Peter Webb | Rainbows End
August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Peter Webb grew up in England with five other siblings during the Second World War. During the Blitz on London the government recommended evacuation out of the target area, so he with two brothers and a sister moved to North Wales. They returned to their home in Upminster after the firestorm was over. At eighteen he served in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy during the Suez crisis. At twenty-seven he emigrated with his young family to Canada in 1964 and six years later he and his family adopted Canada as their permanent home and became Canadian Citizens. This was the beginning of a journey that exceeded their dreams. Rainbows End is his fourth book that captures this amazing journey through life to retirement when he began his long promised hobby of writing novels.In Rainbow’s End, the writer invites the reader to join him in tracing his life story from the earliest recollection at two years of age through to retirement. It describes a traumatic experience, a number of trials and unexpected and unwanted early responsibilities throughout his teenage years. There were times of heartache and disenchantment suffered through witnessing his siblings being torn apart through his mother’s extreme pride and almost fatal obsession. Then in his late twenties, having the courage to emigrate with his own young family to Canada to escape a depressive and negative environment that seemed to feed on itself. They left the security of a home and a good job for an unfamiliar lifestyle in Canada. This proved to be the right decision, as changes occurred that sent them on an incredible journey full of opportunities and challenges that they could not have imagined. The life in their adopted country has exceeded their dreams. Find out more information on the web at www.outskirtspress.com
John Straley | Alaska & Mystery
August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Novelist John Straley has worked as a secretary, horseshoer, wilderness guide, trail crew foreman, millworker, machinist and private investigator.He moved to Sitka, Alaska in 1977 and has no plans of leaving. John’s wife, Jan Straley, is a marine biologist well-known for her extensive studies of humpback whales.John’s first book, The Woman Who Married a Bear, was published in 1993 and won the Shamus Award for the Best First Mystery of that year. His third book, The Music of What Happens Finn. You can also find the Straley family on their sometimes second home, the Phalarope.Visit his website at www.johnstraley.com for more information
Simcha Jacobovici | Lost Tomb of Jesus
June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
It was a great honor to feature Simcha Jacobovici on the show today! A journalist with many awards to his name, and great controversy, we get to the bottom of things in this special long interview… Simcha is an award-winning, controversial documentary film director and producer. His numerous awards include a Gold Medal from the International Documentary Festival of Nyon, a certificate of Special Merit from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, a Genie Award, three U.S. Cable Ace Awards, two Gemini Awards, an Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award, a British Broadcast Award, a Royal Television Society Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award. Jacobovici has also won the Emmy for “Outstanding Investigative Journalism” an unprecedented three times (1996, 1997 and 2007). http://www.simc
Raymond Benson | Writing 007
June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
RAYMOND BENSON wrote six original James Bond novels, three film novelizations, and three short stories—all published worldwide. His most recently published thrillers are A HARD DAY’s DEATH (the first in a series of “rock ‘n’ roll thrillers”) and the novelization of the popular videogame METAL GEAR SOLID. As “David Michaels” Raymond was the author of the NY Times best-sellers TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL and TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL—OPERATION BARRACUDA. Raymond’s other recent original thrillers are FACE BLIND, EVIL HOURS, and SWEETIE’S DIAMONDS. An anthology of some of his 007 work will be published in October 2008. www.raymondbens
Susan Benjamin | Business Communication
June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Susan Benjamin, host of the popular talk radio show The Greater Voice, has been a business problem-solver for almost twenty years. Publications from the Wall Street Journal to the Chicago Tribune have featured Susan’s novel approaches to team management while her commentaries on communications-
Steven Wax | Kafka, Justice & Terror
June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Through the gripping inside-stories of two of the most highly publicized terrorism cases of the 21st century, KAFKA COMES TO AMERICA: FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE IN THE WAR ON TERROR (Other Press; June 3, 2008) by Steven Wax shines a spotlight on one of the most critical issues faced by Americans today. This is the saga of one public defender’s struggle to rescue two innocent men from the often absurd practices of our judicial system – a system now tainted by the loss of our civil liberties in the name of the war on terror. It presents the well-known true story of Brandon Mayfield, an American-born lawyer and family man living in Oregon, who was mistakenly arrested as a suspected terrorist in the Madrid bombings because of an incorrectly identified fingerprint. It also describes the lesser-known story of Adel Hamad, a Sudanese Hospital administrator, who was taken from his apartment in Pakistan and imprisoned in Guantanamo as part of an anti-Arab sweep intended to satisfy the American government’s new security initiatives. Together, these stories present a clear and immediate picture that everyone’s rights are in jeopardy in the war on terror. A patriotic American and strong believer in our judicial system, Wax has served twenty-five years as a federal public defender. As a result, he is well positioned to present a sharp picture of both how we’ve come to lose our civil liberties and how we must all fight for our constitutional rights. http://www.othe
