Chatting with Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning artist; Bruce Brenneise!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning artist; Bruce Brenneise!
Bruce Brenneise is an award-winning illustrator for the Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest​! His passion is for world-building through vibrant, epic and strange environments, helping clients flesh out ambitious stories and excite their fans. He's best known for his work on games such as Numenera and Slay the Spire. He lives in Seattle with his wife, son, and carnivorous plants. 
Bruce Brenneise grew up in the countryside by Lake Michigan; nature and fantasy were two of his main interests from the beginning. He continued to not-so-secretly focus on magic, monsters, and myths while studying scientific illustration at the University of Michigan. Pursuit of diverse environments and experiences led him around the world in search of artistic inspiration: a field sketching trip to southern Africa, months amidst ancient ruins of Anatolia, not to mention six years working and traveling throughout China and other parts of East Asia. The landscapes he has explored and the vistas one can only find in fiction are at the heart of Bruce's current work as an illustrator and independent artist. 
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back actor/writer/director; Eric Erickson!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back actor/writer/director; Eric Erickson!
Eric Erickson - The Angry Viking - graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Theatre and spent his early acting years performing on stages across the country in roles ranging from Hamlet and Mercutio to Conrad Birdie and Charlie Chaplin. He has been seen in the feature films "Dam Sharks!" and "Last Call at Murray's" and the television shows "The Last Ship," "The Young and the Restless" and "Stitchers." He also appeared in the cult favorite "Snake Outta Compton" as Alley Jaws.
Eric Paul Erickson, writer/director and star of the upcoming award winning feature film “Truth”. He received Best Director awards for the film from the Silver State Film Festival and the Marina del Rey Film Festival and a Best Actor and Best Storytelling award from the Laughlin International Film Festival. It also won best feature at the Worldwide Women's Film Festival and Eric was nominated for best actor at the Bloodstained Indie Film Festival in Japan. He presented "Truth" in Arkhangelsk, Russia in 2018 at the Arctic Open Film Festival.
He is currently prepping for the release of a book called Ascension, that is a science fiction novel that will be out in the spring. Viking Dog has created the Little Book Series, which are small fun fact books about different topics. We hope to do small more niche topics like Radio and Pulp Fiction. Truth has also been released as an ebook and paperback of the screenplay on different platforms.
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes screenwriter and author; Paul Coyle!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes screenwriter and author; Paul Coyle!
I am so excited to welcome the very talented Paul Coyle to my show, I have been watching and enjoying his shows for years.  He was a writer on Crazy Like a Fox and Jake and the Fatman,  Xena: Warrior Princess. As well a writer for three Trek series – Star Trek: The Animated Series; Star Trek: Voyager; and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  He was a writer/producer for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. .Paul also wrote for other genre series such as Superboy, The Dead Zone, and Space Precinct
His latest adventure is a book tentatively called; From Star Trek to Xena to Hercules: A Screenwriter's Life Scripting the Stories of Heroes. http://www.jacobsbrownmediagroup.com/from-star-trek-to-xena-to-hercules-a-screenwriters-life-scripting-the-stories-of-heroes.html

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Stacey L Tucker!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Stacey L Tucker!
The Equal Night Trilogy is a romantic adventure that speaks to the longing in the hearts of women. Once the Greeks forced their male gods upon the world, the belief in the power of women was severed. For centuries it has been thought that the wisdom of the high priestesses perished at the hand of the patriarchs—but the ancient Book of Sophia, which contains the sacred knowledge needed for the coming age, is out there. And it is looking for Skylar Southmartin. This new adult fantasy series takes our protagonist, Skylar, on a journey through Fire, Air, and Water as she races to fulfill her task: find the Book of Sophia, return the heart of humanity to wholeness, and return the United States to a trajectory toward its true destiny—becoming the New Atlantis. Along the way, she discovers shocking truths about her family, recovers lost love, and, time and again, faces tests of her loyalties, her courage, and her strength of will. A new adult fantasy series that calls on readers to embrace their sexuality and their shadow self,  The Equal Night Trilogy is a tribute to the extraordinary power of mothers, daughters, wives, and women of the twenty-first century—and a reminder that the future depends on the choices we make now.
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back talented author; Nicholas Diak!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back talented author; Nicholas Diak!
 
Nicholas Diak is a pop culture scholar who specializes in Italian genre cinema, contemporary sword and sandal films, industrial music, 80s retroism, and H. P. Lovecraft studies. His first book, The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s, was published in late 2017 while his second book, co-edited with Michele Brittany, Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays is slated to be published later this year.
 
He has contributed essays to a variety of websites and journals, along with chapters to the academic books James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy, Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre, Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series and a chapter in an upcoming untitled anthology on Westworld. Along with Michele Brittany, he is a co-creator and co-chair of the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference which is part of the Horror Writers Association's yearly StokerCon event.
 
Aside from writing, Nicholas enjoys cooking, retrogaming, pinup and tiki culture, and is a contributor to the Exotica Moderne lifestyle magazine. Along with Michele, he lives in Orange, CA with two cats, Algernon and Cecily.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back publisher and writer; John Goodwin!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back publisher and writer; John Goodwin!
 
