Non-fiction

Interview with Author – ANGELA THOMAS(SMITH)

Interview with Author – ANGELA THOMAS(SMITH)

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Angela Thomas Smith is an inspirational force to be reckoned with! As a multi-talented author, life coach, magazine owner, and the founder of AAALAC-African American Author Literacy Awareness Campaign, Angela has dedicated her life to spreading awareness about literacy and the importance of reading. She is a passionate advocate for literacy, self published authors, domestic violence survivors, suicide attempt survivors, and so much more. Angela has been featured in publications such as Women of Influencers Magazine, Authentically You Magazine, SwagHer Magazine, Transdisciplinary Agora for Future Discussions, Inc. – TAFFD’s Magazine, Anderson Independent-Mail Newspaper, and has been featured on various blogs, she has been interview on WSPA Channel 7, Fox 5 Carolina, podcasts and radio shows all over the USA and abroad since 2012. She is a Certified Life Coach Since May 2020, Who’s Who Urban CEO, Nominee 2020, ACHI Magazine Awards Nominee 2021, Cast member of “The mask behind the mask Monologue” 2021, Cast member of “For my Good & God’s Glory” Monologue” 2021, Best Book Trailer 2021 (nominated for Author of year & anthology of the year) by Black Author Rock INC 2021, and Top 100 Author of the year by UWBA- 2021. Angela Thomas Smith is truly a Queen of Collaborations and a leader in her community.

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Interview with Author – Cheryl Ilov

Interview with Author – Cheryl Ilov

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Please allow me to introduce myself. I am a dancer, martial artist, and a recovering physical therapist turned Amazon #1 best-selling and award-winning author. I never planned on becoming an author, nor did I even consider myself a writer. However, I have always had a passion for storytelling, and I suppose my writing career began by chronicling medical documents and progress reports for thousands of patients as a medical professional in the fields of both respiratory and physical therapy. Along the way, I discovered that weaving stories along with treatment modalities helped educate my patients and was a powerful tool in their recovery and ongoing progress.

I started a blog in 2011, when a marketing “expert” I was working with set one up for me, even though I had no idea what a blog was or why I would possibly want one. But once I was able to figure it out, I began writing about health, fitness, and life in general, integrating my knack for storytelling and fine tuning my writing skills at the same time.

After a few years of writing blogs and attracting many followers, I had a mental head smacking moment when I realized that those blogs could be organized to create an outline for a manuscript and subsequent book. And that is when my new career as an author was launched, at the tender young age of sixty-one.

When I am not writing, you can find me in a ballet class dancing with my barre buddies, hanging out in a martial arts dojo beating up bad guys, hiking in the glorious Rocky Mountains, or relaxing at home with my handsome husband and our two adorable Italian Greyhounds. Life is good!

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Interview with Author – Christopher Link

Interview with Author – Christopher Link

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Christopher Link, male – Age 48 (9/25/1973 to present). I was born in Gary, IN. To Italian/multi-racial-American parents. In the early years, growing up and high school was in Walton, Indiana. Graduation came in 1992 and college was in Vincennes, Indiana. For an associates degree until 1994, with studies ranging from general/advanced metals/ tool and die to creative writing and business. After a short Stent in the Tool and Die business done with college, my life path shifted to Jacksonville, FL. To pursue a career in the flooring industry as a Hardwood Floor Technician. Sanding and Finishing/Installing Hardwood Floors for over to decades to present. Still living in Jacksonville, further education has come in the form of success mentoring/self-education, seminars and online business training. Other interests include, further education and training to become a Spiritual Life Coach, Musicianship as a drummer/learning and playing music with others. With determination and raw talent/skill in the creative writing department, my first book – “Coming Out of the Illusion: Realizing the real you,” was written in 2016 following a Spiritual Awakening. This has led me to a new found life purpose/light mission, with a passion for creative writing to be in service to others through Spiritual book writing/teaching(s). The goal of Christopher Link is to assist as many people as possible to realize their own Spiritual selves and personal magnificence.

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Interview with Author – Anna Lundberg

Interview with Author – Anna Lundberg

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Anna Lundberg is the founder of One Step Outside, where she helps experienced professionals around the world design a career, a business and a lifestyle that brings them more freedom, flexibility, and fulfilment – outside of the conventional 9 to 5.

Voted ‘most likely to succeed’ and graduating top of her class aged 17, Anna studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford and then continued on to do a post-graduate degree in International Relations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.

Having ‘ended up’ in corporate marketing after her studies, she spent the formative years of her career in beauty and luxury brand management. Leaving her role at multinational Procter & Gamble to start her own company in 2013, she began her new entrepreneurial path by providing digital marketing consulting to well-known brands like Burberry through to exciting new start-ups and solopreneurs.

