Coffee Conversations With Author Heena Pardeshi

Listen to this one-of-a-kind episode of my podcast, Coffee Conversations with Author Heena, where I talk to Miss Alameda Jessica Jane Robinson, a pageant winner, social worker and environmental activist, about her environmental superhero book Resilience: Birthright.Jessica Jane Robinson aka superhero Resilience attended the University of San Francisco, receiving her BA degree in Performing Arts and Social Justice with a minor in dance. Jessica participated as Miss Alameda in the 2010 and 2011 Miss California USA pageants. As Miss Alameda, she founded the grassroots program, "Miss Alameda Says Compost!" helping the City of Alameda address its Climate Protection Plan adopted in 2008 and helping it reach its diversion goals by 2020. Ms. Robinson has been an Al Gore Climate Leader since August 2012, is in the top 1% out of 10,812 Climate Leaders around the world, and has presented to over 17,130 people (2017). She has served on the Board of Directors for the Northern California Recycling Association since 2013, served as treasurer from 2013-2016, Vice President from 2017-2022, and is currently the President.Resilience: Birthright is different from other comics; it encourages fans to become leaders who actively reduce climate change, pollution, and the depletion of natural resources.These stories are based on real heroes who help restore our planet and address actual environmental challenges through fictional storytelling and characters.BONUS: Author Robinson talks about her schedule of waking up at 5:00 am (sometimes even 4) and shares how she manages to juggle between her work and passion for saving the environment and how she has brought everything together in this series of illustrated environmental graphic novels. You can connect with author Robinson on her Website, Instagram, Twitter or YouTube.You can find her novel Resilience: Birthright here.Support the showFor more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriterYou can find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing service on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this amazing and insightful episode of my podcast, Coffee Conversations with Author Heena, where I talk to author Teri M. Brown about her latest novel, An Enemy Like Me.Born in Athens, Greece as an Air Force brat, Teri M Brown came into this world with an imagination full of stories to tell. She now calls the North Carolina coast home, and the peaceful nature of the sea has been a great source of inspiration for her creativity. Not letting 2020 get the best of her, Teri chose to go on an adventure that changed her outlook on life. She and her husband, Bruce, rode a tandem bicycle across the United States from Astoria, Oregon to Washington DC, successfully raising money for Toys for Tots. She learned she is stronger than she realized and capable of anything she sets her mind to. Teri is a wife, mother, grandmother, and author who loves word games, reading, bumming on the beach, taking photos, singing in the shower, hunting for bargains, ballroom dancing, playing bridge, and mentoring others.BONUS: Author Brown shares her meticulous approach towards researching her novels and writing process, especially for historical novels and her thoughts on why historical novels NEED to be historically accurate. You can connect with author Brown on her Website, Blog, Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.You can find her novel An Enemy Like Me here: Amazon____________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter. fFind out more about me, my books and my developmental editing services on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Support the showFor more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriterYou can find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing service on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this intriguing and extremely insightful episode of my podcast, Coffee Conversations with Author Heena, where I talk to author Randall Moore about his novel, A World without Men.After living for most of his life in Southern California, Randal Moore recently relocated to Boise, Idaho. Fiction has become the mainstay of his current existence, yet he enjoys art, books, movies, music, cooking, wine, baseball, travel and the life of the imagination.Randall has published 15 novels and has 17 more in varying stages of completion! He has written several terse crime novels but that's not all. He has also written speculative fiction and a gender-bending espionage novel.BONUS: Author Moore talks about his vast experience writing across various genres and having published 15 novels and presently working on 17 more! He talks about his writing process, researching for a book and his favourite authors and how putting one sentence in front of the other ultimately gets the work done.You can connect with author Moore on his Website, Blog or FacebookYou can find his novel A World Without Men here: Goodreads and Amazon_______________________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing services on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Support the showFor more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriterYou can find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing service on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this fun and insightful episode of my podcast, Coffee Conversations with Author Heena, where I talk to author