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Speaking of Writers

Welcome to Speaking of Writers. Veteran broadcaster Steve Richards interviews local, regional and best selling authors. For more info email steve @ sval622@sbcglobal.net. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/speakingofwriters/subscribe Cover art photo provided by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@thepootphotographer

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00:12:17

Phil Keith and Tom Clavin- To the Uttermost Ends of...

Speaking of Writers ·

2022/06/08

On June 19, 1864, a fourteen-month chase culminated in one of the most dramatic naval battles in history. The dreaded Confederate raiderAlabamafaced the Union warshipKearsargein an all-or-nothing fight to the death, and the outcome would effectively end the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas. Award-winning and bestselling historians Phil Keith (who was a US Navy Captain) and Tom Clavin share this riveting, mostly untold, story in To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the

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00:10:57

Tres Augustine Parker ( The Red Noose) -The Power of...

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2022/05/30

Who am I? am I Egyptian? am I an Israelite? I'll never stop being proud of who I am. so I choose to live in the light. I can hear the devils rattle in the shadows. sound the sirens of an age-old battle. I'll always put up a good fight. Questions drive the universe. thoughts shape reality. father, please forgive me of my transgressions. I just have too many questions. So, I sit back an(listen)like Horton because the lessons I've learned are important. Who am I? you are My(son) a lion of Judah with

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00:12:30

Neal Thompson- The First Kennedys

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2022/05/10

Seventy-five years ago, John F. Kennedy won his first election—that one to represent his home state of Massachusetts in Congress. For many of us, the Kennedy legend began there, with JFK, or perhaps his father, family patriarch Joe Kennedy. But in truth, the Kennedy saga began a full two generations earlier, under a very different set of circumstances. InThe First Kennedys,journalist and author Neal Thompson introduces us to the Kennedy family that came to these shores fleeing the Irish potato

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00:14:57

Patti Callahan -Surviving Savannah

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2022/05/05

As Patti Callahan began writing the novel, shortly after she started researching the long-ago shipwreck, it was finally discovered deep beneath the sea. As luck would have it, just a few weeks into Callahan’s research, the actual steamship Pulaski was found thirty miles off the coast of Wilmington, NC, a hundred feet deep. Callahan was given rare access to the recovery mission and the artifacts retrieved. The author used this special insight to shape details about the ship and its passengers in her

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00:16:33

Jack Gilden -The Fast Ride: Spectacular Bid and the...

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2022/05/03

In an era of spectacular thoroughbreds, Spectacular Bid was perhaps the most exalted racehorse of them all. In 1979 he won the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes—and transcended his sport on a run of twelve consecutive stakes victories—but his quest for the Triple Crown was lost with a third‑place finish in the Belmont Stakes due to a series of bizarre events that have never been accurately reported. In The Fast Ride, Jack Gilden tells the story of what really happened that day the Bid lost the

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00:12:53

Mark Watson- Mirror Image

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2022/04/25

Doris Stoner in MIRROR IMAGE again confronted with her past realizes that it is time to go back home after forty some years away. She goes back to the family home she knew then; with much humility she desperately wants to straighten out her past with her family. Also knowing that she must do this to help stop what she knows will result in a forever hole in her granddaughter’s heart. Mark Watson began writing in his forties and now thirty years later he publishes three novels, MIRROR IMAGE, TODD, A

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00:09:48

Rodney Martin II - In Memory of You: An Anthology

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2022/04/20

This story is not what you expect it to be. It’s like wandering into the dark without a flashlight. But you chose this because you wanted to get away. It’s like holding the lives of others in your hands. Not because you like playing God, but because you don’t have a- Shh. I can’t say more. I’m not one to give away secrets that don’t belong to me. I’d hate to give someone else’s story. I’ll let them tell it. So, what are you waiting for? Don’t you want to know why this is in Memory of you? About the

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00:13:34

Neil Lanctot - The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt,...

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2022/04/17

The fascinating story of how the three most influential American progressives of the early twentieth centurysplit over America’s response to World War I. In the early years of the twentieth century, the most famous Americans on the national stage were Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Jane Addams: two presidents and a social worker. Each took a different path to prominence, yet the three progressives believed the United States must assume a more dynamic role in confronting the growing

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00:10:46

Keith O’Brien- Paradise Falls

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2022/04/14

In the spring of 1977, residents of a working-class neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York grew concerned when noxious smelling substances began leaching into basements, floating in local streams and pooling in puddles in backyards and playgrounds. Shortly after, children started suffering mysterious burns while playing outside, and then kids started getting sick—some really sick. What most parents didn’t know was that their homes had been built next to what was once a giant pit called Love Canal,

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00:16:38

Conquer Your Diabetes: Prevention · Control ·...

