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Chat time with Fran Lewis welcoming best selling author Jon Land. We will talk about his latest release Strong Rain Falling, writing tips, creating a strong female character and chat about his career. Please join me along with Jon in the chat room to talk about his career, his novels and how he chooses his settings for his books.

Today, Dellani's Tea Time welcomes back Lucas and Sophia McWilliams, the amazing father and daughter writing team who first visited us on June 26 on What's Write for Me when we spoke to the folks from Progressive Rising Phoenix Press. They've got some wonderful books to talk about and I am very excited to have them back on the show. We're also expecting author Walter Lee, also with Progressive Rising Phoenix. We had some phone isses and he wasn't even able to say hello last time, so we hope he'll be able to talk to us today. Expect a fun filled show as always - because everyone needs a laugh at least once a day. Let us provide yours.

Today, I welcome three authors from Tirgearr Publishing. I'm excited to have Elizabeth Delisi, Charlene Raddon and Troy Lambert on the show to talk about their books. I hope Troy doesn't feel left out because he's the only man on the show. Pretty sure he can hold his own with all of us.

Hope everyone is enjoying their summer.  My guest for August is Carl Brookins. Brookins writes the sailing adventure series featuring Michael Tanner and Mary Whitney, the Sean Sean private investigator detective series, and the Jack Marston academic series. He has five novels in print along with a number of short stories.  

Wade Zahres, Mike Dubisch and Carolyn Watson Dubisch interview artists, sculptors, and designers from all over the world and from all walks of life.  Our first 2 guests will be Jon Sanchez and Austin Zachary from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Jon studied art and design at New Mexico State. He considers himself an illustrator first and foremost. Although, he has engaged in various forms of art mediums for most of his life. Jon has been designing and screen printing gig posters for bands since 2008 using the name “JONITO”. His posters are drawn/inked by hand, digitally separated, and hand-pulled using acrylic inks. He also does graphic design work such as logo design, political brochures, magazine layout and corporate identity. He is currently working on his first mini comic with his friend and co-worker Austin Zachary. Austin Zachary is a cartoonist, animator, and illustrator.  He has created several cartoons; Shaved Monkey and Furr E. Beaver and The InsideOut, which runs monthly in the ABQ Sports Magazine.  His animations include cartoons and music videos.  Our next guest is Phoenix artist, Annie Dunn. From her obscure beginnings as a doughnut peddler and obsessive doodler in northwestern Iowa, Annie moved to the big city in search of something called computer graphics. She now spends her days painting colorful creatures and other oddities using a Wacom tablet and stylus. Although verified public sightings are rare, Annie is rumored to live with her husband and a clowder of cats and dogs in the suburbs of Phoenix Arizona. The show will end with a discussion of the Spark show at the River Tree Arts Gallery in Kennebunk Maine. The show is a glimpse inside the minds of Maine's iconic illustrators.  Curated by our own Wade Zahares, feauturing the art of Dahlov Ipcar, Cathryn Fawell, Hazel Mitchell, Chris Van Dusen, Matt Travares.  Join us for a window into the world of art.

Gate Beautiful Radio Show features inspirational authors from debut authors to NYT bestsellers as well as industry professionals. Both writers and readers alike will enjoy hearing these authors share about their publishing journies, recent releases, and future plans. Listeners are encouraged to call in or comment in our Chat Room. Guests this month are authors Janet McHenry Carla Gade Olsen, Anita Higman and Editors of Splickety Magazine, Ben Wolf and Andrew Winch.

I've got another special planned for Dellani's Tea Time. Some of my author friends and I are planning a blog hop starting August 15th and we're here to talk about it. Join Dellani when she chats with authors Rachel Rueben, Ruth Davis Hays, Karen Vaughan, Stephanie Hussey, Kristen Duvall, Juli Morgan and more! This will be a lively, unpredictable show. With so many crazy authors in one place, will the world of Blog Talk Radio survive?

Wade Zahares, Mike Dubisch and Carolyn Watson Dubisch talk with artists from all walks of life from different locals around the world.   Our first guest is jeweler and gallery owner Lynda Rasco. Lynda started making jewelry at the age of 12 in the DeCordova art Museum School under the instruction of a master goldsmith from Italy. She continued to study jewelry making in high school. Lynda then went on to Massachusetts College of Art, and Portland School of Art to further her jewelry making skills. After college, she apprenticed for five years at two different goldsmith studios. Lynda received her gemological certificate from the Gemological Institute of America. Her and her husband Bill's jewelry line, the Harvest Gold designer features hundreds of original designs and styles of earrings, bracelets, rings, necklaces, broaches, and pendants. Harvest Gold Jewelry treasures are represented at many fine jewelry galleries around the world. The Harvest Gold Gallery, located in the beautiful mountains of western Maine, is a family owned business that has been designing gold jewelry for over twenty-five years. Our next guest will be artist Felipe Echevarria.  Felipe is an internationally collected fine artist and graphic novelist, primarily focusing on figurative painting. " I don’t see auras on people. Rather, I intuitively sense energetic states to a high degree. I seem to know where emotional and psychic pain and suffering are hiding in someone, or were hiding in someone deceased. I often can also correctly read a person’s strengths and weaknesses while looking at a photo, or holding their hand, or meditating on their presence.When preparing to paint these pieces I do much historical research on the particular being and then forget about it—because for me, historical facts can only serve as a foundation toward understanding an individual’s true nature" He currently lives and works in Loveland, Colorado.

