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Visit us www.theauthorsporch.com Arnold Montgomery served thirty years in the United States Army and retired with the rank of Colonel. His tours of duty include South Korea, Irag, Germany, Fort Bragg, Washington D.C. and several Army depots. A logistician and engineer by trade, he began writing as soon as he put down roots following his Army career. Arnold and his wife make their home on a small farm in Illinois. Follow Arnold: https://www.facebook.com/arnold.montgomery.3 https://instagram.com/illinoisvet99?utm_source=qr

Visit us at www.theauthorsporch.com Tammy Cohen, has been partnering with top-tier corporate executives and entrepreneurs to develop their personal and professional brands for more than 20 years.    Today, she understands her role as a connector and sees opportunities for women to thrive and grow exponentially, which is why she founded the Women Beyond the Table; a business network with a soul. Tammy added podcaster by launching the Beyond the Table Podcast, leveraging her ability to connect with audiences by sharing her guest’s stories and wisdom.   In her consulting work, Tammy connects her clients to their mission, vision and core values statements and utilizes her networks to develop brands. Tammy is a frequent podcast guest and speaker on topics ranging from branding to leadership   When she is not helping brands stand out or women to thrive, Tammy lives in Manhattan with her husband and 3 sons and owns Eighteen Restaurant on the Upper Eastside.  Text Messages to My Sons is Tammy’s first book where she connects deeply with her family in a world of devices.  It is a must read for anyone looking to build a deeper connection.   Contact:  tammy@tcbrandconsulting.com  https://www.amazon.com/Text-Messages-My-Sons-Connecting/dp/B0CK3QDHT https://www.instagram.com/Textmessagestomysons https://www.facebook.com/Textmessagestomysons https://tcbrandconsulting.com/text-messages-to-my-sons-connecting-de

Join us on The Authors Porch www.theauthorsporch.com Steven Joseph is a first-generation American, the son of a Holocaust Survivor, a masterful attorney, seasoned negotiator, engaging speaker, award-winning author, and a long-distance runner having completed 53 marathons which include five-times at Boston and 18-time at the NYC Marathon. With a sharp sense of humor that has kept him schuckling back and forth at countless synagogues, he’s also spent many years sitting in stillness on a cushion, trying desperately to empty his mind while staring at a blank white wall at the Village Zendo. Despite his extensive life experience, he remains wise enough to acknowledge that he hasn't figured everything out — except, perhaps, for the art of effective crankiness. Steven’s books include The Last Surviving Dinosaur: The TyrantoCrankaTsuris, The Crankatsuris Method: A Grownup Guide to Effective Crankiness, and the "Snoodles" series, which includes Snoodles, Kidoodles, Poodles, and Lots and Lots of Noodles and Snoodles in Space: A Snoodle, The Zoodle Kidoodles, and One Happy Schmoodle. His latest book, Cranky Superpowers: Life Lessons Learned from the Common CrankaTsuris Chronicles, delivers more of his signature wisdom as he continues to explore and celebrate the cranky corners of life. Despite his long partnership with therapists and his time spent as an attorney, Steven remains grounded and approachable with a wit that is as quick as his award-winning blog is insightful. Don’t believe us? See for yourself when you visit Steven Joseph’s website. https://www.stevenjosephauthor.com/

Join us on The Authors Porch at www.theauthorsporch.com P. L. Hampton, an emerging dark fiction author, draws readers into a world of family, ancient artifacts, and the hidden shadows of the past. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Hampton now serves as a college professor while also pursuing his JD, balancing his academic pursuits with his passion for writing. His novel, Shadowland, weaves authentic familial lore with intriguing historical truths. Inspired by real events, this gripping tale centers around the mysterious Yoruba Divination Board, an artifact that spirals Aaron Langford and his family into an inescapable path. Hampton skillfully blends fact and fiction, inviting readers to ponder the origins and workings of this central artifact while immersing them in the Langford family’s unanticipated journey. Before turning to academia and writing, Hampton spent nearly twelve years navigating various sectors of the finance industry, gaining experiences that undoubtedly shape his richly layered narratives. Currently residing in San Diego with his wife, Tonya, he continues to explore the fascinating intersection of history and horror in his works. Discover more about P. L. Hampton's unique storytelling and connect with him on LinkedIn.

