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The Good Word Podcast
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The Good Word Podcast is hosted by Nick Galieti, and features substantive and entertaining Interviews with LDS/mormon writers and authors about their lives and their books. We will feature guests that write fiction, non-fiction, biography, doctrine, self-help, sci-fi, fantasy (or speculative fiction) and more. Mormon literature has a home on The Good Word. Follow us on Twitter @GoodWordPodcast.
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Five-time Pearl Award-winning singer/songwriter, April Meservy, has been featured on over 100 albums and compilations released all over the world, as well as in film and commercial work. April’s cover of “With or Without You” is currently being featured in the Short Performance routine of Canadian pair figure skaters, Eric Radford and Meagan Duhamel, in their bid […]
The post April Meservy Interview #LightTheWorld appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
K.A. is the mother of two incredible boys and has been married to her high school sweetheart for nineteen years. Writing and making up stories is something she has enjoyed doing for as long as she can remember. As a child, she spent summers borrowing books from the Book Mobile, and hiding under her bed […]
The post K. A. Parkinson Interview – Episode 3.23 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Treg A. Julander has been an attorney for 20 years. After graduating from George Washington University with highest honors, he began his legal career with a large Washington, D.C. firm. He went on to become a partner at Rutan & Tucker, LLP, a large Southern California law firm, where he specialized in writing appellate briefs. […]
The post Treg Julander – Episode 3.22 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Jason Pruett moved around as a child. He found comfort in picture books and he began to create his own. He entered picture book competitions in elementary school and started sending his work to publishers in high school. After years of art school and drawing, Jason has started illustrating picture books for publishers. You can see his […]
The post Jason Pruett – Episode 3.21 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Charlie Holmberg was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to two parents who sacrificed a great deal to give their very lazy daughter a good education. As a result, Charlie learned to hate uniforms, memorized all English prepositions in alphabetical order, and mastered the art of Reed-Kellogg diagramming a sentence at age seven. She entered […]
The post Charlie Holmberg Interview – Episode 3.20 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Ilima Todd was born and raised on the north shore of Oahu and currently resides in the Rocky Mountains. She never wanted to be a writer even though she loves books and reading. She earned a degree in physics instead. But the characters in her head refused to be ignored, and now she spends her […]
The post Ilima Todd Interview – Episode 3.19 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
A.L. Sowards was born in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up in Moses Lake, Washington. As a child, she wrote self-illustrated storybooks at her grandparent’s house and attended her first writer’s conference when she was in third grade. She was a previous guest on The Good Word, back in our first year of production, almost two […]
The post Amanda Sowards Interview – Episode 3.18 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Kimberley Griffiths Little was born in San Francisco, but now lives in New Mexico with her husband and three sons in a solar adobe home on the banks of the Rio Grande. Her award-winning writing has been praised as “fast-paced and dramatic,” with “characters painted in memorable detail” and “beautifully realized settings.” Kimberley adores anything […]
The post Kimberly Griffiths Little Interview – Episode 3.17 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Amy Harmon is a USA Today and New York Times Bestselling author. Amy knew at an early age that writing was something she wanted to do, and she divided her time between writing songs and stories as she grew. Having grown up in the middle of wheat fields without a television, with only her books […]
The post Amy Harmon Interview – Episode 3.16 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Award-winning author Carla Kelly is a veteran of the New York and international publishing world. Carla is best known for her Regency Romances, those novels of manner and wit, made popular more than two centuries ago by Jane Austen. Carla has made certain types of Regencies her own, particularly novels and stories about people who […]
The post Carla Kelly Interview #2 – Episode 3.15 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Chad P. Conrad grew up in Manhattan Beach, California, and served a mission in Mexico City. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Brigham Young University and a master’s degree from Boston University, both in philosophy. Chad taught philosophy at Brigham Young University for seven years and has taught full time for LDS Seminaries and […]
The post Chad Conrad Interview – Episodes 3.14 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Christine Layton Graham is a writer, editor, and college English instructor living in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her books include When Pioneer Wagons Rumbled West, Three Little Robbers,and Peter Peter Picks a Pumpkin House. She has also had pieces published in the New Era and the Friend. Joan Layton Merrell is a professional calligrapher and fiber artist living in Jefferson […]
The post Olive Tree Sisters Interview – Episode 3.13 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Amy Finnegan writes her own stories because she enjoys falling in love over and over again, and thinks everyone deserves a happy ending. She likes to travel the world—usually to locations where her favorite books take place—and owes her unquenchable thirst for reading to Jane Austen and J.K. Rowling. Her debut novel, NOT IN THE […]
The post Amy Finnegan Interview – Episode 3.12 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Stacy Lynn Carroll is the best-selling contemporary fiction author of The Princess Sisters trilogy. She has also recently published her first children’s book. Stacy started out at Utah State University where she pursued a degree in English, learned how to wester swing, and watched as many of her fellow students become, “True Aggies.” She finished […]
The post Stacy Lynn Carroll Interview – Episode 3.11 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Stephen Valentine received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Utah State University. Stephen loves history, hiking, cooking, reading, and traveling, especially to Disneyland. Stephen resides in Utah with his beautiful wife, talented children, brilliant Schnauzer, and massive J.R.R. Tolkien collection. Click here to purchase a copy of Stephen Valentine’s book, The Lazarus Game.
The post Stephen Valentine Interview – Episode 3.10 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Chris Crowe, a professor of English at Brigham Young University, has published award-winning fiction and nonfiction for teenagers, poetry, essays, books, and many articles for academic and popular magazines. He married his high school sweetheart, Elizabeth, and they are the parents of four children and grandparents of two beautiful granddaughters. They live in Provo, Utah. […]
The post Chris Crowe Interview – Episode 3.9 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Brock Booher grew up on a farm in rural Kentucky, the fourth of ten children, where he learned to work hard, use his imagination, and believe in himself. He left the farm to pursue the friendly skies as a pilot, and currently flies for a major US carrier. A dedicated husband and father of six […]
The post Brock Booher Interview #2: Episode 3.8 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Emily Bates grew up in Northern California, where she spent much of her young life happily closeted away with a book. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in German Linguistics, married a dashing young man from her study abroad in Germany, and now writes novels in English. She currently resides in Washington […]
The post Emily Bates (E.H. Bates) Interview – Episode 3.7 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Visit the official Freetown site to find a local theater. Garrett Batty: Garrett Batty is the Writer and Director of The Sarratov Approach, and his latest film is Freetown. He graduated from BYU and has been a part of the developing LDS Film market in other capacities with his production company, Three Coin Productions. Melissa […]
The post Garrett Batty and Melissa Larson Interview – Episode 3.6 appeared first on The Good Word Podcast.
Randal A. Wright obtained a PhD in Family Studies from Brigham Young University. His dissertation addressed the impact of electronic media (TV, movies, music and he internet) on the attitudes and behaviors of adolescents. He worked with the church educational System for many years as an institute Director and taught in the religion department at BYU. He is the […]
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