A Book and a Chat with Benjamin Kane Ethridge

Floods, hurricanes, solar flares or just a dodgy internet connection, all of these and more are sent to try the host of a blog radio show, or so it seems. Today’s show had a difficult start with my guest being there but unable to be heard by myself or the audience. Still once Benjamin Kane Ethridge was able to be heard it was well worth waiting for.

Benjamin is the Bram Stoker Award winning author of the novel Black & Orange. Beyond that he's written several collaborations with Michael Louis Calvillo, one of which is a novella called Ugly Spirit, available in 2011.

Black & Orange came from a brainstorm Benjamin had one Easter about how the holiday didn’t really represent what we Americans have come to see it as, this lead to further thoughts about a different holiday…

“What if Halloween wasn’t what we really thought it was?”

No pagan, druids, Satanists, ghosts, witches etc… what if Halloween was something that could make or break our world, our universe, if it didn’t go right? After that, he began piecing a story together.

About Black & Orange

On Halloween a gateway opens to a terrifying place of sacrificial magic known as the Old Domain. The Church of Midnight and their diabolic leader, Chaplain Cloth, are hell-bent to keep the gateway open forever.

Martin and Teresa, known as the Nomads, have the mission to prevent a sacrifice from being fed to the gateway. This sacrifice is an energy source that grows in a different person every year. This year, however, things have gotten worse. Teresa’s losing a battle to lung cancer and Martin can’t bare the thought of fighting this battle alone. The Church of Midnight is backstabbing each other-- making internal moves they haven’t before, and the sacrifice this year is something that nobody would ever see coming. Meanwhile, Chaplain Cloth plans to merge the worlds and start his reign of destruction on the universe.

As mentioned this dark fantasy novel Black & Orange has won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in First Novel., perhaps opening the door for further success, as Benjamin shared his second novel “Dungeon Brain” is already doing the publisher rounds.
The gremlins had not finished with today’s show and we both had to reconnect at one time, still it was all well worth listening to as we learned much about this award winning author that I am sure will have many hunting for his book, and looking out for further writings of “Benjamin Kane Ethridge”

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Barry

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A Book and a Chat with Rick Laham

Rick Laham is the guest on tonights “A Book and a Chat” talking about his life and his memoir, well part one of his memoir “Immaculate Recovery”
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The book follows his roller-coaster ride from happily married millionaire to divorced, homeless crack-addict who is frequently in jail or on the run—and of his road back to success and well being. The book combines Laham’s jail diary with provocative character studies of the various drug addicts, criminals and strippers—as well as grandmothers and wealthy professionals.

As one reviewer out it, the book is “soberly honest”, reminding me in some ways of Bunions “Pilgrims Progress”, Immaculate Recovery takes you on a journey to his multiple arrests and convictions on drug possession charges and related crimes. Justified in his "addict's mind" by the loss of his marriage and disconnection from his family, he writes about his spiraling down from being a successful businessman and functional pot smoker, morphing to a nocturnal life infested with crack cocaine - along with all the bad decisions that accompany the drug.

The second part of the book is in diary type format, written during his days in jail. Many of those details are simply insignificant, as mundane as jailhouse life itself. Though it was there, in the darkest hours that Rick found God and started on the road back to where he is today.

“Immaculate Recovery” is a powerful true story of strength and hope, that he hopes will help many to fight the good fight, and to accomplish your destiny for His glory. Knowing that all things are possible and fulfilling the mission that God Himself has in store for you, whatever that mystery will reveal itself to be, and that you, too, can and will have an Immaculate Recovery.

As I said at the beginning, this is the first part of his memoir. The second part deals with financial and emotional recovery, corporate corruption and some of the links between big business and organized crime. Like this first book, I am sure that will make very interesting reading.

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A Book and a Chat with Sharon Lechter

A book that is intended to provide answers during today’s uncertain economic and spiritual times, that offers powerful and sometimes chilling lessons that hold the secrets to achieving personal success. You would think it was written for these hard times that we are all sharing these days?

