Chatting With Sherri

Sherri's Playhouse presents a reprise of the amazing Joe Kronus;  a time travel radio play!    Would you like to come along for the ride? See other times and stop those who would interfere with time....

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author Wulf Moon! Wulf Moon is an Olympic Peninsula award-winning writer. His stories have been published in Third Flatiron anthologies, as well as in Science World, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2, Writers of the Future Vol. 35, Future Science Fiction Digest, and in Deep Magic. He has won over thirty awards in writing, including the Critters Annual Readers' Choice Award for Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Story of 2018, and the international Writers of the Future Contest. His latest short story, “Cold Iron,” is published in the anthology Infinite Lives: Short Tales of Longevity by Third Flatiron Publishing. Moon is podcast director for Future Science Fiction Digest. His story “Super-Duper Moongirl and the Amazing Moon Dawdler” is on SFWA’s Recommended Reading List for the current Nebula Awards.  

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author and magician Diana Zimmerman! She has been a performer, writer, and businesswoman since the age of eight, when she invested all of her resources into a small magic trick. With a capital outlay of forty-seven cents, Diana parlayed her investment into a spectacular 25-year career as “America’s Foremost Lady Magician.” She has authored seven books—three “Kandide” novels (www.kandide.com), two business books, and two biographies. She was a three-time nominee for Los Angeles “Woman of the Year;” an Ernst and Young “Entrepreneur Of The Year” finalist, and awarded a “Lifetime Achievement” award by the Academy of Magical Arts/Magic Castle. An avid collector of faery art, some of her pieces date back to the 1700s. Her passion, however, is as an animal rights activist. A vegan, she works tirelessly to promote and improve animal welfare.

We get to chat with Lisa Russell about life in the Malibu Colony and Cary Grant! Lisa grew up in Malibu, California some of her classmates were Emilio Estevez, son of Martin Sheen, Jill Selsman, daughter of Carroll Lynley. Tiffany Mitchum, granddaughter of Robert Mitchum to name a few school chums.  Later years, while attending Marymount High School, she became acquainted with CeeCee Durante, daughter of Jimmy Durante, Bridget Kelly, Gene Kelly's daughter and Courtney Lemmon, Jack Lemmon's daughter.  However, her closest friendship was with Jennifer Grant, daughter of Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon. they met at Carden Malibu and quickly forged a bond over they're common love of horses. Lisa and Jennifer would spend countless hours riding, watching horse shows and collecting anything related to the equestrian world.   From 1975 to 1980, Jennifer and Lisa were inseparable Cary would come in and play games, dance and tell jokes. Her nickname for Cary was rabbit.  So, one night after Cary told us one of our favor

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award winning author Eileen Mueller! Winner of two Sir Julius Vogel Awards for Best Youth Novel (2016) and Best New Talent (2017), Eileen Mueller lives in New Zealand, on the side of a hill, with her four dragonets. In 2014 & 2015, she had fun organizing Wellington’s Storylines Family Day for thousands of kids – a festival bringing books alive through performances, crafts, and fun activities with kiwi authors and illustrators. Eileen has won SpecFicNZ’s Going Global and the New Zealand Society of Authors’ NorthWrite Collaboration literary awards and is a New Zealander of the Year Local Hero medalist. She was also a finalist in the 2017 Romance Writers New Zealand Chapter Short Story contest. 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back John Alsedek! Suspense ran for an unprecedented 20 years and 900-plus episodes before finally going off the air on September 30th, 1962- a date that is widely considered the end of radio’s ‘Golden Age’.   Fifty years later, John C. Alsedek and Dana Perry-Hayes  revived the series, with all-new stories and a style reminiscent of the original without being a copy.   It has also been nominated three times for the Peabody Awards, as well as for the Parsec Awards, the Young Artists Awards, and the Young Entertainer Awards. And most recently they were nominated for Voice Arts Awards!    

Sherri's Playhouse presents Mabel of the Anzacs 2 by Mary D. Brooks! Adapted by Mary for the radio theater from her new novel,  Mabel of the Anzacs part two is about two women - one a fiery teenager, the other a cantankerous octogenarian - find their mutual antipathy blossoms into an unlikely friendship. Together the two women forge a close bond that will change their lives forever. It's a friendship for the ages. In this second part they confront each other and find out they are more alike then either could have ever known. I would like to thank John Alsedek and Ty Pickett for all the hard work in editing this radioplay. Support the radio playhouse; https://www.patreon.com/rithebard

Chatting With Sherri welcomes music producer, song writer and musician Ron Pullman! Ron Pullman will chat about bringing JIMMY CARTER from BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA (Hailed as "gospel titans" by Rolling Stone) are about to release their new song – “I AM WITH YOU STILL.” Legendary producer, engineer and performer, Alan Parsons lends his artistry to the production of the music. This new inspiring and empowering song, Jimmy has recorded, features vocals from AIDB choir (Alabama Institute for the Def and Blind where Jimmy grew up) and Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, is set to release this summer. When Mr. Pullman heard about Jimmy Carter’s history he arranged for the singer to return home (to AIDB). It was something Mr. Carter wanted to do but could never quite get there. Ron Pullman made it happen and it’s an interesting and heartwarming story that turned into a major event!  This interview was recorded earlier.      

