluding finale of the Cloud Riders series, or has Dr Penny allowed herself enough wriggle room to write book 4 of this breath-taking and perplexing series.
Other Books by P.Clauss
Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books
The Time Keeper’s Chronicles; Book One- Time Stealers, Book Two- Time Stealers: Hope Eternal, Book Three- Time Stealers: Royal Stain.
Path of Totality
Devotional Books
Songs From a Believing Heart
Morsels From the Father’s Table Volume 1
Morsels From the Father’s Table Volume 2: Thoughts of Salvation
Morsels From the Father’s Table Volume 3: Fears, Anxieties, and Worries
Morsels From the Father’s Table Volume 4: Walking the Walk
Morsels From the Father’s Table Volume 5: The Collection
Morsels From the Father’s Table Volume 6: ABC Bible Journey for Adults
Morsels From the Father’s Table Volume 7: Holiday Edition
Asking God …A Prayer journal for Men
Asking God …A Prayer Journal for Women
Children’s Books
Just Kid’s Stories/ or are They: A Collection
Snaringsnorts and Hissnpoots: Defending the Kingdom of Cats
Social Media Sites
If you want to know more about Dr Penny Clauss then head for her webpage where you will also be able to buy her books.
Website: www.authorpclauss.com
email: authorpclauss@gmail.com
If you wish to buy, share or preview the books we have spoken about in this podcast then you can simply click the Amazon links below, or as I have already said go to her webpage www.authorpclauss.com
Once again, Dr Penny, thank you, for allowing me to interview you for third time about your many different books.
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Mon, 16 Oct 2023 - 44min - 88 - The Will Stebbings Collection
The Podcast
This podcast is available to listen on all major social podcast platforms, searchTalking Books hosted by J T Crowley.The video is available on YouTube search Talking Books by J T Crowleyand now on Roku and Amazon Fire TVcable channels under ExpertsandAuthors,tv. E&Atv Click TALKING BOOKS SHOW.
The Author
Will Stebbings was keen to point out that he was born at a very early age, weren’t we all is my response to his opening line about himself. This satirical comical tone is very much in evidence throughout all of his books, it becomes natural to him, probably because he’s had years to hone his dry acerbic wit to a fine art. (Grumpy old man living with a delightful lady Wife) would probably be the sign above his front door in order to ward off unwanted personages. He was born in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, a small town on the East Coast of England, where he was raised by what he proudly describes as working-class parents along with three other siblings. In 1960 he passed the eleven plus exams that entitled him to attend the all-boys King Edward VII grammar school which he left five years later with six O levels. His early working life was varied but he would describe those days as lacking in excitement. In 1977 he was made redundant and was forced as he so ardently puts it to seek employment in the computer industry, an industry albeit with numerous employers saw him through to retirement in 2013.
Coincidently in the same year that he was made redundant (1977)) he married Yvonne and moved to Swaffham and then in 1979 to Little Melton outside of Norwich. In 1983, he and his wife Yvonne moved to an idyllic village in Rutland an area of the UK renowned for its natural wildlife and countryside, and to this day they still live there. Will has two sons David, married with two children lives in Sheffield where he has his own business, and John who lives a little closer to home is a professional jazz musician who performs with several bands including his own Jay Stebb Jazz Quartet. He has published books on jazz tuition. Yvonne his wife has also published work in her own name around illustrated stories for pre-school children.
Check out our video chat here!
The Books
There are Seven books in the collection, three stand alone and four that make up The Mark Barker chronicles (Quadrilogy)
Let’s start with the Mark Barker series:
Off the Mark
The story is set in Norfolk in the 1960s and evolves around the experiences in life of Mark Barker the main protagonist who is sixteen and as just left school. The story starts with his last day at school and all the good-byes followed by his ride back home on his clapped-out old bike. The year is 1965 and like many young teenagers of that period and age range he had no clear path as to what to do with the rest of his life. Like most sixteen-year-olds with no or little experience with the adult world or with girls, Mark over the summer months sets out for himself four objectives to be achieved and they are:
- Get a decent Job. Get some decent clothes. Get more experience with girls. Get a new Bike.
Having accomplished his targets, the story opens to reveal all his exploits of how he goes about executing his future aspirations from his first day at work prior to modern technology to his many attempts to engage with girls. Mark a shy sensitive boy from a working -class background fumbles his way around the daunting world of women as his attraction to the wrong type of women and ill-judged blind dates get him nowhere. For many this first book in the series will set the groundwork for the other books that follow which complete the series mapping Marks Barker’s life out until almost the present day. Again, for many this series of books will be a trip down memory lane and a lot of us will be able to identify with so many of the characters that feature here. What, is dominant throughout the books is the humour, the jokes, of which Mark relies on so heavily to get him through all his exploits, affairs and life in general.
Further Off the Mark
This amusing Sequel to Off the Mark, finds Mark Barker who’s now nineteen has moved on from his innocent awkward days but yet his dalliances with young lady’s ranges from woeful, disastrous, again ill-judged and mis-timed to occasionally promising, and when you read the book you can’t but feel that Mark is developing a penchant for older women with whom he feels more comfortable as he adopts a more liberal approach to his sexual desires.
The story also reveals Mark’s career in the office where he works faltering, his frustrations are quite apparent, and he starts to look for new opportunities with the new departments. The Disco scene which was so prevalent in the seventies is very much in evidence in the storyline as Mark an avid Soul lover with all his treasured vinyl records DJs at various nightclubs as a means of getting out to meet people in particular young girls. Again, many of us will resonate with the characters and the storyline especially for guys Mark’s trouble with his cars, for as we all know in those days cars where badly made and after a few years on the road they were nothing but glorified rust-buckets that required an awful amount of patching up. There was nothing more embarrassing when going out on a date the car would breakdown or parts would fall off on the road as you drove from A to B. The book for many will be a great stroll down memory lane. For me the book is full of humour, and I particularly laughed at the story of the young hippy lady trying to entice Mark to partake in some good old weed. Al the chapters in the book each have a heading relating to a sixty’s soul record representing the contents within.
Completely Off the Mark
This is the third book that the author wrote, and it tells the story of Mark Barker’s journey in life from 1971 a young twenty-five-year-old to 2016 Mark now retired in his sixties. The book is predominately set in the 1970s the era of hot pants, flares, Oxford Bags, disco music and power cuts due to the miners’ strikes in the UK then. Mark is in the doldrums, his relationships with women are very much hit and miss, his Job prospects as a computer programmer are tenuous and of course more trouble besets him with his bad choice cars which keep falling apart a bit like his own life. Will things settle and turn around for Mark Barber, I’ll let you the reader find that out for yourselves. Again, the title headings of the chapters within this book are linked to soul records of the sixties and seventies.
Having looked at this series I can’t but wonder how much of the character of Mark Barker is the author himself really reliving his own like through the characteristics he gave the protagonist Mark. Hmm…
Mark’s out of Eleven.
Now, oddly enough despite this being the fourth book in the series that Will Stebbings wrote, it’s the prequal to the entire series, why you might well ask? Well having chatted to Will about this he decided having written the previous three books he felt the Life off Mark Barker was incomplete, so he wrote this book which covers Mark’s young teenage years at secondary school from the age of eleven through to sixteen. Mark has won a place at the all-boys Parkside grammar school. Having two sons at an English grammar school places huge financial constraints on his parents who are hard working-class folk. Mark must wear his older brother’s hand me down school uniform, while those around him turn up at the start of term with brand new Uniforms. The school’s rigid, strict and somewhat draconian discipline rules which are pretty much in keeping with that 1960s era are challenging for Mark Barker, a sensitive young character. The teaching methods and practices of some of the teachers are highly dubious to say the least but they were attitudes and ways that were deemed acceptable at the time, now-a-days those standards would be questionable if not banned outright. With it being an all-boys school at the start Mark finds that easy to get a long with, but when puberty issues kick in and having no girls at school or very much in his life Mark starts to see life from a different perspective and doesn’t like most boys of his age back then adjust easily, he’s apprehensive and nervous around the opposite sex. It’s a great book that will take many readers back in time but the humour that Will Stebbings has instilled in the pages is well worth exploring.
The Stand-Alone Books Are
Tess of the Dormobiles
Theresa Finbow is an author who has taken a cottage in a quiet area of Norfolk while she starts work on her next novel which is to be called Tess of the Dormobiles. The central character Tess is an adventurous woman to get into Tess’ way of thinking Theresa Finbow needs to model herself on her character. However, there are pitfalls with this approach which inevitably brings her into contact with some unsavoury characters like Billy the nearby farmer worker who is prone to fits of violent outburst and is embroiled or shall I say implicated in the death of his ex-girlfriend. Having faced an unpleasant scenario with Billy. Theresa asks her estranged husband to rescue her from this precarious situation she landed herself in, but that time is limited, and her husband soon returns to his own life, leaving Theresa to face her demons alone and that includes Billy’s older brother who is more ruthless and sinister. It’s an eye-catching read, with many twists to the plot. I enjoyed it, the characters blend very well together and really makes the plot realistic and tense as a book of this nature should be.
A Bang on the Head
What an endearing story line. Rob Lennard a is playing football in his back garden with his grandson Barney when he’s unfortunate enough to slip backwards and bang his head. The book starts off with Rob waking up in hospital completely unaware as to what has happened and oblivious to the fact that he has been in a coma for two days at least. Having gone through various tests to make sure he’s physically fine the doctor’s discharge him. The outcome of this event leaves him with his immediate short-term memory intact, plus his memory when he was twenty when he was dating Kate who died in a car accident. The years in-between are a complete blank to him, he doesn’t even recognise his own wife Julie of some considerable time nor his children and grandchildren. It takes Rob to adjust to modern life as all that has been wiped away, the only thing that he remembers is Kate the girl he planned to marry when he was in hie twenties. It takes a car journey to jolt his lost memory to be restored, the outcome has a severe knock-on affect for him. If you want to know what happened, well you’re going to have to read the book. A great story Will.
Happy is a Grumpy Road
I loved this story of Ralph a grumpy old gentleman who having lost his wife Alice five years ago, having spent a lifetime together is very much stuck in both in the past and in his ways. His daughter in law suggests that he registers with some dating app platforms to see if he could hook-up so to speak, with some ladies of his age range for companionship and may be something else. Reluctant at first, Ralph warms to the idea and registers with one platform to start with. His dates that generally start off in the local coffee shop are interesting to say the least, however the experiences he has on those dates vary enormously from being taken for a ride, being led up the garden path to some of his dates opening his mind to the fact that some of these ladies aren’t quite what he’s expecting. Having had little or no luck with those on this dating app after several months, he decides to register with another dating app to widen his horizons so to speak. The experiences and dalliances he has with each date are entertaining and of course infused with humour which you come to expect from Will Stebbings the author. What I found amusing was the male banter between himself and Jack and old workmate he has reconnected with after many years, there pub gossip over several pints about each of Ralph’s dating encounters is encapsulating and outright hilarious.
Social Media Platforms
https://www.facebook.com/will.stebbings.71
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100075629246918
https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-stebbings-97344956/
Thank you, Will, for giving me the golden opportunity to chat to you about yourself and your books. It’s been a blast!
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Mon, 16 Oct 2023 - 39min - 87 - Children’s books Collection by Linda Harkey
The Podcast
This Podcast is available to listen 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 TV cable streaming channels under ExpertsandAuthors,tv,E&Atv click TALKING BOOKS SHOW.
The Author
Linda Harkey is a multi-award-winning children’s author from Angel Fire in the Sangre De Christo Mts in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Living on thirty acres ten thousand feet above sea level has its advantages and disadvantages. The advantages are the stunning scenery, the spectacular wildlife of black bears, mountain cougars and elk for company as well as a cooler mountain climate a welcome blessing from the searing summer heat that scorch the lands below. The disadvantages are your neighbours are not quite on your doorstep to pop in for a coffee and chat unless you’re a cougar or black bear, and local amenities and appointments are good hours’ drive down a mountain road to the nearest community of Taos. The winter snows come early and can last for several months and at times Linda and her husband can be cut off from the world for days on end. However, they are happy living there with their adorable hunting dogs, whom many of the books are based on. This idyllic mountain home has been Linda and Mike’s home for some time now having lived in numerous places across the U.S. and as Linda says, she and Mike and their hunting dogs are at home in the mountains.
Linda is a past teacher and an enthusiastic hunting dog owner for more than 30 years, plus she has spent at least 20 odd years as a volunteer docent at two of Oklahoma’s outstanding museums. Apart from being married to Mike a retired surgical pathologist for more years than she cares to recall, she has two children and three Grandchildren and one great grandchild, plus of course a whole menagerie of German Shorthaired pointers hunting dogs both present and past.
Check out our video chat here!
Books
There are nine books in the collection and the general concept behind them all is to help young children transition to chapter books from predominately picture books, but equally have fun reading and learning about animals in their natural habitat as they themselves get up to all sorts of mischief as they go about their daily lives.
My favourite Characters are Zeke the ticked colour coated hunting dog who thought he was a cut above the others in the pack, Tripod the three-legged hunting dog, Deacon who had a penchant for eating books, Chatty the Pheasant Hen, Willie the Crow and Blake Jake, the Turkey, and Rodney the Road Runner.
CONGRATULATIONS LINDA ON WINNING “BEST BOOK FRIDA FILM FESTIVAL ORSON WELLS IN PARIS AWARDS 2023 FOR DESERT FRIENDS EDITION TWO
The five Books covered off in the Podcast
Hickory Doc’s Tales (The Pack: First Generation).
Chicorees Hickory Doc, the oldest and wisest of five German Shorthaired Pointer hunting dogs, lives at The Lazy Dog Hacienda Kennels on Shorthaired Boulevard, Oklahoma. Folks just call him Doc. This book tells the humorous tales of life at the kennels, the relationships between the pack members and their interactions with humans as well as the mishaps with the porcupines and the cactus.
Awards for this book:
2021 International Impact Book Award: Children’s Education
2021 Pinnacle Book Achievement Award: Best Books Animals and Pets
2021 Firebird Book Awards: Children’s Early Readers (5-8)
2021 Hollywood Book Festival: Children’s Books- honourable mention
2021 Literary Titan Four-star review
2021 Literary Titan Book Award- Best Book
2021 Royal DragonFly Book Award- pets/animals
RWYK (Reading with your kids)- Certified Fun Read
2020 International Book Awards -Finalist Children’s Fiction
2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award- Finalist Series (Fiction)
2019 Purple Dragonfly Book Contest- First Place Animals/Pets
2019 American Fiction Award- Finalist Juvenile Fiction
2019 American Book Fest “Best Book” Awards- Finalist Children’s Educational
2019 13th Annual National Indie Excellence Award-Finalist
The Remarkable story of Willie the Crow: A Hickory Doc’s Tale.
One day Doc and Patch are napping on the porch at the Lazy Dog Hacienda Kennels, when a young black crow swoops down and lands on Patch’s head. This is how the dogs meet Willie, a crow with bad eyesight who befriends Patch. The other dogs don’t care for Willie so much, but wise old Doc encourages the friendship so that Patch can learn about birds. Then one day Patch falls in the swimming pool and like Doc and Zeke she can’t swim, so Willie is sent to find Newt to rescue Patch. Will he make it in time.
Awards for this book:
2022 Literary Titan Book Awards-Gold Book Award
2022 Literary Titan Five-Star Review
2021 B.R.A.G.Medallion – Children’s
2021 Little Peeps Children’s Book Awards for Early Readers and Picture Books-shortlist semi-Finalist
2021 New England Book Festival Winners- Children’s Books- Runner up
2020 RWYK- Certified Great Read
2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award- Finalist Series Fiction
Chatty the Hen Pheasant Travels with the Pack.
Chatty is a humorous Hen Pheasant who loves adventures, she’s smart and knows how to outwit Nassau a Labrador Retriever whose official name is Cimaroc Lucky Nassau, a name given by the Great One (The Human Owner). It’s a story of the playful antics of both characters set in a snowstorm on a bleak grey November day in South Dakota. Nassau is keen to impress his owner (The Great One) on the hunt, he flushes out Chatty under the snow. Thinking he’s done a great job he learns that there are rules to follow on a hunt so is disappointed when The Great One tells him to release Chatty as she’s a hen. This gobby little hen Pheasant will melt kid’s hearts. She’s not daft.
Awards for this book:
2022 Mom’s Choice Awards- Silver Award Recipient
2022 Firebird Book Award Winner- Children’s Pre-School Ages 2-4
2022 Spring Reader’ Choice Book Award- Best Children’s Book (3-7) Finalist
2022 London Book Festival Children’s Books- winner-honourable mention
2021 Story Monsters Approved Winner- Board Books (Birth- Age 3)
Blakes Jake’s Unusual Day Travels with the Pack.
Blake Jake Turkey lives with his flock in Magnum, Oklahoma. This endearing story is all about the day Blake Jake encounters Rush an annoying hunting dog on the day he was caught napping in between lessons on how to make an emergency take off from the tall grass when the alarm call is given. What Rush doesn’t know, nor is he prepared for is Blake Jake’s friend Homer the Hereford Bull, who has his own ideas on how to deal with wayward hunting dogs like Rush. Poor old Rush it wasn’t his day.
Desert Friends 2nd Edition Travels with the Pack.
Animal friends in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona are found in all sizes, shapes and colours. Rodney a roadrunner and his best friend Quincy, a Gambel’s Quail, spend days racing each other through dry creek beds called arroyos. One day Rodney and Quincey encounter two hunting dogs Gator and his three-legged buddy Tripod. Danger surrounds the four friends as a thunderstorm approaches which brings flash floods to the area filling up the creeks. The force of the water sweeps Tripod away. Oh no! who will rescue Tripod before The Great One arrives.
Awards for this book Edition 1: Edition 2 has only just come out September 2023
2023 Best Book Frida Film Festival Orson Wells in Paris Awards
2023 Chicago Script Award
2023 Story Monster Press Fall 2023 selection for sustainability and the environment
2023 Story Monsters Purple Dragonfly Awards- Animals/Pets First Place (Tie)
Best Cover design-Honourable Mention- Best Illustrations Honourable Mention
2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award- Finalist, Best Overall Design
2023 BookMad Magazine
2023 BREW Book Excellence Awards – Winner Children’s Illustrated Category-
2023 BREW Book Excellence Awards -Finalist- Children’s Illustrated
2023 Reader Ready Awards Winner- Top Picks
2023 Southern California Book Festival- Nature/Animals- Winner
2022 American Writing Awards – Animals/Pets – General Finalist
2022 NABE Summer Pinnacle Book Achievement Award Winner- Animal/Pets
2022 Mom’s Choice Awards- Silver Award Recipient
2022 American Writing Awards- Finalist
2022 Story Monsters Approved Winner- Picture Books Age 3-8, Early Readers, Middle Grade and Making a Difference
The Other Four Books in the Collection but not covered off in this Podcast due to time.
Solitary Toes and Brown Headed Cowbirds: A Hickory Doc’s Tale.
This endearing book shares a humorous story depicting the relationships between horses, cowbirds, and hunting dogs. Doc the old wise dog is expected to keep the pack in line on hunting expeditions, but when a new animal is added into the mix, things get interesting.
Awards for this book:
2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award- Grand Prize Short List Finalist
2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award -Legacy Fiction Category First Runner up
2022 Eric Hoffer Book Award- First Horizon Award Finalist
2022 Literary Titan Book Awards- Silver Book Award
2021 Firebird Book Awards- Nature
2021 Hollywood Book Festival-Sequels
2021 American Fiction Awards – Children’s Fiction (Ages 3-6)
2020 RWYK- Certified Fun
2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award- Finalist Series (Fiction)
The Wayward Path of the Devil and Mr Snake in the Garden of Eden.
Percy the dove and Lucy the lamb help both Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. One day the Devil and his assistant Mr Snake sneak into the garden. Why does God forbid Adam and Eve to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad? What tricks do the Devil and Mr Snake use on Eve? What happens to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?
Awards for this book:
2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards- Finalist- Christian Fiction
Doc’s Dog Days: A Hickory Doc’s Activity Book.
Doc’s Dog Days workbook includes portions of stories from the book series. These are humorous educational, character building, and portray many of life’s lessons. They help young readers to transition to chapter books. Teachers can use this workbook as activities for the series or stan alone projects for students. The students can use their creativity to finish each story either ne writing paragraphs, drawing their own illustrations, or colouring the existing ones.
Awards for this book:
2021 Next Generation Indie Book Award- Winner Activity Books of All AGES
2021 Next Generation Indie Book Award-Finalist Animals/Pets
2020 Eric Hoffer Award- Book Category Finalist
Doc, Willie and the Pack: Secrets, Gifts, Family: A Hickory Doc’s Tale.
This book is the continuing funny saga of the five hunting dogs and their everyday encounters with all kinds of animals. Doc and the Pack discover that Willie the crow has bad eyesight, but he has a big secret. Can Willie convince the pack that he is part of the family? Will the pack discover Willie’s secret? What does Zeke think to Willie’s big secret? The adventures continue at the Lazy Dog Hacienda kennels with Doc, Willie and the pack.
Awards for this book:
2022 Literary Titan Book Awards- Gold Book Award
2022 Literary Titan Five -Star Review
2021 American Fiction Awards- Children’s Picture Book Soft Cover Fiction
2021 Royal Dragonfly Book Award- Children’s Picture Books
2021 Southern California Book Festival- Children
2020 Next Generation Indie Boom award- Finalist Series (Fiction)
Social Media Platforms And Where You Can Get The Books From
www.storymonsters.com/bookstore/lindaharkey
www.archwaypublishing.com/bookstore/lindaharkey
Illustrator
Mike Minick has illustrated eight of Linda’s nine books, he’s a graphic designer as well as an illustrator, he lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma with his wife Joey and their two children.
You can connect with Mike Minick at www.notionboxcreative.com
All I need to say now is thank you Linda Harkey for again giving me the opportunity to interview you about your amazing Children’s Books. Roll on Zeke!!!
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Sat, 30 Sep 2023 - 36min - 86 - Talking Books With Paul Jones
The Podcast
This podcast is available to listen 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 TV cable channels under ExpertsandAuthors,tv. E&Atv Click TALKING BOOKS SHOW.
The Author
Paul Jones was born in Pine Bluff Jefferson County, a small town in the US state of Arkansas that lies to the south of the state capital Little Rock. He was raised by his mother who was a pivotal figure in his life. Today he lives with his wife Candice to whom he has been married to for sixteen years. He has two sons from a previous marriage, Justin and Jordan who as a devoted father mean so much to him, not to mention Brentley his Goddaughter who he dotes on to say the least.
At the age of fifteen Paul left home having completed high school, he served in the US Armed Forces as well as serving as a law enforcement officer and Prison officer. At the age of fifty-eight sees himself as retired with a new full-time passion in his life, writing. If you ask his friends how they see him in relation to cars they’d describe him as a ‘car nurd.’
Paul is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc, which is the first intercollegiate African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organised in the 1905-1906 school year of Cornell University. Today its aims are, “Manly Deeds, Scholarship, and Love for All Mankind,” aspects that underpin the core of what Paul Jones as a man upholds and believes steadfastly in. Paul has a bachelor’s degree from American Intercontinental University in Criminal Justice, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude (with the highest distinction).
In addition to the books, we are going to chat about in this podcast Paul has written a further two books, Standing Alone and A flavour of Stories. If you want to know more about those books, then you can listen to the previous interview we did in March last year on Webtalkradio.
Paul has received numerous awards throughout his life and most recently the Trafford Publishing Gold Seal of Literary Excellence.
For the purpose of this podcast, we’re going to review the following books.
Check out our video chat here!
Waking Up Jake’s Story Part 1
This is the story of Jake a man who most of us can identify with. For all of us our life story starts with our birth but the journey we take is different for everyone as we face our dreams, aspirations, issues and temptations. All these factors that contribute to who we are for some are based on a deep spiritual background, for others not so. Whether you have a faith or not you’ll still be able to follow, associate with Jake’s journey as he approaches love, marriage and many more trials that we all must face and somehow overcome be that with or without a faith under-pinning our lives.
For me the book is a written play of Jake’s life told through various parts, acts and scenes. Paul has very cleverly partitioned Jake’s junctures of life into those acts or segments which some of you might want to express as chapters. There are eleven sub-headings to this story, for me, ‘Jake the man,’ ‘Fulfilling his Purpose,’ and ‘Keeping his Promises,’ stuck out the most, but don’t let me cloud your judgement here, have a look for yourself and formulate your own opinions.
Waking Up Jake’s Story Part 2
This book as you can figure out is a continuation of Jake’s roller-coaster life, it’s set out in the same fashion as the first book with new storylines and characters to keeping you guessing as to how Jake’s life is going to pan out. The big difference here is that the book is not segmented like in the first book, it’s’ one story that keeps on evolving as you turn the pages.
You may have noticed that I haven’t divulged the actual story/plot to these books here, well that’s deliberate. Why? The simple fact is I want you to find out for yourself by reading the books so as you can enjoy what Paul has to say about Jake’s life. Can you identify with Jake? That’s for you to decide.
Living Life: Poems to Live by
Here we find the author Paul Jones reverting to his love of poetry, it’s a book of poems for people to reflect and live by. The poems are diligently grouped under five headings, those being.
Matters of the Soul
Matters of the Heart
Matters of the Spirit
Matters of Life
Just Matters
For me ‘Walking by Faith’ in ‘Matters of the Spirit’ which started off with the words, ‘
The word tells us to walk
By faith not by sight
Stood out for me. The poems are beautifully composed with simple but poignant message at their heart.
Just When You Thought You Knew
The world isn’t perfect, we all know that, nor are we ourselves perfect. People live contrasting lives, some of those lives evolve around nightmares and difficult childhoods that spill over into adult life, others circumvent fulfilling adventures and there are those arrogant enough to be classified as ‘know it all’s, ‘but do they is the question that needs to be asked. There are those that give help and those that need help. This book which has been majestically written is a collection of life’s stories in all its formats and guises and some of the stories are stories within stories. A book about life through stories that have a hint of rhyme to them. There are fifteen fascinating stories followed towards the end of the book by eight stories within a story, for me ‘The Mind of a Maniac,’ and ‘David’s Dream’ captured my attention.
Well done Paul on writing this eye-catching book.
Social Media Sites
www.trafford.com/bookstore/searchpauljones
So, Guess what! Give the books a read. All his books are available in a variety of formats and can be obtained by accessing his website, his publisher’s website which are listed above or by clicking the Amazon links below. Most major bookstores have Paul’s books in stock.
Have a great read guys! I did.
Thank you, Paul, for giving me the opportunity once again to talk to you about your wonderful books which seem to grow by the year.
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Mon, 07 Aug 2023 - 33min - 85 - Prayer Is A Journey By John Wheeler
The Podcast
This podcast can be found on all major podcasting platforms, search Talking Books with/hosted by J T Crowley.The video can also be found on YouTube again search Talking Books with/hosted by J T Crowley.
The Author
Born in the 1940’s, and married for fifty-nine years with four children, John Leslie Wheeler has certainly led a full and varied life. The Gold Coast of Australia where he lives is not only a beautiful part of Australia but the world as well. Throughout his life in the legal profession as a solicitor he witnessed a variety of legal cases both corporate and personal and on reflection he would often recount that behind each outcome there was a person or persons facing a challenging period within their life or lives. Outside of the legal profession John vehemently worked on a voluntary basis to support couples going through marital issues, sometimes the outcome would be positive but equally at times the marital woes where unreconcilable. In each scenarios John would reflect on what was right for all parties concerned and that’s probably why the last Chapter in his book is headed up ‘Love, Marriage and Family.’
John has been a follower of the Catholic faith for a considerable time, having said that it would be fair to say that he doesn’t always take the literal translation of what the church deliberates on. Right from childhood he has conducted his own research to what he believes is the true meaning within the biblical scriptures and is not averse to holding the church to account for its version of biblical contents despite finding himself at times seated in the unpopular pews. This book of how to pray is really a life’s work put into twenty-seven chapters in one thought-provoking book.
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The Book
This book has been written for those that are searching for a better more inconsequential mastery to understanding how to pray to develop a closer relationship with God and his message to man. The author puts it in a simpler format, ‘the book is a prayer journey from sinner to saint for anyone who is on a journey.’
For me the book has many facets, ideologies for the reader to contemplate all around the art of insightful prayer to enrich a person’s daily life no matter what challenges, temptations or Joys lie in their path that day. The biblical references which can be found throughout the book are not directly quoted, they are numbered within the text and in the end notes towards the end of the book you’ll see those numbers set against a scriptural passage so it’s it to you the reader to go look them up and for me form your own opinions. I think you’ll find them poignant and enhance what the author is saying.
There are twenty-seven chapters teeming with interesting concepts and thoughts; for the purpose of this podcast, we’ll focus on eight chapters to give you the reader a flavour of what John Wheeler is talking about, those chapters are listed below, if you want to know what’s in the other nineteen chapters well! You’ll have to get a copy of the book.
These are the chapters for me that stood out above all others, watch the video or listen to the audio version to see what was said.
Prayer is a journey.
When and where should we pray.
Listening to God in prayer.
Trusting God.
Prayer for our enemies.
Prayer for righting injustices in the environment.
Working in the garden.
The life journey
Social Media Sites.
If you want to purchase or find out more about John Wheeler’s thought provoking book then click the Amazon link below or head to his webpage or his publishers webpage www.balboapress.com.au/bookstore/searchjohnwheeler
https://www.balboapress.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/846525-prayer-ia-a-journey.
Thank you, John, for an insightful and stimulating conversational discussion around gaining more from prayer.
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Mon, 07 Aug 2023 - 40min - 84 - The Miracle’s Curse by Keith Vincent
The Podcast
The podcast is available to listen on all the 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 TV cable channels under ExpertsandAuthors.tv. E&Atv Click TALKING BOOKS SHOW
The Author
Keith Vincent is a retired accountant living in Arizona in U.S. He originated from the city of Cleveland in the state of Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie one of the five lakes that makes up what is known as, ‘The Great Lakes.’ Apart from Cleveland he’s lived in Massachusetts, New York, Japan, but it’s Arizona that he regards as his home territory, a place where he began pursuing his philosophical passions.
Quantum Physics and how it relates to the human condition has over the years simply fascinated him especially how two particles can be in two states at the same time – referring to ‘Matter’ in its various guises made up of tiny particles – not any other definition. For Keith he has concluded that mankind has a long way to go prior to advancing into what man thinks he is. Keith has drawn his conclusions here on the realities of economics, sociology, and political ideologies verse what man/people assume those conditions are.
Growing up with a supportive mother who encouraged his imaginary thoughts was in words extremely useful, for we all need people who believe in us. When you look at Keith’s life you begin to wonder just how much it was shaped, like most of us, by those around us and what we read while growing up. It’s fair to say we all have our favourite people, and authors, for Keith that was a Cherokee shaman, spiritual and general fiction namely written by Heinlein, Orwell, Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Engels and Tsun Tsu. A real mix of genres and Philosophies, dare I say not your average reader.