But no, it was actually written by the great American author and entrepreneur Napoleon Hill back in 1938.

My guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat” is Sharon Lechter, founder of Pay Your Family First, a financial education organization. In addition to annotating and editing “Outwitting the Devil,” she is the coauthor of the international bestseller (over 27 million sold to date) “Rich Dad Poor Dad” and 14 books in the Rich Dad series. She is now focused on expanding the knowledge of Napoleon Hill’s principles and teachings in conjunction with the Napoleon Hill Foundation. Her bestseller, “Three Feet from Gold,” was released on October 2009.

Napoleon Hill best known for “Think and Grow Rich,” published in 1937, which has become one of the bestselling books of all time. His teachings have gone on to influence entire generations of success seekers, setting the standard for the foundations of today’s motivational thinking. Hill passed away in 1970. Hill’s work lives on in the Napoleon Hill Foundation, an educational nonprofit dedicated to promoting his principles.

Locked away for due to fears of his family and friends that it was too controversial, his follow up book “Outwitting the Devil” which was sequel to “Think and Grow Rich,” has now been released.

Sharon has taken the original writing and added annotations help modernize the original writings, keeping them separate so as not to take away from the original teachings, which as she shows apply to these modern times, asking thought-provoking questions to help readers execute Hill’s lessons and concludes that it is never too late for a new beginning.

About “Outwitting the Devil”

The book begins with Hill’s personal anecdote of what led him to write “Outwitting the Devil,” including his famous meeting with Andrew Carnegie in 1908, which launched his lifelong mission of helping others achieve personal achievement. Hill also describes one of his lowest moments in the 1920s where he feared for his life, causing him to retreat into a hypnotic state of self contempt. It was this experience that later led to an epiphany where he discovers his other self and confronts the devil, leaving it up to readers to decide for themselves if he’s speaking to the actual devil or a metaphorical one. In a courtroom-style interrogation, Hill’s interview with the devil reveals how negative thoughts like fear can paralyze a person from reaching full potential. Seven principles are revealed– including learning from adversity and having definiteness of purpose in life – which can help the reader successfully outwit their own devil.

What people say about “Outwitting the Devil”

“I have just finished reading "Outwitting the Devil" and it is truly inspirational. I highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to take their careers to the next level or anyone who is on a personal mission to better themselves. It's a book that's different from any other and you won't be disappointed!"~Jamsler


"At its core, Outwitting the Devil is a cleverly wrapped anecdote for the inner and external conflicts, influences and temptations each person will face throughout their life. Whether you find Hill's interview with the Devil fact or mere fiction, the lessons learned within, skillfully illustrated to illuminate and inspire, hold real value in outwitting your own devils and creating a successful life."
~M. Dutile

"I loved the book. In fact I'm buying more to give to my clients. Outwitting the Devil really makes you think about the positive and negative ways we see ourselves. I recommend it for everyone."
~S. McMahon "Duffy"

“Outwitting the Devil” identifies and confronts life’s greatest obstacles – fear, procrastination, anger and jealously – which stand in the way of success. The book recognizes these obstacles as tools of the devil that can lead to personal demise, but Hill reveals seven principles to triumph over them and succeed. Confronting in nature, “Outwitting the Devil” challenges politics, religion, public education and other society influences with revelations and solutions that still hold true today. One of those books that each time you read it you learn something different.

So listen now and share an interesting and entertaining show as I spend thirty minutes sharing "A Book and a Chat with Sharon Lechter".

Barry

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A Book and a Chat with Melissa Foster

My guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat” despite her love of reading and the written word, waited until all of her six children were at school, before starting to make her own way in the world on books. Now with two award winning books already receiving rave reviews around the blogosphere a third book and the way and several others in the pipeline, let alone options for films, in the case of Melissa Foster, this wait has been well worthwhile.

During the show Melissa shared with us, how her first published book “Megan’s Way” came about, also the fact it was actually written second and the equally well received “Chasing Amanda” was originally written under the title “The Knowing” was really her first written piece.

