Join award-winning, indie author, Dianne Burckhardt, as she chats with fellow authors and industry insiders around the world about their work, inspirations, greatest challenges, and triumphs. Writing is often the easy part, and the real work begins once the author writes, "The End." Dianne and her guests shed light on what it takes to be a successful author in today's markets whether as an indie author or traditionally published. Dianne's guests share their insights on their personal journey ...
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S3 EP142: Aislinn Brophy, YA Author of Queer Romantasy, Spells To Forget Us
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today we are thrilled to share Dianne's conversation with Aislinn Brophy (pronounced ASH-lin Bro-fee). Aislinn can best be described as a decidedly creative soul. Besides being a dancer, an actor, and a twice traditionally published author, they have a long list of hobbies including “pawning o…
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S3 EP 141: Brian Prousky, Author of Uriel Through Eleanor
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Join the conversation, text us now. *Trigger Warnings: Discussion of the Holocaust, one phrase ($exu@l a$$ault) bleeped twice* Copy by Britta Franceschi Brian Prousky likes to describe himself as having been two distinct people for most of his life. The first Brian worked a respectable day job and was a husband and father. The second, secret, Bria…
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S3 EP140: D.G. McCool Jr., Author of the Dark World Series
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, D.G. McCool Jr. (Del) is a self-professed lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy. He has been a devoted enthusiast of more than just the usual main stream authors of the genre but also branched out into role playing games as well. In his youth, Del took comfort in creating his own worlds …
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S3 EP 139: Kristie Wolf, Romantic Suspense Author of the Project VIPER Series
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Join the conversation, text us now. *Trigger warning: mild discussion of sex.* Hello Happy People, Today Dianne shares her chat with the amazing romantic suspense author, Kristie Wolf. Kristie knew from a young age she wanted to be an author. Delving into her mother’s Harlequin Romance book collection as a teenager, Kristie found herself inspired. …
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S3 EP 138: Refe Tuma, Children's Book Author of Frances and the Werewolves of the Black Forest
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne shares her chat with the incredible children's book author, Refe Tuma. Refe (pronounced Reef) not only has a unique name, but he and his wife Susan have built a fun and decidedly unique literary brand for themselves. As the creators of Dinovember and the What the Dinosaurs Did Ser…
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S3 EP 137: Mary P. Fisher, Author of The Other Side of Nursing - Lessons I Learned from my Patients
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Mary Paula Fisher has had an extensive career in healthcare as a registered nurse. While her career was mainly focused on critical care and ICU nursing, Mary also worked with visiting nurses, hospice, and end-of-life care. These experiences led her to broaden her skill set beyond the basic med…
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S3 EP 136: Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg, Author of Daughter of a Promise
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Dianne is thrilled to bring you another amazing literary fiction author today. Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg may be best known as a bestselling and award-winning author, but she is also proud to add more to her credits, having recently become the steward of a 420-acre regenerative farm in Wiscons…
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S3 EP 135: David Weill, Author of All That Really Matters (Fiction), and Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant (Memoir)
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today, before we get on with our interview information, we would be remiss not to acknowledge the events that happened on September 11th, 2001. We send love and prayers to every person affected by this devastating attack on Americans. We will never forget! In this episode, Dianne gets to share…
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S3 EP 134: Jelaine Lombardi, Memoir Author of Running Around Naked and more!
