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My two guests for May are Paull Anderson and Marilyn Meredith. This show will be a little different. Paull Anderson is not an author, well at least not the author of, The Snake Handler, instead the book is about him. From the back of book: The Snake Handler is a fast paced, non-fiction thriller that documents the amazing and intriguing fifteen year battle of a courageous Virginia farmer seeking justice agains a network of wealthy and powerful criminals. Paull is that Virginia farmer. Marilyn is a friend of many years with thirty, yes thirty, fiction books to her credit.  I’ve had the pleasure of reading a majority of them.  Marilyn writes a series with Tempe Crabtree, which is good, but my favorite is her Rocky Bluff Police Department series that she writes under F.M. Meredith. No Bells is her latest and I’m waiting impatiently for it to be out in Kindle. This should be a lively broadcast. I hope you can join me.

This month's show will be full of fun and a variety of authors! Welcome returning guests, Ruth Davis Hays - author of the amazing "Dawnstone Tales" and other books about her incredible fantasy world. Welcome back J. Conrad Guest - author of "Backstop", "One Hot January" and "January's Thaw". Also reappearing is Karen Vaughan - author of "Dead Comic Standing", "Over Her Dead Body" and "Dead on Arrival"

Artists and hosts, Wade Zahares, Mike Dubisch and Carolyn Watson Dubisch talk with members of the art world from all walks of life. Located in San Francisco, Steven Russell Black is a painter with an obsessive compulsion to champion the odd, fringe, or otherwise unappreciated. Join us and learn about Steven's incredible and sometimes disconcerting art and illustration. Our second guest is internationally recognized artist, Alex Robinson, he has won (and lost) several industry awards. Alex Robinson's books include Box Office Poison, Tricked, and Too Cool to Be Forgotten, all of which are available from Top Shelf Productions.  He currently lives in New York City with his wife, a cat and a dog. Our final guest, April Jones Prince,  finds a special delight in creating books for young readers“I’ve always loved words, and I have always written in some shape or form, but I never considered myself a writer until I began writing for children.” April lives with her husband, David, and young sons, Charlie and Will, in a house full of antiques in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts.  Join us for your window into the art world!  

Show hosts, Linda Kozar, Sharon Leaf, Lena Nelson Dooley and Carla Hoch welcome you to the Gate Beautiful Radio Show featuring authors interviewing authors. Join us from 12:00 to 2:00 PM Central Standard Time as we interview Travis Thrasher, Jeanette Leveille, Margaret Daley and Braxton Cosby (Bill Cosby's nephew). Call to talk to your favorite author or visit our chatroom to ask questions! If you're writer, tune in and take notes. Learn from the pros!

  Red River Writers and Host Fran Lewis would like to welcome three outstanding and versatile authors to the show today. Multi-talented author Steven Nedelton the author of Crossroads, The Raven Affair and his latest release Lost Diary Tunnel. Joining Steven is author Mary Martin. Mary is the author of The Drawing Lesson and Fate of the Pryde the Alexander Wainwright series. Our next talented author took on a huge project when she penned the Dobbleganger Experiment. Margaret Millmore rounds out our show and each author brings some murder, mayhem deceit, treachery and lies to the table within their novels. Welcome to MURDER, SCIENCE FICTION AND DRAMA WEDNESDAY. I am your host educator, interviewer, author and book reviewer Fran Lewis. Joining me to ask the questions during our open discussion is my favorite and my interesting questioner Dr. Kenneth Weene along with my producer Sandra Elrod. Please join us at Three Eastern, Two Central, One Mountain and Twelve Pacific. Anything can happen on book discussion and the questions will keep everyone alert and definitely listeners going to the online sites to buy these novels.

No show this month...April Fools!  I wouldn't miss the chance to talk with my two guests, Stephanie Burkhart and Tony Piazza.  I've had the pleasure to read books from both of them. Among many genres, Stephaine writes fantasy, one of my favorites. Tony writes hard core mysteries, think Matt Helm and Shell Scott. They both have some interesting backgrounds and I look forward to finding out more about each of them. I hope you can join for the journey.

This month's guest is the creative and talented Linda Boyden! It's been awhile, but we're delighted to have her back on the show. Linda's charming books included "Blue Roses" and "Powwow's Coming". We'll be chatting about her latest projects. Joining Linda is another wonderful return guest, Amanda Thrasher. Amanda's books, Mischief in the Mushroom Patch & A Fairy Match in the Mushroom Patch, make the reader feel good! She's got some other exciting projects to discuss as well. I hope you'll help me welcome these two talented ladies!

Four Eastern: Three Central: Two Mountain: One Pacific:   I am honored to have as my guest mediatior Doug E. Nolll the author fo Elusive Peace. Creating peace- not an easy accomplishment. Everyone wants to live a peaceful life. Ideally countries and their leaders want their citizens to live threat free and in peace. The world is huge and billions of people inhabit it trying to survive, bringing up children, earning a living so why are so many bent on destroying others? Why do we need peacemakers to help us get along with our neighbors, friends, co-workers and spouses? Author Douglas E. Noll brings to light why crucial negotiations between parties fail- diplomats enter these talks with “flawed assumptions about human behavior, society, and power.” Can every conflict be resolved? Caused by humans, created and orchestrated by humans- humans have the power to end them. So, why do they choose to fight, hate, dislike and not see another persons, or group’s point of view? Doug won the international peace and justice book award. And that he won California lawyer attorney of the year award for teaching peacemaking to female prison inmates through the prison of peace project. I am your host interviewer, book reviewer, author and educator Fran Lewis. Along with Kenneth Weene and Sandra Elrod we will talk with this outstanding author and mediator.   I would also like to welcome the author of Remain in the Light Collin Kelly. Collin Kelley is the author of the novel Conquering Venus and the poetry collections Better To Travel, After the Poison, Slow To Burn and the forthcoming Render. His new mystery/suspense novel, Remain In Light, is a 2012 finalist for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. This is going to be great.      Join us at four eastern in the chatroom.  Fran Lewis: reviewer

