Off The Chain

Kim resides in the Pacific Northwest in Spokane Washington. He has been married to his wife for thirty-five years, and they have a son who is currently attending Gonzaga University.Kim has been a Real Estate Appraiser for 40+ years. He and his wife have operated their company together for over the past three decades. They have been blessed with great success and feel very fortunate, as this life was, in Kim’s words, “gifted to him by angels on earth.”

Many of you in our listening audience fight an on going battle with weight gain / weight loss.  Our guest today is Annette Love-Hatton who has fought this battle of the bulge all her life.  She knows the yo-yo pain of losing weight only gain it back and more.  By the time she was in her early sixties she topped the scales at just under seven hundred pounds.  Now at age seventy so far Annette has lost three hundred pounds.    She has authored several books: A Sneaky Cook’s Cookbook, The M & M Diet, Fasts for Change, T-Grid to Success and  FacErcise, Breath-O-Metrics.  They are currently out of print and have been for decades, but I retained the original manuscripts and plan to use the information for the group.  .

Taylor Dawn began writing as an item to check off her bucket list. She resides in the southernmost part of Illinois, right on the mighty Mississippi river. She enjoys the quiet country life with her husband, son and the many farm animals that make up the rest of the family. Deciding that farm life was just a little too mundane, Taylor began writing romance and fantasy to liven things up, so far so good. Before starting her writing career, Taylor entered the field of cosmetology. When she isn't writing, she can usually be found sitting around a table making people laugh. She has always wanted to be a standup comic. She loves pulling practical jokes, dresses up in a costume every Halloween and believes that dancing is the key to a happy life (even if you aren't a good dancer). She believes that life shouldn't be taken too seriously, we will never get out alive anyway. More than anything, she is a kid at heart, she doesn't believe in bedtimes, eating everything on her plate, or having ice cream only for dessert. Her favorite quote is by Dr. Seuss..."Why fit in, when you were born to stand out."

I was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. After raising my children I moved to Phoenix, Arizona where I spread my wings writing and learning the ins and out of the computer industry.   I participated in my first NaNoWriMo in 2009, where I wrote the first draft of my book The Path of the Child. After finding an editor I published and began the healing process from a long illness.    While I was recovering I was unable to read books which I had aways enjoyed and I was unable to write.  After five long years, I finally picked up a book my sister gave me and read it in one sitting. Which happened to be on the airplane flying home.   Once I read that one book, I was hooked once again. I began to devour books and after about six months I wrote my first pitiful review. I was once again enjoying writing so I began to focus on writing the reviews and sharing them on a blog that had sat unused for five years.     Now I enjoy blogging, reading, and writing reviews daily. I am also working on my third book while my second is being edited. Books are my passion along with my family and my Australian Shepherd, Beau.

Robert was born November 3, 1977, and has been a hell raiser (sans the chains and leather…at least for now) ever since After being dragged into “the writing thing” practically kicking and screaming by Hydra, he became a regular contributor to Infernal Ink Magazine, with sporadic appearances elsewhere.  He currently resides in Thibodaux, Louisiana, and can be found on Facebook When he’s not writing, or planning world domination, he hosts Metal Invaders  on Radio Free Satan, which is really a showcase for his passion for metal music.  He’s also a Church Of Satan Member.   Included is the image for the podcast and a few pertinent links http://www.radiofreesatan.com/author/hellonwheels/

Don McCauley/ Dee McCullay is a Canadian born film maker. While contemplating between funeral director and film production, he went to one of the film festivals in 2010, and after leaving the festival he decided on film production. He self taught techniques and editing, and began creating short films, while landing a part in Rodney Dwira's 10-57 (2010) as a SWAT team member. He then landed a part in Trevor Zurkan's Quiver (2010) - Uncredited Police Officer. Next he produced Thunder Bay Paranormal Society episodes 1 - 3 for SHAW TV (2011 - 2012.) Upon finishing the 3 episodes, he created Dark History (2012 to present) a paranormal series and has traveled into the US and has worked with a well known TV personality. He has also contributed VFX to Grant Johnson's Stick to Your Guns (2015.) He continues on in the paranormal field shooting Dark History episodes with his production company Thunderstryker Films. Current productions include Fallacious and Border Patrol.

