Florida Writer Podcast

What is ChatGPT? How is Artificial Intelligence changing the way authors approach writing? Are you curious about how AI works or how it might affect the writing world? In this Florida Writer Podcast, host Alison Nissen chats with Florida Writers Association Marketing chair and Board Member Ginnye Cubel about how technology impacts writing and the business of writing.

Ginnye Lynn Cubel is a writer, marketer and coffee enthusiast located in Orlando, Florida.

She has a BA in Creative Writing from Butler University and over eight years of corporate and small business marketing experience with a focus on content, product, and email strategy. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Directors for the Florida Writers Association and is the Marketing Chair.

Master flash fiction to add another layer to your novel writing. Florida Writer Podcast guest Tara Masih and host Alison Nissen talk about how flash fiction requires authors to choose their words wisely, ultimately helping you get the scenes right.

Tara Lynn Masih is a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award for Young Readers for her debut historical novel My Real Name Is Hanna. She received a finalist fiction grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, an Inspirational Woman in Literature Award, and several national book awards including an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award. How We Disappear: Novella & Stories, her latest collection, was a MILLIONS Most Anticipated Book for 2022 and called "exceptional" by Southern Literary Review.

Paranormal researcher and investigator John Russell talks with host Alison Nissen about his foray into nonfiction writing and how we can all use our muse to keep our (nonfiction) writing entertaining.

John Russell is a Psychic/Psychic Reader, a Medium, a Certified T.A.R.O.T. Master, a Paranormal Investigator, and now a published Author. Internationally known, he has provided psychic readings for clients in over 40 countries.

For over 15 years, he has been a popular featured guest, heard worldwide, on many radio shows and podcasts, including Coast to Coast AM with George Noory; The Unexplained with Howard Hughes (UK); Beyond Reality with JV Johnson; The Leak Project with Rex Bear; FATE Magazine Radio with Kat Hobson; Beyond the Darkness with David Schrader of TV's The Holzer Files; The Singularity Lab with Michael Mataluni; and many more.

In September of 2020 John released his first book, "Riding with Ghosts, Angels, and the Spirits of the Dead," which has become an award-winning multicategory best seller, winning a Silver Award from the Non-Fiction Authors Association as well as a Bronze Medal from the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Contest.

In February of 2021, John released his second book, "A Knock in the Attic," which has also become an award-winning multicategory best seller, winning a Gold Award from the Non-Fiction Authors Association.

Host Alison Nissen had the opportunity to ask, what's a Florida Western to 6x author Lee Gramling. When she thinks of Westerns, she thinks cowboys in hats, barfights, and cacti come to mind. The Florida Western has all that, but it's set in sunny Florida!

Lee Gramling is a sixth-generation Floridian who grew up hearing tales of the Florida frontier from his parents and grandparents. While living in Oklahoma, he was introduced to the novels of Louis L'Amour and realized that old Florida had all the same elements featured in "Western" action-adventure stories: cattle drives, Indian wars, outlaws, boom towns, saloon shoot-outs, and rugged individualists who knew how to survive in an untamed frontier. But so far, few writers have taken advantage of this rich environment. He decided it was high time somebody took up the slack.

​"Cracker Westerns" are filled with authentic historical detail, real bad guys, upright good guys, and women who are just as strong and self-reliant as their men. But all the action takes place in early Florida, which was six-gun cattle country even wilder than the west!

Keeping track of plotlines, timelines, characters, and the thousand other things authors balance while writing a manuscript does need to be chaiotic. It needs a system. In this Florida Writer Podcast, host Alison Nissen chats with Mark Shaiken about how he syncs his ideas morning, noon, and night (including 2:00AM!).

Mark Shaiken retired from his law practice in 2019 and authored: "And . . .Just Like That: Essays on a life before during and after the law" - a poignant and funny memoir of a not-famous lawyer tracing his unlikely path into and out of the profession to begin his "afterlife." He then created his legal thriller series, each book steeped with history and music, and starring his star lawyer, Josephina Jillian Jones (3J) and her mentor, William Pascale. He just released his latest in the series, Unfair Discrimination.

Florida Writer Podcast host Alison Nissen chats with historical mystery author DL Havlin about how he leads his audience on a journey with breadcrumbs to create his plot--beginning with the ending and working backward.

