Today's Guest: Norman E. Bowie, author, Business Ethics For Dummies NORMAN E. BOWIE podcast excerpt: "Are the incentives right? Do you have a strong code of ethics? Do you enforce the code of ethics? You have to be willing to penalize good producers who produce in an unethical way." Norman E. Bowie, the author of... Continue Reading →
Wine For Dummies author Mary Ewing-Mulligan on good stuff! INTERVIEW
Mary Ewing-Mulligan is the co-author (with her husband, Ed McCarthy) of six wine books in the Wine For Dummies series — including French Wine For Dummies and Italian Wine For Dummies — as well as her latest , Wine Style. She has taught hundreds of wine classes and visited nearly every wine region in... Continue Reading →
Agent Michael Larsen sells book proposal writing secrets! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Part 1 of 2 (More below) Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of people who want to be writers more than they apparently want to take baths – P.U.! … in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! So you want to be a writer, huh? Got a great... Continue Reading →
Cracked.com: You Might Be A Zombie! VIDEO INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Jack O'Brien, editor, Cracked.com, You Might Be A Zombie Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of obsessed Redbook magazine fact checkers who promise to confirm the veracity of everything my guest says before we’re done here today… in the new new media capital of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida!... Continue Reading →
Maybe it’s Maybelline; maybe it’s Sharrie Williams! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Sharrie Williams, author, The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It Cosmetics are almost incidental in The Maybelline Story, an irresistible new business and family history book by an heir to the Williams family legacy, Sharrie Williams, and her co-author, Bettie Youngs. If you loved watching the old prime time soap... Continue Reading →
Drew Carey’s favorite foil, Kathy Kinney, is Queen for life! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guests: Kathy Kinney, star of 'The Drew Carey Show,' and Cindy Ratzlaff, so-authors of Queen of Your Own Life: The Grown-Up Woman’s Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life You Deserve. How old were you when your age made you feel a little fatalistic? KATHY KINNEY podcast excerpt: "Mimi would say, 'What did... Continue Reading →
Hoodwinked author John Perkins saves Mr. Media from the economic hit men
Forget Stephen King novels. If you want some really scary bedtime reading, I’m going to recommend John Perkins new non-fiction book, Hoodwinked. It’ll leave you afraid to turn off the lights at night. Hoodwinked is the sequel to Perkins’ previous book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, and it is an eyes wide awakener. You’ll... 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 →
2009 Pulitzer Prize Winner Lane DeGregory: technique, style! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Lane DeGregory, Tampa Bay Times journalist, reporter, 2009 winner of Pulitzer Prize Feature Writing The story you’re about to hear is true, even if it sounds implausible even for fiction. It’s about a little girl named Danielle, “The Girl in the Window” described in Lane DeGregory’s story in the St. Petersburg Times... Continue Reading →