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Deana Driver is an award-winning author, editor, book publisher, and retired journalist. She was a freelance journalist for 30 years and, in 2008, founded DriverWorks Ink publishing, which specializes in inspiring non-fiction books about Prairie people and publishes other genres connected to non-fiction stories. Deana (pronounced dee-na) has written five non-fiction books: The Sailor and the Chris...

Kaj Hasselriis is a Canadian journalist, community activist and politician. Kaj has a journalism degree from Toronto's Ryerson University. Kaj worked as a reporter and producer for CBC Television. Hasselriis served as the Manitoba campaign manager for Jack Layton's leadership bid in 2002. He also played a key role as a member of Toronto mayor David Miller's 2003 campaign team.

Todd Downing is the primary author and designer of over fifty roleplaying titles, including Arrowflight, RADZ, Airship Daedalus, and the official Red Dwarf RPG for Deep7 Press. He has written for stage, screen, comics, audiodrama, short-form and long-form, interactive and narrative, in a career spanning three decades.

Morgan Murray grew up on a farm near the same backwoods central Alberta village as figure-skating legend Kurt Browning. He now lives in the backwoods of Cape Breton with his wife, cartoonist Kate Beaton, Mary the baby, Agnes the dog, Reggie the cat, Peggy the ditch kitten, and six chickens without names because they all look alike. He has a BA in Canadian Studies from the University of Calgary, a...

Larry Stone is a Seattle Times sports columnist and Co-author of "Edgar: An Autobiography".

Kevin Major (born September 12, 1949) is a Canadian author who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with his wife. He writes for both young people and adults, including fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, and plays. The novels were usually set on the island of Newfoundland. In 1992, he was awarded the Vicky Metcalf Award for his body of work.

John Ivison returns to talk about his new book, The Riotous Passions of Robbie Burns.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 Melissa was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario. When she was 19, she was returning home from a night out with her friends in Detroit, Michigan. She became stranded on the freeway just minutes away from the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. She was subsequently robbed at gunpoint, kidnapped and over a terrifying twelve hour period, gang...

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   H. Paul Doucette is a widower living Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He spent his life travelling and working in dozens of countries as a transportation specialist. A self described 'hippie' he hitch hiked all over North America and parts of Mexico. He was active during the civil rights and anti war movements of the late sixties and...

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1   Kathryn Valentine (born January 7, 1959) is an American musician (guitar and bass) and songwriter. She made music history as a member of the Go-Go's , the first all-female band to have a #1 album in the U.S.

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 Billy Newton-Davis grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and as a teenager he was one of two lead singers in a local soul band called "The Illusions". Billy received Junos for best R&B/soul recording for his first two albums "Love Is a Contact Sport" (1986) and "Spellbound" (1989), and more recently a Juno for best dance recording o...

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 Mary Harelkin Bishop has lived in Canada for most of her life, she was actually born in Hillsdale, Michigan, on April 30, 1958 .   Even though Mary has authored four books about the adventures of a contemporary teenager, Andrea Talbot, and her younger brother, Tony, in the tunnels below Moose Jaw, SK in the 1920's, Mary did not...

Clint Malarchuk is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1981 and 1992. He has been a coach for four NHL teams and two minor league teams, most recently the Calgary Flames. He was born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, raised in Edmonton, Alberta, and lives in Alberta and Nevada.

Raised on a farm just outside of Foam Lake, Saskatchewan, Kevin went off into the world and fulfilled many of his childhood dreams, which included working in the film business as a screenwriter, director, producer, and film editor and also establishing himself as a freelance writer and editor in the world of book publishing.

Jeff Hutcheson (born April 15, 1954 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former Canadian weather and sports anchor for Canada AM.

McLauchlan was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland;[ he immigrated to Canada with his family when he was five years old. He grew up in suburban Toronto. At 17, he began playing at coffeehouses in Toronto's Yorkville area and later attended Central Tech as an art student before deciding to become a full-time musician.

Diane Bator has been a writer since she was able to hold a pencil and tell a story. An avid hiker, Reiki Master and martial artist, she loves to make a mess in the kitchen and putters in the garden at will. Joining the Headwaters Writers' Group in 2007 was the catalyst for unearthing several old writing projects. Her first murder mystery, Murder on Manitou, was published after winning a writing co...

KEN CUTHBERTSON is a veteran journalist with forty years' experience writing for publications in Canada, the US and the UK. A finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, he is the bestselling author of five books, including the critically acclaimed The Halifax Explosion: Canada's Worst Disaster.

About Jane Jane Johnson is a British writer and publisher who writes historical fiction set mainly in Cornwall and Morocco. Her novels include The Tenth Gift, The Salt Road, The Sultan's Wife, Pillars of Light, Court of Lions and The Sea Gate

In her book "Extraterrestrial Contact" she helps any "Contactee" or "Experiencer" come to terms with their encounter and gives a lot of advice on how to deal with these, sometimes, deeply unsettling experiences. Kathleen spearheads a new frontier into ET contact and actually helps you come to terms with the psychological affects many encounter, and something which is largely due to a complete lack...

Author of Owl Eyes: A Fairy Tale (Fire & Ice YA, 2018) and Lentils in Black Rice: Myths and Fairy Tales (2019), Molly holds a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts and English from the University of Pennsylvania. From 2004 until 2008, she was an editor at Marvel Comics, where she worked on comic books such as Fantastic Four, Captain America, and New Avengers and was the editor of cult favorite comic b...

Amy Jo returns for another interview, this time, with a new book.

Andrew Pyper (born March 29, 1968) is a prize-winning Canadian author. He has published many short stories and novels, which have been translated in to several languages.

Fleury was born on June 29, 1968, in Oxbow, Saskatchewan. Fleury is of Métis heritage, as his grandmother Mary was Cree. Fleury was subject to racism for being of the Metis descent throughout his playing career. A Canadian former professional ice hockey player, Fleury played for the Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche, New York Rangers, and Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL)

Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/talkingbooksandstuff1 There are plenty of "oldies but goodies" shows on the radio that like to countdown the hits. Dave the Rave's Relics and Rarities Show doesn't count down anything. Most of the tunes played on Dave's show are not focused on the same repetitive oldies that placed in the Top 20. Dave is not simply trying to play obscure music simpl...