Melodie Campbell achieved a personal best this year whenLibrary Digest compared her to Janet Evanovich. Melodie got her start writing comedy (stand-up and columns.)  In1999, she opened the Canadian Humour Conference.  She has over 200 publications including 100 comedy credits, 40 short stories and 4 novels. Her fifth novel, a mob caper entitled The Goddaughter’s Revenge(Orca Books) [...]

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I recently had the pleasure of reading Rouge Town, you can read my review here. The book is stunning, it reveals the level of corruption in Stamford, Connecticut in the 1970’s. It was not a pretty sight, organized crime had taken over. As Rogue Town explains, just about every aspect of local government had workers [...]

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I’ll make no bones about it, this was an interview that I have wanted to do for a very long time. Damien Lewis may not be a name well known in the US, but he has a string of bestselling books in the UK. He started off as a war correspondent for the BBC and [...]

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Today my guest is horror author Vincent Hobbes, whose latest novel, KHOST, is a military horror set in the Soviet Union and Afghanistan. In 2004 he founded Hobbes End Publishing, but later sold the company and now writes full time. He’s the author of The Contrived Senator, Exiles, Plight of the Warrior, and, together with [...]

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Street photography is abound these days, but good stuff can be harder to find. Enter Markus Hartel. Markus is a New York based street photographer who produces some truly stunning work. He also photographs in color, which is rare when it comes to street photography. His images are memorable and unique. I sat down with [...]

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The battle over what constitutes sugar has been waging for quite some time. Is Sugar a product that can only come from natural forms? Or can it be constructed in a laboratory? It is an interesting discussion, one that few people follow, but a conversation that has some people quite concerned. At the very core [...]

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Author Dan Collins has just published his first book The Little Candle. Although at face value it is a childrens illustrated story, skulking beneath the veneer is a message that is relevant to both young and old. You can find my review here. I exchanged some emails with Dan and was delighted when he agreed [...]

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Yesterday I had the opportunity to sit down with director Mike Austin and his wife Lisa to talk about their new TV series Cradle To The Grave. While it can be argued that the cable channels are awash with ‘reality TV’ and explorations into the world of the paranormal is hardly something new, you would [...]

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This was an interview that I have to admit I was greatly looking forward to. Author Wayne Vinson has created a wonderful thriller with Tax Collectors And Other Sinners. You can read my review here. It is rare that you can turn the tables on the IRS and the dreaded Revenue Officers, but this was [...]

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Yesterday I had the great pleasure of sitting down with the always entertaining 60’s king of bubblegum pop Tommy Roe. He also brought along his current conspirator in crime, Rick Levy. Tommy Roe is a rarity in the music world. I have interviewed many musicians from the 60’s and 70’s that are still actively playing, [...]

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Despite all things digital, 35mm film seems alive and well in 2012 but the question remains: Why? Analog photographer Mat Marrash from Findlay, Ohio offers up some opinions in this interview with writer and photographer Michael Ernest Sweet.

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I always enjoy interviewing Charlie Boswell, he is one of the most colorful people I know. I would write a short biography, but that is impossible. Is he engineer, musician, film maker, thinker, futurist, or what? Officially he holds the title of Director Of Digital Entertainment at AMD. Unofficially I class him as the AMD [...]

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An Interview With AMD’s Charlie Boswell Every family has Christmas Traditions, how they start is often unclear, but whatever it is does become part of the festive season. For some inexplicable reason I have one. How it started is long long lost in the annals of time. But every Christmas Season I seem to do [...]

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Jingle hell is a delightful Christmas comedy that has just been released on DVD, you can read the review here. The always great people at Janson Media, the distributor, arrainged an interview with the films producer and co-writer Carter Anne McGowan. Usually I have lots of time for research for an interview, however this one [...]

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Today I had the opportunity to sit down one on one with the always colorful William Cobra Staubs. People have many misconceptions about the man. Some view him as famous, some as nefarious, and some as notorious. I view him as a friend, and a man with his heart in the right place. Yes he [...]

