Tonight we celebrate one of our own with an incredible first-novel rollout! Velvet Heaven is the first in a triology of novels written by Soroya Biela, our guest tonight. Sorora is 40, born and raised in Warren, Michigan. She graduated from Wayne State University in 2012 with a BA in English.

Tonight’s show will try to sidestep politics a bit and instead concentrate on the joy of writing, especially sexy-vampire-novel-writing.

From Soroya’s blog: “My classes at Wayne State were heavily concentrated in creative writing, including several graduate level courses which I completed as an undergrad. I have participated in dozens of fiction writing workshops, and have even completed a play, entitled Apple Pie, which is set in the 1950s and deals with the intriguing subject of the secret lives of lesbian housewives.”

Tonight we celebrate one of our own with an incredible first-novel rollout! Velvet Heaven is the first in a triology of novels written by Soroya Biela, our guest tonight. Sorora is 40, born and raised in Warren, Michigan. She graduated from Wayne State University in 2012 with a BA in English.

Tonight’s show will try to sidestep politics a bit and instead concentrate on the joy of writing, especially sexy-vampire-novel-writing.

From Soroya’s blog: “My classes at Wayne State were heavily concentrated in creative writing, including several graduate level courses which I completed as an undergrad. I have participated in dozens of fiction writing workshops, and have even completed a play, entitled Apple Pie, which is set in the 1950s and deals with the intriguing subject of the secret lives of lesbian housewives.”

Where are your roots? Have you ever been transplanted? Or come home to your birth soil, which seems familiar and therefore after.

Tonight we will be talking to a fabulous, interesting guy who has a second career as a shaman, a true Plant Whisperer, and a really funny, real-life true hippy: Aldous Burbank.

Website: http://applied-ethnobotany.blogspot.com/

Where are your roots? Have you ever been transplanted? Or come home to your birth soil, which seems familiar and therefore after.

Tonight we will be talking to a fabulous, interesting guy who has a second career as a shaman, a true Plant Whisperer, and a really funny, real-life true hippy: Aldous Burbank.

Website: http://applied-ethnobotany.blogspot.com/

Tonight we welcome Frances Hill to the show, and we will be talking about her research into the Salem Witch Trials, which she has covered in both fiction and nonfiction.

Frances Hill was born in London in 1943 and went to Keele University, Staffordshire, where she obtained a BA Honours degree in English Literature and Philosophy. After travelling in Europe and the U.S. she worked as assistant to the blind journalist T.E.Utley, a leader writer and later deputy editor on The Daily Telegraph, in London’s Fleet Street. She then worked for the London Times Educational Supplement, writing about education and social work issues and in 1973 moved to New York to work for the TES as American correspondent. On returning to the UK, she became a free lance journalist while working on her first novel, Out of Bounds. For many years she was the radio critic for the TES as well as a fiction reviewer and obituary writer for The Times and feature writer for many other publications including The Times Higher Education Supplement, The Guardian and The Spectator. Out of Bounds was published by John Murray in 1985 and followed by a second novel, A Fatal Delusion (John Murray), in 1989. In 1992 she began work on her acclaimed account of the Salem witch trials, A Delusion of Satan, which was published by Doubleday in New York in 1995 and Hamish Hamilton in London in 1996. The paperback was published in England by Penguin in 1996 and in the US by da Capo in 1997. A new edition with a new preface appeared in 2002. Her second book on the Salem witch trials, The Salem Witch Trials Reader, was published by da Capo in 2000 and her third book on the same subject, Hunting for Witches, A Visitor’s Guide to the Salem Witch Trials, was published by Commonwealth Editions in 2002. Such Men Are Dangerous, The Fanatics of 1692 and 2004 was published by Upper Access in March 2004. Her most recent book, Deliverance from Evil, a novel about the Salem Witch Trials, is published by Overlook Press in the US and Duckworth in the UK. Frances Hill lives in London but visits the U.S. regularly, spending every summer in Connecticut.

Tonight we welcome Frances Hill to the show, and we will be talking about her research into the Salem Witch Trials, which she has covered in both fiction and nonfiction.

