A Book and a Chat with Thomas Laresca

The show today showed that one does not have to write a might tome to share with the reader important and helpful information that can only help those reading the finished product.

Thomas Laresca a high school and college athlete with a career professional career as a stock trader was living his American dream in Boca Raton, Florida with a wife, family and beautiful home when his world was shattered.

He was as we heard during the program wrongly arrested and abused by the police right outside his own house in a gated community. An event that not only left him, in intensive care, due mainly to being maced for thirty minutes while being pinned down, handcuffed and hogtied, but as we heard he actually died and started on the trip towards the light.

While recovering from this incident and fighting for justice Thomas was diagnosed with with cancer in three parts of his body. The next step was to go on a course of Chemo, however upon his first visit, he was told his blood count was too low, and the therapy could not continue, giving him just a possible three months to live.

His faith which had previously been severely tested now was tested once again, Thomas however not only found the strength from his often quiet praying and reading the New Testament, but his body started to self heal enough that the therapy was able to continue and he is now cancer free.

This though with all the issues was enough to start Thomas on the slippery slide into depression, something that again, with his faith and inner strength he was able to overcome.

Now in his book “I Want To Help: My Story About Cancer, Depression and God” he is able to share his own experiences and thoughts with many other who are facing their own issues.

The book is not a large book, but is one that will help and aid many readers.

As Thomas says…

“If reading it can help just one person, I’ll be happy.”

So listen now and share an interesting, and entertaining show as I chat with my special guest today on A Book and a Chat with Thomas Laresca

Barry

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A Book and a Chat with Richard Tillotson

Richard Tillotson is my guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat” his life reads a bit like his book or is it his book reads like his life? Whatever it is, his debut novel “Acts of God While on Vacation” has already been recognized as a National Semi-Finalist for the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and named "Hawaii's best fiction book of 2011"

Richard has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Borneo, a playwright in New York, a copywriter in Hawaii, and is a relative of an English Lord, all of which helped him write “Acts of God While on Vacation”

The book begins with a death threat received by a philandering general manager of a lavish Hawaii resort, jumps to an anthropologist researching headhunters in the jungles of Borneo (sound familiar), then to a demonic, scandal-mongering paparazzo in New York (we know about that one) , and on to a gorgeous, party-loving English aristocrat in London (see what I mean about the book and Richard).

The book is alternately desperate and hilarious as their adventures draw them all to Waikiki, where their arrival coincides with an international conference on shamanism and a catastrophic, force-five hurricane.

It has received numerous glowing tributes such as…

A rollicking page-turner … This is Hawaii’s best fiction book of 2011.”- HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER

“A shamanically-skewed romp of brilliant insight and slapstick comedy”- HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO

“As entertaining as it is enlightening”- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Laugh-out-loud funny, while also ringing true”-- HONOLULU WEEKLY

“It’s a comic novel with serious edges. Even more remarkable: It’s one of the few fictions set in Hawaii that gets all the details right.”- HONOLULU MAGAZINE

The book is one all will enjoy. As one reviewer put it…

What a magnificent book! The author achieves a well told tale of four individual souls who meet on a day of reckoning during a hurricane in Hawaii. What made it so fun, entertaining, and enjoyable to me was the author's ability to build four very different voices and make it interesting enough that I wanted to follow them through multitudinous settings and adventures. I loved the diversity of people and places and the underlying spiritual questions that were interwoven and finally, on the fateful day, addressed under circumstances that given the brevity of the subject, left me laughing.

As Richard shared he is already a thrid of the way through his second book based in Washington DC, as well as following up on a screen play.

So listen now and share an interesting, and entertaining thirty minutes with my guest Richard Tillotson

Barry

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