Books That Make You Podcast
240 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsBooks That Make You brings you conversations with both authors and literary folks on the business side of things. We discuss new books, old books, indie books, and all the wonderful themes found within books. Whether you're an author or an avid book reader, this is the show for you.
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S:6 E:26 Entering Your Flow State, with Kelly Anne Manuel. Author of The Inclusive All
April 24, 2024 16:00 - 31 minutes - 44.1 MBBooks That Make You Find a Flow State When undertaking a project or a task, or anytime we really need to concentrate in our lives, we can—with fortune and with dedication—enter what’s called a flow state. A psychological concept in which a person becomes fully immersed and engaged in an activity, “flow” has been on the minds of many lately. For creatives in particular, it can be highly fruitful. Prolific author Kelly Anne Manuel is living, writing proof of what can happen when ...
S:6 E:26 Captivating Children with The Power of Positive Messages, with Kelly Anne Manuel
April 24, 2024 16:00 - 31 minutes - 44.1 MBBooks That Make You Find a Flow State When undertaking a project or a task, or anytime we really need to concentrate in our lives, we can—with fortune and with dedication—enter what’s called a flow state. A psychological concept in which a person becomes fully immersed and engaged in an activity, “flow” has been on the minds of many lately. For creatives in particular, it can be highly fruitful. Prolific author Kelly Anne Manuel is living, writing proof of what can happen when ...
S:6 E:25 Unlocking Your Leadership Potential with Elena Agaragimova. Author Of, The Rough Guide to Awesome Leadership
April 03, 2024 16:00 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBBooks That Make You Grow In Your Career and in Life Career coach and talent development expert Elena Agaragimova is an ongoing source of inspiration, having helped many find their voice in leadership. In a remarkable career that spans everywhere from New York to Dubai, she is also a speaker, podcaster, entrepreneur and author. In 2019, she gave a TEDx talk called “Living Your Truth.” Elena's approach springs from the belief that true excellence in one’s career—and in leadership—is ...
S:6 E:24 The Future of Livestreaming and Digital Media with Ross Brand, How AI Is Reshaping Content
March 27, 2024 16:00 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBBooks That Make You Glimpse the Future—Where AI in Livestreaming and Digital Media Is Concerned The pandemic pushed us into a digital landscape, and that momentum remains strong. Livestreamed events like The BookFest—for which Books That Make You is a proud sponsor—are becoming more popular. As a leader in the live video and digital media space, Ross Brand helps artists and visionaries monetize their talent and expertise, and has been instrumental in the growth of platforms such as...
S:6 E:23 Exploring The Maze with James Dashner Author of The Forthcoming Book The House Of Tongues
March 21, 2024 03:50 - 33 minutes - 46 MBBooks That Make You Try to Escape the Maze As a #1 New York Times bestselling author, James Dashner is perhaps best known for his YA “Maze Runner” series, though he is also the author of the bestselling “Mortality Doctrine” series, which includes The Eye of Minds, The Rule of Thoughts, and The Game of Lives. 2014 saw the release of a film adaptation of The Maze Runner, followed by another two films in 2015 and 2018. Altogether, the three films raked in almost a billion dollars. The...
S:6 E:22 The Berman Murders: Uncovering the Truth with Investigative Journalist Doug Kari
March 13, 2024 16:00 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBBooks That Make You Live Alongside an Immersive True Crime Investigator True crime stories, as many of us know, are among the most riveting, filled with intrigue and enigma and real victims for whom we can’t help but empathize with. Understanding the victim’s experience, and to relay that realness to readers, requires the unique skills of a true true crime author. Attorney and researcher Doug Kari exposed The Berman Murders, the story of Barry Berman, heir to the Kahlua fortune, an...
S:6 E:21 Discover the Power of Good Influence with Paul M. Katz, Author of GOOD INFLUENCE
March 06, 2024 17:00 - 839 KBBooks That Make You Uncover the Reach and Power of Influencers Most of us know of influencers, and have some understanding of how the entertainment world, celebrities, and philanthropical institutions and brands all intersect. If you’re in one of these realms, this knowledge can help you and your company get ahead by generating influencer‐based, cause campaigns that tap into the Influencer Effect’s exponential power. And even if you’re not connected to these realms, aren’t you even...