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy delves deep into the human experience as she writes from the heart about everyday people caught up in often extraordinary circumstances. Although she makes her home in the small town of Neosho, Missouri in the Ozarks, she's a native of St. Joseph, Missouri. When she's not writing or reading, she may be found in the classroom as a substitute teacher. She's penned more than 20 full length novels, a number of novellas, has been included in two dozen anthologies, and published many short stories and articles. She writes a weekly column for the Neosho Daily News. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, Missouri Writers Guild and the Ozark Writers League. Her novels and short fiction have won awards. Her publishers include World Castle Publishing, Evernight Publishing, CleanReads.com and Champagne Books. She is married with three children, two in college, one in high school. She enjoys cooking, gardening, and sitting on the front porch in what passes for suburbs in a small town.

Gary Starta is a former journalist who studied English and Journalism at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His love for science fiction compelled him to write his first novel What Are You Made Of? published in 2006. Inspired by Isaac Asimov, the science fiction novel focuses on intelligent artificial life and whether sentient androids should possess the same rights as humans. The androids in Starta's novel are created as hybrids - part machine, part human - further blurring the line between human and machine. Starta foresees a near future where humans will be forced to decide if intelligent machinery is indeed a life form. Possibly, in this near future, some humans will possess computer enhancements to overcome disabilities becoming hybrids themselves. The line between biological life form and mechanical life form continues to be examined in 2010's Gods of the Machines. 9 Incarnate, along with its preceding Caitlin Diggs (series) novels, Demon Inhibitions, Extreme Liquidation and Blood Web are reminiscent of the The X-files television/movie series. Contemporary authors Laurell K. Hamilton, Rachel Caine, Jim Butcher and Kelly Armstrong also fuel his aspiration to create paranormal suspense. Watch for Diggs and Shay books soon. https://www.amazon.com/Bought-Sun-Dollar-Gary-Starta-ebook/dp/B01N9USYI6/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

I was born into an impoverished family in West Virginia. My alcoholic and occasionally abusive father suffered from PTSD. He had been captured by the Nazis during WWII and had night terrors. My mother did the best she could, but I had to begin working as a child to feed my family. I started paying into the U. S. Social Security fund at age twelve, dreamed of a brighter future for my family, and have continued work for the next fifty-two years. In the 8th grade, I won the school’s short story contest. “God Sent” was about a semi truck driver so consumed with theological debate that he caused a terrible accident. As it often does, however, life got in the way my dream of becoming a rich and famous author. I worked and went to school, never finishing any more stories that I’d started, mostly because I was just too exhausted. I started college in 1969, and except for a poem published in the state’s student anthology and another poem published in a local alternative newspaper, my creative juices were spent writing handouts for civil rights and anti-war activities, and on class assignments. I graduated in 1973 with a degree in social work. Afterward, I worked in the field of adolescent substance abuse treatment as I attended graduate school. My creative writing was still on hold — suppressed / repressed. After earning an MSW in 1977, I focused on children’s advocacy for the next forty years. My heartfelt need to write fiction was dissipated somewhat by the publication of social service models, grants, research, investigative and statistical reports about children’s programs, child abuse, and delinquency.

Jennifer Dawn owner of Forbidden Tears Produtions will discuss her films, radio show and publishing house.Forbidden Tear's Radio and Productions is located in Waldron, AR. we are moving forward each day! We air our radio station world wide on the internet airwaves, and look forward to playing all artists who wish us to do so. I am an aspiring author with two books written and currently working with a literary agent...great future lies ahead! We film and produce feature film documentaries and have made 'Final Submission' status in the Columbia Gorge International Film Fest 2013, "God Bless America Again," and are currently in production of another for AFI Film Fest 2013, "In God We Trust." Live, Love, Journey, Experience...Life is Happening, Let's Live it!! What began as a simple film and nine countries has turned into a trilogy of films and 44 countries!