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Join the conversation, text us now. Trigger Warnings: discussions of nudist lifestyle, sex/sexuality, and losing a child to su!c!de. Bleeped words: Se*ual, su!c!de. (We may be overly cautious but we prefer to err on the side of caution in some episodes to make sure podcast distribution sites do not automatically drop an interview due to certain key…
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S3 EP 133: Kausar Ahmed, Cookbook Author of The Karachi Kitchen: Classic and Contemporary Flavors of Pakistan
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Join the conversation, text us now. *Trigger Warnings: Talk of domestic violence and drugs.* Hello Happy People, Today Dianne shares her chat with chef, culinary instructor, and cookbook author, Kausar Ahmed. Kausar has built more than just an impressive culinary career for herself. This Pakistani-born chef has explored many avenues within the food…
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S3 EP 132: Sheila Lowe, Author of Growing from the Ashes (A Memoir) and The Claudia Rose Series (Thrillers)
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Join the conversation, text us now. Trigger Warning: bleeped words, m*urder and k!lled. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne gets to share her chat with bestselling author, Sheila Lowe. She has made a very successful career for herself involving the written word, but not how you might think. Long before she published her first book, Sheila was a respec…
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S3 EP 131: Heidi McIntyre, Author of Sea Magic, Book #1 The Hidden Gems Series
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Join the conversation, text us now. *There is one bleeped word (su!c!de) in this interview* Hello Happy People, If you love a well written story with relatable characters, a little romance, a little magical realism and paranormal encounters that are actually inspired by real star-crossed lovers ... have I got a new author for you! Heidi McIntyre is…
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S3 EP 130: Gerardo Bloise, Author of CSI The Casey Anthony Child M*rder Case *Trigger Warnings*
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Join the conversation, text us now. *Trigger warnings: TRUE CRIME - There are bleeped words due to the topic, forensic investigation: k!ll, de*th, su!c!de, hom!s!de, m*rder, and crimes against ch!ldren* Hello Happy People, Fans of true crime will be hard-pressed to find another author with the credentials, training, and experience as retired Crime …
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S3 EP 129: Lina Hart, YA Author of Beyond Power: A Supernatural Sci-Fi Romance
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Lina Hart is an acclaimed author known for her captivating young adult sci-fi and dystopian novels and for having amazing timing. Lina just happened to message Dianne Burckhardt the same day the young adult author who had been set for Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt - Book Talk Podcast Summ…
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S3 EP 128: Andrew Najberg, Author of YA Horror Novel, The Neverborn Thief
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People Today Dianne get to shares her conversation with the incredible Andrew Najberg. Andrew has built a career deeply embedded in the artistry of the written word. Having spent eighteen years as a teacher for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, he has taught courses in creative writing, rhet…
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S3 EP 127: Takiyah Smith, Author of I Love Me! Colorful and Creative: Empowering Coloring Book Series for Girls and Boys
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, If you have been following along this season, you know inclusion and representation has been a big theme for us. It's important for anyone to see people like themselves in books, but it's especially true for children. My guest today brings fun, creative, and empowering images to children with …
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S3 EP 126: Darlene Dziomba, Author of The Lily Dreyfus Mysteries
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, In this week's episode of Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt, Dianne chats with Darlene Dziomba. Darlene is a cozy mystery writer with two passion projects in her life, writing great cozy mysteries and bringing awareness to the need for pet adoptions and the great work being done at no kill sh…
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S3 EP 125: Andreea Rus, Children's Book Author
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne chats with Romanian born children’s book author Andreea Rus. Andreea had a clear career path in mind when she set of for college. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and followed that up with a Masters in Advertising. Both potentially financially lucrative fields. After gr…
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S3 EP 124: J.R. Sanders, Author of The Nate Ross Series
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Recently during J.R. Sanders’ interview with Dianne Burckhardt on her podcast, Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt - Book Talk Podcast, the pair learned they had many things in common, from mutual author friends, to both writing historical fiction, both are trained to work in law enforcement, a…
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S3 EP 123: S.B. Goncarova, Author of The Adventures with Abba Series
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne brings you her interview with the incredible children's book author and educational platform creator, Sarah Beth Goncarova (writing as S.B. Goncarova). Sarah has not only created a fun collection of books for young readers, she has built an entertainment business around her amazin…
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S3 EP 122: Chef Ray Sheehan, Author of Big Green Egg Basics From a Master Barbecuer
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Dianne is thrilled to share with you her conversation with Chef Ray Sheehan. With the weather warming up and summer officially just around the corner, many people like Dianne and her husband are looking forward to the opportunity to firing up their backyard cookers. While many people stick to …
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S3 EP 121: Mark L. Redmond, Author of The Box M Gang Series