Olof A. Ericksen | Immigrant Memoir
June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment
As a child in Norway, Olof A. Ericksen lived through the atrocities of World War II, then suffered a brutal upbringing. As an adult, he was a victim of numerous unscrupulous business dealings in America, and eleven times in his life he came face-to-face with death. Memoirs of an Immigrant is a true story that takes readers from the Land of the Midnight Sun to America and from World War II to today, as it shows one man’s ability to rise above impossible circumstances to build a victorious life. http://www.amaz
Bea Fields | Gen Y & Success
May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Bea Fields - an internationally renowned leadership consultant and author - recently launched the second edition of her book: Millennial Leaders: Success Stories From Today’s Most Brilliant Generation Y Leaders Co-authored with Scott Wilder, Jim Bunch and Rob Newbold, the book presents the details of a socio-economic study of Generation Y and its potential economic and political power and highlights a number of Gen-Y leaders who have already made a name for themselves, including a 14 year-old political appointee to a finalist on “The Apprentice.” http://millenni
Richard Guy | Receding Seas
May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Richard Guy is a Structural Engineer with forty years experience in England, The Middle East, The United States and The West Indies. He has been an engineering consultant for thirty years. During his career he has observed subtle behavioral patterns of earth expansion and receding seas. He writes and speaks extensively on these subjects and the development of ancient civilizations in the high mountains of the earth for which he has been recognized by the International Biographical Center in Cambridge England. The author is listed in their Centennial edition 2000 Intellectuals of the Twentieth Century.
Donald Ray Pollock | Knockemstiff
May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Donald Ray Pollock was born in 1954 and grew up in southern Ohio, in a holler named Knockemstiff. He dropped out of high school at seventeen to work in a meatpacking plant, and then spent thirty-two years employed in a paper mill in Chillicothe, Ohio. Currently, he is a graduate student in the MFA program at Ohio State University and still lives in Chillicothe with his wife, Patsy, a high school English teacher. He hopes to someday teach fiction writing. His work has appeared in, or is forthcoming in The New York Times, Third Coast, The Journal, Sou’wester, Chiron Review, River Styx, Boulevard, Folio, and The Berkeley Fiction Review. He is currently at work on a novel set in 1965, about a serial killer named Arvin Eugene Russell. http://www.dona
Tanya Lee Stone | Important Children’s Books
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Tanya Lee Stone was our guest on the show today. She is a well-known author, and writes books for children that all have great importance in theme… Her newest book is a biography of Ella Fitzgerald (commemorating Ella Fitzgerald’s birthday on this date), and she has two new books coming out in the next year.More information from Tanya Lee Stone’s money:
Like many writers, Tanya Lee Stone has been making up stories since she was a kid. But her first series, Henry the Happy House, was never sold. She even drew the pictures. It’s a mystery why nobody wanted to publish it! As a high schooler, Tanya went to performing arts high school as a music major. Her writing improved when she studied English at Oberlin College (and Music at Oberlin Conservatory. She might even sing if you offer her chocolate.). After graduation she moved to New York to be an editor.Stone was an editor for 13 years. During some of those years, she also earned a Masters Degree in Education and learned all about seals and sea lions! (If you ask, she might tell you about the time she had to climb into a harbor seal tank with high rubber boots to give the seals their shots). She also traveled all over the world, hopping with kangaroos in Australia, eating the best caviar ever in Russia, and even living in England for awhile where she studied British literature. When Stone moved to Vermont and got her chance to write her first book, she got hooked on stories all over again. This award-winning author has written nearly 90 books for young readers. She has written books about animals, nature, science, history, and biography. She also writes poetry and fiction. Best-selling titles include Abraham Lincoln (more than 100,000 copies sold) and P is for Passover (more than 75,000 sold). Stone’s most recent titles are a young adult novel, A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl (Wendy Lamb/Random House), Amelia Earhart (DK), and Up Close: Ella Fitzgerald (Viking). Bad Boy was her first novel for teens and received starred reviews, as well as honors from the New York Public Library, Texas Tayshas State Reading List, School Library Journal, the ALA, Maryland Best Books, and the Kentucky Bluegrass Master Award List. Stone also writes articles and reviews and has been published in VOYA, School Library Journal, and the New York Times.Forthcoming titles include picture books Elizabeth Leads the Way (Holt) and Sandy’s Circus (Viking), as well as Almost Astronauts: The True Story of the Mercury 13. Many of the stories she now finds herself drawn to deal with themes of strong women and empowering girls. Stone is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Authors Guild, PEN American Center, ALAN (The Assembly on Literature for Adolescents), and the National Council Against Censorship. She has been a featured speaker at the Texas Book Festival, the New England Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, the Rochester Book Festival, the Connecticut Reading Association, the Vermont League of Writers, National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), the International Reading Association (IRA), the American Library Association (ALA), as well as multiple schools and libraries. She is the Co-director of Kindling Words, an annual retreat for published children’s book authors and illustrators.
