EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a Stanford grad with advanced computer science and business degrees. But, since she was a child, creative writing has been her passion. After holding software development, product management, and marketing roles in the high-tech industry for nearly thirty years, she now writes full time. Her short stories have been … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a California girl who bought a one-way ticket to India and landed in a Tibetan sewing workshop next door to the Dalai Lama and became one of few non-Tibetans to master the Buddhist art of silk appliqué thangka. Trained by two of the finest living Tibetan appliqué artists, she … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today had a career in sales and marketing but found inspiration in a genealogy search on her great-great-grandfather. He took an active part in founding the Woman’s Medical College in Philadelphia. The early graduates of the Woman’s Medical College have remained in the shadows. Their stories needed to be told. So, … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a psychoanalyst and psychologist in private practice, a nonfiction author, a novelist, and a public speaker. She earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Columbia University and a post-doctoral certificate in psychoanalysis. As a nonfiction author, her articles have appeared in the Washington Post, on the Wall Street Journal’s … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY Today’s guest’s grandmother told him he read too much. His book “Our Child of the Stars” began as a short story and was published in the UK in 2019, received national reviews, and was out in the States and Canada in March 2020. It got less traction as this was peak pandemic and … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is the award-winning author of the novel, After Happily Ever After. She was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA. She went on to write television comedies for Gerald McRaney, Burt Reynolds, Roseanne Barr, Norm McDonald, Drew Carey, as well as The Wild Thornberrys and Sweet Valley … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today graduated from medical school and completed a residency at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. She practiced general pediatrics in central Arkansas for over twenty years. While she loved every moment of it, a serious travel bug, a need to put the voice of her soul onto paper, and a call to give … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today lives two hours north of Toronto, but her heart’s other home is the South of France. An avid traveler, she spends part of each year there. Her award-winning debut novel, The Bridge Club, is a book club favorite and The Promise of Provence, which launched her three-part Love in Provence … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is the author of the Maggie Dove mystery series. Her debut novel, The Fiction Class, was published when she was 51 (though she was beginning to worry it might not be until she was 101.) Susan’s short stories are forthcoming in several anthologies, among them the Mystery Writers of America’s … Read More

EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is the author of Lost Girls, which is a collection of short stories, and winner of the Pencraft Award and finalist for the Clara Johnson, IAN and Best Book awards, and poetry chapbooks Surrender and Abide. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary journals and she was a finalist for … Read More