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Chatting With Sherri award-winning Cinematographer Roger Lanser!

Chatting With Sherri award-winning Cinematographer Roger Lanser!
Roger Lanser at the ABC TV drama department as a clapper loader in 1976 on a series called The Outsiders, then went on to assist on the Alvin Purple TV series, along with Golden Soak, The Levkas Man,The Off Show. After many years as a Loader and Focus Puller he became camera operator to DP Peter Hendry on many ABC dramas such as Patrol Boat, Captain Cook, and Boy in the Bush where he met acclaimed British actor Kenneth Branagh.
 Kenneth Branagh asked him to come to England and film the British comedy Peter’s Friends. Over the years he went on to do eight feature films for Branagh including three Shakespeare’s, and the big screen opera Mozart’s The Magic Flute in 2006 for which he won the Australian Cinematographer's Society; Cinematographer of the Year! 
In Australia he did  Australian films such as The Cliff Young Story, Till Human Voices Wake Us, Charlie and Boots, and Strange Bedfellows, these last two with Paul Hogan. Roger has had the opportunity to work in the USA where he shot a comedy feature called A Weekend in the Country with Jack Lemon and Betty White and has photographed many USA co-pro tele movies here in Australia. He has been the cinematographer on three series of the very successful Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries based in Melbourne as well as, Miss Fisher and The Crypt of Tears, which Roger shot in Morocco and Melbourne, premiered at the Palm Springs International Film Festival and opened in Sydney and Melbourne to booked out screenings. 
 
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes best-selling author; Sagar Constantin!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes best-selling author; Sagar Constantin!
Sagar Constantin is a bestselling Scandinavian author with more than seven books. She writes stories that are both captivating but also highly inspirational. The In-Between series came to Sagar on her way home from a business trip to India, and she instantly knew that this was a story that she had to share with the world. Her deep desire to bring awareness to the world is done most elegantly in these books. She has a remarkable ability to make psychological issues easy to understand and comprehend, and through her reading, it is possible to grow inside and at the same time be highly entertained. Sagar is also an international speaker and lecturer for businesses. Every year, she trains thousands of people in personal development, change management, EQ, and High-performance teams. When she is not writing and teaching, she loves to spend time with her family and enjoys nature walks. Sagar lives in Denmark but travels the world with her work. www.SagarConstantin.com 
 
The Life by Sagar Constantin; "This is a great story of choice. Life as you know it, or following your soul's growth and destiny. THE LIFE is the first installment in the In-Between trilogy by Sagar Constantin. As the main character moves through her soul's awakening there is a lot of beautiful prose about this strange place and self-introspection.
- Review from Amazon Diana Raven
The In-Between is a temporary home for people where they must decide whether to return to their lives on Earth or move on to the next stage in their development.  It’s a wonderful place filled with spiritual aids and advanced technology.  It’s also a place where people face themselves for the first time.
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning writer; Brittany Rainsdon!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning writer; Brittany Rainsdon!
Brittany Rainsdon started writing at a young age, penning poems and stories, and filling an overstuffed nightstand with spiral notebooks, pens, and floppy disks (yes, those were still a thing in 2007). But after entering college, Brittany lost touch with her writing and didn’t come back to it for several years. After having her third child in 2015 and needing a creative outlet, her passion for writing reignited. Once she found the Writers of the Future Contest, Brittany has not missed a quarter and has been a Writers of the Future finalist three times. 
 
Brittany was a Published Finalist in the Writers of the Future Contest, now in its 38th year. Her story, "Half-Breed” is her first published story and as a winner this year, her story, "The Last Dying Season," will be published in Volume 38.

Chatting with Sherri welcomes award-winning writer Desmond Astaire!

 
Chatting with Sherri welcomes award-winning writer Desmond Astaire!
Desmond Astaire is a speculative fiction storyteller from Central Illinois, where he navigates the journey of life alongside a devoted wife and forever-loved son. In his other life, Astaire is a senior enlisted leader for a military public relations unit, supervising the training, development, and operations of multimedia content creators.
Astaire’s lifelong obsession with science fiction and fantasy was forged as a child in the halls of local public libraries. The addiction was enabled by reading programs like Accelerated Reader and BOOK IT!, and the revelation to write professionally was born after his discovery of Dean Wesley Smith’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds anthology. For these formative experiences, he is forever grateful. Astaire can be found Saturday mornings in Peoria metro-area coffee shops conducting weekly writing sessions and trying to apply Denzel Washington’s adage that “Dreams without goals are just dreams, and they ultimately fuel disappointment.” Writers of the Future was Astaire’s goal since 2017.
Desmond Astaire is the grand prize winner in The Writers of the Future contest earning him the Golden Pen Award and cash prize of $5,000!  His story is published in the anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 38

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning author; Becky Bohan!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning author;  Becky Bohan!
 
