children’s books

Interview with Author – Karen Goeller

Interview with Author – Karen Goeller

Karen Goeller, CSCS, has educated thousands in the fitness and gymnastics industries with her books, articles, and in person. She has been training athletes since 1978 and adults since 1985. Karen Goeller is the author of more gymnastics books than anyone in the USA.

Since the beginning, Karen Goeller’s books have been used as references by fitness experts and coaches to create countless training programs. Her books have been called the “most useful on the market.”

When she was involved in an accident in 2000 and suffered permanent spinal damage she stopped working. To remain involved in gymnastics and fitness, Karen turned to writing. “I felt like I had a ton of information in my head that was not being used. I knew it was the perfect time to pass on this knowledge and writing books was the perfect avenue.”

It wasn’t until the Swing Set Fitness books in 2006 that Karen started to make great progress with her physical rehabilitation. Karen shared, “I finally felt like myself again. I knew I was getting stronger, mentally and physically.” When asked if she is completely healed from the accident, Karen replied, “I am still injured, but that no longer defines me.”

Karen has produced State Champions, National TOPS Team Athletes, and Empire State Games Athletes. Three National Champions were from Karen’s gymnastics club. Most of her success was after her 1991 cancer surgery.

Before her surgery, Karen was told that she would be bed-ridden for the rest of her life by many doctors. The cancer surgery was a success, but Karen was left with lymphedema in her leg. Her leg was as wide as her waist immediately after the surgery. Karen has written a book on her life since the surgery, “Lymphedema: Sentenced to Life in Bed, but I Escaped.”

Karen Goeller and her athletes have been featured on TV, radio, and in the newspapers since the 1990’s. She has appeared on Good Morning America, GoodDay NY, Eyewitness News, and NY Views (old show) among others. They have also been featured in The NY Times, NY Newsday, Brooklyn Bridge Magazine, Interview Magazine, and most of the Brooklyn, NY newspapers.

More recently Karen has been featured on Late Night with Johnny P, News12 NJ, Your Story Matters Radio, Lymphedema Mavens Radio, Erin Ley Radio, Lynn Johnson Radio, I Run MY Body Radio, Hector Bosa TV, Peter Austin Noto TV, Talkin’ Health with Joe Kasper Radio, the Coast Star, Asbury Park Press, Observer/Reporter, Staten Island Advance, and Inside Gymnastics Magazine.

Besides all of the interviews, Karen is an actor and has had roles on a variety of TV shows and in movies. She has worked on The Gilbert Diaries, Monsters Inside Me, Pandoras Box, Scene of the Crime, Billions, Spiderman, Annie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Whatever Goes TV, Brain Games, Gotham, The Following, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary, Young Hot Crooked, Black Box, Michael J Fox, Law & Order, The Newsroom, Forever, Stalked-Docudrama, and commercials for OlayIT, TE Communications, Today, Nike, and Verizon. Karen has also done staged readings in a local theater. Karen is always looking for legit roles in film, TV, commercials, and corporate projects. Recently Karen was the producer, director, and instructor for a children’s production through the Incrediflix company. Check out her IMDB page too. She is a Member of NY Women in Film & TV.

Karen has worked for world famous Olympic coach, Bela Karolyi and was the first female camp director. Before earning her BA Degree, Karen’s education included training as an EMT, Physical Therapist, and Nutritionist. She has had certifications such as EMT-D, Nutritional Analysis, Fitness Trainer, many USAG certifications, and the NSCA-CSCS certification.

And in recent years, Karen returned to school to become a paralegal. She enjoyed her work in the legal industry, but has returned her focus to her passions, the sports and film industries.

Karen is available for film/tv/commercial projects, interviews, to speak for your group, consulting work, or for book signings.