Frances Hill was born in London in 1943 and went to Keele University, Staffordshire, where she obtained a BA Honours degree in English Literature and Philosophy. After travelling in Europe and the U.S. she worked as assistant to the blind journalist T.E.Utley, a leader writer and later deputy editor on The Daily Telegraph, in London’s Fleet Street. She then worked for the London Times Educational Supplement, writing about education and social work issues and in 1973 moved to New York to work for the TES as American correspondent. On returning to the UK, she became a free lance journalist while working on her first novel, Out of Bounds. For many years she was the radio critic for the TES as well as a fiction reviewer and obituary writer for The Times and feature writer for many other publications including The Times Higher Education Supplement, The Guardian and The Spectator. Out of Bounds was published by John Murray in 1985 and followed by a second novel, A Fatal Delusion (John Murray), in 1989. In 1992 she began work on her acclaimed account of the Salem witch trials, A Delusion of Satan, which was published by Doubleday in New York in 1995 and Hamish Hamilton in London in 1996. The paperback was published in England by Penguin in 1996 and in the US by da Capo in 1997. A new edition with a new preface appeared in 2002. Her second book on the Salem witch trials, The Salem Witch Trials Reader, was published by da Capo in 2000 and her third book on the same subject, Hunting for Witches, A Visitor’s Guide to the Salem Witch Trials, was published by Commonwealth Editions in 2002. Such Men Are Dangerous, The Fanatics of 1692 and 2004 was published by Upper Access in March 2004. Her most recent book, Deliverance from Evil, a novel about the Salem Witch Trials, is published by Overlook Press in the US and Duckworth in the UK. Frances Hill lives in London but visits the U.S. regularly, spending every summer in Connecticut.

John Alexander with Shaman Don Luis at the headwaters of the Amazon, Ecuador, 2009.

Tonight we will be talking to the amazing world-traveling John Alexander. The topic will be John’s recent Huffington Post article about the Orlando shootings and its potential origins and implications.

John is the man to ask about some of the vexing problems facing our world today. Although his name is synonymous with the concept of non-lethal weapons, he has nonetheless also become a student of even less lethal, but perhaps more effective, weaponry.

John Alexander with Shaman Don Luis at the headwaters of the Amazon, Ecuador, 2009.

Tonight we will be talking to the amazing world-traveling John Alexander. The topic will be John’s recent Huffington Post article about the Orlando shootings and its potential origins and implications.

John is the man to ask about some of the vexing problems facing our world today. Although his name is synonymous with the concept of non-lethal weapons, he has nonetheless also become a student of even less lethal, but perhaps more effective, weaponry.

Tonight we are thrilled to welcome Richard Smith back to the show – here is Richard’s earlier appearance on the show. We will be talking about his book The Moor, The Mason and the Alien.

The result of twenty years of paranormal experience, psychological analysis, and metaphysical study of earth’s solar system and cosmology, The Moor, The Mason and the Alien provides a unique, unvarnished, and revolutionary perspective on humanity’s origins that is introspective, ethereal, apocalyptic, and otherworldly all at the same time.

Richard is an experiencer, author, international speaker, and radio host on the topic of UFOs, the Moorish Legacy, and related matters.

He was born in Tampa, Florida, in 1970. He grew up in Farmingdale, New York, playing baseball, soccer and the piano while studying art, math, science fiction and the cosmos. He earned an Associate’s degree in Advertising Art and Design and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts and Communication at New York State University.

He also received the Certificate of Achievement Award, honored for Outstanding Achievement, at New York State University for his dedicated work with Extraterrestrial Intervention and Alien Abduction Phenomena. He is an alumnus of both Farmingdale and Old Westbury colleges. Since publishing his experiences on the subject of alien contact in 1999, Richard has traveled throughout the U.S. speaking to audiences.

Tonight we are thrilled to welcome Richard Smith back to the show – here is Richard’s earlier appearance on the show. We will be talking about his book The Moor, The Mason and the Alien.

The result of twenty years of paranormal experience, psychological analysis, and metaphysical study of earth’s solar system and cosmology, The Moor, The Mason and the Alien provides a unique, unvarnished, and revolutionary perspective on humanity’s origins that is introspective, ethereal, apocalyptic, and otherworldly all at the same time.

Richard is an experiencer, author, international speaker, and radio host on the topic of UFOs, the Moorish Legacy, and related matters.

He was born in Tampa, Florida, in 1970. He grew up in Farmingdale, New York, playing baseball, soccer and the piano while studying art, math, science fiction and the cosmos. He earned an Associate’s degree in Advertising Art and Design and a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts and Communication at New York State University.

He also received the Certificate of Achievement Award, honored for Outstanding Achievement, at New York State University for his dedicated work with Extraterrestrial Intervention and Alien Abduction Phenomena. He is an alumnus of both Farmingdale and Old Westbury colleges. Since publishing his experiences on the subject of alien contact in 1999, Richard has traveled throughout the U.S. speaking to audiences.