S:6 E:20 Elevate Your Mind and Body with Dr. Paul Corona MD, Author of The Corona Protocol
February 28, 2024 17:00 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MBBooks That Make You Elevate Your Mental and Physical Health with an Innovative Approach For those tired of one-size-fits-all solutions to mental health, Dr. Paul D. Corona, a California-based physician with over 30 years of medical experience, has constructed a revolutionary approach that treats mental health not with quick fixes but a carefully calibrated, holistic method, one that includes off-label medications, amalgamated treatment methods, and aggressive strategies that have seen ...
S:6 E:19 Write Your Own True Stories with Sue William Silverman, Author of Acetylene Torch Songs
February 21, 2024 17:00 - 31 minutes - 44.8 MBBooks That Make You Find the Spark for Your True Story Writing a memoir involves far more than just listing your life experiences in order. It requires addressing a significant and poignant section of life, and delivering a story that caters more to the reader than to you. At times, writers—from the aspiring to veterans—need to find a spark to pursue the complicated work of self-exploration. Sue William Silverman’s Acetylene Torch Songs: Writing True Stories to Ignite the Soul offe...
S:6 E:18 Ways Humans can Write Better. AI and Writers Part 2 with Desiree and Dave
February 14, 2024 17:00 - 33 minutes - 46.9 MBWays Humans Can Write Better, in the Era of Artificial Intelligence This episode is a follow-up to the one where we discussed how AI—or artificial intelligence—is affecting the writing and reading community. That first episode came out just a few months ago, eons ago in terms of this technology. Yet there is something very timeless about the act of writing that we believe will never be surpassed by machines, and that is indeed the very important topic we’ll dive into deeper today: ...
S:6 E:17 Go On a Journey Through The 1950s Era of Rock with Rebecca Hendricks Author of Hound Dogged
January 31, 2024 17:00 - 30 minutes - 56.7 MBBooks That Make You adventure Through Fifties-Era of Rock and Roll, and Get Hound Dogged The coming-of-age story is universal, enjoyed by every generation. The main reason: we older folks remember it fondly—or not so fondly—and younger folks are in the throes of experiencing it. Author Rebecca Hendricks’s Hound Dogged is about growing up in a turbulent time—the 1950s—and has been compared to SE Hinton’s The Outsiders. In Hound Dogged, we meet five friends: Patrick, Jerry, John,...
S:6 E:16 Hilarious Children’s Poems with Derek Taylor Kent, Author of Hysterical Rhymes
January 24, 2024 17:00 - 35 minutes - 59 MBBooks That Make You Romp with Hysterical Rhymes—and Introduce You to a Great Children’s Book Author Rhyming can help immensely in the learning process, especially for children, who may also love a good scary story. And they certainly would have fun with the offerings of Whimsical World, an innovative children's brand seeking to entertain and educate children of all ages, all while planting seeds of self-esteem and high achievement. Not only is he the author of The BookFest Award-Wi...
S:6 E:15 Experiencing Loss of Loved One with Holly Margl, Author of Witnessing Grief
January 17, 2024 17:00 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBBooks That Make You Understand Better How to Deal with Grief and Loss Probably the cruelest aspect of getting older is losing loved ones. How can we understand our grief and help others, while in the throes of their own? The award-winning author of Witnessing Grief; Inviting Trauma and Loss to Our Coaching Conversations, An Enneagram Perspective, Holly Margl is a name in the coaching realm. She's a beacon for those navigating the waters of grief, trauma, and the Enneagram. With...
S:6 E:14 Nurture Children's Well-Being with Laura Leone’s Book, Conscious Kid-Adventures with Zane
January 11, 2024 05:16 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBBooks That Make You Consciously Adventure with Your Child, or the Child In Your Life Whimsical stories have a place in many a child’s—and, by extension, grown-up’s—heart, helping to inspire us and nurture a sense of wonder. Nowadays, however, that sense of wonder is compromised by the intensifying emphasis on screen-time, structured learning, timelines, and the chronic pressures of school and success. Such things are intense for us adults. So what must they be like for kids growing...
