Madame Perry's Salon

Thomas Willeford has been creating unique and beautiful corsets and all manner of striking Steampunk gadgetry for more than 20 years. He has featured on television (MTV, BBC, "Castle", "Oddities"), online (Wired, BoingBoing, Popular Mechanics, Playboy TV), and in print (Art Donovan's "The Art of Steampunk", Morgan Spurlock and Stan Lee's "Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope", Bizarre Magazine, Hustler Magazine, Gothic Beauty Magazine, Marquis Magazine, Leg Show Magazine, Pirates Magazine, DDI Magazine, Culture Asylum Magazine).  His clockwork spider "Arachnae Mechanica" is housed in the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. He is a consulting creator of the new steampunk television series "Lantern City", produced by Bruce Boxleitner (Tron, Babylon 5), coming soon.  Daisy Bella creates and celebrates fun-spirited fashion that inspires confidence in women of all shapes and sizes with positive, uplifting messages and images When you purchase a t-shirt or bracelet from us we pay it forward making donations to the DB Women in Need program, an initiative that supports charities that give women and children the ability to rebuild their lives.  Learn book promotion secrets from a season pro with SELL YOUR BOOKS TODAY by Jennifer Perry. 

MosesMo is the original guitarist and founding member of the legendary funk rock group Mother's Finest.  MosesMo has been a part of a group for 40 years and the band of brothers and sisters have been very good to him.  He has always been a songwriter, musician, and performer since he was 14 years old.  MosesMo invested most of his entire life in a group and now, he's looking to build a brand of his own with the songs written, recorded and produced by him, using his skills as an engineer and producer with those of the very talented Jeff Tomei.   He has always been a part of the process, NOW  . . . the decisions and direction lies with him.  MosesMo has a vocal range of his own, with ideas to develop and determined to discover more of what he can do.   Daisy-Bella is committed to transforming the worl of fashion with positive messages... inspiring women from the outside in.Visit their website today and save 20% at checkout with the code THANKYOU20, and feel good knowing you're helping women and girls in need. Learn book promotion secrets from a season pro with SELL YOUR BOOKS TODAY by Jennifer Perry. 

Tony Ballard-Smoot also known as Captain Anthony LaGrange is a model, cosplayer/costumer, speaker and enthusiast who works diligently to promote the geek, nerd and fandom communities. He travels extensively around the United States working within the various communities facilitating panels, giving speeches, leading workshops and working to influence inclusion and acceptance.  Some of his passions include tea, Dungeons and Dragons, dancing, anime, Marvel Comics, Star Wars, Star Trek and urban fantasy novels. He can be found on Instagram as @captlagrange and his Facebook page Captain Anthony Lagrange. Daisy-Bella is committed to transforming the worl of fashion with positive messages... inspiring women from the outside in.Visit their website today and save 20% at checkout with the code THANKYOU20, and feel good knowing you're helping women and girls in need. Learn book promotion secrets from a season pro with SELL YOUR BOOKS TODAY by Jennifer Perry. 

Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright, ghost tour guide and the award-winning, bestselling author of twelve Gothic, Gaslamp Fantasy and Supernatural Suspense novels for adults and teens for Tor, Sourcebooks and Kensington Books. Her Strangely Beautiful saga, beginning with The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, hit Barnes & Noble and Borders Bestseller lists and garnered numerous regional genre awards.  She lives in New York City where she is a licensed ghost tour guide with Boroughs of the Dead and has been featured in film and television on shows like Boardwalk Empire and Mysteries at the Museum. She presents a one-woman show as 19th century designer Clara Driscoll and is represented by Paul Stevens of the Donald Maass agency.  Daisy Bella creates and celebrates fun-spirited fashion that inspires confidence in women of all shapes and sizes with positive, uplifting messages and images When you purchase a t-shirt or bracelet from us we pay it forward making donations to the DB Women in Need program, an initiative that supports charities that give women and children the ability to rebuild their lives. We believe in helping organizations that give safe housing and programming. Learn book promotion secrets from a season pro with SELL YOUR BOOKS TODAY by Jennifer Perry. 

Paige Gardner is an award-winning costumer who regularly appears as a guest presenter on unconventional costuming at science fiction and fantasy conventions in the U.S. and Canada.  While Paige has created recognizable cosplay from the Sci-Fi universe, she is mostly recognized for her “costume as art” ethic through original projects constructed from found, salvaged or vintage items. As a costumer who doesn’t sew, Paige is a popular panelist who shares her enthusiasm for costuming with the minimum of resources and the maximum of tenacity! Paige’s humorous approach to daunting projects features shocking shortcuts, fresh ideas, and eccentric tips for building costumes using salvaged items, thrift store finds and other unlikely oddments. Paige’s costuming work has appeared in national news outlets, magazines, television and independent film as well as being featured in books, including “1000 Steampunk Creations”, “1000 Cosplay Creations” and “The Steampunk Users Manual” by Jeff VandeMeer. Her ‘costume art’ projects have been exhibited at various venues around the U.S.   Daisy-Bella is committed to transforming the worl of fashion with positive messages... inspiring women from the outside in.Visit their website today and save 20% at checkout with the code THANKYOU20, and feel good knowing you're helping women and girls in need. Learn book promotion secrets from a season pro with SELL YOUR BOOKS TODAY by Jennifer Perry. 

