Chatting With Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes artist Echo Chernik! Echo has more than twenty years of experience as a professional commercial artist in the advertising field, and five years as an instructor of graphics and digital illustration at Pratt Institute, Westchester Community College, Marymount Manhattan and Skidmore CCI. She specializes in art nouveau-influenced poster design, advertisements, package design and book covers. She has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 2016.   She is a traditionally trained artist—a graduate of Pratt Institute, summa cum laude (President’s Award for Academic Excellence). A traditional background in art focuses on skills such as drawing and painting as well as perspective and color theory. This allows the artist to translate their concept into whatever media best suits the job—resulting in a very versatile artist, who is not limited by any one medium.

Chatting with Sherri is excited to welcome back the diverse and talented actor,Travis McMahon! Travis McMahon is best known as Bert Johnson from Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries will joins us to talk about some his latest work and adventures which include; Rams, Myall Creek Day of Justice and How Do You Know Chris? We also chat about his writing and what is happening in the world today, it is a fasinating chat!  He has acted in TV series such as;(of course,) Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries ,  Last Man Standing and Good Guys Bad Guys  and films; Kokoda: 39th Battalion and Cactus!  

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning artist; Bruce Brenneise! Bruce Brenneise is an award-winning illustrator for the Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest​! His passion is for world-building through vibrant, epic and strange environments, helping clients flesh out ambitious stories and excite their fans. He's best known for his work on games such as Numenera and Slay the Spire. He lives in Seattle with his wife, son, and carnivorous plants.  Bruce Brenneise grew up in the countryside by Lake Michigan; nature and fantasy were two of his main interests from the beginning. He continued to not-so-secretly focus on magic, monsters, and myths while studying scientific illustration at the University of Michigan. Pursuit of diverse environments and experiences led him around the world in search of artistic inspiration: a field sketching trip to southern Africa, months amidst ancient ruins of Anatolia, not to mention six years working and traveling throughout China and other parts of East Asia. The

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back actor/writer/director; Eric Erickson! Eric Erickson - The Angry Viking - graduated from the University of Southern California's School of Theatre and spent his early acting years performing on stages across the country in roles ranging from Hamlet and Mercutio to Conrad Birdie and Charlie Chaplin. He has been seen in the feature films "Dam Sharks!" and "Last Call at Murray's" and the television shows "The Last Ship," "The Young and the Restless" and "Stitchers." He also appeared in the cult favorite "Snake Outta Compton" as Alley Jaws. Eric Paul Erickson, writer/director and star of the upcoming award winning feature film “Truth”. He received Best Director awards for the film from the Silver State Film Festival and the Marina del Rey Film Festival and a Best Actor and Best Storytelling award from the Laughlin International Film Festival. It also won best feature at the Worldwide Women's Film Festival and Eric was nominated for best actor at the Bloodstained Indie Film Fes

Chatting With Sherri welcomes screenwriter and author; Paul Coyle! I am so excited to welcome the very talented Paul Coyle to my show, I have been watching and enjoying his shows for years.  He was a writer on Crazy Like a Fox and Jake and the Fatman,  Xena: Warrior Princess. As well a writer for three Trek series – Star Trek: The Animated Series; Star Trek: Voyager; and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  He was a writer/producer for Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. .Paul also wrote for other genre series such as Superboy, The Dead Zone, and Space Precinct His latest adventure is a book tentatively called; From Star Trek to Xena to Hercules: A Screenwriter's Life Scripting the Stories of Heroes. http://www.jacobsbrownmediagroup.com/from-star-trek-to-xena-to-hercules-a-screenwriters-life-scripting-the-stories-of-heroes.html

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Stacey L Tucker! The Equal Night Trilogy is a romantic adventure that speaks to the longing in the hearts of women. Once the Greeks forced their male gods upon the world, the belief in the power of women was severed. For centuries it has been thought that the wisdom of the high priestesses perished at the hand of the patriarchs—but the ancient Book of Sophia, which contains the sacred knowledge needed for the coming age, is out there. And it is looking for Skylar Southmartin. This new adult fantasy series takes our protagonist, Skylar, on a journey through Fire, Air, and Water as she races to fulfill her task: find the Book of Sophia, return the heart of humanity to wholeness, and return the United States to a trajectory toward its true destiny—becoming the New Atlantis. Along the way, she discovers shocking truths about her family, recovers lost love, and, time and again, faces tests of her loyalties, her courage, and her strength of will. A new adult fantasy series that

