Chatting with Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning writer, Devon Bohm !

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning writer, Devon Bohm !
Devon is a poet and writer who received her BA from Smith College and her MFA in Poetry and Fiction from Fairfield University. At Fairfield, Bohm became increasingly frustrated with the denial of genre fiction as “Literature” and began exploring the big question of why people were attracted to different forms of speculative fiction. The answer she found didn’t surprise her, as it was what she’d always valued about her favorite writers: genres like fantasy or science-fiction perform the same function of all good literature by finding new and inventive ways to help the reader see their world (and self) more clearly.
Devon  is a winner in our international contest, The Writers of the Future and her winning story, "Kitsune," is published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 39 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Kathleen M. Paydo about Foster Families!

Fostering Love-Families are the foundation of society. When we care for and protect children, we ensure that future generations thrive as well. The devastation that abuse and neglect cause have taught us the immense impact—good and bad—that parents have on children. This book will enlighten readers beyond those directly involved with foster children to see the resiliency and potential that can be hidden in these vulnerable girls and boys. Each of our foster children has blessed our lives with their own unique story.
 
Kathleen M. Paydo's goals are to teach others about the foster care life and to help members of the community understand how they themselves can use their talents to impact the life of a foster child. Kathleen believes that families are the foundation of society, and when children are protected and well cared for, future generations thrive as well.
Kathleen is a licensed foster parent and author who promotes child-care advocacy in her home and in the community. She is a member of the National Foster Parent Association and is a registered nurse in the state of Ohio. Kathleen and her husband, Ron, have been married for thirty-five years and are blessed with four beautiful children. Kathleen and Ron have opened their home throughout most of their marriage, to 165 foster children who have no one to care for them and nowhere else to go.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author Shireen Magedin!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author Shireen Magedin!
Heartlines-Discover an epic tale of thrilling action and suspense in the conclusion to the Journey series. Join Doctor Sarah Shah and Agent Tanya Kareem as they embark on a perilous mission, one that will take them to the edges of their courage and ingenuity. Beginning with a mission to aid earthquake victims, their journey quickly escalates into a whirlwind of action, betrayal, kidnapping, and chases infused with a dash of the paranormal. Will Sarah and Tanya survive in this heart-stopping adventure? Find out!
Dr. Shireen Magedin is a practicing pediatrician who has studied in Pakistan, England, and Ireland. She has always had psychic abilities, and in the beginning they scared her, until she received guidance from trainers and connected with people who had similar abilities, thus knowing she wasn’t alone. Connecting psychically and intuitively with her patients has helped her hone her medical skills. She lives with her cat Pompi (aka Madam Pompadour) and enjoys visits from her daughter Sharmeen, son Nadir, and daughter in law Mariam.
https://ausxippublishing.com/writers/shireen_magedin/
https://shireenmagedin.com

