Chatting with Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning writer; Scott T. Barnes!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning writer; Scott T. Barnes!
Scott T. Barnes is the Writers of the Future Award-winning author and published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 28.  He is the author of the forthcoming Memories of Lucinda Eco and short fiction such as “Insect Sculptor,” “The Mark of Blackfriar Street,” and “The Last Job.” Publisher’s Weekly describes his work as “lyrical.” He lives in California with his wife and two daughters who inspire him more than they know.
The anthology Cosmic Muse was just released by Scott's publishing company, New Myths Publishing. It features his short story "A Galaxy of Cranks," a sci-fi mystery, and other stories by NewMyths magazine contributors. 
His first novel, a YA fantasy set in Baja California, will be released by New Myths Publishing on September 17, 2024. Lauren Kate, author of the Fallen series, mentored this project.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes artist and Illustrator; Larry Elmore!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes artist and Illustrator who created covers for Dungeons & Dragons; Larry Elmore!
Leonard Elmore has been creating fantasy and science fiction art for more than forty years. In the 1970s he began freelancing and was published in a few magazines, including Heavy Metal and National Lampoon. After being contacted by TSR Inc., the company that produced the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, Larry worked there from 1981 to 1987. While at TSR, he helped set the standards for gaming art in the role-playing genre. Besides creating covers for Dungeons & Dragons, AD&D, Star Frontiers and other gaming books, he may be best known for his work with the world of Dragonlance.
Since 1987 he has worked as a freelance illustrator, creating covers for comics, computer games, magazines, and fantasy and science fiction books and projects too numerous to list. In recent years, he has been creating paintings for collectors and fans around the world.
He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 2012. Larry was presented with the L. Ron Hubbard Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts in 2018.
“The Illustrators of the Future is true competition. It’s a wonderful competition. If I had something like this when I was young to attend, it would blow my mind because I never met a real professional artist till I was out of school, out of college.” —Larry Elmore

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author; Elaine Schroller!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author; Elaine Schroller!
Elaine Schroller writes about love, loss, and redemption experienced by Australian, American, and French characters during WWI and WWII. 
DARE NOT TELL is the story of Joe Parker, an Australian WWI vet, and his American wife Sophie, a WWI nurse. It begins with Sophie and Joe’s chance meeting in 1916 Paris and chronicles their relationship through thick and thin up to the threshold of WWII. 
THE BRAVEST SOLDIERS is set in Australia and the South West Pacific Area during World War II and explores how the women who wait at home must be the bravest soldiers. The book features Sophie and Joe, their sons, visitors from the US, plus a new romance and a trio of children whom life has treated very unfairly. 
Elaine is currently writing the next chapter in Sophie and Joe's story to discover the truth about what happened to Joe’s brother Robbie, who was declared ‘Missing, presumed dead’ in April 1917.
She was an oil brat, and attended high schools in Algeria, England, Texas, and Lebanon. Her degree is in History, which gave her the perfect training for researching specific places and events in DARE NOT TELL and THE BRAVEST SOLDIERS. She has traveled to all but one of the countries in the books and visited all the sites where the stories take place, some more than once. 
For many years she has lived in Bellaire, Texas where she and her husband raised their son and had multiple rescue cocker spaniels underfoot. 
She's a member of the Historical Novel Society and the Women's Fiction Writers Association and hopes you will love reading her books as much as she loved writing them.
 
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back multi-talented; Steven L Sears!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back multi-talented; Producer, Writer and actor; Steven L Sears! 
 I am so excited to have Steven L Sears back to chat about writing and his acting! We chat about a lot of things,  the Xena Con , his writing and several topics that just popped into our heads.  Steve is always fun and informative, he was one of my first guests, he has always been a great support to my podcast and when I introduced Sherri's Playhouse he turned it around and interviewed me about my new venture, (at the time,) so get a cup of tea, sit back, relax and enjoy.
 
Steven is an author, screenwriter and television producer whose career spans over thirty five years. His screenwriting and producing works include such classics as THE A-TEAM, STINGRAY, WALKER, TEXAS RANGER, SWAMP THING, SUPERBOY, SHEENA, XENA-WARRIOR PRINCESS, and many other TV series. He has developed series concepts with most of the major studios and networks as well as doing consulting work for established production companies. His work also includes digital media, animation, and game play. As an Author, his work includes the non-fiction book THE NON-USER FRIENDLY GUIDE FOR ASPIRING TV WRITERS as well as many short stories in anthologies such as JEFF STURGEONS LOST CITIES OF EARTH and the upcoming release ALIENS VS PREDATOR: ULTIMATE PREY.  Co-Writing with Times Bestselling Author Kevin J. Anderson, their graphic novel STALAG-X is currently in development as a major motion picture.  

Chatting with Sherri welcomes back award winning author; Tim Powers!

Chatting with Sherri welcomes back award winning author; Tim Powers!
Tim Powers published The Skies Discrowned and Epitaph in Rust in 1976. Tim’s subsequent novels are The Drawing of the Dark, The Anubis Gates (winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and the Prix Apollo), Dinner at Deviant’s Palace (winner of the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award), On Stranger Tides (the novel the movie, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, was based on) The Stress of Her Regard, Last Call (winner of the World Fantasy Award.)
His most recent book is Hide Me Among the Graves. The Manchester Guardian called Powers “the best fantasy writer to appear in decades.” 
Tim teaches the annual Writers of the Future workshop. He has been involved with the Contest since its early years, serving as one of the instructors (along with Algis Budrys and Orson Scott Card) at the very first official WotF workshop in Sag Harbor. 
“I think I’ve been a judge for most of the quarters in the past two decades. This means that several times a year I get a stack of manuscript photocopies via next-day mail, and take a day off from my own writing to read them all and evaluate them; this is no chore, since Dave Wolverton or K.D. Wentworth has already culled them from the total volume of submissions, and invariably there is at least one story that I’m grateful to have a chance to read. I send my verdicts in, and usually I hang on to a couple of the photocopies, just because I want to have the chance to read them again before the actual anthology is published.” — Tim Powers
 

We welcome back Vice President of Public Affairs for Galaxy Press;Emily Goodwin!

