Reader's Entertainment Radio

Laura Marks is a PEN Award winning playwright, television writer and comic book writer.  Her plays Bethany and Mine have garnered acclaim from critics and been published and produced across the US and overseas.  For TV, she's written episodes of The Good Fight, The Expanse, Servant, Ray Donovan, The Exorcist, and BrainDead, and she's currently co-writing a new project with Carlton Cuse.  Her debut comic series for DC's Hill House Comics, Daphne Byrne (with art by Kelley Jones), will be released as a hardcover compilation in November 2020.  She lives with her husband and two daughters in Brooklyn. You can learn more on her website: https://lauramarks.net/  And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

Laura Heffernan is the award-winning, internationally best-selling author of fun, witty romantic comedies and more serious women’s fiction. After a few years of practicing law, she realized that she much preferred arguing with her characters rather than other people. It’s easier to win that way. When not watching total strangers get married, drag racing queens, or cooking competitions, Laura enjoys board games, travel, board games, baking, and board games. She lives in the northeast with her husband, the world’s most active toddler, and two furry little beasts. Some of Laura’s favorite things include goat cheese, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica, the Oxford comma, and ice cream. Not all together. The best place to find her is usually on Twitter, where she spends far too much time tweeting about writing, Canadian chocolate, board games and reality TV. Her latest book, Poll Dancer, is out now. You can contact her at her website, Facebook, Twitter, BookBub, and Goodreads.  

 Rachael Tamayo is a former 911 emergency operator and police dispatcher.  After twelve years in those dark depths, she’s gained a unique insight into mental illness, human behavior, and the general darkness of humanity that she likes to weave into her books.  A formerly exclusive romance author tried her hand at thrillers in her award-winning novel, Crazy Love, and loved it so much that she decided not to turn back.   Born and raised in Texas, Rachael lives in the Houston area with her husband of almost fifteen years, and their two small children. You can learn more at her website: https://rachaeltamayowrites.com/ And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

Douglas Clegg is a writer of imaginative dark fiction (including horror, gothic, fantasy, supernatural, and suspense thrillers) and has been a professional novelist since he signed his first book contract with Simon & Schuster in 1987. He considers much of his horror fiction as being on the surrealistic side of the equation, venturing into the logic of nightmare and dream. His books have been published worldwide and translated into various editions. His short fiction has won the Bram Stoker Award, the International Horror Guild Award and the Shocker Award, and has been included in several Years’ Best anthologies. Keep in contact with him via his Newsletter. Also check out  Patreon.com/DouglasClegg to get special pre-publication editions of his newest stories, novelettes, and novellas. And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!  

Award-winning and best selling author Jeannie Moon is a native Long Islander and imagines that conjures an image of big hair and a nasally accent, but that’s not the Long Island that she knows. Raised in a north shore town that once would have been called bucolic and now people call trendy, she married her high school sweetheart and her children were born in the same hospital as she was. She has deep roots here, and it gives her a history. A strong sense of home which reflects in her fabulous stories. Like most women, she wears a lot of hats. When she was in college, she planned on becoming a famous sportscaster. However, never being objective, she leaned more toward the publicity side of the business, doing work for local papers and local teams. But the plan took a detour and she found herself in the front a classroom, teaching English. Teaching was in her blood, and she was hooked. Now, a mom, a nana, a wife, a teacher, a librarian and a contemporary romance author. It’s the last part—the romance author—

Be bold, and do something amazing, Scarlett Cole insists on her website write up. And she has. She's been a car maker, a consultant, and even a senior executive at a large retailer running strategy. Born in England, spent time in the U.S. and Japan, before ending up in Canada where she met my own, personal hero – all six and a half feet of him. One of the bold things she did was become an amazing writer.  A second was help so many by talking openly about her peri-menapausal depression. Her latest release, Love in Numbers*, is out now.  You can find Scarlett on her website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and BookBub.  *I said Love in THE Numbers a few times in the first part of the show. My apologizes. 