In to this mix of what I see as a quizzical mindset, you add the world of accountancy, why this profession you may well ask; well for Keith it was a sense of being absolute, settled, but it brought him a sense of freedom that allowed him to contemplate a different side to life away from a scientific approach but yet close enough for someone who had an analytic mind buzzing around in their head to focus, digest and consider, and it is all these processes that forms the fundamental basis of Keith’s book, so let’s turn our attention to what lurks between the pages of this extraordinary book which I have to say made me stop and think at times.
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The Book
This stunning highly imaginative story is about an updated version of a replicator. Now for those of you who were die-hard fans of Star Trek you would have seen and heard about the machine on board, it was initially there to synthesize meals on demand, but in later series much larger non-food items appeared. When you look up the meaning of replicator, you’ll get a text that will say- a replicator (evolution unit), the theoretical basic unit of evolution in the gene-centred view of evolution. Replicator(self-replication) a component that facilitates self-replication. DNA replication, the process of producing two identical copies from one original DNA molecule.
In this book Keith Vincent has uplifted this ideology and given the task of developing a replicator, which in the book is referred to as a STrelpicator to Peter Harris a young and upcoming nerdy physicist with big inventory concepts. After an arduous journey the STreplicator is ready for the public domain, its capabilities are far reaching and not everybody including the US government and large corporations are ready for this revolutionary machine.
Peter Harris’ STreplicator is a machine that creates items for mankind’s survival by using sub-atomic particles. The machine is highly environmentally efficient so much, so it appears to be a miracle of modern science. The STrepicator is capable of feeding and clothing mankind without adding to an already environmentally challenged world.
Desperate to share his breakthrough, Peter assembles a highly effective team to circumvent the stumbling blocks of creating powerful enemies from within both the political and corporate worlds who see his creation as a real challenge to their very existence despite all the environmental benefits.
The twists and turns are proportionately distributed throughout the book, like any good book worth its salt should be.
Well done, Keith for a gripping read.
In the podcast to give you all a flavour of what can be found lurking between the pages we’re going to talk about the following chapters.
Chapters 8,10,12,28,31,32,33,43,50,51 and 60.
Social Media Sites
www.facebook.com/keith.vincent.5602
www.Linkedin.com/ search Keith Vincent.
If you wish to purchase a copy of Keith’s book, then you can click the Amazon link below. You can also go to his publisher’s webpage www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/searchkeithvincent.
or directly from Keith here: https://books-by-keith-vincent.com
Thank you, Keith, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you, and I wish you every success with your writing adventures.
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Wed, 19 Jul 2023 - 30min - 83 - James G. Martin’s Revelation Through Science:
Evolution in the Harmony of Science and Religion – Revised Edition
Illustrations by: James G. Martin, Jr.
The Author
Former U.S. Congressman and Governor for North Carolina.
Jim Martin is a Princeton PhD organic chemist who taught at prestigious Davidson College, his alma mater. During that time, he played principal tuba in the Charlotte Symphony and officiated high school football. Drawn to politics as a precinct worker, he was elected three times as county commissioner, six times to the U.S. Congress, and twice as Governor of North Carolina. After twenty-six years of public service, he returned to his scientific roots in private life to serve as vice president of medical research at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte. He and his wife Dottie have three children and five grandchildren.
The Book
Revelation through science is written for the educated non-scientist who maybe troubled by apparent conflicts between science and religion. Are science and faith incompatible? Astronomers, physicists, and biologists have now shown that the more deeply science probes nature, the more it reveals evidence pointing us to God. After reviewing concepts from those fields, Revelation Through Scienceadds new material from chemistry. It describes organic structures that are profoundly vital for life, yet too complex for self-assembly without some guiding principle. It should lift the burden from believers and seekers to realise that science is not the enemy of faith.
We had a wonderful discussion, you can view it here:
There are nineteen chapters in this thought-provoking book, split into four parts. The purpose of this podcast interview is to give you an insight to the overall theme Dr Martin is talking about; enough to whet your appetite for you to feel the need to investigate in full his viewpoints on the subject matter of science verses religion from an organic chemist’s approach. So, we’re going to dip in and out of various sections which will intrigue you at best like it did me when I first looked at the book.
Part one
Chapter one: Creation and the Bible. Here Dr Martin touches on areas like Theological Reflections.
Chapter four: Revelation Through Astronomy, where topics like, When Time Began, The Dark Ages, Serendipitous Echo of the Big Bang, and Quasar and Black Holes are touched upon.
Part Two
Chapter Seven: Charles Darwin (1806-1882). Here Dr Martin reflects on The Theory of Evolution, Domestic Darwin, Herbert Spencer and Francis Galton, and much more.
Chapter Nine: The scopes “Monkey Trial.” Here Dr Martin discusses Dayton, Tennessee, 1925.
Part Three
Chapter Eleven: The Age of the Earth, where Dr Martin speaks about Geologic Time as well as Earth is not Ageless, But Very Old along with other intriguing topics.
Chapter Fourteen: Revelation Through Organic Chemistry, covering such areas as Hydrogen bonding with both Water and Hydrogen, plus Optical Activity and Louis Pasteur.
Part Four
Chapter Seventeen: Are we Alone? Here Dr Martin raises some interesting topical debates like, Who’s on Mars? Searching for Extra-Terrestrials, Suitable Planets and Drake’s Formula.
This is a fascinating book, it’s not a bedtime read, it was never intended to be that it’s a thought-provoking book and you may not agree with all of Dr Martin’s thinking’s, points of view, well that’s fine! For the book was written to bring about conscientious debate. Could complex life possibly arise by unguided chance?
Social Media Sites
Honourable Mentions
Revelation Through Science has received eleven first place awards for categories like science, technology, Christianity, religion, philosophy and “ wild card,” plus one award for third place for all non-fiction.
Southern California Book Festival: General Non-Fiction
Winner: New England Book Festival Wild Card
Winner: Firebird Book Award Religion Non- Fiction
Winner: Firebird Book Award Christian Non-fiction
Winner: International Impact Book Awards Science
Honourable Mention: Royal Dragonfly Book Award STEM
If you wish to buy a book then you can head to Dr Martin’s webpage www.beatenpathbooks.com or click the Amazon link below or alternatively go the Dr Martins publishers website www.xlibris.com/bookstore/search James G Martin.
Thank you, Dr Martin, for giving me the opportunity to research your book and interview you. It was a truly fascinating experience.
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Mon, 03 Jul 2023 - 59min - 82 - Flirting With The Lavender Lane By Trystan Mickel Windemier
The Author
Pen Name: Trystan Mickel Windemier
Trystan was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in the US, and was raised in rural Cedar Springs near the north edge of Kent County. He attended public school there and graduated valedictorian in 1986. Trystan attended two years of college but never pursued a degree. Trystan currently enjoys the process of writing an artform he has developed over the years from reading extensively, a must for all authors one could say. Creating one’s own style is vital to survive this cut-throat but enjoyable profession. Music of most styles is fundamental to Trystan’s life as he sits and contemplates the next storylines to music playing in the background.
Trystan Served as a young teen director at his church for two years. For five years he worked in a tool and DIY shop, the experience he gleaned from those years he very often reflects on as a valuable lesson in life. As a high school teacher for nigh on fifteen years Trystan worked closely with his pupils ensuring their start in life was solid enough to give them a good fighting chance in life as possible. During his teaching career Trystan wrote many curriculum policies on a variety of subjects, he wrote countless editorials for the local press concerning educational issues faced within the local school district. His work within this area earned him a place on the local board of education, a position he held for four years. Home schooling became an important area in education for Trystan so much so he developed and ran his own service to both junior and high school pupils broadening their educational needs to face the modern world with all its demands and complexities. If you think this career path was busy, well add to that teaching youngsters to drive for five years and all the hairy experiences that brought and you start to see what a multifaceted person Trystan has been and continues to be even in the face of adversity during the US economic downturn recently. Something Trystan associates with the Obama years.
Trystan presently lives in rural Michigan and now mainly spends his time writing as a self-employed author, something he hopes to do for a considerable time in the future.
Quirky Story
I asked Trystan for a fun quirky story just to bring a bit of fun into this interview this is what he sent me.
I mentioned earlier that I taught Driver’s Education for five years. I did and experienced many close calls with student driving. One such drive was very scary for me, but a learning experience too.
I had two students on this drive, it was their very first time behind the wheel. The first driver was a female who was visibly apprehensive and scared. We went through the pre-start checks, briefly talked about where and what the various pedals did, gear shift lever, and gauges that were on the dashboard.
Now I had placed the car in front of an eight-inch-high sidewalk (path to those outside the US) separating two of the school parking lots. I assumed when I told her to put the car into reverse, back up, shift to drive and drive out of the parking lot that she would shift to reverse and backup. Quite the opposite occurred she shifted to drive and proceeded to jam her foot on the gas pedal (accelerator to those of us outside the US) and career across the parking zone narrowly missing several cars and their petrified owners. Once I had recovered from the initial shock and composed myself, I slammed my foot on the chicken brake (Back up brake to those outside the US) and brought the car to an abrupt halt.
With no damage done, but nerves well frazzled we continued the journey without any further incidents so to speak. The next driver gave me a safer ride.
Lesson learned, never assume and always be prepared for the unpredicted foibles life throws at you, when you least expect it.
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The Book
Tyler grew up in a Christian household, from the onset of memory, Tyler was attracted to males over females. However, he fought to be heterosexual and buried his homosexual tendencies to live the life of the public and societally accepted heterosexual lifestyle. Tyler is sexually naïve, and this naivety lives him open to all kinds of predatory scenarios. Tyler moves to Aurora a suburb in the greater metropolitan area of Chicago Illinois. He meets Andrew on the bus and quickly establishes a relationship initially based on physical attraction having moved in as a roommate.
Andrew was born gay. During his tragic childhood of a failed foster care system, he was abused in many ways. Andrew’s life as a gay waiter/prostitute in the Flamingo lounge. Andrew’s life is a life lived very much on the edge with wild sexual exploitations at the heart of it.
The book follows the lives of Tyler and Andrew, from their initial meeting to a full-blown relationship of love. Throughout their relationship they discuss, love, the correctness of same-sex love, religious views on LGBT issues, and societal discrimination against LGBT persons. They experience the bigotry and the rejection of homosexuality by various entities including a Christian church and other individuals. They discuss in detail the conflict between Christianity and the LGBT community.
Despite this anguished battle of standards, morals and the religion/homosexuality differences, Tyler and Andrew’s relationship deepens as this fictional storyline develops highlighting the many issues LGBT people face by society judging them on their choice of lifestyle.
If you wish to know more about why Trystan Mickel Windemier wrote this book and where you can get a copy then have a look at the social media sites below, or simply click the Amazon link.
Fb.me/lavenderlaneseries
www.trystanmickelwindemier.com
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Mon, 26 Jun 2023 - 30min - 81 - The Dynamic, Fundamental Study On Discipleship, Enter If You are Teachable! By Dr James Whorley
The Author
Dr James Whorley is an American author from Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Florida in the US. He was born in 1961 to Charles and Dorothy Whorley, he has five siblings, and the family life back then was overall happy and lively; but like in all families then it was not without its upsets and difficulties. Dr James (Doctor of Theology) right from an early age firmly believed that his destiny was to be a pastor following several incidents that nearly took his life. At nineteen he became a Christian and from that day to the present day firmly believes a life based on Christianity has sustained well. At the tender age of twenty-one he married Ora and they have been blessed with four children and five grandchildren.
Throughout his whole life Dr James has done a variety of jobs, from being employed, Self-employed, both for non-profit and profit organisations. Dr James has run his own construction company as well and all running alongside his pastoral duties for the Highway Church, a following which has meant so much to both him and his wife right from the tender age of twenty-four. Now, for me that’s dedication to the Lord’s work.
Dr James continues to play an active part not only in his local church but in the wider community as well.
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The Book
The book has thirteen chapters, and each chapter is divided into three sessions. The purpose of the book as far as I can determine is to give the reader a step-by-step guide to the world of Christianity from the ideological concept to being fully engaged in what society would see as the righteous path of the Lord’s teachings. For me this book is perfect for those looking to follow a Christian life, they can read a session, refer to the biblical references Dr James alludes to in the text and then reflect on what has been said by addressing the questions at the end. The book is perfect for a group discussion on a weekly basis for novices to the faith, those looking to enrich their faith and those wishing to return to faith having taken an absence of leave for whatever reason. The book talks about, calling, following, love, faith, the kingdom of God, discipleship, the last scene and many other topics relating to a Christian life.
For the purpose of this podcast, we’re going to concentrate on the following chapters to give you a flavour of what this book is about:
Chapter 1: Knowing and Understanding your Calling.
Chapter 4: Love.
Chapter 7: Faith.
Chapter 9: Spirit, Soul and Body
Chapter 12: Great Sorrow as has Never been seen upon the Earth before/Rapture.An Inspiring read with very interesting theological conceptualizations.
If you want to know more about this book or buy a copy you can click the Amazon link below or go the publishers website www.authorhouse.com/bookstore/searchdrjameswhorley
Plus, you can go to the authors own webpage www.drjameswhorley.com
Thank you, Dr James, for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about your inspiring book.
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Mon, 26 Jun 2023 - 36min - 80 - The Christmas Light By Dian Cooper
The Author
Dian Cooper is an American freelance writer and illustrator from Tomball in Texas USA. She is the author and illustrator of fiction children’s books, not only of The Christmas Light, which is the subject matter of this podcast, but also of the following books.
Welcome Blessing
Welcome Christmas
Let’s Play Ball
The King Meets Blessing
The Adventures of Blessing part I, II, III and IVDian’s books reflect her love for both Children and God, something she imbues throughout all her writing. Having talked to Dian you get a real sense that God inspires her zeal to nurture in all children that they are imaginatively created by God’s own love and affection. Her dream/prayer is that ‘The Christmas Light’ becomes an annual book that kids of all generation enjoy at Christmas time and may be, just maybe that the Character Bright and all the other Christmas lights in the box become endearing animated characters on TV telling the simple message to kids and adults alike that Jesus’ love for them is real.
Dian grew up in the small town of Humble, on the outskirts of Houston Texas. She thrived in her English classes in school and remembers her teachers telling her your talents lie in writing and artistry. Her career and being a mother put her dream of writing on the back boiler so to speak but, now she is retired she devotes much of her time illustrating and writing her books. The walls of her house are adorned with her wonderful creative artwork.
Today writing and illustrating as well as her passion to saving and protecting endangered wildlife in South Africa are her main purposes in life, her reason to get up in the morning, her way of inspiring young minds to enjoy what God has given simply told though magically creative stories backed up with breath-taking artistry.
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The Book
This spellbinding Children’s book for me is aimed at preschool years, the illustrations are beautifully drawn in bright vivid colours as they should be for this age group. The Character ‘Bright’ is a Christmas light bulb that has been put away in a box with mum and dad, his friends as well as aunts and uncles since 1976. Every Christmas Bright and all the Christmas lights would eagerly wait for Mrs Smith to return to the attic to fetch them out. Bright knew it was Christmas as he could see the snowflakes falling though the stain class attic window that had a cross at its centre, he could hear Mrs Smith singing her favourite Christmas songs downstairs as she made the festive treats in preparation for her family’s arrival. However, every year he could hear the family leaving and he would often think maybe next year he and all the other lights in the box would be remembered, but for the time being they lay there forgotten in a box unopened since 1976, only the attic mouse knew they existed. Yet Bright and his friends could hear Mrs Smith’s Granddaughter Allie singing, ’HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESUS.’
The story talks about Bright’s dream as he reflects upon the true meaning of Christmas, the author takes us to the bible quotation John 3:16 “God so loved the world that he sent his only son, Jesus, to die for us so that we may have eternal life.” So, while the book has cute Christmas undertones with fabulous illustrations there is an underlying Christian message to kids and all those that read the book. Thankfully with an invigorated light source glowing from the attic window Mrs Smith rediscovers Bright, his mum and dad, and friends. Once again Bright and all the other Christmas lights festoon the house sending out a message, the true message as to why the Christian community celebrates Christmas.
Social Media Sites
Thank you, Dian, for giving me the opportunity to chat to you about the true message of Christmas told through the innocent eyes of a child’s mind.
If you wish to know more about the works of Dian Cooper, then have a look at her social media sites, if you wish to purchase a copy of her book then you can click on the amazon link below, or head to www.diancooper.net or alternatively visit her publisher’s webpage www.liferichpublishing.com/bookstore/diancooper
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Mon, 26 Jun 2023 - 35min - 79 - The Oubliette: Book one in (The Book Club Series) by B. James Wilson
The Author
B James Wilson is an American author from the Space Coast of Florida where he presently lives with his wife and family. Bruce grew up in Miami and as you can imagine summers there where hot, so to cool down, a favourite past-time of his was to go boating and fishing around Biscayne Bay along Miami’s stunning waterfront.
Before he could graduate from Miami Palmetto High school Bruce’s family moved to Florida’s Space Coast where they joined the ‘race to the moon’ in 1964. For those of you who can’t remember what the ‘race to the moon’ was all about, let me refresh your memories. It was President John F Kennedy’s focused declaration for America to beat the Russians in putting a man on the moon.
After graduating from Satellite High school, Bruce joined the US Navy. Part of his training was in Memphis Tennessee, he served in Vietnam as well as other pacific locations. Since his service days he has travelled the world extensively and has lived in places like Ireland, Germany, Japan, Guam, The Philippines and California.
When you look at Bruce’s life you can say he has led a full and varied existence. He studied Computer science at Brevard Community College, Quality Systems and Demand-Pull Manufacturing Techniques at the University of Florida, and Biblical Studies at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. To this menagerie of careers, we now must add writing. Bruce writes covering several genres but for the purpose of this podcast we’re going to concentrate on his book ‘The Oubliette.’
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The Book
The Oublette- Book 1 in The Bible Book Club Series
When I looked at this book my first question was why the title and what is an oubliette? The word itself derives from the French word ‘oublier’ meaning ‘to forget’ and it refers to a secret dungeon where the sole access was via a trap door in the floor of a building mainly a medieval castle where persons condemned to perpetual imprisonment or to perish secretly were thrown down and forgotten about. The oubliette would be a pit of darkness and in this book imaginatively created by B James Wilson the oubliette isn’t so much a physical medieval construction but more the evil forces that have prevailed since time imprisoning minds in dark forgotten places.
This powerful fictional story of one man’s confrontation with evil, is breath-taking. The roots of the book grow out of biblical origins which stem from the authors own biblical understandings of scripture. The whole story is built around Mike Brennan the main protagonist and his terrifying journey from his own dark mindset to coming into the light. What Mike encounters along the way, very often brings him into unchartered waters of the unexpected and unwelcome. As B James Wilson takes Mike on this daunting journey, he creatively talks about the profound questions of life that we all very often want answers to. As In life, the answers that come back are very often not the answers we’re looking for, and the sources from whence the answers originate, at times, can be unnerving. What is the nature of Mike Brennan’s dark ’oubliette?’ The answer to that question is for you to read and discover for yourself in this page-turning novel by B James Wilson.
Other books written by Bruce are. Triangle: A Memoir of Black Caesar, and The Practician: A Gray Empire Novel.
Social Media Sites
https://www.facebook.co/B.JamesWilson
https://www.goodreads.com/B.JamesWilson(AuthorofTriangle)
https://wordpress.com/B.JamesWilson-Author/artist/apparentillusions
https://www.linkedn.com/b-james-wilson-a494243b
website https://bjameswilson.wordpress.com/blog
If you wish to buy a copy of B.James Wilson’s book you can click the Amazon link below, the 43 chapters in this book that tell the above story are simply gripping.
Thank you, Bruce, for giving me the opportunity to read your book and get to know you.
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Thu, 08 Jun 2023 - 48min - 78 - The Alex Boyd Spy Thriller Series by Mel Harrison
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 US 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 US Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) responsible for regional security at that those sites. In acknowledgement of his outstanding achievements in this field of high sensitivity he was awarded the departments Award of Valour and the worldwide RSO of the year award.
Prior to joining the US 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 working at 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 US 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 five books in the Alex Boyd series so far, but for the purpose of this podcast we’re mainly concentrating on his latest book ‘Spies Among Us.’ However, we will give a nod to the other books so that you can get a flavour of what they are about.
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The Books
Spies Among Us (Book Five -the latest novel in the series)
This latest book in the Alex Boyd series set in the UK is another scintillating story line of the spy world with which Alex and his cohort of characters operate within. The depth of detail around the planning and strategy Mel Harrison the author goes into is what you would expect from a very good spymaster writer. There is so much evidence like with all the other books in the series of Mel’s own first-hand experience in this mirky world of counter-espionage. The plot has an air of reality too it, what I liked most about this book was the interactions between the US Embassy, Scotland Yard and British Intelligence Services working together to get to the bottom of an unscrupulous co-worker who’s passing highly classified information from the US government and NATO to a deep undercover Russian spy. The Russians have quite a few tricks up their sleeves which complicates matter for Alex, the CIA and FBI. With more information being leaked to the Russians the urgency to flush out all involved is a matter of huge concern. Alex needs to find out who are the spies among them.
For me the following chapters stood out, but don’t let me influence you in any way. All I say is read the book and see if you agree with me, or not.
Chapter 1: The Rendezvous
Chapter 3: The Offer
Chapter 11: First Impression
Chapter 21: Red Flag
Chapter 33: The Sting
Chapter 36: Another Traitor
Chapter 40: Russian Response
Chapter 44: Life or Death
Characters-Acronyms:
DS-Diplomatic Security
DCM- US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission
RSO- Regional Security Officer
MI5- British Security Services (Domestic)
MI6- British Secret Intelligence Service (Foreign)
SAS- Special Air Service (British special forces elite regiment)
Spetsnaz- Russian Army equivalent to US Army Delta Force Navy SEALs
SVR- Russian Overseas Espionage Service, successor to the KGB
Major American Characters in US and London:
Alex Boyd- Special Agent DS and RSO at US Embassy London
Dennis Hager- Under Secretary of State for Management
Charles Martin- Secretary of State
Jim Riley- Director Diplomatic Security, State Department
Rachel Smith- Political Counsellor, US Embassy, London wife of Alex Boyd
Wakefield Summers- Deputy Secretary of State
Archibald Watson, Assistant Secretary for Europe, State dept.
US Embassy London
Anna Battles- CIA Station Chief
Roger Carpenter- FBI Legal Attaché
Erica Evans- Management Counsellor
Gary Jones- Outgoing RSO
April Scott- Political Officer
Bainbridge Wellington- DCM US Embassy London
United Kingdom
Geoffrey Carver- Assistant Director, MI5
Gerald Davies- Ass’t Comm Metropolitan Police London (aka Scotland Yard)
Hilda Humphries- PhD Professor- Oxford University
Lars Nilsson- Swedish boyfriend of April Scott (Dimitri Vasiliev)
Ray Penner- Commander, Special Branch, Metropolitan Police
Deirdre Plummer- Public Affairs, Metropolitan Police
Sir Nigel Sharpton- Permanent Secretary, Foreign Office
Mark Thompson-Parker- Colonel, 22 SAS
Bill Turpin- Warrant Officer, 22 SAS
Josh Rosen- Inspector, Special Branch Metropolitan Police
Russian Diplomats Washington DC
Andrei Balakin- Senior SVR official, Russian Embassy
Nickolai Petrov- SVR handler of senior American spy for Russia
Ludmilla Petrov- Wife of Nickolai, SVR official, Russian Embassy
Russian Officials, Moscow
Anton Kuznetsov- Director SVR
Illya Sokolov- Deputy Director for Operations SVR
Russian Assasins
Sergei- Sgt in Russian Army, Spetsnaz
Viktor- Sgt in Russian Army, Spetsnaz
Terror in Cairo (Book Four)
Egyptian Islamic Jihad, (EIJ) a vicious terrorist organisation is determined to thwart peace with Israel, attacks an important Middle East Conference in Cairo attempting to stop any chance of a successful conference outcome.
Alex Boyd and his Diplomatic Service colleagues try to stop waves of bloody attacks along with the Egyptian Police. As a special agent with the State Department Diplomatic Security Service, Alex is responsible for the overall protection of the US delegates attending the conference especially the Secretary of State and senior senators. Alex is tasked with identifying the leaders of EIJ and with a team of highly trained US Navy SEALs he heads off for the harsh desserts of Libya to terminate them.
Moving Target (Book Three)
Alex Boyd, restless at a desk jo in Washington DC, hates bureaucracy and misses the excitement of an overseas assignment. When unexpected opportunities arise, he and his new wife Rachel Smith jump at the chance to work in Paris. But nothing goes as planned. Soon their lives are at risk from a vicious Sicilian Mafia leader, their bosses Henri and Giselle Ducat have disappeared. Were they kidnapped? Or did they run?
The Ambassador is Missing (Book Two)
It’s more nonstop action when RSO Alex Boyd arrives in at the US Embassy in Rome expecting a comfortable assignment after the terror attack in Pakistan where he almost lost his life. The Ambassador and his wife are kidnapped, Alex swings into action. He must carefully pick his way through a sway of bureaucratic incompetence and FBI interference. Embassy staff are not forthcoming with the truth so after a fortnight of stalemate Alex leads the way with the Italian Police in a bold rescue mission.
Death In Pakistan (Book One)
In the early 1990s, America changed course and supported military and economic assistance to India at Pakistan’s expense. As a result, Alex Boyd, deputy RSO at the time at the US embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, must defend the embassy, employees and a visiting US delegation against vicious, heavily armed fanatical terrorists who are supported by a rogue element within Pakistan’s military intelligence service (ISI). Now they are determined to teach America a lesson and force it to reverse its new policy with India. Alex and his team fight for their lives. Before the battle begins Alex must overcome the staid traditionalists within the Foreign Service itself who believe nothing should be done to aggravate the locals even in self-defence. When you go to Pakistan, no one promises you’ll return alive.
Social Media sites
Https://www.linkedin.com/in/mel-harrison-b859841ba
Https://www.facebook.com/mel.harrison.7771
If you wish to buy Mel Harrison’s latest book you can either click the Amazon link below.
Thank you, Me, for giving me the opportunity to chat to you about yourself and your books.
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Wed, 07 Jun 2023 - 52min - 77 - Dr Daniel Brubaker
Psychosocial Political Dysfunction of the Republican Party
The Author
Dr Daniel Brubaker is an American author who presently resides in the US state of California. He grew up on a farm in Lancaster County Pennsylvania among the Amish and Mennonites.
His father was a horticulturist, and the farm produce was sold at local farmer’s markets as well as being exhibited at nearby fairs.
The family tree has been traced back to the reformation in Lake Zurich Switzerland. As an Aa-Baptists the family faced unimaginable persecution and death at the hands of the then Catholic community, so much so the family were forced to flee across the border into neighbouring Germany where again as a family they had to endure the religious years of the 1600s. Finally, the family emigrated to America in 1701 encountering all the perils that went with travel at that time, particularly the treacherous sea passage across the Atlantic no doubt like many seeking a better life in the Americas they would have travelled third class in the boat’s hold tolerating endemic sickness. Many never made it to America they simply died trying. Dr Daniel Brubaker is a tenth generation American.
Dr Daniel was educated in Pennsylvania. After medical school he did a post-graduate training at the University of Pittsburgh Health Centre. While he was there, he went about doing his own research and published five papers in medical journals. The University at the time had an explorer’s club where he learnt to both rock and ice climb, his most memorable climbs were in 1979 when he climbed Mt McKinley in Alaska and 1989 when he ascended Mt Rainer in Washington State. Dr Brubaker also likes to include cross country and alpine skiing in his repertoire of outdoor pursuits along with sea kayaking, mountain biking, fly fishing and photography.
In 2004 Dr Daniel went to Tibet, or to be more precise these days the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China to look at traditional Tibetan medicines and their practices. He published his first book ‘Endless Time,’ a photo documentary with Buddhist verses.
Finally, Dr Brubaker published in medical journals and textbooks his findings of a new medical disease, he calls Post-Transfusion Graft- Versus -Host Disease.
The Book
Dr Brubaker’s book explores the thought that the Republican Party known as the Grand Old Party has somehow drifted from its original political concepts of unification established in the Lincoln era, and that it is no longer able to properly separate core fundamental facts from fiction, deceptive conjectures and outright untruths. In his censorious dissection Dr Brubaker refers to the behaviour of some republicans within the GOP as childlike and even goes as far to say that he believes that some of those at the top of the party have antisocial personality disorders.
When you look at the book you get a clear sense that Dr Brubaker firmly believes that there are those in the party who are unable to separate socialism from pragmatic utilitarianism,and that they are as he describes’ buzzwords’ to instil fear in Americans about the Democrats.
What I found fascinating was how Dr Brubaker explored the neuropsychological development of young children to try to explain how some in the GOP function themselves, particularly in Public. And of course, he looks at how as he puts it a ‘clinically psychopathic’ president usurped the whole process using crowd psychology. Which president was that! well I let you all figure that out for yourselves when you read the book. Check out the video chat here:
There are ten chapters in this phenomenon book, it would be fair to say that this book is not a cuddly bedtime read, it was never written to be that it is a book to make you stop and think. Now whether you agree or not with Dr Brubaker’s thinking’s that’s for you to decide. For me out of all the Chapters the following stood out:
Chapter 1: Republicans Confusion in Differentiating Fact versus Fiction
Chapter 2: Republicans Behave Like Toddlers
Chapter 5: Understanding Crowd and Herd Psychology
Chapter 8: Psychology of President Donald Trump
Chapter 9: Summation of the Psychosocial Dysfunction of the Republican Party
Enjoy the Book for Dr Brubaker has some interesting thoughts to ponder over.
Social Media sites
https://www.twitter.com/@rep4progress
If you wish to purchase a copy of Dr Daniel Brubaker’s Book, you can click the Amazon Link below or head to his publisher’s site:
www.archwaypublishing.com/bookstore/search/DrDanielBrubaker
Thank you, Dr Daniel, for giving me the opportunity to review your book and chat to you.
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Tue, 30 May 2023 - 39min - 76 - Sandlot Poet by Steve Wachtel
Today on Talking Books JT Crowley speaks with Steve Wachtel about his book “Sandlot Poet”. This book has poetry panned from pain and triumph, gentle observations and the human experience. Subscribe to the Talking book podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-books/id1587498489.
About the Author: Steve Wachtel is an American author from Washington Heights in New York City. He was born in Brooklyn where he lived until he was nine. He describes Brooklyn in the old days as a little United Nations due to its multinational society, a society that enriched his life to this present day.
Long Island, where he spent the rest of his youth, was another part of New York that enriched his life with its own unique multi-generational diverse communities and societies. Education was a key aspect of his life then and when he looks back at the schooling he received on Long Island he often recalls the fine teachers he had who encouraged him to read a broad selection of genres as well as supporting him to write some of his own stories. Steve’s father was an avid science fiction follower and Steve often found himself sitting in the family basement reading those books, but as to writing science fiction, that turned out not to be Steve’s forte.
Hawking back to Steve’s school days, those were the days where he discovered his passion for poetry, having read countless poets remains a deep-seated passion of his. However, writing a poem that in his eyes would be acceptable to publish didn’t come about until one day in 1976 when he was in a park supporting a young person, as dusk descended, he had an influx of words that flooded his head, scrambling for paper he quickly jotted them down, and he has been doing that ever since. Steve has published eight poetry books and seven children’s books.
