I was a little nervous when I received an email from Jane Friedman, the publisher of Writer’s Digest magazine and books. She was responding to my interview with one of her authors, Mike Sacks, the author of And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft. Sacks was unhappy with... Continue Reading →
Angela Dove leaves No Room for Doubt in true crime! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Angela Dove, author, No Room for Doubt: A True Story of the Reverberations of Murder How well do you know your own father? If your stepmother died under suspicious circumstances and everyone around you harbored the belief that your father murdered her, could you stand by him no matter what? I hope,... Continue Reading →
Susan Wels charts Amelia Earhart’s Thrill Of It! PODCAST INTERVIEW
I lived in a pretty male-centric world most of my life, idolizing certain baseball players, rock stars and even a writer or two. But when my daughter was born back in ’96, I made a marked effort to learn more about women who she might one day find influential for their achievements. High-flier Amelia... Continue Reading →
Mike Sacks gets The Kicker from great comedy writers! PODCAST INTERVIEW
I wouldn’t mind spending a day or two in the shoes of Mike Sacks. During the day—and probably quite a few nights—he is a mild-mannered writer for Vanity Fair magazine. When he’s not doing that, he’s been interviewing some of the smartest, funniest writers around for his new book, And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations... Continue Reading →
Peter Carlson wasn’t there but wrote K Blows Top anyway! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Peter Carlson could have taken all the research he did on Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev’s two-week barnstorming tour of the United States in 1959 and converted it into a Cold War-era fable such as Dr. Strangelove or The Mouse That Roared. He could have done that, but truth is stranger than fiction and the... Continue Reading →
Did the Roof Cave In on CNBC’s David Faber? PODCAST INTERVIEW
CNBC anchor and reporter David Faber is my guest today. He’s the author of a new book, And Then the Roof Caved In: How Wall Street's Greed and Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees. I’m very excited for David and his new book, but first we have some old business to cover. He won’t... Continue Reading →
Esquire’s A.J. Jacobs is all over The Guinea Pig Diaries! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: A.J. Jacobs, author, The Guinea Pig Diaries, The Year of Living Biblically I’m a little worried about A.J. Jacobs. His latest book, The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment, takes the social tests he put himself through in previous books such as The Know-It-All—in which he read the entire encyclopedia—and... Continue Reading →
Management expert Ken Blanchard can help your people win! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Ken Blanchard, author, Helping People Win at Work, The One-Minute Manager I figure I’ve got 60 seconds to interest you in today’s interview with Ken Blanchard. If you have to ask why 60 seconds, you obviously don’t know my guest’s work. He’s best known as the management expert and author of The... Continue Reading →
DC artist Freddie Williams’ how-to Digitally Drawing Comics! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Freddie E. Williams II, comic book artist, The DC Comics Guide to Digitally Drawing Comics I am old enough to remember what a sensation Stan Lee and John Buscema caused back in 1978 when the book, How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way, was published. That book promised to pull back the curtain... Continue Reading →
NBA ref or Covert police operative? Bob Delaney was both! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Bob Delaney, NBA referee, New Jersey State Trooper, author, Covert: My Years Infiltrating the Mob with Dave Scheiber Bob Delaney has lived not one but two enviable and intimidating lives—and he’s nowhere near done, yet. In his first career, Delaney was a New Jersey State Trooper who went undercover for three years to... Continue Reading →