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Interview with Author – Carolyn Watson Dubisch

Interview with Author – Carolyn Watson Dubisch

Carolyn Watson Dubisch is an award winning author/illustrator of 17 children’s books and the illustrator on five children’s books with various authors. She also writes and illustrates comics for kids. Some of her comic book series include “The Horribles”, “After The Robots Died” and “The Dragon in The Closet”. As a writer and artist she has designed alien bird-men for Star Wars games and colored Wolverine and Silver Surfer Comics for Marvel. She’s also had her writing and illustrations in various children’s publications including Highlights for Children, Hopscotch and Whimsy Magazines

She currently lives in a house by the beach in Mazatlán, Mexico with her husband, scifi-fantasy artist and writer, Mike Dubisch and her youngest daughter.. She also has a very old dog and four Mexican street cats who make life interesting every day

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Interview with Author – Peter Solomon

Interview with Author – Peter Solomon

Peter Solomon is a physicist and an entrepreneur who is devoted to passing on his love for the many wonderful science stories to the younger generation. The birth of his twelfth grandchild was the inspiration for his first book and the STARDUST MYSTERY project that has created companion video games, science videos, and Expert Avatars that will answer questions about their lives and work. The theme of the Stardust Mystery story is that we are made of STARDUST that was once in the body of Albert Einstein and the last T-Rex. That is true. We each have more than 300 trillion carbon atoms that once belonged to and were exhaled by Einstein and more than 5,000 trillion that were once in each T-Rex that roamed the Earth. Those atoms were created in the end-of-life explosions of stars.
His new book, The Race to the Big Bang, set in the coronavirus pandemic, continues that story. The same child characters make the best of their new life constraints and enter a new contest, The Race to the Big Bang. They, and hopefully the reader, will learn lots of new science. Peter lives in Connecticut with his wife, Sally Moshein Solomon. Sally and Peter have had their vaccine shots and are now visiting with their grandchildren again.

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Interview with Author – Tatiana Handfield

Interview with Author – Tatiana Handfield

Tatiana Handfield is a trained teacher of English Language and Literature at the secondary level. She enjoys writing short stories, poems, plays and children’s books. Tatiana is passionate about teaching others to write and encouraging children to unlock their creative potential. In addition to teaching and writing, Tatiana is also a proofreader/copy editor and created her own art production company Let’s Create TCI!

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Interview with Author – Tanya Preminger

Interview with Author – Tanya Preminger

Tanya Preminger has moved to New York city at the age of 27 to start a writing career. She spent wonderful years in the big apple, waiting tables, writing stories, submitting to literary magazines, studying martial arts and meeting wonderful people, eventually becoming a … web designer.
Life had led her to a 9-5 marketing management career, and only after her son was born, she rediscovered her first passion – writing. This time around she wrote juvenile fiction and chose to self-publish. Her children’s book series “Sean Wants To Be Messi”, about a boy who dreams of becoming a famous soccer player, has sold tens of thousands of copies in the US, UK, and Germany.

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Interview with Author – Shirley J. Davis

Interview with Author – Shirley J. Davis

Shirley J. Davis is an advocate, speaker and author focusing on the disorder she understands best, her own, dissociative identity disorder (DID). Shirley lives in rural Illinois with her brother, his wife and their two young sons. She enjoys writing and spending time with her four-year old nephew Michael. Shirley can be found on Twitter at the address @ShirleyDavis18 and on LinkedIn under her full name. Shirley also owns and operates a website dedicated to spreading awareness about dissociative identity disorder.

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Interview with Author – Adam Leitman Bailey

Interview with Author – Adam Leitman Bailey

Adam Leitman Bailey, has, throughout his career, established himself as a connoisseur of real estate. For the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and several other national media outlets, Bailey frequently contributes his real estate expertise and advice.

As an owner of several properties and father of two children, Adam Leitman Bailey was inspired – and uniquely placed – to write about homes in a way that is relatable to real estate professionals, first-time home buyers, and young minds.

To-date, Home has won a number of awards, including the Literary Classics International Book Award, the Mom’s Choice Award, and the eLit Book Award. Bailey’s first book, a guide for first-time homebuyers entitled Finding the Uncommon Deal, was also a New York Times Bestseller and winner of the National Association of Real Estate Editors “Best First Time Author Award.”

A lifetime believer in giving back to the community and a fundamental leader in supporting and educating children within the community, Adam Leitman Bailey has helped provide college scholarships, facilitate youth mentoring, combat bullying, provide paid internships, giving history tours and inspirational speeches at schools as well as supporting hospital research into tackling life threatening children’s illnesses and providing funds to cure children’s’ neurological diseases. In 2017, he was also named Humanitarian of the Year by a local high school for his charitable efforts. 100% of the proceeds from his latest children’s book, Home, will go to the Building Foundations and Dreams, the charity he founded that strives to assist underserved students of all ages in pursuing their dreams. More information about Adam Leitman Bailey can be found at buildingfoundationsanddreams.com/.

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