A Book and a Chat

To the utter amazement and absolute shock of everyone  ~ including herself ~ Julie Anne Peters became an author. Now she is a proliffic childresn and YA author, filling book shelves at hones and libraries with numeries novels inclding her latest YA novel, SheLoves You, She Loves You Not…,

Having a couple of readers in that age bracket i can't wait to chat to this talented author

Jane Rowan is a survivor of childhood trauma and betrayal and is passionate about sharing her healing experiences, including Inner Child work. She is a New England writer and poet. She retired from a long and successful professional career to have more time to write and to live fully.

Her memoir about her healing from incest is titled The River of Forgetting

GAe Polisner is the guest on todays one hour special. She writes both women’s and young adult fiction. A member of the class of 2K11 with her debut young adult novel, The Pull of Gravity

The Pull of Gravity follows teenagers Nick and Jaycee as they set out on a secret weekend mission to keep a promise to a dying friend. But will they achieve what they set out for, or merely learn the beauty of Steinbeck, the truth about plans, and a few crappy facts about gravity.

A writer since she could hold a crayon, I'm sure this will be another great show with a debut author.

Bryan Hidalgo & Gail O’Donnell are co authors of nonfiction entertainment book, Making It In Hollywood. Learn the secrets of how to become a successful actor, screenwriter, director, or producer from the people who’ve made it—and are continuing to make it! Authors Bryan Hidalgo and Gail O’Donnell have interviewed more than 100 of today’s top actors, screenwriters, directors, and producers—including Oscar and Emmy winners—who reveal, in their own words, how they started, how they work, how they got where they are today, and how you can get there too. The result is a truly inspirational compilation of interviews, with answers, encouragement and guidance straight from the horse’s mouth

My guest today is Frank Zaccari, whose new book "When the Wife Cheats" talks candidly about his life, wife and children in this "tell all book".

In our society the act of infidelity is usually associated with the husband. But what happens when the wife cheats? Very little is written about how the husband and children deal with the lies, deceit, betrayal and abandonment when the wife violates the martial vows. Follow one man's journey as he and his two young daughters cope the devastation that occurs When The Wife Cheats.

Lynda Simmons is a Canadian author whose first novel was Getting Rid of Rosie. Toronto traffic delayed her from making her scheduled show on Thursday however when todays guest cancelled I got her back to chat this Saturday

She describes herself as a writer by day and a college instructor by night, who grew up in Toronto reading Greek mythology. Her latest book Isalnd Girl is a book that as one reviewer put it...

"Some books stay with a reader longer than others and Island Girl by Lynda Simmons is an extraordinary beautiful and deeply emotional book about a mother’s love of her home, her family, and the battle against time.  Island Girl is most definitely not a beach read, rather it is an emotional story with the protagonist, Ruby Donaldson being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and suddenly must face reality and get her family sorted out before she no longer is capable of remembering them"

Lynda Simmons is a Canadian author whose first novel was Getting Rid of Rosie. She describes herself as a writer by day and a college instructor by night, who grew up in Toronto reading Greek mythology. Her latest book Isalnd Girl is a book that as one reviewer put it...

"Some books stay with a reader longer than others and Island Girl by Lynda Simmons is an extraordinary beautiful and deeply emotional book about a mother’s love of her home, her family, and the battle against time.  Island Girl is most definitely not a beach read, rather it is an emotional story with the protagonist, Ruby Donaldson being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and suddenly must face reality and get her family sorted out before she no longer is capable of remembering them"

Aaron Patterson is the author of the bestselling WJA series as well as a  two Digital Shorts 19 and The Craigslist Killer. He was homeschooled and grew up in the west. Aaron loved to read from a small child and would often be found behind a book and would read 1-3 a day on average. This love drove him to want to write but never thought he had the talent. He wrote Sweet Dreams the first book in the WJA series in 2008. Airel is his first teen series and plans for more to come are already in the works.

Heywood Gould, director, screen writer and author is the guest on today’s show. From Books like “Fort Apache the Bronx”, his award winning novel “Leading Lady” to his latest smash hit “The Serial Killers Daughter” it will be a fascinating show to chat to this talented creator.

 From his early days as a reported for the New York Post to writing screen plays that include “The Boys from Brazil” and “Cocktail” it will be a case of where to start.

Carla Malden grew up in Los Angeles, California. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from U.C.L.A. with a Bachelor of Arts in English and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society for her academic achievement. She worked extensively in the film business, both in production and development.  

With her husband, filmmaker Laurence Starkman, she wrote twelve feature screenplays; they also served as rewrite guns-for-hire. The team of Malden & Starkman wrote and produced the short romantic comedy Whit & Charm, which screened at eight major film festivals, including The Hamptons, and won several awards. They also wrote and created a series of Cine Golden Eagle Award-winning Art History films produced in association with The Detroit Institute of Art and The National Gallery. 

Along with her father, Academy Award-winning actor Karl Malden, Carla co-authored his critically acclaimed memoir, When Do I Start?, published by Simon & Schuster. 

AfterImage:  A Brokenhearted Memoir of a Charmed Life delivers a fiercely personal account of her battling the before and surviving the after of losing her husband to cancer. It offers an alert for an entire generation:  this is not your mother’s widowhood.