Apart from writing, Steve like his wife Maxine has worked for some considerable years in social work mainly focusing on psychiatric needs of New York’s more vulnerable and needy society, who mainly stem from deprived ethnic groups, the poor or those whose lives for some reason have fallen apart.
The one person who has supported Steve in all that he has accomplished is Maxine, his wife of fifty years to whom he refers to as his chief cheerleader.
Check out our video chat here!
About the Book: Sandlot Poet for me is a book that contains a plethora of free verse poems that touch on everyday life, in particular life on the streets of New York from where the author comes from. When I read the poems having been to New York I could envisage Steve sitting in his apartment looking out of his window watching the hustle and bustle of life going by on the streets below or sitting on a bench in a park like Washington Square, or Central Park itself observing life in all its varied formats. I loved this book, the poems are at times poignant, dignified and above all down to earth.
Previous poetry books by Steve Wachtel
Journey Above All, Myself The Heart Keeps Asking Why First Rose of Winter Time Steals Everything What Alexander SawPrevious Children’s Books
The Boy Who Lost his Smile Somebody Stole the Moon Brains and Beauty Anita’s ApplesSocial Media Sites
If you wish to purchase a copy of Steve’s book you can click the Amazon link below, or alternatively you can go to his publisher’s https://www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/836599-sandlot-poet.
Also available through Barnes and Noble. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sandlot-poet-steve-wachtel/1140492139
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Mon, 22 May 2023 - 31min - 75 - Living the High Note by Mary Angela Allen
The Author
Mary Angela Allen is an American author from Carlsbad a small community town in the southeast region of the US state of New Mexico. When I looked at where Mary currently resides, I quickly realised that Carlsbad is the gateway to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park and for bat lovers this is a must visit place particularly at eventide when vast swarms of bats can be seen exiting the caves as they take to the night skies in search of food.
Born on the 16th of August 1952 in Alamogordo, New Mexico, Mary was the second of seven children, four boys and three girls, she’s married to Kelly and has two grown up sons Michael and Anthony. From an early age she developed a mature singing talent as a soprano and began to sing in local festivities and school functions. Mary won several talent contests in school and sang in variety shows in high school and college.
Mary went to Eastern New Mexico University where she was awarded a bachelor’s degree in Music Elementary Education, followed by a master’s in Reading Education. Mary went on to teach in several public schools in New Mexico for nigh on twenty-eight years.
While in college Mary relinquished her life to serve the Lord and began to sing in churches of various denominations as a means of expressing her adoration for God. Mary also joined the Carlsbad Community and Martin Luther King choirs.
The book, ‘Living the High Note’ was, like so many books written during the Covid Pandemic as authors with unprecedented time on their hands penned the next book. Mary was no exception to this impromptu forward planning strategy; thus, her book was born.
Mary continues to sing for the Lord, for her, her voice is an act of empowerment that enables her to have a close and lasting relationship with God no matter what path her life takes her on, albeit a righteous or not so righteous choice. Mary fervently believes she has a calling, and that God will always be by her side.
The Book
When, like myself you read Mary’s book you’ll quickly grasp that the story within is all about Mary’s own relationship with God at varying times throughout her life particularly around what she sees as ill-judged choices and equally at times of great rejoicing.
The book deals with everyday life and how Mary sees her relationship with her saviour at pivotal points on her journey on this planet. Mary views God as all encompassing, but to get the best of God’s undying love you must surrender to him. Mary admits in the book that at the time the Lord entered her being, her life, in her view was in chaos as her relationship with men which she covers off under ‘The Three Wells,’ reveals. Many of you will probably take the standpoint, well that’s just life! But for Mary quite the contrary, however she does accept that there were times in her life that she lived for the moments of fun albeit as she best puts it those flashes of delight were short lived.
Living for God has made life more enjoyable, peaceful and purposeful for Mary, something that comes across very strongly in the book. The purpose of the book is showing others how God can have such a huge impact on our everyday lives, something Mary advocates to those around her always.
The book is divided into six chapters.
Finding hope in a Saviour
Finding Power in the Holy Spirit
Finding and Facing Inner Selfishness A Dream of Three Wells
Finding Restoration through others
Finding the Mission from God
Finding Living Blessings.
Social Media Sites
Thank you, Mary, for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about your eye-opening book which I can only say to everyone is, have a look.
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Mon, 08 May 2023 - 38min - 74 - The Fletcher Babysits Series by Adrian Kooistra, Illustrated by Sam Thomas
The Author
Adrian Kooistra is an Australian author living with Cerebral Palsy. Adrian lives in a wonderful part of the world Maroochydore on Australia’s Sunshine Coast a few kilometres north of Brisbane in the territorial state of Queensland.
Adrian’s condition effects his mobility and he has speech issues which means he’s non-verbal, so the interview is being done in conjunction with Karen his facilitator. Despite his physical impairments Adrian lives his life to the best of his abilities and his creative mind and imagination comes across strongly in his writing.
Adrian has presented at the TAFE in Tasmania, Voice Symposium with the Uniting Church, My Life through my Eyes for NDIS as well as The Ferny Grove State School writing festival.
Not only does Adrian write the undermentioned Children’s books, but he has had some of his poems that he has written published in anthologies in Prism with the Buderim Writers Group and with Brotherhood of the Wordless a unique organisation of writers and poets with assorted disabilities who have impaired communication needs; there aim by means of using facilitated communication is to help wordless writers to be heard.
Adrian has delivered his poetry at several writing festivals, The Woodford Folk Festival, the Einbunkin Festival and the QLD Poetry Festival all supported by Brotherhood of the Wordless network.
Check out our video chat here!
The Books
The Fletcher Babysits Series
These books are aimed at 4–8-year-olds.
There are three books in the series so far:
Book 1: Fletcher Babysits a Crocodile
This is an endearing story of Fletcher’s encounter with a baby crocodile that was causing some grief to some nearby neighbours who had just bought the croc. I have to say the adventures here are fun as Fletcher tries to unravel what’s up with this very playful young creature. The answer is simple, feed it!
Sam Thomas’ illustration are bright, eye-catching and fun.
At the end of the book are some fun facts about crocodiles and crossword puzzle for children to do.
Book 2: Fletcher Babysits a Goat
This delightful story of another of young Fletcher’s adventures involves a trip to a farm on Tasmania where an unruly prize-winning goat is giving the farm owners the run around destroying everything in its path. Exasperated they call on Fletcher to sort the mischievous little goat out. At first Fletcher is perplexed as what to do and in fact is rather scared off the demanding goat, but he quickly realises that the goat is just bored and suggests the farmers get it lots of toys to play with and maybe a friend. With the issue resolved Fletcher collects is pocket money and goes home.
Like in all the books at the end Adrian gives children some fun facts about the animals in the story as well as a game for them to engage with. In this book there’s a word search. The book is beautifully supported by Sam Thomas’ magical illustrations.
Book 3: Fletcher Babysits a Camel
This is another wonderful story of Fletcher’s adventures. Fletcher is a young boy who loves looking after other people’s pets especially when he gets pocket money. In this book Fletcher gets a request to look after a baby camel with no expenses spared from the owners who turn out to be circus owners having problems with a rather boisterous baby camel. What’s exciting for Fletcher this time is that the adventure involves a flight to a far-off city. Fletcher is surprised at the destination but quickly adapts to his surroundings, he soon realises what the problem is and with an old shoe solves the issue before flying back home with a large amount of pocket money. Again, Sam Thomas’ bright and vivid illustrations bring a splash of colour to an adorable but simple story.
Like in all his books Adrian has at the end some fun facts and in this book an unscrambling of words to describe the scene.
Social Media Sites
https://www.facebook.com/adriankooistraauthor
https://www.instagram.com/adriankooistra_author/.
Thank you, Adrian, for giving me the wonderful opportunity of interviewing you about your children’s books.
If you wish to purchase one of Adrian’s books you can go to his publisher’s webpage www.xlibris.com/booksore/search Adrian Kooistra, or you can click the Amazon link below.
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Mon, 08 May 2023 - 13min - 73 - Wayne, the Nerd from Arizona, Illustrator Dina Soul by Wanye Rankin
The Author
Wayne Rankin is an American author from Texas in the US. He’s a retired Master Sergeant from the US Airforce where he served for twenty years. Wayne has been married to his wife Margaret for some considerable time and he refers to her as his rock, the person who understands him better than himself. It’s nearly always that way, your partner knowing you more than you are knowing yourself.
When he left the Air Force Wayne went on to earn a Master’s degree in Human Resources and Procurement as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Organisational Management from Colorado Christian University where he was given the honorary title of Magna Cum Laude (with great praise).
With military life behind him so to speak he went to Misawa Air Base in Japan where he worked as the logistic Manager for Lockheed Martin. Several years later he returned to the US and began working for ITT Systems Division, Lear Siegler, EG &G and URS before starting his own business in 2005 LOGMET LLC. Today he’s the CEO of the company he founded with 400 employees and a gross annual turnover of $20 million.
When you chat to Wayne you get the clear feeling, he’s a man that can best be described as an opportunist, willing to take chances with all the ventures he has carried out in his life, for him setbacks are minor adjustments to be learnt from. He might be a successful man in the civilian world but like many retired military personnel you can’t take the military out of them it will always be there in the background. Wayne has come from nowhere to somewhere with all the bumps along the way and this journey of his underpins the message in his book Wayne, the Nerd from Arizona, for it is about his early days growing up as a child through to adulthood simply told through the eyes of the character Wayne.
Check out our video chat here!
The Book
This children’s book with its idealistic illustrations for me is perfect for 5–8-year-olds to look at and read depending on their reading ability, every child I know has varying degrees of reading skills so let’s include everyone here in the age range I’ve mentioned.
The story is based on the character Wayne, and the kids that make up the nerd gang. There are relationships with themselves and those around them in their peer group. It’s a story of how Wayne and his nerd gang transgress from caterpillars to beautiful butterflies, spotty kids to young people with promising futures. The plot is built around kids that attend military school on the bases their parents are posted to. Why the Military background you might ask well that’s simple, the author himself as I’ve already said comes from a military backdrop and he’s merely drawing on his own experiences. Wayne the author is Wayne the character. Wayne in the book is a character that finds it hard to adapt to constant changes in his life as he follows his father around the world. Friendships for him don’t come easy.
It’s a thrilling book for young minds!
Social Media sites
www.waynethenerdfromarizona.com
Check the webpage out it’s fantastic and you can buy the book from there.
Thank you, Wayne, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to talk to you about yourself and your book which I highly recommend. An endearing book with idealistic illustrations.
If you wish to purchase Wayne’s book you can click the Amazon link below, alternatively you can go to his publisher’s webpage www.xlibris.com/bookstore/search Wayne Rankin. Plus, you can obtain a copy as I’ve already hinted at by going to Wayne’s website above.
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Mon, 08 May 2023 - 22min - 72 - Tuesday’s Story: A Book of Rhyme for Children and Pet Lovers by Becky Hohnstein
The Author
Becky Hohnstein Is an American author from the state of Nebraska in the US. She has two great passions in life Pets and Photography both of which feature so prevalent in her book.
The Book
This book is all about Tuesday, a Cocker Bichon, Becky had in her life for fourteen and a half years, right from a puppy to her final days. The story of Tuesday’s life is depicted in Rhyme, backed up by stunning photos, all designed to reflect how a dog can bring so much joy and pleasure to a person.
Becky wrote this story as part of her healing process after Tuesday left her side. For Becky, Tuesday wasn’t simply a dog that was in her life as a dog, she was a life companion, a friend and together they created so many happy events that meant so much to both.
The book is aimed at Children, showing them that a dog isn’t just a dog, but a being that can bring so much fun, love and enjoyment into a person’s life, be they a child or an adult.
The photographs cleverly bring to life the story behind the simple but effective rhymes, and back up the book’s theme that pets enhance our lives, steal our hearts and leave an everlasting impression upon us when they leave.
Toddlers will be captured by the pictures and flow of the story that they will want “Tuesday’s Story” to be read to them repeatedly. Young readers will enjoy rhyme and the story of the love of a pet. This book can be relished by pet lovers of all ages. Anyone who has loved and lost a pet can relate to the story of a much-loved dog from being a pup to reaching a ripe old age.
If you wish to purchase this book then you can simply click the Amazon link below, or you can head to the publisher’s webpage. www.xlibris.com/bookstore/search Becky Hohnstein.
Thank you, Becky for creating this wonderful book and let’s hope you write and compile many more.
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Wed, 12 Apr 2023 - 19min - 71 - The Daisy Series. by Pat Backley
The Author
Pat Backley is an author who was born in Southeast England, but now lives in Auckland New Zealand. At the age of twenty she got married for the first time, the next fifty years she resided in numerous places in the UK as well as a brief spell in the Fiji Islands a place very dear to her heart. Pat has been married several times has one daughter named Lucy to whom she absolutely dotes on. At the age of sixty in pursuit of adventure Pat emigrated to New Zealand. To say Pat has embraced life to the full would be a true reflection despite the ups and downs that comes with pursuing such a colourful path in life. People, well Pat simply adores them no matter their background or ethnicity. The world in many ways has been Pat’s oyster, travelling across continents by whatever means possible in pursuit of knowledge and understanding of how different cultures and landscapes create this wonderful world of ours, not withstanding the burning issues the planet faces. When you read her books, you’ll see a lot of her life’s passions seated at the heart of her writing, especially social history.
Check out our video chat here!
The Books
Daisy
Daisy is a touching family saga that transcends a century starting in 1887 with the birth of Daisy to a single mother in London’s poverty ridden slums. With the stigma of being an illegitimate child, Daisy’s start in life was tough not only for her but for her mother. Despite the harsh reality of dockland life Daisy blossoms but not without uncompromising setbacks. Being a girl back then, life was very much restricted to what society expected, house chores and birthing children under appalling conditions.
The book is set in London UK, Alabama and Harlem in the US. Besides Daisy, it’s the story of several families from both sides of the Atlantic from different cultures, backgrounds, cleverly interwoven to tell a historical story of Black American Slavery, rich snobbery plantation owners, and the harsh life of both Harlem and London’s docklands slums. Yet against this backdrop of austerity and excess wealth, the essence of family, friendship and true love prevails, beautifully told through the eyes of some wonderful strong characters that bring the tales of what went on in those days and how people survived and lived through turbulent times.
The Second Daisy
This is the sequel book to Daisy. The first Daisy had a hard start in life. She was born in the slums of London in 1887, to an impoverished unmarried mother with all the stigma her status in life brought. A hundred years later, we meet her namesake, the second Daisy. In many ways life for this Daisy is a lot easier, but in many ways the two women are very similar in character, but this Daisy is a woman of colour. Again, the story shuttles back and forth between London, Alabama and Harlem in New York in the US, but we’re in the 1980’s. The characters from the first book still have a significant role to play but we’ve moved on to the next generation. This Daisy is the daughter of Jeremy who is the son of Samuel and Winifred who left Harlem in 1952 on the boat United States for a better life in London. Theo and Melissa whose families came from the rich plantation owners have also moved to London as have Matty and Ruth who lived with Theo and Melissa back then whose families finally gained their freedom from Black Slavery that was endemic in certain US States at the turn of the nineteen century. The story also brings into play the character Flo, the original Daisy’s daughter, her life as a dressmaker in Artillery Lane a house bought for her by Freddie, who insisted the title deeds be in her name only as collateral for the future. The loss of her first son was a devastating blow, like Masie losing her only daughter in the first book who took in Daisy, the only difference being Flo rebounded and thrived as opposed to Maise taking her own life. Towards the end of the book, we see a grand reunion organised by Melissa back in Harlem reuniting the new generation with the old generation they left behind so that Daisy and her generation get to see the old ones before time takes them. This new Daisy despite still facing racism and equality issues has a brighter future ahead of her, far better than the life Daisy in the first book had to endure and overcome.
The Ancestor Series
Valentine George (Book One in the series)
Valentine George was an ordinary man, born in extraordinary times. He experienced love, loss and joy, just as we all do, but his life was worth recording. In this novel we follow his story where it began, in the slums of London during Victorian times. Then, he takes us through world wars One and Two and leads us on to the path of the Swinging Sixties.
Lou and Eustace (Book Two in the series)
This tale begins in the late 1800’s and continues through to 1984.
The roaring twenties were in full swing. Now, all the young women and many of the older ones had shortened their skirts, chopped off their long hair, and thrown away their horrible constricting laced corsets. Marcel waves, short bobs, flapper dresses, and the Charleston, quickly became the order of the day.
The Abandoned Wives Handbook
The pain of abandonment is huge. The partner you loved and cherished for so many years has decided you are no longer required. Past your sell by date. Of no use to them anymore, so tossed out like a piece of garbage. Abandoned with barely a backward glance. To keep this a light-hearted read, each chapter is divided into two letters of the alphabet, rather like a dictionary of distress, something you can dip into at any time. I am not an expert, merely someone who has survived one of life’s great traumas and has come through it as a stronger more resilient person.
Social Media Platforms
If you would like to know more about Pat Backley you can go to her website below, or equally follow her on any of social media platforms also listed below.
www.facebook.com/patbackleyauthor
www.twitter.com@patbackleybooks
www.instagram@patbackleyauthor
Should you wish to purchase a book then you can clock the Amazon link below or go to her webpage www.patbackley.com
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Wed, 05 Apr 2023 - 43min - 70 - The Jude Hayland Books: Miller Street SW22, The Legacy of Mr Jarvis, & Counting the Ways by Jude Hayland
The Author
Jude Hayland is a British author born in London but now resides in Winchester a small city down towards the south coast of England. Winchester is known for its medieval Winchester Cathedral, with its 17th-century Morley Library, the Winchester Bible and a Norman crypt. The Great Hall of Winchester Castle houses the medieval round table linked to King Arthur. Jude also spends a considerable amount of time on the Mediterranean island of Crete where her family have a home. Learning modern Greek, is shall we say, proving challenging at best.
Having graduated in English Literature Jude began writing short stories for Women’s magazines at the same time as teaching at secondary schools in the 1980s-1990s. She was published extensively in the UK and internationally for many years. After graduating with an M.A. with Distinction in Creative Writing, Jude began to explore writing full length fiction stories and to date has published three novels which will feature in this podcast. A fourth book is close to being completed. With all that is going on in her life, Jude still finds time to teach English and Drama on a part-time bases, as well as taking creative writing courses and workshops for budding authors. Jude’s novels have been well received with book groups and those who like the genre fields of Literary/commerce crossover, families and relationships.
Check out our video chat here!
The Books
Miller Street SW22
A story of loss, love, guilt and ultimately hope and redemption.
This book is the third book Jude has written and was published in January 2021. The Book shadows the lives of five neighbours that live on Miller St in London SW22. Coincidentally all the neighbours moved into the street in the autumn of 2005 primarily for a new start in life. The main Characters are Catherine Wells, Sam and Lydia Cough, Violet Lawrence and Frances Chater. The daily lives of these unique and individual characters, all with their own inner strengths and faults is fascinating to watch as the various events unfold leading up to a centenary street party. As the deadline for the street party nears and the committee Frances cagouled them to form using her domineering personality takes hold; relationships between the five begin to immerge. What they discover about themselves and how the past has played a part for some of them in getting to where they are, and what inconceivable destinies await them in the future is truly breath-taking. For me this book has all the tension needed to keep the reader turning the pages. As expected from Jude Hayland it’s beautifully written with tenderness and thrills all built in.
The Legacy of Mr Jarvis
A book of intrigue, deception and deceit. Who was Freddie Jarvis? And what was the relationship between this man and Mary’s mother Ida.
This book is the second book Jude has written; it was published in October 2019. The storyline starts with, for Mary the main protagonist a sudden house move from London to the South Coast, in 1966, but why? Mary who’s twelve at the time, doesn’t question her parents Jack and Ida’s reason for this move. But, forty years later after her mother’s death Mary decides to confront her suspicions. For, throughout her entire life she was led to believe that she was an only child, or was she? What Mary uncovers leaves her profoundly affected, the deceit and deception is traumatising, half-sisters? Again, who was Freddie Jarvis and was she, Mary, part of his legacy.
Counting The Ways
Counting the Waves dissects the fears that cloud our lives from failure, loss, regret and transience. The story is set in both London and an idyllic Mediterranean island in the 1980’s at a time when the talk of money particularly in London was all the fashion. Grace Barnes doesn’t fit into that Yuppie society and is passionate about reading. Archie Copeland is of a similar mindset, so much so the two of them get married. Hester, Grace’s mother seeing that her daughter is about to get married reflects on her own dysfunctional marriage to Fergus who left thirty years ago to live a simple remote life on a Welch hillside. However, his appearance at Grace’s wedding opens old feelings. For a short spell, Fergus’ reincarnation appears to have an influence on Grace, but then her own relationship with Archie wains due to all kinds of issues. A holiday to the Mediterranean on the surface appears to be the answer for Grace and Archie. But his disappearance casts a whole different outlook to their marriage, what Grace uncovers about Archie as she tries to find him is not what she expected to find. Archie meanwhile is forced to confront years of self-delusion, which is hard for him, but his absence forces Grace, Hester and Fergus to face up to their own fractured relationships. This is a book with many twists and turns like any good book should be.
Social Media Sites
If you want to know more about Jude Hayland and her books, then you can go to her social media sites below:
Website www.judehayland.co.uk
Linkedin www.linkedin.com/in/judehayland
Facebook www.facebook.com/judehayland
Instagram www.instagram.com/judehaylandandwriting
Twitter handle-@judehayland
If you would like to purchase a copy of one of her books, then you can either click the Amazon links below or go to her publisher’s webpage www.troubador.co.uk/bookstore/search Jude Hayland, or head to her webpage www.judehayland.co.uk
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Tue, 04 Apr 2023 - 42min - 69 - Learning Experience Trilogy: Know Your Mind by Peter Massam
The Author
Peter Massam is a British author who lives in a stunning part of the United Kingdom, Witney. Witney is a market town on the river Windrush sitting in the idyllic Cotswolds close to the city of Oxford which is world renowned for the University of Oxford.
Peter’s childhood days were filled with fun. For, coming from a large family with twenty-seven cousins nearby to keep him well occupied, life was adventurous and could never be described as boring. The stories from those halcyon days are often retold at family reunions as they should be.
For Peter working life brought many varied opportunities. He taught for ten years, a period on his life that he thoroughly enjoyed as he broadened young minds. The business world eventually beckoned, and he pursued different avenues to broaden his own mind thus gaining valuable experiences which have stood him in good stead over the years.
As an author Peter, between 2019 and 2021 published two collections in Poetry before moving on to write the ‘Learning Experience Trilogy.’ It is this trilogy that we will be looking at over the course of two podcast interviews.
Check out our video chat here!
Quirky Story
Six people set off along a U-shaped valley, past giant groundsel and lobelia. Fog descends, light failing, tin hut refuge nowhere in sight. Up rocky slope I clamber to discover a corrie lake with hut on its shoreline. Everybody else hunkers down in sleeping bags leaving me to cook. Washing up in the ice-cold water, I looked up. Sky clears to reveal Halley’s Comet streaking above Mt Kenya’s peak.
The Books
In the last interview with Peter, we talked about the first two books in ‘The Learning Experience Trilogy.’ Those books were ‘Nipper’ and ‘Moose Conquering Fear.’ If you want to know more about them, then have a look at Peter’s first Podcast. These books track a lifetime journey of learning experiences from childhood encounters through coming of age to conquering fear, which culminates in a new appreciation of the power of the mind in the realms if communication, pain relief and self-help healing and preservation, all told through the main character George.
Know Your Mind
The third and final book of the series. As I said in the last interview this book is a real life-changer, as any final book in a series should be.
This book deviates from George’s every day’s interactions and focuses on the remarkable correlation between the body and its perplexing mind. We can all associate with mind over matter and that a positive mindset is a powerful tool when it comes to facing up to everyday challenges. For George in this book, it’s all about a new philosophical approach to life leading him to see that the body he occupies when cooperating with his inner mind thinking’s, can bring about a different outcome, a more positive conclusion to his existence. He can’t do much about the body he’s inherited but he can influence how his body reacts to different scenarios that come his way. All through proven and yet to be proven scientific methods, technological advances, and philosophies. All to create a different perception of the mind in George’s life that many of us can identify with.
Social Media
www.linkedin.com/in/petermassam
www.amazon.com/author/petermassam
If you wish to purchase Peter’s book then you can click the Amazon link below, or alternatively head to his publishers’ site.
www.balboapress.com/bookstore/searchpetermassam
Thank You once again Peter for giving me the opportunity to interview you about this wonderful trilogy you have written.
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Thu, 30 Mar 2023 - 36min - 68 - Learning Experience Trilogy: Nipper & Moose Conquering Fear & Know Your Mind by Peter Massam
The Author
Peter Massam is a British author who lives in a stunning part of the United Kingdom, Witney. Witney is a market town on the river Windrush sitting in the idyllic Cotswolds close to the City of Oxford which is worldly renowned for the University of Oxford.
Peter’s childhood days were filled with fun. For, coming from a large family with twenty-seven cousins nearby to keep him well occupied, life was adventurous and could never be described as boring. The stories from those halcyon days are often retold at family reunions as they should be.
For Peter working life brought many varied opportunities. He taught for ten years, a period in his life that he thoroughly enjoyed as he broadened young minds. The Business world eventually beckoned, and he pursued different avenues to broaden his own mind thus gaining valuable experiences which have stood him in good stead over the years.
As an author Peter, between 2019 and 2021 published two collections in Poetry before moving on to write the ‘Learning Experience Trilogy.’ It is this trilogy that we will be looking at over the course of two Podcast interviews.
Check out our video chat here!
Quirky Story
Six people set off along a U-shaped valley, past giant groundsel and lobelia. Fog descends, light failing, tin hut refuge nowhere in sight. Up rocky slope I clamber to discover a corrie lake with hut on its shoreline. Everybody else hunkers down in sleeping bags leaving me to cook. Washing up in the ice-cold water, I looked up. Sky clears to reveal Halley’s Comet streaking above Mt Kenya’s peak.
The Books
Nipper
This is the first book in the trilogy, and we are introduced to George the main protagonist throughout the series. The story starts off in the sanctuary of a frugal but loving homestead. For George, his carefree and simple lifestyle is about to change, his days at the local primary school are ending, ‘big school’ is beckoning, and for George like any child that’s a daunting prospect with all the new experiences heading his way, particularly girls young and old. George’s first trip on the school bus to secondary school was an eye-opening encounter that left an indelible mark on him, a mark he carried with him for a considerable period. The storyline in this first book is all about one boy’s view of life being turned upside down and how he started to conquer his fears particularly with how to handle the opposite sex, something all boys of George’s age must face.
Moose Conquering Fear
The second book in the series, here we find George has moved on in life, he’s about to leave education and transgress to a working life and relationships. Both scenarios for George carry their own fears, does he opt for what he sees as the safer route or again does he conquer his anxieties. For George life is and probably will be all about facing up to his instabilities like most people have to. In this book we see George facing up to life’s upsets, the ill-judged decisions he’s made and the fact he doesn’t appear to learn from his past, both in his personal and business life. I think so many of us can relate to George here especially men, a woman, however, might have a different viewpoint here. Is there a happy ending for George, well that is for me to stay stum and you the readers to find out.
Know Your Mind
This is the third book in the trilogy which has only just come out. This book will be featured in another interview on Talking Books Show in April 2023. But to whet your appetite regarding this final book in this amazing trilogy I’m prepared to give you a sneak preview as to what is about to be revealed.
This third and final chapter in the trilogy moves on from talking about growing pains from childhood and teenage years through to adulthood all courtesy of George facing fears to exploring the remarkable relationship that exists between the mind and the body and how those correlations climax in a new philosophical viewpoint.
What began as a collection of thoughts is simply breath-taking. We are all aware that we have five senses, but when these senses are subdued to allow a sixth sense to evolve; well, that’s a game- changing occurrence, and that’s what lies in wait between the pages of Peter Massams’ third book. As I say it’s a real game-changer like the last book of a trilogy should be.
Social Media
www.linkedin.com/in/petermassam
www.amazon.com/author/petermassam
If you wish to purchase one of Peter’s books then you can click the Amazon link below, or alternatively head to his publishers site www.balboapress.com/bookstore/searchpetermassam
Thank you, Peter, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to talk to you about yourself and your thrilling books which I thoroughly enjoyed reading and highly recommend.
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Mon, 20 Mar 2023 - 40min - 67 - It’s Witch O’Clock Somewhere And The Sheriff and the Psychic by Peggy Jaeger
The Author
Peggy Jaeger is an American author from the beautiful state of New Hampshire. She’s a contemporary writer who mainly writes Romantic comedies about strong women, the families who support them, and the men who can’t live without them. If she can make you cry in one instance and laugh yourself silly in another, then for Peggy she has accomplished what she set out to do.
Family, friends and good food are at the heart of Peggy’s writing. For her, these three essential ingredients to life are the glue that keeps everything together both in her own life and in her books. All her characters have their own unique characteristics; some have humour while others have a more sinister side to them, but they’ve all got romantic aspirations underpinning they’re existence to bring tense, riveting and imaginative stories that engage with you. The storylines all stem from various topics she has observed in life, death, sibling rivalry, Illness and the need to find true meaningful love.
Growing up as an only child to divorced parents, the characters and the storylines in her books very often reflect the life she would have liked herself, with siblings to love, cherish and spar with.
Romantic suspense and paranormal romance are two genres Peggy has recently ventured into and to say she’s had a ball creating witches, psychics and all things that go bump in the night is a serious understatement. Peggy’s have a blast here everyone.
When Peggy’s not writing she can be found painting, crafting, scrapbooking or decoupaging old steamer trunks she’s bought while rummaging around old stores and garages.
As a lifelong diarist, Peggy admits she caught the blogging bug early. You can visit her at peggyjaegar.com where she blogs daily about life, writing and stuff that makes her go What!!!
Check out our video chat here!
The Books
It’s Witch O’ Clock Somewhere
This is the third book in the Romantic Haunting Series
Twenty years ago, Barstone bad-boy Declan Wolffe, rode out of town on his motorcycle leaving the town that looked down on him and his dysfunctional family, an alcoholic father and a disturbed mother. His behavioural issues, when you look back, were really cries for help, help that never materialised. The last person he saw in his rear-view mirror was Gigi Gordon the only girl he ever loved.
His return has stoked up memories for the town folk and some of those memories are not favourable, to say the least. Rich, successful, and determined to change the town’s outlook leaves him open to salacious gossip, but what is the real reason for coming back? Is it for the girl, or the glory.
Gigi Gordon is successful in her own right as an accomplished real estate agent running her own business, but who is she really? What about her family background as a tenth-generation witch? Only those closest to her know and understand who she really is. Declan’s return in many ways disrupts her life, the boy who left her heartbroken is back to shake and stir things up. Declan may have plans, but Gigi has plans of her own. The biggest is that of protecting her heart from him.
But what of the witchcraft methods she adopts?
The creative style adopted by Peggy to create this book is breathtaking.