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne shares another conversation with her friend, Mark L. Redmond. Mark is a fellow western author and was the first author Dianne ever interviewed on her podcast back when it was still Whatever Wednesdays. Mark fell in love with reading as a child. Saturday morning TV westerns were a …
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S3 EP 120: Theresa Payton, Author of Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne is sharing with all of you her interview with the incredible Theresa Payton. Theresa Payton, an illustrious figure in the domain of technology and cybersecurity, has carved a niche for herself as a pioneering force and the first female White House Chief Information Officer. Curren…
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S3 EP 119: Ulff Lehmann, Author of The Light in the Dark Series
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Join the conversation, text us now. * Possible Trigger Warnings * Discussion of mental health issues, plus dark, grim, epic fantasy themes, and use of profane language. Bleeped words include: k1ll, sh1t, a$$hole, pro$t1tüte, ma$terb@te, and Fu©_ Hello Happy People, When you speak with Ulff Lehmann you would only know he has struggled with mental he…
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S3 EP 118: Robert Hilliard, Author of In Freedom's Shadow
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Join the conversation, text us now. * Possible Trigger Warning * There is a discussion of slavery and the treatment of black Americans during the American Civil War Era and how it pertains to Robert Book, In Freedom's Shadow. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne brings you her chat with author, Robert Hilliard. His latest book, In Freedom's Shadow, is …
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S3 EP 117: Kezia Kos, Author of Kintsugi
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Join the conversation, text us now. *Trigger warnings* Today's episode contains an open discussion of mental illness and emotional abuse. You will hear a word bleeped at least twice in this episode. That word is sui©ide. We did this to ensure this episode does not get removed by censors. Today Dianne is joined by another expat author, Kezia Kos, a …
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S3 EP 116: N. Joseph Glass, Author of Overlap: The Lives of a Former Time Jumper
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne talks with the wonderful sci-fi author, N. Joseph Glass (Joseph). Like Dianne, Joseph is an American expat in Europe. He is an Italian American currently living in Milan, Italy. In recent years, he has devoted his time, along with his two grown sons, to helping the refugee communi…
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S3 EP 115: Nandita Godbole, Cookbook Author of Masaleydaar: Classic Indian Spice Blends
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne is thrilled to bring another amazing cookbook author to all of you. Nandita Godbole has reinvented herself many times. She has been a botanist and a landscape architect, but family influence finally won out as she followed in the footsteps of many others in her family and ventured…
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S3 EP 114: A. J. Landau, Author(s) of Leave No Trace
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People Dianne brings you her first ever writing team interview. While she has interviewed authors with a partner, she's never interviewed both authors in the same interview. She had so much fun talking with Jeff Ayers and Jon Land, she may have to reconsider and do more multi-author interviews. Both m…
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S3 EP 113: Boo Trundle, Author of The Daughter Ship
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne shares with you the amazing interview she had with author Boo Trundle. The women had a very deep discussion about the introspective process behind writing books, fiction or nonfiction, when the author puts so much of themselves into the work and how it can affect not only the auth…
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S3 EP 112: Khushi T. Saha, Interracial Romance Author - Bonus Love Fest Author
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today we bring you an interview with the incredible interracial romance author, Khushi T. Saha. Dianne and Khushi talked about her writing process, all of her published works, and an upcoming event where fans could actually meet her. They did the usual five quick questions that turned out surp…
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S3 EP 111: J.R. Byers, Paranormal Romance Author
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, To say that J.R. Byers is a lifelong fan of romance novels is not much of an exaggeration. She fell in love with the genre at the tender age of twelve. Since then, her love of romance has only grown. When J.R. first felt the urge to pen her own fiction, romance was the obvious choice. With so…
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S3 EP 110: Eve Black, Spicy Romance Author for Curvy Girls
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne shares her interview with spicy romance author, Eve Black. Eve has a great deal of experience writing various forms of romance from sweet and loving to her hot and spicy motorcycle club (MC) books the women talked about in today's episode. Many authors take on pen names for variou…
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S3 EP 109: Sonya Moore, Author of Some Kind of Magic
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello My Happy People, I had so much fun editing this episode recently. It took me right back to the day we recorded this interview. We had such a fantastic conversation. I have so much admiration for Sonya Moore, author of Some Kind of Magic, A True Story Of Love Life And Wanderlust for everything she has accomp…
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S3 EP 108: Nadine Abrahams, Romance Author of The Stars Fallen Series
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today on Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt, Dianne brings another romance author to kick off the second month of our Season Three Love Fest Opener. Joining Dianne to talk about her fantasy romance trilogy is Nadine Abrahams, author of the Stars Fallen Series. Nadine has been an avid read for …
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S3 EP 107: La Toya Bond, Nonfiction and Cookbook Author
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Join the conversation, text us now. ** Trigger Warning: Discussion of death by sui©ide and taking another person's life ** Three words in today's show have been bleeped to prevent this show from being dropped on some platforms. The words are: sui©ide, mu®de® and ki11ing. When you talk to La Toya Bond, it is difficult to image she has faced heartbre…