DL Havlin is an unretired businessman who has traveled a large portion of the world, having visited over 100 countries. In his travels, he has discovered that humans have very similar appearances, but their cultures make them as distinct as visitors from another planet.

He's been writing for 30+ years. DL writes historical, literary, women's mainstream, and suspense/mystery novels. He has ten books published. The latest is "The Grave With Greener Grass", following "Turtle Point" and "Out Of Italy", the Iron Lady mystery/suspense series.

Former marketer turned memoirist Julie Ryan McGue suggests fine-tuning your marketing plan with curiosity, book club connections, and immersing yourself with your niche audience on this Florida Writer Podcast with host Alison Nissen.

JULIE RYAN Mc GUE is an American writer. Her award-winning memoir, Twice a Daughter: A Search for Identity, Family, and Belonging released in May 2021. It is about the five-year search that she and her twin sister undertook to find their birth relatives. On her weekly blog, "That Girl This Life," Julie writes about finding out who you are, where you come from, and making sense of it. Her work has appeared in the Story Circle Network Journal, Brevity, Imprint, Adoption.com, Lifetime Adoption, Adoption & Beyond, and Severance Magazine. Personal essays appear in several anthologies: REAL WOMEN WRITE: Seeing Through Her Eyes, and Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis.

Julie holds a B.A. in Psychology from Indiana University, and a M. M. in Marketing from the Kellogg Graduate School of Business, Northwestern University. She splits her time between NW Indiana and Sarasota, Florida. Julie is currently working on a second memoir and a collection of personal essays. She serves on the Board of Directors for The Center for American Family Building.

In this Florida Writer Podcast, host Alison Nissen chats with forensic psychologist Phyllis Kuehnl-Walters, PhD who uses her vast knowledge of the courtroom to explore difficult characters in her true crime series about People Who Kill. Phyllis. Once a Christian devotional author, Phyllis switched genres as the result of a case she was on as an expert witness; a story she has since wanted to tell. The names, places, and events are disguised. The Christmas Slayings, published December 7, 2019, is the story of a small gang and their victims. The gang terrorized a mid-size, Ohio town the week before Christmas 1992.

She has since published two more true crime novels: Wives Who Kill and Husbands Who Kill. Kids Who Kill will be published shortly.

In this Florida Writer Podcast, host Alison Nissen chats with Armand Rosamilia about shifting his dead-end job to a dream job out of necessity. The pulp fiction author broke free from genre labels and followed his heart as a full-time author. He’s now free to focus on writing good stories with good characters immersed in interesting plotlines that engage the audience. Many of his stories begin on the gaming platform Twitch. Don't know about Twitch? Listen to learn more.

Armand Rosamilia is a New Jersey boy currently living in sunny Florida, where he writes when he’s not sleeping. He’s happily married to a woman who helps his career and is supportive, which is all he ever wanted in life…

He’s written over 200 stories that are currently available, including crime thrillers, supernatural thrillers, horror, zombies, contemporary fiction, nonfiction and more. His goal is to write a good story and not worry about genre labels.

He is also a successful podcaster, too!

The Mando Method Podcast with co-host Chuck Buda – talking about writing and publishing He also loves to talk in third person… because he’s really that cool.

You can find him at armandrosamilia.com for all of his information as well as random things he enjoys.

In this Florida Writer Podcast, host Alison Nissen chats with Armand Rosamilia about shifting his dead-end job to a dream job out of necessity. The pulp fiction author broke free from genre labels and followed his heart as a full-time author. He's now free to focus on writing good stories with good characters immersed in interesting plotlines that engage the audience. Many of his stories begin on the gaming platform Twitch. Don't know about Twitch? Listen to learn more.

Armand Rosamilia is a New Jersey boy currently living in sunny Florida, where he writes when he's not sleeping. He's happily married to a woman who helps his career and is supportive, which is all he ever wanted in life…

He's written over 200 stories that are currently available, including crime thrillers, supernatural thrillers, horror, zombies, contemporary fiction, nonfiction and more. His goal is to write a good story and not worry about genre labels.

He is also a successful podcaster, too!

The Mando Method Podcast with co-host Chuck Buda – talking about writing and publishing He also loves to talk in third person… because he's really that cool.

You can find him at armandrosamilia.com for all of his information as well as random things he enjoys.