The Sheriff and the Psychic
The first book in the Renewal Series
Police Psychic Silvestra Coeltrain comes to Renewal a rural community town in Oklahoma to visit Jake and Mabel Adams and to rest and heal from a dramatic year that has left her physically, mentally and emotionally scarred. No sooner has she arrived when her psychic visions rekindle themselves. The visions reveal the deaths of some of the local rancher’s animals. These mysterious deaths are disturbing for the local community.Who and why is behind these killings? Something Caleb Blackbear, the sheriff with part native American Apache blood in his veins, needs to get to the bottom of.
Sheriff Caleb gets himself emotionally involved with this police psychic from New York, which gets both him and Silvestra into unchartered dangerous waters. Getting romantically involved with Silvestra leaves him exposed to unforeseen happenings. For Caleb, Silvestra is an unknown source filled with mysticism and intrigue, but he allows his suspicions to be dictated by his feelings. Not a good plan for it will only lead to heartache. The deaths of local livestock mount up and with each incident occurring the pressure intensifies on Caleb to restore order to the now fractious community. Questions are asked how Caleb knows in advance of these mysterious killings. The answer of course lies with the police physic Silvestra who has received visions of these deaths.
The murder of a prominent rancher’s daughter, Cal’s former lover, complicates matters, and the ensuing outcome leaves Caleb fatally wounded, plus puts Silvestra’s life in danger. However, Silvestra isn’t exactly of such a delicate disposition, which Caleb first imagined. Far from in fact. She’s stood up to far worst in the past, particularly when it comes to high-profile cases she’s been involved with. Fame and tragedy are part of her life, her psychic powers are both a gift and a burden, so much so, she fears falling in love with anybody particularly Caleb. Love for Silvestra is always connected with unbearable pain and loss.
This is a very powerful book imaginatively told.
Social Media Links:
If you wish to know more about Peggy Jaeger, then you can head to her social media platforms listed below.
Website: www.peggyjaeger.com
Blog: www.peggyjaeger.com
Twitter: https//twitter.com/@peggy_jaeger
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/peggy-jaeger-author/825914814095072?ref=bookmarks
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13478796.Peggy_Jaeger
Bookbub:https//www.bookbub.com/authors/peggyjaeger@peggyjaeger
YouTube: https//www.youtube.com/peggyjaeger@peggyjaeger
TikTok: HTTPs://www.tiktok.com/peggyjaeger@peggyjaegerauthor
Thank you, Peggy for the wonderful experience of chatting to you about yourself and some of your books.
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Sun, 05 Mar 2023 - 37min - 66 - Buster The Bridger Mountain Bear + Pacer Coulee Chronicles by Wayne Edwards
The Author
Wayne Edwards is a born and bred Montanan. He grew up in the rural town of Denton in the US State of Montana where he graduated in 1971 from Denton High School. Wayne attended Montana State University in Bozeman, graduating with a per- Med/Chemistry degree in 1975. He then received his Doctorate of Dental Surgery from the University of Washington in 1980, returning to Bozeman where he practiced Dentistry for six years.
In 1986, he returned to his hometown as a third-generation banker of the independent family-owned agricultural bank started by his grandfather in 1929.
Typical of the small-town way, when the local high school football coach left shortly before the start of the 1991 season, the former college football player Edwards agreed to serve as the interim head coach at the eight-man football school. The interim designation turned into a highly enjoyable and satisfying six-year stint. This playing and coaching experience served as an inspiration for his creation of the fictional story that is Pacer Coulee Chronicles.
Married for forty-seven years to his college sweetheart, Wayne and Lorinda are now retired from banking and split their time between their homes in Bozeman, Montana and Cave Creek, Arizona. They enjoy spending time with their three daughters and sons-in-law, and their eight grandchildren.
Quirky Story
Something you’d only see in a small town
The rural small town where I lived and worked had a business district that typical of small towns consisted of only two city blocks. Like most little towns, the usual and customary parking practice was one of angle parking (as opposed to parallel). One day as I was coming out of the bank and about to go across the street to go to the Post Office, a car directly in front of the Post Office was backing out from its angle position into the middle of the street. As I got closer to the moving vehicle, I was surprised to see that nobody was in the car…a headless driver, if you will! As the car began to pick up speed, I could see that it was headed towards another angle-parked car on the opposite side of the street. Fortunately, this incident occurred before I became old and fat, and I was able to chase down the now -increasing-in-speed vehicle and open the driver-side door and jump in. Only after applying the brakes and stopping the runaway car just before it crashed into the other car did I discover the true ‘headless driver’ of the car…it seems that when Mrs Goettel exited the car to enter the Post Office, she didn’t quite get the shift all the way to ‘park’, leaving it in ‘reverse’. The angle to the curb was such was such that the car wouldn’t have moved had her aging Shih Tzu not crawled down from the seat to lay on the driver-side floorboards, thereby depressing the accelerator and ‘driving’ the car!
Check out our video chat here!
The Book
Buster
This endearing story is for me a bedtime story for parents/grandparents to read to their youngsters. The illustrations by Gina Daws are vivid, magical and engaging for very young imaginations. It’s a simple story of the rural wildlife found in Montana told through twelve animated characters working together to get Buster the black bear out of an embarrassing situation on Bridger Mountain. You have adorable characters like Gabriellle ‘Gabby’ Gopher nosey-know-all, Brutus the grumpy bad-tempered badger, Oliver Wendell Owl lll, the wise old owl, Billy Bob Bobcat a feisty little so and so, and of course Buster the black bear with a penchant for huckleberries, insects and honey. It’s a cute bedtime read for the little ones.
Pacer Coulee Chronicles
This exhilarating adventure story is aimed at an upper young adult/ adult audience school students who are passionate about school sports and all the goings on off the field. The book is set in the 1990s in Pacer Coulee a small rural town in Central Montana exposed to all the seasonal wild weather conditions Montana gets. Edna Coffman is the domineering matrix head, who’s used to getting her way, she certainly rules the roost. She’s passionate about sport and with the school’s failing sports achievements she instructs Lester her athletics director to seek coaches for the school’s football and basketball squads. Having hired Luke and Madison, Edna is looking forward to success so that she can hold her head up high in the community especially when it comes to the school’s arch-rivals the ‘Goddam Catholics.’ However, the story isn’t just about regaining champion status for the school it gives an insight as to how the schools and local communities in rural Montana coexisted then side by side for the benefit of all. The attention to detail Wayne addresses is phenomenon, the tension with all the drama expected from a small-town America community is there in bucket loads, all the gossip and shenanigans as well as the latest farming news are all too clear at times to see and read in the local paper, ‘The Pacer Coulee Chronicles.’ The storyline deals with real issues that impact the rural community, death and unfortunate circumstances. For me the legion of students cast as characters here with the townsfolk as well brings this book to life, the drama and the tension plays out right to the bitter end like any good book’s storyline should. I loved the characters Dolph, Earl and of course the unruly Brewster sisters. What a Book!
A Stones Throw (Coming shortly)
Middle Grade/Young Adult fiction
A heart-warming story set in the 1960’s, about an orphaned girl Maggie living in an orphanage in San Francisco. Her life is about to change when her paternal grandfather from rural Montana a veteran of WWI shows up and gets custodial rights to bring her back to his homestead ranch in the wilds of Montana. The rustic farming life she’s about to face is a far cry from the bustling city life of a cosmopolitan city such as San Francisco. For a twelve-year-old girl having to adapt to a new life is both scary and daunting, as well as having to get to know Ira an old war veteran a man who until now she had never heard of or met. The relationship between the two is difficult, Maggie doesn’t know how to relate to her unknown grandfather, like wise for Ira getting to know and understand what a twelve-year-old girl needs at her time of life is unfathomable to him. Yet the two of them need to adjust to each other if success is to be achieved.
If you wish to know more about Wayne Edwards and his books, then head to his social media sites listed below
Webpage: www.wayneedwardsbooks.com
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/wayneedwardsbooks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wayne.edwards56232
If you wish to purchase any of Wayne’s books then you can click the Amazon links below, or head to his webpage.
Thank you, Wayne, for giving me the wonderful opportunity to read and chat about both you and your books.
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Mon, 27 Feb 2023 - 43min - 65 - My Sweet Aroma by Timothy Green
The Author
Timothy Green is a British author From Chatham a town located within the Medway unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Kent, England. It would be fair enough of me to say that Timothy’s life at times has been an uphill struggle battling with mental health issues over a ten-year period that saw him in and out of various hospitals. In recent years a huge stabilizing influence in his life has been that of his fiancé Lena from South Africa. What unites the two of them is their passion not only for each other but their faith and poetry. When you have a look at the book, you’ll see just how much of these strengths come across. Yes, you can argue that Timothy’s creative mind has a huge influence in the poems but let me reassure you this book like all of Timothy’s books are a joint venture.
A person with a gentle nature is how Timothy best describes himself, he has a love of music as well and for him a good night out is a heavy jamming (impromptu musical) session in the local clubs and pubs. The stage life has often beckoned with musical tours but for the moment writing and publishing his poems is his present priority, and when you look at his poems, you’ll see why.
Check out our video chat here!
Quirky Story
My old friend and I were always there for each other. One night we went out and within the throng and all other activities we lost each other, I ended up at his parent’s house and he at my parent’s house. We had a strange relationship but spent a lot of time together. We thoroughly enjoyed video games, music, pubs, clubs, football, cadets, work and of course poker nights. What great times we had.
The Book
This book is a collection of some two hundred poetic verses, some of these poems have been uplifted from his other works but seventy of them are new. Some of them have a spiritual undertones stemming form Timothy’s own Christian beliefs others are simply breath-taking. Like all poetic/free verse writings there are simple compelling storylines hidden within the contents of all of Timothy’s wonderfully constructed verses.
Timothy has written six books in total all of which can be found on his webpage www.timothygreentimsir.com
The Sail, the Face
Open
My Sweet Aroma (Firebird book award winner)
My First Class Meal
Anointed and Appointed
Fruits of the Vine
If you wish to have a look at Timothy’s book My Sweet Aroma, you can click the Amazon link below or head to his publisher’s webpage www.authorhouse.co.uk/search bookstore/Timothy Green.
Thank you, Timothy and Lena, for the giving me the opportunity to talk to you both about this amazing book of poetry.
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Mon, 27 Feb 2023 - 42min - 64 - The Human Mind: A Psychological View of Theological Concepts by Dr Eric J Kolb. Ph.D.
The Author
Dr Eric Kolb was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania in the USA , he went to Ohio and Capella Universities, moved to Germany in 1994, worked as a street performer, circus performer, as an actor and comedian. He presently lives in Obernkirchen a small town near Hannover. Germany.
Muscular Dystrophy is a hereditary condition marked by weakening and wasting of the muscles, a life changing game plan if you are unfortunate enough like Eric to be diagnosed with this debilitating disease at such a young age. When he began working with the Clown Doctors, the first group of clowns to perform in Children’s Hospitals in Germany, his interest in child psychology began. Humour has been at the heart of Eric’s life, and he often describes it as the best medicine particularly when the chronic pain gets unbearable as the condition continues to ravage his body. Understanding and coming to terms with the choices available to him in life were going to be restrictive and that his future was destined for a wheelchair rather than a spotlight, Eric obtained a M.Sc. in Psychological Counselling. Amalgamating his skills as a performing artist, Eric became a licensed mental health practitioner in Germany, specializing in child development and behaviour. However, this also due to his deteriorating condition became too much of a challenge. Eric turned his attention to gaining a Ph.D. in General Psychology and has been working as an independent researcher ever since and recently as a writer when his hands allow him to type on the keyboard.
I asked Dr Kolb for a quirky story, and this is what he sent me.
When I heard God Laugh.
I stated previously that I was given two years to live when I was first diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy. That, of course, crushed me. It Crushed my heart, body, mind and soul. During all that unexpected stress, I had a flashback memory at a church summer camp. Being from a strong Christian family and having a famous father, I did not get much attention at such camps. The church leaders spent all their time with kids who needed their help and left me to fill up 1000 water balloons for all the other kids to play with while I and a few other kids were left to clean the kitchen after lunch. On the last evening, just before the typical alter call, they brought an older kid up on stage. He was the coolest kid there. He played guitar in the band, had a tattoo, and long hair. Everyone thought he was awesome. He went up on stage and told the story about how he tried to kill himself by drinking laundry detergent only a couple of months previously, but now he’s given his life to Christ. While everyone cheered, and all the girls wanted to hug him, and all the church leaders wanted to give him a high five; I couldn’t help to think “Idiot, do you know how much detergent you need to swallow before it will kill you and how long it would take?” The truth was this kid was clearly not on track, he had bad school grades and led a sinful life, no accomplishments to speak of, yet he was the cool one, the hero of the youth group! So, with that in mind we were all sent out to go off alone and think about if we wanted to accept Christ into our lives. I had done that I least twenty times in the past and concluded you only have to ask God once. So, I wanted to talk to God about this. I asked God,” why is my life so perfect, what kind of testimony will I ever be able to give? When will I ever be able to tell how God got me through an impossible problem when I never have any problems?” That’s when I heard God laugh and say, do not worry; you’ll get your chance.
I Think we can clearly see a connection now between Dr Kolb’s Theological concepts and his Psychology thoughts; hence his writings and his books so let’s turn to the book.
The Book
The Human Mind: A psychological View of Theological Concepts
In, The Human Mind: A Psychological View of Theological Concepts, Dr Kolb compares and contrasts the scientific understanding of the human mind with that of the teaching of the Bible. In some cases, he sees that these two perspective viewpoints are similar, such as in various aspects of child development. However, where positive psychology claims that the power to induce change lies within the individual, the Bible on the other hand teaches that we can do nothing apart from Christ. Erics book starts off with the concepts of belief, upon which the mind develops. Both Christian Theology and scientific psychology agree that one’s beliefs serve as a lens through which reality is viewed, and that humans mainly choose what they want to believe. As such, an individuals’ core beliefs serve as the foundation upon which their mind develops. Dr Kolb’s book in theory outlines the numerous development processes of the human mind, beginning with the blank state, through sensory integration and learning through to the concept of self-awareness and the theory of mind upon which a person’s identity is formed. Finally, after corroborating the relationship between mind and behaviour, Dr Kolb closes the book with the contemplation of the nature and development of the mind of Jesus of Nazareth.
This book is an extraordinary book well written, thank you Eric. Here’s our video chat:
The Psychology of God
This book was Dr Kolb’s first book and is about a scientific study of various aspects of human and the behaviour taken from both a theological and psychological perspective and serves as an introduction to the four books that follow. The Human Mind, which is the topic of today’s discussion, is the first book of this series. The Human Soul is currently being published and will be available shortly. The Human Heart is currently in the making, and The Human Body will complete the series. Kolb’s books point out that modern scientific psychology has discovered ancient references to the heart, body, mind and soul that form the very being of man, but science and theology still have contrasting viewpoints around the psychology of God.
Social Media Sites
If you wish to purchase Dr Kolb’s book The Human Mind: A Psychological View of Theological Concepts, then you can click the Amazon link below or simply head to his publishers site www.authorhouse.com/bookstore/search Eric J Kolb.
All of Dr Kolb’s books are available online or wherever books are sold.
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Sat, 25 Feb 2023 - 46min - 63 - THE ONE PILL FIX A Simple Cure for an Ailing Planet by Andy Kirkwood
The Author
Andy Kirkwood is a British writer who today lives in Swanage, a small south coast town on the Isle of Purbeck, within view of the Isle of Wight. Born in 1957, Andy’s profession was as an electronics engineer. At thirty Andy elected to travel the world, completing three circumnavigations and was shocked to witness first-hand the ravages mankind was inflicting on the natural environment that we all rely upon for life.
In the 1980’s, long before most note-worthy scientists, and even before it had a name, Andy foresaw the cataclysm of climate change that was fast approaching. Since then Andy has campaigned on environmental issues, financial inequality and free speech, performing politically orientated stand up, writing published articles in the press and standing for Member of Parliament on four occasions in attempts to awaken people about these and many other issues.
Thirty five years on, seeing that not one single issue has been adequately addressed, lead to the realisation that governments do not have the freedom to act in the best interests of the people they are supposedly speaking for, and that the democratic process is itself a sham.
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The Book
What do you do when you discover your world is in trouble?
The One Pill Fix is a multifaceted book outlining Andy’s personal journey of discovery where he witnesses the world in trouble, employs diverse attempts to awaken the people to their unseen plight, searches for, and finds, solutions to many issues, subsequently realises that all efforts are fraught as governments are not acting in the peoples best interests but are controlled by hidden powers with personal agendas of control and financial gain, and discovers the ultimate single solution that would solve everything at a stroke, claiming it to be the next step on mankind’s evolutionary journey that we must take if we, and our world, are to survive. He calls it The One Pill Fix.
If you want to understand how your world it really run, and get a feel for the powers that would have you believe in their illusion, then click on the Amazon link below, or head to his publisher’s webpage to get the book.
www.xlibris.com/bookstore/search Andy Kirkwood.
Thank you, Andy, for giving me the opportunity to chat to you about yourself and your book.
Thanks – I had a bath especially.
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Mon, 06 Feb 2023 - 28min - 62 - NAUGHTY NONSENSE, LASCIVIOUS LIMERICKS and much more! by David Ellis
THE AUTHOR
David Ellis was born in the Scilly Isles off the Cornish coast of the UK. Growing up on the main island of St Mary’s the largest of the isles, summers were idyllic, carefree, especially as WWII which had destroyed large areas of Europe had recently come to an end. Frolicking on the beaches and splashing in the water was a child’s haven, but all good things come to an end. Time to grow up.
David’s satirical wit which is prevalent throughout his book stems back to the quirky British sense of humour especially the Carry-on Films that dominated British comedy in the Sixties and Seventies.
David worked as an English teacher in England where he sought to encourage creative writing and an appreciation of literature, including poetry.
In his early thirties in pursuit of romance he emigrated to Australia. Alas that romance fizzled out, but he stayed in Australia. He presently lives in Perth with his partner and has a grown-up son and daughter.
David has a love for Chess, he’s well known on both the British and Australian Chess circuit, he has been West of England, Cornish, Kent and three times West Australian champion. He has competed in several Australian Open and Closed Championships with the best result equal third. David also coached up and coming young talent including a to-be British Champion.
For twenty-eight-years David has been a Chess columnist for the West Australian newspaper, and in 2001 received the Australian Chess Federation Medal for outstanding work as a chess correspondent, the year after he received the Queen’s Australian Sports Medal.
As an accomplished Pianist David has worked in collaboration with several junior choirs and has recorded two CDs with the soprano Willemina Foeken.
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THE BOOK
This book is a selection of comic verses from fifty years. Fifty years of life’s observations brilliantly captured by David in these satirical ditties, odes, some rhyming, some free verse but nonetheless hilarious.
When you open the book, David gives you a warning:
Be prepared to be amused by the odd ways of the characters here portrayed in the first section of the book devoted to Limericks.
Be prepared to feel sympathy for their mishaps and trials.
But especially be prepared to be shocked by their going-on and shenanigans- the forger, the glutton, the cheat, the drunkard, the proud, the greedy, the slothful, the unfaithful, the exhibitionist, the sex-mad, the dominatrix, the cougar, the transexual, the transvestite, the masochist, the homosexual and many, many more.
However, be prepared to enjoy the gentler humour of the later lengthier works set both in the UK and Australia which include homages to the Australian love of sport and the beach as well as a sad childhood tale.
I must confess I laughed myself silly reading some of the varied comic verses. Rosie Di Wu’s illustrations are wonderful.
If you would like to know more about David Ellis, then go to his webpage www.ellisd-naughty-nonsense.com you can also order his book from the website.
You can get the book by clicking the Amazon link below, plus go to his publisher’s webpage www.xlibris.com /bookstore/search David Ellis.
Thank you, David, for giving me so much fun chatting to you and reading your book.
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Mon, 06 Feb 2023 - 35min - 61 - Messages from The Divine Mother: A Selection of Spiritual Conversations for Women by Dee Buchanan
The Author
Dee Buchanan is a British author who presently resides in London in the UK. She was born in Jamaica but has lived in the UK since childhood. For Dee spirituality is at the very core of her life, both daily and long term.
Dee has done many things in her life; she’s been a primary school teacher as well as working in various accountancy positions. Dee holds a B.Ed. and PGCE from Metropolitan University London as well as a degree in Psychology and Caribbean Studies from the same university. Dee also has a diploma in counselling, welfare studies and sociology, plus a further diploma in personal development coaching and education. Dee is a certified coach accredited by the ICF (International Coaching Federation). So, as you can see Dee Buchanan is well placed professionally as a spiritual life coach and mentor to support adults and young people to fulfil their ambitions in life both personally and professionally in business.
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The Book
Dee’s book took just over a year to write but it’s based on twenty years of life’s scribblings as she recalls most if not all the divine message, she has received over that period in to this one amazing book. The book is mainly aimed at women and young girls empowering them to believe and understand themselves though spiritual means and ways, but for me men can also gain some spiritual insights here.
The divine messages are grouped under fifteen headings. Dee portrays this book as an attested undiluted communication between the reader and the Divine Mother’s energy. The words within are heart-warming, spiritually uplifting offering guidance to those seeking answers to questions about themselves and what is going on around them. For me this book offers a kind of alternative way of thinking of how women can face everyday issues supported by spiritual means and for men to get in touch with their feminine side and see things from a different perspective.
Social Media
If you want to know more about Dee Buchanan as well as knowing where to get the book then head to her social platforms listed below, or you can go direct to her publisher’s website www.balboapress.co.uk / bookstore/search Dee Buchanan. Alternatively, you can click the Amazon link below. The Book is also available at Barnes and Noble.
www.messagesfromdivinemother.com
Plus, you can connect with Dee on her Instagram page messagesfromdivinemother.
Thank you, Dee for giving me this wonderful opportunity to interview you about your interesting and unique book.
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Fri, 13 Jan 2023 - 29min - 60 - Oscar the Italian Cat & Simon the Sloth by Molly Arbuthnott M.A. M. Ed.
The Author
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 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 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 a 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 bookshops, libraries, schools and book festivals throughout the UK, sharing interactive and engaging writing and storytelling workshops. She has also started a “My Favourite Books” podcast where she chats with young and old about individual and common book interests.
Molly is keen in ensuring 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 a very young age they will start to understand how important it is to protect earth’s delicate balance, plus respect and appreciate it. Some of her books open this burning emotion of hers to young kids to explore and think about.
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.
Her award-winning books are published through Candy Jar Books publishing house, Cardiff.UK.
Like most authors that come on the show I ask them for a quirky story, simply to ingest a little light humour into the podcast. This is Molly’s story.
Soft Play Area
I loved going to soft play areas when I was young (and still do secretly!) When I was eight, I went to a wonderful soft play area called Jungle Kids. I used the death slide there without my socks!! Halfway down my bare feet stuck to the slide. I jack-knifed and slammed face first onto the slide. I chipped my two front teeth and broke my glasses. My nanny was looking after us at the time. The managers were so horrified by the event that they let me have an endless supply of slush puppy for the day, so as we wouldn’t sue or cause any trouble, I think. I was in heaven and mixed and matched the flavours to my heart’s content and gave lots to my brother too. So, it was a sugar high girl with two front teeth stubs and broken glasses who returned home to my parents that night. I was never allowed back to Jungle Kids!
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List of Molly’s books:
Stand-alone’s:
Simon The Sloth, Angus the Robin, Conrad the Spider, David the Pizzly Bear, and Athena the Cheetah.
The Oscar Series:
Oscar the Italian Cat, Oscar the Hebridean Cat, Oscar the London Cat and Oscar the Ferry Cat.
The Books
Simon the Sloth:
This enchanting story of Simon the sloth is going to inspire young children across the globe to adore sloths and possibly start to see how man is putting their natural habitat the rainforests of Central and South America at risk. Molly has cleverly combined an emblem of Scottish culture, ‘the bagpipe,’ with an adorable but endangered animal, ‘the Sloth,’ to tell an adventure story that will take young kids to the Sahara Desert, the Amazonian Rainforests, to the Himalaya’s, to India and finally on to the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury. It’s amazing what a bit of amber nectar can do. What a wonderful imaginary story backed by glorious illustrations done by Maude Smith.
Oscar the Italian Cat:
This is a quaint and endearing story about Oscar’s idea of a mini romantic trip to Venice in Italy with his girlfriend Mercy. His proposal attempts are thwarted at every turn. This whimsical story will take the kids to the majestic city of Venice one of the many jewels in Italy’s historic culture. Young Kids are going to love this simple but affective story beautifully illustrated by Agnes Treherne.
If you want to know more about Molly Victorian Arbuthnott and where to get her books, then you can click on all the links below including the Amazon link.
Web page www.mollyarbuthnott.co.uk
Publishers’ webpage www.candyjarbooks.co.uk/ search Jelly Bean Books
https://www.facebook.com/mollyarbuthnott
https://www.Linkedin.com/mollyarbuthnott
https:// www.twitter.com Search Molly Arbuthnott@mollyarbuthnott
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Mon, 02 Jan 2023 - 25min - 59 - Heirs of Vanity Trilogy: The First Three Books of the Heirs of Vanity Series by R J Hanson
The Author
R J Hanson is an American Author from just outside Dallas in Texas in the U.S. where he lives with his wife Michelle on a small ranch that tends to a moderate heard of cattle as well as a menagerie of other domestic animals.
R J began his love with fantasy at the age of five. In 1978 his mother bought him a Rankin and Bass production of The Hobbit. With that initial book and years later R J expanded his readership of Tolkien to R A Salvatore, Terry Brooks, Robert E Howard and even Stephen king.
R J started his writing career at the age of 45. During his life R J has assembled numerous experiences that have given him an unequalled insight to human life giving his writing a true and genuine edge to it. R J is a certified Firearms Instructor and Linguistic Statement Analyst.
As a young boy he worked as a cowboy having been raised on a small ranch in north Texas, he’s studied medieval combat and military tactics as well as arms and armaments of various cultures and times.
The award-winning author Jon Black describes R J’s writing as visceral, breath-taking. He goes on to say that his combat scenes are creative, well thought, and realistic in a way that will please purists while remaining fast-paced enough to satisfy others.
Quirky Story
I’m perhaps the world’s most unlikely nerd. I ride horses, raise cattle, drive a 4×4 and I’m a pen & paper RPG devotee. My gaming group plays Role master (if you don’t know it, think D&D) every weekend.
Many of the uninitiated find our conversations confusing because, when speaking of our characters, we tend to switch back and forth from 3rd person to 1st person. “So, then Roland hauls up his sword and I (I was playing the character Roland) cut the paladin’s leg off!”
Some of the best stories we tell are of events during gaming that, “really happened.”
I remember one time when a new player was starting, and the group was figuring out what equipment they wanted to buy before an adventure. Another player buys a horse, and the new girl looks at him like he’s the dumbest person she’s ever seen. “That’s crazy! How are you gonna carry a horse?”
Another time the group was approaching an island when the thunder clouds suddenly gathered around the single mountain top on the island:
Player 1: “It’s an omen.”
Player2: (not noticing the thunder clouds): “What’s an omen?”
Players 1,3 and 4 (in spontaneous unison): “It’s a sign of things to come.”
My Kids (now 28 and 26) started gaming with us around the ages of 7 and 5 respectively. One of their favourite stories is of a time when they were attacked by orcs. My daughter tripped one of the orcs and he fell into the campfire, setting his right arm ablaze. The orc made an intellect roll and fumbled it. Thus, his reaction to being set afire was to run up and down the bank of a nearby river screaming that he was on fire, never thinking to just put his hand in the water.
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The Books
Heirs of Vanity Trilogy.
This is the compendium of the first three books in The Heirs of Vanity Series. This series is in the realms of Epic Fantasy.
The first book in the series is Roland’s Path. (Part 1)
A creative tale about two servants of evil escaping during young Roland’s watch, Roland driven by humiliation and self-conceit takes it upon himself to track down these escapees. The escapees are a wizard of undetermined powers of sorcery and a woman of exceptional beauty with dark unimagined adeptness. The path Roland and his friend Eldryn must travel in order to track down an untested wizard and a woman of beauty and intrigue is fraught with imperilment and convolutedness. But this herculean journey must be undertaken, for in Roland’s world of Stratvs, vanity, narcissism comes at a high price, a price paid in blood both innocent as well as the guilty. Too many pietistic altars are strewn with rusting armoury.
The second book of the series is Roland’s Vows. (Part 2)
A noted warlock (sorcerer) of the Marshes bears a curse from the past for detestable exploits. Will Roland hear the wizard’s calls. Will trust or desire of the enchanter’s daughter prevail in Roland’s mind and conscience. An exotic city in a distant land is Roland and Eldryn’s next destination. Once again, the journey is steeped in peril as the lands, they travel through are ravaged with feuding armies and people deprived of hope. In the land of Lawrec will Roland’s physical and mental abilities be taken to the very edge of their sustainability. Evil worlds gloom everywhere can Roland survive fallen champions and pirates to maintain his father’s approval.
The Third book of the series is Roland’s Triumph. (Part 3)
An unrevealed badness glooms on the horizon, Daeriv’s forces have retreated but their presence still lingers in the air. Roland’s choices in how next to proceed are complex, whose advice will he heed, his fathers. What cost would he face if he disregarded his father’s wise counsel. Will the love of a good woman be enough to see him through this anxious and challenging time or will he fall at the evil hand of his adversaries. His inner nemesis is tested, but will he triumph. Or is it a case he must triumph not matter the cost to himself.
In the compendium the books are identified as parts 1-3 with their appropriate titles heading that section.
Fires that Forge: The first book of the Epic Fantasy Series Lords of Order & Chaos
Fires that Forge is the first book in the gripping Lords of Order & Chaos Epic Fantast Series, one of four series in the Bloodlines Reforged Saga. If you love thrilling mysteries, hidden enemies and fast paced action, then you’ll love R J Hanson’s sword and sorcery tales.
Murder, Betrayal, Magic. One Knight takes up his hammer to hunt a killer concealed. When dark arts and faith collide, who can he trust while hunting a predatory killer.
The story is set in the Kingdom of Lethanor, 1648. Inquisitor Dunewell stands strong in a city pocked by duplicity. A literal combatant for egalitarianism the recently appointed investigator sets to work to reveal and expose the liquidator behind the killing of a close physician soul mate. Pledging to reveal the slayer Dunewell crosses the threshold and is up against the executioner’s axe.
Instructed by the hierarchy Dunewell is under pressure to resolve the matter in hand. As he delves deeper into the circumstances the waters are muddied as the clues reveal demons and forbidden powers are at the heart of the case. Vampire attacks are prevalent as aristocrats continue to fall, slain to their deaths. Dunewell must pursue those responsible before the city becomes beholden to destructive hysteria.
