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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 Hugo nominated editor; Bryan Thomas Schmidt!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes best selling and award nominated author; Bryan Thomas Schmidt!
Bryan Thomas Schmidt is the Hugo nominated editor of The Martian by Andy Weir, a national bestselling author of the John Simon Thrillers and official entries in The X-Files, Predator, Monster Hunter International, Joe Ledger, and more.

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Chatting With Sherri welcomes author; Brian Trent!
Brian Trent's work regularly appears in Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Terraform, Daily Science Fiction, Apex, Pseudopod, Escape Pod, Galaxy’s Edge, Nature, and numerous year’s best anthologies. The author of the recently published sci-fi novel Ten Thousand Thunders and the dark fantasy series Rahotep, Trent lives in New England. His website is www.briantrent.com.

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Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Rachel Anne Cox!
Utah author Rachel Anne Cox offers a literary dystopian novel for adults which owes much of its realness to her skill as a researcher for historical book themes.
A Light From The Ashes is set in the future wasteland of Virginia where Sam, the son of revolutionaries, wants nothing more than to leave the violence of his past behind him, but the impending Third Revolution and the two women he loves may not let him. With his loyalties torn between his affection for Sophie and maintaining the tentative peace which has prevailed in the land, Sam must navigate the fine lines between peace and rebellion, love and hate, while trying to find his humanity in an inhumane world and within himself.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back podcaster; Jennifer Aldrich!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back podcaster;  Jennifer Aldrich!
 
Join Jennifer Aldrich, author, performer, and fan of all things in the Phryne Fisher-verse, as she interviews fellow fans who are adventurous in their own right. Find out how they answer the question: What would Miss Fisher do? Plus, stay up-to-date on news from around the fandom including movie news, Miss Fisher related meet-ups and events, and much more.
This is a recorded episode, please don't call in.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author and playwright; Robin Alexander!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award nominated author and playwright; Robin Alexander!
We will be chatting about her books of course but we are also going to chat about her second radio play for Sherri's Playhouse called Deep Echos by Melody Ash, hernon de plume for Science Fiction.
She is an award winning author with several books coming out; Northern Echos by Melody Ash and a very popular series of books; Secrets are revealed and the fight continues in Dark Crossings and Revelaltions, Books #2 and #3 of the Shadows Trilogy.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes Award-winning filmmaker, Anita Sugimura Holsapple!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes Award-winning Japanese-American filmmaker, Anita Sugimura Holsapple!
Award-winning Japanese-American filmmaker, Anita Sugimura Holsapple is a “survivor” of war.
Battlefield: Home – Breaking The Silence was inspired by her own experiences as military child during the Vietnam War, and the realization of despite years, today’s generation of military families are continuing to face the same challenges and stigma surrounding mental injuries and trauma.
As the daughter of a Japanese mother who survived the bombing of Japan, and a combat U.S. Marine of the Vietnam Conflict, Anita is very experience with mental injuries and trauma when the remnants of war came home.
"PTSD and mental injuries leave a legacy, a fingerprint and an emotional imprint, not only on the injured, but the family members as well."
Battlefield: Home - Breaking The Silence became a mission.
A celluloid story of our journey, the military family members who for generations maintained a code of silence.
 
 

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Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Brad R Torgersen!
 Brad R. Torgersen the 2019 DragonCon Dragon Award winner for Best Science Fiction novel: A STAR-WHEELED SKY!  The award-winning stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. A veteran and Chief Warrant Officer in the United States Army Reserve, Brad has also served in half a dozen different countries. 

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

Chatting With Sherri welcomes actor/writer/director; Eric Paul 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.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author; Wulf Moon!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author ; Wulf Moon!
Wulf Moon, an Olympic Peninsula award-winning writer and podcast director for Future Science Fiction Digest. Moon wrote his first science fiction story when he was fifteen. It won the national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards the same contest that first discovered Stephen King, Peter S. Beagle, Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates!
Moon has won over thirty awards in writing. In fact, when he first appeared on the show in January, just an hour before our interview Moon won the Critters Annual Readers' Poll for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story published in 2018. The story is titled, "War Dog." Since then, Moon went to Hollywood to receive another award, this time in the international talent search, Writers of the Future. His story "Super-Duper Moongirl and the Amazing Moon Dawdler" is published in their bestselling anthology WRITERS OF THE FUTURE, VOL. 35. 
In addition, Moon's historical fantasy “Weep No More for the Willow” just debuted in the magazine DEEP MAGIC, Fall 2019. Moon calls the tale "a zesty Caribbean cocktail with a splash of Spanish captain and a seductive mermaid twist!" This story provides a peek into his current novel, a novel the vice president of Audible Originals has expressed great interest in producing.
Finally, "Cold Iron"--the sequel to “War Dog”--will be published this October in Third Flatiron’s anthology LONGEVITY. We'll be talking to Moon about all of this, and his advice to aspiring writers in the book being released this October by Camden Park Press titled HOW I GOT PUBLISHED AND WHAT I LEARNED ALONG THE WAY.