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Join Author Sherry Knowlton for the fifth episode of her limited podcast series, DEAD on the DELTA: An African Adventure. On today’s Episode, Tips for Taking a Safari Knowlton is joined by travel expert, Donald Roebuck from AAA Central Penn Travel. Roebuck has been a travel agent for 14 years and specializes in adventure and luxury travel. One of his key focus areas is Africa, which he’s visited m...

Join Author Sherry Knowlton for the fourth episode of her limited podcast series, DEAD on the DELTA: An African Adventure. Today’s Episode, Wildlife Poaching: A Dirty Business focuses on Knowlton’s research trip to Botswana before she wrote DEAD on the DELTA and some of the important information she learned while there. Knowlton also provides a high-level overview of some of the damage illegal poa...

In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. However, Moses deviates from other interpretations by positioning himself within an older, 'Federalist' historiographic tradition, offering vigorous and insightful...

On this episode of The Milford House Mysteries, co-hosts JM West and Sherry Knowlton interview Anthony Award-nominated E.A. Aymar. We'll be talking to Aymar about his most recent thriller, They’re Gone, which was published in 2020 under his pseudonym E.A. Barres. We'll also discuss Aymar's busy writing life including his past thrillers such as the celebrated novel, The Unrepentant,...

Join Author Sherry Knowlton for the third episode of her limited podcast series, DEAD on the DELTA: An African Adventure. Today’s Episode, Life as a Lion Researcher, features An Interview with Robynne Kotze. Robynne works with WildCRU’s Trans-Kalahari Predator Programme where her research includes camera trap surveys of the Okavango Delta and other protected areas in Botswana and completing field...

Join suspense author Sherry Knowlton for the second episode in a limited podcast series, DEAD on the DELTA: An African Adventure. Today’s show focuses on Knowlton’s experiences on safari and doing research for the book on Botswana’s Okavango Delta. Knowlton will introduce listeners to Botswana and the Okavango Delta and the wildlife she’s seen there. She’ll also discuss a typical day on safari, wh...

Join suspense author Sherry Knowlton for the first episode in a  limited podcast series, DEAD on the DELTA, An African Adventure. She is embarking on this series of podcasts to celebrate the release of her latest Alexa Williams novel, DEAD on the DELTA, and to talk about its setting, the African Wild. The six-segment podcast will air weekly and focus on topics like Knowlton’s own adventures on saf...

Join cohosts Sherry Knowlton and JM West as they interview author Elena Taylor about his latest novel, All We Buried, and her Eddie Shoes series written under the pen name of Elena Hartwell. We talk to Taylor about her shift from writing the lighthearted Eddie Shoes mysteries to taking on the challenge of the more serious and literary mystery All We Buried. Called "atmospheric" in its to...

Alan Mindell has owned and bred racehorses for many years. His horses have raced at many tracks, including Santa Anita, Hollywood Park, Del Mar, Golden Gate Fields, Emerald Downs, Turf Paradise, Arlington Park, Tampa Bay Downs and Canterbury Park. A former standout baseball player at the University of California, Berkeley, he won four gold medals as a sprinter in the 2012 San Diego Senior Olympics...

An environmental attorney, Bob Carey is transplanted to Florida, where he replaces a sleazy colleague who has died under myterious circumstances. Bob must get used to life in the state, as he joins a scientist and a surf shop manager in the investigation of a strange contamination. Along the way, he deals with redneck millionaires, a third-world revolutionary, a spy within his office, and...Itori....

The peaceful farm life of a teenage girl in Germany is abruptly upended when WWII comes knocking at her family’s door. One month before her sixteenth birthday, Mildred “Mickchen” Schindler and her family are captured by Russian Soldiers. Having already survived life in Hitler’s Nazi Germany, they now face the terror of a new enemy—Stalin’s Red Army. Driven from their home, Mildred and her family b...

On today's episode of The Milford House Mysteries, co-hosts Sherry Knowlton and JM West keep it "all in the family" as Joan interviews Sherry about her upcoming new book release, Dead on the Delta. The book, the fifth in Sherry's Alexa Williams suspense series, is a departure from the earlier books in that it takes place in Botswana. When Alexa Williams agrees to spend four mon...

