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Speaking of Writers
Welcome to Speaking of Writers. Veteran broadcaster Steve Richards interviews local, regional and best selling authors. For more info email steve @ sval622@sbcglobal.net. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/speakingofwriters/subscribe Cover art photo provided by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@thepootphotographer
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Speaking of WritersPeggy Bland- Beauty Is a Beast
I wrote this book to help other pretty and beautiful women to wake to being lied to, abused, and manipulated by men to get them to marry them. Your life is…
Speaking of WritersBattle Cry: Decent Into War by Yamikani Kafungu
Theo a 12 year old boy born to the greatest military mind in French history Matheo LA Laurent was traumatized by the death of his father during an…
Speaking of WritersJ.J. McAvoy- Hathor and The Prince
Hathor Du Bell has always fought to break free from the shadow left by her revered older sister, Aphrodite. It has been two years since Hathor’s debut, and…
Speaking of WritersBarbara J Meredith-Daisy and Friends What Happened to Yesterday
YESTERDAY we could go to our classrooms in school and our parents went to work every day. TODAY some of our parents stay home from work and we are home…
Speaking of WritersC.J. Box - Three-Inch Teeth
#1 New York Times award-winning author C.J. Box (an expert on all things Wyoming and the West) and his next Joe Pickett novel (#24 in the series). In this…
Speaking of WritersNick Petrie-The Price You Pay
The work of acclaimed and award-winning author Nick Petrie continues to gain esteem. In his 2016 debut, The Drifter, Petrie introduced Peter Ash, a war veteran…
Speaking of WritersSherri L. Smith and Elizabeth Wein-AMERICAN WINGS
Sherri L. Smith, author of the critically acclaimed story Flygirl, and Elizabeth Wein, author of the award-winning book Code Name Verity, join forces in…
Speaking of WritersKimberleigh Patterson-Random Poems 4 Random Times
This book is designed to help readers feel connected to a deeper source of light, knowledge, and peace. It gives readers a chance to feel, think, and ponder…
Speaking of WritersPaal Piir- Sprinkle: Celebrate, Meditate, and Understand Our Drinkle
Sprinkle is a poem of poems, just like how a sprinkle is full of unique sprinkles. Here are new discoveries about what is Existence and Spirit and Awareness…
Speaking of WritersJack Kelly- God Save Benedict Arnold
From military heroism to infamy, Benedict Arnold’s name is one that has become synonymous with treasonous behavior since the beginnings of America. GOD SAVE…
Speaking of WritersBarbara J. Meredith-Daisy and Friends What Happened to Yesterday: A Covid-19 Story
"YESTERDAY we could go to our classrooms in school and our parents went to work every day. TODAY some of our parents stay home from work and we are home…
Speaking of WritersBrad Taylor-Dead Man's Hand
New York Times bestselling author and former special forces officer Brad Taylor is back with a propulsive and topical edge-of-your-seat thriller featuring Pike…
Speaking of WritersJessie Asya Kanzer -Unlocking Your Inner Zelensky
Award-winning author Jessie Kanzer's UNLOCKING YOUR INNER ZELENSKY: Lessons We Can All Learn from an Unexpected Leader , draws on Volodymyr Zelensky's words…
Speaking of WritersDeborah Goodrich Royce- Reef Road
The hugely successful psychological thriller and page turner in REEF ROAD by Deborah Goodrich Royce is out in paperback (with some additional content). Deborah…
Speaking of WritersDavid T. Beito-The New Deal’s War on the Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of FDR’s Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously proclaimed freedom of speech as the first of his “four freedoms,” but his behavior, including confining over…
Speaking of WritersGreg McDonald and Marshall Terrill -ELVIS AND THE COLONEL An Insider’s Look at the Most Legendary Partnership in Show Business
Elvis and the Colonel: An Insider’s Look at the Most Legendary Partnership in Show Business by Greg McDonald and Marshall Terrill is a fresh biography of…
Speaking of WritersDr. Steven Lesk-Footprints of Schizophrenia :The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
What causes schizophrenia? Is it a genetic glitch or are environmental factors at play? A combination of the two? Whatever the reason, what medication and…
Speaking of WritersDavid Head and Timothy Hemmis- A Republic of Scoundrels
The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints. A Republic of Scoundrels (Pegasus Books), edited by David Head and Timothy Hemmis, chronicles the…
Speaking of WritersMichailah Belle-Vision of Inspiration
A Vision Of Inspiration is a book about Love, Abuse, Mental Health, and Faith. Going through life hating yourself and wanting to die, because you could never…
Speaking of WritersH. W. Brands- Founding Partisans -Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics
From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H.W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth…