Join us on The Authors Porch www.theauthorsporch.com Jonathan N. Pruitt is a lifelong educator, a former scientific researcher, and a provocative fantasy author. Rising from humble beginnings in a rural, economically disadvantaged county in Florida, he skyrocketed to academic success, earning a Ph.D. at the youthful age of 24. Pruitt's journey took him from the concert halls as a child prodigy pianist to the globally recognized halls of esteemed universities, including the University of Pittsburgh, Princeton University, and the University of California, Santa Barbara. However, his trajectory met turbulence with an international scandal in 2020 that questioned the integrity of his research methods. Proving the human animal can make profound changes, Pruitt rose from the ashes of controversy to become a fantasy author. With his debut novel, “The Amber Menhir,” Pruitt delivers biting humor, deep human insights, and a unique scientist's perspective. His life experiences—from living in diverse corners of the world like South Africa, Namibia, Australia, and Canada to navigating the wild landscape of his career—richly inform his narratives. In Pruitt's words, “I can be far more honest in fiction than I could have ever contemplated in nonfiction.” This theme shines within his storytelling, defying reality yet resonating with emotional truth. He makes readers question the differences between good and evil and the murky area between the two. To learn more about Jonathan N. Pruitt's journey and his venture into the realm of fantasy literature, visit his website. https://www.theshadowsofthemonolith.com/

Join us on The Authors Porch www.theauthorsporch.com Kelly Anne Manuel is proof you can flip things upside down and become a prolific children’s book writer. She’s here with an array of positive messages for kids with four captivating book series. There are a total of 31 books—one for each day of the month—in four un-put-downable series. Kelly’s books meet children where they are in their journey. They are about permission and helping children see the world in both an entertaining and inspiring way. Her titles are reversals of familiar phrases, such as “Boots Rain” rather than rain boots. By shifting perspectives, she sees things through a child’s eyes. Her energy is kinetic. Her journey as an author is uncommon, and the way children respond to her and her books is life-changing. https://www.youtube.com/@kellyannemanuel https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/161946041-kelly-manuel

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Ever wondered what it truly takes to impress a literary agent? Join us on this special episode as we unravel the hard-learned truths from the battlefield of book pitches. From understanding the unspoken word count expectations to crafting that irresistible manuscript intro, we've got insights that could elevate your pitch game! 📚✨ 🔍 Sneak Peek: Why meeting your word count isn't just about hitting a number. The big misconception about incomplete novels. What's in a platform, and why is it a game-changer? Thinking of mentioning your self-published book? Think again. The allure of a gripping hook. And many more gold nuggets! Oh, and for those seeking a treasure trove of author resources, do not forget to check out www.theauthorsporch.com - a haven for writers! 🌐 You don’t want to miss these secrets. Whether you're a novice writer or have been in the game for a while, this episode is packed with revelations that will make you rethink and refine your strategy. Tune in and pitch with confidence! 🎉

Welcome to another exciting episode of The Authors Porch, where every great conversation starts. In this episode, we delve into the dynamic landscape of the busy author's world, discussing how to steer your creative ship amidst its many challenges. From finding inspiration in the mundane to embracing the power of plotting, we explore ways to keep your creative fires burning bright. Join us as we discuss the importance of maintaining inspiration, recognizing the triggers that can dim our creative light, and the role of plotting in navigating through the chaotic seas of authorship. We also discuss the art of discovering inspiration in our daily lives, all while fostering resilience and perseverance. Through ups and downs, every author's journey is unique, and staying inspired is the key to writing good and great stories. Whether you're an established author or just starting, this episode will provide invaluable insights and strategies to keep your inspiration alive and your pen moving. So, get comfortable on The Authors Porch, and let's start plotting your course to sustained inspiration!" www.theauthorsporch.com

