Roy Lantz | Author & Speaker

October 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Roy Lantz [13:50m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Our first guest of the week is Roy Lantz, the coach, speaker, “Possibilitarian” and author of the book Never Beat the Boss at Horseshoes. Tune in to listen to Roy explain his theories of:

Quote-avation
Inspiration
Motivation
Perspiration

Renowned customer service expert Roy Lantz is a motivational speaker, an inspiring author and a customer service/presentation skills trainer. Roy’s presentations, books and CDs are specifically designed to help you do the three things mentioned above very, very well.

Roy’s books include The Care and Keeping of Customers and his latest book, Never Beat the Boss at Horseshoes…. Highlights from the popular title The Care and Keeping of Customers are now available on CD.

Since 1986, Roy Lantz has spoken to organizations of all sizes, all around the world, from Boston to Brazil…from Detroit to Dublin, Ireland, sharing his inspiring message of positive expectancy and the acceptance of 100% responsibility.

Roy is a member of the International Customer Service Association, the National Speakers Association and the International Federation for Professional Speakers.

Find out more about Roy at www.roylantz.com or at his publisher’s website: www.magnoliapinespress.com

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Cynthia Gustavson | Home

October 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson [12:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Our last author guest on the show is author Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson, award-winning author of poetry, therapy, novels, screenplays, and much more. A new book of poetry will be coming out in the spring of 2008, and her memoir, entitled Corn Silk, will be released soon after. She speaks to us about her coming home poetry.

Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson was born in rural Minnesota to a jazz musician and a waitress in 1947. She is the author of five poetry collections, several poetry workbooks for therapists, and has published in numerous journals. She was educated at Gustavus Adolphus College, Boston University, Louisiana State University, United Seminary of the Twin Cities, and Oklahoma State University, and has taught at Northeastern State University in Tallequah, Oklahoma, and Louisiana State University in Shreveport, Louisiana, and has been an invited lecturer around the country.

In her twenty-two years as a social worker she has worked in drug prevention, practiced individual and group therapy, worked extensively with caregivers of the chronically ill and developmentally disabled.

A much acclaimed poet and author, the winner of a New Millennium Writings Award in 2002 and finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award from the Salem College Center for Women Writers in 2004, Gustavson lives and works in Tulsa, Oklahoma with her husband of 36 years.

Find out more about Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson at her website www.cynthiagustavson.com

Visit her podcast at www.cynthiagustavson.com/podcast

Purchase all of her books on amazon.com, on her publisher’s website www.bloomingtwigbooks.com/shop or anywhere books are sold.

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Ralph Watley | Rhyme

October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Ralph Watley [8:58m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Ralph Watley, improvising poet and songwriter, has thousands of rhyming poems of all kinds, many of them penned while working as an engineer on the railroad. We speak with him about his most recent book “Pop Goes the Poetry,” available from his website at www.popgoesthepoetry.com or anywhere books are sold. Listen to the interview to hear an improvised poem about New York specially penned for this show!

Ralph Watley is fifty-one years old and lives in Central Arkansas near Little Rock with his wife Deborah and daughter Katherine. He continues to write and sing, despite his recent struggles with MS.

Find out more about Ralph at www.popgoesthepoetry.com

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Gabe Shuford | Keys Virtuoso

October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Gabe Shuford [8:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Gabe Shuford started playing the guitar first, learning to play the stride-picking method of Leo Kottke and Mississippi John Hurt. He started playing the piano in high school, and studied classical music in college. He now has a master’s degree in piano, and one in harpsichord, and in spring 2008, he will have his doctorate in Early Music performance. He is a versatile pop and jazz player as well, and his most recent project is forthcoming with musician Lars Jacobsen. Visit www.larsjacobsenmusic.com for more information and sounds from the album.

We spoke with Gabe about his music, and feature a track from his upcoming jazz album, and a track of his baroque harpsichord playing.

For more information about Gabe, visit www.stolenshack.com, www.larsjacobsenmusic.com, or Google him!

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October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

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Roy Lantz Transcript

October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Kent Gustavson : Hello, and welcome to sound author’s radio. I have a special guest to start off the show today. It’s a fellow named Roy Lantz. He calls himself possibilitarian. He specializes in quotavations. He is a motivational speaker, an inspiring author and a customer service and presentation skills trainer. Are you there, Roy?

Roy Lantz: Yes, Kent. Hey, I’m here!