Anna now combines her decade of experience in corporate marketing with her training in coaching and positive psychology techniques to help people reimagine the next phase of their career, with a blend of life coaching and business mentoring.

She is the host of the Reimagining Success podcast and author of Leaving the Corporate 9 to 5 and, new in 2023, Outside of the 9 to 5.

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Interview with Author – Matthew Paris

Interview with Author – Matthew Paris

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Matthew Paris was born and raised in Houston, Texas. Growing up, he excelled at sports, Football and Track. Matthew has always been a very good writer. By the time he was a sophomore in high school he was in English class and the teacher told him that he might have a talent in writing after making an A in the class. After high school, Matthew attended Texas Tech University, where he would graduate with a degree in English Literature.

Matthew Paris has written three short films. The first film, “Crisis” won the Platinum Remi Award at Worldfest-Houston. The movie would be sold for distribution on AT&T U-VERSE and DirecTV. It would play over three continents including; Europe, Middle East, and Africa. His second film, “The Last Catch” would win the Silver Remi Award at Worldfest-Houston and be sold for distribution on the ShortsHD Channel. The film played in the United States, Europe, Middle East, and Africa.

Matthew is also the author of five books. His latest book, “A Confrontation of Souls & Words” is a book of poems that Matthew had re-written. He originally had written them for his poetry class at Texas Tech. The book is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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Interview with Author – Dr. Britney Caruso

Interview with Author – Dr. Britney Caruso

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I am originally from the suburbs of Chicago. I have always been a very hard worker. In fact, my second grade teacher told me that if I did not stop working so hard, I would burn out. Almost 40 years later, I am still running 100 mph. I am a single mother by choice with a boy who means the world to me.

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Interview with Author – Sammie Marsalli

Interview with Author – Sammie Marsalli

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As an author I am certainly not an expert or an authority on Alzheimer’s. I am definitely not a professional author and didn´t pretend to write an authoritative masterpiece. I never pretended to be either one of those things. I am simply an ordinary “John Doe” caregiver, husband sharing my experiences living and caring for my wife with Alzheimer’s. We have been married 43 years, 3 kids now grown up, a great dog most of those years, a typical family on our own trying to hold on to my wife and avoid her shutdown. I began to realize there are probably other “amateur” folks like me on their own trying to take care of a loved one with this disease and possibly could benefit from my shared personal experiences. Soon this diary turned into this book.

This book started out as a daily diary of how my wife´s behavior was dramatically changing and how I was affected and began to relate to her differently. Writing helped me ventilate my deepest emotions and reactions in private as they were too personal to express to others. Somehow writing “alleviated” my continuous sorrow but also indirectly helped me make personal decisions and changes in how to interact with her behavioral changes. Taking notes almost daily seemed to be my personal escape.

Preventing Her Shutdown is my desperate effort to keep my wife with Alzheimer’s “connected”. In Real Time there are very personal unloaded feelings, emotions and reactions expressed, never confided to anyone while slowly losing my wife.

There are no two profile behavioral changes alike with Alzheimer´s. I describe these dramatic changes with my wife who is in the beginning of the advanced stages. My reactions have always been intuitive in my desperate attempts to keep her “connected” with me, family and her surroundings. Real time experiences and actions “racing against the Alzheimer’s clock” to keep her communicating and interacting every day, even though she no longer speaks are detailed in my never-ending battle to prevent her shutdown.

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Interview with Author – Gerry Cullen

Interview with Author – Gerry Cullen

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ABOUT GERRY
Before embarking on writing my first book BETWEEN WORLDS: MY TRUE COMA STORY I worked in various business roles for 50 years.
It was in my last role that my writing career developed.
In the late eighties/early nineties I ran events for ITV TELETHON 90 and 92 with NEXUS and OASIS in Leeds. The highlight being having one of our events staged in the main arena at HAREWOOD HOUSE. Nexus awarded me Gold Card status for my achievements. There were only eight cards issued in the country. It was a prestigious award. My Events and shows were very entertaining and form part of my story.
After undergoing major open-heart surgery at LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY in March 2018 I received a “gift” out of my induced coma.
So far, I have written 7 books and 80 tv series to date. I had never written books or for tv prior to being in a coma.
I have decided to tell my true story to the World.
I have been advised that BETWEEN WORLDS: MY TRUE COMA STORY would make a wonderful movie.
I hope that through my words you will come to know that exceptional things can happen after being in a coma.
I know God has given me a second chance.
Thanks always, to my beloved partner for everything.
I live in West Yorkshire.
I am a coma survivor.
My true story continues today.

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