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Lit with Lloyd
by KCAT Public Media
Professional book reviewer and blogger Lloyd Russell aka "The Book Sage" explores all things literature with insightful author interviews.
Episodes
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Author Jessica Rosenberg
Join Lloyd as he interviews Jessica Rosenberg! Jessica Rosenberg is the author of 8 books. Butter, Sugar, Magic is book 1 of 4 in her Baking Up a Magical Midlife series. Jessica has become a force in Paranormal Women's Fiction.
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Henry Michalski
Join Lloyd as he interviews Henry Michalski. Henry Michalski is the author of Torn Lilacs, the true story of how his parents not only survived the holocaust, but also found each other after two years apart! It's a story about love, bravery, and perseverance.
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Melissa Maglio
Melissa Maglio is a senior librarian for the San Jose Library. She oversees a very extensive series of community programs for the 2 libraries she manages
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Ellie Alexander
Join Lloyd as he interviews Ellie Alexander. Ellie Alexander is not only the author of over 25 books, but she's also a book coach, speaker, and blogger!
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Marina Adair
Join Lloyd as he interviews Marina Adair! Marina Adair is the #1 Bestselling Author of 30 novels, all romances. Three of her books from the St. Helena Vineyard series have been made into movies by the Hallmark network, with options for several more.
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Dr. H. James Harrington
H. James Harrington is an icon in the business world. He has written over 60 books and was even Bill Clinton's Ambassador of Good Will when Clinton was the governor of Arkansas. It is said of Harrington that "He writes the books that other consultants use."
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Fred Wiehe
Join Lloyd as he interviews Fred Wiehe! Fred Wiehe is a horror writer and a member of the Horror Writers Association. Although his books are primarily centered on horror, he also crosses over into fantasy, mystery, suspense, and crime thrillers.
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Linda Gunther
Join Lloyd as he interviews Linda Gunther! Linda Gunther is a very versatile author. She has written romantic suspense novels and children's books, along with short stories, poems, and memoirs. Go to her website - lindasgunther.com - and pick from a wide variety of offerings."
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Laleh Khoshkbariie
Join Lloyd as he interviews Laleh Khoshkbariie! Laleh Khoshkbariie is the author of 2 cookbooks, called Laleh's Table, with a 3rd one on its way. She not only gives us great recipes, but she introduces us to foods from around the world.
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Karen Joy Fowler
Join Lloyd as he interviews Karen Joy Fowler! Karen Joy Fowler is the author of 7 novels and 3 short story collections. Her 2014 book - We are all completely beside ourselves - won the PEN/Faulkner award for fiction!
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Sal Pizarro
Join Lloyd as he interviews Sal Pizarro! Sal Pizarro is a Bay Area News Group columnist who has written the Around Town column for The Mercury News since 2005. His column covers the people and events surrounding the cultural scene in Silicon Valley. In addition, he writes Cocktail Chronicles, a...
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Eva Moore
Join Lloyd as he interviews Eva Moore! Eva Moore is the author of over a dozen romance novels, including Worst Holiday Ever and Worst Valentine's Day Ever! The interview takes a fascinating turn when Lloyd asks her how her 2nd child was the inspiration for her becoming a novelist. It's quite a...
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Laila Ibrahim
Join Lloyd as he interviews Laila Ibrahim! Laila is the author of 6 books, Including Scarlet Carnation, which came out last April. It's the 4th book of her companion series about a multi-generational family. Add her two standalones, Paper Wife and Living Right, and you've got an author at the…
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Gail Carriger
Join Lloyd as he interviews Gail Carriger! Gail is New York Times Bestselling Author of 30 books, which have been translated into dozens of languages. Gail will also be the guest of honor at the book convention Westercon this summer in Anaheim, CA
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Alessandra Harris
Join Lloyd as he interviews author Alessandra Harris. Alessandra Harris is the author of 3 novels and an upcoming non-fiction book in 2023. She also writes articles for several publications. Besides writing, she is a speaker and spends much of her time advocating for racial justice and mental...
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Michael David Lukas
Join Lloyd as he interviews author Michael David Lukas! Michael David Lukas is a best-selling author of 2 books. His 1st book, Oracle of Stamboul, has been translated into 12 languages! His second book, The Last watchman of Old Cairo, has won several awards. Michael teaches creative writing at…
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Paul DiMarco
Join Lloyd Russell as he interviews author Paul DiMarco! This interview is filled with fascinating stories and enlightening conversation regarding Paul's book, "As the Twig is Bent" *** 📚 3 WAYS TO SUPPORT LIT WITH LLOYD 📚 1) Become a patron on Patreon: http://lloyd.show/patreon 2) Like,...