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning crime novelist; Martin Edwards!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning crime novelist; 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.  He is President of the Detection Club and Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, and Archivist of both organisations.
Martin's latest novel; The Puzzle of Blackstone Lodge; 1930: Nell Fagan is looking for a second chance at a career in investigative journalism and the call of Blackstone Fell's sanatorium is irresistible. In 1606, a man vanished from a locked gatehouse in a remote Yorkshire village, and 300 years later, it happened again. Nell confides in the best sleuth she knows, Rachel Savernake  Looking for answers, Rachel travels to lonely Blackstone Fell in Yorkshire, with its eerie moor and sinister tower. With help from her friend Jacob Flint – who's determined to expose a fraudulent clairvoyant – Rachel will risk her life to bring an end to the disappearances at Blackstone Fell where people go in, but never come out.
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.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning author Nina Kiriki Hoffman!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning author and WOTF Judge Nina Kiriki Hoffman!
, Nina Kiriki Hoffman has creaed adult and young adult novels and stories and books for 40 years now.she's sold about 400 short stories and a number of novels and young adult books, plus several collections.. Her works have been finalists for the World Fantasy, Mythopoeic, Sturgeon, Philip K. Dick and Endeavour Awards. Her first novel, The Thread That Binds the Bones, won a Bram Stoker Award, and her short story “Trophy Wives” won a Nebula Award in 2009. Her most recent novels are Fall of Light and Thresholds.
She's teach science fiction, fantasy, and horror short story writing on Zoom through Fairfield County Writers Studio. I also teach through Wordcrafters in Eugene.
Hoffman does production work for the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and she also works with teen writers. As one of the original winners of Writers of the Future, she was published in Volume 1. She became a judge of the Writers of the Future Contest in 2000.
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning & illustrator; Bea Jackson!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning author, artist and illustrator; Bea Jackson!
Bea Jackson creates to encapsulate a moment in time, challenging herself to combine her boundless imagination with experiences and emotion and capture the result on paper. A lifelong collector of both picture books and comics, she admires art’s ability to speak perfectly on its own and translate ideas without words. As a digital painter using textures that mimic pastels, oil paints, and watercolor, she pursues the rainbow in her palette, seeking to add a touch of childhood magic to her work. From one of her earliest illustrated picture books, Hair Like Mine, to the New York Times bestselling Parker Looks Up, Bea explores themes that unify rather than divide.
Brittany Jackson, also known as Bea, is an award-winning freelance illustrator born and raised in the “Motor City” of Detroit, Michigan.
She is a former grand-prize winner of the Illustrators of the Future Contest and published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 24. She has been a judge since 2021.
“From my first time participating in the Contest, I looked up to the judges after meeting them. I loved their work, their passion for the field, and how they were willing to give back and share their wisdom with artists like me, who at the time really needed someone to take me under their wing. They taught me how to pursue my career, how to avoid pitfalls as an artist. They made themselves available if I or any of the other artists needed it. They became an invaluable resource in my life and helped to shape my career today.

We welcomes back; author, playwright and actor; Everett Robert!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back; author, director, playwright and actor; Everett Robert!
After this chat we will present for the first time on Sherri's Playhouse; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Everett Robert!
We get to chat about this classic tale, adapted into a radio play by Everett, it's based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson! We talk about the plot, the characters and how he adapted for our radio theater playhouse.
To listen to Everett's play; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,  just click on the link;  http://tobtr.com/12287516
This episode was recorded earlier.
If you would like to help support our radio playhouse; https://www.patreon.com/rithebard

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author; Jeff Crawford!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author; Jeff Crawford!
Jeff Crawford of western N.C. And writer of suspense and horror novels. Former cowboy and current outdoorsman as well as unapologetic devoted univ of Florida athletics fan. 5 novels have been published so far and 4 are currently available. Southern fiction with strict attention to regional dialect and vocabulary along side relatable characters, highly suspenseful imaginative stories and an always unexpected ending make up each of these novels. 
 
Fields of Ghosts; Rob and Jennifer set out on a weekend trip to save their marriage, but car trouble forces a detour. The kindly old man who helps them seems very generous, but does he have an ulterior motive? Stranded in a small town in Virginia, Rob is enjoying the history and camaraderie, but Jennifer is climbing the walls, wishing with every fiber of her being to be transported back to their old life-and likely her wealthy lover. When they meet the local matriarch, Alma Lee, and learn the deep, dark secret that this town has kept for more than 150 years, their first reaction is to run as far and as fast as they can. But the town elders have different plans for them. Plans that will last a lifetime.

Sherri’s Playhouse Presents; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde!

Sherri's Playhouse Presents; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde!
Our story was adapted from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde into a radio play by Everett Robert! It's based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Editing and Special Effects by Jay Wall.
This was recorded earlier.
If you would like to help support our radio playhouse; https://www.patreon.com/rithebard

We welcome the cast of The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde!

 
Chatting With Sherri welcomes the cast of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by Everett Robert!
We get to chat with the cast of this classic tale, adapted into a radio play by Everett Robert! It's based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson! We talk about the plot, the characters and how the cast feels about this tale of identity and addiction.
This episode was recorded earlier.
If you would like to help support our radio playhouse; https://www.patreon.com/rithebard