 
Chatting With Sherri welcomes back Vice President of Public Affairs for Author Services for  Galaxy Press; Emily Goodwin!
Emily Goodwin has been involved with book publishing since 2007, including the international Writers & Illustrators of the Future Contests. She is the producer for the Writers of the Future annual Achievement Awards as well as the online writing workshop. She has been active with the IBPA (Independent Book Publishers Association) as a contest judge for the Benjamin Franklin Awards. She is involved in community activities in the greater Los Angeles area and has been Vice President Community Outreach for the Hollywood Christmas Parade since 2014. Emily has also been an Honorary Commander for the US Air Force since 2018.
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning writer; Elaine Midcoh!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning writer; Elaine Midcoh!
Elaine Midcoh (a pen name) is a short story writer and an award-winning author of science fiction. She’s a past winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award and “The Writers of the Future” contest. Her stories have appeared in the anthologies, “Writers of the Future, Volumes 37 & 39” (Galaxy Press, Nov. 2021 & May, 2023), and “Compelling Science Fiction Short Stories” (Flame Tree Press, Oct. 2022), and in the magazines/literary journals, MetaStellar, Escape Pod, Galaxy’s Edge, Daily Science Fiction, Jewish Fiction .net, Flash Fiction Magazine and The Sunlight Press. She's a retired criminal justice/law college professor and recently participated in a 3 day Life on Mars simulation sponsored by The Space Foundation, proving that writing sci-fi can lead to fun and interesting adventures. You can visit her web page at: https://ElaineMidcoh.wordpress.com and can connect with her on Facebook @Elaine Midcoh.

I’m so happy to welcome back director, screenwriter & actor; Jamal McWhorter!

I'm so happy to welcomes back producer, director, screenwriter & actor; Jamal McWhorter to Chatting With Sherri!
Jamal McWhorter is an actor turned film producer/director born and raised in Atlanta, GA. With a strong passion for making quality films, Jamal starts with a great story and bring it alive with eye-catching visuals. Dramas, horrors, and comedies are the genres he loved growing up, and he likes to have fun with those elements of his films today. In 2013 he wrote, produced, and starred in his first production LOUD, a semi-autobiographical tale about a young musician trying to make it. Shortly after completing the movie, Jamal and his business partners started L.O.U.D. Films, an indie film company committed to excellent storytelling. His upcoming feature-length directorial debut Switched at Love, a romantic comedy set in Atlanta, is set for release in Winter 2022. His latest film is Blood Money!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back the talented and fun; Adrienne Wilkinson!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back the talented and fun; Adrienne Wilkinson! 
Adrienne  is a wonderfully talented actor, she is best known as Xena's daughter Eve/Livia on Xena Warrior Princess.  She is also a writer and director. She is so talented and she is stretching out to new pursuits.
She is on TikTok;  Eve & her mom. Ancient Roman Warriors now living in L.A. #WeHaveManySkills tiktok.com/@yoadriennew
What is Adrienne's Plan A Media Group? "Every Human is a creator.  We create ourselves, our lives and our work every day, by understanding our talents and resources and through each brave choice. Adrienne Wilkinson through Plan A Media Group amplifies the greatest potential of creators, their projects, and the daily adventure of living well. Plan A Media Group  is an inspired space helping filmmakers, writers, creators and YOU find impactful solutions, make bold choices, produce extraordinary work and take brilliant next steps by providing expert feedback, supportive creative consulting, inspiring unique answers, fine-tuning through fresh perspective, powerful brainstorming, and dynamic project-collaboration. This is a space to deeply explore, discover ways to reach your goals, achieve results and surpass expectations.   If you've felt stuck in your current experience, or are hoping to transform or finish a project - reach out and schedule a consult."   www.PlanAMediaGroup.com
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning artist; Ximing Luo !

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning artist; Ximing Luo!
Ximing Luo  has been drawing ever since she could hold a pencil, discovering her love for art and creativity during her time in preschool. Inspired by children's books and illustrations, she started illustrating and has never looked back. Though Ximing is the only artist in her family, her parents were always supportive throughout her artistic growth and journey.
Ximing's current works explore the cohesion of reality and illusions in dreams and nightmares, consisting of surrealist pieces investigating the hallucinations of the subconscious human psyche. Ximing finds herself experimenting with all sorts of media and concepts with an unquenchable thirst for novelty and originality, always looking for a way to push her craft and imagination to the next level. In the past, she has worked with digital media, but for the time being, she finds her passion in traditional media. Recently she has explored woodburning, scratch art, and assembling geometric structures.
Ximing  is a winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Contest and was honored along with eleven other winning artists and twelve winning writers at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, California on April 28th.  Ximing created the illustration for the story, "The Withering Sky," by author Arthur H. Manners, a Writers of the Future winner.  The story and illustration along with the other writers' and illustrators' stories and art are published in the international bestselling anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 39