Join Angela Lauria of the Author Incubator as she interviews author, coach and editor Lori Anne Rising about the publishing of her book, Who Am I? How to Discover Your Purpose and Live Your Passion. Lori Anne wrote the book intending for it to walk its readers through the process of discovering what it is they are passionate about, something that Lori Anne noticed several of the people she came across often wanted to do. Read more and get the transcript here: Lori Anne Rising on the Author Incubator.

Join Angela Lauria of the Author Incubator as she interviews chef Nancy Olah, author of Fool a Carnivore: Meaty Main Dishes ... Minus the Meat. Nancy has been cooking since the age of eight and has been a vegetarian since 1974, and the book is a cookbook that enables meat lovers to enjoy meatless meals that still appeal to carnivorous tastes, as the dishes within use meat analogues to recreate the kind of classic dishes that meat lovers enjoy. Read more and get the transcript here: Nancy Olah on the Author Incubator.

Join Angela Lauria of the Author Incubator as she interviews Syd Hoffman, author of All-Day Energy: 100 Ways to Boost Your Energy…Now! As an elementary school principal, a position she held for ten years, Syd was able to match the energy of her young charges, keeping up with these as they zipped around the school – something that her staff didn’t have; and when some members of her staff, as well as some parents, began asking Syd how she was able to maintain so high a level of energy, she decided to put a book together, as the “secrets” to her energy level weren’t secrets to her, but part of her repertoire to stay healthy.  Read more and get the transcript here: Syd Hoffman on the Author Incubator.

Join Angela Lauria of the Author Incubator as she interviews author, educator and director of R.E.A.L. Health, LLC's Mary Ellen Ciganovich about the publishing of her book, Healing Words: Life Lessons to Inspire.  The inspiration to write her book stemmed from an argument she had with her then-newly married husband in 1999. She had already been teaching people the ways that were in the book she would write, and rather than get into a prolonged argument with him she took out a pad of legal-sized paper and started a burst of writing that resulted in the book. Read more and get the transcript here: Mary Ellen Ciganovich on the Author Incubator.

Join Angela Lauria of the Author Incubator as she interviews inspirational speaker and authorJudith Pepper about the publishing of her book, The Age of Sage, Extraordinary Advice for Extraordinary Women.  The book is the culmination of her experiences in her own life and the idea to write it came to her while she was on vacation and realized that, thanks to the many experiences in her life, she had become a sage Read more and get the transcript here: Judith Pepper on the Author Incubator.

Join Angela Lauria of the Author Incubator as she interviews Author and Founder of Bachelorista,Monica Bossinger about the publishing of her book, The Life & Luck of a Bachelorista: A Valentine To Single Women. The book is intended to be an engaging, entertaining one, celebrating bacheloristas, who are defined as savvy, unmarried women who areradiating gratitude for their lives. Monica, a professional copywriter and editor, spent seven years writing out a book that explored a culture that she felt was stigmatized by mainstream culture, which emphasizes marriage, that of women who choose to remain single. Read more and get the transcript here: Monica Bossinger on the Author Incubator.

Join Angela Lauria of The Author Incubator as she interviews Author/ Writer Carrie Knowles about the publishing of her book, A Family Story of Alzheimer's: The Last Childhood. The book came out of her family’s experience with Alzheimer’s, when she, her two brothers and sister cared for their grandmother, who had the disease. The journey wasn’t easy, particularly as, at the time, Alzheimer’s wasn’t fully understood by either the public or the medical establishment, and neither was the impact on the family of those who suffered the disease. Read more and get the transcript here: Carrie Knowles on the Author Incubator.

Join Angela Lauria of The Author Incubator as she interviews Inspirational Speaker and AuthorMaxine Browne about the publishing of her book, Years of Tears. The book was inspired by Maxine’s ten-year experience with a psychologically, verbally and emotionally abusive husband, and at the end of those ten years Maxine was so thoroughly cowed, depressed and suicidal that she could not protect her children, particularly after her husband began physically abusing one of her own daughters. Maxine later involved herself in a survivors’ task force of domestic violence, and she wrote the book to share her experience so that others would see the red flags in the relationship that she had failed to see. Read more and get the transcript here: Maxine Browne on the Author Incubator.

Join Angela Lauria of The Author Incubator as she interviews registered nurse, holistic health coach and author Paula Youmell, RN, MS, CHC about the publishing of her book, Hands On Health: Take Your Vibrant, Whole Health Back Into Your Healing Hands. Paula’s interest in holistic health was awakened when, on her first day on the job as a nursing student, she was put in charge of a male patient who already had at least two heart attacks and who still smoked and ate the unhealthy food served by the hospital. In the years following, that experience she trained to receive certification in such alternative fields as herbal medicine, reiki, yoga and integrative nutrition, and gained some clients interested in alternative healing for such ailments as cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and the like, and her subsequent experience enabled her to write her book. Read more and get the transcript here: Paula Youmell on the Author Incubator.

Join Angela Lauria of the Author Incubator as she interviews Cynthia MacGregor, author of Predator Proof Your Child: What You Need to Know to Protect Your Child. Cynthia wanted to collaborate with the publishing house Familius, which focuses on family-oriented topics, and her own experiences with sexual abuse (Cynthia grew up in a good middle-class environment, and had a grandfather, who was a business owner, who was overly physically familiar with her) gave her the idea to write her book. Read more and get the transcript here: Cynthia MacGregor on the Author Incubator.