Speaking of WritersTom Clavin-The Last Outlaws The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang
In The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang , New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin tells, for the first time, the full story of…
Speaking of WritersWilliam Alexander- Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History
The tomato gets no respect. Never has. Lost in the dustbin of history for centuries, accused of being vile and poisonous, subjected to being picked hard-green…
Speaking of WritersJames Lee Burke- Flags on The Bayou
From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana as the South transforms and a brilliant cast of characters…
Speaking of WritersKatlyn Marie Carter - Democracy in Darkness
Does democracy die in darkness, as the saying suggests? This book reveals that modern democracy was born in secrecy, despite the widespread conviction that…
Speaking of WritersLynne Golodner- Woman of Valor
Lynne Golodner writes emotional novels with compelling Jewish characters who are determined to fill their lives with passion, purpose and love. Her first…
Speaking of WritersJerome Peterson- The Haunting of Andrew Sharpai
Searching for love leads Andrew Sharpai down a path of rejection and haunting memories. When he encounters LaRae DuFont, however, Vegas' famous show dancer, it…
Speaking of WritersJonathan Farris-Shadows In The Sunset - Three Novellas
“Shadows in the Sunset” consists of three novellas, the first being the story that gives the book its title, a story of a Summer lost and never forgotten. It…
Speaking of WritersLaurence Leamer -HITCHCOCK’S BLONDES
In HITCHCOCK’S BLONDES, bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer offers an intimate journey into the lives of eight legendary actresses whose stories helped…
Speaking of WritersDr. Leggie L. Boone- Dear Dream Maker
When I rest my eyes and fall into that place of disconnection from my surroundings, I slide over into a land of creative, colorful narrations. My dreams are…
Speaking of WritersWilliam Covey- Desolation Part One
Visited by the spirit world, a Hopi woman, an Aborigine man, and a Rabbi are told the earth will soon undergo worldwide desolation. They are divinely united to…
Speaking of WritersCliff Sloan-THE COURT AT WAR FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made
The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country, with consequences that endure today. By the summer of…
Speaking of WritersDavid Baldacci- The Edge
“The Master Storyteller” David Baldacci is back with the second book in his 6:20 Man series: The Edge. The 6:20 Man series is praised: "Corporate conspiracies…
Speaking of WritersJohn Hartzell- You Can't Go Back
You have to do it everyday and I know it will be hard, some days it may feel even impossible. But you have to believe in your self and I promise you'll never…
Speaking of WritersDaniel Dain- A History of Boston
Boston is today one of the world’s greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the…
Speaking of WritersJennifer Bedsole- Face To The Wind
It’s 1923 in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, where a risky romance between a mistreated young woman and a boxer owned by the mob motivates self-discovery, loyalty…
Speaking of WritersMichael MaCambridge-The Big Time- How The 1970's Transformed Sports in America
A captivating chronicle of the pivotal decade in American sports, when the games invaded prime time, and sports moved from the margins to the mainstream of…
Speaking of WritersMatthew J Davenport-THE LONGEST MINUTE: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906
More than 117 years ago, the largest city in the Western U.S. shook, crumbled, burned, and was completely devastated in an incomprehensible show of force by…
Speaking of WritersSamuel Freedman- INTO THE BRIGHT SUNSHINE Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights
Many know Hubert Humphrey as a man whose public life ended in disgrace—as the man who lost his bearings during the Vietnam War and then lost the presidency to…
Speaking of WritersElizabeth Varon-Longstreet The Confederate General Who Defied the South
From acclaimed historian Elizabeth Varon comes a true story of courage and controversy – a new exploration of one of the most complex figures from American…
Speaking of WritersMichelle Copeland -Life's Unexpected Blessings
Life's Unexpected Blessings is about a woman named Shelia whose life has not turned out like she planned or expected. Along the way she has faced some…
Speaking of WritersThomas McKelvey Cleaver-Clean Sweep VIII Fighter Command against the Luftwaffe, 1942–45
A vivid narrative history, packed with first-hand accounts, of the US Eighth Air Force's VIII Fighter Command from its foundation in 1942 through to its…
Speaking of WritersTom Rachman- The Imposters
Tom Rachman’s debut, the New York Times bestselling The Imperfectionists, was a novel-in-stories, each chapter told of a different character in the news…
Speaking of WritersJohn Hunter- Maps and Legends The Story of R.E.M.