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Betty Auchard
Betty Auchard is a Bay Area renowned speaker and author. She has written several memoirs, one of which received an IPPY award! She has authored, Living with Twelve Men: a mother in training, Dancing in my Nightgown: The Rhythms of Widowhood, and The Home for the Friendless You can check out her...
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Martha Conway
Martha Conway is the author of several novels including The Underground River, which was a New York Times Book Editor’s Choice (titled The Floating Theatre in the U.K. and Europe). Her novel Thieving Forest won the North American Book Award for Best Historical Fiction. Martha’s short fiction has...
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Jim Ciardella
Jim Ciardella is an author, storyteller, Ferrari enthusiast, and native Californian. He’s the author of The Dealer: How One California Dealership Fueled the Rise of Ferrari Cars in America, as well as The FLG Story blog, which recounts the history of the legendary Ferrari of Los Gatos dealership....
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Killian McRae
Killian McRae writes across many genres, including science fiction, fantasy, romance, and historical fiction. She once dreamed of being the female Indiana Jones, and to that end she earned a degree in Middle Eastern History from the University of Michigan. However, when she learned that real...
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D.M. Rowell
Like her protagonist Mud, D. M. Rowell comes from a long line of Kiowa Storytellers within a culture that treasures oral traditions. She’s an award-winning and nominated producer/writer on several documentaries, including Vanishing Link: My Spiritual Return to the Kiowa Way, seen on PBS and…
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Lucy Leonelli
Author Lucy Leonelli joins us in the studio today to talk about her book, her writing process, and the inspiration behind it. In her book, A Year in the Life, Lucy writes about twelve months where she lived with battle re-enactors, circus performers, hill baggers, Morris dancers, naturists,...
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Mary Jo Ignoffo
Mary Jo Ignoffo is an author and historian interested in exploring truth as verifiable by evidence, whether the century-long tangle of misinformation about the widow Winchester, or the more intensely serious story of a poor housekeeper who risked her life by speaking truth to the Salvadoran...
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Jack Rasmussen
Jack Rasmussen is author of "Fine Dining: The Secrets Behind the Restaurant" which spotlights the restaurant industry as you have never seen before by focusing on top-tier chefs, local restaurants, and the history of an industry that has revolutionized the way we live today. He is a co-founder of...
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Davina Morgan-Witts
Davina Morgan-Witts, BookBrowse's founder and publisher, is a recognized authority on book clubs and a popular speaker and writer on the topic of book groups in general. She has talked about book clubs at many library, publisher, and bookseller conferences, as well as on the media and private...
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Tim Myers
Tim Myers has been writing mysteries since 1992. He is the New York Times Bestselling and Agatha Award-nominated author of over 75 novels with Penguin/Berkley/Prime Crime, Penguin/NAL/Signet, St Martin's Press/Minotaur, Kensington, and more. Ten of his novels have been IMBA National Bestsellers,...
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Eric Johnson
Eric Johnson is owner of Recycle Bookstore, a San Jose institution since 1967. Lloyd talks to Eric about his journey to being a book store owner and why used book stores are more important now than ever. Check out Recycle Bookstore at http://recyclebookstore.com **3 WAYS TO SUPPORT LIT WITH…
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Barry Eisler
Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position with the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, then worked as a technology lawyer and startup executive in Silicon Valley and Japan, earning his black belt at the Kodokan Judo Institute along the way. Eisler’s award-winning thrillers have been…
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Jeffrey R. Nott
Join Lloyd as he talks to author, speaker, and business coach Jeffrey Nott about his experiences in the business world that drove him to write his book on business management, 1 Week 1 Thing. Learn about Jeffrey at http://www.1week1thing.com. **3 WAYS TO SUPPORT LIT WITH LLOYD** 1) Like…
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Ann Bridges
Silicon Valley author Ann Bridges’ career spanned operations, finance, and marketing executive positions in the exploding convergence of the technology, communications, and entertainment industries. A graduate of Stanford University, her experiences form the foundation of her acclaimed fiction…
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Sheldon Siegel
Sheldon Siegel is the New York Times, USA Today, and Amazon bestselling author of the Mike Daley/Rosie Fernandez series of critically acclaimed courtroom dramas featuring San Francisco criminal defense attorneys Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez. He is also the author of the thriller novel The...
