Chatting with Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back talented author and playwright Mary D Brooks!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back talented author and playwright Mary D Brooks!
I will get  to catch up with author and playright, Mary D. Brooks about  her latest radio play for her Zoe and Eva series;  "Never Too Late!" 
We will chat about the new radio play, why she wrote it what's new with Mary as a writer and playwright!
 
This show is recorded.

We welcome author&WOTF Grand Prize Winner, David K. Henrickson!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author and Writers of the Future Grand Prize Winner, David K. Henrickson!
David Henrickson has been in love with science fiction since he was nine years old. He still remembers turning a corner in his local library and seeing rack upon rack (okay, three racks) of juvenile science fiction, which fired his imagination and transported him to strange new worlds. Unlike other boys his age, he never developed an obsession with cars or other such pedestrian forms of travel. If it couldn’t take him to other worlds, out of the solar system, back in time, or to another dimension, he just wasn’t interested.
During college, he won several writing awards and later received a scholarship to the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writer’s Workshop. Dave has a background in oceanography, engineering, and computer science, but always wanted to be an artist. Or maybe a dancer. These days he lives in Virginia and spends his free time reading, writing, and killing monsters with his wife, Abbie.
Dave has also written a number of novels he hopes might even get published one of these days.
This was recorded in May but due to some tech difficulties which we overcame we are broadcasting tonight!

We welcome back best-selling & award-winning author; Robert Sawyer!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back best selling & award winning author; Robert  J Sawyer!
Science fiction writer and futurist Robert J. Sawyer is a member of the Order of Canada, he lives in Mississauga, Ontario (just outside Toronto). Rob is one of only eight writers in history — and the only Canadian — to win all three of the world’s top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the Nebula, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award  and he’s the first author in thirty years to receive a Lifetime Achievement Aurora Award.  In June 2016, Rob was inducted into the Order of Canada, the highest civilian honor bestowed by the Canadian government.
The Oppenheimer Alternative -On the 75th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb, Hugo and Nebula-winning author Robert J. Sawyer takes us back in time to revisit history…with a twist. While J. Robert Oppenheimer and his Manhattan Project team struggle to develop the A-bomb, Edward Teller wants something even more devastating: a bomb based on nuclear fusion—the mechanism that powers the sun. Teller’s research leads to a terrifying discovery: by the year 2030, the sun will eject its outermost layer, destroying the entire inner solar system—including Earth. As the war ends with the use of fission bombs against Japan, Oppenheimer's team, plus Albert Einstein and Wernher von Braun, stay together—the greatest scientific geniuses from the last century racing against time to save our future.
 
Robert has been a judge in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest since 2005 as one of the many ways he pays it forward.
This show was recorded earlier this year but was delayed due totechnical difficulties.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author and screenwriter; Buzz Dixon!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author and screenwriter; Buzz Dixon! 
Buzz Dixon is a  writer of novels, comic books, films , and cartoons. His cartoon work includes both writing and editing credits. He wrote numerous episodes of GI Joe: A Real American Hero, The Transformers, Thundarr the Barbarian, Jem, Inhumanoids, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Tarzan and the Super 7, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, Dungeons & Dragons and Teen Wolf. He also served as a story editor for the GI Joe and Teen Wolf series, and was a story consultant on G.I. Joe: The Movie and My Little Pony: The Movie.
 
CHEEKY -When troublemaker Dimbulb Gilhooey learns an old clothing-optional law is still on the books, he starts a movement that turns the town of Newbridge topsy-turvy. It's a summer of sun-baked shenanigans as Dimbulb and his followers challenge pastors, police, politicians, and public propriety for the right to bare arms -- as well as the rest of their bodies. Preposterous? Far-fetched? Utterly unbelievable? Maybe -- if it wasn't inspired by actual real life events! (cover art by Travis Hanson)"https://www.amazon.com/kindle-vella/story/B0C5SGPDQN