Bruce Overby about his debut novel, The Clclone Release.Bruce Overby is a fiction writer with particular interest in issues of loss and belonging, family and relationships, the human condition in a technology-driven world, and addiction. His fiction has appeared in Storyglossia, the Green Mountains Review, the Evening Street Review, and the anthology Home of the Brave: Stories in Uniform from Press53. “Bookmarks,” the story of a brother’s struggle with alcoholism, his love of poetry, and the sometimes disturbing mix of the two, won first prize in the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition. Bruce is a graduate of the MFA in Writing Program at Queens University of Charlotte. He lives in Northern California with his wife Caroline.NOTE: The Cyclone Release, was a finalist in the Blue Moon Novel Competition and is available now from Madville Publishing.BONUS: Author Overby shares his meticulous method of plotting a novel using an MS Excel Spreadsheet and how the workshop that he attended at the beginning of his writing career helped him become a better writer along with many other anecdotes! You can connect with author Overby on his Website, Blog, Instagram or TwitterYou can find his novel The Cyclone Release here: https://www.bruceoverby.com/book__________________________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my dSupport the showFor more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriterYou can find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing service on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this persuasive and insightful episode of my podcast, Coffee Conversations with Author Heena, where I talk to author Bowen Blair about his biography A Force for Nature: Nancy Russell's Fight to Save the Columbia Gorge.Bowen Blair is one of the United States' leading experts at conveying conservation land into public and tribal ownership. As senior vice president at Trust for Public Land (TPL) responsible for land acquisition, Blair oversaw the conveyance into public ownership of approximately two hundred transactions valued at half a billion dollars annually. He started TPL’s Oregon office, managed its Northwest and Midwest regions, and founded TPL’s Tribal and Native Lands Program, which acquired two hundred thousand acres for seventy tribes. Before his two-decade stint at TPL, Blair served as executive director for Friends of the Columbia Gorge where he negotiated and helped lead the lobbying effort to pass, the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Act. After leaving TPL, Blair and current National Park Service director Chuck Sams founded Indian Country Conservancy, America’s only national nonprofit focused on returning conservation land to tribes, to help reverse a century of federal policies dispossessing tribes of their lands. In 2012 and 2016, Oregon governors appointed Blair to two four-year terms on the Columbia River Gorge Commission, where he served as chair and vice-chair for most of his tenure.BONUS: Listen to author Blair explain what exactly was the issue behind the famous Columbia Gorge and how he, along with many other people, led by the wonderful Nancy Russell, were able to successfully preserve this area after a long battle spanning over a decade!You can connect with author Bowen Blair on his Website and InstagramYou can find his novel A Force for Nature: Nancy Russell's Fight to Save the Columbia Gorge here: Oregon State University Press and Amazon__________________________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing services on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Or follow my bookisSupport the showFor more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriterYou can find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing service on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this compelling episode of my podcast, Coffee Conversations with Author Heena, where I talk to author Kirsten Pursell about her latest memoir On Becoming Me: Memoir of an 80’s Teenager.Kirsten Pursell lives in Oceanside, California, currently navigating the waters of an empty nest. In addition to On Becoming Me: Memoir of an 80’s Teenager, she has published two additional novels: Long Enough To Love You, Harvard and Company Clown. Color photos and bonus content for On Becoming Me can be found at www.kirstenpursell.comAuthor Kirsten shares her experience navigating the tricky waters of her teenage years in the golden era - the 80s and how she coped with the things most of us face, in some form or the other.BONUS: Listen to author Kirsten share about her amazing and freeing writing process in which she does not follow any particular process at all! And guess who is amongst author Purcell's favourite authors - K... well, you'll have to listen to this episode to find out though I'll share a hint: she's one of my favourite authors too!) You can connect with author Kirsten Pursell on her Website, Instagram, Facebook & Twitter.You can find her novel On Becoming Me: Memoir of an 80’s Teenager here: AmazonYou can watch her book's trailer here: Book Trailer__________________________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my EDITING & SCRIPTWRITING SERVICES on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud.You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on Twitter.Support the showFor more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriterYou can find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing service on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this exciting episode of my podcast, Coffee Conversations with Author Heena, where I talk to author and poet Umar Siddiqui about his latest poetry collection Weightless Woven Words.In this episode of Coffee Conversations, Author Siddiqui blended poetry which is a fusion of fashion with poetry and how he uses various human transitions of feelings to actions in his poetry collection. He also bravely shares his experience with schizoaffective bipolar disorder that he suffers from and expresses his wish to contribute to spreading awareness about mental health disorders.Umar Siddiqui lives in Riverside, California. He received his BA degree in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of California, Riverside and his MA degree in Mass Communication from California State University, Northridge. He is a voracious Disney fan and fashion aficionado. He also loves writing, reading, alternative music, and working out. BONUS: Listen to author Umar Siddique read one of his poems - If You're Not The One in this episode!You can connect with author Umar Siddiqui on his Website and InstagramYou can find his novel Weightless, Woven Words here: Amazon (.in) and Amazon (.com)__________________________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my EDITING & SCRIPTWRITING SERVICES on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud.You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on TwitterSupport the showFor more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriterYou can find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing service on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this amazing episode of my podcast, Coffee Conversations with Author Heena, where I talk to author Paul Justison, the debut novelist of Lost and Found in the 60s.Author Paul Justison dropped out of high school in 1966 and fled to Haight-Ashbury, spending most of the next two years there and in Marin engaging in all the pleasures and follies that magical time had to offer. After the sixties ended, he went to college, started a career, and raised a family. He has been published in The Rumpus, Fiction on the Web, Flash Fiction Magazine, and The Gambler Mag.  You can connect with author Paul Justison on his Website and InstagramYou can find his novel Lost and Found in the 60s here: Amazon (.in), Amazon (.com), and Google Books__________________________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my EDITING & SCRIPTWRITING SERVICES on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud.You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on TwitterSupport the showFor more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriterYou can find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing service on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this straight-from-the-shoulder episode of my podcast, Coffee Conversations with Author Heena, where I talk to author E.T. McNamara, an accomplished historical romance writer, who has an extremely varied background including being a police supervisor, a criminal investigator, a SWAT team member, a supervising court clerk, and the court official in charge of New York City’s night courts. He has also served as a United States Marine Corps reservist, a district assistant manager for a major insurance company, and a NASDAQ registered representative.Author McNamara began his writing career after retiring from years of serving in the public sector. He attended St. John’s University and Rollins College, attaining his degree in economics and doing post-graduate work in financial management. He enjoys creating a believable story and developing characters with whom his readers can identify. He believes that if the readers feel better after reading the story than before, he will have achieved his objective.His other interests include landscape photography, where he has received national recognition for his work. BONUS: Author McNamara believes that all the positions that he had worked in have provided him with real-life experiences to incorporate into his novels. You can connect with author McNamara on his Website, Amazon and GoodreadsYou can find his historical romance novel Fate's Final Destiny: A Novel of Love, Betrayal, Heroism, and Devotion here: Amazon, Goodreads and The Reading BudAnd his book Puzzle Pieces here: Amazon and Goodreads__________________________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my EDITING SERVICES at my author website: Support the showFor more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriterYou can find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing service on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this candid episode of my podcast where I talk to author Amy Katherine, an accomplished artist and writer, who has spent the last seven years living in Europe. A fine arts graduate from Austin, Texas, Amy has been privileged to use her degree to both produce and teach art. She is a mother to two amazing and rowdy children that sound like ten children when they are parkouring through the living room. Her latest aspiration is to take an afternoon nap, but the dogs keep barking and those kids keep running and she doesn’t want to miss any of it.Join us for this incredible episode to listen to how author Amy suggests finding inspiration from the things surrounding us and being positive and driven, being kind to oneself and being your own advocate aka SUPERMAN, her perspective on how writing rituals affect her daily writing, her AMAZING writing process and so much more!I am sure you’ll definitely find a lot of inspiration not only for writing but also for completing your own WIPs after listening to this enthralling episode. BONUS: Author Amy Katherine shares how she prefers to write with a glass of wine in the evening and edit what she wrote the day before with a cup of coffee in the morning and how this process helped her finish NOT ONE book but THREE BOOKS in just 9 MONTHS!!You can connect with author Amy on Instagram.You can find her contemporary romance novel Holding Superman’s Hand: Under the Bar Lights here: Amazon, Goodreads and Atmosphere Press.