The seedling for Megan's Way came from an actual event that happened wth her mother, years ago, and the inspiration from the friendships came from a group of women that she grew up with.

About “Megan’s Way”

When Megan Taylor, a single mother and artist living on Cape Cod, receives the shocking news that her cancer has returned, she's faced with the most difficult decision she's ever had to make. The love she has for her daughter, Olivia, and her closest friends will be stretched and frayed.

Megan’s illness reawakens the torment of her best friend, Holly Townsend, whose long-held secrets and years of betrayal come back to haunt her. How does one choose between a daughter and a life-long best friend? Can the secret she has been keeping be revealed after years of lying without destroying everyone in its wake? Meanwhile, fourteen-year-old Olivia's world is falling apart right before her eyes, and there's nothing she can do about it. She finds herself acting in ways she cannot even begin to understand. When her internal struggles turn to dangerous behavior, even the paranormal connection she shares with her mother might not be enough to save her - her life will hang in the balance.

Megan’s Way is a journey of self discovery and heartfelt emotions, exploring the depth of the mother-daughter bond, and the intricacies of friendship.

This book won Melissa the 2011 Beach Book Award Winner (Spirituality), 2011 Readers Favorite Awards, Winner (Fiction/Drama), Finalist (Women's Fiction) , 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award Finalist (Spirituality) and was a sign of things to come.


In “Chasing Amanda” the sublimely talented with such comments as “most intelligent, engaging and luminous books of it's genre in 2011” being freely dotted around reviews.

About “Chasing Amanda”

I will share the words of one reviewer to describe this great book…

Chasing Amanda transcends the conventional "who-dunnit" styled thriller yarn by introducing multiple potential antagonists into the narrative early that have you, the reader, thinking right from the get go. And just when you think that you might have figured the mystery out early, Melissa Foster throws in the most elegant curve ball that totally knocks you off balance and has you scrambling to revisit the clue-set once more in an attempt to regain the upper hand in the story experience. It is an intelligent mystery that is certainly the most unique I've read and it's definitely the most challenging - and I mean that in a good way.

We are witness to an unnerving tale - set in Boyd's, an 'every-town' in rural Maryland, USA. Through the eyes of Molly Tanner, an engaging woman who presents an attractive dichotomy of hardened determination underneath a vulnerable exterior, we journey through a complex narrative which has at it's center, a missing young girl for whom time is fast running out.

Molly's unique gift for clairvoyance - which is both a blessing and a curse, becomes a vital tool in the search for the missing child but it puts her at odds with the town's folk, the authorities and even her husband. It is here, in the relationship with her husband Cole that we are able to access the roots of Molly's "Knowing" and how it has impacted on her and her family.

Author, Melissa Foster, paints in several key back stories that serve as powerful drivers of the central plot and she handles them with an almost surgical grace, integrating them into the narrative so that they become a natural extension of it.

Her attention to characterization too, is a joy to read and none of the actors in Chasing Amanda, are there to simply be. The relationships are fully realized and they are sometimes painful to bare witness to. Motivations are defined cleverly and are revealed as they need to be. This is, once again, the genius of Foster's prose. Each of her characters serve the story wonderfully and it makes for a very satisfying reading experience.

The sense of mystery, tension and atmosphere are imbued deftly into the narrative and like Kwei Quartey - who I reviewed last week - Melissa Foster's style is sensorial - visual, aural and tactile. If you let it "Chasing Amanda" is a story that you can experience rather than just simply observe.

Dean Mayes… “Elegantly Chasing - A Conversation with Melissa Foster & A Look At Chasing Amanda. “

As author Jennie Shortridge wrote…

"Melissa Foster is a wonderful connector of readers and books, a friend of authors, and a tireless advocate for women. She is the real deal"

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Barry

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A Book and a Chat with Tamara Elizabeth

It was good to be back on “A Book and a Chat” chat tonight after the affects of hurricane or was it tropical storm “Irene” her in Connecticut. Surviving the storm for many has been a learning curb, the rush for “D” batteries was unbelievable and the purchasing of generators since the storm has gone up by 1000’s. Surviving and learning is something my guest on today’s show knows about.