Suzanne Lieurance |
April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Often-published children’s author Suzanne Lieurance was a guest on our show today, speaking to us about the process of writing a children’s book, and about her latest book The Locket. She had some interesting insights about how to write difficult non-fiction for children.
Suzanne Lieurance is a former classroom teacher, now a freelance writer, children’s author, speaker, and The Working Writer’s Coach. She is the author of over 20 published books for children. Lieurance is also the founder and director of the National Writing for Children Center and the Children’s Writers Coaching Club.
Ken Bruen | Thriller Author
April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Today we spoke with Thriller Novelist Ken Bruen from Ireland. The dialogue was fascinating… Tune in to hear the story about the fan with the baseball bat! More about Ken Bruen’s new novel Cross from his website:
Cross (kros/ noun, verb, & adjective) means an ancient instrument of torture, or, in a very bad humour, or, a punch thrown across an opponent’s punch. Jack Taylor brings death and pain to everyone he loves. His only hope of redemption - his surrogate son, Cody - is lying in hospital in a coma. At least he still has Ridge, his old friend from the Guards, though theirs is an unorthodox relationship. When she tells him that a boy has been crucified in Galway city, he agrees to help her search for the killer. Jack’s investigations take him to many of his old haunts where he encounters ghosts, dead and living. Everyone wants something from him, but Jack is not sure he has anything left to give. Maybe he should sell up, pocket his Euros and get the hell out of Galway like everyone else seems to be doing. Then the sister of the murdered boy is burned to death, and Jack decides he must hunt down the killer, if only to administer his own brand of rough justice.
Don Saliers | Music & the Church
April 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Don Saliers, father of Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls, spoke with us today about his book with his daughter, and about his long career in music and the church. Listen in to hear about a father and daughter’s relationship through music, politics and all the rest.More about Don from the Indigo Girls website:
“I found warmth, wisdom, and love to be present on every page of this book. Emily and her father, Don, have found a way to have a deeply meaningful conversation about their life experiences and share it with the reader. The result is this beautiful expression of music as many things–healer, gift, symbol of freedom and community, and agent of change.”—Mary Chapin Carpenter
“Don and Emily Saliers trace the songlines of two very different lives through this thought-provoking book. It is full of stories, quotations from songs old and new, and even their personal discussions as they explore the boundaries between their worlds. Their words plumb the depths of human and musical differences: the way song can divide as well, bring us together and its power to bring us ‘back to life’ from grief or pain or spiritual anguish. May we all be able to find songlines as rich as those uniting this intelligent, affectionate, and musical father and daughter.”—Alice Parker, author, Yes, We’ll Gather!, Creative Hymn Singing, and Melodious Accord
“In this sweetheart of a book, Don and Emily Saliers do far more than write convincingly about the healing power of music. They show us how it works by letting their own love of ‘deep song’ lead them across generational, aesthetic, and religious differences into a place of such holy listening to one another that even the angels lay down their tambourines.”—Barbara Brown Taylor, author, Bread of Angels, Home by Another Way, Gospel Medicine, The Preaching Life, God in Pain, and Speaking of Sin
“Emily and her dad have created a beautiful celebration of how music and spirit connect us all.”—Bonnie Raitt
Haider Ala Hamoudi | Iraq & Politics
April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Today we spoke with Haider Ala Hamoudi about Iraq and the political situation there and here. Listen in for some interesting insights from an Iraqi-American law professor.More about Haider Ala Hamoudi from his website:
Professor Hamoudi received his B.Sc. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1993, with a double major in Physics and Humanities with a Near Eastern Studies Concentration. He was both a member of the Physics Honor Society, Sigma Pi Sigma, and a Burchard Scholar for Excellence in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In 1996, Professor Hamoudi received his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. After graduating, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Constance Baker Motley in the Southern District of New York and then worked as an Associate at the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton until 2003.Thereafter, Professor Hamoudi went to Iraq and acted as both a legal advisor to the Finance Committee of the Iraq Governing Council, as well as a Program Manager for a project managed by the International Human Rights Law Institute of DePaul University School of Law to improve legal education in Iraq. Professor Hamoudi continues to advise the Iraqi Government, primarily through the Iraq Mission at the United Nations. Professor Hamoudi’s scholarship focuses on commercial law, Islamic law, and the intersection of the two in the contemporary era. He has written for numerous law reviews, spoken at conferences sponsored by the MacMillan Center at Yale University, the American Association of Law Schools and the New York City Bar Association, and given interviews to various news organizations including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the McNeil-Lehrer News Hour Online and the New York Law Journal.Professor Hamoudi is also the author of a blog on Islamic Law entitled Islamic Law in Our Times.
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