__________________________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my editing service at my author website: www.heenarathorep.com or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud.You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on Twitter.Support the showFollow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this delightful episode of my podcast where I talk to author Culley Holderfield, who learned to love stories on the front porch of a cabin in a hollow in Western North Carolina. After completing his studies at UNC-Chapel Hill, he found his way to South America and later to Africa and Europe. When not writing or working in community development finance, author Holderfield spends his time tromping through woods and paddling rivers. Author Culley Holderfield's short stories and poetry have appeared in a variety of publications. Hemlock Hollow, a Southern historical fiction set in a cabin in an Appalachian hollow, is his debut novel. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.Join us on this wonderful episode to listen to author Holderfield's unique take on writing rituals, his impressive process of writing and how he advises writing one page a day to all the new writers in order to complete their books and so much more!I am sure you’ll definitely find a lot of inspiration not only for writing but also for completing your own WIPs. BONUS: Author Culley Holderfield explains what exactly Southern Fiction is and how is it distinct from other American fiction and literature. You can connect with author Culley on Instagram.You can find his book Hemlock Hollow  here: Amazon, Goodreads and Regal House Publishing__________________________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my editing service at my author website: www.heenarathorep.com or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud.You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on Twitter.Support the showFollow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this heartwarming episode of my podcast where I talk to author Peggy Race an ardent dog lover, advocate and rescuer from Southeastern Wisconsin, United States, about how writing her memoirs helped her deal with the loss of her beloved husband and her precious rescue dog, Desiree, a Hurricane Katrina rescue dog from Best Friends Animal Society in Kanab, Utah.Author Peggy also shares how joining a writing workshop and getting her work critiqued and looked at by a professional writer helped her in her own journey providing insights into the writing process of her own heartfelt memoir.Join us on this fantastic, thought-proving and encouraging episode where you’ll definitely find a lot of inspiration not only for writing, and finding a mentor to help you finish your book but also understand the parallel worlds of animal activism that need your support.  BONUS: Find out how writing can help one deal with the loss of a loved one and help heal a mourning heart if not completely but to a great extent. You can connect with author Peggy Race here: Author Website & Facebook and Instagram, You can find all her books here: Author Brown's Amazon PageYou can Desiree, The Music Of my Soul  here: AmazonYou can read my review of Desiree, The Music Of my Soul on The Reading Bud__________________________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my editing service at my author website: www.heenarathorep.com or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud.You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on Twitter.Support the showFollow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this amazing, insightful and exclusive podcast where I talk to the author Teri M. Brown from __ about how writing content and non-fiction helped her set a foundation for her creative non-fiction book, Sunflowers Beneath The Snow. Author Brown is one of those rare writers who write in long bursts of spontaneous creative inspiration. She took me completely by surprise when she revealed that she wrote almost 50K words of her 80K long novel in just 2 weeks.Find out how author Brown. Navigated the tricky waters of writing something she did NOT know about having never been to Ukraine and still having written a story about a woman from the country by thoroughly researching the country proving that one CAN write what they don’t know about too!Join us for this amazing and thought-proving as well as inspiring podcast conversation where you’ll definitely find a lot of amazing writing advice that would help you in the long run.  BONUS: The author also shares insights into how developed countries like America fail to understand the plight that underdeveloped or even developing countries and communist and unruly democratic countries suffer from.  You can connect with author Teri M. Brown here: Author Website & Twitter You can find all her books here: Author Brown's Amazon Page You can read my review of Sun Flowers Beneath The Snow on The Reading Bud as well as watch it on my YouTube Channel.__________________________________________________________________________________________ For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my editing service at my author website: www.heenarathorep.com or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud. You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on Twitter.Support the showFollow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