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S3 EP106: Terreece Clarke, International Bestselling Romance Author
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne shares her chat with Terreece M. Clarke. It is impossible to spend time speaking with Terreece and not come away in a better mood than when you started the conversation. With a ready smile and a kind word for everyone she meets, it is easy to see how her personality plays into her…
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S3 EP 105: Elizabeth Teets, Comedian, Author, and Fashionista
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne is sharing her chat with Elizabeth Teets. In January 2024, Elizabeth released her first book, an anthology, Isn't She Great: Writers on Women-Led Comedies from 9 to 5 to Booksmart . Editing the selection of articles for this book was a project for which she was well prepared. Eliz…
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S3 EP104: Susan Horsnell USA Today Bestselling Romance Author
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People. Our season 3 Love Fest has begun! For the next eight weeks we have some amazing authors who have published books on all aspect of love: self-love, love of female-led comedies, love for life, how to get over the loss of a loved one, and of course romantic love. We have romance authors from swee…
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Holiday Rebroadcast S2RB EP 103: Sagit Schwartz
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Our Holiday break ends today! We will be back with all new shows next Wednesday, February 7th as we begin season three of Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt - Book Talk Podcast. We are starting the new season with a two month Love Fest in our podcast and Book Banter Magazine. We are celebratin…
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Holiday Rebroadcast S2RB EP 102: Michele Di Pietro
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, In today's The Best of Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt, Dianne rebroadcasts her chat with the incredible chef, Michele Di Pietro. She a cookbook author, food writer, menu and recipe developer, professional chef, culinary consultant, a budding food photographer, and just a truly fantastic pe…
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Holiday Rebroadcast S2RB EP 101: Angela R. Hughes
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Our Holiday break is quickly coming to the end and we will have new shows coming soon when we begin season three February 7th. In the meantime, we are sharing some of our best episodes from season two while we gear up for our Love Fest coming this February and March on Book Banter with Dianne …
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New Show - 100th Episode with Special Guest: P.R. Burckhardt
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Ever wondered what it's like to live with an entrepreneur as they try to build a writing/podcasting/magazine publishing career for themselves out of nothing but thin air and hard work? If you said yes, you are in luck! In today's special 100th broadcast, we are coming back from vacation to int…
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Holiday Rebroadcast S2RB EP 99 Full Interview: Lance Steen Anthony Nielsen
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People! In today's episode, Dianne rebroadcasts her chat with her good friend, Lance Steen Anthony Nielsen. Dianne always looks forward to chatting with Lance for several reasons. Besides the fact that he is multi-talented, working as an author, a playwright, an acting coach, and a director, but Lance…
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Holiday Rebroadcast S2RB EP 98: Whatever Wednesday S1 Episode
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, We at Burckhardt Books hope you all had a fantastic holiday season no matter what holiday you celebrate. We are currently on our holiday break between seasons two and three. We will be back for a new episode on January 10th to celebrate our 100th broadcast. I will have a special guest with me …
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S2 EP 97: Gail Papp, Author of PUBLIC/PRIVATE: My Life with Joe Papp at the Public Theater (Last Show of Season 2)
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Join the conversation, text us now. There is absolutely no we would be able to sum up Gail Merrifield Papp in a few paragraphs on this page, so we are not even going to attempt it. Instead we are going to share text provided in a press release from Applause Theater & Cinema Books. From the Press Release (Click to read full press release): Blending …
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S2 EP 96: Mary Carroll Moore, Cross Genre Author
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne brings you her chat with Mary Carroll Moore. Mary has always been a creative person but chose to express this side of herself through painting and did not turn to writing until later in life. It wasn't until turning 50 that she decided to returned to college to complete a MFA in F…
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S2 EP 95: Brian Kaufmann, TextBook & Fiction Author
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne shares her chat with Brian Kaufman. Brian is a writer who deftly manages to straddle two writing realms, academia and fiction. By day you can find Brian working diligently as a curriculum editor for an online junior college. But like a comic book superhero, his night time endeavor…
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S2 EP 94: Faith Kramer, Food Writer, Recipe Developer, and Cookbook Author
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Dianne is thrilled to share her conversation with cookbook author, Faith Kramer. Faith is so much more than a global thinker, going beyond her own local traditions and cultural foods to bring her followers a taste of globally inspired Shabbat recipes. Faith is a long time food writer and recip…
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S2 EP 93: Leah Ann Brown, Middle Grade Fantasy Author
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne chats with the incredible, Leah Ann Brown. She discovered her love of fantasy as a young girl growing up in Oregon. Spending hours outside in nature, playing make believe, her imagination opened up. It was further fed by her mother and grandmother who shared their stories and book…
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