Dianne Burckhardt

Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt - Book Talk Podcast

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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 journeys to creating a successful writing career. They discuss everything from their writing process, common o...

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S3 Hiatus EP155 Best of Rebroadcast: EP120 Theresa Payton, Author of Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth 29.01.2025 53:50

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne is sharing with all of you her Best of Season 3 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. Currently, at the helm o...

S3 Hiatus EP154 Frankfurter Buchmesse: Author and Activist Kasey Rogers, Dianne and Pedro Burckhardt 22.01.2025 15:26

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Welcome to our holiday hiatus episodes between our regular podcast seasons. Normally we play "The Best of" shows from the season that is ending, but this year we are bringing you interviews we recorded live at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. This Buchmesse is the world's largest publishing convent...

S3 Hiatus EP153 Frankfurter Buchmesse: Abacus Brands, Sweet Cherry Publishing 15.01.2025 12:14

S3 Hiatus EP152 Frankfurter Buchmesse: CosPlayer Hannah Gässler, Climate Hackerz 08.01.2025 12:58

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Welcome to our holiday hiatus between podcast seasons. We usually play "The Best of" shows from the season that is ending, but this year we are bringing you interviews we recorded live at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. This Buchmesse is the world's largest publishing convention and with these int...

S3 Hiatus EP151 Frankfurter Buchmesse: Independent Publishing Group, Wrote By Me 01.01.2025 15:59

S3 Hiatus EP150 Frankfurter Buchmesse: Make Believe Ideas, Parragon Publishing India 25.12.2024 14:38

S3 Hiatus EP149 Frankfurter Buchmesse: Lego Books, SenSee Korea, SC International 18.12.2024 12:22

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today begins our holiday hiatus between podcast seasons. We usually play "The Best of" shows from the season that is ending but this year we are bringing you interviews we recorded live at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. This Buchmesse is the world's largest publishing convention and with these in...

Season 3 FINALE EP148: Tosca Lee, NYT Bestselling Author of Havah, Demon, and The Long March Home 11.12.2024 51:55

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Bleeped words: m*rderous, k!lled, d!e Welcome to our season three finale episode with award-winning, New York Times bestselling author, Tosca Lee. Tosca is the bestselling author of The Line Between , The Progeny , Firstborn , Iscariot, The Legend of Sheba, Demon: A Memoir, Havah: The Story of Eve , and The Books of Mortals Series with fellow New Y...

S3 EP 147: Mary Martha Greene, Cookbook Author of The Cheese Biscuit Queen Tells All 04.12.2024 49:23

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Mary Martha Greene is not a cookbook author by profession. It's a passion project inspired by family traditions and a desire to honor the women who created them. It also gives her a change of pace from her day job. Growing up, Mary was heavily influenced by her family. She spent a lot of time by her grandmother’s side when...

S3 EP146: Amber Chen, Bestselling YA Author of Of Jade and Dragons 27.11.2024 43:25

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne shares her chat with Bestselling YA author, Amber Chen. Amber stands out in her career for many reasons, but the most surprising aspect may be her educational background. After graduating from the prestigious Cambridge University, where she earned a BA and MSci in biochemistry, she went on to work in science. Howeve...

S3 EP145: David Atkinson, Musician and Author of Future Proof 20.11.2024 31:38

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne shares her interview with Edinburgh based writer and musician, David Atkinson. David attributes his love of reading to being a significant force, pushing him toward eventually pursuing a career in writing. From a young age he remembers being a voracious reader and even having a fondness for the classics that other h...

S3 EP144: Chad Willardson, Wealth Management Expert and Amazon Bestselling Financial Author 13.11.2024 31:48

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, We are thrilled to share with you today Dianne's interview with Wealth Management Specialist, Chad Willardson. To say Chad has an impressive background in finance and publishing does not come close to painting an accurate picture of his achievements. He is the President and Founder of Pacific Capital, five-time bestselling...

S3 EP 143: Sebastian Dureaux-Russell, Author of Burning with a Blue Flame 06.11.2024 52:31

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Bleeped words due to some censors: sh00ting up hero!n, prostitute, s*x, s*xuality, g*n Hello Happy People, With recent world events, we are choosing to focus on the thing that make us happy, talking to authors about books. Today Dianne shares her conversation with author Sebastian Dureaux-Russell. Readers of Book Banter Magazine may recognize Seb...

S3 EP142: Aislinn Brophy, YA Author of Queer Romantasy, Spells To Forget Us 30.10.2024 41:25

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 off their baking on anybody near...

S3 EP 141: Brian Prousky, Author of Uriel Through Eleanor 23.10.2024 37:27

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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, Brian was a wordsmith, writing books i...

S3 EP140: D.G. McCool Jr., Author of the Dark World Series 16.10.2024 46:22

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 in short stories. Eventually these e...

S3 EP 139: Kristie Wolf, Romantic Suspense Author of the Project VIPER Series 09.10.2024 54:53

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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. While it took a while for her to ful...

S3 EP 138: Refe Tuma, Children's Book Author of Frances and the Werewolves of the Black Forest 02.10.2024 37:41

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 Series, they entertain their foll...

S3 EP 137: Mary P. Fisher, Author of The Other Side of Nursing - Lessons I Learned from my Patients 25.09.2024 38:44

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 medical training provided through mains...

S3 EP 136: Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg, Author of Daughter of a Promise 18.09.2024 43:14

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 Wisconsin. Her farming venture aside, Jea...

S3 EP 135: David Weill, Author of All That Really Matters (Fiction), and Exhale: Hope, Healing, and a Life in Transplant (Memoir) 11.09.2024 36:18

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 her wonderful conversation with Dav...

S3 EP 134: Jelaine Lombardi, Memoir Author of Running Around Naked and more! 04.09.2024 39:36

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 keywords) Hello Happy People, Jelain...

S3 EP 133: Kausar Ahmed, Cookbook Author of The Karachi Kitchen: Classic and Contemporary Flavors of Pakistan 28.08.2024 42:29

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 industry. She has been a food styli...

S3 EP 132: Sheila Lowe, Author of Growing from the Ashes (A Memoir) and The Claudia Rose Series (Thrillers) 21.08.2024 49:41

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 respected forensic handwriting analyst. Sh...

S3 EP 131: Heidi McIntyre, Author of Sea Magic, Book #1 The Hidden Gems Series 14.08.2024 45:23

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 a self-proclaimed late bloomer. Sh...