visit us at www.theauthorsporch.com Tylia L. Flores is a twenty-seven-year-old born with Spastic Cerebral Palsy. Despite her condition that affects her mobility, she does not allow it to affect her will and determination to make a difference in the world. Through her many life challenges and obstacles, she discovered her passion for writing. Tylia's goal in life is to share her stories with the world. In doing so, she hopes to help others with disabilities realize that they, too, have the potential to make their dreams come true. Tylia is not only an author. She's a radio show personality and disability activist. https://tyliaflores.com/

visit us at www.theauthorsporch.com Elizabeth Casanova is from a small border town deep in the South of Texas, where Space X blasts Rockets and people travel for food and music. Brownsville, Texas, is home and where she gets her best ideas. Writing had a passion of Elizabeth’s since she was a small child when she was published in a collaborative poetry book at ten. Inspiration was not in short supply ever since; however, it took her twenty more years before she gained the courage to publish her first solo book. “My Best Friend the Cat” book is my favorite because it means a lot to me as it’s dedicated to my first cat named Spikie. It comforts me as I know he is still with me in spirit. https://www.facebook.com/profile.phpid=100073432954450 https://www.amazon.com/.../Elizabeth.../author/B09HZFMG6L... https://elizabethcasanova01.myportfolio.com/

visit us at www.theauthorsporch.com He almost didn't get to write it. Hunter almost drowned to death at age 19. The incident transformed his life. Also, at that age, he got married and remained with his wife until she died of lung cancer in 2009. Born in Allentown, Pennsylvania as one of six children, Hunter made his mark in computer sciences. He was a software architect for 21 years with Bell Labs and served in the same capacity for 12 years at Motorola. He was a walk-on on the wrestling team at Penn State, but his true passion was numbers. To stretch the dollar, he took a heavy course load and graduated in three years. Hunter then served in the Navy for two years, where he worked to verify computer calculations. He modeled and programmed an airport noise that was a smashing success and was adopted for the US government. He earned a Ph.D. in Math from Northwestern. While working as an assistant professor for three years in the mid-1970s at the University of Kentucky, he wrote six scholarly mathematics papers that are still being read today. He has lived in Washington, DC, and several suburban communities of Chicago. He resides in Forest Park, Illinois. For more information, visit https://www.rthunter.net/.

Visit us: www.theauthorsporch.com Rod Gilley is a writer of Horror, Thriller, and Fantasy stories. His debut novel will be ready for publication by the end of 2024. He is also working on a novella and writes as many short stories as time allows. Rod's published works are "The Writer Within," a short story in the Running Wild Press Anthology 2023, and "The HERO The FEAR and The DATE" via RDG BOOKS. Rod was named one of Fictionary's "Fabulous Five" Nov 2022 for his contributions to the community. Throwing words at the page to see what sticks, he writes each paragraph with no idea what the next paragraph will be. Rod loves when the story takes over and tells his fingers where to go on the keyboard. Rod lives in Northern Kentucky with his wife Cindy and their dog Boo. See more at: https://www.rdgbooks.com/  Find Rod on Twitter: @bratrod64

visit us at www.theauthorsporch.com Walter Stephen Geeding, ever since he ran away from home as a teen-ager to gallivant across North America with his best friend, has always been a curious man of adventure who has lived his life as wildly as the characters in his books. In fact, it is hard to separate Walter from the exploits his characters unveil on thepages of his books. At age 17, Walter was a hippie who traveled all over the nation and Canada in an old convertible. He did odd jobs – YMCA instructor, painted water towers, built homes, photo lab technician – and got himself into all kinds of brushes with the law. He even shot himself – twice – accidentally. Eventually he turned his life around, and at the age of 38, he earned a BA in English from Missouri Southern State University. In 1996 he earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Tulsa. He became a prosecutor for McDonald County, Missouri, for eight years. Then he switched sides and spent 15 years as a defense attorney, owning and operating his law practice that specialized in criminal and civil law. He was a bar president of the 40th Judicial Circuit. He is a born storyteller. For nearly five years he wrote poetry for the Neosho Weekly. His published books include the Endless Times series (Volume One: The Path of Kokopelli; Volume Two: Murphys Diggins); Colony trilogy (Book One: The End; Book Two: Narrations of Nui; Book Three: The Beginning); Even The Mice Get Fat (a collection of Christmas poems); and Pictures of Life; Rhyming Mind Pictures (poetic observations). Walter is a rugged outdoorsman who enjoys hunting, kayaking, fishing, hiking, and archery. He has two children, two step-children, many ex-wives, and 14 grandchildren. For more information, please consult: www.walterstephengeeding.com.