Kent: Fantastic! And what exactly does it mean, pitching ringer after ringer in the game of life?

Roy: Well, horseshoes is such a great metaphor. The game of horseshoes, for the game of life. Because in the game of horseshoes, you’ve got to perform well when you’re in the pit. Otherwise you can’t win. You can’t hope to do well in the game. The game of life sometimes finds us in the pits, too, at one time or another.

We need to perform well at those times when we’re not feeling so well, when we’re in the pits. So, I thought, gosh, that’s a terrific metaphor for the game of life.

Kent: Are you a horseshoe player?

Roy: Yes, I am. I don’t have the greatest game, but I’ve got a pretty good game. I’ve got horseshoe pits in my backyard. I’ve been playing for about 30 years. I’ve got a pretty decent game going, yes.

Kent: What do you do on a daily basis? What is your job?

Roy: Well, I’ve got a little speaking and training business, based in Atlanta that I started in 1986. We just this summer celebrated our 21st anniversary. Many years ago, Ted, I was looking for a definition of my purpose in life and part of what I do is to teach people and help people identify what their purpose is.

I established, gosh, back in the mid ’80’s that my purpose is to use my optimism and enthusiasm to teach and inspire others so that the world of all those lives I touch, directly and indirectly, will be a better one. That’s a mouthful, but that’s 27 words that kind of describes what I try to do with my business.

Kent: We all know “Chicken Soup for the Soul.” Is this a similar book to that? Why don’t you tell me a little bit about how the book is made up, and how it might compare to other inspirational books.

Roy: OK. Kent, how about let’s start with where the title came from. As I mentioned, I started the business in 1986. That was also the year that my first book was published. It’s called “The Care and Keeping of Customers.” And it contains dozens and dozens and dozens of specific helpful things, I think that people can do to provide better customer service.

And I thought, well, why not take that to the next level. I’ve got some life experiences to share. Some very specific things that could help people. And I’ve been working on a book to do that for quite a while. I didn’t have a title for it. I didn’t know exactly. where the book was going.

Well, I was doing contract speaking for a company that had an office here in Atlanta. But, the company was based in Norway. We had a company picnic, Kent, one Saturday. Everybody was having a pretty good time. Except, I couldn’t help but notice that people that were coming away from the horseshoe pit, nobody came away smiling or laughing.

Everybody seemed depressed and disgruntled. Some of them looked angry. And I learned that the boss, who was this big, strapping stereotypical Scandinavian guy, kind of like yourself, huh? He was from Norway, and he was killing everybody. He was beating everybody in playing horseshoes.

Well, as I mentioned earlier, I’m not great, but I’ve got a pretty decent game, so I went down to challenge him. I was doing great. I kept getting ringers. I was throwing ringer after ringer and I beat him pretty handily, much to the delight of my co‑workers.

They were shouting, and cheering me on, “Go Roy! Yeah! Yeah!” That was a Saturday. The following Friday, he fired me. So, that’s where I got the title, “Never Beat the Boss at Horseshoes”, from.

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Gabe Shuford Transcript

October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Kent Gustavson: Welcome back to Sound Authors. In the fourth segment of every show, we like to showcase authors of sound, and Gabe Shuford is a special guest who is indeed that ‑ he plays the harpsichord. He won a composing competition when he was young. He won the top prize at an international harpsichord competition down in Texas recently. He’s an extraordinary baroque player, as well as, a jazz pianist and folk harpsichordist. What don’t you do, Gabe?

Gabe Shuford: Thanks that’s awfully nice. I don’t know. There are probably some things I don’t do.

Kent: Let’s chat about your upcoming project. You’ve been working with a saxophonist?

Gabe: Yeah, a friend of mine, Lars Jacobsen, who I met through another friend, Nicholas Walker, who I think you know. Lars is a great saxophonist. We started collaborating together a couple years ago, working in his studio apartment and recording some stuff with tenor sax, soprano sax, and Fender Rhodes. So, we got a great sound on the Rhodes, and it was just a blast doing that. A lot of free improvisation, it was a good time.

Kent: People can check out the music at his website.

Gabe: Yeah, you can check it out at LarsJacobsenMusic.com.

Kent: LarsJacobsenMusic.com.

Gabe: That’s right.

Kent: So, let’s listen to one of my favorite clips of you playing piano. For most of the album you play Rhodes. Now is the clip where you play piano also part of the album?

