The Brainwave Podcast with Gail Hulnick

Send us Fan Mail Accomplished photographer, author, poet, philosopher Janet Sternburg now makes her home in Mexico and she has turned her observant, artistic photographer's eye to objects and scenes she's discovered around her. With comments from a local friend, Jose Alberto Romero Romano, she has created a stunning, hard cover book in English and in Mexican Spanish that takes the viewer...

Send us Fan Mail Award-winning photographer, writer, poet, and philosopher Janet Sternburg has released a new book of photographs of her life and observation in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Titled Looking at Mexico Mexico Looks Back, this hard-cover collection also features comments from her friend Jose Alberto Romero Romano, and between them, Janet and Alberta cross the border dividing their tw...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine you've scaled a mountain, carrying your paints and easel, only to have a blizzard move in, foiling your plan to make a masterpiece. In this episode of the Brainwave Podcast, visual artist Alexander Inchbald describes that experience and the charmed moment that led to his finished work. We also hear about the journeys around the world he leads for other artists, about...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode I talk with visual artist Alexander Inchbald who leads retreats around the world for people who want to work on their masterpiece. I also update you on podcasting news and publishing news about my latest books. The Brainwave Podcast is produced and presented by WindWord Group Publishing and Media.  Please visit our website at https://www.windwordgroup.com to s...

Send us Fan Mail The 66th Grammy Awards were handed out last week. In this solo episode of the Brainwave Podcast, I talk about the show and the origin of the awards. The Brainwave Podcast is produced and presented by WindWord Group Publishing and Media.  Please visit our website at https://www.windwordgroup.com to sign up for our newsletter and receive regular information about upcoming guest...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we have details on the new Blue Norther Bookstore, hosted by WindWord Group Publishing & Media to sell print books, ebooks, and audiobooks from Gail Hulnick, Devin Audrah, and David A. Stone. You'll hear about Apple Podcasts' plan to provide transcripts for all podcasts hosted on its platform, and about Gail's research for the origin story of the Grammy A...

Send us Fan Mail Today, we have details on the new Blue Norther Bookstore, hosted by WindWord Group Publishing & Media to sell print books, ebooks, and audiobooks from Gail Hulnick, Devin Audrah, and David A. Stone. You'll hear about Apple Podcasts' plan to provide transcripts for all podcasts hosted on its platform, and about Gail's research for the origin story of the Grammy A...

Send us Fan Mail You'll hear an update on the WindWord Group's progress toward opening an author-direct store and an interview with New York's premiere landscape designer Steve Griggs. Where do the inspirations for an elaborate backyard design come from? What is the role of the client? What's one of the most important things for an aspiring landscape architect to do? Learn more...

Send us Fan Mail You'll hear an update on the WindWord Group's progress toward opening an author-direct store and an interview with New York's premiere landscape designer Steve Griggs. Where do the inspirations for an elaborate backyard design come from? What is the role of the client? What's one of the most important things for an aspiring landscape architect to do? Learn more...

Send us Fan Mail This time I talk with filmmaking team The Boylan Sisters, Andrea and Alexandra, about their movies  Catching Faith, Catching Faith 2, Identity Crisis, Wish for Christmas, The Greatest Inheritance, and Switched.  All can be seen on Amazon Prime Video in January 2024.  The Brainwave Podcast is produced and presented by WindWord Group Publishing and Media.  Please visit our webs...

Send us Fan Mail In 2022, 24% of the 250 top-grossing films in Hollywood were female-driven, with women writers, directors, producers, executive producers, editors or cinematographers. In 2023, that number had fallen to 22%. My guests today fall into that minority group. The Boylan Sisters create and produce female-driven, faith-based movies. You may have seen Catching Faith, Switched, Identity Cr...

Send us Fan Mail Do you love a good heist movie? I do. How about a novel about a heist movie that is stolen? Novelist Tyler Schwanke is the author of Breaking In , the story of a student filmmaker who goes after someone who has ripped her off. In this episode, I explore the beginning of the idea that led to the book. You can find out more about Tyler's work at his website www.tylerschwanke.co...

