The Spotlight Network

We're joined by Buffy Sanders, author of Buffy the Spiritual Player: Save Yourself, a deeply personal account of surviving years of abuse, financial hardship, PTSD, panic attacks, and a mental health crisis. At her lowest point in 2010, Sanders says she contemplated suicide before experiencing a profound spiritual turning point that led her to choose life for herself and her two daughters.🙏 S...

We're joined by Helen Fernald, author of Love, Helen: Letters to My Mother: Creating a Loving Connection after Loss, an intimate grief memoir built around personal letters written to her late mother over three decades. Through those letters, Fernald explores loss, family memories, suppressed grief, spiritual awakening, and a mother-daughter bond she believes continues beyond death.❤️ With vuln...

We're joined by Ronald Fentiman, author of The Human Game: You Are the Mind, a personal exploration of thought, emotion, and identity. The book grew from a devastating period when both Fentiman's mother and wife were battling terminal cancer. He buried himself in work until severe stress and headaches eventually forced him to walk away from his job.💭 During his recovery, Fentiman began ex...

We're joined by Linda Aldrich, author of Journey to Five, a poignant story set in small-town America during the 1950s and 1960s, where appearances, reputation, and religious expectations shape everyday life. Sixteen-year-old Lily seems to be the perfect daughter her mother, Ruth, has always wanted—until a possible pregnancy suddenly changes everything.💔 Faced with her mother’s anger and the j...

We're joined by Roman Montague, author of And Should the Sky Fall, a deeply spiritual story of struggle, refinement, and redemption. Montague describes a journey from the depths of despair and the “jaws of hell” through what he calls the refiner’s fire—a painful process of confronting hardship and emerging changed on the other side.🙏 Drawing on the biblical imagery of removing dross to reveal...

We're joined by Thomas Polvogt, author of a wide-ranging collection of historical, faith-centered, and character-driven stories, including Little Emmett, Emmett, Naomi, Joseph – Step Father III, Cold Blooded Justice, Cold-Blooded Friendship: Reconciliation, How I became Thom, and Possum's Tale, with Mai Grace coming soon.⚖️ Across his work, Polvogt explores characters confronting prejudice...

We're joined by Tonya McBean, M.S, author of Chasing Happiness, Not Chaos, a faith-centered guide for anyone feeling overwhelmed, emotionally drained, or trapped in patterns that never seem to bring lasting peace. McBean challenges the constant pursuit of success, validation, and relationships as the answer to fulfillment and instead encourages readers to look inward.🕊️ Through practical wisdo...

We're joined by Chris Brotha Blanks, author of The Scar Spangled Banner, a deeply personal work shaped by experiences with racism, violence, addiction, loss, fatherhood, military service, and recovery. After losing both parents to gun violence while still a teenager, Blanks faced his own struggles before ultimately rebuilding his life and dedicating himself to his family and community.✊ A spo...

We're joined by Jim Moe, author of The Inner Journey to God, a spiritual reflection inspired by his pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago with his sister. What begins as a physical journey toward a centuries-old destination becomes something far more personal: an exploration of faith, meaning, and the human desire for a deeper connection with the divine.🙏 Along the Camino, Moe discovers tha...

We're joined by Carol Newton, author of My Favorite F Words: My Family. My Faith. My Friends, a deeply personal memoir about a life transformed by loss. Newton once envisioned a future filled with family, children, laughter, and security. But after the death of her beloved father, that certainty gave way to heartbreak, homelessness, and challenges she never imagined facing.🙏 Through those dar...

We're joined by Rob Vogel, author of The Dawn of Peace. A lifelong artist whose creative journey began primarily through painting, drawing, and illustration, Vogel eventually discovered that words could express dimensions of his inner world that visual art could not always communicate. After years of writing poetry privately, he decided to move beyond “poetry for me” and share his deeply perso...

We're joined by Robert A. Clark, author of The Hanging Ground (The Cold Ground Series). Clark writes literary crime fiction set in the humid, kudzu-covered corners of the American South, where forgotten histories, institutional decisions, and long-held secrets can become inseparable from the crimes of the present. His work combines the tension of a police procedural with an exploration of memo...

We're joined by Dr. Barbara ten Brink, author of Operating at the Speed of Joy: An Autobiography. A prolific author of some 40 books, Dr. ten Brink shares a life fueled by curiosity, creativity, travel, and an enduring love of the open road. Rather than settling into a conventional retirement from teaching, she continues moving across Texas, finding inspiration for everything from poetry and t...