visit us at www.theauthorsporch.com Dan Flanigan holds a Ph.D. in History from Rice University and J.D. from the University of Houston. He taught Jurisprudence at the University of Houston and American Legal History at the University of Virginia. His first published book was his Ph.D. dissertation, The Criminal Law of Slavery and Freedom, 1800-1868. He moved on from academia to serve the civil rights cause as a school desegregation lawyer, followed by a long career as a finance attorney in private law practice. Dan became a name partner in the Polsinelli law firm in Kansas City, created its Financial Services practice, chaired its Real Estate & Financial Services Department for two decades, and established the firm's New York City office and served as its managing partner until October 2022. His legal bio may be viewed at www.polsinelli.com/professionals/dflanigan. Taking a break from the law practice for two years, Dan and his wife, Candy, founded Sierra Tucson, a prominent alcohol and drug treatment center in Tucson, Arizona.In addition to publishing five books since 2019, he has also written stage plays including Secrets (based on the life of Eleanor Marx) and Moondog's Progress (based on the life of Alan Freed). His novella, Dewdrops, was originally written for the stage and enjoyed a full-cast staged reading at the Theatre of the Open Eye in New York. Its director described the play as a "powerful" work about "addiction in America—addiction to drugs, alcohol, sex, danger, power, and to finding 'The Answer,' with characters that are "well drawn, real, and actors love to portray them."Dan has written a feature film screenplay of Mink Eyes and a pilot for a TV series called O'Keefe. He serves on the Board of Directors of Childhood USA, the U.S. arm of the World Childhood Foundation, established by Queen Silvia of Sweden, working to end child sexual abuse and exploitation everywhere. Dan divides his time among Kansas City, New York City, and Los Angeles. The scandals, schemes, and scams of American life, from Wall Street shenanigans to the Mafia, from the 1980s to the present day, provide a rich setting for an exciting new kind of detective novel, The Peter O'Keefe series, that is a blend of literary fiction and crime thriller, written by finance, bankruptcy, and banking lawyer Dan Flanigan. He has had a front-row seat for the past four decades to the mind of the corrupt, the criminal, and the con – and employs his experience and expertise to give his action-packed books a feeling of gritty authenticity. His newest book, On Lonesome Roads, the third installment in the series, is a gripping tale with well-drawn characters, especially when it comes to Detective Peter O'Keefe, a physically scarred and emotionally battered Vietnam vet. This is serious fiction wrapped in the cloak of a hard hitting, exciting detective novel – a story that has it all – terror, murder, addiction, sex, obsession, crime, and doom, yes – but also friendship, fatherhood, integrity, duty, and sacrifice, and love. Flanigan is a veteran practicing lawyer who gives us an insider's real-world view of the formal and informal workings of our legal system and the schemes and scams germinating in the seamy underbelly of our business world. For more information on Dan Flanigan, please visit:https://danflaniganbooks.com/. Check out Dan on social media:https://www.facebook.com/AuthorDanFlaniganhttps://twitter.com/_DanFlanigan

visit us at www.theauthorsporch.com William Sargent is a NOVA consultant, author of 27 books about science and the environment, and a recipient of The Boston Globe's Winship Award. In what he describes as wanderlust in his 20s and 30s, William would jump on oceanographic ships, Russian trawlers, and oil rigs and get paid to see the world. He lives in the Boston, MA area. For more information, please visit https://williamsargent.net/work/.