If you want to know more about R J Hanson and where to get his books, then head to is social media platforms listed below.
www.facebook.com/bloodlinesreforged
https://www.amazon.com/R-J-Hanson/e/B07PWFYKC3?ref=sr_ntt_srch_Ink_1&qid=16491222367sr=8-1
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Mon, 12 Dec 2022 - 40min - 58 - THIRTY-THREE YEARS: The Unfiltered Memoir of a Cop by Rob G Rothwell
The Author
Rob Rothwell is a Canadian author living in Vancouver, where he was born and raised. He was the second youngest of five siblings. A household full of kids meant the house was always noisy and bustling with life. This was a working family, money was tight, but his parents’ always ensured food was on the table and that the five of them were brought up in a safe loving environment, but an environment of boundaries and rules that distinguished what was right and acceptable and what was not. These core principles instilled into him by his parents has resonated with Rob throughout his whole life both professionally and privately. Nonetheless, there was always room for a little adolescent mischief and teenage rowdiness growing up in the rougher side of Vancouver.
As a child Rob saw himself as a shy introvert boy lacking something of the brazen bravado his elder brothers possessed, he knew this diffident characteristic of his would have to change when he joined the Police, and it did.
Vancouver is a cosmopolitan city that is surrounded by outstanding natural beauty and when you look at the wildlife that lives around that part of Canada you must stop and think, wow what a wonderful place to live. Rob has long embraced the natural beauty around him and is often out in the wilds, cycling, skiing or sailing.
I laughed with Rob the other day as we chatted about how to put this podcast together when rob recalled as a young man, he would go to the gym to carry out arduous exercises to stay Police fit, now a days those rigorous routines have been replaced with stretching classes which he and his wife to whom he has been married to for thirty-eight attend most weeks. Oh, how time can be so cruel for most of us, yet like most of us Rob is still young at heart and that’s all that matters.
A thirty-three-year career in Vancouver Police Department which started when he was twenty exposed Rob to a mixed bag of life, he worked uniform patrol, bicycle patrol, and plain clothes crime task force. He’s been a school liaison officer, a Drug Squad detective, and a member of the Vancouver Integrated Intelligence Unit, to that we add Inspector in charge of the Internal Investigation, Criminal Intelligence and Patrol Support Section of the Vancouver Police. Towards the end of his career, he became the Superintendent overseeing the Criminal Investigation Division for Homicide, Robbery, Arson, Financial Crime and Special Investigations.
I asked Rob for a quirky story, and he sure came up trumps:
Quirky Story
Many years ago, a friend and I were out one evening and decided to grab a bite at a café, which was featuring a new line of herbal teas. I’ve been a diehard coffee drinker, so I thought it was time to expand my ‘sipping’ horizons. I asked the server which herbal tea she would recommend to a novice, she suggested Chamomile due to its ‘delicate’ flavour profile.
She bought over a pipping hot tea pot and instructed us to let it brew for four minutes, before we began sipping. Hmm… delicate for sure, but the flavour was there. Not forward, but softly delightful.
After a while the server returned to refill our pot. She asked how we liked the tea. I delivered an insightful review of its appealing aroma and delectable intricacies, following which the server pulled the lid from the tea pot and exclaimed, ‘oh my God, I forgot to put in the tea bags!’
I think ‘no comment,’ would be a fair assessment here.
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The Book
This is an earth-shaking book that takes you behind the scenes of Rob G Rothwell’s life as a cop on the streets of Vancouver. Thirty-three years of policing told through 54 stories each with their own dedicated chapter. Some of the stories are harrowing, some are wholeheartedly profound, whereas others are simply life and death situations. Several of the individual anecdotes are written with great sensitivity, others have an unabashed rawness to them, and some have a satirical edge that will bring a smirk to your, face. All the events and stories are based on true happenings that Rob saw, witnessed and experienced, from high-speed car chases, court room dramas and shenanigans, to deadly undercover operations put in place in order to crackdown and smash the underground drug scene that was so prevalent back then on Vancouver’s downtown streets, run by a ruthless criminal gangs waging a deadly war for control of the illicit market.
Vancouver is a city that Rob has loved all his life and all the painstaking evidence-gathering to put away unsavoury villainous characters was for him at the heart of his thirty-three-year career with the Vancouver Police Department from a young, naïve lad on a bike through to Superintendent commanding the Criminal Investigation Division that oversaw homicide to special investigations. For Rob this was his personal contribution to keeping the streets of Vancouver and all those that walked on them safe, with a touch of tough guy raw humour, compassion and understanding to boot.
So, if you want to know what life as a cop on the streets of Vancouver was like – well read the book, I can’t say fairer than that.
Thank you, Rob, for giving me the opportunity to interview you about your cleverly composed book with all its rawness and humaneness.
IF you want to know more about the author and where you can buy the book from then click on the author’s webpage below or the publisher’s website. You can also click the Amazon link below.
www.friesenpress.com /bookstore/search Rob G Rothwell
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Sat, 03 Dec 2022 - 50min - 57 - The Golden Book of Life & The Plasma Soul Codes by Simone Renee Quinton
The Author
Simone Quinton is a fun-loving, down to earth Australian author who has dedicated most of her life to helping herself as well as others with their spiritual, emotional, mental and physical well-being.
Simone and her family live in Broulee near the beach on the South Coast of NSW in Australia. Her modest home is surrounded by plants. In her spare time, she enjoys camping by the beach, surfing, snowboarding, creating new adventures particularly around nature and the local wildlife.
A sunny disposition personality with a can-do attitude in life has seen Simone achieve many things including national titles in dance and fitness events. Besides writing this book that took her the best part of five years to accomplish Simone sees herself as a successful business entrepreneur presiding over several thriving businesses including a micro-brewery- Broulee Brewhouse- which was set up by her husband Rodney to whom she has been married to for twenty-five years, along with another couple. It took nine months of hard graft to get the business up and running. They have been blessed with two children Keshi-18, and Reef -16 who I had the great privilege to talk to via Zoom when Simone and myself were discussing how to formulate this podcast.
As well as having a positive outlook in life Simone admits to having a so-called sixth sense which enables her to converse easily with nature and the spirit world. Her numerous encounters with the latter have helped her to help others to reach out to their loved ones who are now on the other side. Simone’s expertise in every thing life seems to be endless, her emotional experiences and qualifications has placed her in a unique position to talk about all sorts of matters in this amazing book of hers. To give you an idea of the topics she’s approached in the book have a look at the following list, I’m only going to give you a tantalizing short version of the lengthy list: Reiki, Aboriginal and Tibetan massages, chakra balancing, galactic energy healing, past life regression and shiatsu.
Simone has always known that one day she would write a book about what matters to her most in life, at thirteen she started to meditate, and at seventeen she fell foul to the debilitating condition Myalgic Encephalomyelitis more commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome. This condition had a profound impact on her so much so she had to reconsider her choice of following a career in physiotherapy, but as we all know sometimes in life a door closes and while that’s disappointing other doors open and for Simone new doors certainly opened, those doors were eclectic studies and healing modalities. From the age of twenty-one Simone has kept notes about herself and clients’ experiences and from these 2000 pages of notes she has been able to create this first phenomenal book of hers.
A unique and quirky story Simone told me about was when she and Rodney before kids arrived on the scene would spend months travelling in Australia’s outback and get up to all sorts of naturistic adventures surviving on what the land provided and only working at odd jobs just to pay for basics like fuel and bits of food. Kimberley was the location a remote part of Australia, the farmhouse (station) they stayed at had access to roadless tracks that took them to places that had no contact with the outside world. Rodney and herself opted to go down some of these unchartered tracks with their un-serviced battered and beat up old 4WD with tinny (boat) on the roof to pursue a fishing expedition into the croc-invested and blood sucking flies’ territory where death from the oppressive heat and wildlife is very real if you don’t follow the survival rules. Barramundi fishing comes with challenges and the first golden rule is to seek fresh drinking water. In their attempt to track down fresh water they found themselves wading waist-deep in mud to reach the clean water, however they misjudged the tidal movements and with a surge of tidal water full of deadly crocs heading their way, they just about reached the tinny, exhausted having to fight their way through sucking mud they managed and only just to scramble into the tinny with the old crocs snapping at their heels. They got their fish that day but nearly minus a few vital body appendages. Lesson learnt, judge the tides before you get in to hot water. They laugh about that experience now but didn’t at the time.
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The Book
This first book that Simone Quinton has written isn’t a cuddly bedtime read, it was never intended to be that. This is a book for those that love and engage in soul navigation systems, people who are in touch with their inner selves and are looking for a fresh approach to tap into hidden energies that can bring about renewed and vigorous vitality for a balanced, happy and remarkable life both in physical and mental formats. A book that will allow guidance to evoke the sixth sense we all often claim to possess. For me this a book that you can reach out to each week to read, digest, follow and practise each of the thirty-three plasma soul codes to help activate and enlighten your human self.
There are forty-three chapters in this book, the first eight chapters explain the basics to Simone’s theories around cosmic lingo, spiritually, meditation all driven through your inner soul which she believes works like a personal stargate where all is connected and possible. Within the soul are codes or directions to assist you to be genuine to yourself to bring about a balanced and resourceful life.
Chapters 9 – 41 inclusive covers off the 33 plasma soul codes, these self-guidance teachings are written in such a fashion that their thought-provoking contents are to me intriguing, fascinating and certainly reveal eye-opening suppositions. Each chapter revolves around one soul code. The chapters are standardised in their structure with sayings, poetic verse, purpose, message, guidance, advanced action, one on one, message in a bottle and reference sections. Despite the uniform set out within each chapter there are cleverly worked out variations to keep the reader thoroughly engaged. For me I think the best way to approach this book is to take a plasma soul code each week and follow through with the guidance and teachings in that self-counselling episode.
The last two chapters in the book, are simply an oversight for you to recapture and bring together this informative, thought-provoking process.
This is a spectacular, and imposing book which has been exquisitely written with at times a light sense of humour added to it. Well done, Simone.
If you want to know more about Simone Quinton have a look at her social media sites listed below:
https://www.soulnavigationsystem.net
https://www.simonereneequinton.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdoEjdB7VkILjbTMZeFGILA
https://www.facebook.com/simonereneequinton
https://www.instagram.com/soulnavogationsystem/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/Simone/Quinton
if you wish to purchase or learn more about the book then you can click the Amazon link below, or alternatively you can go to her publisher’s webpage www.balboapress.com.au/bookstore /search Simone Quinton.
Equally you go to her webpage www.simonereneequinton.com
All that I have to say now is, thank you Simone Quinton for this amazing book and for giving me the opportunity to interview you. I wish you all the best with this latest book venture of yours.
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Fri, 02 Dec 2022 - 31min - 56 - GIBBERRISH’S RHYMES TO CONTEMPLATE: Poetic Verse Moving You Into A New Life by Paul W. Naragon
The Author
Paul W Naragon is an American author presently living in Phoenix Arizona. As a child he lived on a farm until he left high school. In his twenties he worked as a new car sales manager for Buick, Honda and Mercedes-Benz. For a while he was a trouble-shooter for an insurance company. At thirty Paul joined the U.S. Army, he served in Germany and ended active duty as a member of the Multi-National Peacekeeping Force and Observers in the Sinai Desert, Eygpt. During that time, he received two Army Achievements Medals and two Army Commendation Medals. After military service Paul did a variety of jobs, including truck driving. After a near death experience accident, he was promoted to Director of Training a position he loved very much.
Paul has lived in the Peruvian Andes and the Indian Himalayas; he has visited many countries in Central and South America, and it is fair to say that from those places the spiritual essences of some of his poems/messages originate; having seen and experienced the local cultures of those regions.
Opportunities, for Paul are to be pursued, he studied Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, was awarded a National Defence Foreign Language Fellowship to study Tibetan, he also studied Korean at the Defence Language Institute at Monterey in California, and Russian in college.
Paul has been married now for four years to a woman he met forty years earlier, at that time their paths were on different tangents and for decades they led separate lives, but a chance encounter brought them together a few years back and neither of them have looked back.
A quirky aspect of Paul’s life if you can call it that, is the fact he has no fear of death due to an out of body experience he had when he was four-years-old. For me that’s an interesting concept.
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The Book
This is the second book in what I see as the Gibberrish’s Rhymes series, whether Paul sees them in that way or intends for them to be viewed in that fashion is open for debate. Equally open for discussion is; is this book, a book of poems, or a collection of writings with significant messages attached to them, for me you’d be justified to take either viewpoint, but Paul’s stand here is set out in the first paragraph of the introduction, so I’ll give you his version, but at the end of the day you the reader should make your own mind up about these 117, poems, sayings, or writings. But the most important thing to remember is the underlying message within each significant text.
Paul’s Viewpoint:
‘Because this book is written in poetic rhyme does not mean the book is about poetry. On the contrary, poetry is the messenger delivering the message in a unique way. The message presented here is an assortment of ideas by which to create a new life for the reader who wishes to do so. One idea seldom considered is the vibrational frequency of particular words and visible impact they have on the body which is the unspoken source of health or illness.’
Paul’s ideology behind this book as far as I can see is to give you the reader a different aspect to life especially when it comes to making changes to our lives for the better. The rhyming couplets in the book show how lives evolve and how we can re- channel our inner energies to better ourselves bringing about a more balanced well-being persona to both ourselves and those around us.
All I say here is, open his book and make your own minds up as to how you view Paul’s writings and idealistic thinking’s.
If you would like to find out more about Paul W Naragon then you can head to the following social media platforms:
If you would like to purchase, share, preview this book then you can click the Amazon link below or alternatively you can go to www.xlibris.com /bookstore/search Paul W Naragon and there you’ll see all three books with the title Gibberrish’s Rhymes.
The book Boy Without A Father: How Extraterrestrials Influence Us/Contact and Reincarnation in a Remote Andean Village can be got at www.outskirtspress.com /more/bookstore/search Paul W Naragon. Or Amazon.
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Thu, 01 Dec 2022 - 45min - 55 - A Dandelion: A Story That Touches on the Sensitive Topic of “Flowerism.” by Andrew David Everstine
The Author
Andrew Everstine is an American author from Woodbridge, Virginia, whose love of writing has spanned more than three decades. He’s written a variety of stories both for young children and young adults on an assortment of topics some with spiritual undertones to them. Andrew has published nine books in total, the latest being the above book.
To say Andrew has led a mundane life would be a serious understatement, in fact a total miscalculation, he was blue Flame to his father’s White Flame in the Indian Guides, he played snare drum for five years reaching 8th grade, describes himself as ‘Goofy-Foot’ while skateboarding. He played the frenetic game of Lacrosse for close to four years. His tastes in music are as diverse as his life- Reggae, Gospel, Punk, Contemporary Christian, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Classical and New Age. Maybe I should have simply said he loves all types of music with a few exceptions. His first concert was Kiss in 1978. One of the most pivotal points in his life which had a lasting profound effect on him was the day in 1986 when he was struck by a car while out jogging. Andrew often recalls that day and deems himself lucky to have survived.
Andrew has a degree from Frostburg State University and since that date in 1989 has gone on to do a plethora of jobs mainly around the food services industry from Chef to Director of Food Services in elderly healthcare, to General Manager of a local Bakery/ Coffee House as well as branching out into IT service albeit the non-technical side. He was let go from being Director of Food Services in the field of Educational Services, for being as he so delicately puts it, “being too nice.”
So, as you can see my statement of describing Andrew’s life ‘as mundane’ being ‘a serious understatement,’ is on the mark. One asks the question how he ever found time to write.
I asked Andrew for a quirky story, and this is what he wrote:
“A Fish”
We were at a restaurant in Washington D.C., celebrating my birthday. On our way out…in the parking lot, I spotted a huge fish flopping between two cars. I immediately thought to save the fish. I walked over, picked up the fish with a birthday envelope, and headed for the river.
I was surprised that the fish did not flop around once I picked him up. I made it to the edge of the dock and dropped the fish into the water. I turned around and everything went in slow motion.
I saw a huge guy walking towards me with a fishing rod. On it was a fish not even half the size. I realised what I had done. He had placed the fish between the two cars while he caught more,” dinner.”
“I am so sorry!” I said to him. He glared at me, and I quickly walked away.
Lesson learnt. Now I look back on it and laugh. I’ve even added that tale to one of my stories.
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The Book
A Dandelion was inspired by the Author’s daughter Ashli who was three at the time, she asked her father for a bedtime story, Andrew agreed but the condition was she had to come up with the title. “A Dandelion,” she replied and a ‘new cre8tive universe’ as Andrew states was commenced.
The book, which is ideally aimed at, I would say 4-7-year-olds depending on their reading ability is an endearing story about Sally Budfield an enchanting little Dandelion full of hope and determination. A flower party has been organised for all the flowers and a list of all those who would be invited would be posted at the Town Hall. Only those flowers on the list could attend the grand party, but at the bottom of the list was a note, ‘NO DANDELIONS ALLOWED.’ Sally ingeniously comes up with a cunning plan to get herself into the party albeit through the backdoor- with a little coloured powder and a touch of inventiveness- she’s in. But the party doesn’t go to plan and those flowers that saw themselves as far superior to a humble dandelion weed soon rely on Sally and other mere dandelions, to get them out of a predicament. While Sally is in doubtful disguise the flowers accept her, but once her cover is blown, she’s soon frowned upon despite her valiant efforts to save them all. The storyline is simply a story to very young kids teaching them basically to respect all, despite their ethnic backgrounds.
The illustrations are bright, bold and vivacious as you would expect in a children’s book for this age range.
It’s an enchanting book exquisitely compiled, and kids are going to love it. The book is dedicated to Ashli.C. Everstine, M.D. Andrew acknowledge his wife Woyeni for her enduring support and the work his daughter Julia Gonsalves did around editing.” Cheers Dears!”
Andrew’s other books are:
Driftwood
Driftwood: 101 poems & “Hanna”
Hanna
Cre8 Waves
Seth: A Visitor’s Pass
Anchored
Chasing Seagulls: Book 1
Chasing Seagulls: Book 2If you want to know more about Andrew David Everstine and his writing, then explore the links below.
www.allpoetry.com /Andrew Everstine/ Stories & Poems. (Free)
www.barnesandnoble.com / search Andrew Everstine.
https://www.facebook.com/andrew.everstine
IF you wish to preview, share, purchase a copy of A Dandelion: A Story That Touches upon the Sensitive Topic of “Flowerism” then click the Amazon link below. Alternatively, you can head to the publisher’s webpage www.iuniverse.com /bookstore/search Andrew Everstine. Where you’ll see all his books.
Andrew, it has been a great pleasure chatting and working with you to compile this podcast. I wish you all the best with this new children’s book of yours.
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Fri, 18 Nov 2022 - 23min - 54 - Heguanzi The Dao of Unity: In the birth of the Chinese Empire by Dr Marnix Wells
Pheasant Cap Master, Grand Unity
and the Nine Augustans,
Linking Politics and Philosophy
To
Religion
In
Ancient ChinaThe Author
Dr Marnix Wells is a British Author living in Croydon a large town in South London in the UK. His fascination with ancient Chinese History, art, culture and religion goes right back to his childhood days influenced by a book his mother read. He obtained his first degree in Chinese from Oxford University in 1967 and later acquired a PhD in Oriental and African studies from London University in 2001. Dr Marnix is also responsible for writing’ The Pheasant Cap Master and the End of History: Linking religion and philosophy in Early China.
I asked Dr Marnix for a quirky story about himself, and this is what he said.” A boy of pugnacious disposition, his mother by reading aloud, sparked interest in history, and his father, through rabbit-skinning and shooting, in nature. At boarding school, he won prizes for butterfly, wild-moth and wildflower collections from a Suffolk landscape now sadly depleted. In holidays, archaeology inspired him to help the county museum, washing excavated potsherds and joining a week’s dig on a turret of Hadrian’s wall. His mother’s teenage copy of The Importance of Living by Lin Yutang fuelled a growing fascination with Chinese art, leading to a first degree from Oxford University, a career in Far Eastern container shipping and a PhD from London School of Oriental and African Studies.”
This amazing book which is written for lovers of world history and religion has been dedicated to the author’s late Parents Edward Preston ‘Hawkeye Bill’ and Mary Dorothea: daughter Sarah, helper and beloved soul-mate Joyce, honorary proof-readers Angus Macindoe and Lilian Chia, my teachers at Oxford University’s Oriental Institute , 1964-1967: Professor David Hawkes, lecturers Raymond Dawson, Glen Dudbridge, then PhD candidate Wong Siu-Kit, and at London University School of Oriental and African Studies, 1993-2001 my PhD supervisor Paul Thompson.
Dr Marnix also acknowledges a debt of gratitude to all pioneers of Heguanzi studies, in particular professors Angus.C. Graham (1919-1991), Huang Huaixin in China, Carine Defoort in Belgium and Jean Levi in France. Last buy not least, to my IT guru Sikander Qasemi.
The Book
Prologue
This is the tale of a nation, Zhao (Shanxi), on the eve of destruction. It reflects the last stand of one of six independent kingdoms against imperial Qin, with a novel vision of an egalitarian world order. Yet we also see here the emergent blueprint of a centralised bureaucracy under the messianic ruler, shortly to be implemented by Qin in the draconian person of its ‘First Augustan Emperor,’ Qin Shihuangdi.
Like Rome’s Emperor Augustus and China’s subsequent emperors, be adopted celestial status as if an astral incarnation. This work, which fuses ideas of Lao Zi’s ‘Way’ with ‘Law’ Dao with Fa, is ascribed to Heguan Zi the’ Pheasant Cap Master,’ the enigmatic figure who features in its dialogues. Its antiquity has been authenticated by parallels with “Yellow Emperor’ scrolls only recently recovered from a 168 BC tomb of the early Han dynasty.
Uniquely the work speaks frankly of contemporary events together with the prophecies of a messiah-like figure, an ‘Augustan’ who will unite the world. A double ninefold schema, with a messianic revelation of nine Augustans and Grand Unity, centered on three core chapters (ix-xi), encapsulates the book’s plan.
The First half, (i-ix) outlines hope for a new order in the face of defeat by Qin with revelation of a divine plan’ followed in (x), by an inter gods dialogue between Grand Unity and Grand Augustan; ending in the second half, (xii-xix), with ideas on armed struggle and tactics to save the day.
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A simpler version of what this book reveals is a mysterious person eminent by a pheasant feather in a cap emerges on the Chinese scene two millennia ago with expressive imaginations of a futuristic world of peace and fair-mindedness. Like Laozi, Hequanzi (Pheasant Cap) understood the fundamental unity in naturistic things and the influence of Dao to adapt issues.
The threat of a triumph by the state of Qin, he searched for a messiah like personage, the ninth Augustan, to initiate a new age based on the authority of the god Grand Unity.
What this masterpiece book also reveals is early Daoism and its ideology superbly written and ingeniously laid out. The photographic pictures headed up as plates 1-24 are simply breath taking and give a unique photogenic aspect to the work of this book.
You can obtain copies of the book from the publishers Xlibris www.xlibrispublishing.co.uk / bookstore/ search Marnix Wells. Alternatively, you can click the Amazon link below.
Thank you, Dr Marnix Wells, for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about your phenomenal book.
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Mon, 14 Nov 2022 - 34min - 53 - Never Saw You Coming And Now, Live With That. by KLS Fuerte
The Author
Kiki Fuerte is an author based in London, but she was born and raised in Guadeloupe, a place she calls her paradise and of course the TV program ‘Death in Paradise,’ is filmed. Kiki studied English and American literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris where she completed her master’s degree. She also went on to study modern languages at Oxford University where she graduated as a modern language teacher of French and Spanish. Life is certainly busy for Kiki, wife, mother, high school teacher, senior leader and writing are at the core of this hectic lifestyle.
Language comes easy to Kiki something that stems right back to her native French and Creole roots. Like her native tongue Kiki’s passion for everything books go back to her childhood in the Caribbean to the present day. For Kiki writing about romance and love is what she does best, but her romance novels have got to bound up with suspense, adventure and sinister twists.
I asked Kiki dose she have any quirky skits to relate to us, an unforgettable memorial event so to speak, all I can say is don’t mention bulls and mad cows. The story goes back to when she was twelve in Guadeloupe when she was sent by her grandmother to visit her great aunt Martha in the countryside. An afternoon’s venture of scrumping not for apples but quenettes (type of cherry) with her cousin Joseph was in order, however the local black bull and his herd of cows had other ideas about two wayward kids cavorting around the hedges of their fields in search of quenettes and duly dispatched them sending them hither and thither up trees and into bushes. Hasten to add not many quenettes were picked for great aunt Martha’s supposed fruit pie that day. Since that day Kiki like myself is very wary of crossing a field of cows with a horned black bull in.
I wonder what Kiki’s children Severine and Sébastien make of their mother’s scrumping escapade?
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The Books
Book One- Never Saw You Coming
Beatrice struggles with her relationship with Edward. What started like a perfect love story turned out to be a living nightmare, where none of the protagonists anticipated the river of tragedies they were swept into.
Originating from Martinique, in the French Caribbean, Beatrice was this well-balanced teacher with overwhelming optimism and naivety, making her a very likeable young woman. She moved from her Martinique upbringing to study in France, at the Sorbonne in Paris, which led her to train in Cambridge to become a teacher. Beatrice was full of hope and dreams when she started teaching teenagers in Surrey. She loved her new job. Love came knocking at her door in the shape of Edward, another teacher. He charmed her with his vibrant intellect and energy. They fell in love.
Edward courted her slowly but smoothly, answering her deepest romantic dreams. Once living under the same roof, Edward’s true colours showed to be very dark and Beatrice became caught between her love for this man who could be so perfect, and her fear of this man who could be so hideous.
Edward seemingly manipulated Beatrice, making it impossible for her to truly rebel and leave him. She never saw him coming with all his talented and deceiving eloquence. When challenged or questioned, he repeatedly lost his temper and verbally abused her, but also showed the most forgiving nature filled with remorse.
Their life together floated from love and tenderness to hatred and aggression. A life of self-destruction, with hidden bursts of romance, such was Edward and Beatrice’s life. Entangled in a myriad of shocks and never-ending incidents.
From the first touch with evil when Beatrice discovered the affair that Edward had with his 17-year-old student, to the reconciliation attempts, the suicide attempt, the forgiveness and the lost illusions, they fell into a spiral of traumatic events which led them both being arrested and locked into police cells.
Book Two- Now, Live with That
This book is just as tantalising as the first and again Kiki has managed yet again to infuse palpable tension into the storylines right from the police cell to the scene at St Pancras’ station, the twists and the turns are beautifully and skilfully threaded together. The tempestuous positions of Beatrice and Edward spirals out of control. The emotions and fervour are rampant so are the hatred and vitriolic feelings each has for the other as Edward’s twisted version of love strangles the life out of their fragile and explosive relationship continues. Into this cauldron of fire steps Lawrence whose aspirations of love towards Beatrice only muddies the waters of envy within Edward, now a convicted paedophile. Edward’s depraved, unhealthy, illogical thinking leads to dire consequences for all caught up in this web of passion, mental as well as physical violence and outright deceit. But yet a stunning story nevertheless just like the first book.
If you would like to know more about the author and her books you can head to her webpagewww.klsfuerte.com as well as all her other social media platforms.
www.theregencypublishers.international/search/bookstore/klsfuerte
https://www.instagram.com/klsfuerte05/
https://www.facebook.com/kls.feurte.1
https://www.tiktok.com/@kls_fuerte
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/kls-fuerte-b409a2174
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Mon, 14 Nov 2022 - 35min - 52 - Rivers Wild Series by Don Best
Don Best’s Rivers Wild Series is a two-part novel set in the Brazilian Amazon. To really appreciate the story and enjoy the characters to the full, you need to read both books.
The first book, ‘The Gravedigger’s Dream,’ sets the scene for the second book, ‘The Third Promise,’ wherein the outcomes are cleverly revealed but not necessarily how you’d think or perhaps wish. Like in any well thought out novel, the plot is complex and intriguing.
But first I want to give you a brief insight into the author himself, for then you’ll start to see why he placed the storyline where he did and why the chain of events unfold as they do.
Don and his wife, Elizabeth, have dedicated a lot of time to Christian missionary work, especially in Latin America, and Brazil in particular. They are a creative team in everything they do, including the writing of the Rivers Wild Series. While Don was the predominant writer, Elizabeth has played a significant part in its creation. They met in Rio de Janeiro working as a journalist-photographer team and ended up travelling the world together. They have two sons, Paul and Jonathan, who now have their own families. Don and Betty currently live near Charleston, South Carolina in the USA.
From New England to the rainforests of Brazil, Don Best has worked as an award-winning journalist. Don has published hundreds of newspaper and magazine stories. He’s the author of several nonfiction books, including a companion book to the popular PBS television show ‘This Old House.’ In 2009 he published ‘Moonlight on the Amazon,’ a collection of true stories, essays, humour and beautiful full-colour photography drawing on the many years he lived in the Brazilian Amazon.
Don’s love affair with Latin America goes back to 1973, when he joined the Peace Corps, spending two years in Paraguay. Living the life of an expatriate writer, he worked as a journalist for two years in Rio and later 10 years in the Brazilian Amazon.
Having spent more than 15 years in Latin America, he has a lot of quirky, cross-cultural stories to tell. He recalls that twice he got lost in the Amazon rainforest; on the first occasion, he was leading a small team of people to a waterfall when he became disorientated, no doubt very easy to do in a dense rainforest, and something I experienced myself in Peru. The second time he got careless and violated a golden rule: NEVER GO WALKING ALONE. Bear in mind that the Amazon rainforest is an enormous wilderness with no mobile phone access outside of a few large towns and cities. Walking alone, he realized that he was lost. With nightfall looming and a jungle full of lethal creatures, including jaguars and anacondas, his predicament was far from good.
Don’s love for travel and outdoor pursuits stem from his father’s life and ideology, that young people should get out into the world and explore the wild.
Don’s long career as a professional writer has been fuelled by his insatiable curiosity, which has led him into some extraordinary situations, brought a menagerie of interesting characters onto his path, and given him some great, true-to-life stories to write. Hence, ‘The River Wild Series.’
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Have a listen to a trailer the author and his wife have put together. It’s good.
Click the link to listen: https://donbestauthor.com/elementor-1867/
Book One
The Gravedigger’s Dream.
This first novel is set in a remote, poverty-stricken village (Jacaré) in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil circa early 1970s. The village is on the Isle of Fair Winds, has no electricity, no running water apart from the river, no roads, no school and very little else. Picture a collection of wattle and daub houses with thatch roofs clustered around a small church, a rustic marketplace, a general store owned by the local despot, and a soccer field (because no matter how poor the place, Brazilians must have a soccer field.) Oh, and don’t forget the village bar, where the men folk like to huddle and drink away their time.
This extraordinary setting is populated by an eclectic bunch of characters, including the village gravedigger, who’s a former military police sergeant with a serious alcohol issue, the village priest, a prostitute, an Irish missionary, and an evil witch who has a retarded servant and a dog straight out of hell.
The main characters are Zé Licata, the gravedigger, the youngest of seven dysfunctional brothers whose names all begin with the letter Z, Michael O Hannon (Mick), an Irish missionary, and Alzira, a powerful, odd-eyed sorcerer.
The story reveals the everyday struggles of poor Amazonian people who live under the thumb of a military dictator, the thievery of local authorities, and the burden of poverty.