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Marie Sutro
Marie Sutro is an award-winning and bestselling crime fiction author. In 2018, she won the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for the Best New Voice in Fiction, for her debut novel, Dark Associations. Her second novel, Dark Obsessions, was released in April of 2022. Marie's stories are inspired by…
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Suzanne Woods Fisher
Suzanne Woods Fisher is the bestselling, award winning author of fiction and non-fiction books about the Old Order Amish for Revell Books, host of the radio-show-turned-blog Amish Wisdom, a columnist for Christian Post and Cooking & Such magazine. Suzanne can be found online at:...
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Stephen W. Houser
Stephen Houser was educated at Dartmouth College where he won awards for Drama and English, including the Grimes Prize for Poems. He was selected for the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, and won the Keplers Bookstore Crime Fiction Prize for The Wickett Sisters in Hell. He has published poetry and...
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Sam Kabert
Sam Kabert is a successful serial entrepreneur turned spiritual seeker and author. He is on a mission to help spread awareness around positive practices to tackle depression, sitting with discomfort and exploring your shadow for healing, as well as sharing standard tactics to practice mindful...
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Paulette Boudreaux
Paulette Boudreaux, is a Mississippi native living in California. Her debut novel, Mulberry, set in an imaginary town in her native state, is the winner of the Lee Smith Novel Prize, a finalist for the Crook's Corner Book Prize 2017, a Silver Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) for Best...
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Joshua Russell
Children's book author Joshua Russell joins Lloyd to talk about his journey of getting Little Boy Soup published, the special memories with his son that inspired the book, and tells us what it's like being the son of The Book Sage. A very touching episode! Find Josh's book on Amazon at...
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Ellen Kirschman
Dr. Ellen Kirschman, PhD is an author and clinical police and public safety clinical psychologist who has spent her career working with first responder professionals. She's also the author of many non-fiction and fiction works, including her most recent mystery novel, Burying Ben, from her Dot...
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Christina Britton
Christina Britton developed a passion for writing romance novels shortly after buying her first at the tender age of thirteen. Though for several years she put brush instead of pen to paper, she has returned to her first love and is now writing full time. She spends her days dreaming of corsets…
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Trami Nguyen Cron
Author Trami Nguyen Cron is the founder of Chopsticks Alley, a multi-media publication seeking to unite and empower Vietnamese Americans. In her book, VietnamEazy, she tells the story of Kieu, a Vietnamese-American woman and her quest for success on a TV cooking show. The book introduces the...
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Chandra Lee Ingram
A must-list for anyone interested in global politics and human rights! Listen to author Chandra Lee Ingram's true stories of sneaking into hidden factories, remote quarries, and agriculture farms across India to research modern-day slavery for her coming-of-age Azadi novel series. In her series,...
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Meredith Jaeger
How can reading historical fiction help us in today's world? Listen and find out! In this episode, Lloyd chats with USA Today Best-Selling Bay Area Author Meredith Jaeger about why historical fiction is important, their favorite authors, and Meredith's journey of writing her newest historical…
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Mary Pacifico Curtis
Mary writes memoir, poetry and literary criticism, and is an avid photographer. A Chicago native, she is a longtime resident of California's Silicon Valley where she ran an award winning PR and branding firm. Mary's work is anthologized in Havik, The Los Positas Literary Review, The Widow's...
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C. Lee McKenzie
Lloyd sits down with Bay Area author C. Lee McKenzie to discuss her flourishing writing career after retiring from teaching at San Jose State. Lloyd also confesses favorite YA book (hint: she wrote it)! Her book, Double Negative, was named by Ezvid Wiki in their "Top 10 of Stunning YA Books That...
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Jennifer Skully
NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Skully is a lover of contemporary romance, bringing you poignant tales peopled with hilarious characters that will make you laugh and make you cry. Look for Jennifer’s series written with Bella Andre, starting with Breathless in Love, The…
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Kerry Lonsdale
Kerry Lonsdale is the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Amazon Charts & #1 Kindle bestselling author of standalone and series-based emotionally charged domestic drama. Check out Kerry's books on Amazon and find out more at http://kerrylonsdale.com.
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Shelley Adina
Shelley Adina is the author of 24 novels published by Harlequin, Warner, and Hachette, and more than a dozen more published by Moonshell Books, Inc., her own independent press. She writes steampunk and contemporary romance as Shelley Adina; as Charlotte Henry, writes classic Regency romance; and…
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Cara Black
Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 19 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, which is set in Paris. Cara has received multiple nominations for the Anthony and Macavity Awards, a Washington Post Book World Book of the Year citation, the Médaille de…
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Professional book reviewer and blogger Lloyd Russell aka "The Book Sage" explores all things literature with insightful author interviews.
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