Author's Corner with Kate Delaney

What begins as a fatal car accident in the Texas desert quickly becomes a deadly conspiracy in The Incident at Terlingua.

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Kate Delaney welcomes author HW Ryan to Author’s Corner to discuss his action-packed thriller, in which an unlikely investigative duo finds a corpse that mysteriously turns to dust, uncovers dangerous government secrets, faces Mexican cartels, and confronts a conspiracy threatening the world’s economy.

Ryan also shares his journey from a 35-year consulting career to pursuing his lifelong passion for storytelling.

Learn more about HW Ryan: https://www.hwryan.com/

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Jake Plumb is a drifter haunted by his past. Charles Chavez fears a future where his career as Terlingua’s sheriff ends. The two meet andbecome an improbable police team. They investigate a rollover car accident with a fatality. When the accident’s corpse turns to dust in minutes, the investigation turns bizarre.The investigation becomes a fight to survive when the Defense Department, Mexican cartels, and government agents try to kill the two. Someone does not want the connection between the dusty corpse and a coup in the world’s economy to become known. What a fascinating mix of action and personal drama set in the blazing Texas landscape.

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Bio:

HW Ryan describes himself as an oilfield brat, moving along a line from Hobbs, New Mexico to Houma, Louisiana. He earned a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering. HW spent more than thirty-five years with Accenture, working with clients in the United States and around the world. His work focused on implementing large-scale business systems and helping organizations navigate complex change.Since his retirement he has had the opportunity to focus on several interests including writing, flying and woodworking. Writing has been a lifelong interest for him beginning at the age of eleven. He’s been married to his wife for 57 years. They have three children and seven grandchildren.
Website: 

www.hwryan.com

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im Stavis was diagnosed with juvenile type 1 diabetes at age 17 and told to expect a shortened lifespan filled with medical difficulties. Decades later, after congestive heart failure, kidney failure, and complications that nearly took his life, Jim underwent a rare triple organ transplant—heart, kidney, and pancreas—at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, a surgery that had never been performed before or since.

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Rather than let his diagnosis define him with fear, Jim used it as fuel, building a successful career as CEO of Paragon Steel while facing down business setbacks, addiction, and the loss of a close friend and business partner along the way. His persistent, no-excuses approach to adversity became the foundation for his memoir, When Hope Is Your Only Option: One Man’s Brave Journey Through Life’s Adversity, praised by Kirkus Reviews as “honest, moving, and an invaluable source of hope,” and now available in a newly revised edition.

Jim shares his story to help others facing their own adversity—medical, personal, or professional—to find the same hope and grit that carried him through. In the revised edition you’ll find out more about his enduring optimism and incredible resilience. What it took to help his wife fight cancer for five years and what he learned from Renee when nothing else could be done to save her life. His story is also the subject of the short film Source of Hope.

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Jim Stavis is a successful entrepreneur and speaker who talks about small business success.He founded and is the CEO of a successful southern California steel business. Paragon Steel has stayed strong, profitable, and nimble through nearly 30 years of economic and industry change.Jim isn’t just a CEO…he’s also a triple transplant recipient, surviving a surgery that is both incredibly rare and risky. Not to mention managing Type 1 diabetes, the transplant wait list, running a successful company, and caring for a family. In Jim’s popular speeches as a Triple Transplant Recipient he teaches the Value of Hope.

Book Jim to speak: jimstavis.com

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Jim Stavis was diagnosed with juvenile type 1 diabetes at age 17 and told to expect a shortened lifespan filled with medical difficulties. Decades later, after congestive heart failure, kidney failure, and complications that nearly took his life, Jim underwent a rare triple organ transplant—heart, kidney, and pancreas—at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, a surgery that had never been performed before or since.

Rather than let his diagnosis define him with fear, Jim used it as fuel, building a successful career as CEO of Paragon Steel while facing down business setbacks, addiction, and the loss of a close friend and business partner along the way. His persistent, no-excuses approach to adversity became the foundation for his memoir, When Hope Is Your Only Option: One Man’s Brave Journey Through Life’s Adversity, praised by Kirkus Reviews as “honest, moving, and an invaluable source of hope,” and now available in a newly revised edition.