Tamara Elizabeth is a speaker, author, self love coach, radio host, a master motivator of women in transition, conductress of motivational seminars, professional photographer, small space designer, lover of social media, mother of 5, and a fabulously loveable woman who after her first 50 years is determined to create a revolution of women.

She is a woman who has been down the path of low self esteem and no self love. She has walked a similar journey as they have ventured from. I know their pain and have felt their frustration and fears.

Her own experience in seeking help through a self love coach enabled Tamara to develop a fabulous 10 step program to help women to discover their perfectly authentic lovable selves. I coach them into their own empowerment and help them to build their "House Of The Lovable You."

She created the word -Moximize and have defined it as - "To overcome hardship with sass, courage, spunk, valor and attitude." I respect the trailblazing women of the 20's. They had moxie in everything they did. They had the courage to stand up to their challenges and they had the sass and spunk to defy society's norms.

The women and their stories of the twenties are are the source of inspiration for my coaching practice and I enjoy motivating my clients to becoming "Moximized."

Tamara decided to take the experiences of her own journey along life’s rocky road and help others succeed like she herself has. The result is the wonderful book – Fabulously Fifty and Reflecting It! – Discovering My Loveable Me.

The book covers her past, present and future reflections with the hope that each essay will inspire the women or indeed men who read it to work on the worksheets that accompany each story, with the result of each reader finding a way to follow their journey without giving up.

So listen now and share an interesting and entertaining show as I spend thirty minutes sharing "A Book and a Chat with Tamara Elizabeth".

Barry

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A Book and a Chat with Jodi Ambrose

Sometimes it takes a book, no matter how short or in whatever form to bring some sense and understanding into your or others lives. We hear about people in an abusive relationship or suffering from illness or alcoholism. Then there is senselessness of some men to their woman, and visa-versa.

My guest on today’s show Jodi Ambrose has written a wonderful booklet called “Sex: How to get more of it” a guy’s roadmap to paradise in and out of the bedroom.

The book is a masterpiece in a few pages, from the twenty items to make your life into a win/win situation with your partner to the laugh out loud humor as Jodi goes into each of the items sharing what we all know but in many cases are either to blind or reluctant to see.

The booklet for it is just a small read ideal to be left in the bathroom (perhaps then your other half might remember to out the seat down … item 6… ) to be read in those small quiet moments. As Jodi shared during a truly entertaining thirty minutes, the book is being purchased by both men and woman.. The woman seem to read it first have a good laugh then leave it around for their other half to pick up and perhaps learn a lesson or two.

And ladies… you are not going to get away with this either as Jodi shared her next book is aimed at the female side of the relationship… (a good stocking stuffer for Christmas…in many ways)

One item that we never got time to chat about is the great drinking game that you can play with copies of the book at the next girls night or hen party…

I’ll let Jodi explain the rules…

Here's a great way to have a blast at your bachelorette party or other fun girlie event.

Each girl at your party gets a copy of the book. Then, you each take turns reading an item from "The List". If your significant other follows the suggestion in The List, you DRINK! The better your man, the drunker you get!

You also earn a point for each good-boy behavior he exhibits, so someone needs to keep a tally. The winner should get some kind of deliciously naughty gift with which to entice her man. Toys, lingerie, a hot sex coupon book...you name it!

One comment to this game from an aching but happy lady…

I loved it! My best friend bought the book for my bachelorette party. We had a contest using the list of 20 things to make your girl happy from the book to see who had the best boyfriend. My fiance came in second. Oh well. Now at least he'll know what to do because I gave him the book to read too. Thanks for the fun! We laughed so hard my stomach hurt and oh did we all have hangovers!"

The show was great fun as well as I hope educational, and I'm looking forward to having Jodi back on the show in november to chat about her new book, looking tat the female side.

