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About SMALL DEATHS: In Calcutta’s notorious red-light district, Lalee aspires to a better life. Her unfailingly loyal client Tilu Shau has dreams too. A heady romantic and marginal novelist, Tilu is in love with the indifferent Lalee and wants to liberate her from her street life with marriage. But when a fellow sex worker and young mother is brutally murdered, the solicitous madam of the Blue Lotus invites Lalee to take the woman’s place “upstairs” as a high-end escort. The offer comes with the promise of a more lucrative life but quickly spirals into violence, corruption, and unfathomable secrets that threaten to upset the fragile stability of Lalee’s very existence. As Tilu is drawn deeper into his rescue mission, he and Lalee embark on life-altering journeys to escape a savage fate. As much a page-turner as it is poignant, SMALL DEATHS exposes the reality of society’s preyed-upon outcasts, their fierce resilience, and the dangerous impediments that stand in the way of their dignity, love, and survival

Szereto puts together another page-turning collection, telling true crime tales of the wicked, wild, and wonderful. You’ll love this book and the stories of devious partnerships that ended in mayhem and murder!”—Bob Batchelor, cultural historian and author of The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius  ​​​​This is just one sneak peek review of her new and upcoming book The Best New True Crime Stories Unsolved Crimes And Mysteries. Coming soon in September, this is a must read!    

Beth Lapides, critically acclaimed creator of UnCabaret -  the show that launched the alt comedy revolution - has just launched her original audiobook So You Need To Decide. Beth is a master creativity coach, muse and consultant. In her work as a muse - coach- teacher - mentor, her passion is helping creatives find their unique voices and develop the projects most suited to them. She works with creatives at every level - from beginners to bold faced names.  Oh, and you may recognize her from her guest starring role on Sex & The City.   

Peggy Etra has been a professional Improviser for over 30 years, performing with The Groundlings, TheaterSports, Improvatorium and an ongoing performing cast member with Brian Henson's Puppet Up. (Improvised ADULT Comedy Puppet Show) She puppeteered and voiced; Helen the Goat, Gnarlia the Witch, General Gertie of the Florrfs, The King of Nordanica, Tyler the Jailer…The Barbarian and The Troll look for it on Paramount+ early 2023. Other puppet shows include Showtimes Kidding, The Jim Henson Company’s Happytime Murders, Earth to Ned. Other puppet credits: The Muppets, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Adam Ruins Everything and Big Little Awesome. She is a PROUD member of GLOP (Glorious Ladies of Puppetry) When NOT under a puppet she can be seen on The Last Champion (Film),Seinfeld (TV), Crash and Bernstein (TV) to name a few.

Actor, VO Artist, Podcaster, Entrepreneur and alI around nice guy, Paul Vato, brings us along his wild comedic comeback ride into the world of acting and along the way we get to meet some of his celebrity friends!  Paul Vato has appeared on MADtv, The Sarah Silverman Program, Cedric The Entertainer Presents:, Reno 911, The Bold and The Beautiful, and ABC's To Tell The Truth. He appeared in the movie, The Trust, opposite Nicholas Cage.

Matt Betts is a science fiction writer, poet, and self-described zombie wrangler. His first book, Odd Men Out, launched in 2013 and the hits just keep on coming!. He is also the host of the podcast Something From Nothing. Matt’s short and flash fiction has focused a lot on humor and horror. His work appears in Arkham Tales, Ethereal Tales, the Triangulation: Taking Flight anthology, Bizarro Fiction!The Journal of Experimental Fiction 37, A Thousand Faces and Cinema Spec: Tales of Hollywood and Fantasy. Matt’s poetry has been published in numerous venues, and his poem Godzilla’s Better Half was nominated for a Rhysling Award, the Science Fiction Poetry Association’s highest honor. His poetry has appeared in Star*Line, Escape Clause, The Book of Tentacles, Illumen, the 2010 Rhysling Anthology, Kaleidotrope and others. One of his pieces was also mentioned in a New York Times article on zombie poetry.

Sherri is creator/producer of the popular radio theatre Sherri's Playhouse, a series shows where playwrights and actors get a chance to strut their stuff! The home of The Chatty Award for most live listens and downloads! As host of the long running, popular podcastChatting With Sherri!she chats with writers, actors and other artists about their work. A fun relaxing chat with all kinds of amazing exciting creative people. We also have a series shows under the umbrella of Sherri's Playhouse; where playwrights and actors get a chance to strut their stuff! The home of The Chatty Award for most live listens and downloads! She has so many great accomplishments and is here to talk about new and upcoming projects! 