Jim shares his story to help others facing their own adversity—medical, personal, or professional—to find the same hope and grit that carried him through. In the revised edition you’ll find out more about his enduring optimism and incredible resilience. What it took to help his wife fight cancer for five years and what he learned from Renee when nothing else could be done to save her life. His story is also the subject of the short film Source of Hope.

Here is a look at our video chat:

BIO:

Jim Stavis is a successful entrepreneur and speaker who talks about small business success.He founded and is the CEO of a successful southern California steel business. Paragon Steel has stayed strong, profitable, and nimble through nearly 30 years of economic and industry change.Jim isn’t just a CEO…he’s also a triple transplant recipient, surviving a surgery that is both incredibly rare and risky. Not to mention managing Type 1 diabetes, the transplant wait list, running a successful company, and caring for a family. In Jim’s popular speeches as a Triple Transplant Recipient he teaches the Value of Hope.

Book Jim to speak: jimstavis.com

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Michael Earls is a technology leader, enterprise strategist, and writer focused on the intersection of leadership, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. In our conversation he brilliantly talks about what happens when speed outpaces direction and what it takes to come back. The Digital Compass isn’t another framework you have to remember or a productivity system. Earls shows us a path to check whether you’re still pointed where you said you want to go.

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The book uses four directions to ask the questions most people never quite ask themselves. North — what actually matters. East — what you’re letting in. South — how you’re spending your time. West — what you’re refusing to engage with. As Earls says the world keeps accelerating. AI. Cloud. Automation. Decision cycles compressing into hours. Notifications competing for attention every minute of every day. The Digital Compass: Finding Direction When Everything Moves Too Fast is a game changer. He has written two other books: Finding Direction in the Age of AI: Finding Clarity, Leadership and Human Connection a World Moving at Machine Speed and Wired for Purpose: A Daily Devotional for IT Professionals.

Bio:

Michael Earls is a technology leader with more than two decades of experience working in enterprise infrastructure, cloud transformation, and emerging technologies, he has helped organizations navigate some of the most significant shifts in modern technology.

Throughout his career, Michael has worked with global enterprises and technology innovators to modernize systems, adopt cloud platforms, and rethink how organizations operate in a rapidly evolving digital world. His work centers on a simple but critical question: how can leaders maintain clarity, direction, and human connection while technology continues to accelerate? To find out more go to www.michaelearls.com 

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Alexandria McCord is a Houston inner city high school history teacher by day, and a justice serving vigilante by night, while on a mission to find the gang who murdered her parents. She’s also a champion of the underprivileged students, using her own system of justice outside the permissible boundaries of the law. While eluding the persistence of a detective, she learns the truth about the man she thought was her father and learns of her real father. All the while, she’s running from a broken heart due to losing the love of her life, Mike Koehl, in a car wreck their senior year at Victoria High School.

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One night while driving to Victoria, she picks up a seemingly wandering toddler on the side of the road dressed only in underwear and a cowboy hat. That experience sends her into another dimension where she’s united with Mike again, and they relive their senior year at Victoria High School on weekends. In the middle, Farley Fontenot, also a teacher, hopelessly falls in love with her. After numerous shootouts with bad guys, she finally confronts the gang leader who murdered her parents. Farley comes to her rescue, only to watch her drive off into the sunset for one last trip to Victoria where she has the decision of her life to make. Alexandria’s constant mentor is Richard, her renowned writer/philosopher and mechanic/car builder.

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Robin is a native Texan who, in 1968, ventured to California with Janel, his wife of 57 plus years, to pursue football and baseball at the University of California at Berkeley. Disenchanted with the tumultuous atmosphere there, he entered California State University at Hayward, earning his BA in political science with a double minor in history and sociology. While in California, he became a competitive bodybuilder under the tutelage of Jack LaLanne and Jack Dellinger (1956 Mr. Universe)In 1973, at the urging of the San Francisco Giants’ personnel director, Carl Hubbell (MLB HOF), and the Oakland A’s owner, Charles Finley, Robin went to spring training with the A’s in Mesa, Arizona, as an invite. As it appeared he was about to sign and become a member of the A’s starting pitching staff, he tore his UCL, ending that dream. There was no Tommy John Surgery back then.