Brad Schreiber is an author, screenwriter, producer, literary consultant, journalist, playwright, teacher, and actor who is prone to see things which aren't always visible. We'll talk about his new book, Music Is Power, which takes us on a guided tour through the past 100 years of politically -conscious music, from Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie to Green Day and NWA. Covering a wide variety of genres, including reggae, country, metal, psychedelia, rap, punk, folk and soul, it demonstrates how musicians can take a variety of approaches—angry rallying cries, mournful elegies to the victims of injustice or even humorous mockeries of authority—to fight for a fairer world.   I'll also ask this seemingly tireless soure of talent and creativity about his other books, scripts, teaching and whatever comes to mind during what I know will be an energetic and fascinating show!    

Wheeler Stone (aka Doc Stone) is the owner-operator and principal Artist of Doc Stone Studios in Winchester VA. He has been a leather artist and Metalworker for over 25 years and is recognized for his designs worldwide. Type Steampunk into any search engine and you will see one of his completely original designs in just a few pictures. Doc Stone has been seen in movie roles in House of Cards, and has worked in notable films such as The Crucible, and Goodwill Hunting. Wheeler recently had 3 separate roles in AHC’s American Titans as well as Guest spots in the reality show Suddenly Royal. Wheeler most recently acted in the Steampunk Film Secret Within the Sphere to be released later this year.

 Trish Causey is an ArtistActivist: singer, writer, composer, feminist, and human rights’ activist. Every original work she creates addresses an issue pertinent to society, culture, and/or human rights. Her original works include two stage musicals, a one-act opera, a requiem, many stand-alone songs, a play, a meditation track, a vocal exercises CD, a book that will be published in 2018, and an album of original music to be released in 2019. Causey’s music composition style is rooted in Broadway, with operatic leanings, hints of jazz, Irish, Middle Eastern, Indian, and other cultural flavors. She calls her compositional style, “Global, Deep-fried Broad’pera”.  

She's Back!Mitzi Szereto is an author and anthology editor of multi-genre fiction and non-fiction as well as being the creator/presenter of the Web channel Mitzi TV, which covers the “quirky” side of London, England. Internationally featured on print and broadcast media, she's a popular speaker at book and literature festivals worldwide,including  lecturing creative writing at several British universities. Her anthology Erotic Travel Tales 2 is the first anthology of erotica to include a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Mitzi and her celebrity co-author bear Teddy Tedaloo (teddytedaloo.com) divide their time between the Pacific Northwest and the UK.

 Jeff Carlisi, founding member and lead guitarist and song writer for the band 38 Special, rocks on in to Madame Perry's Salon tonight to talk music, his book, Camp Jam and talk to listeners. Between 1981 and 1984, 38 Special had three million-selling albums — "Wild-Eyed Southern Boys," "Special Forces" and "Tour de Force." Add to that several songs that received near-constant play on rock radio — "Rockin' Into the Night," "Hold On Loosely," "Caught Up in You," "If I'd Been the One." The last two hit No. 1 on Billboard's Album Rock chart. As you probably know Carlisi is still working as hard as ever and we'll get caught up on his 2020 schedule tonight!

The upcoming book The New Resurrection: My Miraculous Story of Overcoming Illness and Death (IRH Press USA/ Feb 2020), which is an autobiographical account of Ryuho Okawa’s miraculous resurrection from physical death*, illustrates that we all harbor an innate ability to will ourselves to “heal from within.” Okawa would like to share his insights with your audience, but he does not speak English. However, one of his spokespersons, publisher Keiko Hoshino joins us live to share insights on how to “heal from within.” Originally from Osaka, Japan, Keiko Hoshino was working at a Japanese financial institution in London when she was introduced to Happy Science in 1991 by a friend. After she moved back to Japan in 1994, Hoshino began working full time for Happy Science. She was ordained as a minister in 2000 and transferred to the United States in 2006 to minister in New York, New jersey, Atlanta, Hawaii, and Los Angeles. In August 2018, Hoshino took on the role of Publishing Director for the US branch of Happy Science’s publishing arm, IRH Press.

Jazz/soul singer/songwriter Jamila Ford has garnered attention for her sizable singing chops. Her slight frame belies a bewitchingly powerful yet smooth mezzo-soprano voice that gets your attention and demands a second listen.  Majoring in music with an emphasis in vocal performance, Jamila attended the University of California Riverside, graduating with her BA in 2001. Since then, she has performed around the world as a solo artist and as a backing vocalist, lending her talent to the projects of artists such as Seal, Angelo (Fishbone), Melody Gardot, Spiritualized (Coachella Festival), and Bonnie Pointer (The Pointer Sisters). If you are a professional singer, want to know how to make singing a career, or just love stories from singers on the road, then “The Working Singer” is the show for you. On this show host Jamila Ford chats with professional singers about how they make a creative living in the music business, their life lessons, and advice to other singers. Also discussed is vocal health and technique, performance anxiety, vocal coaching and pretty much all things vocal.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Dark Fiction author Elyse Draper, is my guest tonight. Draper has a visceral writing style that is both melodious and uncluttered, coming from an enduring love of poetry. The unique cadence, when coupled with dark fiction, provides an intriguing and memorable read. The Freewill Trilogy: Freewill, Consequences, and Vindication.

Some of our favorite guests are stopping by to read from their books, and Madame Perry will read from her blog Memoirs Of A Misanthrope." This will be a show you can listen to whenever you'd like someone to read to you.  

Few things benefit from lack of preparation, and death is not on that short list. So why do so many of us fail to plan for the inevitable, leaving our survivors to deal with the fallout? Death Dinners and Death Midwives are becoming more commonplace as sensible means for preparation and transition. We're fortunate to have Elle Crash, an actual death midwife plus Laurel N. Wright, who has attended and hosted Death Dinners, to share these extraordinary practices to support the inevitable event as a true celebration of life.