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A Book and a Chat with Ray Shasho

Over the last few shows I’ve had quite a few “memoir” writers; their books have been written for various reasons, therapy, the hope that the book can help others or just to provide entertainment. My guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat” firmly falls into the latter, though for him writing about his youth was a candle in his darkest hours.

Ray Shasho’s book “Check the G’s” the story of a family and the business that sustained them his childhood through early adulthood. The book is full of humor as well as snap shots of American history and music, as well as the inside secrets of his family business, originally called Chin Lung Art Gallery, though as we heard it was far from a Chinese Art Gallery.

Ray sold his first item in the store, owned by his father and uncle at the grand age of six, it was a “real call dude” pair of sunglasses. The Chin Lung Art Gallery’s inventory (electronics, jewelry, cameras, artwork, and more) was as varied as the international clientele that frequented it and the Shasho family itself headed by Ray’s Syrian Jewish father and Cuban Catholic mother. The life skills the author learned from working in his father’s store helped him to become a fearless adult with a head for business and a strong sense of family.

There are trials and problems litter the pages of “Check the G’s” (G’s are customers by the way) mixed with the antics that took place in the store while it was open for business six days a week. Many famous characters fill the pages as they did the store including baseball star Ted Williams, James Mason, Dick Gregory, Art Buchwald, Dinah Shore, Chuck Norris, Muhammad Ali, Lee Atwater and a famous actress who was asked to leave. Ray also offers firsthand accounts of the D.C. riots following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, the murder of John F. Kennedy, and meeting celebrities like Muhammad Ali, Chuck Norris, and Sugar Ray Leonard.

After seven years of running one of the businesses himself, Ray closed the last family store and walked away with a full appreciation for what he had learned from the work

“Check the G’s” is a book all will enjoy as Gary Sorkin, wrote for Pacific Book Review…

“I found Check the Gs to be pure entertainment, fantastic fun and a catalyst to igniting many memories of my own life. If you have a bit of grey hair (or no hair), buy this book.”

Ray's love of music has now lead him to interviewing many famous rock artists details of which he was able to share with us during an entertaining show.

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Barry

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A Book and a Chat with Stuart Gustafson

My guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat” is Stuart Gustafson, author of "Missing in Mexico", the first of the Mystery Tourism Book Series.

Before Stuart retired from the corporate world in 2007, he’d flown over 1,000,000 miles to 28 different countries, he even has the US Registered Trademark Name of America’s International Travel Expert®.

Once he retired Stuart began writing in earnest, it was also natural for him to want to continue traveling once he didn't have to travel as a job.

Now when he travels, it's for fun; it's for pleasure; it's to see new places in the world. This is why he has chosen to combine his love of travel and writing is to write mystery novels set in exciting locations around the world where he likes to go.

His debut mystery novel “Missing in Mexico” is set in San Jose del Cabo at the tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula, a charming location where he has spent 2-6 weeks each year for the past eight years. This is how Stuart researches his books, by immersing himself into the culture of the area, and getting to know the people and their charm. The best compliment Stuart has received was at a local event in San Jose del Cabo and some of the residents told him that Missing in Mexico was indeed about their town and would he please consider writing another book about San Jose or at least about Cabo.

His second novel set in Sydney, Australia, is already underway, and in keeping with his pledge to make the story and its settings as authentic as possible, Stuart visited Sydney five times last year to conduct research.

Has he hinted during the show, he thinks he discovered something about the Sydney Harbor Bridge that not many people know about – and it’s something that they certainly don’t publicize… But we’ll have to read the book to find out what that is.

About “Missing in Mexico”:

Sarah Johnson is a 19-year college freshman who, along with her roommate Mary, spent an extra week in Los Cabos, Mexico after a family vacation over the Christmas break. Unexpectedly, Sarah's not on the plane back to Seattle, and her parents hire Stan, a seasoned Private Investigator, to locate her. Even with local help and some promising leads in the town of San Jose del Cabo, he's unable to find her, and he returns to Seattle to inform the parents.