S:6 E:13 Writing Your First Book with Jeremy C Jones, Author of Your First Book BluePrint
January 03, 2024 04:28 - 33 minutes - 46.9 MBBooks That Make You Go from a Blank Document to an Influential Author in 30 Days Readers often get the call to write. When we have our creativity sparked, our imaginations expanded, we might realize that we, too, have something profound and powerful to say, and it’s perhaps one of the greatest moments in the life of a writer. How can we make that happen, though? What if you don’t particularly like writing, or have all those fancy credentials that so many authors seem to have nowaday...
S: 6 E:12 Step into The Boots of a Soldier with CJ Ives Lopez, Author of 48 Hours to Home
December 14, 2023 00:28 - 29 minutes - 41 MBBooks That Make You Step into the Shoes of a PTSD Soldier After over half a decade of military service that’s left him traumatized, Christian returns home and struggles with civilian life, and to readjust to the normalcy of his family ranch. Such is the premise of 48 Hours to Home, by CJ Ives Lopez. Men and women in the armed forces often face incredible burdens when returning from service. We’ve heard about the impact of PTSD, the shock of segueing from a regimented life to one of...
S:6 E:11 Up-Close Personal Look at The Life of Brittany Means, HELL IF WE DON’T CHANGE OUR WAYS
December 14, 2023 00:22 - 26 minutes - 39.4 MBBooks That Make You Understand Poverty, Abuse and Addiction The value of memoirs is their empathetic deep-dive into another’s life. Events that often come to us in data or statistics, or vague references to unfamiliar circumstances, tend not to penetrate our hearts until we confront them through the power of narrative. Brittany Means, a Chicana writer and editor out Albuquerque, New Mexico, has released her memoir, Hell If We Don’t Change Our Ways, through Zibby Books. Brittany...
S:6 E:10 Immerse Yourself in An Epic Fantasy world, with C D McKenna, author of The Vorelian Saga
November 29, 2023 19:51 - 31 minutes - 45.2 MBBooks That Make You Adventure Across a Mythical, Tolkien-Level World Nothing juices up our imaginations like immersing ourselves in fantasy worlds that feel so real, you can so clearly see the characters, the flora, the fauna, the communities, cultures and countryside. And so we have author C.D. McKenna’s award-winning The Vorelian Saga, a world of a dark epic fantasy, full of anti-heroes and ethically gray characters, the first book of which is The Blood of the Lion and which has ...
S:6 E:9 Join Forces with Aliens to Confront a Mutual Enemy, Beyond the Steps of Stone By Beth Freely
November 22, 2023 17:00 - 33 minutes - 45.7 MBBooks That Make You Join With Aliens to Face a Common Threat How about genre-bending today? Beth Freely, award-winning author and BookFest Bellwether, is also a businesswoman and publishing industry professional. Raised in upstate New York and a temporary ex-pat in Great Britain, today she’s settled and writing in New Mexico. Her novel, Beyond the Steps of Stone, illustrates in detail a future Earth in which humans and aliens from the distant past must band together to face dow...
S:6 E:8 Ancient Artifacts, Cultures And Of Course, Aliens with K G Maw, Author of The KV 66
November 16, 2023 00:01 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBBooks That Make You Mix Historical Cultures, Artifacts and, indeed, Aliens KG Maw is back with us to discuss his book The Lazarus Project, the latest in his rich and stimulating “KV 66” series. Certainly a lot has happened since his previous visit, in both his fictional world and the real one. Ancient Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs, and the mysteries surrounding the pyramids, tombs, and more all continue to fascinate us. And KG is no exception—his stories are inspired directly fro...
S:6 E:7 Curl Up with A Fun, Fast-Paced Mystery. Donalee Moulton Brings Us Hung Out to Die
November 08, 2023 19:49 - 27 minutes - 38.1 MBBooks That Make You Tuck In With a Great Mystery We all love a book that makes you want to pour a cup of joe and cozy up by the crackling fireplace. And that’s what Donalee Moulton delivers in her debut novel, Hung Out to Die. The mystery follows Riel, a California-born transplant to Nova Scotia, where he is CEO of the Canadian Cannabis Corporation. Things seem to work out—until Riel finds his world hanging by a thread as a killer emerges. It doesn’t take the police long to determi...