Journalism is in his ancestry, as his great grandfather, Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey was one of the first to settle in Knoxville, Tennessee, just prior to statehood. Dr. Ramsey started several newspapers, wrote political and research papers, and authored a book called Annals Of Tennessee, published in 1853 (still in print). “For two years (’83 & ’84), Robin was the sports editor for the Deer Park Broadcaster and the Progress. It was a rewarding time because I could make heroes of boys and girls in their respective sports. They loved seeing their name in print.” Along with “Midnight Justice” other books include “Misfit Youths Find A Champion”, and “We’ve Been Misled: Eating Healthy Is Simple.” Plus coming out next, a Prequel to “Midnight Justice”. To learn more about Robin go to his website:www.robindobbins.com

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Alexandria McCord is a Houston inner city high school history teacher by day, and a justice serving vigilante by night, while on a mission to find the gang who murdered her parents.She’s also a champion of the underprivileged students, using her own system of justice outside the permissible boundaries of the law. While eluding the persistence of a detective, she learns the truth about the man she thought was her father and learns of her real father.All the while, she’s running from a broken heart due to losing the love of her life, Mike Koehl, in a car wreck their senior year at Victoria High School.

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One night while driving to Victoria, she picks up a seemingly wandering toddler on the side of the road dressed only in underwear and a cowboy hat. That experience sends her into another dimension where she’s united with Mike again, and they relive their senior year at Victoria High School on weekends. In the middle, Farley Fontenot, also a teacher, hopelessly falls in love with her. After numerous shootouts with bad guys, she finally confronts the gang leader who murdered her parents. Farley comes to her rescue, only to watch her drive off into the sunset for one last trip to Victoria where she has the decision of her life to make. Alexandria’s constant mentor is Richard, her renowned writer/philosopher and mechanic/car builder.

Here’s a look at our video chat:

BIO:

Robin is a native Texan who, in 1968, ventured to California with Janel, his wife of 57 plus years, to pursue football and baseball at the University of California at Berkeley. Disenchanted with the tumultuous atmosphere there, he entered California State University at Hayward, earning his BA in political science with a double minor in history and sociology. While in California, he became a competitive bodybuilder under the tutelage of Jack LaLanne and Jack Dellinger (1956 Mr. Universe)In 1973, at the urging of the San Francisco Giants’ personnel director, Carl Hubbell (MLB HOF), and the Oakland A’s owner, Charles Finley, Robin went to spring training with the A’s in Mesa, Arizona, as an invite. As it appeared he was about to sign and become a member of the A’s starting pitching staff, he tore his UCL, ending that dream. There was no Tommy John Surgery back then. 

Journalism is in his ancestry, as his great grandfather, Dr. J. G. M. Ramsey was one of the first to settle in Knoxville, Tennessee, just prior to statehood. Dr. Ramsey started several newspapers, wrote political and research papers, and authored a book called Annals Of Tennessee, published in 1853 (still in print). “For two years (’83 & ’84), Robin was the sports editor for the Deer Park Broadcaster and the Progress. It was a rewarding time because I could make heroes of boys and girls in their respective sports. They loved seeing their name in print.” Along with “Midnight Justice” other books include “Misfit Youths Find A Champion”, and “We’ve Been Misled: Eating Healthy Is Simple.” Plus coming out next, a Prequel to “Midnight Justice”. To learn more about Robin go to his website:www.robindobbins.com

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In today’s fast-paced world, many working parents are trapped in a cycle of exhaustion, juggling jobs and family responsibilities. If you are overwhelmed and desperate for a healthier lifestyle for you and your family, Dr. Theresa Wee offers a lifeline. Her breakthrough book, “The Happy Healthy Revolution: The Working Parents Guide to Achieve Wellness as a Family, “delivers a refreshing, real-world plan for busy families to embrace health together.

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This insightful book is a wellness guide that is making a global impact. It empowers parents with practical tools, encouraging stories, and a proven framework grounded in compassion, not perfection. Dr. Wee, a seasoned pediatrician, mother of four, and nationally respected health advocate, understands modern families’ challenges. In “The Happy Healthy Revolution,” she shares practical solutions she used to raise her family while working full-time without restrictive diets, expensive programs, or guilt.

This is not another trendy wellness book-it is a movement. With decades of clinical wisdom and personal experience, Dr. Wee helps parents shift from burnout to balance and from frustration to family-wide transformation. She also published another book: My COVID-19 Diary: Practical tips and Scripture for Improbable times from an American Doctor

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Dr. Theresa Y. Wee is a Pediatric Health and Wellness expert who has been in private practice at the Wee Wellness Center for 35 years. She is a graduate of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine and completed her Pediatric Internship and Residency at Columbus Children’s Hospital at the Ohio State University. She went on to complete an Ambulatory Fellowship there as well.