Gabe: Yeah, absolutely. And the way it happened was that we recorded some stuff with Rhodes and sax. To fill out the album, we decided to add a couple tracks that had piano in them. I like this tune a lot too.

[music]

Kent: Just a little piece of that song from Gabe Shuford and Lars Jacobsen. You can find all of the music at www.LarsJacobsenMusic.com.

Gabe: That’s right.

Kent: Now, this is jazz. It’s sort of crossover jazz and something else. But how do your worlds relate to each other? You’ve got a degree in harpsichord and you’ve won awards in early music. How does that relate to jazz? How does that relate to popular music?

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Ralph Watley Transcript

October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Kent Gustavson: Welcome back to Sound Authors. This is Dr. Kent, and my next guest is Ralph Watley. Where are you speaking to us from, Ralph?

Ralph Watley: I’m in Arkansas, close to Little Rock. It’s kind of hilly, the are mountains about 30‑40 miles west of here.

Kent: Ralph Watley has written a book called “Pop Goes the Poetry”. He is a talented poet and speaker. Tell me a little bit about yourself, Ralph.

Ralph: Well I was born in Louisiana in 1956, and I moved from Louisiana to Arkansas when I was nine years old. Then I moved to Missouri when I was ten years old, then to Tennessee, then back to Missouri when I was twelve years old, and then to Louisiana. I worked for Union Pacific Railroad from 1974‑1997. My career was cut short by the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis back in 1997. So I’m retired now.

Kent: What did you do for the railroad?

Ralph: I was a switchman/breakman. The last job I had at the railroad was working in the diesel shop working on the engines.

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Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson Transcript

October 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Kent Gustavson: Welcome back to Sound Authors Radio. This is Dr. Kent, and I’ve been speaking to authors from around the country.

My next author guest is Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson, and she’s the author of the “In-versing Your Life” series that’s been out on Blooming Twig Books for almost a year now. It’s done very well across the country. She’s putting together a collection of poetry that will be out in the spring of 2008, and it’s all about “coming home” poems. Cynthia, are you there?

Cynthia Blomquist Gustavson: I am. Hello, Dr. Kent.

Dr. Kent: Can you tell me a little bit about your “In-versing Your Life” series?

Cynthia: Oh, I’d love to. I have two kind of separate lives. One life is as a poet and that’s my first life. It started when I was very, very young. My other life is as a psychotherapist. I have integrated the two of them, and I use poetry in psychotherapy.

Since I do that in my practice and I also do it for myself as a person, I decided to write some workbooks that would teach others how to do the same thing. It’s not only for therapists but for anybody who picks up the book and can do that.

My first poetry therapy workbook, called “In-versing Your Life”, came out in 1995. That was reprinted and came out again last year; five others came out at the same time.

Those other five are more specialized. One is for children. One is for teens. One is especially for eating disorders. One is for chronic pain, and then the last one is called “Con-versing With God”, which is about spiritual direction and pastoral counseling.

Dr. Kent: And all of those books are available anywhere books are sold: any local bookstore, amazon.com, or on Cynthia’s website, www.cynthiagustavson.com. Let’s chat a little bit about your upcoming work. You’re putting together a book of poetry?

Cynthia: Yes, I am. I think most authors have bursts of creativity, and then other times in their life when it quiets down a bit. I had one of those bursts of creativity this last June when I was asked to be the poet-in-residence at a wonderful arts festival in Minnesota called The White Pine Arts Festival in Stillwater, Minnesota.

The thing that was so incredible about it for me was that, that is my hometown, and I was asked to come back and be the poet-in-residence at this wonderful festival in my hometown. As I did that, my mind was open to all these memories–all the five senses: the smells, the sights, the taste, all of those things that surrounded me when I was a child. There I was, back in that setting, the beautiful, beautiful setting of the St. Croix Valley, again.

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Eddie Munster | Child Star

October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) and Helen Darras [12:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

The inaugural episode of Sound Authors kicked off live with an interview of Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) and the author of his first ever biography, Helen Darras, of New York.

They chat about Butch Patrick’s time as Eddie Munster on The Munsters in the early 1960s, as well as his tenure on other shows, such as Mr. Ed, Bonanza, and many more!

Butch Patrick and Helen Darras are in the middle of a nationwide tour after the release of the hardcover edition of their book, published by Blooming Twig Books in New York. The audio book, read by Butch Patrick himself, will also be released very soon, and will be available on itunes late this year.