On March 28, Christina & Dellani welcome authors Katherine Tomlinson, author of  "Toxic Reality" and Allen Malnak, author of "Hitler's Silver Box".

For this month's show we have toy maker, Rick Van Velsor is originally from Oyster Bay Long Island but currently resides in New Jersey. After a start in acting, including a 2 year European tour of HAIR, Rick played the Wolverine, for Marvel Comics, which is how he was introduced into the world of action figures.   He went back to school at PRATT for a degree in industrial design, thinking he wanted to do theatrical special effects, but, found a niche in Toys. He's created action figures for  Spider Man, Wolverine, Capt. America,  Beatles, E.T, Harry Potter, Homestar Runner, South Park, Donkey Kong & The Dragons of Blizzard Island, to name a few. He is also an adjunct professor at Pratt Institute in NYC. Our second guest , Justin Vining irst picked up a paint brush to escape the rigors of law school.   Since this time he passed the Indiana Bar Exam, practice a little bit of law but has continued to focus on creating full-time.Originally from a farm in Northern Indiana, Justin's series of paintings of abandoned farm house is a deeply personal work. This series of old abandoned farm houses tries to express the longing and sadness he has, not only for his lost family farm, but generally, to the end of the era of small family farms dominating the countryside.? And closing the show is the talented Fiona Meng. Fiona Meng is a Chinese Canadian manga artist/illustrator. She is currently studying in Academy of Art University Graduate Illustration program in San Francisco. She became heavily influenced by Japanese manga since her childhood. In 2004, she immigrated to Canada and attended Emily Carr University, majoring in Animation. For her senior project, she created a 2D animated film based on an old Chinese story. While studying in Emily Carr, Fiona worked on a weekly project for Vancouver Opera, which is creating three seasons of 6-page mangas to promote their upcoming shows.? Listen in!  

Join our Host Shani Fenderson while she interview Christian authors, poets, musicians, and community organizations in promoting their ultimate goal of spiritual growth for our listeners. Our goal is to bring forth integrity, beauty, creativity, mentoring, devotion, and courage in in both the artist as well as the audeinces. 

Show hosts Linda Kozar, Sharon Leaf, Carla Hoch and Lena Nelson Dooley welcome you to the show. Our March guests are Terri Blackstock, Nicole Seitz, Lori Copeland, Virginia Smith, and Lynne Gentry. If you're interested in the craft of writing or just enjoy reading what these fabulous authors write, tune in and take notes. Call in or visit our Chat Room while we're on the air with questions for comments for our guests. We love to hear from our listeners!

THREE EASTERN: TWO CENTRAL: ONE MOUNTAIN: 12 PACIFIC  Red River Writers and Blog Talk Radio is honored to welcome bestselling NYTimes author RaeAnne Thayne. RaeAnne Thayne will do anything to tell a story. In 15 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, she rode along with a motorcycle gang, took a trip in a hot air balloon and even gave a hunky country music star her home phone number (it was for an interview -- honest!).When she wasn't working as a journalist, though, RaeAnne worked on her real love -- writing romance novels. She dreamed of publishing a book long before she ever thought it was possible. In fact, college friends used to spend hours when they should have been studying, trying to help her come up with a good pseudonym (none of which she actually ended up using, since she writes under her own name!).After graduating from college, she took a job as a reporter at a daily newspaper, then moved to news editor. It wasn't until she was home on maternity leave after the birth of her first child in 1990 that RaeAnne seriously tried her hand at fiction writing. She sold her first book in 1995 and quit her editor job two years later to write full-time. I would also like to welcome author Patricia Briggs. Patricia is a NYTImes best selling author and her book that we are spotlighting today is Fair Game. One author that has reaped the benefits of this growing audience is #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs. In her novels, Briggs re-imagines modern-day cities as places where supernatural beings—like werewolves, vampires, and witches—live and prosper! Penguin Books is sending Patricia Briggs on a 10-city book tour to support the release of FAIR GAME .  

Jon Christina and Dellani when they welcome authors Deanna Meyer, Christopher Cloud and Dave Anderson!

Wow, March already.  My two guests for this month are Jay Dismas and Rebecca Guevara, Jay is a member of my local author's group and is working on his first book, Letters To Tami. Letters to Tami is a book of letters that Jay has written to his daughter in hopes of stopping the circle of abuse that he grew up surrounded by. Jay's sharing of his life with his daughter and readers is sometimes upsetting, but always compelling. He writes candidly about his prison time and the incidences of his youth that led him there. Jay is also a graphic artist. Since there is no cover for his work in progress, I've attached two of his works of art instead.   Rebecca's latest book, Blossoms of the Lower Branches deals with grief and how we can get through it one day at a time. So you can see this is a show not to be missed.  Hope to see you there.