Jennifer Dunn has created an app for writers called  Notes Community to help you find your perfect screenwriters group, and is free to download. But that's not the only thing, she is a screenwriter and also here to talk about filmmaking in Atlanta. Her short films WHY DOESN'T SHE LEAVE? and BABY SHOES have both won awards on the film festival circuit, and she is in pre-production on the coming-of-age/horror short GRANDPA. Her first 1-hour drama television pilot, BIRDSONG won the 2020 Atlanta Film Festival Pilot Competition and the 2021 Creative Screenwriting Unique Voices Competition in Drama, and placed in a finalist in multiple competitions including Screencraft, CineStory and WeScreenplay. Jennifer participated in the CineStory TV Writing Fellowship in 2020, the New York Women in Film Writer's Lab in 2021 and the Sundance Episodic Intensive in 2022.

Jessie Asya Kazner has launched her newest book Don't Just Sit There, DO NOTHING: Healing, Chilling, and Living with the Tao Te Ching, (Hampton Roads Publishing) and is now available on Amazon!    

Dianna offers inspirational coaching to individuals, giving you an opportunity to grow to your greatest potential!  She offers individual and group sessions, assisting in illuminating a fresh perspective on finding your strengths and purpose,without directly giving you advice or solving problems!

Jim Christina is certainly no stranger to the entertainment world. For years he played with a popular acoustic vocal group in the Seattle/Tacoma area in Washington State. He's now a radio host on L.A. Talk Radio where you can listen every Thursday at 6 PM pacific time for The Writer's Block on for fun and conversation with writers!  Tonight Jim will talk about his newest book Jefferson's Chance! 

From writing, public speaking and to acting. Daphne O'Neal has done it all. From the movie Futurestates to 13 Reasons Why!  A panel appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986) marked the start of her on-camera career. Her love of opera and ballet, along with her Harvard degree, suited her to the tongue-in-cheek portrayal of a "snob." By the end of the show, Daphne had won over the skeptical Chicago audience. Buoyed by the experience, she began auditioning for plays. First cast as the Postulant in The Sound of Music at Boston's Wheelock Family Theatre, Daphne went on to portray lead character Silvia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare. In 2009, Daphne was the only San Francisco actor hired for Ranch Studios' Corruption.Gov (2010), headlined by Lee Majors, Michael Madsen and Joe Estevez. She played the terrified victim of a gun-toting terrorist, a judge on film in the PBS short Futurestates,  Daphne played a TV reporter in the indie ballet feature Hope Dances, Marcus Cole's mother in Season 2 of 13 Reasons Why, a narcissistic boss in the improv comedy short 8 Daves A Week and pulled off a cameo appearance in a redhot hip-hop artist music video.  Daphne voices documentary, educational, animated and radio/TV projects and appears regularly in commercials, and sang Lead Alto in a chorus of 12 in Scott Joplin's opera Treemonisha at San Francisco's venerated Stern Grove Festival.. She has hosted live and taped PBS-TV fundraisers, among other programs.

After two decades of working as an actor, Gina Sorell returned to her first love—writing. A graduate with distinction of UCLA Extension Writers' Program, she is the author of Mothers and Other Strangers, a Great Group Reads selection, and a 2017 best book of Refinery 29,Self Magazine, and the forthcoming The Wise Women, Harper Collins. Originally from Johannesburg, Gina has lived in New York and Los Angeles, and now lives in Toronto with her husband and son, and balances the solitary hours of fiction writing with work as a creative director and brand storyteller under the banner of her own agency, Words Make The Brand.   The Wise Women is a novel about two adult daughters of an advice columnist! The Wise Women is one of Parade magazine's most anticipated books of 2022. 

Wild Wild West Steampunk Convention 10 will take place Thursday, March 3rd through Sunday, March 6, 2022. As always here at Madame Perry's Salon we love to have a preview show featuring WWWC's special guests, staff, fans, & more.  Naturally I sought the presence of Steampunk Royalty Madame Askew and The Grand Arbiter to get the party started. More details of guests, or drop-in visitors to be announced!

Joe Symes & The Loving Kind's self-titled debut album, released on their own record label, Truly Independent Records, is a resume of their musical versatility. A record containing songs of the rock, psychedelic, dah-dah, easy listening, country and movie soundtrack variety. One international reviewer called it an indie rock classic and two tracks appeared on the Charity Compilation Shoulder to Shoulder alongside tracks by Paul Weller, Ocean Colour Scene, Roger McGuinn (The Byrds), Robyn Hitchcock, Noel Gallagher, Pete Noone (Herman’s Hermits) and Wishbone Ash. This collection was organised by David Quaife, whose brother Pete was the original bass player of the British rock legends The Kinks. Creation Records’ Alan McGee even praised the album in question, even adding Hollywood stars like Matthew Modine, and Michael Keaton to the fan-base. This was followed by the energetic rock orientated double A side single I’m Gonna Find Out Someday/Things Get Better: two tracks that shows their current heavy pop incarnation, and gave the listener a glimpse of the direction the second album would take them. The single was not only played during half time at Liverpool Football Club’s ground on several occasions, but was a three-week feature on BBC Introducing. Not too bad for the band’s second official release, spurring into more recordings and shows.