There is something special about short stories. Every word matters. For authors, it can be challenging to develop characters in so few words, but for those who get it right, the effect is remarkable.

https://www.jameslambert-author.com/

After 42 years as a successful attorney in the Acadiana area, Jim Lambert has turned his skills toward creating short stories. In his new, critically acclaimed collection of stories, "Sub Rosa and Other Stories" Lambert's stories explore pain and loss in the South. He has created quirky, often marginalized characters who contend with forces beyond their control or understanding — including racial terror, childhood traumas, family betrayals. Lambert's readers meet characters including a childhood friend of Lee Harvey Oswald, a young lawyer sent to investigate the murder of Black troops in the Jim Crow South — and a mental patient obsessed with the film Harold and Maude. In each story, Lambert reveals the humor and tragedy running through the lives of these unique human beings.

Host: author Nola Nash https://nolanash.com

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Jazz may be on every corner of the French Quarter, but Zydeco music is the soundtrack of south Louisiana's swamplands. With deep roots in culture and history, the unique sound endures over generations. In this week's episode, Nola chats with a Grammy Award winning musician who has dedicated his life to the sounds of Zydeco and keeping those old traditions alive.  https://terrancesimmien.com/For 40 years, two- time GRAMMY award winning artist Terrance Simien and 8th generation Louisiana Creole, has been shattering the myths about what his indigenous Zydeco roots music is – and is not. Leading his Zydeco Experience bandmates – long time members Danny Williams, keyboards and Stan Chambers, bass with Lance Ellis, sax; Ian Molinaro – Thompson, drums, and our newest member, Revon Andrews on trombone. Simien has become one of the most respected and accomplished artists in American roots music today. He and his band mates have performed over 9000 concerts, toured millions of miles to over 45 countries during their eventful career.  

Host: author Nola Nash https://nolanash.com  Thanks to Pam Stack - Executive Producer - Authors on the Air Global Radio Network www.authorsontheair.com  Thanks to Roman Sirotin - Video/Audio Producer / Media Coordinator - Authors on the Air Global Radio Network www.romansirotin.com  @Copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network LLC.

It's common knowledge that New Orleans might be one of the most haunted cities in the world, but it's the paranormal investigators that have the inside scoop on all the things that go bump in the night in the Crescent City. Join host Nola Nash as she talks with the New Orleans Ghost Hunters about investigating hauntings and some of the exclusive locations they have had access to.

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Established in the spring of 2010 the New Orleans Ghost Hunters have become New Orleans premier ghost hunting and paranormal research group. They are the only team ever allowed officially into some of New Orleans most historic and haunted locations. Using tried and true methods and equipment their priority is the collection of evidence to not only gather answers for their clients but to further their research into the unknown.

Host: author Nola Nash https://nolanash.com

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An unsolved double murder and the legend of glowing tombstones bring Michigan author Laura Kemp and the New Orleans Ghost Hunters together for a special event on Dead Folks' Tales on the anniversary of the murders.

For more information on the murders, check out this video: https://youtu.be/K0-7b02WKhA

For more on author Laura Kemp: https://laurakempbooks.com/

For more on the New Orleans Ghost Hunters: https://www.neworleansghosthunters.com/index.html

Host: author Nola Nash https://nolanash.com

Thanks to Pam Stack - Executive Producer - Authors on the Air Global Radio Network www.blogtalkradio.com/authorsontheair

Thanks to Roman Sirotin - Video/Audio Producer / Media Coordinator - Authors on the Air Global Radio Network www.romansirotin.com

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The world calls it Katrina. New Orleanians call it The Storm. Whatever it's called, it's a marker in time. With this week's guest author Julie Cantrell, Nola talks about how a storm became a distinguishing feature of using New Orleans as a setting.

https://www.juliecantrell.com/

Julie Cantrell is a multiple award-winning, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author, editor, story coach, TEDx speaker, and ghostwriter. She served as editor-in-chief of the Southern Literary Review and has received the Mississippi Arts Commission Literary Arts Fellowship, the Rivendell Writer’s Colony Mary Elizabeth Nelson Fellowship, and the Pat Conroy Writer’s Residency Fellowship.

