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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
Episodes
Speaking of WritersNeil Lanctot - The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America’s Future.
The fascinating story of how the three most influential American progressives of the early twentieth century split over America’s response to World War I. In…
Speaking of WritersKeith O’Brien- Paradise Falls
In the spring of 1977, residents of a working-class neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York grew concerned when noxious smelling substances began leaching into…
Speaking of WritersConquer Your Diabetes: Prevention · Control · Remission By Martin Abrahamson, MD and Sanjiv Chopra, MD
The global epidemic of diabetes and pre diabetes afflicts more than 1 billion people. And sadly, more than 50% of people with the disease do not achieve their…
Speaking of WritersZallina Kira Johnson-Animal Tails: A Firefly’s Night
A firefly has only two months to live and one goal to complete... A firefly has one goal in life: to find a mate and lay their eggs before their luck runs out…
Speaking of WritersAustin Kleon- Steal Like an Artist
In celebration of this significant milestone, Workman Publishing is excited to announce an exclusive gift edition: STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST: 10th Anniversary…
Speaking of WritersRic Prado Black Ops-The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior
For the first time in the Central Intelligence Agency’s history, a covert operator of major rank and standing pens a fully operational memoir. Ric Prado’s…
Speaking of WritersDr. Ralph La Guardia - INFECTED: Secrets From The Medical Underground
INFECTED: SECRETS FROM THE MEDICAL UNDERGROUND, will teach you how to prevent and treat ANY INFECTION you may encounter. Learn how the different systems of…
Speaking of WritersSusan Jonusas- HELL’S HALF-ACRE: The Untold Story of the Benders, a Serial Killer Family on the American Frontier
In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of…
Speaking of WritersAce Atkins - Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby
Legendary Boston PI Spenser is back in ROBERT B. PARKER’S BYE BYE BABY, the 50th installment in the critically acclaimed saga started by the late Parker and…
Speaking of WritersMark Vonnegut- The Heart of Caring A Life in Pediatrics
Pediatrician Mark Vonnegut has spent forty years treating children for coughs, fevers, ear infections, and sometimes more serious complaints. In that time, he…
Speaking of WritersCandace DaMeron- Dahlia Daydreamer
Dahlia has fun daydreaming of her favorite things. Candace DaMeron: Hi, I’m Candace a mother to two imaginative little girls. Imagination is a beautiful thing…
Speaking of WritersRobert Watson- George Washington’s Final Battle The Epic Struggle to Build a Capital City and a Nation
George Washington is well known for leading the Continental Army to victory and governing the nascent nation as it was getting off the ground, but few know the…
Speaking of WritersEric Gokey- Let My People Go
This book is a love letter to all. A letter to all who need to hear it. A love letter to those who have open hearts to enjoy it for what it could do for them…
Speaking of WritersSuzanne Perrin- Mrs L. Bug
A delightful tale of a rather antisocial ladybug who finds her ant neighbors to be quite annoying. Following an untimely visit from her neighbors, in a fit of…
Speaking of WritersLisa Gardner- One Step Too Far
About ONE STEP TOO FAR: Tim O’Day has been missing for five years. His disappearance wasn’t the first in the Popo Agie Wilderness area, but it generated the…
Speaking of WritersBrad Taylor- End of Days
Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill have been quarantined in Charleston, sidelined for months because of Covid, they finally can tie the knot. The Israelis—Aaron…
Speaking of WritersRowald Holt- 1871-2021 History Debunked: How Wars And The Scapegoat For Zionism Were Created
This book is dedicated to all the victims of wars that a small minority of evil and soulless monsters have started and supported for power and profit. Their…
Speaking of WritersJames Patterson- E.R. Nurses
They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories. The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung…
Speaking of WritersMaya Washington- Through The Banks of The Red Cedar: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game
Growing up Maya Washington didn’t see her father as the world knew him to be—Michigan State University and Minnesota Viking football legend, Gene…
