The Storytellers

Dickie Smothers is an American TV legend, composer, actor, musician, and comedian. While he distinctly stands out in his own right, he was one half of The Smother Brothers with his elder brother Tom. The Smothers Brothers formed in the late 1950s and appeared on numerous television shows, including two shows of their own, a sitcom from 1965 to 1966 and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour which ran t...

Dickie Smothers is an American TV legend, composer, actor, musician, and comedian. While he distinctly stands out in his own right, he was one half of The Smother Brothers with his elder brother Tom. The Smothers Brothers formed in the late 1950s and appeared on numerous television shows, including two shows of their own, a sitcom from 1965 to 1966 and The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour which ran t...

Kristin Owens, Ph. D, is an award-winning faculty member with over 25 years university experience. Now a full-time writer in sticky southwest Florida, Kristin has over 100 bylines with celebrated magazines such as Writer’s Digest, Wine Enthusiast, and 5280. Her personal essays have won New Millennium Writing Awards honorable mention, awarded finalist for the New Letters’ award in nonfiction, and i...

Sarah Johns is a writer and producer. After studying in South Africa, Hungary, Israel and Germany, she graduated from McGill University before attending film school in Sydney, Australia. A brief return to Minnesota became permanent after receiving an offer to work for the Minnesota Film Commission. In between writing sessions for her own projects, she has created videos for corporate clients such...

This episode shines a light on women’s fiction stories filled with characters that will delight, challenge, and engage you.  With stories of ghosts both real and imagined, these books tell tales of panic attacks, writing careers, deep personal secrets, adoption, and mystery! This special episode is made possible through a collaboration with “Twelve Weeks to Book Launch Success.” https://www.lainey...

Join these authors as they share their newest books filled with exotic and lush landscapes, personal and professional battles, high-tech crimes, and fractured families. Greed, betrayal, virtue, science, and sentiment fill these debut books.  We explore the books and these authors’ journey to book launch. This special episode is made possible through a collaboration with “Twelve Weeks to Book Launc...

This episode delights with a witch who must master her powers; a girl who must prove that an entire greenhouse of plants is witnesses to a crime; a young girl ill-equipped for the world of King Louis the XIV’s court; and, a family story that explores how we define progress and speaks to the impact of man’s impact on geology and vice versa.  In this episode of science, story, historical fiction, an...

In this episode of LAUNCH PAD we will explore the depths of family trauma and healing; understand the role pets and their loss have on our lives and how to deal with it; and romp through high crimes, spies, and Silicon Valley high-tech gaming worlds with novels that engross us in dangerous circumstances and a mind-controlling plot. We will discuss memoir, a unique self-help book, and the intricaci...

THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE   In this episode, we host She Writes Press authors whose books are packed with multi-layered stories and poignancy.  From a mother who fights to stay in her children’s lives; to an adopted daughter who finds a manila envelope that causes her to question everything; to a powerful tale of navigating both a hearing and a deaf world and a story fille...

THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE   Welcome to Episode 40 where 160 authors have now shared their stories and celebrated their debuts! In this episode explore new books and meet new authors, some from She Writes Press and Black Rose Writing. Be transported by thrilling and paranormal writing, a story of love lost and a soul restored, a timeless romance, and a raw and personal memo...

THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE   On this episode of LAUNCH PAD join these She Writes Press authors who share deliciously haunted memoirs and novels focused on spiritual and psychological healing, identity and ingenuity, astrology and the power to map your life, and genre-bending stories about being fierce and fearless. Join us now on LAUNCH PAD, fall in love with your next auth...

THIS SHOW WAS BE RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE Set sail, fall in love, travel through time, flee for your life, discover feminism - then and now, and connect with sorceresses and Greek gods all in this episode of LAUNCH PAD.  Discover a new-to-you author and find your next best read.   Find out more about these authors at: Terry Lee Caruthers - https://terryleecaruthers-author.com   Susan J...

THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE In this episode of LAUNCH PAD join She Writes Press and Black Rose Writing authors share a marriage memoir, evocative women’s fiction, dual timelines in paradise, and a long-deceased grandmother’s quest to solve a family kidnapping! Fall in love with your next author and find your next favorite read!   Find out more about these authors at: Noël Ca...

THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE   Join an amazing cast of characters and the Black Rose Writing authors who created them in this episode of LAUNCH PAD.  Murder, mayhem, ghosts, intrigue, secrets, altruism, and the power of story all come together as we discuss writing, novels, point of view, and so much more.  Listen and fall in love with your next great read.   Find out more ab...

THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE   Join these Black Rose Writing authors and delight in a contemporary romance thriller, a coming-of-age novel set in India, a memoir of the repeatedly dead, and a novel where an unexplained phenomenon might just save all humankind from destruction!   Find out more about these authors at: M. Lee Musgrave - http://www.leemusgrave.com/   Saborna Royc...

Karen Eber is an author, international leadership consultant, professional storyteller, and keynote speaker. Her talk on TED.com: How your brain responds to stories – and why they’re crucial for leaders, has almost 2 million views. As the CEO and Chief Storyteller of Eber Leadership Group, Karen helps Fortune 500 companies build leaders, team, and culture one story at a time. Karen works with comp...

Tracey Enerson Wood is the international and USA Today bestselling author of The Engineer’s Wife, The War Nurse, and, most recently, The President’s Wife. While working as a Registered Nurse, starting her own Interior Design company, raising two children, and bouncing around the world as a military wife, she indulged in her passion as a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. Currently, Tracey focu...

Patricia J. Rullo is an author, national radio talk show host, and sought-after speaker.  In 2012, Pat teamed up with Salem Media Group to produce a radio talk show based on her book Speak Up and Stay Alive , the patient advocate hospital survival guide. The radio program was the first nationally syndicated show to address patient safety and the patient experience. It is heard on stations througho...

THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE LAUNCH PAD welcomes these Black Rose Writing Authors as they share their memoirs, biographies, and novels.  Travel with us from the Renaissance to the times of the Titanic and World War II to the present day.  Meet historical figures and marvel at personal journeys all on your way to finding your next great read.   Find out more about these author...

THIS SHOW WILL BE RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE From memoir to murder, with messages and sightings from the hereafter, and with poignant stories of tough choices, the joy of self-discovery, and solving riddles of the heart, this episode of LAUNCH PAD will have you, once again, adding to your TBR list. Join us.     Find out more about these authors at: Shelley Blanton-Stroud - https://shelle...

THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE On this episode of LAUNCH PAD a poet, a memoirist, and two novelists lead us on their writing adventures and take us to some fascinating places.  From those who experience loss and despair and those who talk to the dead; to suspenseful family sagas set in pre-World War 1; to the importance of stubbornness, acceptance, and learning that with every...

Renea is an internationally-released, award-winning author of: Outbound Train , the French translation, De l’autre cote’ des rails . Her nonfiction titles include: Farming, Friends & Fried Bologna Sandwiches , In the Garden with Billy and multiple essays and short stories. She is a passionate supporter of literacy and libraries. Renea is the winner of multiple awards including: The Lucy Bramle...

THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE From the perfect English cottage to the most rural of ranches, from the boom and bust American West, to social rights advocacy, join these four authors for memoir, historical fiction, a husband’s ghost, a search for the meaning of family and the human spirit, and so much more on your way to finding your next great read.   Find out more about these...

Laurie Frankel is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of four novels, including her most recent, One Two Three, and This Is How It Always Is. She is the recipient of the Washington State Book Award and the Endeavor Award. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty-five languages and been optioned for film and TV. Her new novel, Family Family , comes out in January 2024....

Born in the U.K., owner of two successful healthcare businesses and BBC broadcaster, Angela has been involved with coaching since 1986. She began her writing career with non-fiction articles and progressed to a blend of fiction and non-fiction in the creation of Play Pause Unwind a series of relaxation visualization resources. Her ambition to write a novel was realized in 2019. Successful in gaini...