Bookish Flights: Books, Author Interviews & Must-Read Recommendations

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Emily Fogg. Emily founded Wise Owl Tuition with one goal in mind: to provide quality accessible tutoring services in her community. As a classroom teacher with 14 years of experience, she knew that many students who needed her tutoring couldn’t access it. There were many reasons why including no tutors available locally, too expensive or too...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Kate King. Kate’s experience is sourced from her 15+ year background as a Licensed Professional Counselor prior to becoming a Radiant Life Coach. Her work also stems from being a Board-Certified Art Therapist, artist, author, and fellow traveler along the meandering journey of life. As the founder and owner of The Radiant Life Project, Kate’s...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Christine Nekas-Thoma. Christine is our first repeat guest on the show. This episode is a standalone episode, but if you would like to hear more from Chrstine, tune into Episode 21 . Christine is a High School English Teacher, as well as a Blogger, Speaker and Author of God’s Whispers: Your Anchor Through Life’s Storms. Her book is a spiritua...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Shelly Zev. Shelly is a Toronto-based bookwork and exclamation mark enthusiast. Shelly earned an Honours Bachelor of Arts with a double major in English and Media studies, graduating with High Distinction from The University of Toronto, one of the world’s top universities. And later, they earned a Master of Information, specializing in Librar...

Send us Fan Mail My son has been asking to come on the show for awhile now and I have been brainstorming on how to share a few episodes with recommendations from the kids. So he jumped in last minute, to gather a book flight of some of his favorite books to share today. He is 8, so the books shared are early chapter books or middle grade novels. Hope you enjoy this short and sweet episode with Mar...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Kim Davis. Kim is a Naval officer and board-certified Ophthalmologist. This spring, she was recognized as the American Hospital Association Federal Health Care Executive of the Year. Over a 31-year career, she has served in various positions and locations across the globe supporting pandemic response, warfighter readiness, humanitarian assist...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Ginny Kochis. Ginny writes books for the unique and unrepeatable, for teens and adults who don’t quite fit the mold. She tells stories about love, friendship, faith and family starring differently-wired characters. Since 2016, Ginny has supported Christian families raising differently-wired children through her online community, Not So Formul...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Waterfall Adams. Waterfall is a creative professional who took her destiny into her own hands. Her real name is Veronica Elizabeth Adams. She was born in Paducah, Kentucky and was raised in Mobile, Alabama. She has an Associate of Science in General Education degree from Bishop State Community College and a Bachelor in Arts degree in Art Hist...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Judy Haveson. Judy is a proud Texan who will never lose her souther charm or accent and mainly uses both when the situation absolutely calls for it. Her one-time dream of becoming a journalist was shattered when a professor suggested she pick a new major due to her penchant for obsessive conversation. He claimed she’d be an editor’s nightmare...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Carly Pepin. Carly is an International Speaker and Consultant with a specialized focus on human behavior. With a global reach, she delivers the message that regardless of one’s background, occupation, or origin; every individual encounters personal and professional challenges stemming from their own perceived flaws. Carly emphasizes that the...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with William Kent Krueger. William was raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. He now makes his home in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of many novels including the brand new release (as of yesterday!), The River We Remember ; This Tender Land , that spent nearly 6 months on the New York Times bestseller list; the Edgar Award winning nove...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Pauly Freeman. Pauly was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. After high school, he joined the Navy. He did a 20-year career in the Navy as a jet mechanic and was assigned to multiple aircraft carriers and squadrons. At the time of retirement, he was the Aircraft Maintenance Chief for a F-18 Squadron based in Fort Worth Texas called VFA-201...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Ryan Hale. Ryan is a retired restaurant General Manager and a former Telecommunications Manager who has been retired for nine years. He began writing in November of 2022. Ryan is the author of multiple novels including coming of age stories and a Blake Franklin Investigations mystery series. I loved this quote from our episode about why he st...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode I am chatting with Rae Walaska. Rae is a military spouse, Mom to 2 boys and business owner. As the Boss Lady for Murder n’ Mayhem, you could say she researches and writes non-fiction “thrillers.” Her business offers True Crime Tours, Ghost Tours, Murder Mystery Scavenger Hunts and Murder Mystery Parties in San Diego, CA & Jacksonville, FL. She has spent coun...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Lewis Jorstad. Lewis is a developmental editor, writing craft author and the founder of The Novel Smithy. In his free time, he is a lover of video games and travel, as well as the steward of a very creaky sailboat. When he is not working on stories of his own, he spends his time teaching up-and-coming writers the skills they need to write the...

Send us Fan Mail Kathy Izard is an award-winning author and speaker who has helped bring transformation to Charlotte in homelessness, housing, and mental health. Her memoir, The Hundred Story Home , has been featured on Katie Couric Media, NPR, and The Today Show, inspiring people to be change-makers in their communities. In 2019, she released A Good Night for Mr. Coleman , a children’s book writt...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode I am chatting with Stephanie Affinito. Stephanie is a book-loving, notebook-hoarding literacy teacher educator on a mission to change lives one book and one notebook at a time. She blogs about the power of leading literate lives and podcasts weekly on books and reading, writing and notebooks and everything in between on Get Lit(erate). with Stephanie Affinito. Y...

Send us Fan Mail Janet Hurley was born and raised in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York before coming south to Carolina (the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) for its undergraduate creative writing program. Though it took a while to replace “you guys” with “y’all”, she has lived in the south ever since, most recently in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western NC, where she and her husban...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode I am chatting with Charles Bruce McIntyre or “Bruce” to anyone who knows him, is a retired business owner and cancer survivor. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1941 and often moved while growing up. After spending seventeen years in corporate America, Bruce founded and managed a foodservice sales and marketing agency for thirty years. There Are No Answers...

Send us Fan Mail Stephanie Ritz is a business strategist, mindset coach and full-time traveler who helps aspiring coaches and consultants to start and grow their business alongside their 9-5 so they can hand in their notice with confidence with a profitable and sustainable business. Stephanie’s experiences in entrepreneurship, corporate leadership and mentoring roles serve as the foundation for he...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Janis Robinson Daly. Janis is the author of the historical novel, The Unlocked Path. A genealogy search helped her discover her great-great-grandfather was a founder of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. And this led Janis down a path of unearthing stories of women whose lives have remained in the shadows. With a love of history, sh...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Tanner Welsch. Tanner is a Physical Therapist, a Podcast Host and Founder of Rehab Rebels, a company for therapists to help bridge the gap to alternative careers.  In this episode, Tanner gives us three great book recommendations to venture into entrepreneurship. These book recommendations can apply to the full range of entrepreneurs - from j...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Brett Crozier. Brett grew up in California and graduated from the United States Naval Academy. He embarked on a thirty-year career in the Navy, flying dozens of combat missions over Iraq and leading at the highest levels of operational command. He served as the Commanding Officer of a combat F/A-18 strike fighter squadron, the USS Blue Ridge...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I am chatting with Cynthia Newberry Martin. Cynthia’s first novel, Tidal Flats, won the Gold Medal in Literary Fiction at the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards and the 14th Annual National Indie Excellence Award for Fiction. Her website features the How We Spend Our Days series, over a decade of essays by writers on their lives. She grew up in Atlanta and...

Send us Fan Mail Bri Daniel is a co-host of Offscript podcast as well as the Lady Preacher Podcast and Reimagining Teaching.  Bri has been editing podcasts for the last 3 years. She has a degree in Electronic Media and Film with an emphasis in Production. Her ultimate career goal is to become an editor for films. Offscript is her passion project with long time friend Alli Lines - where they read b...