Talking Books with JT Crowley

Teressa Hill has in my opinion led a unputdownable, beguiling and possibly colourful life so far, a life that started in Oregon in the USA. As a young child she loved the outdoor life riding her horse with her dog close at hand. Her love of animals has continued throughout her whole life hence all […] The post The Wildly Whimsical Tales of Gracie and Sniggles by Teresa Hill appeared first on WebTa...

Most people live mundane, routine lives, to say that of Vincent D’Souza would be a severe understatement to someone who presently identifies as transgender, as well as a spiritualist. Vincent was born in Kampala in Uganda of Indian ethnicity but due to a brother’s health issues the family moved to the Kenyan coastline. The Family’s stay in Kenya was short-lived and in 1965 Vincent arrived in Londo...

Carl-Evert Jonsson. MD.PhD lives in the Stockholm area of Sweden, he spent most of his professional life working in medicine. Medicine is such a diverse field, and he chose to specialize in the area of reconstructive surgery, in particular treating burn injuries, both in the reconstructive and acute phases, as well as working in congenital malformations and post-traumatic injuries of the face and...

Anthony Adams grew up on the outskirts of Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania in the USA. He was brought up within the traditions of Catholicism and like most members of the church he found himself at times questioning was this religious pathway befitting to how he sees a person should follow the Lord’s teachings. Anthony has probed, explored into other religious views and while he currently...

Shinete Maunze was born into a small rural community in the Kwekwe district, Midland Province of Zimbabwe. Its an area of mixed Shona and Ndebele people, people who are not adverse to dealing with ancient traditions of witchcraft and the custom rituals that encompasses that occultism. Shinete converted to Christianity, a faith that is close to her heart, a faith however that has brought her into h...

Cricket Rohman is an American author who has a voracious appetite for both reading and writing. The reading part stems right back to her primary years in the wilds of Colorado where she and her brother grew up among the coyotes, bears, cougars and bobcats, as well as the pretty blue columbine flowers native to the Rocky Mountains that dominate vast swathes of America’s west and north westerly stat...

They say you should never judge a book by it’s cover, and this is one of those books for behind the blue rose image lurks a sinister story of the shady underworld with its criminal activities and retribution along with revenge as well as sexual exploitation, some good, some not so. This is Claire Goff’s debut book. Claire Goff is a single mother and some of the content of the book stems from her o...

Larry Morphew has worked in broadcasting for over forty years, he’s hosted talk shows addressing crime, politics as well as general life issues. Across several radio stations he’s produced and directed no end of news programmes. Broadcasting has been his life, right from his teen years he knew he wanted to be on the airwaves be that late at night or early morning. The one thing Larry learnt over t...

Linda Harkey is a children’s author from New Mexico in the US, she lives with her husband Michael a retired surgical pathologist and their hunting dogs. Linda has lived with hunting dogs for most of her life as well as working closely with children, actively encouraging them to read. It was a combination of both these aspects of her life that ultimately led her to write the brilliant eclectic coll...

Salty Yeom’s debut book God’s Plan you might perceive as a book coming from a different angle pertaining to certain religious theories. I wouldn’t go as far as to say his views are radical, but they are certainly thought-provoking, so to any erudite reader who likes a provocative book around religious ideologies then this is the book for you to analyze, and maybe challenge the author’s viewpoints....

This book, imaginatively written reveals and touches on some of the issues the author herself has gone through both in her professional life and that of her personal life.  The characters are brilliantly interwoven to reflect the multi-layered storylines that are going on in this debut novel, ‘Katie, A New Chapter,’ which is set in Britain in the early nineteen nineties over a twenty-one-month per...

Didn’t Anyone Ever Tell You? It’s All A Game! is Andrew Mullaney’s powerful and thought-provoking debut non-fiction book about surviving and sometimes winning at life. He brilliantly compares life’s journey to that of a game of snakes and ladders, to which so many of us can identify with.  https://youtu.be/BX5a4F6XQG0 This book represents a lifetime’s work, right from Andy’s childhood as an only c...

Dr Penny Clauss known as P.Clauss in the writing fraternity, is a veterinary surgeon from Dallas, Texas. As a child she loved reading books, so much so she would create stories in her head but keep them there, thinking no one would be interested in her tales. How wrong she was. It wasn’t until years later that with encouragement from her husband David, a clockwork master, that she finally plucked...

This week I’m talking to David V Mammina, an award-winning dark fantasy, indie author from Long Island, New York, US. He joins Talking Books this week for a lively conversation about inspiration, drama and the creative process. His books include, The Angels of Resistance, Protector of Children and Redeem the Knight trilogy to name but a few. David has been writing for many years considering his re...