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May.18.2013
It is a pleasure to have another of the member of the Class of 2K13 (debut YA and mid grade authors) in the form of Tamera (like camera) Will Wissinger. Who joined me to chat about her debut book “Gone Fishing”, a charming new children’s novel written in verse. The middle of three children Tamera...
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May.16.2013
My guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat” could be said to be a late bloomer in the literary world his first book finally saw the light of literary day decade after he first wrote it, so saying since that first completion Mike Lynch has continued to produce one “must read” novel after another...
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Apr.23.2013
Fellow Connecticut author Mark Rubinstein is the guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat”, with a background of medicine and psychiatry which includes several non-fiction books, Mark has now produced his debut fiction novel in the form of the wonderful suspenseful and riveting, “MAD DOG HOUSE”. The...
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Apr.20.2013
It was another of our one hour specials as I introduce to the audience and chat with another member of the “Class of 2K13” in the form of author Liesl (like Weasel) Shirtliff. Liesl grow up in Salt Lake City, Utah the fifth of eight children, a childhood filled with magic be it from her love of...
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Apr.11.2013
Every so often I get contacted by or have the name of a new author sent to me to see if I think they “might be a good fit for the show”. It is rare that I ever say no, however if the author is a fellow Connecticut author and has written a book that seems to be already a “must read” for many, then...
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Mar.21.2013
On today's "A Book and a Chat" it is a another welcome return to the show for a previous guest, this time in the form if matchmaker and I would add humorist Marla Martenson.  If you’re looking a read that will make you think as well provide a good laugh then her books are for you. As we...
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Mar.08.2013
Sometimes when you do a show you get a premonition about how it’s going to be, today’s was one such event. Before the show started I warned my guest about possible issues with the hosting and that if I disappeared to carry on chatting by herself. I do not know why I mentioned this it’s not...
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Feb.16.2013
Glad as I am to note that Kafka's The Metamorphosis is on this list, it was not a book offered to me in high school. Nor were a few of the others. However, I have read most of them, and perhaps will catch up on the first of my 'Rs' by reading the rest. #7   * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *...
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Jan.18.2013
Linda Yoshida, aka Kaylin McFarren was previously on my show chatting about her debut romance novel “Flaherty’s Cross”, today she returns to talk about her latest series of books which have already won several awards. Kaylin has writing in her blood, her great aunt “Bessie B. Cordell”,  was...
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Dec.19.2012
One of the wonderful things about hosting a radio show is that you never stop learning from the shows. Today’s show with Missy Wolfe is one that I learned many new things about America and its history. Missy’s book “Insubordinate Spirit: A True Story of Life and Loss In Earliest America, 1610-...