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2022/04/11

The global epidemic of diabetes and pre diabetes afflicts more than 1 billion people. And sadly, more than 50% of people with the disease do not achieve their desired glucose control. In Conquer Your Diabetes: Prevention, Control, Remission, Drs. Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra, two Harvard Medical School professors and master clinicians, provide a road map for people with diabetes to manage their condition and live rewarding and fulfilling lives. In 25 succinct chapters—many containing stories

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00:08:34

Zallina Kira Johnson-Animal Tails: A Firefly’s Night

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2022/04/06

A firefly has only two months to live and one goal to complete... A firefly has one goal in life: to find a mate and lay their eggs before their luck runs out. But will this group of wandering fireflies be able to find their mates and lay their eggs, or will they wander and search to find nothing? Will they be able to differentiate female fireflies from the flickering of human lights that are wrapped around the trees, or will their weeklong journey be for nothing? Zallina Kira Johnson has always

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00:09:48

Austin Kleon- Steal Like an Artist

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2022/03/30

In celebration of this significant milestone, Workman Publishing is excited to announce an exclusive gift edition: STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition by Austin Kleon with a new Afterword by the Author (Workman Publishing). Kleon’s practical, yet fresh advice is presented with genuine passion and playful illustrations. The book’s positive message, engaging design, and actionable steps changed the face of self-help, teaching millions to find the space they need to unlock their

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00:16:39

Ric Prado Black Ops-The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior

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2022/03/28

For the first time in the Central Intelligence Agency’s history, a covert operator of major rank and standing pens a fully operational memoir. Ric Prado’s BLACK OPS: The Life of a CIA Shadow Warrior(St. Martin’s Press) lays out this decorated hero's twenty-four career fighting in the shadows to protect a nation and home that welcomed him at his most desperate hour as a child of communist repression. In BLACK OPS, Prado shares the harrowing true stories of life in the deadly web of international

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00:14:12

Dr. Ralph La Guardia - INFECTED: Secrets From The...

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2022/03/20

INFECTED: SECRETS FROM THE MEDICAL UNDERGROUND, will teach you how to prevent and treat ANY INFECTION you may encounter. Learn how the different systems of your body work to repel infections, and how you can enhance each one. You will learn previously unknown methods to supercharge your body's immune system, preventing most infections from ever starting. These are secrets only known to a handful of courageous doctors, who have done their own research, networked and discovered ways to "hack" your

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00:12:49

Susan Jonusas- HELL’S HALF-ACRE: The Untold Story of...

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2022/03/12

In 1873 the people of Labette County, Kansas made a grisly discovery. Buried by a trailside cabin beneath an orchard of young apple trees were the remains of countless bodies. Below the cabin itself was a cellar stained with blood . . . And the Benders were nowhere to be found. This discovery sent the local community and national newspapers into a frenzy that continued for decades, sparking an epic manhunt for the Benders. The idea that a family of seemingly respectable homesteaders—one among the

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00:15:40

Ace Atkins - Robert B. Parker's Bye Bye Baby

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2022/03/05

Legendary Boston PI Spenser is back in ROBERT B. PARKER’S BYE BYE BABY, the 50th installment in the critically acclaimed saga started by the late Parker and the tenth to be written by New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins. Over the years, fans have looked to Spenser—widely considered to be “Parker’s greatest creation” (Chicago Sun-Times)—as a symbol of honor and honesty in a sordid world. Nowhere is this more apparent than in this latest entry, which sends Spenser on the campaign trail with a

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00:09:49

Mark Vonnegut- The Heart of Caring A Life in Pediatrics

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2022/02/21

Pediatrician Mark Vonnegut has spent forty years treating children for coughs, fevers, ear infections, and sometimes more serious complaints. In that time, he has seen the American medical system change in ways he couldn’t have imagined as a medical student—some of them good, others not so good. But what hasn’t changed is his commitment to his young patients, whose stories fill the pages of this book. There’s Anna Maria, a little girl with an incurable case of bone cancer; Adeline, who has a

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00:05:52

Candace DaMeron- Dahlia Daydreamer

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2022/02/17

Dahlia has fun daydreaming of her favorite things. Candace DaMeron: Hi, I’m Candace a mother to two imaginative little girls. Imagination is a beautiful thing and when I see my girls drift off to Lala land, I like to imagine what they could be daydreaming about. I love to see their minds begin to float… it makes me happy that they are carefree and thinking of sweet, magical things. Available at writersrepublic.com --- Support this podcast:

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00:16:34

Robert Watson- George Washington’s Final Battle The...

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2022/02/16

George Washington is well known for leading the Continental Army to victory and governing the nascent nation as it was getting off the ground, but few know the story of his involvement in a debate that nearly tore us apart: the establishment of a capital city. In George Washington’s Final Battle, historian Robert Watson argues that we owe the existence of our nation’s capital in large part to the tireless work and political acumen of George Washington. Washington believed firmly in the importance of

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00:14:41

Eric Gokey- Let My People Go

Speaking of Writers ·

2022/02/09

This book is a love letter to all. A letter to all who need to hear it. A love letter to those who have open hearts to enjoy it for what it could do for them. This letter has to do with matters of the heart, matters of life or death. Matters of health or sickness. Matters of compassion or lack thereof. This book I hope is not just a book of words to you, but a letter made up of tough love through thought provoking facts. Then if you are ready; let the changes in the way you think flood your heart. A

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