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Join award-winning, indie author, Dianne Burckhardt, as she chats with fellow authors and industry insiders around the world about their work, inspirations, greatest challenges, and triumphs. Writing is often the easy part, and the real work begins once the author writes, "The End."
Dianne and her guests shed light on what it takes to be a successful author in today's markets whether as an indie author or traditionally published. Dianne's guests share their insights on their personal journeys to creating a successful writing career. They discuss everything from their writing process, common obstacles in publishing today, marketing, customer engagement, and resources to help create engaging content, and so much more!
Be sure to check out the companion magazine, Book Banter Magazine, available on BurckhardtBooks.com. Wednesdays are better with a little good book banter ... join us for chats that are entertaining, uplifting, and help you find new books to feed your soul!
BIO: Dianne Burckhardt is a podcaster, magazine publisher, and an award-winning designer and western author (writing as Stephen Burckhardt). Her historical fiction series, The Into the West Saga Serial is complete and she is currently writing her medical memoir Free Bad Haircut With Each Craniotomy. Dianne is an American from Wichita, Kansas but currently resides in Germany with her Chilean husband, and their Russian rescue dog (Shaggy). She is also a proud bonus mom to twin adult daughters in Chile.
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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, D.G. McCool Jr. (Del) is a self-professed lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy. He has been a devoted enthusiast of more than just the usual main stream authors of the genre but also branched out into role playing games as well.In his youth, Del took comfort in creating his own worlds in short stories. Eventually these early works would become the groundwork for his first novel, but it would be years before the dream of becoming a...
Join the conversation, text us now. *Trigger warning: mild discussion of sex.*Hello Happy People,Today Dianne shares her chat with the amazing romantic suspense author, Kristie Wolf. Kristie knew from a young age she wanted to be an author. Delving into her mother’s Harlequin Romance book collection as a teenager, Kristie found herself inspired.While it took a while for her to fulfill her dream, Kristie finally achieved her goal in 2023 with the publication of her book, Too Dangerous to Love,...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People,Today Dianne shares her chat with the incredible children's book author, Refe Tuma. Refe (pronounced Reef) not only has a unique name, but he and his wife Susan have built a fun and decidedly unique literary brand for themselves. As the creators of Dinovember and the What the Dinosaurs Did Series, they entertain their followers with their dino-antics while also inspiring families to come together and create their own dino-adventures...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People,Mary Paula Fisher has had an extensive career in healthcare as a registered nurse. While her career was mainly focused on critical care and ICU nursing, Mary also worked with visiting nurses, hospice, and end-of-life care. These experiences led her to broaden her skill set beyond the basic medical training provided through mainstream programs. She was able to explore the benefits of more holistic healing techniques. Mary became an Us...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Dianne is thrilled to bring you another amazing literary fiction author today. Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg may be best known as a bestselling and award-winning author, but she is also proud to add more to her credits, having recently become the steward of a 420-acre regenerative farm in Wisconsin.Her farming venture aside, Jeanne has been working hard for several years to build a solid base for her writing career. Her first boo...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People,Today, before we get on with our interview information, we would be remiss not to acknowledge the events that happened on September 11th, 2001. We send love and prayers to every person affected by this devastating attack on Americans. We will never forget!In this episode, Dianne gets to share her wonderful conversation with David Weill, MD. They had a fantastic discussion about books, medicine, and the best flavor of ice cream. You will n...
Join the conversation, text us now. Trigger Warnings: discussions of nudist lifestyle, sex/sexuality, and losing a child to su!c!de. Bleeped words: Se*ual, su!c!de. (We may be overly cautious but we prefer to err on the side of caution in some episodes to make sure podcast distribution sites do not automatically drop an interview due to certain keywords) Hello Happy People,Jelaine Lombardi has lived a life with which very few can identify. Her list of identifiers include being a w...
Join the conversation, text us now. *Trigger Warnings: Talk of domestic violence and drugs.* Hello Happy People,Today Dianne shares her chat with chef, culinary instructor, and cookbook author, Kausar Ahmed. Kausar has built more than just an impressive culinary career for herself. This Pakistani-born chef has explored many avenues within the food industry. She has been a food stylist, a culinary instructor, the co-creator of her family-owned business KarachiKitchenFoods.com, and the author o...
