Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt - Book Talk Podcast

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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.  Elizabeth started out her career i...

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 sweet, no heat to hot and spicy!  Today...

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 celebrating love for Valentine's Day and...

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 person. Somehow she managed to f...

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 Burckhardt and Book Banter Magazine....

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 introduce the infamous P.R. t...

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 knows how to make her laugh to...

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 who you have heard about often if yo...

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 the ultimate insider’s accou...

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 Fiction. Mary began writing what...

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 endeavors lead him into a more fanciful worl...

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 recipe developer who focuses on the vario...

Share your thoughts on this episode, 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 books. These things all created the perf...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Dianne is thrilled to share her conversation with Michelle Glogovac. If you are looking to promote your book, business, or cause on podcasts, Michelle can help! Michelle has made it her professional mission to be THE Podcast Matchmaker™. When it comes to making mutually beneficial connections for her clients, she strives to be t...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Dianne had a wonderful chat with the multi-talented Lynne Golodner. Lynne started her author journey early in childhood. She would fill page after page with stories and poems, using her creative talents to make sense of the world around her. Even today, Lynne keeps her early work nearby to remind her to not to lose sight of wher...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Dianne recently sat down to speak with author, Debbie Weiss. She is an accomplished entrepreneur and quite a dynamic woman. She has created a career that benefits not only herself, but others with her work as a speaker, women's coach, podcaster and author.   At 50, Debbie made a significant change in her life, realizing it...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Dianne had the chance to chat with the incredible chef, Michele Di Pietro. Not only is she just a fantastic person in general, she is a cookbook author, food writer, menu and recipe developer, professional chef, culinary consultant, and a budding food photographer. Somehow she managed to find time in her busy career to talk with...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, If you are on TikTok's #Booktok at all, you have probably seen our guest today. Otto Schafer is the author of the award-winning YA contemporary fantasy God Stone series. His first book, The Secret Journal, was a winner in the Soon to be Famous Illinois Author Project and his second book of that series, The Keepers of the Li...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. In today's episode, Dianne gets to chat with the incredible Sagit Schwartz. Sagit is a writer, producer, and licensed psychotherapist. Her work has been featured in Medium, Slate, The Atlantic, Reddit NoSleep, and Lifetime Television. She resides with her husband, daughter, and rescue dog in a Southern California beach town. Her debut thriller...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. ​Hello Happy People, Have we got a great show for you today! Seeing as how Dianne was born on "Talk Like a Pirate Day", she was thrilled to get to chat with real life pirate, Liz Shipton. Liz is a part-time freelance writer and part-time indie author of a dystopian series loosely based on her life. She is also a full-time, off grid, live-...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Mikel Melwasul Epic Military fantasy Author EP 85: September 27th ​​Hello Happy People, Today Dianne chats with epic fantasy author, Mikel Melwasul. The oldest of five boys, Mikel, usually going by "Mik" (as in Jagger), developed a love for fantasy at a young age when his father read The Hobbit and The Chronicles of Narnia to him before b...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, In celebration of her birthday, Dianne took over her own podcast to share her books with you. She gives a brief recap of the books in her Into the West Saga Serial collection and does a reading from her seventh and final book in the serial, Into the West: Family Ties . She also introduces her next two projects, an FBI thriller t...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne chats with the incredible, Meliza Farndell. Since they recorded this interview, Dianne has already joined Meliza for a live chat on her channel. It has been proven that when these two women start talking about books, it is hard for them to stop. Meliza is a wife and mother currently living in Preston, UK.  When she...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne gets to sit down with the incredibly funny, mystery author, J.C. Fuller. J.C. is the author of The Rockfish Island Mystery series. Not only is she a TikTok maven, but she is also a lover of all things mysterious, from fictional thrillers to true crime shows, and everything in between. J.C. is thrilled to be able to...

Share your thoughts on this episode, text us now. ​Today Diane is joined by Carole T. Beers, western author of New West Mysteries with Heart ... and humor. Carole was born in Portland, Ore., to descendants of Oregon Trail pioneers. She fell in love with writing at an early age and with horses as soon as she could ride. She wrote her first story when she was only seven, complete with illustrations....