To find out more about Butch Patrick, Helen Darras, and The Munsters, please visit their website at: www.themunsters.tv

To purchase a copy of the book, please visit our store here, or go to www.bloomingtwigbooks.com/shop directly.

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Jeffrey Hickey | Coach’s Son

October 20, 2007 | 1 Comment

Interview with Jeffrey Hickey [12:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Jeffrey Hickey talked with us today about his latest publication, The Coach’s Son, a novel about a specially gifted boy and football. Mr. Hickey is the son of an NFL coach himself, and speaks with us about the process of writing a novel, as well as about his brand new Audio Book of The Coach’s Son, being released this week by Blooming Twig Books.

Jeffrey Hickey is an author, composer, performing artist, teacher, coach, father of twins and arguably the happiest married man on the planet.

Those close to him know him as Chef-Boy-R-Jeff for his exquisite cooking. He is a relentless advocate for blood donation. He would like all live sporting events televised without commercials.

He and his family live in Inverness, California, with five ducks, two parrotlets, one cockatiel, one lop bunny, one geicho lizard, and are often visited by such a varied assortment of critters (human and animal), they call their home Der Zoo.

His previously published works include a book and audio recording, Wages Creek, and a CD of stories with music, Bats and Bones, both of which garnered great critical notice.

Visit Jeffrey Hickey’s website at: www.jeffreyhickey.com

To purchase a copy of the book, please visit our store here, or go to www.bloomingtwigbooks.com/shop directly.

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Lars Clausen | Author Activist

October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Lars Clausen [10:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Lars Clausen is winner of a Benjamin Franklin Award, Book of the Year Award, and an IPPY Award for his breathtaking tale of unicycling from Vermont to Washington D.C., Straight into Gay America.

Lars spoke with us about his Guinness World Records, his activism, his family, and his religion, as well as his author website company AmericanAuthor.com

Lars Clausen is an ordained pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, and holds the Guinness World Record for the longest unicycle tour (9136 miles).
Clausen received his Master of Divinity degree from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California. He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley and from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He also studied for two years at the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Along with his own writing, he currently works with American Author (www.AmericanAuthor.com) to help authors promote their work online.
Writing expresses Lars Clausen’s hope to foster community and discover a deeper personal honesty.

His first book, One Wheel – Many Spokes: USA by Unicycle is a “stepping out” story, depicting his unicycle journey through all 50 states, exploring Native lands and history.

Straight Into Gay America: My Unicycle Journey for Equal Rights, is a “coming out” story, combining personal exploration with active advocacy.

Clausen lives with his family in Chelan on the east side of Washington’s Cascade Mountains. Every morning he wakes up to the greatest gift he can imagine, life with his wife, Anne and two children, KariAnna and Kai.
Visit www.onewheel.org and www.straightintogayamerica.com for more information.
To purchase a copy of the book, please visit our store here, or go to www.bloomingtwigbooks.com/shop directly.

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Silken Rags | Folk Music

October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Interview with Silken Rags [8:47m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

On Sound Authors, both authors and musicians are featured… The sounds of authors, and the authors of sound. One segment per show will be reserved to spotlight an independent musician.

The music group interviewed on today’s show was Silken Rags, a duo of composer and pianist Peter Winkler, and his wife Dorothea Cook, violinist. Their music ranges widely in style, from jazz to classical to folk.

Winkler is a professor of classical composition at Stony Brook University in New York, and Dorothea Cook is a teacher and musician in New York as well.

Featured in this interview are two pieces of music written by Winkler, and performed by Silken Rags. The first is a segment of the tune Betty’s Creek, and the second is an excerpt from Partita for Baroque Ensemble.

Find out more about Peter Winkler at www.peterwinklermusic.com, and about Dorothea Cook at www.dorotheacook.com

Their album Stolen Shack is available from www.cdbaby.com, itunes, and through our store here.

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Lars Clausen Transcript

October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Transcript of Sound Authors Radio
Lars Clausen | Author Activist

Kent Gustavson: Hello and welcome back to Sound Authors. My next author guest is a man named Lars Clausen. Lars, you on the line?

Lars Clausen: Hello Kent.

Kent Gustavson: Hi, how are you doing?

Lars Clausen: Having a great day. Good to be with you.