S:6 E:6 Writing and Artificial Intelligence, with Desiree Duffy
October 25, 2023 16:00 - 32 minutes - 45 MBBooks That Make You Think About Your Own Humanness as a Writer As with any art, writing is both a natural talent and a developed skill. Many folks erroneously believe it’s all natural, or that storytelling is so ingrained in us that anyone can do it well. So far as we know, no other creature writes. Using the written word to relate stories is a very human endeavor. Until now. As everyone has heard by now, large language models like Chat GPT can indeed craft stories. They can he...
S:6 E:5 Enter a Dark Fantasy Realm with Jonathan N. Pruitt, author of The Amber Menhir: The Shadows of the Monolith
October 18, 2023 16:00 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBBooks That Make You Enter A Dark, Political Fantasy Realm We all love villains we can relish hating, and new realms we can escape into. Mix all this with a dark fantasy world, and political satire, and you might just get The Amber Menhir, the first book in “The Shadows of the Monolith” series. Debut author Jonathan N. Pruitt is a lifelong educator turned fantasy writer. His redemption arc took him from being a musical child prodigy in a low-income rural county in Florida, to gettin...
S:6 E:4 Starting Over Late in Life with Lisa Niver, Author of Brave-Ish
October 11, 2023 16:00 - 28 minutes - 44.9 MBBooks That Make You Try New Things and be…Brave-ish What happens when you’re almost fifty, undergoing divorced and moving back into your parent’s home to start from the beginning? If you’re like Lisa Niver, you start by taking one “braveish” step at a time. For Lisa, each step took her away from her old world and into a bold new adventurous one. In her new memoir, Brave-ish: One Breakup, Six Continents and Feeling Fearless After Fifty, she chronicles her attempt at trying fifty new...
S:6 E:3 Using Crankiness for Good with Steven Joseph, Author of Cranky Superpowers
October 04, 2023 17:08 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBBooks That Make You Uncover—and Celebrate—Your Cranky Superpowers Yeah, everyone gets cranky. We all get on one another’s nerves, indulge in moments where we grumble, snap or lash out at the ones we love, or whoever’s in the unfortunate position of having to put up with us. But imagine if you could harness that crankiness, use it, even, like a superpower? With his latest book, Steven Joseph Cranky Superpowers: Life Lessons Learned from the Common CrankaTsuris Chronicles, explore...
S:6 E:2 Empowering Women with Sara Connell, Author of The Science of Getting Rich for Women
September 27, 2023 22:04 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBBooks That Make You Rich—Then Send You Walking New York Streets with Madwomen As with all creatives, authors have many angles and interests. They can cross genre boundaries, producing books that, while superficially different from one another, harbor a thematic through-line—if you look hard enough. A bestselling author, and founder of the Thought Leader Academy, Sara Connell helps coaches, writers and entrepreneurs become successful, published authors and TEDx/ in-demand speakers...
S:6 E:1 Help Children Connect, with Sarah Vie, Author of Let Your Inner Golden Sparkle Shine
September 20, 2023 21:42 - 33 minutes - 47 MBBooks That Make You and Your Kids Better Connect Connecting with their Hidden Potential and Greatness It’s important that kids come to recognize the true depths of their potential, before the world’s “limiting stories” begin bombarding them, poisoning them from achieving what they hope—and can—for themselves. Bestselling author Sarah Vie discusses her children’s book, Let Your Inner Golden Sparkle Shine, which allows kids to see that, no matter what might be happening around them, ...
S:5 E:37 Ancient Artifacts and Cautionary Tales with P. L. Hampton, Author Of SHADOWLAND
September 15, 2023 03:20 - 29 minutes - 40.8 MBBooks That Make You Enter a World of Old Occult Objects You Definitely Should Not Mess With We all love cautionary tales that warn of the things that shouldn’t be messed with. So what happens when you mix horror and suspense with timeless topics like family, family history and the specter of potentially losing it all? You get one of those page-turners you never want to put down. Inspired by true events, real history and his own familial lore, Shadowland by P.L. Hampton tells the st...
S:5 E:36 Survive A Dystopian Future in Susy Smith's Asylum Series, Asylum and the 2nd Book Ascendant
August 16, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBBooks That Make You Envision Agriculture in an Apocalyptic America If society crumbled and you had to fend for yourself, how would you go about it? Do you know how to grow crops? Or purify water? Or protect the ones you love at all costs? In her dystopian book series “Asylum,” Susy Smith explores these questions. In the gripping world she’s created, a young woman must learn to live off the land on her family’s farm—until the worst side of human nature darkens her door, forcing her ...