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author; Kiel C. Barnekov! Kiel Barnekov, was born in 1951 in Washington D.C. His father was a federal government intelligence executive and captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve. His mother was a federal government employee at several agencies. His paternal ancestors were Swedish nobility who immigrated to the United States in 1840. His maternal ancestors immigrated from Ireland. Mr. Barnekov grew up in Northern Virginia and graduated from George Mason University. He is now living in Ormond Beach, Florida, having realized his long-time dream of living near the ocean. The Force of Evil has continuously attempted to complete the destruction of humankind since the dawn of time. Certain events throughout history that could have gone very wrong have been shepherded to good outcomes. This is the story of how Good overcomes Evil, one event at a time.In the year 2028, Kristian Barnett, billionaire through inheritance of his parent’s estate, and CEO of Barnett Industries which develops,

Chatting With Sherri Welcomes back author; Mitzi Szereto! Mitzi is an author and anthology editor whose books encompass true crime and crime fiction, gothic fiction, cozy mystery, satire, parody, horror, sci-fi/fantasy, paranormal romance, erotic fiction, and general fiction and non-fiction. Her novels, short stories and anthologies have been translated into several languages. She has appeared at major international literature festivals and taught creative writing around the world, including several universities in the United Kingdom. A story from her British crime anthology Getting Even: Revenge Stories received a Highly Commended from the Crime Writers Association’s Silver Dagger Awards. She has the added distinction of having the first anthology of erotica to include a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Mitzi is the creator and presenter of the London-based web TV channel Mitzi TV, and also plays herself in the pseudo-documentary British film Lint: The Movie. Her blog of personal essays can be fou

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back author Judith Marshall! Author Judith Marshall has written an ambitious novel in which one of the most entrenched problems of modern-day womanhood is explored – our rigid clinging to control over our personal and professional lives and our reluctance to reach out for help when we most need it. Husbands May Come and Go but Friends Are Forever introduces readers to the unforgettable character of Elizabeth (Liz) Reilly-Hayden.  Coming out by December is Staying Afloat, a story borne of marriage and lust set against the responsibility of family.  It explores a key life question: Can a woman ever really know her heart until she faces tragedy?

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning author; David Farland! David Farland is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author with over 50 novels in print, including The Runelords, Nightingale, and The Courtship of Princess Leia. He has helped dozens of authors hit the New York Times Bestseller list, contributing to the careers of Stephenie Meyer, Brandon Sanderson, James Dashner, and many more.

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 R

Chatting With Sherri welcomes best selling and award nominated author; Bryan Thomas Schmidt! Bryan Thomas Schmidt is the Hugo nominated editor of The Martian by Andy Weir, a national bestselling author of the John Simon Thrillers and official entries in The X-Files, Predator, Monster Hunter International, Joe Ledger, and more.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author; Brian Trent! Brian Trent's work regularly appears in Analog, Fantasy & Science Fiction, The Year’s Best Military and Adventure SF, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, Terraform, Daily Science Fiction, Apex, Pseudopod, Escape Pod, Galaxy’s Edge, Nature, and numerous year’s best anthologies. The author of the recently published sci-fi novel Ten Thousand Thunders and the dark fantasy series Rahotep, Trent lives in New England. His website is www.briantrent.com.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Rachel Anne Cox! Utah author Rachel Anne Cox offers a literary dystopian novel for adults which owes much of its realness to her skill as a researcher for historical book themes. A Light From The Ashes is set in the future wasteland of Virginia where Sam, the son of revolutionaries, wants nothing more than to leave the violence of his past behind him, but the impending Third Revolution and the two women he loves may not let him. With his loyalties torn between his affection for Sophie and maintaining the tentative peace which has prevailed in the land, Sam must navigate the fine lines between peace and rebellion, love and hate, while trying to find his humanity in an inhumane world and within himself.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back podcaster;  Jennifer Aldrich!   Join Jennifer Aldrich, author, performer, and fan of all things in the Phryne Fisher-verse, as she interviews fellow fans who are adventurous in their own right. Find out how they answer the question: What would Miss Fisher do? Plus, stay up-to-date on news from around the fandom including movie news, Miss Fisher related meet-ups and events, and much more. This is a recorded episode, please don't call in.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award nominated author and playwright; Robin Alexander! We will be chatting about her books of course but we are also going to chat about her second radio play for Sherri's Playhouse called Deep Echos by Melody Ash, hernon de plume for Science Fiction. She is an award winning author with several books coming out; Northern Echos by Melody Ash and a very popular series of books; Secrets are revealed and the fight continues in Dark Crossings and Revelaltions, Books #2 and #3 of the Shadows Trilogy.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes Award-winning Japanese-American filmmaker, Anita Sugimura Holsapple! Award-winning Japanese-American filmmaker, Anita Sugimura Holsapple is a “survivor” of war. Battlefield: Home – Breaking The Silence was inspired by her own experiences as military child during the Vietnam War, and the realization of despite years, today’s generation of military families are continuing to face the same challenges and stigma surrounding mental injuries and trauma. As the daughter of a Japanese mother who survived the bombing of Japan, and a combat U.S. Marine of the Vietnam Conflict, Anita is very experience with mental injuries and trauma when the remnants of war came home. "PTSD and mental injuries leave a legacy, a fingerprint and an emotional imprint, not only on the injured, but the family members as well." Battlefield: Home - Breaking The Silence became a mission. A celluloid story of our journey, the military family members who for generations maintained a code of silence.    

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Brad R Torgersen!  Brad R. Torgersen the 2019 DragonCon Dragon Award winner for Best Science Fiction novel: A STAR-WHEELED SKY!  The award-winning stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies. A veteran and Chief Warrant Officer in the United States Army Reserve, Brad has also served in half a dozen different countries.