Episodes

  • Farial English Author Interview

    Farial English Author Interview
    Nov 14 2024
    Farial English lives in a small rural community with her husband and two dogs. Several years ago, they moved from their home in a Chicago suburb to an old farm in upstate New York. Surrounded by woods and fallow fields, their dogs run free and Farial spends most of her time outdoors, planting and tending...
    Show more Show less
    22 mins
  • R.G. de Rouen Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    R.G. de Rouen Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview
    Oct 30 2024
    R.G. de Rouen is a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature in Connecticut and writes fiction that inspires a love of reading with a pinch of humor along the way. Throughout his 25+ years as an elementary teacher throughout the world, he has also been an advocate of animal and nature protection which he...
    Show more Show less
    32 mins
  • S.P. Somtow Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    S.P. Somtow Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview
    Oct 24 2024
    Born in Bangkok, Somtow grew up in Europe and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. His first career was in music and in the 1970s he acquired a reputation as a revolutionary composer, the first to combine Thai and Western instruments in radical new sonorities. Conditions in the arts in the region at the...
    Show more Show less
    46 mins
  • Aurora Lothbrok Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    Aurora Lothbrok Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview
    Oct 22 2024
    Aurora Lothbrok was born and raised in Northern Minnesota. She began her lightsaber training at Michigan Tech, where she studied biology, and continued onward to the University of Iowa to study pharmacy. Her love of the outdoors and penchant for adventure took her north to Alaska, where she resides with her hubby, dog, and internet famous cats...
    Show more Show less
    26 mins
  • Bill DeBarba Returns to Share his 2nd Edition – The Process of Living

    Bill DeBarba Returns to Share his 2nd Edition – The Process of Living
    Sep 12 2024
    Bill DeBarba is a four-decade entrepreneur. He began the classic back- bedroom-office business, developing custom software for local companies. His company, BusinessWare Services, Inc. (BWSI), grew until he had a staff developing products and providing services to a base of loyal customers around the country. Over his 40 years of ownership and management, Bill DeBarba’s...
    Show more Show less
    31 mins
  • Marnie Maton Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    Marnie Maton Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview
    Aug 15 2024
    A graduate of The George Washington University, Marnie is an award-winning global marketing executive and author who writes about leadership, strategic planning, and empowerment. Marnie knew she wanted to be a writer at the age of thirteen. In Vote for You: Take Your Seat at the Table, the pandemic inspired her to chronicle her journey...
    Show more Show less
    29 mins
  • David Grinnell Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    David Grinnell Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview
    Aug 15 2024
    David is a poet, author, and literary scholar from Cleveland, Ohio. He was born 1992 in Norfolk, Virginia, but grew up in the suburb of Bedford. In 2014 he attended Cleveland State University and graduated with his bachelors in English. Grinnell specializes in Romanticism, the Gothic, and draws inspiration from vulnerability. He reflects and portrays...
    Show more Show less
    39 mins
  • Mark Shaiken Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

    Mark Shaiken Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview
    Aug 14 2024
    Mark lives with his wife Loren and their dog Emily in Denver, Colorado. He practiced commercial bankruptcy law for almost forty years before moving on in 2019 to write, volunteer, travel, and play music. He is the author of the following books in his award-winning 3J Legal Thriller Series, all set in Kansas City,...
    Show more Show less
    28 mins