Chatting with Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back very talented author: Jessica Brawner!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back very talented author: Jessica Brawner!
Jessica Brawner has a variety of fiction and non-fiction titles to her credit, including most recently The First Sin (Published 2020), the first novel in The Adventures of Captain Jac. Ms. Brawner’s fiction has appeared in Steampunk Trails II (2014),  Steampunk The Otherworlds released by Villainous Press in 2015, the 2014, 2015 & 2016 Story of the Month Club anthologies, & Ghost Hunting Critters released by Inkwolf Press in 2017.
Booking the Library: A Guide for Entertainers, Musicians, Speakers and Authors- In Booking the Library you will find: Sample phone scripts, contracts, and emails Detailed instructions on finding library contact information quickly and easily Suggestions on best practices Information on performer showcases And many more tips and golden rules to help keep you happy, healthy, and sane as you pursue your passion.
Charisma +1: The Guide to Convention Etiquette for Everyone-Embark on a gaming-inspired journey where life's attributes become your starting point. Charisma, Strength, Will, Wisdom, Intelligence, and Constitution are your inherent qualities, just like in the game of life. Whether you're a seasoned convention-goer, a first-timer, a volunteer, vendor, or guest, we all crave a boost in our "stats."
Jessica sprouted in the wilds of South Texas and plotted ways to spend her life traveling the world. She has been remarkably successful at that endeavor, and is currently based in the Los Angeles area. In addition to her writing career, Ms. Brawner is currently the Director of Business operations for the US division of a German based Residential Energy Storage company. You can find her online on Twitter (@JABrawner) on Facebook facebook.com/jabrawner or on the web at www.jessicabrawner.com

We welcome back crime novelist & President of the Detection Club ;Martin Edwards

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back crime novelist, editor and President of the Detection Club; Martin Edwards!
Martin Edwards has drawn on more than 30 years’ experience as a crime novelist. He is also an internationally acclaimed editor of crime anthologies for the British Library and other publishers. In addition to enjoying many years of success as a crime writer, he is the only person to have been elected to serve as Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and President of the Detection Club at the same time. This experience gives him a special understanding of the challenges facing crime writers. Having combined his writing life with more than 30 years as a partner in a law firm, he is ideally equipped to encourage aspiring novelists to write while coping with a day job or other commitments.
The Life of Crime: Unravelling the Mysteries of Fiction’s Favourite Genre-In the first major history of crime fiction in fifty years, The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and their Creators traces the evolution of the genre from the eighteenth century to the present, offering brand-new perspective on the world’s most popular form of fiction.
Coming soon from Martin Edwards; The House on Graveyard Lane-The woman in white—surreal artist Damaris Gethin—has invited a select group to the opening of her exhibit "Artist in Crime," held in the eerie subterranean Hades Gallery. As costumed models reenact famously violent deaths, the artist herself portrays Marie Antoinette on the day of her execution, complete with a guillotine on the stage. It's not a prop; within ten minutes of Rachel's promise to solve Damaris's future murder, the artist slips her neck into the collar of the device and the very real blade sends her head rolling at the feet of her horrified audience.
 

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

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award winning composer; 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 series, 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  produced and composed for Space Command, a series of epic adventures set in a hopeful future, and producing Augmented Reality experiences. And his latest project is the soundtrack album to Space Command, recorded with symphony orchestra, choir, and cool electronics - available everywhere!
 

We welcome back screenwriters and novelists; Lauren Cipollo and Matt Conant!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back screenwriters and novelists; Lauren Cipollo and Matt Conant!
I was so happy to catch up with Lauren and Matt and hear all the excitement about their new novel, The official April 9th release of PARALLAX: ORIGIN!
Lauren Cipollo is a screenwriter, novelist, and illustrator specializing in science fiction, fantasy and other genre fare. Lauren designed over a dozen species and countless mechanics for the space adventure tabletop role-playing game Parallax. She then co-wrote The Parallax trilogy of novels with Matt Conant, coming soon from Aethon Books. Lauren also authored the epic fantasy novel Dark & Zarus, which just went out on query.
Matt Conant is a show creator living in Los Angeles, with twenty years experience as a writer and director on comedy, sci-fi, and genre properties for film, TV, and digital. Matt is a writer on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Netflix, others), as well as The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Live Tour. He has also created/written/directed many digital comedy series including Nerd vs. Geek, Moot, OverAnalyzers, and Society: Why It's Wrong, and served as co-writer and frequent collaborator on The Angry Video Game Nerd, Super Plumber Bros and Living in 8 Bits. He is currently adapting a neo-noir video game property for TV, as well as writing and producing web series The Box with esteemed animation writer Jonathan Callan. 
 

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.