But Zé Licata, who might be described as Brazil’s most unlikely hero, has an extraordinary dream, a dream to overthrow the dictator, build a school for his village, and provide a future for his gifted adopted son, Rafael. When the revolution fails and a corrupt official steals the money for their school, Zé throws in with Alzira, the witch, to exact his revenge.
To me, Mick, the Irish missionary, was an intriguing character. He remains pretty much in the background in book one but comes to the fore in the second book where he plays a key role.
Book Two
The Third Promise
I have to say I found this book more enticing, bewitching even, but you definitely have to read the first book first; otherwise you’re not going to understand what’s happening in this book, and why. The characters really come to life in ‘The Third Promise,’
Alzira’s emotional and financial hold over Ze intensifies, taking Rafael under her authority as part of her sinister manipulations.
As Zé struggles to fulfil his dream, Alzira twists the knife.
Into this dark and dangerous battle steps Mick, the Irishman, with his brash, jolly and sometimes naïve persona. Sharing the Gospel with the villagers, he unwittingly splits them into angry factions and sparks an epic struggle between good and evil. In a very interesting twist, we learn that prior to his becoming a missionary, Mick was a street fighter with the IRA, murderously involved in Northern Ireland’s troubles.
So, what becomes of Zé’s dream as he crawls into his bottle and finds himself indentured to a cold-blooded witch? What happens when Mick clashes with the village priest and is nearly stoned to death by an unruly mob? Will Zé’s gifted adopted son, Rafael, ever realise his potential? And what are the three promises referenced in the book’s title? Well, the answers to those questions are in this extraordinary two-part novel, so if you want to know the outcome, you’ll simply have to read both books, for I’m not giving the game away here.
If you want to know more about Don Best and his books, you can head to his webpage at:
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Thu, 10 Nov 2022 - 49min - 51 - The Fantasy Maker series by Cricket Rohman
The Author
Cricket Rohman is an American Author who has a voracious appetite for both reading and writing. The reading part stems right back to her primary years in the Wilds of Colorado where she and her brother grew up among the coyotes, bears, cougars and bobcats, as well as the pretty blue columbine flowers native to the Rocky Mountains that dominate vast swathes of America’s west and north westly states. When I saw where cricket came from, I have to say I was extremely jealous, and I can see why she chose to put a lot of her book settings in this beautiful part of the world. Despite her unquenchable thirst for reading, like most authors Cricket didn’t cross over the bridge from reading to writing until the 1980’s, maybe that was a timing issue in her life, for when you look at her life, you’ll see that she’s been an actor, singer, teacher, school principal, educational professor and now an avid writer.
So far Cricket has written 15 books and no doubt many more will follow. Her books are about the great outdoors, dogs, horses, teachers, romance, and mystery thrillers. You have The Fantasy Makers series, The Linsey Lark series, Creative Hearts Sweet Romance section of four books, The Mc Allister series as well as a couple of stan-alone books, Like Christmas in The North Woods and Saving Madeline.
I asked Cricket for a quirky moment in her life, and she replied by saying she had ‘hawk power.’ Hmm…I thought, but apparently that mythological ideology stems from when a large hawk, as Cricket puts it, ‘slammed,’ into her and grabbed the top of her head with its talons. Understandably it knocked her to the ground, but it was her sister-in-law who later that day commented on the state of her blooded hair that she soon realised she needed medical attention. Over the next three years Cricket had an on, off, relation with the local Hawk family. What type of Hawks Cricket was referring too, I’m not sure, but it was a close friend who deemed her to have, ‘hawk power.’
The Books that make up The Fantasy Maker series.
Winter’s Blush
Romance, Intrigue, dogs and horses. Who could ask for more? Winn Wahlberg. She needs to get home for Christmas, but fate intervenes…more than once.
The Fantasy maker strikes an agreement with Clay Washington. All he needs to do is escort a young woman around Denver for five days. After that, he will receive his own fantasy vacation. What’s the catch? He must pretend to be someone he’s not.
Winn a girl who’s never left Yuma, Arizona, is thrilled to visit a big city and experience snow for the first time in her life. But when her escort turns up late, then gets into a fistfight, second thoughts creep in. He harbours a phobia; she hides a secret. Despite their differences, they cannot deny the passion that ignites as their relationship deepens. And they are having the time of their life, dining with a pirate, eating cake backstage with actors, and a lucky dog.
The Fantasy Maker mapped out an amazing week for Winn, but real life altered those plans. Their adventure is soon eclipsed with danger. Is their enemy mother nature or something more sinister.
Clay’s fantasy is equally as exciting.
Autumn’s GhostAutumn’s first lie was a whopper! – She’d been a very good daughter for twenty-two years until a spectacular gift from the fantasy maker came her way.
She lied to her wealthy, overprotective parents. She had to. Her boldness came easier than expected but not without some guilt and a nagging concern for bad karma.
During her flight from her home in Florida to New Hampshire, Autumn questioned her own wisdom. She knew nothing about her benefactor, and her parents new nothing about her secret adventure. Where had she found the nerve to take on such a quest?
Still, this October vacation awarded by the fantasy maker could be the perfect activity to prepare her for a graduate program in photography. However, nothing could have prepared her for Ranger, the handsome Forest Service Pilot.
Fate took over quickly, and sparks danced between them. Autumn snapped fantastic fall photos and helped Ranger with his odd, spooky inheritance project.
Autumn loved Halloween with all the pumpkins, witches, cider and such. Life was good. What could possibly go wrong? She relished the feeling of independence too. An unforeseen nemesis changed all that goodness with rude, unthinkable pranks, making Ranger furious.
Summer’s IslandSummer’s Island is a wild beach adventure complete with love, danger and a dog named Noodles…and an unimaginable ending.
Wanted: A few good men desiring a fantasy vacation.
What kind of guy responds to an advertisement like that? A stressed-out gourmet Chef like J D Middleton might. With pressure from his friends, dares and double dares, he applies. And he is chosen. Soon he’ll spend a week on a tropical paradise.
A small seaplane drops him off near the shore of a deserted island. It seems he’ll have his solitude, but the island, thought tropical, is no paradise. Nothing but ocean, sand and jungle. No place to get a beer or a bed. Some thing moved quickly towards him. An animal? A person? Darn. It was a woman. His vacation request did not include women. Was this a joke, a mistake, or something more sinister.
JD’s mistrust of this so-called vacation grows, and Summer hides secrets. Did the fantasy maker give one a vacation and the other a job? Can opposites really attract? Is love in the stars? With few supplies and many life-threatening situations, these two strangers must work together to survive.
If you would like to know more about the three books that make up the Fantasy Maker series or about the author herself as well as knowing where to get the books from then click on the links below. Plus, you can click on the Amazon link provided below.
Author’s webpage, www.cricketrohman.org
Winter’s Blush Book Page, https://www.cricketrohman.org/books/winters-blush/
Autumn’s Ghost, http://www.cricketrohman.org/books/autumns-ghost/
Summer’s Island, https://www.cricketrohman.org/books/summers-island
Facebook. Author’s page: https://www.facebook.com/cricketrohmanauthor
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Sat, 05 Nov 2022 - 43min - 50 - Posing for Rodin by Charles S McGrail
The Author
Charles McGrail is an American author from Syracuse New York State in the U.S. he sees himself as a shy unassuming guy, who spends his free time fumbling with bagpipes, shortening pencils, spying on wildlife that ventures onto his land. Charles and his wife Melody Jane have as he puts it a sprinkling of grandchildren enough, he reckons for a basketball team. He also has a menagerie of animals to complete the list. As for a profession that pays the bills Charles is a middle management desk jockey for an industrial manufacturer that operates within the laundry trade.
I asked Charles for a quirky skit about himself, and he told me the story about when he was much younger, he often confused recklessness for courage. As such he logged over 10000 miles of hitchhiking around America, before losing track. He did that on and off for neigh on five years. On one such trip he recalls meeting a hobo who claimed he could read train destinations by watching how the train was been assembled for transport, the hobo stated he was a retired yardman. Based on that hypotheses Charles hopped on a freighter in Barstow California and rode it to Amarillo in Texas, he intended to take it all the way to Daytona in Ohio before his stowaway status was discovered and he was duly evicted with a good boot from a fair-sized foot.
Some fable, maybe he should write a book about his free-spirited halcyon days hitchhiking across America.
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The Book
Posing for Robin
At the heart of Charles’ book is a collection of what I would describe as free verse poetic short stories, some having a rhyming spirit to them while others are more a short story with a hint of rhyming tones to them. No matter what your views are around what a standard verse composition should look like I think many of you who like really short stories with a deep meaning to them or poems should take a look at Charles’ unique approach and draw your own conclusions.
There are twenty-three free verse stories to this collection, the titles are as follows:
Something Worth Shopping For
That Would Hurt
Grumblings
Someday
Let’s
Things My Father Meant
Somewhere South of Should Be
Coyotes
Thing’s I’ve Done
The Festering Seeds of Worry
Lessons in Liquidity
Somewhere Along the Way
The Sound of One Hand Napping
Beneath the Lighthouse
The Blood of Art
Finding Value at the Mall
Smoke Signals
The River
Conversations with a 9-Year-Old
Fishing off the Island of Doubt
Another Poet’s Dead
They’re not Opposites
Remember to Wipe your FeetIf you want to know more about Charles and his works of fiction, then head to his webpage www.fintanandturtle.com
Charles’ book is presently available in Kindle version on his webpage and on Amazon, he’s currently in the process of creating a paperback version.
Thank you, Charles, for giving me the great opportunity of talking to you about yourself and your book. It was fun and I hope we see a lot more of your writing soon. Maybe a book about your hitchhiking ventures across America, ‘McGrail’s Guide to Crossing America Freestyle.’
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Sat, 05 Nov 2022 - 33min - 49 - Kindred Chronicles series: Time-Travel Novels by Denelda Bendsen
The Author
Denelda Bendsen lives in a small community town close to Victoria, the capital of Vancouver Island in Canada. The views from her house looking out across the Salish Sea to the Olympic National Park in Washington State in the USA are simply stunning. The wildlife around her home is amazing. Whales can be seen in the waters and the rugged unspoilt wilderness is home to grizzly bears, wolves and other wildlife creatures.
Denelda holds a master’s degree in Administration. Teaching and coaching both in and out of the classroom and on the sports fields have been at the very heart of Denelda’s life. When you look at the outstanding accomplishments in basketball and other sports, she leads by example. Denelda competed at the national Olympic team level for Canada. She was Victoria Female Athlete of the Year in 1967 and the first woman basketball player included into the Greater Victoria Sports Hall of Fame. Her Athletic career spans six decades and she’s featured in the Netflix Documentary, ‘Age of Champions.’
I asked Denelda to give me a quirky skit of herself. This is what she said. “Shy as a child, I grew up in a subsistence farm, married young, taught high school maths, and won athletic awards. My multiple personalities collaboratively produce time-travel romance novels. One’s personality works tirelessly, one is funny and sarcastic, one is sensitive and creative. For romance scenes, I call on my sexy, fun-loving self. I excel at puzzles. I’m okay at dancing, suck at learning other languages, and spent three years failing at piano. I love family, writing and Crème brûlée, but not so much herring, negative people or bocci ball.”
Like her software engineer, Danish husband Poul, Denelda has long held a passion for writing—she writes time-travel romance novels. Her first trilogy, Timeless Trilogy, was published in 2020: Book one—Young-In the Age of Champions, Book two—Younger- In the Age of Covid,and Book three—Youngest-In the Age of Dreams. However, for this podcast interview, we’re going to concentrate on her latest Trilogy, ‘Kindred Chronicles.’ We’ll focus on Book one—Kindred Spirits and Book two—Kindred Sisters. Denelda is currently working on the third book of the series Kindred Web, which is scheduled for release in January 2023. So, let’s have a look at her Kindred Chronicles series.
I wonder what her three children and grandchildren think of her books.
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The Books.
Kindred Spirits – Book one in Kindred Chronicles series.
Angela Penner, a mixed-race misfit, suspects her parents lie to her. Obsessed with finding the truth, she discovers inherited abilities to travel through time and space. She must overcome her shyness and physical weaknesses and risk altering the timeline to rescue ancestors from certain death. Love spanning generations threatens her dynasty.
Kindred Spirits connects Angela’s life in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, in the late 1970’s back to her great-great-grandmother Kristen who was born in Denmark in 1845. Some women in their family line have a gift, a gift to travel back and forth in time, both as spirits and physical beings. If they travel in spiritual form, only the gifted women can see them. Others can only see moving objects. But, if they arrive at their time destinations in a physical format, then all can see them not just sense their presence.
The prologue that mentions Marta Jensdatter from Oster Gronning, Denmark, circa 1722, is based on historical records of an actual witch-burning which took place in that year and place. It’s an example of foremothers who are rescued from perilous deaths.
The first chapter starts with Kirsten’s epic journey from Denmark to Salt Lake City in Utah with Mormon pioneers. Adhering to the polygamist life the Mormons follow is not for her. She’s miserable and, through her wedding ring which Angela has inherited, she stumbles upon her great-great-granddaughter, Angela, an editor at the Des Moines Register paper living in the late 1970’s Iowa in the US.
Falling in love in the present complicates Kirsten’s return to the past. They realise Kirsten must return to her former life to give birth to her daughter, Sarah, or their family line will cease to exist. Kirsten is sent back to give birth to her daughter to ensure the bloodline remains intact, but who is the father—her husband in her former life, or Paul, her present lover?
Angela’s own life is not without drama: finding her actual parents, why she was given away to one of her aunts, dealing with rape, and giving her twin daughters up for adoption. Angela’s research into her bloodline, which relies on the meticulous Latter-Day-Saints genealogy records, has many surprises both good and bad, culminating with her gathering her family under one roof. Which members have the gift to time-travel, manipulate history, and survive the dangers that come with time travelling?
All the sub stories that support the main plot are clever and breathtakingly written.
Kindred Sisters– Book Two in Kindred Chronicles series.
This second book centres around Angela’s love relationship with Aaron. All the connections from the first book are challenged and new characters introduced to embellish the storyline. We learn more about Marta. Her lesbian relationship with Beth is threatened as Pox, a former lover from her past, comes on the scene. Another gifted relative, Pox, like Marta, was condemned to death by fire when her village thought she was a witch.
Angela’s twins come back into the storyline, and we see more of her biological parents Lena and James, a mixed-race marriage which in 1940’s America was a complete no-no in the south.
But what relation is Pox to Marta? And what happens to Angela is mind-blowing.
Kindred Web– Book Three in Kindred Chronicles series.
This book well! We’ll have to wait and see what this time-travelling family gets up to. The book is scheduled for release in January 2023.
If you want to know more about the author Denelda Bendsen and where you can get the books, then have a look at her social media platforms below.
www.goodreads.com/DeneldaBendsen
www.facebook.com/DeneldaBendsen
www.instagram.com/denelda_bendsen
www.amazon.com/DENELDA-Bendsen/e/Bo8JX42CZP
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Thu, 27 Oct 2022 - 37min - 48 - Not For The Boys by Pamala Lavan
Pamala Lavan is a British Author who presently lives in Brighton on the south coast of the UK
Here is a transcript, taken from an audio file sent by the author, to give you a flavour of her book.
Pamala grew up with a with an older chauvinist brother Jonny who was four years older than me,who never helped with the housework and left it all to mum and me. I would often complain, how come Jonny never helps with the washing up or the housework, she laughed, he’s like his dad and thinks it’s girl’s work. As I called you should make him mum, but she laughed that off. Hence this went on all throughout my teenage years and even when he got married and had a daughter, with him leaving all the housework and even looking after the baby to his wife. He did as little to help with changing nappies and changing his little girl as possible, saying it was woman’s work again- a real neanderthal male chauvinist. However, one day when I was in my thirties, I meet a lady Jenny who told me that her younger brother who although a year younger than her who by the age of ten was bigger would bully and tease her, again never lifting a finger to help her mum or her with the housework. This all changed one day when she entered the backdoor and saw her brother in her pretty apron and floral pvc pinney with her pink marigolds doing the washing up. As she screeched with laughter, and he wailed with tears coming down his cheeks to let him go and remove his aprons. She said I then saw Lucy from next door with mum who laughed and said we’ve made a breakthrough with your brother who now sees the error of his ways and says he’ll now help with the housework from now onwards as he tried to say just the washing up. She laughed as it got more and more embarrassing for my little brother especially as he had to do the laundry and the shopping. He’s now acting as his wife’s house maid in some adorable aprons and does all her chores for her, even playing dollies and dress up with his young daughter who loves them playing with mummies dress-up box. When I told Jenny about my male chauvinist brother and wishing how I knew how to trap him as a young girl she said it’s never too late and so that we arranged that her and I would invite my brother over to mum’s house for a few drinks with him drinking far too much and having to be put to bed. Guess who ended up in a pretty nightdress and hair ribbons and when he woke up with the photos and videos done, he was completely under our thumbs. Having to wear pretty aprons and pinnies to do the laundry with a pretty handbag and purse for his pegs with hair ribbons to help his disguise. He then cried Oh No as his wife was standing there laughing at his new girly look and saying their five-year-old daughter will love her daddies new look with us ordering him to look and sound really girlie and him promising to do all the housework and laundry from now on. Of Course, he like her brother he got into more and more embarrassing situations to make his wife and neighbours and of course mummy and I laugh our heads off and suggest even more embarrassing things for him to do, with him having to do anything we say. His wife couldn’t believe when she joined him upstairs to bed and screeched when she spied him in the baby doll nighty and frilly panties, we had ordered him to wear, and her daughter ran in and spied her sobbing daddy. This got me thinking about various technics for sisters trapping brothers, girlfriends to trap boyfriend, but even better girls getting naughty ex-boyfriends who had dumped them and other girls trapping local boys such as asking them to teach them football and using pretty aprons and ballet to bring them to heal. I then realised with so many stories I could write a book on the topic and hence our book ‘Not for the Boys,’ came about. For enquiries email Pamala.lavan@hotmail.com.
Ps You may hear some of the other ladies give some of the answers in this talk. They just wanted to take part for a giggle as they enjoy being part of the NFTB association.
Thanks, Pamala, for coming on the show.
If you wish to purchase the book you can click the Amazon link below, or alternatively you can head to the publishers Authorhouse. www.authorhouse.co.uk /bookstore/search Pamala Lavan.
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Sun, 09 Oct 2022 - 34min - 47 - Maybe it’s About Time by Neil Boss
The Author
Neil Boss is a British author who best describes himself as an,’ excellent cook, decent writer, average fly fisher and bad guitarist. Born in Harrow a leafy suburb of London that sits at the heart of the commuter belt that feeds the fiercely competitive financial corporate district of London, simply known as, ‘The City or Square Mile.’ Neil Boss entered this rat race world as he turned forty. Despite been brought up in a middle-class area he would say he was a working-class kid. An only child, his father was a fireman and his mother a personnel officer.
Growing up in London as a teenager in the seventies where life was starting to become less inhibited with the bars, clubs and all that went with the nightlife backdrop in those somewhat liberated days especially the rock and punk music bands that where emerging on the scene, was to some degree Neil’s piece de resistance.
Despite the allures of ‘London Life,’ Neil had a different angle to him, seeing himself in those early days as a budding Marine Biologist having been enamoured by the French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and his underwater expeditions that were brough to life through the early colour TV sets that sat in the corner of all our so-called lounges. Neil enrolled at Bangor University in North Wales as an undergraduate to study Marine Biology. The location was of course stunning, being on the doorstep of one of the most breath-taking scenic areas within the UK. However, the social scene in North Wales compared to the city lights of London was in his words,’ lacking excitement and behind the times.’ He returned to London University to complete his B Sc degree in Marine Biology.
Neil’s interest in writing started at school. His English teacher wrote in his school report, ‘has the potential to be a very good creative writer.’ This continued into further education where he was the editor of his college magazine which won a Guardian Student Journalism Award, and he was a regular contributor to ‘London Student.’
A career in the world of natural science didn’t quite sparkle enough for Neil so having undertaken an MBA at Henley Management College, he immersed himself into the cut-throat brutal world of corporate finance. The world of mergers, takeovers and acquisitions took Neil all over the world advising clients on how best to strike those multimillion/billion deals. He worked for companies like Ernst & Young and Deloitte’s. Did Neil enjoy this fiercely competitive culture, I would say yes. Did he make a buck or two en-route, most likely.
For Neil, now a divorced person with two grown up children, has moved away from the financial sector and decided to follow another passion of his, books, not just reading them but actually writing them. His retirement at the end of 2019 coincided with the start of the pandemic in 2020 and he set about writing this first novel. He soon realised like many authors with their debut books having a story and bringing it to the public domain is a whole new ball game which requires a lot of intervention and feedback from others in the industry. For me the decision he took to change career in 2019 was about time certainly not,’ Maybe it’s about time.’
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The Book
This Debut book, ‘Maybe it’s About Time,’ for me has been cleverly written, in fact I’ d go as far as describing it as a masterpiece in creative writing. When you look at the storyline and the main character Marcus Barlow, you’ll see many parallel similarities to Neil’s own life and background, particularly around cooking and the type of music Neil talks about. Marcus, is a high-powered partner in a large professional services firm in the Square Mile of London. He and his team and other associate partners are in the midst of putting a corporate package together for a client, Espina, who are in stage two of Project Spearmint. However, ‘The Firm,’ as Marcus refers to his employers, faces stiff competition from three other rival competitors. At the heart of this corporate tussle is the potential to earn over ten million in fees, fees very much needed to keep Kelvin Mcbride the boss of his back and everybody’s jobs reasonably secure in the short term. As the pressure mounts to secure the deal, Neil builds the tension, and you feel that tension bouncing off the pages. Marcus smells a rat with the deal which others in ‘The Firm,’ are blinded by how much money they can make from the deal, especially another partner Mason and the unscrupulous boss Kelvin. Do they secure the deal? do they attain the fees they so desperately want? does the acquisition actually go ahead? The answer to those questions lies within the book itself. Not for me to say here.
The story isn’t just about a ruthlessly pursued business procurement, it has many underlying sub-plots coursing through the pages, for Marcus Barlow is a complex man with many sides to him. He’s married to his wife Alice who although a qualified lawyer in her own right doesn’t need to work and spends her days playing tennis, lunching with friends and cooking posh vegan food in their three-million-pound house in Weybridge. Marcus and his wife have contrasting views on lots of things especially their son’s approach to Student life. Marcus in some respects is quite a snob with all his designers’ clothes and brand names. Supermarket snobbery lives on through Marcus’ addiction to shopping at Waitrose, which he calls, ‘The Temple.’ His one-bedroom apartment he lives in during the week at Kensington Gardens square an exclusive part of London, is another example pinpointing to Marcus’ elite lifestyle, a lifestyle few can afford. But yet his sensitivity to those around him who are not as affluent comes across very well in the book. He’s also quite an anxious person, a worrier, something his wife Alice often picks up on and tells him to chill.
When you look at the book you have the storyline around Marcus and his social worker neighbour Gavin. Is Gavin gay or just celibate, does he fancy Marcus, does Marcus pick up on this, is Marcus intrigued about Gavin? For me Neil never quite spills the beans here, just leaves you to formulate your own thoughts. But the storyline of Claire Halford a single mum with two children living on universal credit whose lifestyle is in stark contrast to that of Marcus’ is endearing and sensitively written by Neil. Her day-to-day struggles with help from the neighbours and Lester Primus the local store manager and Beverley Cheng are skilfully told. Marcus’ developing relationship with Claire is affectionate without any sexuality attached.
The whole story which is set in the first four months of 2020 is set against the backdrop of the glooming Covid-19 pandemic and what that brings to society.
But for me the down and out character Colin although he’s technically a minor character in Neil’s book was the character that struck home for me. He wasn’t always a down and out hobo, in fact he was far from, and when you look at the bench on the cover there you seen both Marcus and Colin. And I’ll say no more here.
For me Neil Boss is a master writer in the making whose book and future books should make a significant dent into the literary world. Thank you, Neil.
If you want to know more about Neil Boss and his debut novel, you can head to the following social media sites below.
Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter- all with the name iamneilboss.
If you wish to purchase the book you can click the Amazon link below, head to Neil’s webpage www.neilbossauthor.co.uk
Or go to his publisher’s webpage www.troubador.co.uk Search bookstore/ Neil Boss.
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Sat, 08 Oct 2022 - 45min - 46 - Saved From Dementia by John Vieira
John Omar Vieira was born in 1970 in Guyana, formerly British Guyana, a country on South America’s north Atlantic coast. The country’s heritage is steeped in British history and is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, but it’s cultural ties are mainly connected to the Caribbean. This densely rain forested country was home for John until he was six when he left for the UK. John currently lives in London.
John’s father John Clement Vieira and mother Isha Khan where both born in Guyana, but his mother coming from a large family as opposed to being a sole child like his father had Mongolian ancestry. His grandfather on his father’s side came from the Portuguese speaking Island of Madeira, so John’s cultural inheritance is quite varied.
Most of us have an enjoyable childhood leading on to adolescence and young adulthood, but John’s early years were not so idyllic, far from. John was often in trouble with the Westminster police, for stealing, and shop lifting to fund his opium and alcohol addictions. In the book when he’s talking about his early raucous days, he likens himself to a,’ little villain.’ he goes on to refer to himself as a liar, a cheat as well as other ill-named characteristics. At times his spirally out of control life led to prolonged spates of homelessness.
John realised that he had mental issues, he sought help from numerous organisations, and like many people who find themselves caught up in this horrendous vortex, some organisational support momentarily took a way the pain, while others clearly didn’t work, and he would often relapse. For John salvation was found in the guise of the Christian Science faith all stemming from a book he read by Mary Baker Eddy,’ Science and Health with a Key to the Scriptures.’ This was a turning point for John he understood and embraced the teachings of Christian Science faith based on biblical texts. John firmly believes Christian Science faith and that community, saved him from the path of despair, saved him from what he saw as Dementia, hence the title of the book,’ Saved from Dementia.’
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The book is exquisitely written, for me literature at it’s best, John talks about his life, his conversion to the Christian Science faith, his deep understanding of that faith all based on biblical teachings mainly from the King James’ Bible version. A lot of the first part of the book which he heads up, ‘My Life,’ is written in short essay format, the second part of the book which is less intense John has headed up as, ‘My Freedom,’ and when you read it which I hope you do, you’ll see why he heads it up, ‘My Freedom.’
This is a powerful thought-provoking spiritual book, exquisitely written by a man who has battled many troubled issues in his life, and is still living with mental issues, but with his faith at the very heart of his life, his life is on a more even keel these days.
John thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk to you and read your influential book.
If you want to purchase John’s book then you can click the Amazon link below, or alternatively you can go to his publishes website. www.Xlibrispublishing.co.uk bookstore/search John Vieira.
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Orders@xlibrispublishing.co.uk head up Author John Vieira- Book Saved From Dementia.
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Sat, 01 Oct 2022 - 33min - 45 - Fog: Vol.1 Chaos In Quantum City By Athanasios Panayotou
Athanasios (Athan) Panayotou is a young author from Northern Ireland and as his surname suggests he has Greek ancestry which stems from his father’s side of the family. He was born 26 years ago in Whitehead a small coastal village on the east coast of County Antrim not far from Belfast. Throughout his short life he has seen and experienced Northern Ireland’s troubled past and despite the Good Friday Agreement the tensions between the communities still bubbles close to the surface. Despite his Greek lineage I was surprised to learn that Athan is the only one in his family who has a Greek name, his parents have English names so does his brother and sister.
When you chat to Athan you soon realise that the origins of his book stem back to his childhood and teenage days, for as a youngster he was heavily drawn to comic books and Pop culture. For years he doodled, sketched on any bit of paper he could find, his drawing pads are full of illustrated characters that he has created from his own imaginary conceptions and when you look at the book, you’ll see a fair number of illustrations supporting the story line. Another compulsion of Athan’s was his near obsession with superhero films particularly films depicting conflict. At the age of Seventeen Athan drew upon all his interests and started to etch out the basics for this book.
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When you look at the book itself it’s about a group of youngsters who live on the edge of life and society. Athan uses characters who wouldn’t be missed. The abductions that take place for the experimental purposes of Elliot’s FOG project are graphically horrific but having said that they do enhance the storyline of this semi-utopian world Athan has created set in 2183 in Quantum City. I could tell you what the project is about but that would defeat the whole object of the interview. If you want to know what the project is about then simply read the book, I can’t say fairer than that. What I can say without revealing or giving too much of the plot away is that some of the scientific experiments carried out by Elliot Alexander’s scientists on the abducted victims initially start out as appearing to be successful but then go horrendously wrong even going against Elliot’s entire ethics. Kerys and Felix are siblings who succumb to Elliot’s controlling scientific tests, but the powers Kerys one of the main characters develops turns her into a manic out of control psycho-killer. The book has many dark sinister underlying sub-plots, something you would expect from an author delving into the Si-Fi genre for the first time with more books to follow.
Is Elliot a good or destructive character and what of the Character Natasha and others that add value to this exciting storyline with all it’s twists. I have my views, and no doubt once you’ve read the book, you’ll have yours.
If you want to know more about the author Athanasios (Athan) Panayotou then head to the social media platforms listed below.
If you wish to buy the book you can click the Amazon link below, alternatively you head to his publisher’s webpage www.authorhouse.co.uk /bookstore/search Athanasios Panayotou.
Thank you Athan for giving me this great opportunity to talk to you about yourself and your first book.
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Fri, 30 Sep 2022 - 33min - 44 - Rungs on my Ladder by Eleanor Riley
Eleanor Riley is an American author presently living in Brooklyn, New York in the USA. She was born however in a remote and quiet district of Peter’s Vale in Westmoreland Jamaica. Eleanor has been married to Apostle Cecil. G. Riley a pastor in the same church, they have been blessed with two daughters Elizabeth and Esther who are now grown up, fled the nest to speak forging their own career paths. Church for both Eleanor and her pastor husband Cecil has been at the very core of their lives, for Eleanor this stemmed from the days of her youth in Jamaica attending Sunday School at the Church of the First Born in May Pen. God’s infinite presence Eleanor has always felt throughout her whole life none more so than the day the Holy Spirit lifted her from her seat in Church back home in Jamaica and took her to the altar, that day was a pivotal day in her young life, it was the day she took up the mantle to serve God by what ever means or ability.
Eleanor is the second of nine children all born in Jamaica, not only is she an author but she is also an international recording Gospel artiste with a total of twelve CDs in her collection. She has a bachelor’s degree in Theology & Musicology, has done bookkeeping and is also a qualified Cosmetologist (Beautician to you and me).
‘Out of Evil,’ is another one of Eleanor’s books published again By Trafford Publishing, that book was published in December 2020 just before ‘Rungs on my Ladder.’ January 2021. Maybe Eleanor decided like many authors in Covid lockdown to get her spiritual books written and published.
Let’s look at Eleanor’s book ‘Rungs on my Ladder.’ For me this book is a historical transition of Eleanor’s personal life entwined with her spiritual life from her childhood to where she is today. A rise from that little girl sitting in the church pew back home in Jamaica to becoming First Lady in her church and spiritual community. The expectations and responsibilities that encompasses that role is something she takes seriously, a message that comes across very strongly in the book.