Her novels have earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal and have been featured in Top Reads lists by LitHub, Redbook, Southern Living Magazine, REAL SIMPLE, BookBub, HuffPost, USA TODAY, and more. As a novelist, she’s received two Christy Awards, two Carol Awards, and the Mississippi Library Association Fiction Award. She was named a short-list finalist twice for the Mississippi Arts & Letters Fiction Award as well as a two-time short-list finalist for the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize.

In addition to her work with survivors of abuse and her service as a literacy advocate, she’s a member of the Tall Poppy Writers and Her Novel Collective, two organizations that promote the power of story and elevate female voices.

Host: author Nola Nash https://nolanash.com

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There is something about the city of New Orleans that draws the literary creatives. Host Nola Nash and her guest author Grace Sammon will explore New Orleans' authors in residence and the places they loved to stay and call home.

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Grace Sammon is an entrepreneur, educator, speaker, and author. She has started and managed two for-profit and two not-for-profit companies, and she has travelled to 35 states and 8 foreign countries. Recognized in Who’s Who in Education and Who’s Who in Literature, Grace is utilizing skills built up over decades as she re-invents herself with her award-winning fourth book and debut novel - The Eves - and, with a return to one of her early loves, radio. The Eves is an award-winning, intergenerational story about lives lived well and lives in transition. It is a novel that challenges each of us to ask who we want to be in the world, regardless of our age. Grace brings that quest for a good story, and a drive to keep contributing, to her new radio show, The Storytellers. Each episode captures the stories of authors and others who leave their mark on the world through the art of story.

Grace is a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers’ Association (WFWA), is an administrator on “Bookish Road Trip” and a contributing moderator of “The Write Review.” Grace grew up on Long Island, New York and spent most of her life in the Washington, DC area. She currently lives on Florida’s west coast with her husband and a small herd of imaginary llamas.

Host: author Nola Nash https://nolanash.com

Thanks to Pam Stack - Executive Producer - Authors on the Air Global Radio Network www.blogtalkradio.com/authorsontheair

Thanks to Roman Sirotin - Video/Audio Producer / Media Coordinator - Authors on the Air Global Radio Network www.romansirotin.com

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The devil went down to...New Orleans? That may not be how the song goes, but that's how the legend goes! Come find out how the devil himself landed in a love triangle in the Garden District on this episode of Dead Folks' Tales with host Nola Nash.

Host: author Nola Nash https://nolanash.com

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Cities of the Dead

Come with Nola and author Laura Kemp on an exploration of the mysteries of New Orleans' unique cemeteries. They are creepy enough by themselves, but throw in a ghost story or two and you have one spooky show!

Host: author Nola Nash https://nolanash.com

Thanks to Pam Stack - Executive Producer - Authors on the Air Global Radio Network www.blogtalkradio.com/authorsontheair

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What happens when you meet Brooklyn's voodoo queen in New Orleans? Author Mandy Haynes will answer that question as we explore New Orleans voodoo traditions.

*Correction to the information in the show: according to online sources, Mama Lola is still alive and kickin'! We wish her many more years of health and happiness! Like Mark Twain, Mama Lola can say "The rumors of my death have been largely exaggerated."

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Mandy Haynes has spent hours on barstools, at backstage venues, and riding in vans listening to tales from some of the best songwriters and storytellers in Nashville, Tennessee. She now lives in Fernandina Beach, Florida with her three dogs, a turtle, and a grateful liver. Walking the Wrong Way Home was a finalist for the 2017 Tartt Fiction Award and chosen as a bonus book for The 2019 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading List. Sharp as a Serpent's Tooth Eva and Other Stories was chosen as a bonus book for The 2020 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Reading List.

Mandy worked for twenty-six years for Vanderbilt University Medical Center before deciding to run away to Amelia Island. She started as a clerk, working in the mailroom and making thousand of copies of patients medical records - but worked her way up to finish the last sixteen years as a pediatric cardiac sonographer at Monroe Carroll Jr. Children's Hospital.

Some of her favorite memories include her time as a receptionist/administrative assistant in Addiction Psychiatry, break-room antics with her fellow refund clerks, and of course all of the families and children she met in cardiology.

Fans of Fannie Flagg, Flannery O'Conner, Wiley Cash, Rick Bragg, Harper Lee, and Harry Crews might enjoy her writing style. These stories are for readers who like to chase their stories with a shot of whiskey while burrowed under a hand stitched quilt.

Host: author Nola Nash https://nolanash.com

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