A Book and a Chat

Richard Tillotson has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Borneo, a playwright in New York, a copywriter in Hawaii, and is a relative of an English Lord, all of which helped him write Acts of God While on Vacation, a National Semi-Finalist for the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and named “Hawaii’s best fiction book of 2011” by The Honolulu Star-Advertiser.

Megan (that’s with a long “e”) Bostic is a mere human trying to find her place in the universe and an all-around great girl. Despite the rain and gray (she’s truly solar powered) making her extremely angsty, she’s lived in the Pacific Northwest her whole life, and still does, with her two crazy beautiful girls.

She is also one of the Class of 2K12 debut YA authors,  her book being the great YA novel “Never 18”.

I am really looking forward to chatting Megan (must remember the long “e” in this special  “Book and a Chat”

My guest today hates travelling, and love gardens and old houses. She collects tea cups, ”.and her ambition is to own a flock of sheep, she is also a fellow anglophile.

Frances Gilbert is the author of many children’s story books, she will be joining me to chat about her work including her new book “The Cookie Thief

Sabin Howard, a sculptor of immense talent, has created some of the last decade’s most substantive realistic sculpture. When viewing his works, visitors may be reminded of the time when Donatello and Rodin walked the earth..(NY Times) Together with his wife Traci he has now produced the book “The Art of Life”. This is a book which explores figurative sculpture from the earliest times to the present. The work of ancient and classical sculptors, along with that of Michelangelo, Bernini, Canova, and Sabin Howard, is showcased.

Author Debra Winegarten pops by to share with us about her latest book, the winner of the 2011 Poetica Magazine contest "There's Jews in Texas".

Previous author of several books including "Katherine Stinson the flying schhool girl" aboutKatherine Stinson who earned her pilot's wings in 1912, nine years after the Wright Brothers first flight. Katherine didn't start out to be a pilot; she was a piano player. Her music teacher told her she needed to go to Europe to continue her musical studies. The oldest of four children, with her parents separated, Katherine didn't have the money. She saw a newspaper headline that screamed, "Barnstormers Earn $1000 a Day," and her flying career was launched.

Can't wait to chat about her books and poems, new and old

Debut novelist Deby Eisenberg hits the ground running with PICTURES OF THE PAST, an epic family and historical saga, sweeping through Chicago, Paris and Berlin, reliving events from pre-World War II Europe, but beginning in contemporary times.  An Impressionist painting, hanging for decades in the Art Institute of Chicago and donated by the charismatic philanthropist Taylor Woodmere, is challenged by an elderly woman as a Nazi theft.

A story that spans decades

is book "North of Hollywood" is an intimate, sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching and always honest account of making a living and living life next to Hollywood legends.

The memoir is full of anecdotes such as tough guy Al Pacino giving Lenz a gift of sorts, funny lady Lucille Ball being less than humorous with him and telling about encounters with Peter Sellers, Bob Dylan and Ella Fitzgerald.

My guest today is Rick Lenz, and actor who as appeared alongside such people as Goldie Hawn, Walter Matthau, Al Pacino, Maureen O’Hara, Jackie Gleason and Frank Sinatra.

My guest today is Rick Lenz, and actor who as appeared alongside such people as Goldie Hawn, Walter Matthau, Al Pacino, Maureen O’Hara, Jackie Gleason and Frank Sinatra.

His book "North of Hollywood" is an intimate, sometimes hilarious, sometimes touching and always honest account of making a living and living life next to Hollywood legends.

    The memoir is full of anecdotes such as tough guy Al Pacino giving Lenz a gift of sorts, funny lady Lucille Ball being less than humorous with him and telling about encounters with Peter Sellers, Bob Dylan and Ella Fitzgerald.

Stephanie Osborn is the author of a new Sc-Fi mystery series, "The Case of the Displaced Detective" series, book oone of which is called "The Arrival".

The Displaced Detective Series is a science fiction mystery in which the brilliant hyperspatial physicist, Dr. Skye Chadwick, discovers that there are alternate realities, and said alternates are often populated by those we consider only literary characters. Her pet research, Project:

Tesseract, hidden deep under Schriever AFB, is her means of looking in on these continua. In one particular reality, continuum 114, a certain Victorian detective (who, in fact, exists in several continua) was to have died along with his arch-nemesis at the Reichenbach Falls. Knee-jerking,

Skye intervenes, rescuing her hero, who inadvertently flies through the tesseract wormhole connecting his universe with ours, while his enemy plunges to his death. Unable to send Holmes back without causing devastating continuum collapse due to non-uniqueness, he must stay in

our world and learn to adapt to the 21st century.

"My Life After Life" is an unorthodox personal tale of both tragedy and transcendence, it confronts timeless questions concerning what happens to us when we die. The journey began for Dr. K Paul Stoller one evening in 2007 when he received a phone call from the state police telling him that his 16-year-old son Galen had been killed at an unguarded rail crossing. Keenly aware of their emotional bond during his son’s life, Dr. Stoller would soon realize just how powerfully that bond could continue to express itself as his son began to communicate with him in dream states. Confused at first, plagued by disbelief, and overwhelmed with grief, Dr. Stoller, a man of science and medicine experienced difficulty in accepting what was happening to him, both in terms of the stress of the loss and the stress of the contact. Galen had to demonstrate to his father that it was truly him

My guest on today's "A Book and a Chat is author of "Butterfly Season", Donna Brown.

BUTTERFLY SEASON takes Lila Dean to the

edge of madness and back as she learns to deal with

tremendous loss . . .and overwhelming fear in order to protect her daughter Olivia,whose extraordinary gift not only seals her destiny, but changes the lives of the people of Freedom, Texas forever.

 

As one reviewer wrote...

"The author's love for her characters is contagious. By the end of the novel you will feel like Lila, Olivia, Joe, Miss Sophie and all the others are old

friends. A haunting story that will stay with you long after you have finished reading. Hope to see more from this author soon!"

Well perhaps during the show we'll find out if there will be something new soon...