In this exclusive episode of Coffee Conversations, listen to author Ryan Harper Jones from the UK talk about his latest release A Council Of Ghosts, a coming-of-age complex magical fantasy children's book along the lines of Harry Potter.Author Ryan shares his journey of writing this book over a period of 5 years, and his overall journey as a writer for over 15 years. He also shares his experiences, memories, the not-so-good things (the hard things) and the things that, according to him, make stories interesting and better. You can connect with author Ryan here: Author Website, Facebook, Twitter,  Instagram & LinkedIn You can find all his books here: Author Ryan's Goodreads Page You can read my review of A Council Of Ghosts on The Reading Bud. For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my editing service at my author website: www.heenarathorep.com or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud. You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on Twitter.Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this exclusive podcast where I talk to Guest author Ann-Marie Oomen,  the author of The Lake Michigan Mermaid (coauthored with Linda Nemec Foster), Pulling Down the Barn, House of Fields, An American Map: Essays, Uncoded Woman, and Love, Sex, and 4-H. She has also written seven plays, including the award-winning The Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern. Author Oomen is a poetry and nonfiction instructor at Solstice MFA at Lasell University and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. She and her husband, David Early, live in their handmade house near Traverse City, Michigan, USA. Author Oomen talks about her latest release As Long As I Know You, a memoir about her complicated relationship with her mother, who passed away as she wrote this book and how the author then used writing in order to deal with the grief that followed.Being a Creative Writing teacher, Author Anne-Marie also shares the importance of reading and sentences in the overall scheme of any narrative structure, especially in that of creative non-fiction. BONUS:  You can also listen to us talk about how writing can heal one by helping in the processing of emotions and how when one feels overall there is no need to give but, just to take a step back and re-evaluate. You can connect with author June here: Author Website & Instagram You can find all her books here: Ann-Marie Women's Goodreads Page You can find As Long As I Know You on Amazon, Goodreads & University Of Georgia Press_____________________________________For more, you can follow me (Author Heena Pardeshi, the host) on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my editing service at my author website: www.heenarathorep.com or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud. You can also subscribe to my Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this exclusive podcast as I talk about building resilience and finding meaningful moments in life with Guest author June Rousso, PhD, a licensed psychologist, psychotherapist, and life coach working with children and adults in private practice.Author June shares her personal experiences as a psychotherapist and how she has developed her books that could benefit, teenagers, adults, coaches, consultants and therapists alike. Join us in this beautiful conversation and find out more about her guide that was inspired by the teachings of Dr Viktor Frankl, noted author of Man’s Search for Meaning, and by the research findings on character strengths presented by the VIA Institute on Character.BONUS:  You can also listen to us talk (and judge) people who are constantly on their phones missing out on the meaningful moments in their lives! ;)You can connect with author June here: Author Website & InstagramYou can find all her books here: Author June's Goodreads PageYou can read my review of Building Resilience And Finding Meaning in Life on The Reading Bud.For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my editing service at my author website: www.heenarathorep.com or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud.You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on Twitter.Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Listen to this exclusive podcast where I talk to Massachusetts author Rich  Marcello about his profound & philosophical books, importance of a writing mentor in a writer's life, his journey from becoming a successful author to turning into a creative writing teacher and mentor and his MIND-BLOWING daily writing schedule of 6 hours!A published author and a creative writing teacher, Rich Marcello talks about how he handled negative feedback when he entered the writing industry 20 years ago as a successful businessman and how he learned from the feedbacks and grew into the amazing writer and mentor that he is today, in this podcast episode.You can find him on social media here: Instagram & WebsiteYou can find all his books here: Author Rich's Goodreads PageAnd on social media here: Instagram & WebsiteYou can read my review of author Rich's book on my Book Blog, The Reading Bud, here: Cenotaphs & The LatecomersFor more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me and my books at my author website: www.heenarathorep.com or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud.You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on Twitter.Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Coffee Conversations with Author Heena with Guess Author Manohar GrandhiListen to this exclusive podcast as we talk about insomnia, bad sleeping habits, worry seeds and a worry tree. Author Grandpa shares his personal experience with how he defeated insomnia without resorting for the shortcut methods of sleeping pills and underwent therapy and did meditation that helped him in obtaining and maintaining a natural sleep cycle.A non-fiction writer and an author coach, Manohar Grandhi talks openly about how he wants everyone to learn from his experiences and mistakes.You can find his book, My Sleepless Nights here: Amazon India Kindle & Amazon India You can follow author Manohar Grandhi here: Instagram & WebsiteYou can read my review of My Sleepless Nights on The Reading Bud For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me and my books at my author website: www.heenarathorep.com or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud.You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on Twitter.Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter

Trailer & introduction to Coffee Conversation with Author Heena R. Pardeshi:Hello, guys and welcome to the first season of Coffee Conversations with Author Heena. I am Heena R. Pardeshi aka Crazy Cat Writer, your host and dost, and in this podcast series, I will be bringing you 25  hand-picked authors from around the world whom I will be interviewing.We’ll be talking about a lot of things: books, writing, character building, mental health, animal rescue, managing the day job with writing, processing emotions through writing and of course, the most important question of all, HOW DO THE AUTHORS do it – WRITE BOOKS!So I hope that you guys will enjoy each and every episode of this lovingly curated series in which I casually converse and coarse the authors to give up their secrets.Episodes will be released every Saturday at 6:00 pm (Indian Standard Time.) Please subscribe to my Podcast so that you will be notified every week when a new episode gets released.Thank you all for listening and stay tuned to Coffee Conversations with Author Heena. For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me and my books at my author website: www.heenarathorep.com or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud.You can also subscribe to my YouTube Channel or follow me on Twitter.

Listen to this insightful and detailed episode of my podcast, Coffee Conversations with Author Heena, where I talk to author J. Robert Keating about his historical rags-to-riches biographical book Poteet Victory.Author J. Robert Keating is the author of the upcoming book The American Holocaust and a Rebel Indian.In this episode of Coffee Conversations, Author Keating talks about how he went about documenting the life of Poteet, session after elaborate and insightful session with one of the finest painters in the USA today. He shares his experiences with not only Poteet but also his wife, Terry, who welcomed author Keating lovingly into their home and into their lives, sharing openly about the struggles Poteet had to go through in order to reach where he is today.J. Robert Keating is married with two children and three grandchildren. He grew up in Oklahoma and now lives in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. After years of writing in the cyber-thriller genre, he turned to the challenges of documenting the life of a truly inspiring individual. He says of Poteet and his wife, Terry, “I was very fortunate to have gotten to know them and to have enjoyed their hospitality. As we shared our histories, our thoughts, and our feelings, we became like family. It was an honor and a joy to be allowed into their lives.”BONUS: The author talks about Elvis Presley vising Poteet's mother's driveway and provides insights into Poteet's thoughts on the difference between being an American-Indian and a Native American.You can connect with author J. Robert Keating on his Website and InstagramYou can find his novel Poteet Victory here: Amazon (.in) and Amazon (.com)__________________________________________________________________________________________For more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriter, find out more about me, my books and my EDITING & SCRIPTWRITING SERVICES on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Or follow my bookish journey of reading more than 100 books every year at my Book Blog: The Reading Bud.You can also subscribe to my Support the showFor more, you can follow me on Instagram at @CrazyCatWriterYou can find out more about me, my books and my developmental editing service on my website: www.heenarathorep.com Follow me on: Instagram: @CrazyCatWriter Author Website: www.heenarathorep.com Book Blog: The Reading Bud YouTube Channel: @Crazy Cat Writer Twitter: @CrazyCatWriter Facebook: @CrazyCatWriter