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This evolutionary journey of Eleanor’s is beautifully written and told within the twelve chapters. Each chapter for me is a cross section of her life under the various headings but within those chapters are subdivisional sections she cleverly refers to as rungs, like the rungs of a ladder- hence the title. There are fifty-six rungs in the book each rung is a step in Eleanor’s life both personally and more importantly spiritually. For me this book is Eleanor’s ladder of life as she reaches out to her God. Most of us have heard of the game Snakes and Ladders and we all know what the snakes and ladders do. For most of us life has many snakes and ladders, joys and pitfalls and if you want to know more about the ups and downs of Eleanor Riley’s spiritual life! Well, you’ll have to buy the book. To do that you can click on the Amazon link below or head to her publisher’s webpage www.trafford.com bookstore/search Eleanor Riley.
If you want to know more about Eleanor Riley and her books, well you can head to her webpage www.eleanorriley.com
Thank you, Eleanor (Michelle) First Lady, for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about your life and inspirational book, ’Rungs on my Ladder.’
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Mon, 26 Sep 2022 - 35min - 43 - Galusha… Crisis and Courage in a Civil War Pastor by Stephen D. Jones
Stephen D Jones is an American author from Kanas City in Missouri. As a writer he’s responsible for writing nine books. Stephen’s writings are predominately from a theologian background, hardly surprising as Stephen is a pastor from the Baptist ministry. He still plays an active role in the First Baptist Church of Kansas City where for nine years prior he has been a co-pastor ministering to the local community there. Both Stephen and his wife Jan have been preaching in the traditional ways of the Baptist faith for nigh on fifty years and consider themselves blessed to have two children Brian and Janelle and a further two grandchildren. Stephen’s ministry took him to several northern states of America, he cherished his work and the life of a pastor as it gave him many opportunities to talk about the Lord’s life and preaching’s something that remains at the core of his life today.
While serving the congregation of the First Baptist Church of Kansas City Missouri, he discovered the church was founded in 1855 and is now one of the oldest free standing Protestant churches founded in Kansas City. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches. Today the First Baptist Church of Kansas City associates itself as inter-generational as well as inter-racial with over ten different nationalities represented in the congregation.
While serving as pastor of Second Baptist Church in St Louis, MO, another historical church founded in 1833, Stephen discovered as he looked through the church archives, a book written by an earlier pastor, Rev Galusha Anderson, published in 1909. Researching the life of Galusha, Stephen quickly realised that this was a significant man and his life and his work within the Baptist faith was not only in his eyes heroic but so significant he decided to write this book as a biographical view on Galusha Anderson’s time as a pastor at the church during the American Civil War. For those of us not familiar with the American Civil War it was an internal war between the northern unionist states and the southern confederate states as the American nation moved to becoming the United States of America.
When you look at the book it’s all about one man’s trials and tribulations as a pastor in St Louis in extremely challenging times. The City of St Louis in Missouri was deemed in many respects to be a place of neutrality as the citizens whether they considered themselves unionists or confederates co-existed side by side, both in their daily routines and spiritual worship, nevertheless the tensions existed and preaching the word of God needed careful thought. The Book goes on to talk about the joys, the setbacks and personal losses of Rev Galusha Anderson. It’s stunningly written and very often Stephen cleverly reverts to local vocabulary that would have been spoken by the locals of that time.
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For me this is a well-executed book, nicely written exposing part of the lifetime of one of America’s significant, though largely unknown theologians within the Baptist faith. When I look at the parallel lives of Galusha Anderson and Stephen D Jones, you do see similarities, they both were and are pastors in the Baptist faith, they went to the same seminaries to train, they both wrote and write books and despite the 160 years time difference both their ministries have and are still being carried out in times of political tension but not completely about the same issues, but issues of tension nevertheless within the communities they served and serve.
It’s no wonder Stephen sees Galusha Anderson as a hero and chose to write about him.
Thank you, Stephen D Jones, for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about yourself and your book.
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Fri, 16 Sep 2022 - 41min - 42 - The Cosmic Romance with Existence: A Personal Guide Book for Spiritual Warriors to Merge their Light with the Cosmic Light. by Murali Dharan
Murali Dharen was born in 1985 in Singapore of Tamil extraction. He freely admits childhood life for both his sister Hanu and him was a humble but caring upbringing. His father Uthaya kumar was a mechanic, his mother Punitha played an important role in family life as a homemaker. Like most people’s life Murali’s pathway was no exception and was very much a criss-cross affair, but despite the economic restrictions he faced he managed to put himself through higher education obtaining a bachelor’s degree with a post graduate dip in counselling and a master’s in social work specializing in couples and family therapy. Murali is married to Rathika who supports her father to run the family food business.
For the past decade Murali has been supporting, in a professional capacity, people to cope with life’s many challenges through various counselling strategies. For Murali these strategies involve various mediation practices to get people to examine and explore their inner consciousness’ to achieve both mental and spiritual healing drawn from his own empirical knowledge of martial arts, meditation and various yoga technics. Everyday he meditates and practices raja or kriya yoga to bring about a spiritual peace before heading off to counsel clients.
It would be fair enough of me to say that his book which he sees as a spiritual guidebook to merge peoples inner light with cosmic light- hence the subtitle- is very much drawn from both his personal and theoretical experiences. I have to say he has some very interesting viewpoints, so if you’re a person who already practices this lifestyle, I think you’ll be fascinated to read his book to unearth and digest his views, but to others like myself who don’t follow this way of life, I still recommend you read the book but keep an open mind for Murali has some interesting observations.
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The book itself has thirty-six chapters and the topical range he covers is phenomenal, just to give you an example he talks about creative elements of existence in the human body, metaphysical sleep, meditation in all its formats, the stages of consciousness, the purpose of self-reflection and many, many more fascinating areas within the realm of cosmic romance with existence. I certainly found his book both eye-catching and eye-opening, I even learnt what Cosmic Light was and what Murali refers to when he talks about “Existence.”
This was an enthralling read for me. Well done and thank you Murali.
If you want to know more about Murali and his book, then you can head to his webpage and social media platforms listed below.
Book Website: www.TheCosmicRomancewithExistence(etherealwritingsdharanmurali.com)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?/id=100009413212346
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dharan-murali-64646a1ab/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dharan_mitra07/
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Fri, 16 Sep 2022 - 35min - 41 - Aliengg7.co.uk The First Chapters: A Philosophers Dream 114 by David Keith Greenaway
David Greenaway has spent most of his life battling mental illness/addiction issues. Despite
the many uphill struggles David has learnt to adapt his life and, overall maintain a status quo that enables him to lead a reasonably balanced lifestyle. The dark days in his life he has found solace in those close to him be they family and friends, or professionals that have
counselled him to bear with the difficult times and celebrate the good chapters. But
throughout his life he has maintained a fervent passion for books, so much so he has today
fulfilled a lifetimes ambition with this new book of his.David was born in Willenhall a town steeped in the history and culture of the Black Country
an industrial heartland that formed the backbone of the British Industrial Revolution in
bygone days. At eight he moved to Wales with his parents and sister Lucie and to this day he still resides in Wales in a place called Tywyn a small coastal community not far from
Snowdonia National Park. David has dabbled in quite a few things in his life, some good,
some not so. He presently receives regular depot injections which is an antipsychotic
treatment available to people who face psychotic disorders in their lives.David has a daughter Phaedra Hermione, a grandson Isaac and is presently awaiting the
arrival of another grandchild.Check out our conversation here!
When I spoke with David before doing this Podcast, I got the sense that this book of his was
a labour of love but at times an arduous affair, similar in away to David’s own life. Is it a
book to cuddle up in bed with, definitely not, nor was it written with that intention, this is a
book for me that has been written to stir the mind. Having read the book my impression is
that this is a series of informed statements gathered together expressing the opinions and
observations of the author David about the economic and social well-being of modern
society and all the issues and challenges that currently dominate our headlines.This book is interestingly written, well worth flicking through the pages to see the
viewpoints of a man who has certainly seen life from the edge in all its forms. The dates in
the book are the days David compiled the text.Thank you, David, for giving me the opportunity of getting some way into the mindset of a
person who sees life from a very different perspective.If you want to know more about the book and David, the author head to the webpage
www.aliengg7book.comYou can get the book by clicking the Amazon link below or alternatively you can go to
www.aliengg7book.com or the publishers own webpage www.xlibris.com book store search
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Sat, 10 Sep 2022 - 30min - 40 - Linkages by Elaine Chandler-Harris
Elaine Chandler-Harris can be described as quite an accomplished woman in her own right, for when you look at her life, she’s faced many challenges and has achieved many accolades, she holds a bachelor’s degree from Chicago State University, post-education credits in Media Communications, and a master’s degree in Education Administration from National-Louis University. In her professional life she taught languages and reading to middle grade students in high school. Outside of education she worked in public relations. Turning to her personal life Elaine is a great grandmother, she has one son Gregory, three grand children and two great Grandchildren. Elaine currently lives in Chicago Illinois in the U.S.
Writing has played a significant role in Elaine’s life; she sees herself as a free-spirited freelance writer who likes to dip her toes into various genres. While this book Linkages is her first novel, she has written articles that have been published in the Chicago Sun- Times Newspaper, Black Enterprise Magazine, and others. Elaine has dabbled with poetry and some of her poems have been published as compendiums in Chicago State, Illinois State and Jackson State Universities.
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Elaine feels that she’s always had a creative mind and will indeed delve into mysteries of life that others might find intimidating, daunting, and dare I say disquieting. The book Linkages certainly falls into some of these areas as she tells this disturbing story of one highly dysfunctional family of Characters.
Linkages is a book that incorporates incest, murder, suicide, drug addiction, rape and molestation all with the confines of one Black African American family. The timeline of the book spans from the late 1930’s in Mississippi to Chicago in the 1960’s and what happens in Mississippi only reoccurs in Chicago, you’d be forgiven for thinking why didn’t this muddled up family learn from its misgivings in the first place and prevent at all costs repeat mis- happenings which would have avoided so much pain and physiological damage. An outsider would have run for the hills, why didn’t they. Maybe love is blind and maybe entrapment and controlling powers exists in many disguises in lots of families’ makeup, but of course those issues never see the light of day and are simply part of complex relationships that are endured for love.
Despite the turbulent lives Mamie, Spanky, Lottie, Raphael, Vicky, Teddy and Uncle Julian lead there is a positive ending, what that ending is, well you’ll simply have to read the book, for I’m not about to spill the beans here.
If you want more information about the author and the book you can head to Elaine’s webpage www.elainechandlerharris.com
To purchase the book you can go to Elaine’s webpage www.elainechandlerharris.com or her publishers webpage www.trafford.com search bookstore Elaine Chandler-Harris, or simply click the Amazon link below.
Thank you, Elaine, for allowing me to chat and talk to you about your wonderful book, and I wish you every success with it.
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Mon, 15 Aug 2022 - 29min - 39 - Love Conquers All: Spiritual Messages of Hope for our Despairing World. by Denise Bachrodt
Denise Bachrodt comes from a beautiful part of the world, Aspen a small town in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. Most of us of course identify Aspen as the world-famous ski resort patronized by the rich and famous, but for Denise it’s simply home, and yes, she loves to ski, but equally she enjoys the outdoor life, walking in the mountains on a warm summer’s day which gives her the time to reflect and meditate. Meditation is important to Denise as it gives her the opportunity to break away from the busy corporate IBM world and reflect on what really matters to her and that is listening to God and the messages, he has for her. This part of her life is fundamental to her very being, it’s her heart and soul, the key to her existence.
The book was written at a challenging and troublesome time in Denise’s life as she faced up to the difficulties of divorce and all the stress related issues associated with that controversy. Where does Denise’s faith originate? a faith she turns to daily, maybe the answer to that question lies deep within her Polish routes. I can only surmise when Denise was writing the book at such a discerning time did she feel the Lord had abandoned her and I immediately recall the prayer/poem ‘Footprints in the Sand’ – “ Lord, you said that once I decided to follow you, you would walk with me all the way, but I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprints. I don’t understand why in times when I needed you the most, you should leave me.” The Lord replied,” My precious child, I love you, and I would never, never leave you during your times of trial and suffering. When you saw only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you.” Or was her faith strengthened so much so the messages she received empowered her to write about them- hence the book.
So, let’s look at the book. The core of the book has 6 chapters and within each chapter is a collection of messages which for me are loosely based around the theme of the chapter.
Chapter 1 – Hope for a Despairing World
Chapter 2 – Love of All Mankind
Chapter 3 – Our Future
Chapter 4 – Remaining in the Present Moment
Chapter 5 – How God Speaks to us. Do not Worry or Fret
Chapter 6 – God Speaks to us always and in all Ways
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For me the messages within the general themes are significantly poignant/relevant as to what is going on in the world today, I found them thoughtful, beautifully written and executed. The reflective tones made be stop and think, is there hope in a despairing world? is God in control? and is all the trouble and strife that we see going on around us part of God’s plan to make us see who we truly are? Is he trying to show us the errors of our ways and that there is still time for mankind to adjust his ways before time is called? I hope so.
Denise thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about yourself and the significant messages you have so lovingly created in this important book of yours. Let’s hope all those that read the book take something away from what you’ve said.
If any of you want to know more about Denise Bachrodt have a look at her social media platforms.
Website: www.loveconquersallllc.com
My podcast on iTunes is: loveconquersallllc
My podcast on your host website is: www.loveconquersallllc.podbean.com
If you wish to purchase the book then you can click the Amazon link below, or head to Denise’s webpage www.loveconquersallllc.com. Alternatively you can head to www.balboapress.com bookstore search Denise Bachrodt.
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Sat, 06 Aug 2022 - 29min - 38 - Desert Friends: Travels With The Pack by Linda Harkey
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 irrestible characters. 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.
The other book in the series which is the first is ‘Chatty The Hen Pheasant’ and is set against a snowy backdrop in South Dakota on a grey November day. Nassau a black labrador retriever is determined to retrieve a pheasant for his master who’s known simply as the Great One. This simple but endearing story tells the tale of how Nassau sniffed out Chatty from under the snow the conversation the two of them had as Nassau in the blinding snow blizzard returns to his master with his prize only to be disappointed with his master’s actions as Chatty is released as she’s a hen pheasant. The Great One was after a cock pheasant. Poor Nassau it wasn’t his day.
Both Books are enchanting, endearing, and beautifully told with a unique twist of fun to them. The illustrations by Mike Minick bring a magical touch of awe and a sense of reality for a young child to envisage.
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Linda Harkey lives in New Mexico in a ranch ten thousand feet up in the mountains close to the state borders of Oklahoma and Colorado. She’s lived there for a considerable time with her husband Michael and all their hunting dogs and enjoys the wildlife of that region especially seeing the black bears, mountain cougars and elk close by. Linda has written for a long time something she has simply loved for as long as she can remember. Below are some of her other books that she has written:
The Budding Staff (2005)Hickory Doc’s Tales (The Pack: First Generation) (2017)The Remarkable Story of Willie the Crow (A Hickory Doc’s Tale) (2018)Solitary Toes and Brown-Headed Cowbirds (A Hickory Doc’s Tale) (2019)Doc, Willie, and the pack: Secrets. Gifts, Family (A Hickory Doc’s Tale) (2019)Doc’s Dog Days (A Hickory Doc’s Activity Book) (2019)The Wayward Path of the Devil and Mr Snake in the Garden of Eden (2021)About the Illustrator:
Mike Minick is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He lives with his wife Joey and their two children.
For more information about Linda Harkey and her books click the links below particularly her webpage www.harkeybooks.com
www.instagram.com/harkeybooks/
You can get her latest book Desert Friends: Travels with the pack by clicking on the Amazon link below or head to her Webpage where you can buy any of her books, also you can get the latest book from Archway publishers www.archwaypublishing.com search bookstore Linda Harkey.
Linda, it has been a great pleasure to interview you again re the ‘Travels with the Pack ‘Series and thank you for your friendship over the last 10 months.
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Fri, 29 Jul 2022 - 31min - 37 - Time Stealers: Royal Stain (Time Keeper’s Chronicles 3) by P. Clauss
Royal Stain is the third and possibly last in the Time Stealers series, it’s powerful, exhilarating and absorbing. For those of you that are dark fantasists this book as well as its predecessors, ‘Time Keeper’s Chronicles’ and ‘Hope Eternal ‘will transcend you into the mysterious world of Time Wraiths, clockworks and the Time Keepers responsible for keeping the world at large safe from the evil, sinister wraiths seeking revenge. Not all Time Wraiths are harmful to humans and their own kind, but the Royal Wraiths have powers so intoxicating, add vengeance and malice into the melting cauldron pot and your left with pure evil particularly the royal king.
The Covid 19 pandemic has gripped the world but for Charlotte and Grant important and experienced Time Keepers they are also aware that another menacing threat looms in the background a threat that not only affects mankind but the very fabric of the Time Wraiths society. The Royals, ruling family of the wraiths are set on a path of revengeful retribution for what happened to them in the past.
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Fixated with reprisal and the need to reaffirm his authority as the master ruler of the wraiths and tyrannise humans, the wraith king has re-established his links with evil wraiths and some twisted humans through telepathic means to free him and his family from the incarcerated predicaments they find themselves in. To initiate a new evil likened to one that destroyed the original wraiths society and space home and all the consequential fallout that ensued is the overall objective, but the king needs to tap in and feed off from unsuspecting Time Wraiths and humans.
With the ever-increasing danger, Charlotte and Grant suspect the King Wraith will harm their son L G, they turn to other Time Keepers and Wraiths for advice as to how best protect their son. However, their son has a secret protector a Time Wraith nobody knows about and is different to ordinary wraiths in many ways. The Royal King senses LG’S and his protector’s gifts and knows that those powers can be used against him, he needs to act quickly if he is to break free from his chains of incarceration and restore his evil reign once more. But in the final conflict who will win through, The Royals? the good Time Wraiths? mankind? the Time Keepers? Or will no one survive this ordeal?
Dr Penny Clauss known as P. Clauss in the writing fraternity, is a veterinary surgeon from Dallas, Texas. As a child she loved reading books, so much so she would create stories in her head but keep them there, thinking no one would be interested in her tales. How wrong she was. It wasn’t until years later that with encouragement from her husband David, a clockwork master, that she finally plucked up the courage to publish her writings. Let’s just say thank goodness she did, for her books are beautifully manuscripted with intriguing and at time spine-tingling thoughts and storylines. Penny has dipped her toe into various genres from illustrated Children’s stories to Christian devotionals and lately science fiction and dark fantasy.
To find out more about Dr Penny Clauss and her books head to www.authorpclauss.com
Email authorpclauss@gmail.com. Facebook: Books by. Clauss, Instagram: authorpennyclauss, Twitter: Authorpenny, plus author profiles on: Amazon; BookBub, Goodreads.
Thank you Dr Penny Clauss for giving me again the opportunity to chat and interview you for the third book in your TIME STEALERS series. I must also congratulate her daughter Stephanie for designing the book cover a dark and sinister image that set’s the scene for what’s to follow.
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Sat, 23 Jul 2022 - 39min - 36 - Bittersweet Neighbourhood By Junio Carols
Junio Carols lives in Yorkshire one of the most scenic counties in the UK. She’s married has two daughters, now five grandchildren some of whom live on the east coast of the US in the Boston area. In addition to what I’ve just said, she has four stepchildren one of whom Tom has done illustrations for the bestselling international author Philip Pullman, an author which both myself and Junio follow intently. Not to mention the cats of course.
The story is set in the Yorkshire Dales a designated area of outstanding natural beauty, an area well known to Junio. Very often most writers place their book settings in familiar surroundings, as is the case here.
Dingle Dell is the tiny hamlet snuggled neatly among the dale’s hills. From the outset the hamlet reflects as you would expect, a scene of tranquillity, serenity and peacefulness, but the lives of the residents who reside there is far from halcyon to say the least. It would be easy for me to give the plot away, but that’s not the exercise of this podcast. The concept is to give you a tantalizing taste of what lurks within the pages, sufficient for you to click the Amazon link below and read the book which is available in both paperback and eBook formats.
For me there is no main protagonist or antagonist characters to speak of, more an eclectic bunch of characters who have their own unique peculiar traits, oddities and definitely dark secrets. Secrets is the operative word here for when you read the book you’ll unearth, deception, blackmail, unrequited affairs, poisonings, discreet sexual fetishes, embezzlement, dysfunctional relationships and other sinister happenings that take place behind closed doors. So, this quiet sleepy little hamlet set in rural idyllic Yorkshire isn’t what it seems.
This book I found an easy read with lots of twists which you would expect in a good book. Definitely a page turner for me. A book to read on a warm summer’s afternoon with strawberries and cream, and a glass of wine to hand.
The book is available on Amazon, and publishers www.authorhouse.com bookstore search Junio Carols-Bittersweet Neighbourhood.
Thank you Junio for giving me the opportunity to review your book and to get to learn a little bit about you as a writer.
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Wed, 29 Jun 2022 - 24min - 35 - WE ARE “THE MY PEOPLE” IN THE BIBLE By Carl Jones
Carl Jones is a pastor of the street in the Dallas Forth Worth area of Texas, in the U.S.A. Like most of us he has faced challenging times in his life as well as good times, and his spiritual life has reflected his own personal life with highs and lows. However, despite everything he has endured his faith in Elohiym (Hebrew for God) has never wavered since the age of twelve. But he does acknowledge that some of the paths he has gone down can be construed as hesitant at best.
Carl has six children he’s worked for SBC, GTE, Verizon and Walmart. He’s been connected with several church denominations and has acquired a vast spiritual background from the teachings of numerous pastors and evangelists who have steered him to becoming mature in Christ. Believing he was saved in his eyes at such a tender age and with God’s continuing support Carl vehemently concludes that Elohiym is at the heart of his life based on biblical scriptures, prophecies that have been fulfilled and still to be fulfilled. A replaced earth is very much in the upper mind of Carl’s thinking based again on biblical citations, he references to climate change, pollution, debt, food issues all contributing to earth’s demise, we need to reset our approach to everything.
In Carl’s foreword he starts with saying,” this book can be shocking, debated and criticised by some, and to others, it may not be. You have the wonderful choice to accept this information research or just stay in your status quo like the people in the movie The Matrix. In the movie they didn’t realise what had happened, but they were blinded by a lie. And only a few selected souls knew the truth.” A powerful opening gambit you might say. Carl goes on in his foreword to challenge your long held traditional views, some points you might take issue with, others you might want to reflect and do your own research.
This book is not a book you cuddle up in bed with, it’s not meant to be, it’s a book that turns traditional Christian ideology on its head. If you have an open mind and are prepared to view a religious concept with a different viewpoint you might find Carl’s book intriguing at the very least. To those who have a closed mind when it comes to religious origins, I fear you might find this book confrontational. But either way have a read and draw your own conclusions. Just to give you a brief insight into Carl’s world I quote,” I am Hebrew. I no longer believe in Christmas, Halloween, and Good Friday and Easter. Christ did not die on Friday. Some people may feel I am crazy, but I am quite in a good mindset. These are pagan holidays and not holy days.”
If you want to order/purchase a copy of Carl’s book which is available in paperback or ebook formats you can click the Amazon link below. Alternatively, you can head to www.Xlibris.com or orders@Xlibris.com bookstore search Carl L Jones.
Thank you, Carl, for giving me the opportunity to review your book and chat to you.
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Fri, 10 Jun 2022 - 42min - 34 - UNSUNG PATRIOTS: African Americans in America’s Wars
Dr Eugene DeFriest Bétit’s comprehensive historical study of America’s troubled past relative to Africa Americans over the past four hundred years is enlightening, informative, and quite simply mesmerizing. The research behind this book took Dr. Betit five years, but it took him another four years to bring the book to publication. However, he did write a further three books during those four years in a similar vein to Collective Amnesia, so perhaps we might let him off with the length of time it took to complete this masterpiece. For a white man to delve into and expose the issues that Blacks endured was at times hard for him to envisage let alone write about, nevertheless, he did so, and the result is this remarkable chronicled publication impeccably written taking one on such a journey that for me was simply jaw-dropping.
One of America’s “original sins” has been its convoluted issue around race relationships. For more than four hundred years America has struggled with racism, white supremacy, and how to co-exist with the African American community as well as other minority groups. Race was invented to justify the enslavement of Africans, who were brought over from Africa and sold to rich white supremacists as cheap labour to work the plantations, especially the cotton plantations. America today still faces endemic racism and the tensions between the white and black communities very often spill over onto America’s streets as acts of violence. A far cry some would say from President Thomas Jefferson’s pronouncement in the Declaration of Independence that,” all men are created equal.” Surely awareness and education play a major part in tackling racial inequalities something America’s founding forefathers envisaged. How did America find itself in this difficult place? Well let’s look at Dr Eugene DeFriest Bétit’s book.
Collective Amnesia takes you right back to the slave trade through the devastation of the Confederacy, followed by Emancipation and Reconstruction, The Freedmen’s Bureau, Race Laws and Segregation, the two world wars and The Great Migration, The Civil Rights movement up to the present-day tensions seen across America. All viewed from a black African American perspective by a white man!
Here are some of the testimonials he has received:
“An important book for all Americans who want to know the whole of American history. Dr Bétit chronicles the entire 400-year story of African slaves and their American descendants from colonial times to today. This book primarily focuses on the trials and tribulations of that long journey; a journey that must be learned by each new generation of both blacks and whites. Here in one book, today’s Americans can come to know that story.”
Dennis J. Quinn
Colonel, US Army (RET) and Former Instructor, National War College.
“Gene Betit’s deeply researched book describes various difficulties blacks experienced trying to achieve a place in white society when, even in modern times, acceptance has been grudging. However, the military has proven the black soldier equal to the white, and many of the civilian occupations are starting to open for them. The full integration of the nation, and thus our potential, can only be achieved when perceived ethnic, cultural, religious, and racial differences are subjugated, and that we realize that we are one people.”
Jim Locke
Lieutenant-Colonel, USA (RET)
“Collective Amnesia is both a testament of one people who refused to remain under-trodden and a reminder of how quickly others forget. Gene Bétit traces this duality throughout our history and concludes that the amnesia is simultaneously convenient and contrived. However, we forget at our peril, as this blindness continues to damn us as a nation. A must-read for those courageous enough to face facts and emerge from the matrix of ignorance.”
Dr. Rodney Coates, Ph.D. Professor Miami University Global and Intercultural Studies Sociology, Gerontology and Social Justice Coordinator of Black World Studies.
Gene Bétit sees himself as an author, historian, and military intelligence analyst, go to his website www.genebetit.com to learn more about the man behind this incredible book that has been so masterfully compiled to give you a glimpse into America’s past from a black African American’s perspective. When you go to his website you will see all the other books he has written.
You can get the book from his website, www.genebetit.com, Amazon, amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, www.barnesandnoble.com, Books a Million, www.booksamillion.com, plus Xlibris, 1-888-795-427 www.xlibris.com or Orders@xlibris.com.
The dedication of the book is:
Dedicated to African Americans,
Freedmen and slave
Who stood by the Union in her time of trial
And to their descendants
Who kept the faith
Despite segregation and hate
Unsung Patriots: African Americans in America’s Wars
This book is due out later this year. Gene has successfully obtained the services of literary agent Rita Rosenkranz of the Rita Rosenkranz Literary Agency in New York. The Publishers will be at the time of recording this podcast Stackpole Press, which specialize in military affairs. They are a subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.
In brief, both books are a synthesis of more than 150 historians’ work. Unsung Heroes has eight chapters which describe events that were not taught in primary or secondary school, because the tragic events that unfolded were acutely embarrassing, and not in keeping with polite etiquette deemed proper for young ears. If racism and hate are to be eradicated from the American psyche, it is important surely that actual history is brought to light. It is equally important that African Americans’ achievements on the battlefield are recognized.
Thank you once again Gene for another fascinating insight into your world of writing.
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Wed, 01 Jun 2022 - 46min - 33 - The History of The Progressive Movement in the United States by Ralph Saucier
The History of the Progressive Movement
In the United States
And how Liberalism
Has Created a Mediocre Society
Ralph Saucier was born in 1943 a time when the world was in the grip of WW2 and the Korean War, it was a time he best describes as a time of simply surviving. Fort Fairfield, a small community town in Aroostook County, eastern Maine in the United States close to the Canadian border was the place he grew up along with six other siblings to keep him in check. Being the middle child, he quickly realised he had to adapt, co-exist with others to sustain himself. Those valuable lessons of his childhood stood him in good faith right to this very day. His parents were hard working folk, they had to be raising a family of seven in the fifties and sixties, there were no luxuries to speak of life was routine and mundane back then. Ralph found school challenging as he battled with a stammer, coming to terms with his speech impediment was difficult for him at times for not having the ability to communicate with those around him in a fluent manner had a profound effect on him, and at times isolated within himself others saw him as a loner. However, despite this set back which he overcame with true determination Ralph has flourished as well as prospered to be the successful man he is today. Here’s a look our chat on video:
It’s fair enough to say Ralph has led a varied life since he graduated from High School in 1961, he joined the army, he’s undertaken numerous degrees from Industrial Technology to Behavioural Science, he’s worked in the field of Engineering, into management of assorted areas to eventually running his own vending machine business employing more than forty people. Over the years Ralph has conquered his speech impediment to the extent public speaking is no longer a fear for him but a joy, something he relishes with gusto.
Having chatted to Ralph I get the impression he overcompensated his speech difficulties with reading and writing, he confesses to being a voracious reader and when you add in his other great passion in life Politics, you start to see the creative signs behind this book. His parents were die-hard democrats and in his earlier days he was as well, but as his life progressed his political philosophy shifted towards the republican camp where it has remained ever since. Ralph would probably see himself as a fervent republican, but he doesn’t always agree with the party line views even when out canvassing for republican candidates in both local and national standings.
The book neatly brings together the three great preoccupations in Ralph’s life, reading, writing and politics. The book has thirteen chapters and each chapter touches on individual US presidents from Theodore Roosevelt the New Nationalism to the present US president Joe Biden- Where are we going. The Presidents he talks about with their political agendas he sees as the Presidents who added the most to the progressive movement that brought about the most profound changes to liberalism in the US. The attributes and falls of the Presidents he chose are fascinating to read and when you read the book like I have you might be left feeling Ralph has a reasonable affinity to some of the policies Donald Trump instigated. In the book there are presidents from both divides of America’s political landscape. You might well ask does Ralph feel his chosen presidents have done sufficient to warrant a gold star for bringing about positive and effective changes to America’s society and standing in the world? I get the impression they’ve done a mediocre job hence the use of the word’ Mediocre’ in the title and when you look up the meaning of mediocre it reflects to moderate to inferior in quality. So, is American society broken? Or where is it going?
This book of Ralph E Saucer’s was for me a phenomenal read to which I thoroughly enjoyed.
To find out more about Ralph E Saucier and his book you can head to his webpage www.saucierbooks.com If you wish to order a copy then you can click the Amazon link below or alternatively you can go to www.iuniverse.com bookstore search Ralph E Saucier.
The book is available in Hardback, Softcover as well as eBook.
Thank you, Ralph, for giving me the opportunity to talk to you about yourself and your book. And of course to your long standing wife Gloria who has supported you throughout the whole writing process.