S:5 E35 Audio Books For Children with Author Kelly Anne Manuel & Becky Parker Geist Pro Audio Voices
August 09, 2023 16:00 - 36 minutes - 50.8 MBBooks That Make You…Tune In Are you an audio book fan? Are your kids? Particularly beneficial for auditory learners, or for those of us who like to multitask while taking in our stories, the industry has come a long way since the days of “books on tape”. Author Kelly Anne Manuel is known for connecting with children through her poetry and her books. She boasts a total of 31 books, one for each day of the month, and all of which span four series. Also with us is Becky Parker Gei...
S:5 E:34 Travel to Magical Worlds with Vianlix-Christine Schneider, Author of Seaside Magic
August 02, 2023 16:00 - 24 minutes - 34.5 MBBooks That Make You Venture Across Magical Realms You’re graduating from high school, getting ready to chase your dreams on Broadway—then, the whole shuts down. We all went through it. Depending on your age and career, though, it struck many of us more profoundly. But under that despair, creatives did what they do best: they created. Vianlix-Christine Schneider wrote her first book, Seaside Magic, which helped take her out of the real world for a few hours, creating a magical p...
S:5 E:33 Take Your Children on An Ancient Adventure to Egypt, Greece, and Rome with Ricky's Dream Trip by William Stevenson
July 27, 2023 20:02 - 28 minutes - 39 MBBooks That Make You Go on Amazing Time-Traveling Adventures with Your PopPop Very often, children’s books give us stories that become a foundational fixture in one’s early life, emphasizing wonder, exploration and love of learning. Retired accountant and children’s book author William Stevenson—known also as PopPop to young Ricky— has given us a wonderfully imaginative, historical series inspired by his grandson: Ricky’s Dream Trip. In it, PopPop travels with Ricky around the w...
S:5 E:32 Explore the Last Wilderness of Antarctica with Bruce Luyendyk, Author of Mighty Bad Land
July 20, 2023 20:27 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MBBooks That Make You Explore Antarctica, Facing Down Dangers and—A Lost 8th Continent? We read books from the safety of our home, maybe our back porch, batting away a few summer mosquitos or, in the fall, curled up before the fireplace. It’s amazing how books transport us to certain dangerous places—real and imaginary—and unveil realms most of us can only dream about. In his new release, Mighty Bad Land, geologist Bruce Luyendyk takes us to the last wilderness on Earth: Antarctica. ...
S:5 E:31 Write and Publish Your Own Successful Book with Julie Broad Author of Self-Publish & Succeed
June 28, 2023 16:00 - 28 minutes - 41.2 MBBooks That Make You Write and Publish Your Own Successful Book When you read books, you often, in time, feel that tug to write your own. Every writer who ever was started their creative life as a reader. So now that you feel that pull to put pen to paper, or fingertips to keyboards, just how do you go about it? In Self-Publish & Succeed, trusted best-selling author and entrepreneur Julie Broad shows you that writing a successful nonfiction book starts long before you write your fir...
S:5 E:30 Become the Best Dad You Can Be with J Hall, Author of God Help Me! I’m A Young Dad
June 21, 2023 16:00 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBBooks That Make You Become the Best Dad You Can Be Parenting can be tough, full of challenges and unknowns, and the struggles of young moms are well known. It’s important, too, to offer guidance and support to young dads. J Hall—author, educator, podcaster, and all-around family guy—has just released his first book, God Help Me! I’m a Young Dad: 10 Essentials for Becoming the Dad Your Kids Need. Part inspiration, part education, part application, the book highlights ten important ch...
S:5 E:29 Celebrating Pride Month with Lee Wind, Host of Queer as A Five-Dollar Bill: The Podcast
June 14, 2023 16:00 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBBooks That Make You Acknowledge Pride Month June is Pride Month. It’s especially poignant this year, too, with so many LGBTQ+ books being challenged across the country, and winding up on banned-book lists. Author Lee Wind’s “Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill: The Podcast” will drop thirty-six episodes in June 2023, as both a celebration of Pride Month and a response to the book-banning and intimidation many in the Queer community—particularly teens—are experiencing. With a Master’s i...
