Monday, June 19, 2023
Episode 94 - Laura Whitfield is Untethered - 2023-06-19
Laura grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, the daughter of a journalist and a teacher. She has been an advertising copywriter, newspaper columnist, staff writer for an international relief agency, travel writer, blogger, teacher, communications director for several nonprofits, and a person ...
Episode 93 - Joy Ross Davis - Stories of the Magical, Mysterious, and Enchanting - 2023-06-11
Joy Ross Davis is of Irish descent and a student of the lore and magic found in the back hills of Tennessee where many of her Irish ancestors settled upon coming to America. After a twenty-five-year career as a college English professor, she retired from teaching and followed her dream o ...
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Pilot Episode
Join Grace Sammon, Mary Helen Sheriff and Stephanie Larkin Guest Host, CEO and Founder of Red Penguin Books as they discuss LAUNCH PAD, the unique radio show, podcast, and book marketing support program that celebrates book debuts and the authors that create them. ...
Episode 1: Barbara Conrey, Tamara Pelosi, Leslie Rasmussen and Elizabeth Sumner Wafler
THIS EPISODE WAS PREVIOUSLY RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE.Join an amazing set of authors as they talk about their recent and upcoming releases. You will learn and love with USA TODAY best seller Barbara Conrey as she shares the debut of book two, My Secret to Keep. Tamara Pelosi s ...
Episode 2: Leslie Kain, Gloria Mattioni, Suzanne Moyers, and Desire Nana
Join an amazing set of authors as they talk about their recent and upcoming releases. This episode’s authors will guide you through historical fiction, a spiritual journey, and engaging stories of family challenges and triumphs. The voices of Desire Nana, Leslie Kain, Gloria Mattioni, an ...
Episode 3: C D'Angelo, Ruthie Marlenee, Karen E. Osborne, and Maggie Smith
Join these dynamic authors for a deep dive into women’s fiction, suspense, magical realism, and tangled lives. We explore culture and climate, friendship and frenemies, and we get to the core of what makes a great story. When we mix these authors and their new releases, we have a cocktai ...
Episode 4: With Judith Brenner, Janis Daly, Gail Olmstead, and Debbie Weiss
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE: Join these fascinating authors for a dive into their paths to publishing, family history, and the gift of second chances as they discuss their amazing new books. This episode will have you deeply engaged in women’s fiction, family drama ...
EPISODE 5: With Gabi Coatsworth, Patricia Sands, Marilyn Simon Rothstein, and M.K. Tod
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCE: Join these authors for stories of resilience, strength and hope. From historical fiction to memoir, to laugh out loud funny, to the heart wrenchingly poignant. Their new releases, all with themes of family – some with secrets, will have ...
EPISODE 6: With Antonina Duridanova, Kelly Hitchcock, Marleen Pasch, and Rob Samborn
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEJoin these award-winning, fascinating, and diverse authors as they celebrate their memoir, humorous women’s fiction, literary fiction, and novel series. On this episode of LAUNCH PAD, we focus on stories that will inspire, challenge your ...
EPISODE 7: WITH JOSIE BROWN, LEE BUKOWSKI, LOVELACE COOK, and DEBRA GREEN
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEBuckle up for an episode filled with secrets and assassins; dentists, doctors and doctor’s wives; trips through Asia on a shoe-string budget; reckless choices and past decisions; and, sagas and serials. This diverse group of authors will ...
EPISODE 8: WITH Kerry Chaput, Heidi Hackford, J, Ember Hintz and Sheila Myers
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEJoin this award-winning group of authors as they share their new releases! Historical fiction, double lives, unexpected twists and turns, life decisions, and romance and gothic fiction fill this episode! Journey back in time, meet murdero ...
EPISODE 9: with Beverly Armento, Amy Q. Barker, Gloria Coppola, and Michael Ross
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEHarrowing tales, life crises, coming of age, and a quest for freedom fill this episode. Told through the genres of memoir, women’s fiction, saga, and historical fiction, join these authors and learn about their unique tales and lives just ...
EPISODE 10: with Dionne Ford, Shaunna Edwards, Alyson Richman, and Lisa Williamson Rosenberg
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEThese authors’ personal stories, trauma, experiences, narrative around racial identity, love of words and historical fiction unfolds in an episode that will enlighten, brighten, and build community. Join these authors and learn about thei ...
EPISODE 11: with Anju Gattani, Barbara Boehm Miller, Andrea J. Stein and Nancy Yeager
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEThese four authors and their unique novels invite us into India's family dynasties, carnival sideshows and unspeakable acts, family living situations and old beaus, and female ex-cons and complicated friendship. This episode of LAUNCH PAD ...
EPISODE 12: with Antonia Deignan, Cynthia James, Susan Wands, and Anastasia Zadeik
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEIn this special episode of LAUNCH PAD we will explore memoir and memories; acting, singing, dancing and the spoken word; historical characters reimagined and what it means to create a life of meaning and purpose. Tuck in psychology, abuse ...
EPISODE 13: with Susan Cole, Lisa Franco, Patti Gaustad Procopi, and Rebecca Rosenberg
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCELet’s sail into Episode 13 of LAUNCH PAD with adventure, memoir, stumbled on lost love letters, family tragedy and disfunction, and glorious women of the champagne industry! This episode promises to deliver entertainment, information, and ...
EPISODE 14: with Amy Bernstein, Julia Brewer Daily, Linda Moore, and Marian O’Shea Wernicke
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEFrom ancient places with stories and secrets to people and characters with stories and secrets of their own, join these fascinating authors and learn about their unique tales and lives just as you fall in love with your next great read. ...