Alyssa Day is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than a million books sold --all filled with kissing, laughter, mystery and magic. Alyssa’s paranormal series include the Vampire Motorcycle Club, Poseidon’s Warriors, and Cardinal Witches paranormal romances and the Tiger’s Eye Mysteries paranormal mysteries. In an Alyssa Day book, the good guys (and gals!) always win and happily ever after always prevails! Alyssa's many awards include Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA® award for outstanding romance fiction, and the RT Reviewer’s Choice Award for Best Paranormal Romance novel of 2012. Her books have been translated into a zillion languages but she’s still holding out for Klingon. Before she became a full-time writer, Alyssa graduated summa cum laude from law school and practiced as a trial lawyer in three different states for more than a decade. She is a past president of Romance Writers of America. Please visit her online at http://www.alyssaday.com to sign up for her

Lisa Morton is a screenwriter, author of non-fiction books, and award-winning prose writer whose work was described by the American Library Association’s Readers’ Advisory Guide to Horror as “consistently dark, unsettling, and frightening”.  She is the author of four novels and 150 short stories, a six-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award®, and a world-class Halloween expert. She co-edited (with Leslie S. Klinger) the anthology Weird Women: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers 1852-1923; forthcoming in 2020 is Calling the Spirits: A History of Seances . Lisa lives in Los Angeles. You can find out more and sign up for her newsletter: https://lisamorton.com/ And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

Best selling author Teri Wilson is the Publishers Weekly bestselling author/creator of the Hallmark Channel Original Movies Unleashing Mr. Darcy, Marrying Mr. Darcy, The Art of Us, and Northern Lights of Christmas, based on her book Sleigh Bell Sweethearts. She is also a recipient of the prestigious RITA® Award for excellence in romantic fiction for her novel The Bachelor’s Baby Surprise.  Teri has a major weakness for cute animals, pretty dresses, Audrey Hepburn films, & following the British royal family.  Her newest release, Christmas Charms, is available now. Feel free to visit and connect with her on her website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and Amazon.  

Christopher Rice is an Amazon Charts bestselling author whose works include Bone Music and Blood Echo in The Burning Girl series; the New York Times bestseller A Density of Souls; and the Bram Stoker Award finalists The Heavens Rise and The Vines. He is an executive producer of The Vampire Chronicles, a television show based on the bestselling novels by his mother, Anne Rice. Together they penned Ramses the Damned: The Passion of Cleopatra. With his best friend and producing partner, New York Times bestselling novelist Eric Shaw Quinn, he runs the podcast and video network TDPS, which you can find at www.TheDinnerPartyShow.com. Visit him at www.christopherricebooks.com. And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

LaQuette is a romance author of bold, provocative love stories featuring multicultural characters. Her writing style brings intellect to the drama. She often crafts emotionally epic, fantastical tales that are deeply pigmented by reality's paintbrush. Her novels are filled with a unique mixture of savvy, sarcastic, brazen, and unapologetically sexy characters who are confident in their right to appear on the page. This bestselling Romance Author is the 2016 Author of the Year Golden Apple Award Winner, 2015 Swirl Awards Bronze Winner in Romantic Suspense, and 2015 Georgia Romance Writers Maggie Award Finalist in Erotic Romance. LaQuette—a native of Brooklyn, New York—spends her time catering to her three distinct personalities: Wife, Mother, and Educator. Writing—her escape from everyday madness— has always been a friend and source of comfort. At the age of sixteen, she read her first romance novel and realized the genre was missing something: people that looked and lived like her. As a result, her charac

When her mother was diagnosed with demenia, Kate Kunkle set out on a quest to discover why this happened, how she could help her mother, and how she could prevent or decrease the odds of it happening to her.  She learned what inspired her to embark on what she considered the most important mission of her life, to make dementia and Alzheimers rare diseases and to control and to empower people to take control of their health and future.  Her book Don't Let the Memories Fade, came out September 12th and is available at Amazon.  You can also find her at her website, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and her Amazon author page.

Melissa Blue’s writing career started on a typewriter one month after her son was born. This would have been an idyllic situation for a writer if it had been 1985, not 2004. She penned that first contemporary romance, upgraded to a computer and hasn’t looked back since. Outside of writing, Blue works as a mail clerk for the federal government, has a paralegal certificate (that she has more use for as a dust pan) and is a mother of two rambunctious children. She lives in California where the wine is good and, despite popular belief, is not always sunny. You can find her camped out on Facebook or Twitter. Or sign up for new newsletter on her website: https://www.themelissablue.com/ And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com Book Lights - shining a light on good books!