S:5 E:28 We Are Connected to Calcium with Korynn Newville, Author of Indiscernible Elements: Calcium
June 07, 2023 23:53 - 27 minutes - 38.7 MBBooks That Make You Reconsider an Element Like Calcium Even as so many things connect us in this world and in nature, often we fail to see the most fundamental, and important, elements. Literally. Not Korynn Newville. She kicks off her new series “Indiscernible Elements” with a unique take on the element calcium, in her book, Indiscernible Elements: Calcium. Yes, that well-known health benefit touted in so many a milk or orange juice commercial. But, as Korynn shows, it’s so much m...
S:5 E:27 Finding Magic with Marieke Lexmond, Author of The Wand Book Three of The Madigan Chronicles
May 04, 2023 00:52 - 26 minutes - 36.8 MBBooks That Make You Enter a Fantastical, Magic-Filled Saga Following Three Generations of Witches There is nothing like a series with tons of fun, twisting family drama to get us turning pages. But what’s it like when said family happens to be comprised of witches? Marieke Lexmond’s series “The Madigan Chronicles” is six books covering three generations of headstrong witches, and the fate of four magical, elemental objects. The Wand of Wisdom, which governs the power of...
S:5 E:26 Understanding A Mother’s Love with Christy Texeira, Author of Pink Elephants
April 27, 2023 20:44 - 27 minutes - 39.7 MBBooks That Make You Understand a Mother’s Love, and Follow a Journey of Strength and Perseverance Christy Texeira, mother and BookFest-award-winner, has a new book, Pink Elephants, which tells the story of a family pushed to the edge as they face the reality of their daughter’s rare, life-threatening illness. The book beautifully chronicles their private moments of tenderness, as we reconcile ourselves to the fragility of childhood innocence, and the reminder that control is an illusio...
S:5 E:25 Blastoff Into Space on An Adventure with Steven Joseph. Author of Snoodles in Space
April 19, 2023 16:00 - 28 minutes - 40.8 MBBooks That Make You Launch into Outer Space – With No Less Than Snoodles Steven Joseph, beloved children’s book author, crankiness expert and humorist, has darkened our door a fourth time to offer tongue-twisting laughs with his latest installment of the “Snoodles” Saga: Snoodles in Space: A Snoodle, The Zoodle Kidoodles, and One Happy Schmoodle. Steven discusses how the beloved series was conceptualized and developed, further tips for managing crankiness from the ultimate authorit...
S:5 E:24 Motorbikes and Coming of Age with Michael Thomas Perone author of Danger Peak
April 13, 2023 01:01 - 24 minutes - 34.4 MBBooks That Make You Charge Up a Mountain on a Motorbike We all love coming of age stories, those tales of the struggles and obstacles to fit in, and to find yourself. Danger Peak is the BookFest Award winner that swings us back to the 1980s with three teens members of The Wild Boars, the motorbike-racing club. With the unwitting help of their quirky technology teacher, Dr. Howard, they build Robert a faster, much-improved dirt bike—piece by piece. Haunted by memories of his ol...
S:5 E:23 An Inclusive World with Rebecca Inch-Partridge, author of Escaping the Dashia
March 24, 2023 20:14 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MBBooks That Make You Go On a Science Fiction Adventure That’s Both Epic and Inclusive A writer since she was a child, Rebecca Inch-Partridge grew up writing stories about The Bionic Woman meeting, say, Captain Kirk. Escaping the Dashia, her first novel, is a YA science fantasy that tells the story of young telepath Twyla, abducted by her mother and forced to participate in the criminal organization that comprises the family business. The book was published by Black Rose Writing. ...
S:5 E:22 Time travel historical fiction with Mark J. Rose author of Matt Miller in the Colonies Architect
March 15, 2023 16:00 - 32 minutes - 44.5 MBBooks That Make You Stand at the Crossroads of God, Science, Technology and History A scientist who believes in both God and evolution, Mark J. Rose is also an author who whisks readers back in time with his series Matt Miller in the Colonies, a set of historical science-fiction stories. Along with his curiosity and creativity, he carries an adventurous and exploratory spirit, which has him traveling and researching in-person many of the places he writes about. For Mark, travel enr...