ABOUT JOHN HUNTER AND MAPS AND LEGENDS: THE STORY OF R.E.M. Maps and Legends: The Story of R.E.M. by John Hunter, the most comprehensive biography of R.E.M…
Speaking of WritersJonathan Miller-Truly Blessed: Wirklich Gesegnet Vere Bgatus
My book is about my interpretation of good over evil, how God takes a simple young man to a man with true values, who became a warrior of God and charity and…
Speaking of WritersMark Stille-Leyte Gulf
A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire…
Speaking of WritersMay Cobb- A Likeable Woman
ABOUT A LIKEABLE WOMAN Kira’s back in her affluent hometown for the first time in years and determined to unravel the secrets of her mother’s death–hidden in…
Speaking of WritersMarie Bostwick -ESME CAHILL FAILS SPECTACULARLY
Marie Bostwick’s ESME CAHILL FAILS SPECTACULARLY is an emotional, humorous, and very human novel about what it means to be family—the ties that bind us…
Speaking of WritersCarrie Berk- My Real-Life Rom-Com
In My Real-Life Rom-Com, Carrie Berk shares her dating adventures (and misadventures) to help teens discover more about themselves and the relationships they…
Speaking of WritersChandler Baker-Cutting Teeth
Bestselling author, Reese pick, and GMA pick Chandler Baker is back with a funny, daring mystery about what happens when ten preschoolers with an odd craving…
Speaking of WritersDon Bentley-Forgotten War
Propulsive, complex, and well-crafted, FORGOTTEN WAR by Don Bentley is part military thriller and part spy novel. The story reads like an action-movie and is…
Speaking of WritersJohn Glatt-TANGLED VINES Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders
The trial of Alex Murdaugh captivated the nation and his subsequent conviction for the murder of his wife and son made headlines far outside the South Carolina…
Speaking of WritersLarry D. McClure -Godward / The Prodigal Steps: Spiritual Wisdom and Understanding
From a young age, Larry D. McClure's life was rife with tragedy following the deaths of his cousins, neighbor, father, and twin brother. This series of…
Speaking of WritersLaura Lippman- Prom Mom
Amber Glass has spent her entire adult life putting as much distance as possible between her and her hometown of Baltimore, where she fears she will forever be…
Speaking of WritersDanielle Spencer- Digital Assassins: Surviving Cyberterrorism and a Digital Assassination Attempt
This book documents events experienced after becoming a Whistleblower against the most powerful debt collection organization in the world. Using fictional…
Speaking of WritersRobert Perrin- A Quest for Survival
The planet Saturn is attacked by an overwhelming alien force. David and Danielle Odessa along with family and friends are forced to flee the only homes that…
Speaking of WritersMichelle Copeland -Life's Unexpected Blessings
Life's Unexpected Blessings is about a woman named Shelia whose life has not turned out like she planned or expected. Along the way she has faced some…
Speaking of WritersMary Meissner and Marilyn Lee-Woman of Steel: A Memoir of a Child Abuse Survivor With Universal Truths and Deep Insights
Woman of Steel is the memoir of Mary growing up in a hostile home, enduring rape, beatings, slave-like conditions and atrocious abuse, by a mother who wished…
Speaking of WritersBarbara Meredith-Daisy and Friends What Happened to Yesterday: A Covid-19 Story
Once again, meet Daisy the cat and her three canine friends, H-Dee, Smokie, and Rocky, as together they face a worldwide pandemic. The story tackles the…
Speaking of WritersSharon Schofill- Callie: The Cat with Nine Eyes
Callie is a gifted cat tossed into the cruel world shortly after she is weaned. Callie knows nothing of the world but soon fi nds herself traveling from one…
Speaking of WritersDon Harris- Reunion Blues
“Reunion Blues” is a love story and a sequel to “Dance Steps” It is a continuation of the story of a Southern boomer coming of age and how art, music, a dance…