FINALIST: 2021 GCLS Award for General Fiction;A Light on Altered Land by Becky Bohan!
NYC -MARCH 2022 "Bohan treats issues of aging, illness, spirituality, and family with maturity and integrity. Readers will be moved by this story of romance and second chances."--Publishers Weekly
Ellie Belmont, a retired college teacher, wants to leave the house she shared with her wife, who died three years ago. Kathryn Kepler, a retired psychotherapist, finds life as a country club divorcée lonely. They meet by chance at a coffee shop and bond over downsizing. Sparks of attraction ignite on a road trip from Minnesota to California. After a romantic few days in Yosemite, they must deal with the real world—Kathryn’s homophobic daughter, medical cannabis, and a run-in with the law.
A love story about mature passion and personal integrity, A Light on Altered Land has readers cheering for this winsome couple.
 
Author Becky Bohan, of North Fort Myers, Florida, earned her M.A. in English Literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the retired Vice-President of a training consulting company. She has published three lesbian novels and, along with her wife, Nancy Manahan, the non-fiction award-winning Living Consciously, Dying Gracefully: A Journey with Cancer and Beyond.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back writer, publisher and podcaster; Scot Noel!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back writer, publisher and podcaster; Scot Noel!
Scot and I chat about the kickstarter to help pay their authors more and the new DreamForge Magazine's Channel  on YouTube.
Scot Noel created DreamForge Magazine in 2019. He has been published in Eden Studios Zombie anthologies, Algis Budrys’ Tomorrow Speculative Fiction magazine, and has written novellas and interaction text for computer games.  Tangent, the genre's premiere review magazine for short SF & Fantasy, listed 20 DreamForge stories on their 2020 Recommended Reading List.
DreamForge Magazine in 2022 by Scot M Noel — Kickstarter
Dreamforge Magazine - YouTube

We welcome back WOTFs Vice President of Public Affairs for Authors Emily Goodwin

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back WOTF's Vice President of Public Affairs for Authors Services; Emily Goodwin!
Emily Goodwin, Vice President of Public Affairs for Author Services, Writers of the Future. Author Services, Inc., talks abou the "L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Online Workshop" We chat about how well it has done and how helpful to upcoming authors.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back talented actor; Anthony J Sharpe!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back talented actor; Anthony J Sharpe!
Anthony Sharpe best known as Cec Yates from Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries.
And he is playng Erik Cowle  in Joe Vs Carole; Carole Baskin, a big-cat rescuer, sets out to end roadside zoo operator Joe Exotic's animal shows and cub-breeding business, inciting a bitter 10-year feud that threatens both of their livelihoods.
He plays Cash in Black Water Abyss; Five friends exploring a remote cave system in Northern Australia find themselves threatened by a hungry crocodile.
He has also done some amazing work in; Paul in Carp Made The River Green, Keith in Mutt, Sig in 7 Storeys Down, Jasper in Initiation, Malcolm Rogers in Oh Brother!  
He has also been busy in Los Angeles working behind the scenes on several film projects.  

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back diverse photographer; Chris Loomis!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back diverse photographer; Chris Loomis!
"Design, art, nature, architecture, high-fashion, science, science-fiction, surrealism, the paranormal, music and even old cartoons...name some of the many things that inspire me personally as well as photographically. From personal project with high-concept productions to illustrative commissions for clients, I am constantly working to evolve my vision while maintaining the highest level of quality and art direction."

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning author; Sean Patrick Hazlett!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning author and Writers of the Future winner, Sean Patrick Hazlett! 
What if there were a war after Armageddon? How would the survivors emerging from World War III’s radioactive slag heaps fight in this conflict? Would they wage it with sticks and stones . . . and sorcery? Or would they use more refined weapons, elevating lawfare to an art and unleashing bureaucratic nightmares worse than death? Would they struggle against themselves or inter-dimensional invaders? What horrors from the desolate darkness might slither into the light? Wipe away the ashes of civilization and peer into a pit of atomic glass to witness the haunting visions of World War IV from today’s greatest minds in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.
Sean Patrick Hazlett is an US Army veteran, speculative fiction writer and editor, and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay area. He holds an AB in history and BS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. As a cavalry officer serving in the elite 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, he trained various Army and Marine Corps units for war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Sean is a 2017 winner of the Writers of the Future Contest. More than forty of his short stories have appeared in publications such as The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Year’s Best Hardcore Horror, Terraform, Galaxy’s Edge, Writers of the Future, Grimdark Magazine, Vastarien, and Abyss & Apex, among others.