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Mon, 30 May 2022 - 36min - 32 - Words Choose Wisely by Paola Iglesias
Paola Iglesias
Words Choose Wisely
Paola Iglesias was born in Buenos Aires the capital of Argentina. At the age of six months, she emigrated with her family to Australia for what her parents saw as a better life. Paola currently lives in Sydney with her two children, Oscar sixteen and Emmeline twelve. As a qualified chartered architect, she thoroughly enjoys designing and creating dream homes for people, with her own unique touch of magic. I know this has nothing to do with the book we’re going to talk about, but it gives you a brief insight to Paola herself and what she does professionally, have a look at some of her designs www.houzz.com.au
We all know life very often doesn’t turn out as you originally hoped for and that relationships can stray as well as bloom. You might be forgiven for thinking why I have digressed to talk about relationships, have I become an agony aunt? Well, the answer to that is no, but there is some bearing to relationships souring as to why Paola has written this book. The book encompasses issues of domestic violence, elaborate bullying both non-physical more mental all done through inappropriate choice of words, words spoken derogatively to undermine, belittle, to such an extent the person on the receiving end feels utterly valueless, demeaned, resulting in dreams shattered, families ripped apart, and possibly wrong life options taken all due to ill-judged words that over a long period of endurance have devastating effects on the recipient. Words like, unattractive, unintelligent, unwanted, stupid and irrelevant. Why someone chooses to denigrate another, through misplaced adopted words is sad as well as harmful, and I think most of us can think back to our time in school when someone said something hurtful, whether it was said innocently or with malice intent.
Paola herself has experienced a lot of what I have just said and strongly believes that to address this area we need to start by educating our children to think about the choice of
words they say to each other which she hopes will continue into their adulthood and the relationships they enter. So, Paola in collusion with her son Oscar’s illustrations who at the time was thirteen has written this short but simple book aimed at nine to twelve-year-olds to make them think about the words they choose to say to their friends and what affect those words have on their friends. So, ’Words Choose Wisely.’ The book is written in English, Spanish and French so large sways of the world’s youth can read the book and think about the illustrations.The book can be obtained from the Amazon link below or alternatively from her publishers www.balboapress.com.au search bookstore Paola Iglesias. The book is available in Softcover as well as Ebook.
Enjoy this simple but effective book, all about the choice of words we use to talk to each other, be as children who the booked is directed at or as so-called adults. Let’s remember words can be amazing but equally they can be harmful when taken out of context.
Thank you, Paula, Oscar and Emmeline, for this wonderful book.
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Fri, 20 May 2022 - 28min - 31 - Leon The Warrior Dog by Cyril Sansum
Cyril Sansum
Leon the Warrior Dog
Cyril Sansum is fastidious in his approach to writing, something he has developed over the last few years. Writing is his new passion, the driving force behind his days. When you look at his life you can’t but think, was writing a hidden macromolecule that lay quietly secreted on a forgotten DNA strand that only activated recently by an unexplained force of nature.
You might forgive me for thinking the above, but when you look back at Cyril’s life, you’ll discover he was a butcher, a chef, a youth worker as well as fulfilling other jobs. No hint of creative writing until now, so where has this magical macromolecule been lurking all this time. Maybe it’s his love of storytelling along with his interest in reading historical facts especially history relating to past military events that was the trigger point to writing this book, for when you look closely at it you can clearly see strong aspects of ancient Roman military traits coursing through the pages.
CY as Cyril likes to be known as lives in the Windsor area of The UK and has been married to his wife Diane for close to fifty-eight years. He has three sons Nick, Dan and David, ten grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.
The story is built around the relationship between Beat the main Protagonist and Leon his powerful Anatolian shepherd dog around the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine 313 AD.
C Y sets the original scene in Arialbinnum a small farming village in Switzerland, to give you a geographical sense of the location in today’s world you are looking around the area of Basle. Beat is a young Shepherd man from the Helvetti people. The Helvetti anglicized as Helvetians were a Celtic tribe or tribal confederation who in Roman times occupied the central Swiss plateau. To the north where the Alemanni tribe and the Goths who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe. To the south across the Gotthard Pass was Rome and the Roman Empire who by now under Constantine’s decree adopted Christianity something the Goths refuted. Beat is enticed into the Roman Army and quickly escalates up the promotion scales as he successfully overcomes all that he encounters from the warring tribes opposed to Rome’s ways and rules particularly around Christianity. Leon his faithful Turkish Anatolian shepherd dog who acts as his bodyguard is there to protect him. Along the way Beat meets Princess Sky, Tia and Lia. These three women have a profound effect on him and towards the end a little romance starts to emerge.
With reference to history in particular military history interwoven with a good adventure storyline and a smattering of romance the book Leon the Warrior Dog really does come to life, to make an enjoyable read.
If you want to know more about the author and the book, then click the links below. This book is the first in a brand-new series.
Webpage www.cysansumauthor.com
Facebook.com/Cyril.sansum.92
Publishers www.authorhouse.com bookstore search C Y Sansum – Leon the Warrior Dog.
Email cysansumauthor@outlook.com
The book is available in hardback, paperback as well as ebook, and audio.
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Thu, 19 May 2022 - 28min - 30 - KIngs & Queens in Slavery
Kings & Queens in Slavery
Polina Mladenova
Polina Mladenova lives in London in the UK with her three children. She hasn’t always lived in London for in fact she was born in Bulgaria and now identifies as being British/Bulgarian. Polina as well as being a mother and an author is an ambitious business entrepreneur, founding the Khlovenova Beauty and Couture House, The Abundant Life Foundation Ministry, she’s also responsible for the Kings & Queens Living the Abundant Life TV show. Further to these activities Polina teaches business strategies, modules, and Kingdom Mindset concepts for budding entrepreneurs all based on biblical adaptations that allow prosperous and fruitful business adventures to thrive with God’s original plan at the heart of everything. To understand her philosophy to life and more about her business adventures including her book you can head to a couple of websites www.PolinaMladenova.com/About and www.KingdoMastermind.com
This book isn’t a book for you to sit comfortably curled up on a settee or to be taken as a bit of light bedtime reading, it’s a book that will prick your conscience, it’s a book that will open your mind, and you’ll need to keep an open mind as parts of it for me were quite contentious and possibly controversial. The book’s intention and that of Polina’s as far as I can see is to get you to see life from a different angle, a life that has more of God’s original plan at its core a so-called Kingdom Mindset which I understand to mean as having a mind rational of accepting that God has the right to do with us as he pleases and our role is to use the abilities he gave us to advance the Gospel preachings and his Kingdom through our everyday transactions.
Polina clearly believes that God has given her a promise, a blessing in life, a plan if you want to view it that way and that both she and God will fulfil each other’s obligations. The book talks about blessings, promises, fruitfulness, reaping and sowing with lots of interesting cross-references to biblical texts in support of this amazing ideological thinking put forward here. For me what’s equally as interesting is the choice of modern-day bible versions Polina has chosen to support her work with here as opposed to the more traditional bible interpretations. I was also intrigued to see that at the end of each chapter Polina links you one of her social platforms www.linktr.ee/TheAundantLife.Ac that reveals more about her works, ideology and of course the ebook version. Very clever.
Overall, I found the book interesting, eye-opening but it’s certainly not a bedtime story read and if my judgement proves me right, I will say Polina never intentionally wrote the book to be a light read as she has some strong messages to convey to her readers. Those of a non-belief might find this book a real challenge, but those that do have a faith following you just might be interested to give this book ago. So, give it ago.
You can get the book by looking on one of Polina’s many social platforms, the links are above. Plus www.authorhouse.com bookstore search Polina Mladenova, or simply click the Amazon link below.
Thank you Polina Mladenova for an interesting and eye-opening book that for most of us views life from a different angle.
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Tue, 17 May 2022 - 31min - 29 - Maryanne Wright’s A Short Book of Poetry and Thoughts to Share
Maryanne Wright
A Short Book of Poetry
and thoughts to share
Maryanne Wright was born in the Ringwood area, south-west Hampshire near Bournemouth in the UK. Her parents were missionaries which meant Maryanne as a child and young person lived in various locations in the world from Ghana to Australia and to New Zealand where she currently resides. Maryanne has lived in New Zealand for close to forty years but during those years she has returned to the UK on several occasions to pursue a career in the financial sector. Maryanne has worked for various banking conglomerates as well as other financial institutions and has even turned her hand to being a software support analyst something she thoroughly enjoyed. Maryanne currently teaches numeracy and literacy to disadvantaged young people who are establishing a career in New Zealand’s defence systems.
An interesting fact about Maryanne is that when she was in the Ghanaian Capital Accra she went to the same school as the children of Ghana’s first president, President Kwame Nkrumah who led Ghana to independence from Britain.
Maryanne has two grown up children Nicholas who lives in Auckland and Lauren who resides in Cambridge North Island of New Zealand where Maryanne currently lives.
In the introduction to her book Maryanne states that the poems she has so diligently written are for lovers, dreamers, and those that weep much like herself. The book was written during New Zealand’s Covid lockdown and as for so many it was a testing time for Maryanne. The poems reflect happier times in her life and while she was writing them the poems in themselves acted as a kind of distraction as to what was going on in her own life at that time.
When you look at the book, you’ll see that the poems are grouped under six categories, life, seasons, family, emotions, fantasy, and finally but not least, nature. Each poem is accompanied with a stunning picture which strengthens and emphasises the message the poem conveys. Some of the pictures are ones Maryanne took herself while out walking and are scenes from local beauty spots close-by. If you have ever been to New Zealand like me, you’ll soon realise that natural beauty is in abundance. So, I simply say enjoy the poems and cast your eyes over the imposing pictures. I certainly did.
Another interesting fact about Maryanne is her fascination almost obsession with J R R Tolkien’s books hence the poems of dragons in the fantasy section.
To find out more about Maryanne Wright head to her webpage www.maryannewright.com There you’ll find a link to her book which is available in both paperback and eBook versions.
The book is also available through www.xlibris.com bookstore search Maryanne Wright. Orders@xlibris.co.nz
Alternatively, you can click the Amazon link below. You can even get a copy by going to www.bookbub.com search Maryanne Wright ‘A Short Book of Poetry and Thoughts to Share.
Have a great read everybody. I did!
Thank you, Maryanne, for allowing me to interview you about your amazing book of poems.
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Sat, 14 May 2022 - 26min - 28 - The Bears of the Evergreen Forest
Hazel Thompson
The Bears of The Evergreen Forest
Basil and Brenda Go for a Stroll
Hazel Thompson has spent most of her life delivering training programs for the construction industry. She lives in the Southampton area in the UK with her dog Betty who accompanies her on most of her adventurous expeditions.
The concept of this adorable book was born out of a visit to friends in Canada wondering round the woods close to where they lived. Bears, Forest, coupled with an endearing storyline and hey-presto a magical children’s book is brought to life. The illustrations are simple, colourful, effective and of course endearing all cleverly designed to open a young child’s vivid imagination.
The story is centred around Basil and Brenda’s picnic venture as they set out to the village at the heart of The Evergreen Forest. En route we meet their eclectic friends, especially Pip and Tara two fun loving mice.
The Book is available in both Kindle and paperback formats and is a great idea for grandparents/parents who love reading bedtime stories to their grandkids/ kids under the age of four. Copies can be obtained from the publisher’s own bookstore page at www.authorhouse.com search Hazel Thompson-The Bears of The Evergreen Forest. Alternatively, you can head to Hazel’s own web page www.hazelthompsonauthor.co.uk or you can simply click the Amazon link below.
Enjoy this enchanting story of Basil and Brenda and all their friends in The Evergreen Forest. I did.
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Thu, 12 May 2022 - 18min - 27 - Michael Lee King – A Sack Full of Blood
Michael Lee King
A Sack Full of Blood
Michael Lee King is the author of several books, The Greatest Mystery Ever Revealed: The Mystery of The Will of God (Book 1): The Image of God. The Greatest Mystery Ever Revealed: The Mystery of The Will of God (Book 2): Growing In Grace.The Greatest Mystery Ever Revealed: The Mystery of The Will of God (Book 3): The Obedience of Faith.The fourth book in the series The Mystery of Satan is due out shortly. For the purpose of this podcast though, we’re going to be talking to Michael about his book A Sack Full of Blood.
Bishop King was named after the Archangel Michael, one of the four archangels. Michael is the archangel deemed to be the chief of the angels and archangels and responsible for the care of Israel. The world’s great religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam refer to Michael as an archangel, so to be named after the archangel must be a great privilege in Michael Lee King’s eyes and those around him. Michael graduated in 1982 with a degree in Music Education from North Carolina Central University, in 1986 he further graduated with a Juris Doctorate Degree with honours from North Carolina University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina. The rigorous Pentecostal training he undertook to perfect his preaching’s was closely mentored by Elder Ivey L.Cowan, Elder C.F. Jones Jackson and Dr Gregg Singer. As a bishop in the Emmanuel Churches worldwide, he has executed immeasurable evangelism and missionary work in South Africa, Alabama in the U.S. as well as other developing nations. Publishing his books Bishop King’s aim is to strengthen his missionary work, teachings, that he has carried out around the world especially for those that hunger and thirst after the Word of God.
Michael is the third child of two preachers, Annie Lee and Nathan King Sr, he married his wife Angela in 1984 raised six children and currently has four grandchildren who both he and his wife dote on very much. Bishop King presently pastors Damascus Church of the Emmanuel Churches, performs bishopric duties for the churches founded by Bishop Leroy R. Mills in Florida USA, and works in teaching fellowship with Bishop Robert Lee Huey.Jr, Charlotte, North Carolina.
A Sack Full of Blood
A Sack Full of Blood is the chronicled recollection of happenings regarding the life of two run away twelve-year-old children Leroy Mills and Hattie Mae Caldwell. Both Leroy and Hattie dedicated their lives to the teachings of the Lord through Pentecostalism a charismatic religious movement that gave rise to several protestant churches in the United States in the 20th century.
The energy and the dynamic methods they adopted to bring about Pentecostal changes to the local communities they lived in by encouraging Christians, mainly among the black African American population who followed the more traditional religions of Baptists and Methodists to seek a post-conversion religious experience called” baptism with the Holy Spirit and Jesus,” was for me simply breath-taking.
For Hattie as a black woman not only did she have to comply with the Jim Crow Laws of segregation that existed at the time but equally she had to deal with the all-male dominated hierarchy that prevailed among the more traditional churches. It was Hattie’s unflinching domineering characteristics that brought about the changes with regards to women’s standing within the religious communities of America’s south, predominately in the locations she vociferously worked and lived in.
Life for Hattie was hard as she faced many uphill battles on numerous fronts to achieve her goals, but that in dominate spirit that was at the very core of her inner soul saw her through the toughest of times she faced in her life until her death from cancer in 1964 at the age of 61. One gutsy woman you might say who didn’t mind who she rubbed the wrong way as she fervently pursed what she perceived to be the Lord’s calling to her. Leroy and all the other characters in the book had it tough, but not quite as tough as Hattie.
The writings in this extremely well written book are based on the true lives of Michael Lee King’s close family, past and present as well as friends.
For Further information about Michael Lee King’s books and where to buy them head to his webpage www.michaelleeking.com
The Regency Publishers webpage www.theregencypublishers.com
Email: bishopmichaellee@yahoo.com
You can also click the Amazon link below.
Thank you, Bishop King, for giving me the opportunity to chat to you about your amazing book A Sack Full of Blood.
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Wed, 06 Apr 2022 - 46min - 26 - Blusher’s First Christmas by Teresa Rowland
Teresa Rowland
Blusher’s First Christmas
Illustrations by John Dunn.
Teresa Rowland lives in the Sydney area of Australia she has written this sweet children’s book about saving Christmas for all the children across the world. Santa Claus has hurt his leg and Rudolf has gone to the great reindeer haven in the sky. Saving Christmas is down to Mrs Claus and Rudolf’s daughter Blusher and her friends. Christmas and children mean a lot to Teresa Rowland hence the creation of this delightful book aimed at four to eight-year-olds.
The book is wonderfully illustrated with vivid pictures, pictures that any child would positively respond to, they’re captivating and imaginative. John (Jack) Thomas Dunn studied under H. Hanke at Sydney Royal Art Society; he’s illustrated numerous books for different authors.
Teresa started writing children’s books in her forties, her first book was called Chunky’s Coming of Ageall about a little car journeyed on the roads on its own.
So, what’s Blusher’s First Christmas all about? Well, it’s a simple story all about Blusher a young female Reindeer with pink cheeks and the adventures she has with her friend Dumpee a short stumpy reindeer with rather large ears, there adventures in the woods and beyond are brought to an abrupt end as a crisis has arisen at the North Pole, Santa Claus has hurt his leg, Rudolf has gone to the great reindeer haven in the sky, and all the other reindeer that used to pull Santa’s sleigh across the sky on Christmas Eve are old and not up to the job any more. Enter Mrs Claus and Blusher who turns out to be Rudolf’s daughter, to save Christmas and along with Blusher’s girlfriends including Dumpee who all turn out to be the daughters of Santa’s original set of reindeer that pulled Santa’s sleigh across the skies on Christmas eve. Reindeer girl-power so to speak takes to the skies to save Christmas and make sure children across the world get their presents on time for Christmas morning all under the watchful gaze of Mrs Claus and Blusher.
An endearing little story, but a book that had the support of her husband Wal, daughter Barbara and son-in-law Stephen, son Mark and daughter-in-law Rachel, grandchildren Christopher, Kane, Brianna, Cory and great grandson Phoenix. To this list we must add members of the Camden Writers and Scribblers club, particularly Grace Sewell. Gayle Fairall, Jan and Evan Lepherd.
If you wish to learn more about the book, look at the Amazon link below, or head to www.balboapress.com click bookstore search Teresa Rowland. Phone+1 800 844 925. Ask for book sales for Teresa Rowland. Alternatively, you might want to look at Teresa’s forthcoming webpage www.awesomekidsbooks.com.au
Thank you, Teresa, for giving me the opportunity of talking to you about your wonderful book Blusher’s First Christmas for kids aged four to eight-years-old.
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Mon, 04 Apr 2022 - 27min - 25 - Standing Alone by Paul Jones
Paul Jones
Standing Alone
A Flavor of Stories
Paul Jones was born in Pine Bluff Jefferson County, a small town in the US state of Arkansas that lies to the south of the state capital Little Rock. He was raised by his mother who was a pivotal figure in his life. Today he lives with his wife Candice to whom he has been married to for fifteen years. He has two sons from a previous marriage, Justin and Jordan who as a devoted father mean so much to him, not to mention Brentley his Goddaughter who he dotes on to say the least.
At the age of fifteen Paul left home having completed high school, he served in the US Armed Forces as well as serving as a law enforcement officer and Prison officer. At the age of fifty-six he sees himself as retired with a new full-time passion in his life, writing. If you ask his friends how they see him in relation to cars they’d describe him as a ‘car nurd.’
Paul is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc, which is the first intercollegiate African American fraternity. It was initially a literary and social studies club organised in the 1905-1906 school year of Cornell University. Today its aims are, “Manly Deeds, Scholarship, and Love for All Mankind,” aspects that underpin the core of what Paul Jones as a man upholds and believes steadfastly in. Paul has a bachelor’s degree from American Intercontinental University in Criminal Justice, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude (with the highest distinction).
Several books have been written to which he rightly claims credit too, Jake Waking Up to say Good-Bye, and Living Life Poems to Live By. Paul has received numerous awards throughout his life and most recently the Trafford Publishing Gold Seal of Literary Excellence. However, for the purpose of this podcast we are going to look at two further books Paul Jones has written, and they are Standing Alone and A Flavor of Stories.
Standing Alone
Standing Alone is a book of poetry that is meant to inspire and touch the living psyche (Inner-self). It’s a fusion of poetry with relevant biblical extracts. This collection of, for me reflective spiritual poems, is awe-inspiring, spiritually uplifting as you explore the underlying tones and messages that are beautifully embodied at the heart of each poetic text. A great and must read.
A Flavor of Stories
A Flavor of Storiesis a book of fifteen short stories rather than poems with a hint of rhythm to them. Again, Paul Jones has underpinned the stories with deep and spiritual meanings. Why does Paul do this you may well ask? Well, the answer to that is simple. Paul is a Christian who hasn’t always adhered to the righteous paths and like most of us has deviated along life’s many channels some good, some not, but above all he has a deep-rooted faith that he wants to share and the best way for him to do that is through his writings. For me the last story in this book,’ A letter to My Friend,’ sums up the very essence of what Paul is trying to achieve through is writings especially when he talks about loneliness when you are surrounded by people and family, but you are alone. You feel God has left you to face your thoughts and demons all by yourself. “As I walk through the valley of shadows of death.” Like Standing Alone this is another great and must-read book.
So, Guess what! Give the books a read. Standing Alone is available in paperback, kindle edition and hardcover. A flavor of stories is available in Paperback and Kindle edition.
For more information about Paul Jones head to his webpage www.pauljonesthewriter.com
or email officerjones7160320@yahoo.com
Where can you get his books?
Click the image of the Standing Alone book below.
www.trafford.com/bookstore search Standing Alone and A flavor of Stories by Paul Jones.
Have a great read guys! I did.
Thank you Paul for giving me the opportunity of talking to you as well as reading two of your books.
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Sat, 02 Apr 2022 - 19min - 24 - Author Bob Weatherly on his book Windows of Wonder
Bob Weatherly
Windows of Wonder:
Eight Timeless Tales for Today and Tomorrow
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 these somewhat quirky but intriguing eight short stories. He went to Mararishi International University as well as Longwood University where he obtained a degree in History. In the past he’s 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 all overcome our inner inhibitions and achieve the goals we set ourselves, be they big or small. For Bob the best way to subtlety convey this message to the younger generation was through his creative storytelling, hence his choice to write this children’s book possibly aimed at 9- 12-year-olds.
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 the 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.
Here’s a look at our video chat:
The stories are set out as follows:
Window One-The Magic Broom. A simple story of a how a boy swept his way from the stables to the King’s Palace.
Window Two-The Forest People. A story told through the characters Jim and Gem of town folk and the mystery people who lived deep in the forest.
Window Three-Sitting Brave. A story of Running Bird a Native American Indian boy who was different to the rest of his tribe.
Window Four-Daughters of the Moon. A story of one clergyman’s venture to find a wife and the witches he stumbled across along the way.
Window Five-The Mystic Knight. A story of Gaulipher’s adventures to become a knight of the realm and the monastery which was a little unusual to say the least.
Window Six- A Cosmic Cat’s Tale. A story of Cal’s relationship with his animals especially Midnight the young kitten he came across.
Window Seven- Mentallion. A story built around the characters Chance and Veda (the man of the ocean) Mentallion is the technology of the mind. It allows our thinking to transcend the borders of the known. A futuristic story.
Window Eight-The Seeker. A story! well I’m not going to tell you, read it for yourself.
Bob Weatherly admits that this book of his has a unique angle to it, I’d say quirky. He’s a strong proponent of human potential especially for kids, but above all he just wants kids and adults alike to enjoy his short stories. For me Sitting Brave was the best story but that’s because I have great affection for the Native American Indians. If as a child, you loved the adventures of Howard Pyle’s King Arthur and the knights of the roundtable fables then you’ll love The Mystic knight, for both stories have a similar vein to them.
Thank you, Bob, for giving me the opportunity to review your book which you can all view, share, buy, on the Amazon link below. You can also go to www.authorhouse.com or sales@authorhouse.com to order copies. The book is available in hardback or eBook.
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Tue, 29 Mar 2022 - 34min - 23 - Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid
Eugene DeFriest Betit
COLLECTIVE AMNESIA:
AMERICAN APARTHEID
African Americans’ 400 Years in North America
1619-2019
Dr Eugene DeFriest Betit’s astounding historical book of America’s troubled past with reference to its fractious relationship with black Africa Americans over the past four hundred years is enlightening, informative and quite simply mesmerising. The research behind this book took Dr Betit five years to formulate, but it took him another four years having gathered all the historical facts to bring the book to its full fruition. However, he did write a further three books during those additional years again on a similar vein to Collective Amnesia, so perhaps we might let him off with the length of time it took to complete this masterpiece. For a white man to delve into and expose the issues that Black African Americans endured was at times hard for him to envisage let alone write about, nevertheless he did so, and the result is this remarkable chronicled publication impeccably written taking you on such an attested journey that for me was simply jaw-dropping.
One of America’s “original sins,” has been its convoluted issue around race relationships. For more than four hundred years America has struggled with racism, white supremacy and how to co- exist with the black African American community as well as other minority communities. The black African American contention some would say was born from the slave trade that was first seen in Virginia where Black African people were brought over from Africa and sold to rich white supremacists as cheap labour to work the plantations especially the cotton plantations. America today still faces endemic racism and the tensions between the white and black communities very often spill over onto America’s streets as acts of violence. A far cry some would say from President Thomas Jefferson’s pronouncement in the Declaration of Independence that,” all men are created equal.” Surely awareness and education play a major part in tackling racial inequalities something America’s founding forefathers envisaged. How did America find herself in this difficult place? Well let’s look at Dr Eugene DeFreist Betit’s book. Watch our video chat here:
Collective Amnesia takes you right back to the slave trade through the devastation of the Confederacy, followed by Emancipation and Reconstruction, The Freedmen’s Bureau, Race Laws and Segregation, the two world wars and The Great Migration, The Civil Rights movement up to the present-day tensions seen across America. All viewed from a black African American prospective by a white man: Dr Eugene DeFreist Betit
Here are some of the testimonials he has received:
“An important book for all Americans who want to know the whole of American history. Dr Betit chronicles the entire 400-year story of African slaves and their American descendants from colonial time to today. This book primarily focuses on the trials and tribulations of that long journey; a journey that must be learned by each new generation of both blacks and whites. Here in one book, today’s Americans can come to know that story.”
Dennis J. Quinn
Colonel, US Army (RET) and Former Instructor, National War College.
“Gene Betit’s deeply researched book describes various difficulties blacks experienced trying to achieve a place in white society when, even in modern times, acceptance has been grudging. However, the military has proven the black soldier equal to the white, and many of the civilian occupations are starting to open for them. The full integration of the nation, and thus our potential, can only be achieved when perceived ethnic, cultural, religious, and racial differences are subjugated, and that we realise that we are one people.”
Jim Locke
Lieutenant-Colonel, USA (RET)
“Collective Amnesia is both a testament of one people who refused to remain under trodden and a reminder of how quickly others forget. Gene Betit traces this duality throughout our history and concludes that the amnesia is simultaneously convenient and contrived. However, we forget at our peril, as this blindness continues to damn us as a nation. A must-read for those courageous enough to face facts and emerge from the matrix of ignorance.”
Dr Rodney Coates, PhD. Professor Miami University Global and Intercultural Studies Sociology, Gerontology and Social Justice Coordinator of Black World Studies.
Gene Betit sees himself as an author, historian, and military intelligence analyst, go to his website www.genebetit.com to learn more about the man behind this incredible book that has been so masterfully compiled to give you a glimpse into America’s past from a black African American’s prospective. When you go to his website you will see all the other books he has written.
You can get the book from his website www.genebetit.com, Barnes and Noble www.barnesandnoble.com, Books a Million www.booksamillion.com plus Xlibris 1-888-795-427 www.xlibris.com or Orders@xlibris.com as well as the link below.
I would like to end this introduction with whom the book has been dedicated to.
Dedicated to African Americans,
Freedmen and slave
Who stood by the union in her time of trial
And to their descendants
Who kept the faith
Despite segregation and hate
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Fri, 25 Mar 2022 - 36min - 22 - ROZ WATKINS – THE DI MEG DALTON CRIME THRILLERS
THE DEVIL’S DICE
DEAD MAN’S DAUGHTER
CUT TO THE BONE
Roz Watkins is a crime thriller writer who has a substantial readership following, and her books have been in Amazon’s top selling category. Roz created the character Detective Inspector Meg Dalton and based the crime scenes in the Derbyshire Peak District from where she herself comes from in the UK. Like most author’s the ideas and scenes come into her head as she walks the many trails that criss-cross the Derbyshire Dales a natural beauty spot in the UK. Accompanying her on these rambling ventures as she conjures up the murder plots are a motley crew of exacting animals.
Life for Roz Watkins hasn’t always been about writing, although right from childhood she was a voracious reader devouring books. Newnham College at Cambridge University one of the world’s most prestigious places of learning saw Roz reading engineering, odd you might think when you consider what career path she eventually chose to follow. Patent law was her eventual destination rising to a partner in a firm of patent attorneys in Derby before becoming the author of the DI Meg Dalton crime thriller series.
The series has three books so far and Roz has a contract to write three more. The first book The Devil’s Dicewas short listed for the CWA (Crime Writers Association) Debut Dagger Award and has been optioned for TV.
The Devil’s Dice was first published in 2018 and was Roz Watkins’ debut book as she dipped her toe into the world of criminology. An attorney is found dead with lacerations to his face. DI Meg Dalton has been assigned to the case. Right from the onset she believes that this is a cold calculated murder, but what does the reference to the grim reaper and the victim’s initials carved in the cave wall above the body allude to? It appears that the murderer plays games with Meg, staying one step ahead of her. So, the dice is loaded.
Dead Man’s Daughter (2019) the next in the series described by The Times as ‘Absorbingly Impressive,’ sees DI Meg Dalton having to come to terms with her own beliefs about the truths behind this chilling murder case that involves a ten-year-old girl and her memory loss having discovered her father’s body in the family home. As events unfold evidence points to the girl’s own involvement in her father’s demise. This story has so many twists and turns to its plot like every good crime thriller should have, a real page turner. The pressure is on for Meg to get to the bottom of this case before the killer strikes again.
Cut To The Bone (2020) is the third book in the series, Elly Griffiths, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Lantern Men, ‘I love Roz Watkins’ books, she’s one of the best crime writers out there.’ For me this atmospheric book was the most absorbing, all about a young media star who goes missing, but who’s behind the disappearance? DI Meg Dalton is up against it to solve the issue before online threats erupt into real-life brutality. This is a testing case for Meg particularly as the media are breathing down her neck for an outcome. Hair and Blood found in a pig trough in a local abattoir raises the game and adds to the pressure Meg finds herself under. Is Violet Armstrong the Internet celebrity alive or dead?
Roz is currently working on a standalone book, The Red House.
Roz Watkins is published by Harper Collins www.HarperCollins.co.uk you can find her book in all the big book stores in the UK as well as online at Amazon, Waterstones, WH Smith’s, for those of you who live outside the UK you can head to your usual source of where you get your books. Amazon.com would probably be a good place to search.
To learn more about Roz Watkins and see where you can get her books from head to her webpage www.rozwatkins.co.uk have a look at the photos on the page to see where the character DI Meg Dalton comes from.
Equally you can get in contact with Roz via her agent.
Agent: Diana Beaumont of Marjacq scripts, R24 Office103 Kingsway.
London, WC2 6QX +44(0) 20 7935 9499Search Roz Watkins at
These books are perfect for all crime thriller seekers, especially Ann Cleeves, Susie Steiner and Val McDermid fans.
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