Join the conversation, text us now. Trigger Warning: bleeped words, m*urder and k!lled.Hello Happy People,Today Dianne gets to share her chat with bestselling author, Sheila Lowe. She has made a very successful career for herself involving the written word, but not how you might think. Long before she published her first book, Sheila was a respected forensic handwriting analyst.Sheila’s interest in handwriting analysis began while she was still in high school. She followed her interests and e...
Join the conversation, text us now. *There is one bleeped word (su!c!de) in this interview*Hello Happy People,If you love a well written story with relatable characters, a little romance, a little magical realism and paranormal encounters that are actually inspired by real star-crossed lovers ... have I got a new author for you! Heidi McIntyre is a self-proclaimed late bloomer. She put off marriage until her mid-forties and didn’t start writing creatively until a few years later. A caree...
Join the conversation, text us now. *Trigger warnings: TRUE CRIME - There are bleeped words due to the topic, forensic investigation: k!ll, de*th, su!c!de, hom!s!de, m*rder, and crimes against ch!ldren*Hello Happy People,Fans of true crime will be hard-pressed to find another author with the credentials, training, and experience as retired Crime Scene Investigator II, Gerardo Bloise. Gerardo's career in 1983 as a police officer in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After graduating from police train...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People,Lina Hart is an acclaimed author known for her captivating young adult sci-fi and dystopian novels and for having amazing timing. Lina just happened to message Dianne Burckhardt the same day the young adult author who had been set for Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt - Book Talk Podcast Summer Reads Suggestions episodes had to drop out. Lina and her debut novel Beyond Power, were a perfect replacement.With a style that blends elements o...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy PeopleToday Dianne get to shares her conversation with the incredible Andrew Najberg. Andrew has built a career deeply embedded in the artistry of the written word. Having spent eighteen years as a teacher for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, he has taught courses in creative writing, rhetoric and composition, and Japanese literature.Since delving into his own writing career, Andrew has dabbled in various genres from poetry to h...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People,If you have been following along this season, you know inclusion and representation has been a big theme for us. It's important for anyone to see people like themselves in books, but it's especially true for children. My guest today brings fun, creative, and empowering images to children with her I Love Me! Colorful and Creative coloring books. When Takiyah Smith began planning her business career, being the author of inspirational ...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People,In this week's episode of Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt, Dianne chats with Darlene Dziomba. Darlene is a cozy mystery writer with two passion projects in her life, writing great cozy mysteries and bringing awareness to the need for pet adoptions and the great work being done at no kill shelters. Darlene has plenty of personal experiences to draw from, due to her own work as a volunteer in a no kill shelter. Her protagonist, Lily Drey...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People,Today Dianne chats with Romanian born children’s book author Andreea Rus. Andreea had a clear career path in mind when she set of for college. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Marketing and followed that up with a Masters in Advertising. Both potentially financially lucrative fields. After graduation, Andreea traveled the world on work and travel visas. She moved around to different states in the United States and ventured for a tim...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People,Recently during J.R. Sanders’ interview with Dianne Burckhardt on her podcast, Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt - Book Talk Podcast, the pair learned they had many things in common, from mutual author friends, to both writing historical fiction, both are trained to work in law enforcement, and they are even both originally from Kansas, having lived in towns that are only an hour apart. J.R. eventually moved away from the MidWest a...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People,Today Dianne brings you her interview with the incredible children's book author and educational platform creator, Sarah Beth Goncarova (writing as S.B. Goncarova). Sarah has not only created a fun collection of books for young readers, she has built an entertainment business around her amazing Adventures with Abba Series. Besides writing the books, Sarah is also the writer/producer of an animated web series and her companion read-al...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People,Dianne is thrilled to share with you her conversation with Chef Ray Sheehan. With the weather warming up and summer officially just around the corner, many people like Dianne and her husband are looking forward to the opportunity to firing up their backyard cookers. While many people stick to the more traditional gas or charcoal grills, there is one Master Barbecuer who has dedicated a cookbook to the merits of cooking with a Big Green Eg...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People,Today Dianne is sharing with all of you her interview with the incredible Theresa Payton. Theresa Payton, an illustrious figure in the domain of technology and cybersecurity, has carved a niche for herself as a pioneering force and the first female White House Chief Information Officer. Currently, at the helm of Fortalice Solutions, a cybersecurity firm she founded in 2014, Payton dedicates her expertise to safeguarding the digital f...
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