Send us Fan Mail Do you love a good heist movie? I do. How about a novel about a heist movie that is stolen? Wheels within wheels. Novelist Tyler Schwanke is the author of Breaking In , the story of a student filmmaker who goes after someone who has ripped her off. We talk about his background, writing screenplays and novels, and how his experiences led to the book, how he marketed it and found an...

Send us Fan Mail The Imaginative Storm writing method urges you to Write What You Don't Know  and I was intrigued by this piece of advice which runs counter to the opposite tip, more commonly given .   Poet James Navé is cofounder and coauthor of the book, which is the foundation for some of his workshops and writing retreats. Navé is also the host of  Twice 5 Miles Radio and the author of 10...

Send us Fan Mail "Write what you know." That's one of the most familiar and common pieces of writing advice -- I probably heard it a hundred times when I was first starting out as a novelist. There is a new book titled Write What You Don't Know   and its co-author, Allegra Huston, is an intriguing woman who began her own writing journey with a memoir, titled Love Child, and has...

Send us Fan Mail In Hollywood today, they're buzzing with anticipation for the biggest event of the year, creatively and commercially. The Academy Awards will be given out and for the thousands of people whose fame, fortune, or livelihoods depend on the movies it's a bigger deal than the switch to Daylight Saving Time (which also happens today.) On this bonus, solo episode of The Brainwa...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Brainwave Podcast, my guest is author Frank Scalise, who has dozens of crime fiction novels in print as Frank Zafiro. We talk about the origin of his pen names, the ways in which his career as a police officer have affected his novels, and the way that writers feel about their first book. You can find out more about his work at http://www.frankzariro.com The Brain...

Send us Fan Mail This time on The Brainwave Podcast, my guests are Hejsa and Alie Christensen, a mother-daughter writing duo who had their first novel published last year. Stealing John Hancock is published by Turnstone Press. I talked with Hejsa and Alie about the inspiration for the story, about people living through the nightmare of identity theft, and about their method of working together. To...

Send us Fan Mail Gail was a guest on the Florida Writer Podcast and talked with host Alison Nissen about winning two of the Royal Palm Literary Awards the Florida Writers Association gives out, about the challenges of writing loglines or book descriptions, and about the fiction writing process. You can check out the Florida Writer Podcast and the Florida Writers Association at https://floridawrite...

Send us Fan Mail David Kirschner has produced, written or executive-produced some of the most famous family movies to come out of Hollywood in the past three decades. The most recent is Hocus Pocus 2, which is setting records on the Disney Plus channel and giving new life to the original, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimi. Gail talks with him about the original idea for...

Send us Fan Mail Novelist Jennifer Steil is interested in the inner journey that people make when they choose to live in a country other than the one where they were born. In this conversation with Gail Hulnick, they explore writing fiction as a means of processing a traumatic event, and Jennifer shares her story of coming up with the idea for Exile Music, a novel about a family that flees to Boli...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Gail talks with poet Andrea Carter Brown about her experiences escaping the neighborhood of the twin towers in New York City, the morning that they collapsed after airplanes crashed into them. Andrea is the author of a collection of poems titled September 12, which is the recipient of the 2022 IPPY Silver Medal in Poetry. You can find out more about Andrea's w...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Gail talks with visual artist/author Linda Riesenberg Fisher about the way she is inspired by nature, about the challenges new artists face in marketing their work, and about the vision she and co-founder John Anderson have for the Artistic Harmonies Association. Linda's website is https://lindafisler.com Artistic Harmonies Association can be found at https:/...

Send us Fan Mail Twenty-five years ago, The Brainwave Podcast got its start as a book idea. In this bonus episode, after sixty conversations with others about where their ideas came from, Gail talks about the beginning of her podcast about creativity and about you making a podcast of your own.  The Brainwave Podcast is produced and presented by WindWord Group Publishing and Media.  Please vis...

Send us Fan Mail Author Sari Fordham found her  mother's letters home from her time as an ex-pat in Uganda and that set her on a journey to write a memoir titled Wait for God to Notice. In Episode 47 of The Brainwave Podcast, she talks with Gail about her feelings on finding those letters, the decision to write a book, and her family's reactions to the revelations in the memoir. You can...