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back talented author; Nicholas Diak!   Nicholas Diak is a pop culture scholar who specializes in Italian genre cinema, contemporary sword and sandal films, industrial music, 80s retroism, and H. P. Lovecraft studies. His first book, The New Peplum: Essays on Sword and Sandal Films and Television Programs Since the 1990s, was published in late 2017 while his second book, co-edited with Michele Brittany, Horror Literature from Gothic to Post-Modern: Critical Essays is slated to be published later this year.   He has contributed essays to a variety of websites and journals, along with chapters to the academic books James Bond and Popular Culture: Essays on the Influence of the Fictional Superspy, Horror in Space: Critical Essays on a Film Subgenre, Uncovering Stranger Things: Essays on Eighties Nostalgia, Cynicism and Innocence in the Series and a chapter in an upcoming untitled anthology on Westworld. Along with Michele Brittany, he is a co-creator and co-chair of the Ann Radcl

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back publisher and writer; John Goodwin!   Over its 35 year history, the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest has recognized 404 winners who have gone on to publish 1,150 novels and 4,450 short stories.  Of these, 192 are still active with a writing career—that’s over 40%. Twelve of these Contest winners have gone on to become NYT bestselling authors. And Contest Winners have garnered 155 major awards.  Collectively, the winners of the contests have sold over 60 million books over the years.  And with the last 4 volumes of Writers of the Future hitting national bestseller lists—and each of the winners becoming national bestselling authors and illustrators as a result—contest entries continue to increase each quarter with entries from around the world.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning author; Kaaron Warren! Shirley Jackson award-winner Kaaron Warren published her first short story in 1993 and has had fiction in print every year since. She was recently given the Peter McNamara Lifetime Achievement Award and was Guest of Honour at World Fantasy 2018, Stokercon 2019 and Geysercon 2019. Kaaron was a Fellow at the Museum for Australian Democracy, where she researched prime ministers, artists and serial killers. She has published five multi-award winning novels (Slights, Walking the Tree, Mistification, The Grief Hole and Tide of Stone) and seven short story collections, including the multi-award winning Through Splintered Walls.. She has won the ACT Writers and Publishers Award four times and twice been awarded the Canberra Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Into Bones Like Oil (Meerkat Press) is on the Preliminary Ballot for the Stoker Award and the Recommended Reading List for Locus.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award winning composer, producer, educator, and host; David Raiklen! David Raiklen is an American composer best known for the science fiction series Space Command and for the Emmy winning Mia, A Dancer’s Journey. David was mentored by Oscar winner John Williams and Pulitzer Prize winner Mel Powel. Dr. Raiklen studied at USC, UCLA, and CalArts and later taught at those universities. He has worked for the major studios including Sony, Fox, Disney, Sprint, Mattel, Warner Bros and PBS, plus many independent productions. His projects have starred Elliott Gould, Doug Jones, Blythe Danner, and Martin Sheen. David made the New York Film Critics Top Ten with the documentary Heist, the short list for an Academy Award® for Worth, and Mia, A Dancer's Journey won the Emmy. An oratorio for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial titled Discovery, a mixed reality giant projection event for the Center Theater Group’s 50th anniversary, episodes of Star Trek Continues, and a violin concerto for fe

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author Peter Wacks! Caller of Lightning; When Halley's Comet blazed across the sky in 1759, onlookers saw a sight far more spectacular--and disastrous--than they ever could have imagined. Destroyed in a magical battle, the comet is rent in two and appears to strike Earth. The event is known as The Sundering, the moment in which the Old World is separated from the New, perhaps permanently isolating the Americas. What's more, The Sundering has brought magic into the world--creatures from folklore and fairy tales come to life, along with wizardry and magework unlike anything seen outside of legend. The New World is now far stranger than before, and the Europeans, Africans, and Indigenous peoples on the American continent must forge new bonds if they are to survive. So, when magic returns to the world of the 1700s, who does the world turn to for help? None other than the father of electricity himself: Benjamin Franklin! But Franklin is in for a shock if he thinks his knowledge

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back TV director TJ Scott!!!   I always have a great time with TJ, he is an awarding winning director; he won the Canadian Screen Awards; Best Direction in a Drama Series for Orphan Black. We had a super time chatting about all his new shows and books; Directing and Executive Producing Departure a series about an investigative team that looks into major Transport Incidents, In the first season the team is assemble to investigate the mid air disappearance of a Airliner between New York and London with 250 passengers on board, starring; Academy Award Winner Christopher Plummer, Emmy Award Winner Archie Panjabi, Kris Holden Ried, Dougray Scott, Claire Forlani, Peter Mensah,Shazad Latif,Allan Hawco! Frontier tv series season 2 on Netflix starring JASON MOMOA of Aquaman was released recently - a six part season; It is the story of the Hudson Bay company and the battle between the French, The English and Native Americans for land and fur trapping rights. Dennys Ilic and I embedded