Speaking of WritersJaycie Mandrell- Think Like The Killer
Harmon Bliss thinks he's a psychopath. Harmon has an odd obsession with death, especially when it revolves around murder. He knows about many popular crimes…
Speaking of WritersJuliet Funt- A Minute to Think
Do you wish you could stop the mayhem of work and life and just take a minute? Do you sense you could contribute more if there were a little more room in the…
Speaking of WritersAlan Sullivan- Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting
As one of the first voices of the University of Kentucky men's basketball program, Claude Sullivan (1924–1967) became a nationally known sportscasting pioneer…
Speaking of WritersRichard J. Coffey On The Vengeance Trail
A homesteading family, consisting of a mother, father and their son Colt, have their quiet life interrupted with the arrival of a wounded bounty hunter, named…
Speaking of WritersBrian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson - W.E.B Griffin's Rogue Asset
In ROGUE ASSET, Secretary of State Frank Malone has been kidnapped from his Cairo hotel—his security detail wiped out. President Natalie Cohen is left with…
Speaking of WritersJeffrey Deaver - The Midnight Lock
A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment’s supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting…
Speaking of WritersTed Bell- Sea Hawke
The next high-octane novel from legendary bestselling author Ted Bell featuring Lord Alexander Hawke, the sixth-richest man in England, gentleman spy, and one…
Speaking of WritersDavid Rubenstein- The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream
David M. Rubenstein—visionary co-founder of The Carlyle Group, and host of Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show— has long dedicated himself to interviewing…
Speaking of WritersMichael Leppert- Flipping The Circle
Will O’Courtney is the ultimate insider. Having worked as an experienced contract lobbyist in Indianapolis for over a decade, he knows all the ins and outs of…
Speaking of WritersRikem J Philippe- The Neo Sophia of the 21st Century
From poet-author Rikem Philippe comes an anthology of poetry that brings forth expressive and profound ideas and ideals which make readers think, remember…
Speaking of WritersDirk Cussler- Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea
Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt, “oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones” (Associated Press), must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in CLIVE…
Speaking of WritersRichard Sills- Christmas Story
Author Richard Sills draws from his experience as a former teacher of elementary classes in writing children’s books. In his book, “Christmas Story”, he…
Speaking of WritersGreg Peters- Our National Forests
Stories from America’s Most Important Public Lands Across 193 million acres of forests, mountains, deserts, watersheds, and grasslands, national forests…
Speaking of WritersGenevieve Piturro- Purpose, Passion and Pajamas
Genevieve M. Piturro took a big risk when she gave up the security of a successful job as the vice president of creative services for a television syndicate to…
Speaking of WritersTom Clavin- Lightning Down
An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over…
Speaking of WritersTodd Doughty- Little Pieces of Hope Happy Making Things in a Difficult World
In March 2020 Todd Doughty knew he needed to do something to help him stay connected to the everyday joys of daily life, so he made a list on Instagram of…
Speaking of WritersSamantha Durbin- Raver Girl
About the book: Set against the neon backdrop of the San Francisco Bay Area's 90s rave scene, Raver Girl details Samantha’s double life as she teeters…
Speaking of WritersHank Phillippi Ryan- Her Perfect Life
Bestselling and award-winning author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan returns with a lightning-paced novel of suspense that will keep readers…
Speaking of WritersGeorge F. Will- AMERICAN HAPPINESS AND DISCONTENTS: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020
Since 1974, George F. Will has been a steadfast voice of wisdom and reason for the American people. One of this country’s leading columnists and the author of…
Speaking of WritersLinda Sands- Precious Cargo
After helping a frightened girl who flagged down their Kenworth in Austin and delivering her to safety, trucker Jojo Boudreaux and co-driver Gator Natoli…
Speaking of WritersJai Chakrabarti- A Play For The End Of the World
Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, has just entered a new relationship with Lucy Gardener—a southerner, also newly arrived in New York—when he…
Speaking of WritersMarc Straus- One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York
Set in 1950s New York in the shadow of the execution of the Rosenbergs, the memoir documents two pivotal years of Straus’s childhood on Long Island, beginning…
Speaking of WritersMatthew FitzSimmons- Constance
In the near future, advances in medicine and quantum computing make human cloning a reality. For the wealthy, cheating death is the ultimate luxury. To…
Speaking of WritersSusan Ronald - The Ambassador
In THE AMBASSADOR: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940 (St. Martin’s Press) acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald examines a controversial…
Speaking of WritersTom Flynn- A Girl Named Dara
When Jeff Newcastle meets Dara, a beautiful Belarusian girl, on the first day of poetry class at UCLA, he imagines he’s stumbled onto the perfect college…
Speaking of WritersChristopher Clarey- The Master: The Long Run and Beautiful Game of Roger Federer
ABOUT THE BOOK There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most…
Speaking of WritersMegan Collins - The Family Plot
Sharon Tate, Andrew Borden, Charlie Lindbergh, Black Dahlia—if you immediately recognize these murder victims, then you’re a Murderino just like Megan Collins…
Speaking of WritersKent Babb- Across The River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City
There are two New Orleans: the glamorous party city that tourists see and the day-to-day reality of the heavily segregated Black neighborhoods outside the…
Speaking of WritersMichael Blanding- North by Shakespeare
In North by Shakespeare, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of rogue scholar Dennis McCarthy, called “the Steve Jobs of the Shakespeare…
Speaking of WritersTracey Lange- We Are The Brennans
When 29-year-old Sunday Brennan wakes up in a Los Angeles hospital, bruised and battered after a drunk driving accident she caused, she swallows her pride and…
Speaking of WritersBen Coes- The Island
Ben Coes is a NYT bestselling author of political thriller and espionage novels who draws upon his early career at the White House, and his Godfather’s…
Speaking of WritersAce Atkins- The Heathens
With his Quinn Colson novels, New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins has created one of today’s most atmospheric and critically acclaimed literary…
Speaking of WritersLeigh Montville TALL MEN, SHORT SHORTS: The 1969 NBA Finals: Wilt, Russ, Lakers, Celtics, and A Very Young Sports Reporter
Legendary, award-winning sportswriter Leigh Montville—former Boston Globe columnist, Sports Illustrated senior writer, and New York Times bestselling author of…
Speaking of WritersMichelle Seiler Tucker and Sharon Lechter- EXIT RICH
Michelle Seiler Tucker and Sharon Lechter, authors of EXIT RICH share how to build sustainable, scalable and when you are ready- sellable business and…
Speaking of WritersSandra Brown- Blind Tiger
Sandra Brown has written masterful romantic suspense novels for decades—72 New York Times bestsellers with more than 80 million copies in print worldwide in 34…
Speaking of WritersHadassah Lieberman- Hadassah An American Story
In 1949, Hadassah Lieberman and her family immigrated from the Czech Republic to the United States. She went on to earn a BA from Boston University in…
Speaking of WritersChandler Baker - The Husbands
Do you ever feel like you’re doing more than your fair share of chores at home, that no one else sees the dishes piling up or remembers the school bake sale?…
Speaking of WritersBracken MacLeod Closing Costs
Nelle and Evan Pereira were thrilled to close on their “forever home,” a spacious paradise nestled against a state forest in Massachusetts. Three months later…
Speaking of WritersP. J. Vernon Bath Haus
About BATH HAUS: P.J. Vernon’s BATH HAUS (Doubleday) opens with Oliver as he tentatively gathers the courage to enter a gay DC Bath Haus while his partner is…
Speaking of WritersElinor Lipman- Rachel To The Rescue
Rachel Klein is sacked from her job at the White House after she sends an email criticizing Donald Trump. As she is escorted off the premises, she is hit by a…
Speaking of WritersMarie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray - The Personal Librarian
About THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN: In THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN, Belle da Costa Greene is given the opportunity of a lifetime, to be the personal librarian to…