Chatting With Sherri welcomes talented author; Jennifer Irwin!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes talented author; Jennifer Irwin!
Jennifer Irwin’s debut novel, A Dress the Color of the Sky, was published in 2017 and has received rave reviews, won seven book awards, and was optioned for a feature film. Jennifer’s short stories have appeared in numerous literary publications including California’s Emerging Writers: An Anthology of Fiction.
A Dress the Color of the Moon tracks the rocky and sometimes disastrous path to recovery—a recovery that will require Prudence and her friends to face down the demons of their pasts while learning to accept the fearful uncertainty that comes with living life on your own two feet.
Prudence Aldrich is a sex addict. Five weeks ago, she checked into the Serenity Hills rehab center to prevent that addiction from ruining every important relationship in her life. Now Prue must face the trail of destruction she left behind, including mending the broken bond with her teenage son, finalizing the divorce with her husband, Nick, and using a newly learned set of skills to ward off her insatiable cravings for male attention—a compulsion that puts her friendship with lifelong pal Lily to the test.
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes actor, singer, director and writer; Mitchell Butel

Chatting With Sherri welcomes actor, singer, director, writer and artistic director of the State Theatre Company of South Australia; Mitchell Butel!
Mitchell holds four Helpmann Awards, four Sydney Theatre Awards and two Victorian Green Room Awards for his work as a director, actor and writer in Australian theatre over three decades. He has also worked in New York, London, Hong Kong and New Zealand. He has worked extensively for Sydney Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, Queensland Theatre, State Theatre Company South Australia, Belvoir, Bell Shakespeare, Griffin, Malthouse, Opera Australia, Sydney Chamber Opera, Pinchgut Opera, 
Most recently, Mitchell directed Giovanni Busenello’s The Loves of Apollo and Dafne for Pinchgut Opera and the sold-out season of Dennis Kelly’s Girls & Boys for State Theatre Company South Australia during the Adelaide Festival (and its tour to Sydney Festival and Theatre Royal, Hobart). For the Company, Mitchell has also directed Edward Albee’s The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, David Lindsay-Abaire’s Ripcord, 
His performing highlights in theatre, music theatre and opera include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, The Merchant of Venice (as Shylock for which he won the Sydney Theatre Award for Best Actor), Mr Burns (Helpmann Award Best Supporting Actor), South Pacific,Angels in America.
His film and TV highlights include A Sunburnt Christmas, Stateless, Dance Academy, Holding the Man, Gettin’ Square (AFI nomination), The Bank, Strange Fits of Passion (AFI nomination),

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning writer; Spencer Sekulin!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning writer; Spencer Sekulin!
When Spencer Sekulin isn’t on the road as a paramedic or studying medicine, he is most likely writing. Born and raised in Ontario, Canada, Spencer fell in love with books at a young age, with authors like Terry Brooks and Eoin Colfer giving him an appetite for speculative fiction. Though he didn’t begin writing until university, he quickly discovered that it was just as fun as reading—and the rest is history. His passions include emergency medicine, homemade coffee, travel obscura, and of course, writing. 
Writers of the Future is Spencer’s first professional sale. “The Children of Desolation” started as a story title with no story, and sat for several years before he stumbled across it again, whereupon several separate ideas happened to click together. “Sometimes stories take us by surprise, and then drag us on rides we didn’t expect. In my case, this one started running right away, leaving me to catch up in its dust.” Most of it was written on a covered porch during a torrential downpour.
Regarding the story itself, Spencer felt drawn to its protagonist, Tumelo Laska. His burden of heritage, and his moral struggle between doing what is right and putting family before all else, lends well to the sense of desperation of the post-apocalyptic setting. Though the world may end, humans have always loved, lost, and sought redemption—and always will. 
Spencer hopes it is a story that conveys the importance of family, the indomitableness of the human spirit, and power of forgiveness. He hopes you enjoy reading it. 
 
Spencer Sekulin. and his winning story will be published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 39  which has been on bestseller lists numerous times in recent years.  