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back Melissa Good!   Melissa Good is an IT expert who has been writing very popular novels such as Tropical Storm about her delightful characters Dar and Kerry.  Now several books published she has all kinds of interesting characters enjoy.  She has also written two episodes of Xena, Warrior Princess such as "Coming Home" and writes fan fiction.   Join us as she chat about her latest books; Of Sea and Stars and her new Dar and Kerry book; Southern Stars!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes;  Producer/Creator/Co-Writer/Author;David Oman! One of the most gruesome and notorious murders of our time was committed on AUGUST 8th,1969 when Charles Manson’s “Family” descended on Roman Polanski’s residence on Cielo Drive in Beverly Hills and brutally murdered 5 people including Polanski’s wife, actress Sharon Tate.  While the original house no longer exists, filmmaker David Oman built his house a mere 150 feet from the site where the grisly murders took place. Oman is convinced that the murder victims still haunt his residence to this day. And he is not the only one. Paranormal experts and psychics from the world over have visited Oman’s residence and have dubbed it “The Mount Everest of haunted houses” and “The D-land for the Dead” for the amount of paranormal activity that occurs there.  DAVID OMAN (Producer/Creator/Co-Writer/Author) A native of Los Angeles, Oman has been intrigued by the paranormal from his early childhood and has been curious about the Spirit World eve

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back  photographer; Chris Loomis! "Design, art, nature, architecture, high-fashion, science, science-fiction, surrealism, the paranormal, music and even old cartoons...name some of the many things that inspire me personally as well as photographically. From personal project with high-concept productions to illustrative commissions for clients, I am constantly working to evolve my vision while maintaining the highest level of quality and art direction."   

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back talented actor; Brice Bexter! Brice is a method actor who trained at the Lee Strasberg and Theatre and Film Institute in New York. He is an international  and diverse actor known for his parts as Younes Laalej in Redemption Day, Captain Templeton in Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears and  Abu Youssef in Greetings from ISIS and a Secret Service Agent in Good Omens! This is a recorded show, please don't call in!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author; Sandra Shaw Homer! Sandra Shaw Homer has lived in Costa Rica for 29 years, where she has taught languages and worked as a translator and environmental activist. For several years she wrote a regular column, "Local Color," for the English-language weekly, The Tico Times.   Her memoir Evelio's Garden is a lyrical meditation on organic gardening, cultural values, friendship, aging, loss, and, ultimately, the healing power of the natural world. Evelio teaches her about the rural sustainability of Costa Rica in decades past. Pulling her into the daily ups and downs of his project, he creates an often funny, always frustrating, and ultimately rewarding counterpoint to her own work, such that the two intertwine on the page...and lead her to confront a difficult past and open up to profound personal change. This is a recorded show, please don't call in.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back; Actor/Rock Photographer; Michael Strider!   Michael has worked with nearly every Rock Star on Earth. His resume also includes actors, supermodels and world leaders. And let us not forget the occasional female wrestler and a few Hollywood mass murderers!   He will be sharing real-life experiences from his career in the Rock industry, as well as his interesting life events that inspired him to form the charity organization, The LifeAfter Project.

Chatting With Sherri  welcomes back award winning author; Lee Murray! Lee Murray is a multi-award-winning writer and editor of science fiction, fantasy, and horror (Sir Julius Vogel, Australian Shadows), and a two-time Bram Stoker nominee. Her works include the Taine McKenna military thriller series (Severed), and supernatural crime-noir series The Path of Ra co-authored with Dan Rabarts (RDSP) Lee lives with her family in New Zealand where she conjures up stories from her office overlooking a cow paddock. Her latest book is Dawn of the Zombie Apocalypse! She has taken part in Sherri's Playhouse with The Thief's Tale, which is a very popular play!   Website https://www.leemurray.info/ Twitter @leemurraywriter

Chatting with Sherri welcomes award winning science fiction writer Shaene Siders!   Shaene Siders was recently nominated as a finalist for the 2020 Humanitas Prize!  She is an award-winning action and science fiction writer who geeks out over swords, sorcery, and superheroes.  Never read her scripts without a helmet!  Her credits include Marvel's Avengers Assemble, DC Super Hero Girls, the Emmy Award winning Amazon series Niko and the Sword of Light, and Netflix’s Saint Seiya:  Knights of the Zodiac.  She has also written for the Jim Henson Company, Universal Studios, PBS, The Discovery Channel, the Herokins game, the U.S. Military, and NASA.