Kent Gustavson: You too. Lars Clausen is a good friend of mine and he is a hero also. He has a couple of Guinness world records in unicycling, and he is a former pastor, he is a guru in the publishing industry now with his website americanauthor.com and he has written two incredible books. One of them is the award‑winning, ‘Straight into Gay America’, an incredibly enthralling look at a straight man’s journey on a unicycle from Vermont all the way down to Washington DC, and another book that’s a personal favorite of mine called, ‘One Wheel, Many Spokes’. It’s about another journey he took for human rights. Lars can you tell me a little bit first about yourself?

Lars Clausen: Sure, I have been a pastor before, and an engineer, and it seems like I’ve always kept trying different things. I was 40 years old when I set out on a unicycle to do all 50 states. It was one of the great experiences of my life. Sort of stepping out from my regular day to day work, and taking half a year to unicycle through all 50 states. I had my family along; my wife and kids followed in the motor home and it really set a stage for stepping into vulnerable places and risks since then, in the last eight years of my life.

Kent Gustavson: I think it’s one of my favorite books. I’ll always tell people, if they’ve got a list of five books to take with them to a desert island, that’ll certainly be on it. It inspired me and I think it can inspire a lot of people. Your second book is a different kind of journey. It’s still a personal journey, but it seems like you’re very, very passionate about this cause. ‘Straight into Gay America’; can you tell me about the cause and the reason for doing that journey?

Lars Clausen: Sure, and just to back up for a minute on taking that ride. What I found unicycling through all 50 states is, everybody wants to talk to someone who’s unicycling through their town on a tour, so I decided the next ride, I wanted to use what I learned and take a ride around an issue that I really care about, which is equal rights for people in our country; especially gay, lesbian bisexual and transgendered people. I became interested in that way back in seminary when I was able to become a pastor because I’m a straight man, but my gay and lesbian friends, if they wanted to have a partner, they couldn’t be a pastor. It really struck me; I’ve been involved in that issue for getting close to 20 years now and I thought, “I’m going to take this one on the road”, and that’s what I did.

Kent Gustavson: And are you still a religious man?

Lars Clausen: I am still a religious man, but I struggle with what does it mean to be part of a church where we don’t do, what seems to me, so apparent from Jesus, is to include everyone. And so for myself, only for myself, I’ve found that it’s better for me to be operating outside of the traditional institution and I think a lot of different people answer that question in a lot of different ways. This is turning out to be a good place for me to live, to work, and to speak from.

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Jeffrey Hickey Transcript

October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Kent Gustavson: Hello, and welcome back to “Sound Authors Radio”. Do I have Jeff on the line?

Jeffrey Hickey: You do, indeed, Kent. How are you?

Kent: I’m doing great. This is author Jeffrey Hickey. Where are you speaking to me from?

Jeffrey: Inverness, California; way out in west Marin County, close to the Point Reyes lighthouse.

Kent: How’s the weather out there today?

Jeffrey: Rainy. It’s raining, with more on the way. It’s a perfect day for writing.

Kent: Give me a little nutshell about who you are. I know you are an author ‑ and what other projects you have going. Then we’ll speak about “The Coach’s Son”.

Jeffrey: I’m an author. I’m a recording artist, a composer, a teacher. I have coached. I have given motivational speeches. I have taught people how to effectively speak in public. I’m a dad. I’m the happiest married guy in the world.

Kent: What can’t you do?

Jeffrey: What can’t I do? Anything mechanical. You put a hammer in my hand, and something is going to die.

Kent: Your father was an NFL coach, right?

Jeffrey: He was, indeed. By the unlikely name of Red Hickey.

Kent: I assume that’s part of the impetus for writing this book, “The Coach’s Son”?

Jeffrey: Well, it turned out to be part of the impetus. It wasn’t the original idea. The original idea was a little more removed. In fact, the original title for “The Coach’s Son” was “The Greatest Fan of All Time”. That had been jumping around in my head since I was about 18 years old.

After I had written the first draft, with the advice of some of the people who read it; some of my professional readers who took a look at it, it really wasn’t about the greatest fan of all time. It was about the coach’s son.

Kent: How much of the story is true? There’s got to be some truth… I know that the front cover, the fantastic picture of a boy sitting on the throne, I should say, the toilet, with a pistol at his feet, and a football field laid out underneath him, beautifully Photo‑shopped.

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