Today I welcome back one of my favorite authors, J. Conrad Guest. He has written a variety of books including Backstop: a Baseball Love Story in Nine Innings, The Cobb Legacy, One Hot January, January's Thaw, January Paradigm, Cahotic Theory and A Retrospect in Death. Also on the show is new comer Steve Schofield, author of Remember the Nails: 40 Days of Doing Something Uncomfortable on Purpose (with Shannon Janeczek) and These are the Words I Give You to Share with Everyone. My third guest is Heather Nestleroad author of God Has Better Things to do Than My Laundry.

“Gate Beautiful” is a Christian radio show featuring interviews with a variety of inspirational fiction and nonfiction authors, airing on the 3rd Thursday of each month.  Please join us for Christ-centered conversations with your favorite Christian authors.  This month our guests are authors Tessa Afshar, Becky Wade and Matt Colwell.

I've got a great show planned for today. I'm welcoming back Dorothy Stacy - author of Erie Canal Cousins, Three Weeks in Utica, Albany Homecoming and Canal Town Christmas. Also coming back on the show is Jon Magee - author of From Barren Rocks to Living Stones and Paradise Island, Heavenly Journey. I'm also welcoming author Jo Linsdell - author of Out and About the Zoo, Italian for Tourists, Guide to Weddings in Italy and Fairy May. My final guest is Carolyn Watson Dubisch. She and her husband, Mike, host The Art of Red River. She is the author of Night of the Armadillos, Andy & the Flying Toaster Tangerine, Andy! And the Magician's Horn, The Horribles - series, The People That Melt in the Rain - series, Little Scotty Scaredy Cat & The Giant's Playground. We're going to have an amazing show for you. Loads of fun and lots of chatter. Be sure to tune in!

There are lots of publishing options available to authors. Some have hidden fees, others give the authors no control over their work. Enter Progressive Rising Phoenix Press! With the inspiration and guidance of Amanda Thrasher and others, this new press is up and coming! Join Christina and me when we chat with members of  Progressive Rising Phoenix Press including Amanda Thrasher, Linda Boyden, Jannifer Powlson, Lucas McWilliams, Walter Lee Johnson and David Bedford. This will be a fun as well as informative show, so have your questions ready for the chat room!

Artists Wade Zahares, Carolyn Watson Dubisch, and Mike Dubisch talk with artists, sculptors, photographers, and people connected to the world of visual arts.   Our first guest is Eric James Duke (insani artificem or MAD ERIC) is a predominately pen and ink artist while being classically trained in painting and sculpture. Though he has done some illustration, most recently HP Lovecraft’s “At the Mountains of Madness”, he is more of a gallery artist. He has had art shows in NY, PA, TX, CA, IA, and FL. His art has also appeared in various magazines, including ‘Churn Magazine’ issue #9, available through Last Gasp’s website in the coming months. He uses a 6x0/.13 Koh-I-Noor rapidograph pen and pointillism to achieve his depth and lighting. Currently he lives and works in Livermoore, CA.  Next on the show is artist Calvin Innes. He's the author of a number of children's books including, " The Monster Book Of.." series of educational books, the popular Tiny Twisted Tales series of spooky and macabre children's books, How To Draw Monsters with Calvin Innes - a step by step drawing guide, the Commander Recyclone & the Eco Rangers series of books, to name just a few. He founded his publishing company, My Little Big Town, in 2011 and they now work with numerous authors and artists from all corners of the world. He lives and works in Yorkshire in the UK, with his wife, his young son and three cats. Our final guest is Maine artist, Holly Chamberlain. She has taught photography at Sanford High School and graphic design and drawing at Heartwood College of Art and River Tree Center for the Arts. Her brand, Fish House Designs, is primarily a line of greeting cards, calendars and prints from her original paintings inspired from her life by the sea.Her work has been licensed to Trader Jo's, T-shirt companies, logo designs, commission work, hand painted furniture and murals.  

“Gate Beautiful” is a Christian radio show featuring interviews with a variety of inspirational fiction and nonfiction authors, airing on the 3rd Thursday of each month.  Please join us for Christ-centered conversations with your favorite Christian authors.  This month our guests are Lynette Sowell, Kate Lloyd, Noelle Marchand, and Jill Williamson

The new day for No Limits is the third Tuesday of each month. Still at 3:00 PM Pacific.  Each show will be thirty minutes and I will have one guest. My guest for June is Sue Owens Wright. I'm excited about talking with Sue because she is also a mystery writer and more importantly, like myself, she is owned by a basset hound.  Sue Owens Wright is an author of both fiction and nonfiction about dogs and writes the award-winning Pets & Their People newspaper column and the Healthy Pet column for AKC GAZETTE.  She writes the popular Beanie and Cruiser Mystery Series for dog lovers, which includes the following novels: Howling Bloody Murder, Sirius About Murder, and Embarking on Murder.