visit us www.theauthorsporch.com Andrew Howell wrote and illustrated his debut graphic novel, Beyond, a comedic supernatural thriller. His work earned him the 2022 eLit Awards Silver Medal Winner for Graphic Novel/Drawn in the Book Humor Cartoon category. Howell is a storyboard artist who has worked for Pencilmation, a digital animation studio, over the past four years. He is adept at translating written stories and verbal concepts into useful drawings that can dramatically tell a story. While drawing moved from a hobby to a passion to a vocation, Howell has developed online illustrated content for nearly a decade. He has three webcomics that have generated several million views annually. He is active in the graphic arts community, appearing at Edmonton Fan Expo, Panel One Expo, Vancouver Fan Expo, Calgary Comic Con, and Winnipeg Comic Con. He received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Calgary in 2018.He also is the recipient of a Kevin O'Leary "Future Dragons" Award & Grant and the recipient of a Youth Central Grant. His hobbies include gaming, karate, guitar, miniatures, and model-making. Howell was born, raised in, and currently resides in Calgary, Canada.He lived a few early years in Alaska. For more information, visit: www.jollybiscuit.com."I hope people feel a different perspective on life after reading my book," says Howell. "I inject a lot of philosophy and satire into my work. I consider myself an absurdist, which is basically a nihilist with a goofy mustache. My concoctions offer a made-up world so people can be happy and feel free to debate the ideas put forth in my work. I love to engage the reader with humor." "I've always been creating and making art," says Howell. "In elementary school, I doodled in class and did not take notes. Schoolmates weighed in on how I should develop the characters and storylines. I love consuming and sharing stories, and to express myself in a very visual medium is great for getting certain ideas across." Howell was discovered by his employer, Pencilmation, an online cartoon channel after it saw his popular Jolly Biscuit comic drawings. He now has storyboards for cartoons geared to children ages 6-12. Social Media: Twitter - Jolly Biscuit (@MrNubly) / TwitterInstagram - Jolly Johnny (@jollythebiscuit) • Instagram photos and videosFacebook (main Jolly Biscuit page) - Jolly Biscuit | FacebookFacebook (BEYOND! page) - Beyond comic | FacebookWebtoons - Jolly Johnny | WEBTOON (webtoons.com)Tapas - Nubly | Tapas CreatorTumblr - BEYOND! on Tumblr

visit us at www.theauthorsporch.com Claudia Hagadus Long is the author of five prior novels: Josefina's Sin, The Duel for Consuelo, and Chains of Silver (a trilogy of Colonial Mexico, 1690-1753); The Harlot's Pen (women in the labor movement in 1920 San Francisco); and Nine-Tenths of the Law (two sisters, their mother, and a Nazi thief). She is an attorney in Northern California. She lives with her husband and far too many animals. Our Lying Kin: In this follow-up to Long's murder mystery, Nine-Tenths of the Law, Zara and Lilly are back, but their relationship has some cracks. Through the long pandemic isolation, Zara's gone from straight-laced to rigid, while Lilly, true to form, has indulged in some dubious — and not-particularly-legal — adventures. Just as they set out to make peace with each other, a woman calls, claiming a shocking connection to their deceased father. Zara and Lilly turn their considerable sleuthing talents toward unraveling a series of family mysteries...but their quest begins in earnest when they learn that the murderer and thief who nearly killed Lilly has escaped from custody. Filled with humor, sibling rivalry, and love, Zara and Lilly's return is a haunting, quirky, rollicking story of the ravages of the pandemic and the power of family. For more information, please visit https://www.kasvapress.com/product/our-lying-kin/. Connect with Claudia on social media: https://www.facebook.com/ClaudiaHLong/

Visit us at wwwtheauthorsporch.com Jass Aujla is a Canadian South Asian author of suspense-thriller fiction. When she isn't working on one of her twisty novels, she can be found writing poetry & prose on Twitter. Her micro-fiction has appeared in small press publications worldwide. How far would you go for your family? A compelling story of family ties that bend and break—all wrapped up in a riveting, bloody murder."Next Of Twin, the debut novel from Jass Aujla, is a suspense-thriller that has been hailed with rave reviews. In it, two sisters separated at birth reunite in their 30s. Anjali is a successful business owner, married to a lawyer, Riah makes her living as a con artist, envious of her sister's life, Riah attempts to pull one final lucrative con. One wants freedom, while the other wants money. Who will win? www.jassaujla.com