Months later he receives a mysterious letter from someone who says she can help him locate Sarah, and he jumps on the next plane to Los Cabos. Will this be the lucky break he needs to find her? Or will she remain missing -- Missing in Mexico?

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Barry

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A Book and a Chat with John G Nelson

John G Nelson is my guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat” is a retired Air Force Master Sergeant and former Special Forces Medic. Now, the Director of Quality and Risk Management, Patient Safety, and Infection Control at a community hospital in Utah. His debut novel “Against Nature” was released on April 5th, 2011.

With everything that is going on in the world and has been for the last several years the book was almost an outlet for John and with his forces background there was obviously a lot of stuff to process either from reading or as with “Against Nature” writing it.

The book has all the trappings of a great dystopian novel, for a start it makes you think! It is an entertaining page turner, infused with a larger dose of social criticism in the spirit of Orwell or Huxley.

About “Against Nature”:

A deadly plague has struck the planet, and nobody is sure what it is. Thousands are dying every day, and everyone that is infected will die.

The United States rallies its top minds to try and combat the disease, but when research starts, the scientists are stumped. The pathogen seems to be neither bacteria, virus, or any other known organism!

One radical scientist, Serena Salus, believes that the organism is an extra-terrestrial "mite" that was brought from a recent space mission, but the U.S. government refuses to publicize this theory, telling everyone that it is a genetically engineered disease from Pakistan that was spread by terrorists. Even as Dr. Salus makes progress, her team is being targeted as anarchists and their research is kept secret.

When Dr. Salus discovers a plan that will only give the cure to the American elite, she has to make the extremely difficult choice of continuing with the research to save only the elite, or take her findings and run from a corrupt system.

The dystopia genre is very popular among YA fiction readers, especially with the success of the Hunger Games series. Against Nature is geared for the adult reader as well, in fact I can see people of all ages and reading and enjoying the book.

John is already planning a further publication in the form of his novel "Grey Suits” so look out for more news on the up and coming author.

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Barry

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A Book and a Chat with Derrick Lin

My guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat” is Derrick Lin, who after reading Amy Chua, bestselling book: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother decided basically enough, was enough and that one of the children who was brought up in, what Amy called the “Chinese Way” of raising children. He result is Derricks debut memoir “Tiger Mother; Son of a Bitch”

In the book Derrick tells us how, as a child he was abused and tortured as a child, up until adulthood, when he was finally able to break free of his oppressive mother.

As Derrick explained.

“As a Chinese American, I am supposed to be highly successful. So my mother forced me to do things no other child my age was doing. I was driven to learn the violin, piano, trumpet and drums, practice them for hours, join the school orchestra and perform in recitals (which I hated)—by threats to make me sleep outside if I did not. I was forced to attend Chinese school on Saturdays and do my homework correctly, or face severe punishment. One punishment was forcing me to kneel in a dark closet for hours.”

Derrick was not allowed to have friends, watch TV or have any sort of social networking for fear it would corrupt him. His mother would continually berate him for not being the best. During summers she would tutor him in math and would keep him working until I he all the problems right—this would often be until 2 or 3 a.m.

In writing the book there have been many ghosts that have raised their heads from locked corners of his memory, however in writing about what he went though it has also shown others that there is a way through the hell that was meant to have been a childhood.

As one reviewer wrote about “”Tiger Mother : Son of a Bitch”:

The book kept me engaged the whole time. I read and wanted to keep flipping the pages. I recommend this to book to anyone who wants to be informed about how not to act if you are a parent and realize that the way you handle and mold your child is very significant and you can ruin your child's life if you don't treat your child equally. This book shows the perspective of a child and how they can be traumatized by parents if pushed too far. I think it is a very good book that is the ultimate answer to challenge Amy Chua's book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and the bad things on her techniques of parenting. Highly recommended to those to want to see the other side of tiger parenting.

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