Mr. Kelly G. Park is a retired sandlot athlete, never having the skills to “take it to the next level,” but enjoying every moment of those pick-up games. Since 1988 Mr. Kelly has worked as a safety and risk manager in the insurance industry. Just Like Me: When the Pros Played on the Sandlot is the author’s debut book. Mr. Kelly lives in Benton, Ky. with his wife, Mrs. Kelly (yes, that’s right, the...

Joan West and Sherry Knowlton begin the new year on The MIlford House Mysteries by taking a look back at 2020.  On this episode, the co-hosts reflect on some of the books we that they read and enjoyed most during the past year. Note that these books may not have been published in 2020. The list includes brand new books by well-known and not-so-well known authors, some oldies but goodies, and some...

The Fae Awakening Series begins with Fury, as Hunter, a gritty, no-nonsense detective investigates crimes committed by Faeries in the mundane world. Hunter has his own deals going on (legal and otherwise), when he is called to track down a violent killer. Even for Hunter, this one is beyond the realm of possibility: a flaming unicorn...Joined and beset by the creatures of a mad world, partners, fr...

On this episode of The Milford House Mysteries, Sherry Knowlton speaks with  mystery author Michelle Cox. We’ll discuss her latest mystery, A Child Lostas well as the rest of her unique, multiple award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series. I’ll also ask Cox about  Novel Notes of Local Lore, her weekly blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents, and why she’s such a fan of thirties-er...

Paula Stone Tucker was a witness to the May 4, 1970 shootings at Kent State University. A retired clinical psychologist, she worked with families, couples, and survivors of trauma and abuse. In her younger days she was a reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal and the Daily Kent Stater. She grew up in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and graduated from Kent State University. She splits her time between northeas...

Donald Dewey has written some 40 books of fiction and nonfiction, as well as contributed scores of stories to magazines and other periodicals. He has also had some 30 plays staged in Europe and the United States. Donald's awards include those named after Nelson Algren and the Actors Studio. Dewey is a widower with one son and lives in Jamaica, New York. At one point he lived in Europe for 14...

The two volumes of "The Godseed Saga" introduce us to a land of fantasy, science fiction and dystopia. In Books 1, 'Ran Mar: The First Seed' a lawyer, Edward Warren finds himself transported to a strange place where he faces death, joins with cat-like creatures and battles not only warring factions and dread enemies, but comes to terms with his own self."Chianta: The Secon...

Penny Fletcher won more than 30 press awards while working for Media General Communications Inc. and Sunbelt Newspapers in Tampa Bay, Florida. She has edited more than 300 books while working for Amazon’s initial publishing company, BookSurge, Guru.com, and her own editing and coaching business at www.writeyourheartout.biz.  The author of both traditionally and self-published previous books, she h...

Virginia Soenksen has always enjoyed creating new worlds and characters, and at some point started writing her ideas down. An art historian and museum director, she also writes about Japanese textiles. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley and enjoys finding inspiration through travel. Follow her on social media for more information on the Genetics Chronicles and exciting new projects.   www.virginia...

On this episode of Milford House Mysteries, co-hosts Sherry Knowlton and J.M. West interview author Margaret Meacham about her book The Ghosts of Laurelford. The mystery, set in 1919, features a teenage heroine and a story that intertwines the women's suffrage movement with a mysterious mansion, a ghostly legend, a family tragedy, and séances with unexpected results. Meacham will talk to us n...

When Penny McAllister returns to her New Hampshire hometown to settle the family estate, memories, good, bad and terrible flood back. In the small town of Walton, everyone knows everyone, and the adult "PJ" captures the attention of her former best friend, Ethan Dunford. That, however, means going over the past, one that Penny must come to terms with. Letters from a box are signposts for...

Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz is a Certified Broadcast Meteorologist, doing the weather on TV for 40 years of his 47-year career. His specialty has been in forecasting and severe weather, especially hurricanes. He co-authored the award-winning “Philadelphia Area Weather Book” in 2002 and was inducted into the Philadelphia Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2010.He graduated from Penn State University...

Louis Greenstein is the author of the 2014 novel Mr. Boardwalk (New Door Books) and the co-writer of One Child Born: The Music of Laura Nyro, a one-woman cabaret featuring collaborator Kate Ferber that had critically acclaimed productions at the New York Musical Festival, A.R.T.'s second stage Oberon Theater, and Joe's Pub at the Public Theatre as well as a successful east coast tour. Lo...