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I recently published an article about a new business venture in Las Vegas, if you missed it, you can read it here. The bottom line is simple, getting married by an Elvis impersonator is passe, It would be more fun to get married by an ex-mobster. Hang out with ex-mobsters, and truly have some pictures [...]

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I recently had the opportunity to read Mondo Frazier’s new book The Secret Life Of Barack Hussein Obama, you can find my review here. I have to admit that I was somewhat surprised by it. Just based on the title alone my expectations were that the reader was in for 300 pages of bile and [...]

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I recently had the opportunity to read MJ Rusaw’s debut book The Tides of Eternity. You can find my review here. I liked the book a great deal, for a first time author it was a very well constructed story. My research also showed that MJ Rusaw also had a story behind the story. I [...]

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The one thing that I have figured out, and this may seem odd, the best people to interview are people with a Pilots License! They are always right on time. Of course you have to explain it in Zulu time (GMT) but they are Johnny on the spot. Authors while not having the precision of [...]

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If you live in the Gainsville, Florida area the name TJ Hart will be a familiar one. He is a well known Radio voice on The Sky 97.3. Sports fans know him because of his coverage of the Florida Gators, news fans know him as the voice reporting today’s headlines, and commuters will recognize him [...]

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Today saw the very patient Judge Perry once more listen to the seemingly endless ramblings of the Defense team. The ‘A’ in the ABC list of course stands for Anthony. Mother Cindy Anthony was in court and wearing her finest fake jewelry. This is a marked difference from when she is in the witness box [...]

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There are hundreds and hundreds of music genres, and new ones seem to crop up constantly. I recently stumbled upon a band from a Scandinavian country who are pioneers in Prog Metal Folk music. I will not divulge the bands name for two reasons, one because the name is completely unpronounceable, and two, the music [...]

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The name Tommy Roe is one that everyone born prior to 1960 remembers. During the 1960′s Tommy Roe had a string of hits both in the US and elsewhere in the world. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, the songs certainly will. Here is a refresher for you from 1969: Dizzy There are many [...]

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Santa Fe New Mexico singer and songwriter Jaime Michaels will be joining me at 2pm Eastern on Friday Feb/11 to talk about his newly released CD The Man With The Time Machine. This is Jaime’s eighth CD and each just gets better and better. He first hit my radar a couple of months ago when [...]

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Acorn Media are a DVD production and marketing company who specialize in bringing the very best British TV series to American audiences. A couple of years ago they added a new label Athena, this branch specializes in incredibly high quality documentary programming. With over 20 years of experience the Acorn catalog is second to none. [...]

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As always I was joined by my great panel, the writing and research team of Mannie Barling and Ashley F. Brooks. Over the past several months the subject of the economics of moving to an Organic diet has been mentioned. Mannie and Ashley live in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles and have ready access [...]

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We will be running our regular radio program on Saturday Jan/22 at 1pm Eastern. I will be joined by the writing and research team of Mannie Barling and Ashley F. Brooks. For several months Mannie, Ashley and I have been having a running discussion on and off air over the relative costs of Organic v [...]

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Crime writer and author Denny Griffin and ex Gambino crime family associate Andrew DiDonato have just published a new book Surviving The Mob. Some might view it as Andrew DiDonato’s biography, but it actually goes much further. While it most certainly is an account of one mans life in organized crime, it also explores some [...]

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I am pleased to announce that co-authors Denny Griffin and Andrew DiDonato will be my guests on Thursday at 1pm eastern to discuss their newly published book Surviving The Mob. Who are these people? Dennis N. Griffin is a Las Vegas based author and crime investigator. His books include the Battle For Las Vegas that [...]

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Their group was “liberal in wanting to change the way the world was run, we both wanted to. He took it to an extreme I never would’ve.” She said he was a “political radical” long before the teaparty, Glenn Beck, or Sarah Palin came on the scene.
Caitie also said he was a pot head and was into the music of Hendrix, The Doors, and Anti-Flag. “We listened to political punk in high school & agreed with their leftist opinions for the most part. Anti-Flag was our band.”

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