We're joined by Les Duncan, author of Brain Storms, an inspiring and practical guide shaped by an extraordinary personal journey. Born with a genetic defect that caused his brain to bleed seven times, resulting in seven debilitating strokes, Duncan says doctors told him he was fortunate simply to be alive and that recovery was not expected. He refused to accept that as the final word.💪 Drawin...

We're joined by C. M. Gordon, author of Marmalade: The Final Curtain Call. The historical novel follows eighty-year-old Jessica Matthews—better known as Lady Marmalade—as she looks back on a remarkable life shaped by ambition, family, love, and the pursuit of the spotlight. Her story takes a dramatic turn in 1914 when Jessica and her family leave London for Brooklyn, New York, just before the...

We're joined by Marilyn Redmond, author of A Spark of Truth, a provocative exploration of health, religion, education, government, spirituality, and society. Drawing on her personal experiences and research, Redmond challenges conventional narratives and presents alternative and unconventional perspectives on issues she believes are frequently misunderstood, overlooked, or inadequately represe...

We're joined by Melisa E. Arnold, author of The Color of Pain, a dramatic story told through the eyes of Alex, a young man whose life is profoundly affected by the ambitions and choices of his mother, Cathlean. Growing up in Belize, Alex becomes caught in her determination to improve her social standing—a plan that eventually takes the family across the Atlantic to England after Cathlean marri...

We're joined by Nhlanhla Magubane, author of Beat Of The Defiant, a powerful memoir tracing one man's journey through a pivotal period in South African history. Beginning with a childhood shaped by apartheid, political unrest, resistance, and family sacrifice, Magubane recounts the experiences that carried him from Soweto to the worlds of corporate business and entrepreneurship—along with...

We're joined by Myron Abrams, creator of the Chubby Wubbles children's books, including Chubby Wubbles: A Ferret's Tale, Chubby Wubbles - My Pet Ferret, and Chubby Wubbles & Coco - 2 Missing Ferrets. Inspired by true events, the stories follow the friendship between a young man and Chubby Wubbles, a lovable and curious ferret who longs to find his missing playmate, Coco. Along the...

We're joined by Pauline Gill, author of Eight Weeks And Beyond, a deeply personal memoir combined with a guide to purpose-driven dog breeding and puppy development. Gill shares her own remarkable journey through a difficult childhood, undiagnosed dyslexia, depression, and a life-threatening cancer diagnosis—and the extraordinary role dogs have played in helping her find resilience, companionsh...

We're joined by Dr. Pinky Ravi Kadur, author of Cost of My Freedom, a deeply personal memoir about one woman's determination to reclaim her life, her voice, and her future. Raised in an environment where daughters were expected to obey and sacrifice, Dr. Kadur ultimately makes the life-changing decision to leave a forced marriage—even though choosing freedom comes with an enormous personal...

We're joined by Rob Vogel, author of The Turn of Words, a collection of poetry shaped by love, landscape, solitude, and the deeply personal experiences that have influenced his writing. Vogel approaches poetry as an evolving art form, moving beyond traditional romantic conventions to explore a style that combines emotional storytelling, lyrical expression, and a contemporary sense of realism....

We're joined by James E. Geil, author of Adventures Aboard Tabor Boy: Tales About a Schooner's Historic Legacy at Tabor Academy in Marion, Massachusetts. Drawing from 35 years of working with high school students aboard Tabor Academy's schooner Tabor Boy, Geil shares memorable stories of life at sea, where changing weather, challenging conditions, and the responsibilities of sailing be...

We're joined by LTC Alexander R. Tambascia, Armor CAV, Retired, author of ODAT: Orbital Drop Armor Team Books 1-3. This military science-fiction series follows an elite team of highly trained soldiers operating in a future where humanity has expanded across the solar system. Equipped with advanced technology that allows them to drop from orbit directly onto the battlefield, ODAT undertakes dan...

We're joined by Robert J. Ackerman, author of I HEAL YOU WITH MY HANDS. A Vietnam veteran whose life has taken him through an unusually diverse range of leadership and community-service roles, Ackerman shares his personal experiences and the lessons he has gathered along the way. His story encompasses work in drug and alcohol programs, a halfway house, emergency medical services, firefighting,...