Thriller author Karen Rose is a woman of many talents, her most recent is best selling author.  After working in corporate America as a chemical engineer for a decade, she transitioned to teaching high school chemistry and physics, all the while, she penned stories that she figured woudl never see the light of day. Until her fabulous husband told her to go to a writer's group meeting and do something with her creations. Through their guideance and encouragment of her writing peers, she sold her debut novel, DON'T TELL, in 2001. It was released in July 2003 and her twenty-fourth novel, SAY NO MORE, released in August 2020.   Karen's books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, London's Sunday Times, and Germany's der Spiegel (#1), and the Irish Times, as well as lists in South Africa(#1) and Australia!  To date, her books have been translated into more than twenty languages. You can find Karen at her website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Amazon, BookBub, and YouTube

Internationally bestselling author Karen Rose was born and raised in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. She met her husband, Martin, on a blind date when they were seventeen and after they both graduated from the University of Maryland, (Karen with a degree in Chemical Engineering) they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen worked as an engineer for a large consumer goods company, earning two patents, but as Karen says, “scenes were roiling in my head and I couldn't concentrate on my job so I started writing them down. I started out writing for fun, and soon found I was hooked.” Her debut suspense novel, DON'T TELL, was released in July, 2003. Since then, she has published more than fifteen novels and two novellas. Her twenty-fourth novel, SAY NO MORE, will be released in 2020.   Karen's books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, London's Sunday Times, and Germany's der Spiegel (#1), and the Irish Times, as well as lists in South Africa(#1) and Australia! To date, her b

International bestselling author Brad Parks is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been published in fifteen languages and have won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major prepublication review outlet. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Parks is a former journalist with the Washington Post and the Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey). He is now a full-time novelist living in Virginia with his wife and two school-age children. A former college a cappella singer and community-theater enthusiast, Brad has been known to burst into song whenever no one was thoughtful enough to muzzle him. His favored writing haunt is a Hardee’s restaurant, where good-natured staff members suffer his presence for many hours a day, and where he can often be found working on his next novel. You can learn more at: https://bradparksbooks.com/ And for more about our host Lisa Kessler visit http://Lisa-Kessler.com

Photographer, author, and digital imaging consultant, Andrew Darlow has lectured and conducted seminars and workshops around the world at photo-related conferences, and for photography organizations. His latest book Focus and Filter is out now on Amazon. Find Andrew's Free Backup Course Website and Podcast at https://backup.fm. His Photo News & Tips Blog at https://imagingbuffet.com as well as Twitter, Facebook (personal), Facebook (photo tips), LinkedIn, and Instagram. Visit the special page Andrew created for our listeners, with book excerpts, pet photography tips & much more:  https://backup.fm/pwf

Amy Bearce writes magical escapes for young readers and the young at heart. She is the author of the World of Aluvia series, Shortcuts, and Paris on Repeat (July 2020).  She is also a former reading teacher and school librarian. As a military kid, she moved eight times before she was eighteen, so she feels especially fortunate to be married to her high school sweetheart. Together they’re raising two daughters in San Antonio.  You can find Amy at her website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Linkedin. Her books are on Amazon and Bookbub. 

USA Today Bestselling author Jess Michaels likes geeky stuff, Vanilla Coke Zero, anything coconut, cheese, fluffy cats, smooth cats, any cats, many dogs and people who care about the welfare of their fellow humans. She is lucky enough to be married to her favorite person in the world and lives in the heart of Dallas, TX where she's trying to eat all the amazing food in the city. When she’s not obsessively checking her steps on Fitbit or trying out new flavors of Greek yogurt, she writes historical romances with smoking hot alpha males and sassy ladies who do anything but wait to get what they want. She has written for numerous publishers and is now fully indie and loving every moment of it (well, almost every moment). In addition, Jess is super (some would say obsessively) active on both Facebook and Twitter, so be sure to follow her on one or both from the links provided here! And sign up for her newsletter to be the first to know when there is a new release out and for a chance to win a $75 Amazon Gift

Ellen Goodwin is a Productivity Trainer, TEDx speaker, and author who uses neuroscience-based principles to enable individuals and businesses to overcome all types of procrastination, build stronger habits, and be more focused so that they can be more efficient and effective with their time. Ellen believes that when it comes to productivity, there is no one-size-fits-all solution, which is why she advocates for experimentation to find the tools and techniques which will work seamlessly with your life and your business, no matter what you want to accomplish.  Through the course of a successful career as an advertising creative, Ellen learned the elusive secrets to getting things done when no one is watching. She now shares this information through speaking engagements, corporate seminars, consulting, and writing. Ellen lives in San Diego is the co-host of The Faster, Easier, Better Show podcast. You can find her on her website where you can also sign up for her weekly newsletter. Reach out to her on Face