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning illustrator and artist; Chris Binns!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning illustrator and artist; Chris Binns!
Throughout childhood Chris Binns was always the “good drawer,” a pastime that was encouraged by his family over the years and heavily inspired by the plethora of fantasy novels his father would read on a weekly basis. The covers of these fantasy novels were a shining beacon to what would become his most coveted genre. Despite his love of art, Chris found himself graduating high school and heading off to electrical engineering school at Oregon State University to follow in his father’s footsteps.
While taking a break from university in 2005 Chris moved to England in 2005 to work in a pub in Manchester for the summer. This was when Chris found his wife Lindsey who would eventually become the mother of his two children and the summer turned into six years. Deciding to take his art more seriously Chris attended the University of Huddersfield on an illustration degree program. After graduating with honors and some newfound knowledge and skills Chris moved back to America. While struggling to kick-start an art career and needing to provide for his family he took an engineering job at Intel. Finding his footing as an engineer and thriving in this new role, Chris learned to feed both vocations. 
These days art is still very much his passion as he seeks new challenges to test his skill sets and push his art to the next level. However, like the children’s books he writes and illustrates for his children, he creates art for fun and enjoys every minute of it. Chris winning art was published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 39 
 
 
 
 
 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning author; E. Graziani!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning author; E. Graziani!
E. Graziani is a teacher/librarian by day and the author of the YA time-travel series, Alice of the Rocks & Angel of Time. Her new release ALICE OF THE ROCKS was in BARNES & NOBLE’s Top ten YA summer indie reads 2023!! It was also recognized as one of Barnes & Noble's Top Ten Young Adult Indie Summer Reads. She has written Magenta and Everything That Was Us. She is the author of Breaking Faith (Second Story Press), a contemporary YA novel, listed on CBC Canada's Must-Read Books for Spring 2017, selected for the 'In the Margins' Book Award 2018 Recommended Fiction List, and one of CCBC Best Books for Kids and Teens. Graziani is the author of the YA historical memoir, War in My Town (Second Story Press), also one of CCBC's Best Books for Kids and Teens, and a finalist in the Hamilton Arts Council 2016 Literary Awards for Best Non-Fiction. Graziani has also written the novella, Jess Under Pressure. E. Graziani regularly appears on CHCH Morning Live to discuss new releases in Canadian KidLit and has spoken at many school events and book clubs. She loves to connect with her young and not-so-young readers. She resides in Canada with her husband and daughters.
To contact the author or for more information on new releases or events, please visit her website;
egraziani1.wix.com/egrazianiauthor.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes culture expert and author; R.C. Staab!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes culture expert and author; R.C. Staab!
Do you want to be a part of it, New York, New York? Then here’s your chance. Let NYC Scavenger be your guide to more sides of the city than you ever knew through 15 artfully designed scavenger hunts. Decipher the clues to find the place where Bebop was born, the tavern where Lincoln and Grant were patrons, and the most famous subway grate in movie history.
Each of the clues includes a four-line riddle and a visual aid to help you find your way through iconic Manhattan neighborhoods such as Greenwich Village, Central Park, and Soho. Whether you’re in it to win it or taking a more leisurely route, you’ll definitely discover some hot spots for incredible food in Harlem or Little Italy, celebrated statues, and the remarkable stories that line New York’s unique streets at every turn.
 
Author, travel writer, and playwright/lyricist R. C. Staab walked every Manhattan neighborhood from Battery Park to Inwood and from river to river to set you on this one-of-kind journey. Gather up your family and friends and embark on this epic scavenger hunt to discover the most famous island in all the world—then brag about it like any good New Yorker would.
From his first trip to NYC as a teenager, R.C. Staab imagined living in Manhattan to experience its theater, museums, and incredibly diverse neighborhoods. That dream came true when he and his wife, Valari, moved to Manhattan to live near Clue #1 on the Upper West Side. For more than 40 years, he has been a tourism and culture expert who has been quoted by and had photos published in numerous publications.