EPISODE 15: with Shelley Blanton-Stroud, Gretchen Cherington, Ashley E. Sweeney, and Debra Thomas
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEFrom crimes, cocktails, and clothes; to butchers, embezzlers, and fall guys; to underrepresented women who changed the west; and to women who rise to the occasion to save their families and in so doing find tenderness and healing join the ...
EPISODE 16: with Edie Cay, Rebecca D’Harlingue, C.V. Lee, and Linda Ulleseit
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEThese Paper Lantern Writers band together on this special episode of LAUNCH PAD to discuss historical fiction, feminist romance, pugilism, Amsterdam’s Golden Age and map making, betrayal, roses and rebels, and the American Frontier. Join t ...
EPISODE 17: with Hope Gibbs, Donna Norman-Carbone, Linda Rosen, and Meredith R. Stoddard
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEThis special episode of LAUNCH PAD features authors from Bookish Road Trip – a community of over 5,000 readers and writers. In this episode, we celebrate book debuts, families, folklore, envy, redemption, and all that is sacred. Join thes ...
EPISODE 18: with Jenn Bouchard, Richard W Wise, Elvy Howard, and Adele Holmes
THIS SHOW WAS RECORDED IN FRONT OF A LIVE AUDIENCEFrom 33,000 BC in France to small towns and quirky characters, and from coastal fiction and rom-coms to a turn-of-the-last century herbalist struggling for social justice this is an extraordinary episode of LAUNCH PAD. Join these fascinat ...
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Grace is the founder of Author Talk Network, the author of four books, including her latest novel The Eves, and the host of The Storytellers radio show and podcast. She is currently developing a three-book set of books on writing, publishing and promoting your book.Mary is an Author Marke ...
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We’d love to consider you to be a guest on LAUNCH PAD. Please review the following:You must have a completed book and a specific launch date. We are now accepting books with 2022 and 2023 launch dates. Launches of older books in new formats (audio, eBook, paperback) qualify too.Each episo ...
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Included in your LAUNCH PAD hosting fee is an invitation to join author marketing coach Mary Helen Sheriff for a season of hour-long marketing meetups.Meetups are held via Zoom. Mary will begin each hour-long session with a mini-lesson on an aspect of marketing. Then she'll facilitate a d ...
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Authors, readers, bookstagrammers, book promoters, book clubs, publishing houses, and writing organizations are all raving about the success of LAUNCH PAD’s unique format in providing authors and readers alike with an opportunity to celebrate and share bookish news.The use of both Faceboo ...
Welcome to Launch Pad
Join Grace Sammon and Mary Helen Sheriff on LAUNCH PAD, the radio show and marketing experience that celebrates new book releases and the authors that create them.Be Grace’s guest as part of a fast-paced thirty-minute interview that goes live on Facebook at Bookish Road Trip an over 5,00 ...
Emma Dhesi leads Day 1 Author Talk Network Webinar - Characters
Scotland-based author and podcaster Emma Dhesi hosts the Author Talk Network in discussion of from where their characters come. Watch
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Emma Dhesi leads Day 2 Author Talk Network Webinar - Mystery!
Scotland-based author and podcaster Emma Dhesi hosts the Author Talk Network in discussion of “How Mysterious the Art and Attraction of Writing Mystery.” Watch
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Emma Dhesi leads Day 3 Author Talk Network Webinar - Research
Scotland-based author and podcaster Emma Dhesi hosts the Author Talk Network in discussion of “Down the Rabbit Hole” how authors research. Watch
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ATN Authors Join Erika Lance of Drinking With Authors in Episode 1
Join Baraba Conrey, Linda Rosen and Grace Sammon in a fast paced, fun dialogue about all things bookish. Listen
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ATN Authors Join Erika Lance of Drinking With Authors in Episode 2
Join Baraba Conrey, Linda Rosen and Grace Sammon in a fast paced, fun dialogue about all things bookish. Listen
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ATN Authors Join Erika Lance of Drinking With Authors in Episode 3
Join Baraba Conrey, Linda Rosen and Grace Sammon in a fast paced, fun dialogue about all things bookish. Listen
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Saturday, June 17, 2023
Episode 92- Dionne Ford Shares Go Back and Get It 2023-06-05
Dionne Ford is the author of the memoir Go Back and Get It and co-editor of the anthology Slavery's Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race and Reconciliation. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, LitHub, New Jersey Monthly, Rumpus, and Ebony among other publications, and won awards ...
Episode 91- Annie McDonnell and Her song! - 2023-05-29
Annie McDonnell is a lifelong reader and advocate for writers and books. In 2006, Annie won a contest with Elle and became a book reviewer for the magazine. When Elle stopped running book reviews in print, Annie moved to blogging, the creation of The Write Review Facebook community, live ...
Episode 90-Elaine Goldsmith -Thomas- agent, Studio head, producer, writer-Hollywood legend - 2023-05-22
Beginning her career at the William Morris Agency, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas rose in spite of the boys club of the late 1980’s to become one of the top agents in the entertainment industry, guiding the careers of actors such as JULIA ROBERTS, JENNIFER LOPEZ, NICHOLAS CAGE, TIM ROBBINS, MAD ...
Episode 89 - Linda Rosen and The Emerald Necklace- 2023-05-15
Fitness Professional turned novelist, Linda Rosen’s books are set in the “not-too-distant past” and examine how women reinvent themselves despite obstacles thrown their way. A central theme is that blood is not all that makes a family– and they always feature a piece of jewelry! Her nove ...
