A Book and a Chat

Charles B. (”Chuck”) Rosenberg has been the credited legal script consultant to three prime time television shows: L.A. Law, The Practice and Boston Legal, as well as The Paper Chase (Showtime). During the O .J. Simpson criminal trial, he was one of two on-air legal analysts for E! Entertainment Television’s live coverage of the trial. He also provided commentary for E!’s coverage of the Simpson civil trial. He is also the author of the book The Trial of O.J. Simpson: How to Watch the Trial and Understand What’s Really Going On (Publishing Partners 1994) and is a contributing author to the book Lawyers in Your Living Room! Law on Television.

He will be along to chat about his latest book Death on a High Floor.

One of my daughters favourite reads from the books donated by a few of my previous guests is "Island Sting" by Bonnie Doerr. I am glad to say that Bonnie is coming back onto the show to chat about her latest book "Stakeout"

As Flamingnet Young Adult Book Reviews put it...

"This book is the perfect mystery. Full of suspense, action, and drama, Stake Out is one of the best mysteries I have ever read. It has just the right amount of family matters to balance out the plot, and the author paints such a vivid picture in my mind that I can almost smell the sea salt. The unexpected twists are just delightful."

My guest today Stephen Labossiere is currently touring with his wonderfully names relationship book " How to Get a Married Woman to Have Sex With You…If You’re Her Husband!"

"Just tell me yes…”, is exactly what men all over the world are thinking when they are desperately trying to get intimate with their wives, but are only met with excuse after excuse and rejection after rejection.

 

We'll find out a lot more when I chat to Stephen during the show....

Noah Baird wanted to attend the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, but his grades weren’t good enough (who knew?).  However, his grades were good enough to fly for the U.S. Navy (again, who knew?), where he spent 14 years until the government figured out surfers don’t make the best military aviators. He has also tried to be a stand-up comedian in Hawaii for Japanese tourists where the language barrier really screwed up some great jokes. On the bright side, a sailboat was named after the punchline of one of his jokes.

His debut book is "Donations of Clarity"

The plan was simple: hoax bigfoot, then sell tours to bigfoot enthusiasts. The plan wasn’t brilliant, and neither were Harry, Earl, and Patch. The three chemical-abusing friends only wanted to avoid the 9 to 5 rat race, but their antics attract the attention of a real bigfoot. When the misogynistic Earl is mistaken for a female bigfoot by the nearsighted creature and captured; it is just the beginning of their problems.

Sandy Armstrong is one of the co-authors, along with Mona Brown Ketner of the wonderful Christmas book "My Journey to Bethlehem". The nativity story told from the donkey's point of view. Linked wih bible verses and lovable illustrations by illustrator Amy Tiller it will make a great gift for the up and coming holidays.

Braxton A. Cosby is a dreamer with a vision of continuously evolving and maximizing the untapped potential of the human genome. Braxton received a lot of his inspiration from watching the accomplishments and exploits of his famous uncle, comedic legend Bill Cosby. A physical therapist by background, Braxton received his Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate from the University of Miami.

Braxton’s fascination of science grew into an obsession for creating and exploring the untapped potential of the human spirit. On one unassuming Sunday in church, this self-proclaimed romantic heard the voice of God speak and decided to pursue a ‘calling’ to create a new genre of writing called “Sci-Fance”; merging the two genres of Romance and Science Fiction

Wendy was one of the first guests I had on my show when it started with her great book "The Accidentel Bestseller". She is now retruning to share with usabout her new book "Ten Beach Road"

Madeline, Avery and Nikki are strangers to one another, but they have one thing in common.  They each wake up one morning to discover that their life savings have vanished, along with their trusted financial manager…leaving them with nothing but co-ownership of a ramshackle beachfront house.

Madeline Singer is a homemaker coping with empty-nest syndrome and an unemployed husband. Avery Lawford is an architect—or was, until she somehow became the sidekick on her ex-husband’s TV show.   And professional matchmaker Nikki Grant is trying to recover from her biggest mistake…

No on is going to save them but themselves. Determined to fight back, they throw their lots in together and take on the challenge of restoring the historic beach house to its former glory. But just as they begin to reinvent themselves and discover the power of friendship, their secrets threaten to tear down their trust, and destroy their lives a second time…

Ericka Willaims returns to the show to chat about her new book "The Robbin Hoods"

The Robbin Hoods are burglars. They are hood stars who are living the good life splurging their money on women, fast cars, jewels, nice homes, trips, and drugs.

Chance was from Brooklyn. His mother moved him and his siblings to New Jersey for a better life. They moved to the suburbs where the dangers and crime of city life were not supposed to exist. Very early on his family learns that the have-nots are surrounded by those who are successful; as opposed to the projects where everyone is struggling. Chance chooses a life of robbery to support his mother and siblings. The "crew"started out robbing houses in their town and the surrounding working class and middle class towns.

Heidi Smith is my guest on today's A Book and a Chat chatting about herself and her hard hitting book about child abuse... "The Clara Ann Burns Story"

The Clara Ann Burns Story registers things that abuse and devalue a child. Clara, the protagonist, measures these things by chronicling a war not typically found in history books. There are different battlefields but all wars begin in homes, in thoughts and on tongues. My hope is that the book instantiates the unsustainability of validating truth by vilifying others and provokes questions concerning the shapes, sizes and colors of affliction.

As many of you know I always try and get some of the debut YA authors on the show for a one hour special,  the authors of th Class of 2k11 are well on their way and now I have my first guest from the Class of 2K12, the one and only Caroline Starr Rose.

Her debut YA novel has already received many great reviews... 

"Heroes come in all sizes, and my newest hero is a pint-sized girl named Mavis Elizabeth Betterly, called May B. Armed with only her book, a broom, and a lot of sheer grit, May B. faces the terrors of school, winter, and the west Kansas prairie. Caroline Starr Rose tells May's story in simple, moving verse that captures the joy of family, the gloomy isolation of a dirt soddy, and the determination of one scared but indomitable young person. May B. is a girl you'll be proud to know. "

I can't wait to chat...