Authors recently featured on Share-a-Vision Radio

Here are some recent author interviews on Talking Television with Dave White (Share-a-Vision Radio, KSAV.org):
Herbie J Pilato, author of NBC and Me: My Life as a Page… In a Book:
http://www.talkingtelevision.org/files/AudioArchives/archive032508pt2.mp3
Jon Provost and Laurie Jacobson-Provost, co-authors of Timmy’s in the Well: The Jon Provost Story:
http://www.talkingtelevision.org/files/AudioArchives/archive022608pt2.mp3
Tom Lisanti, author of Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood:
http://www.talkingtelevision.org/files/AudioArchives/archive031108pt2.mp3
Eddie Lucas, author of Close-Ups: [...]

Promotion for this Writers

Once again we got up at 3 a.m. in order to catch a plane in Bakersfield. This time we were headed for Portland, OR to Epicon, the organization for electronically published writers. This is one my husband really looks forward to. We flew to San Francisco, then on to Portland, both planes were dinky, but [...]

LOOKING BACK

It may sound odd but accurate to say, a gorilla changed my life. I find myself looking back quite often when I think about why I do what I do for animals and why I choose the topics I write about. Sometimes I’m asked those very questions at readings or book signings. My mind always [...]

Relato LLEGO TARDE

-Llego tarde… Sí, bien, ¡hasta luego, cariño!
Acababa de hablar con ella cuando las primeras gaviotas de la tarde se posaban en la orilla. Las olas elevaban una tenue cortina de bruma entre los acantilados y dejaban su rastro iridiscente sobre la arena mojada. Era la misma [...]

Recommended reading: “Far From Home: Latino Baseball Players in America”

Spring training is in full swing this month, with the start of the new baseball season just two weeks away. After a tumultuous offseason that saw the indictment of Barry Bonds, the release of the Mitchell Report and the implosion of Roger Clemens on Capitol Hill, baseball fans could use a feel good story. They’ll [...]

En la Fuente de La Nogalera

HAY UN LUGAR…
…Donde quedó grabada la huella
del pie de mi infancia.
La piedra suspira, nerviosa,
cuando regreso, recordándome.
El mismo pájaro en
la misma rama, sonríe, canta y
me observa de reojo,
aunque no es el mismo sí lo es.
Se cansa de soplar el viento
de la tarde, en aquel recodo
guarecido del camino,
antes de llegar al río.
Me saluda [...]

What’s Next?

Sometimes trying to think up what to write on a blog is daunting. You’d think a writer wouldn’t have a bit of trouble coming up with something. Unfortunately, it isn’t always that easy.
This week has been filled with the piddly things that take away from what I’d really like to be doing–working on my own [...]

Robert B. Parker, Burt Reynolds and B.L. Stryker

When it comes to the TV career of Burt Reynolds, most of us who are in our 40s think of the opening title sequence of Dan August (ABC, 1970-1971), which saw him hurtle his body over the length of a car in what at the time had to be the most spectacular stunt ever attempted [...]

Are You Being Short With Me?

The short story form is something I have yet to master, yet it’s a form I love returning to again and again in my reading.  As Kurt Vonnegut once said, short stories are like “Buddhist catnaps.”  While even the bad ones can be a form of escapism from day to day activities and easily forgotten, some [...]

LA CAJA DE ZAPATOS

Eran por fin una familia. Cuando el pequeño Jeremías subió a bordo del gran trasatlántico comenzó la historia de una recuperación largo tiempo esperada por sus tíos, ahora transformados en máximos responsables de su cuidado. Lorna y Mateo se habían ocupado del muchacho desde que perdió a sus padres en aquel desgraciado accidente [...]