S: 5 E: 21 Women In Leadership with Randi Braun, Author Of Something Major: The New Playbook for Women at Work
March 08, 2023 17:00 - 30 minutes - 43 MBBooks That Make You Succeed in the Workplace, and Avoid Burnout More and more, it’s becoming important for women in the workplace to recognize that the old rules no longer apply, and to adopt a new playbook. Women may be natural leaders, but they’re burnt out. Even after playing by the rules, they still don’t achieve their much-deserved leadership roles. Now, with Randi Braun as their coach, they stand on the edge of something major. Randi addresses subjects such as addiction t...
S:5 E:20 Time-Travel & Secret Societies with J W Zarek, Author Of The Devil Pulls The Strings
March 02, 2023 05:41 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MBBooks That Make You Feel Like You’ve Been Taken Off on a Grand Fantastic Journey In J.W. Zarek’s BookFest Award-winning novel “The Devil Pulls the Strings,” time-travel, twisted history and secret societies come crashing together. Since Boone was six, he’s been haunted by a Wendigo spirit, which doesn’t help his debilitating panic attacks or gut-wrenching guilt. Now, come Saturday, a cursed Immortal seeks to destroy New York City. But all Boone wants is to just keep a promise to a ...
S:5 E:19 The Power of Friendship with Aleksandra Tryniecka, Author of Bunky and the Walms
February 23, 2023 20:09 - 25 minutes - 37 MBBooks That Make You Feel the Power of Loyalty, Nobility, Friendship—and Share Them with the Young Ones Children’s books with positive, uplifting messages are a great way to not only introduce children to reading, but to give them a baseline of virtues, with ideas that impart life lessons to help them grow. And empathy, courage and friendship are all thematic virtues found in the Bookfest-Award-winning “Bunky and the Walms: The Christmas Story.” Aleksandra Tryniecka, the author, a p...
S:5 E:18 Meeting Children Where They Are, with Kelly Anne Manuel, Author of 4 Children’s Book Series
February 15, 2023 17:00 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBBooks That Make You Understand the World Afresh, Perhaps Through Children’s Eyes Author Kelly Anne Manuel has released four wonderful series for kids, all bearing a suite of positive messages. All in all, there are 31 books, one for every day of the month. The Essentials Series—here, kids learn the importance of positive self-talk, with daily, positive affirmations that help children face their fears. The Classics—timeless books where all generations can find meaning, and which...
S:5 E:17 Historical, Paranormal Romance with Anika Savoy, Author of The Ghost in Her
January 13, 2023 18:57 - 32 minutes - 45.4 MBBooks That Make You Feel a Metaphysical Pull to the 19th Century Immigrants lived in a place called the Bowery, women could so easily be institutionalized, and the wealthy elite dominated everything. It was also a time of hope -- and of magic. And thus, the Gilded-stage is set for Anika Savoy’s “The Ghost in Her”, a novel that is part historical fiction, part fairy tale, part paranormal romance and much more. As an attorney and award-winning author who’s always felt a supernatural pull...
S:5 E:16 What’s On Your TBR List For 2023. Here Is What's On The Books That Make You TBR
January 04, 2023 17:00 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBBooks to Bulk Out Your 2023 To-Be-Read List If you’re like many other fellow obsessive readers, you may be taking this time to plan your reading list for the new year. Tons of new books are coming down the pike, after all, or already out. Setting out a TBR List can be a fun and edifying exercise. In this special edition of the Books That Make You Show, we explore some of our top picks for the new year. From non-fiction to romance, from memoirs to children’s books and everything in betwee...
S:5 E:15 Realizing Love is The Answer with P. B. Lamb, Author of Angels of Light
December 22, 2022 00:38 - 28 minutes - 40 MBBooks That Make You Understand that Love is the Purpose No matter your faith, or how you worship, the common theme is that we’re all here to express love in our relations with one another. This is the powerful, universally relevant message author P.B. Lamb delivers with her debut fantasy novel “Angels of Light”. An enchanting mix of fantasy, religion and romance, the book follows Jessica Hanson, a young attorney who finds her mother’s lifeless body, thus starting a chain reaction of tran...