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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!
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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 and award-winning designer and 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, This week we have got something a little different from journalist and author, Randee Dawn. This multi-genre, speculative fiction author has also written for features for such publications as The Los Angeles Times, Variety, and Emmy Magazine, and websites Today.com and GoldDerby.com. These are just a small sampling of where you can find her work. Today, Dianne talks to Randee about her life, inspirations, and her upcoming romantac...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne is thrilled to bring you another wonderful historical fiction author. Being one herself, Dianne loves to find other historical fiction authors who really take historical accuracy and research seriously. Today's guest is most definitely one of those authors. Barb Warner Deane is an award-winning author and a public speaker. She has given numerous presentations on the role of American women in World War II. She is credi...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne is sharing her conversation with Stefany Valentine. The women chat about Stefany's debut YA novel from Penguin Random House, First Love Language. As with many authors who have been on Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt – Book Talk Podcast, from childhood, Stefany dreamt of becoming a New York Times Best-Selling author. Unlike those other authors, Stefany had a unique set of obstacles to overcome. As a Taiwanese adopte...
Join the conversation, text us now. Please note: One line was edited out during Karen's reading from Pharaoh due to censor keywords: s*x and vag!na Hello Happy People, Today, Dianne is sharing another incredible Season 4 Lovefest author with all of you. In this episode, Dianne chats with international bestselling historical fiction author, Karen Essex. Karen has a variety of published works that all focus on the accomplishments of her strong female characters. The woman di...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People! Today Dianne shares her interview with the USA Today and Amazon Bestselling author, Rochelle B. Weinstein. The women had a fantastic discussion covering just about every aspect of Rochelle's professional journey. Rochelle was born and raised in Miami, Florida, but she ended up launching her career on the other coast. After college, she moved to Los Angeles where she worked for the LA Weekly, in their advertising and promotions departmen...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People! Today we kick off two months of author interviews featuring books where love is at the center of the stories. We talked to authors who write tradition romance tropes as well as authors who write more outside of the "romance" box to show that love can play a big part of any story, even mainstream thrillers. So mark your calendars every Wednesday and join us February 5th to March 26th for some amazing romance reads! Today we kick th...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne is sharing with all of you her Best of Season 3 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 safe...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Welcome to our holiday hiatus episodes between our regular podcast seasons. Normally we play "The Best of" shows from the season that is ending, but this year we are bringing you interviews we recorded live at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. This Buchmesse is the world's largest publishing convention and with these interviews we barely scratched the surface of the incredible vendors attending this conference. In today...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Welcome to our holiday hiatus episodes between our regular podcast seasons. Normally we play "The Best of" shows from the season that is ending, but this year we are bringing you interviews we recorded live at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. This Buchmesse is the world's largest publishing convention and with these interviews we barely scratched the surface of the incredible vendors attending this conference. In today...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Welcome to our holiday hiatus between podcast seasons. We usually play "The Best of" shows from the season that is ending, but this year we are bringing you interviews we recorded live at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. This Buchmesse is the world's largest publishing convention and with these interviews we barely scratched the surface of the incredible vendors attending this conference. In today's show you will hear ...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Welcome to our holiday hiatus episodes between our regular podcast seasons. Normally we play "The Best of" shows from the season that is ending, but this year we are bringing you interviews we recorded live at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. This Buchmesse is the world's largest publishing convention and with these interviews we barely scratched the surface of the incredible vendors attending this conference. In today...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Welcome to our holiday hiatus between podcast seasons. We usually play "The Best of" shows from the season that is ending, but this year we are bringing you interviews we recorded live at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. This Buchmesse is the world's largest publishing convention and with these interviews we barely scratched the surface of the incredible vendors attending this conference. In today's show you will hear...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today begins our holiday hiatus between podcast seasons. We usually play "The Best of" shows from the season that is ending but this year we are bringing you interviews we recorded live at the Frankfurter Buchmesse in Frankfurt, Germany. This Buchmesse is the world's largest publishing convention and with these interviews we barely scratched the surface of the incredible vendors attending this conference. In today's show you will hear...
Join the conversation, text us now. Bleeped words: m*rderous, k!lled, d!e Welcome to our season three finale episode with award-winning, New York Times bestselling author, Tosca Lee. Tosca is the bestselling author ofThe Line Between, The Progeny, Firstborn, Iscariot, The Legend of Sheba, Demon: A Memoir, Havah: The Story of Eve, and The Books of Mortals Series with fellow New York Times bestselling author, Ted Dekker. Achieving the title of bestselling author is only one of a long list of ...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Mary Martha Greene is not a cookbook author by profession. It's a passion project inspired by family traditions and a desire to honor the women who created them. It also gives her a change of pace from her day job. Growing up, Mary was heavily influenced by her family. She spent a lot of time by her grandmother’s side when she was in the kitchen. Watching the women in her family, Mary dreamed of doing something creative for her career....
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne shares her chat with Bestselling YA author, Amber Chen. Amber stands out in her career for many reasons, but the most surprising aspect may be her educational background. After graduating from the prestigious Cambridge University, where she earned a BA and MSci in biochemistry, she went on to work in science. However, when you note that Amber also earned a diploma in screenwriting, it’s clear that being a writer was alwa...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, We are thrilled to share with you today Dianne's interview with Wealth Management Specialist, Chad Willardson. To say Chad has an impressive background in finance and publishing does not come close to painting an accurate picture of his achievements. He is the President and Founder of Pacific Capital, five-time bestselling author, long-time Certified Financial Fiduciary, and recently launched his latest book, Wealth Wired Differently.&n...
Join the conversation, text us now. Bleeped words due to some censors: sh00ting up hero!n, prostitute, s*x, s*xuality, g*n Hello Happy People, With recent world events, we are choosing to focus on the thing that make us happy, talking to authors about books. Today Dianne shares her conversation with author Sebastian Dureaux-Russell. Readers of Book Banter Magazine may recognize Sebastian's name and book cover from a previous issue when he was a featured poet in the April/May 2024 iss...
Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today we are thrilled to share Dianne's conversation with Aislinn Brophy (pronounced ASH-lin Bro-fee). Aislinn can best be described as a decidedly creative soul. Besides being a dancer, an actor, and a twice traditionally published author, they have a long list of hobbies including “pawning off their baking on anybody nearby, doing funny voices, and dismantling the patriarchy.” Aislinn takes pride in their passions and makes a pointed...
Join the conversation, text us now. *Trigger Warnings: Discussion of the Holocaust, one phrase ($exu@l a$$ault) bleeped twice* Copy by Britta Franceschi Brian Prousky likes to describe himself as having been two distinct people for most of his life. The first Brian worked a respectable day job and was a husband and father. The second, secret, Brian was a wordsmith, writing books in secret and dreaming of becoming a writer. He has said the only commonalities between the two were the e...
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