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On Deciding to Write

Catherine Ryan Hyde talks to Patti Patane of "The Reading Light" about the origins of the decision to embark on the difficult career of fiction writing.

Dead Air: Book trailer

Talk is cheap, but when this radio host takes action, she may pay the ultimate price.

Pauline Rowson radio interview with Talk Radio Europe

Extracts from a radio interview. Pauline Rowson talks to Hannah Murray Talk Radio Europe Book Show about her ideas, plots, marine mystery crime and thriller novels.

Joyce Maynard at Kepler's Books

Joyce Maynard discusses her novel "Labor Day" at Kepler's Books, September 8 2009

I am singing for you

A clip with a song announcing a new CD of Izabela Kopec - a great Polish mezzo-soprano - coming out on December 3rd 2009. This is also a song from a film (in production) "15 Photographs" by Francis

Author Sam Barry Interviewed on KRON TV

Author Sam Barry Interviewed by Henry Tenenbaum on KRON TV about his book How to Play the Harmonica: and Other Life Lessons.

Marilyn Kallet's PACKING LIGHT: NEW & SELECTED POEMS

Marilyn Kallet, longtime director of the creative writing program at the University of Tennessee, has been a wonderful friend and supporter of mine for over two decades now.

"Opening Day" by Gerald Locklin

This is a baseball poem by one of my best writer friends and favorite poets, Gerry Locklin, out in Long Beach CA.

A Second Grader's Sea Serpent

A second grader in Sandown, New Hampshire retells The Sea Serpent and Me with his own illustrationss. Precious!

Harlot's Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss, and Greece Podcast 6-Part One- "Mom, God, Neighbors, and Catholics"

Author Patricia Volonakis Davis narrates Chapter Five of her book, Harlot's Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss, and Greece, with the help of the talents of actors Gaetano Iacono, Maryann Mais

Ice Song book trailer

Trailer for the novel ICE SONG by Kirsten Imani Kasai. www.icesong.com

Everyone Knows Kurt Vonnegut but Me

Marc Schuster reads from his essay, "Everyone Knows Kurt Vonnegut but Me" at the book launch for The Best of Philadelphia Stories, Volume II, on September 30, 2009.

The Crying Tree: the Research, the Art and the Practice of Writing

Naseem describes what inspired her to write The Crying Tree, and how she researched its topic and wrote the book.

Why The Crying Tree: Naseem's Attempt to Understand Forgiveness

Naseem describes her reasons for writing The Crying Tree, and what she learned from the process.

Welcome to Wordstock

A fast fun ad for the fantastic NW bash known as Wordstock, beginning October 8th.

Video Trailer for "The Road Out Of Hell"

This powerful mini-documentary will speak for itself, telling the backstory to California's first major serial killer case - and for a young victim who endured and survived beyond all understanding.

Bruce Lader reads at PoetrySPARK, September 18, 2009

Bruce Lader was videotaped as he read the poems "Attendance Check" and "Letter to William Stafford" from Landscapes of Longing, his second full-length poetry book.

My Serbian Love Affair

Serbian fans of author Sherry Jones's books "The Jewel of Medina" and "The Sword of Medina" discuss her books at a September 2009 booksigning in Academija, a bookstore in Belgrade.

They Told Me I Had To Write This

Clem is a boy in strife. Blamed for the death of his mother, and in trouble with the police, he's now in a school for toxic teenagers. And that secret that he's trying to keep hidden?