Over its 35 year history, the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest has recognized 404 winners who have gone on to publish 1,150 novels and 4,450 short stories.  Of these, 192 are still active with a writing career—that’s over 40%. Twelve of these Contest winners have gone on to become NYT bestselling authors. And Contest Winners have garnered 155 major awards.  Collectively, the winners of the contests have sold over 60 million books over the years.  And with the last 4 volumes of Writers of the Future hitting national bestseller lists—and each of the winners becoming national bestselling authors and illustrators as a result—contest entries continue to increase each quarter with entries from around the world.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning author; Kaaron Warren!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning author; Kaaron Warren!
Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren published her first short story in 1993 and has had fiction in print every year since. She was recently given the Peter McNamara Lifetime Achievement Award and was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy 2018, Stokercon 2019 and Geysercon 2019. Kaaron was a Fellow at the Museum for Australian Democracy, where she researched prime ministers, artists and serial killers. She has published five multi-award winning novels (Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, The Grief Hole and Tide of Stone) and seven short story collections, including the multi-award winning Through Splintered Walls.. She has won the ACT Writers and Publishers Award four times and twice been awarded the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Into Bones Like Oil (Meerkat Press) is on the Preliminary Ballot for the Stoker Award and the Recommended Reading List for Locus.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award winning composer back David Raiklen!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award winning composer, producer, educator, and host; David Raiklen!
David Raiklen is an American composer best known for the science fiction series Space Command and for the Emmy winning Mia, A Dancer’s Journey.
David was mentored by Oscar winner John Williams and Pulitzer Prize winner Mel Powel. Dr. Raiklen studied at USC, UCLA, and CalArts and later taught at those universities. He has worked for the major studios including Sony, Fox, Disney, Sprint, Mattel, Warner Bros and PBS, plus many independent productions. His projects have starred Elliott Gould, Doug Jones, Blythe Danner, and Martin Sheen. David made the New York Film Critics Top Ten with the documentary Heist, the short list for an Academy Award® for Worth, and Mia, A Dancer's Journey won the Emmy. An oratorio for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial titled Discovery, a mixed reality giant projection event for the Center Theater Group’s 50th anniversary, episodes of Star Trek Continues, and a violin concerto for festival darling Worth.
David Raiklen compositions have been performed at the Hollywood Bowl and Disney Hall. He was also host of a successful radio program, Classical Fan Club, where guests include Yo-Yo Ma and John Williams; and was host and leader of The Academy of Scoring Arts seminars. David is currently producing and composing for Space Command, a series of epic adventures set in a hopeful future, and producing Virtual Reality experiences.
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author Peter Wacks!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author Peter Wacks!
Caller of Lightning; When Halley's Comet blazed across the sky in 1759, onlookers saw a sight far more spectacular--and disastrous--than they ever could have imagined. Destroyed in a magical battle, the comet is rent in two and appears to strike Earth. The event is known as The Sundering, the moment in which the Old World is separated from the New, perhaps permanently isolating the Americas. What's more, The Sundering has brought magic into the world--creatures from folklore and fairy tales come to life, along with wizardry and magework unlike anything seen outside of legend. The New World is now far stranger than before, and the Europeans, Africans, and Indigenous peoples on the American continent must forge new bonds if they are to survive. So, when magic returns to the world of the 1700s, who does the world turn to for help? None other than the father of electricity himself: Benjamin Franklin! But Franklin is in for a shock if he thinks his knowledge of science will prepare him for the world of magic. The master once more becomes the apprentice. But Franklin must learn his spells fast, for he is far from the only one studying magic.
Predator: If It Bleeds; An anthology celebrating the 30th anniversary of the PREDATOR franchise, IF IT BLEEDS includes seventeen brand new, never before seen stories--exclusive to this collection--featuring the Predators throughout space and time. Based entirely on the original films, novels, and comics, PREDATOR: IF IT BLEEDS (a quote from the original movie) reveals the Predators stalking prey in 12th Century Japan, 9th Century Viking Norway, World War I, Vietnam, the Civil War, Hurricane Katrina, and the modern day, as well as across the far reaches of future space.
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back TV director TJ Scott!!!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back TV director TJ Scott!!!
 
I always have a great time with TJ, he is an awarding winning director; he won the Canadian Screen Awards; Best Direction in a Drama Series for Orphan Black. We had a super time chatting about all his new shows and books;
Directing and Executive Producing Departure a series about an investigative team that looks into major Transport Incidents, In the first season the team is assemble to investigate the mid air disappearance of a Airliner between New York and London with 250 passengers on board, starring; Academy Award Winner Christopher Plummer, Emmy Award Winner Archie Panjabi, Kris Holden Ried, Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani, Peter Mensah,Shazad Latif,Allan Hawco!
Frontier tv series season 2 on Netflix starring JASON MOMOA of Aquaman was released recently - a six part season; It is the story of the Hudson Bay company and the battle between the French, The English and Native Americans for land and fur trapping rights. Dennys Ilic and I embedded ourselves in the show and shot a Coffee Table book of epic photos . We now have a kickstarter going to try to generate enough sales for the book to go into print, 
STAR TREK:DISCOVERY (Season 2) This series is in mid release, we chat about;  Senoqua Martin Green of the Walking Dead and Doug Jones of The Shape if Water star with new to the cast Anson Mount from Hell on Wheels  and Shazad Latif .
And we chat about his show; V-WARS - New Netflix Vampire series starring Ian Somerhalder of Vampire Diaries.