Dr. Wee was born and raised in Hawaii and has a strong commitment to improving the health of the people of Hawaii. Her non- profit organization, “Walk with a Doc Oahu”, meets weekly at Central Oahu Regional Park to educate, exercise and encourage people of all ages to take that first step towards better health. She helped to start the monthly “Walk with a Future Doc “at the University of Hawaii Medical School as well as “Dance with a Doc”. She has also been conducting Family Obesity Sessions over the years to help families prevent and address obesity. She is a Board Member of the Hawaii “5210, Let’s Go” program and a member of the Childhood Obesity Committee of the Hawaii Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She also serves as the Pediatric Program director for the Queen’s Akoakoa Physician Organization. She provides monthly television health tips on the “Take 2 Program” as well as numerous radio broadcasts and presentations to educate the public on healthy lifestyles.

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Didi is a typical teenager living in 600 B.C. Jerusalem. Being the youngest of five girls, she lives under the dynamics of the different personalities of her sisters, while dreaming of the man she will someday marry.
Then one day, the sons of an old family friend arrive, and turn her world upside down with an invitation to join their family, in search of a place where they can live their religion in peace. She secretly likes the youngest son, Nephi, but to go with his family means leaving the comforts she and her family enjoy in Jerusalem. Surprisingly, her family chooses to leave the city, and travel into the wilderness in search of a new land and home.

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The family begins to adapt to a nomadic lifestyle, and Didi must discover who she is and what she truly believes in. As the family threatens to break apart, she feels the pressures of trying to survive physically, and understand and support a husband who is eons ahead of her spiritually. Ultimately, she must choose the path her heart and soul will take, knowing her choices will affect her life’s direction and that of her children.

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Dr. Madelyn Palmer, MD is a family medicine physician in Littleton, CO and has over 35 years of experience in the medical field. She graduated from University of Utah School of Medicine in 1990. She has a passion for writing. Dr. Palmer has also written a fairytale series. The books include: Elinore’s Choice, Amber’s Dilemma, Matthew’s Redemption and coming out soon Stephanie’s Unexpected Journeys.

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Brad Anderson has written eleven books including Ribbon Falls.The novel is full of fascinating twists and turns. It all starts on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico in 1977, where Jeff, Chuck and David come across the scene of a grisly murder and almost get killed. In a remarkable twist of fate, the men outsmart their assassin and learn of hidden riches beyond their imagination. One man was in the way of their cashing in, and for decades, what happened in this chance encounter remained a secret as the men waited for Pablo Padilla to die. Finally, an obituary in the New York Times means the mend can claim what has remained buried for twenty-six years. It won’t be easy as an interloper got wind of the cache. Now, it’s a race against time to put the pieces together and determine where the riches are stashed. In the process, these very different men will confront the question of how far they’ll go for money even if it means killing for it.

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We also talk about Brad’s fascinating Guardians series. Peace has existed between humans and vampires for centuries…but everything comes to an end. For hundreds of years, Los Guardianes de la Paz – the Guardians of Peace – have enforced an uneasy truce between humans and vampires. When vampires kill two Mexicans on the Rio Grande, everything changes. The vampires must now find a new place to live – and a reliable, clean food supply. Combining elements of the thriller, mystery, and the occult, Guardians is a fast-paced and thoughtful look at a collision of cultures both human and otherwise.

Lastly, we talk about the Janus Project series. The Feds have a special place for marquee witnesses. It’s not a matter of where; it’s a matter of when…The Janus Project reveals the struggle of survival when the need for revenge pushes us to the brink of disaster. This character-driven novel and series highlights the dichotomy of a man torn between the fictional life that has been implanted in his new reality and the depth of his instincts that drive him within his innermost soul. Which reality will win? It’s a matter of time.

Bio:
Brad Anderson lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. He spends most of his longer vacations hiking and camping in America’s National Parks, including Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Anderson is the author of Ribbon Falls, After the Falls, Guardians,The Janus Project. Anderson says one of the fun aspects of writing is scouting out the settings. He uses real places for his stories

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