March 2007 Podcast Schedule

March 2 Barbara Joe-Williams of Amani Publishing

Barbara Joe is a long-term resident of Tallahassee, Florida. However, she was born and raised in Rosston, Arkansas. She is currently a freelance writer and an independent publisher who has published three romance novels and a handbook on self-publishing. Barbara spends her spare time traveling as a motivational teacher or conducting seminars and workshops on writing, publishing, and marketing at libraries and community colleges.

Barbara’s motto is: “Never procrastinate, make your dreams come true today.”

Mrs. Joe-Williams books are available from all on-line and retail bookstores including Barnes & Noble’s. She’s an active member of the American Business Women’s Association, Capital City Chamber of Commerce, and Tallahassee Writer’s Association.

Please visit Barbara’s blog at www.Barbarajoe.blogspot.comwww.Amanipublishing.net or her website:

March 9 Gigi Minor

Gigi Miner lives in Upstate New York with her husband and
furry family. Miner has been writing in some form or fashion for most of her life. To initiate her into the world of writing, Gigi received her first rejection letter at age nine for a poem submitted to a magazine.

Since then, Miner has written many articles for various newsletters, including Gateway to Tarot & Future Endeavors, and writes a monthly column for the online e-zine, The Meta Arts. Miner publishes two of her own newsletters, Veritas – a tarot-based spiritual newsletter and SPANN – Self Published Artists’ Network Newsletter, which helps to bring fans together with aspiring artists.

Gigi Miner has written Card Shark, ISBN 1-4116-4280-5, a supernatural murder mystery that uses tarot to feed the plot and has recently released The Fallen ISBN 978-1-4303-0182-0, a supernatural mystery that uses more erotic text to pursue the message of the book. Those and all other works are available at: www.lulu.com/ladyfogg

www.minerbooks.info

March 16 Devra Ann Jacobs of Mystic Pop Magazine

Devra Ann Jacobs is an author, speaker and business woman. She founded and serves as editor of the “now age” Mystic Pop Magazine, the world’

s fastest growing publication in the Spirituality arena.

Devra believes that an author doesn’t have to be famous to be good. Therefore, she accepts submissions for her magazine. Those interested should send an 800- or 1,600-word article as an attached word.doc and include any color pictures in jpeg format 300dpi, you may want to use in the article. Allow her 4-6 weeks to read and respond. See www.mysticpopmagazine.com for more details.

March 23 Penny C. Sansevieri

You won’t want to miss this exciting show. I’ll be interviewing two people, talking about two books and giving you viable information from a publicity company in a fast-paced 2-part interview. We will kick off a new series of interviews for books and authors being promoted by AME.

Penny C. Sansevieri, CEO and founder of Author Marketing Experts, Inc. (AME), is a best-selling author and internationally recognized book marketing and media relations expert. Penny began her career in the publicity, book marketing, and literary field over 15 years ago. During that time she has been an author, freelance writer, publicist, and instructor.

Her book, From Book to Bestseller is an insider’s guide to publicizing and marketing your book. We will be giving you some tips to help make your book a bestseller.

Additionally, AME, Penny’s company, is one of the leaders in the publishing industry and has developed some of the most cutting-edge book marketing campaigns. Her company researched, developed and implemented the first comprehensive Internet publicity campaign called The Virtual Author Tour™. She has been instrumental in creating several highly successful marketing and publicity campaigns for author events and book launches.

You can visit her web site at www.amarketingexpert.com

In part two of this show I’ll be interviewing G. (Gary) D. Baum, who is currently working on the second installment of the Lock Tourmaline Mystery Series tentatively titled, Cross and Cover. He is the author of “Point and Shoot”

Gary Baum also has a strong interest in civil rights work and has volunteered to assist in a number of challenges to some of the excesses of the current government initiatives to protect the homeland. He has also started a non-profit foundation that works in the inner city to help the disadvantaged start and maintain small businesses.

March 30th Mary E. Martin

We continue with our Authors’ Marketing Expert series by having Mary E. Martin on the show. Mary has written an article for the March issue of Writers in the Sky Newsletter and will be giving us more writing tips in her upcoming articles in future issues.

Mary E. Martin grew up in Toronto where she began practicing law in a small estates firm. In 1999, she became a full time writer and photographer.

If you have read Mary’s first book "Conduct in Question", you have witnessed her art of shedding light of parts of the law that only the "insiders" see. In her second addition to the Osgoode Trilogy, she has taken it one step further. Martin shows how organized deception of the law can quickly evolve into organized crime and who else to expose it than our old friend, Harry Jenkins.

In "Final Paradox", Harry is the championed knight of the wealthy Ms. Norma Dinnick, a widowed old woman who constantly floats between lucidity to insanity. Norma sees and hears people who aren't there and has a bounty of conspiracy theories based on all of the people fighting to steal her estate.