Before Bedtime  

Jeanna is a health, fitness, and motivational coach. Jeanna is the perfect guest for the beginning of 2010. Her insight, experience, and training will help all of us fully realize how to reach our maximum potential here in the new year. If one of your New Year's goals was to improve your situation in 2010, I want to encourage you this is the interview for you. Jeanna kicks off at 10 and I'll be reading some of recent work for you all at 10:20.

It is my special pleasure to introduce this week's fantastic guest on Before Bedtime, Christa Ocker! Here's a little information about our special guest Christa Ocker: Christa Holder Ocker is a #1 Best Selling contributing author for Chicken Soup for The Soul. Her stories have been featured in Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul, Pre-teen Soul, Unsinkable Soul and Sister’s Soul. She began to write short stories after years of domestic doldrums. Her story, “Merry Christmas, My friend,” translated in many languages, was adapted for TV and starred Mickey Rooney. She loves writing, sailing, skiing, and frolicking with her 10 incredible grandchildren. Christa's newest book Auf Wiedershen is a fantastic look at World War II, and I guarentee every listener will learn and be inspired. Here's just a little teaser for Christa's book. the reader sees the brutality of WWll through a child’s eyes. As neighboring towns burned to the ground, Christa and her family fled their German home on the outskirts of Gorlitz, leaving all that they cherished. They set off penniless to find a new life prior to the end of the war in 1945. Living in one room, surviving on bread and potatoes, you see the joy a 7 year old can discover amidst the rubble and fear. Mutti, Christa’s proud, hardworking mother refers to Hitler as a madman and is determined to save her two daughters. Her eldest daughter Rosel has Tuberculosis and Chista, the daughter she affectionately calls “holes in her stomach” is the youngest. Christa Ocker 10 PM EST. The number for questions is 347-996-5749.

We only have one guest this week on Before Bedtime, but he is certainly not going to disappoint! It is with great pleasure I introduce a fantastic crime writer, Ernie Patino! Here is just a little teaser for his intense, powerful novel Web of Secrets: Ernesto Patino holds the perfect credentials to author a mystery novel set in south Florida. For over twenty years, he worked as a Special Agent for the FBI and then as a Private Investigator. In Web of Secrets, Patino’s protagonist, Joe Coopersmith, shares a similar background, though Coopersmith, a retired FBI investigative assistant, now specializes in finding missing persons. Published by L&L Dreamspell, Web of Secrets is Patino’s second novel and his first featuring private-eye, Joe Coopersmith. Patino’s story opens with a fast paced action scene set in 1965 in a two-room shack located at the edge of the Everglades, just west of Miami. It then jumps forward three decades to Sarah Baker receiving a phone call from a blackmailer, who claims to know the circumstances of her illegal adoption thirty years ago. Sarah hires Coopersmith to help uncover the mystery of her birth mother. The case soon becomes more deadly than Coopersmith anticipated. Among the characters entering the fray are a talk radio show host on the brink of making it big; a Miami Beach socialite with a mobster-type husband; a computer expert about to be released from jail; and an elderly homeless man known as The Preacher. Their lives overlap in unexpected ways, and create a web from which Joe Coopersmith must untangle the truth. Patino infuses his story with moral dilemmas. Each character must make a choice that will greatly affect the path they tread. Is it worth pursuing the truth about the past if it means jeopardizing your relationships in the present? If you needed money to care for your sick spouse, the only woman you have loved for the past fifty years, how far would you go? The answers are woven in the Web of Secrets.

Collette McLafferty leads us off at 10 PM. Collette is a powerful, inspirational musician who brings us a wealth of array of knowledge of the music industry, recording studios, and her powerful ballad "Hey Ya" is a huge hit on Youtube. Her band edibleRed is one that'll dazzle your ears, inspire your heart, and make you stand up cheering for more. Collette leads off at 10 PM. TP Jones will be with us again this week. His book, Jackson, is a great, fascinating book. Here is a little info. on the book: Jackson is a fictionalized Iowa town facing a crisis: the meatpacking plant that employs many townspeople and keeps Jackson going is shutting down. Inspired by the real town of Dubuque, Iowa, the story is told from varying viewpoints of Jackson’s hardworking citizens as they cope with change. It is a collection of one town’s thoughts about losing its major business, while wondering what the future holds. To research material for this book, Jones completely submerged himself into the culture of Dubuque for two years, lending him an interesting creative process and point of view. Collette bats lead off at 10 PM. TP takes us home at 10:22 PM. You don't want to miss this.

It is with great pleasure that I introduce to fantastic guests on this week's episode of Before Bedtime, Joe Vigliano and TP Jones. Joe Vigliano will interview with us first at 10 PM EST. Joe is going to be sharing with us about his new book, Ever Surrender, an intense suspenseful, mystery. This well told tale provides unforgettable characters, exciting plot twists, page turning suspenseful, moments full of laughter, and the reader may even shed a tear or two. Joe will tell us what all writers need to know to make an impact in both their community and the written word. TP Jones bats second for us at 10:22 PM EST. TP has written a fascinating fictional called Jackson detailing the meat packing plant which continues to shut down in the fictional town of Jackson, Iowa. This story parallels the real life situation of Dubque, Iowa. Jones' research, passion, and enthusiasm to tell this story make Jackson a must read and Jones an interview you most certainly don't want to miss. To recap we have Joe at 10 and TP at 10:22.

It is with my deepest pleasure that I introduce two fantastic authors for our show this week on Before Bedtime. Dallas Woodburn leads us off at 10 PM EST. She is the author of two fantastic short story collections, a spectacular new novel which she is going to tell us all about, and more than 80 articles published in the LA Times, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Family Circle, and the Writer's Digest just to name a few of her literary credentials. Ms. Woodburn will provide an enthusiastic and exciting to the world of writing and publishing. All my writers out there, you don't want to miss this interview. Stanley Ely bats second for us at 10:22 PM EST. Stanley is the author of a very creative book, Living Alone Creatively. Stanley's book highlights the exciting and purposeful lives that single people can and do live. His approach and desire to share his wisdom and guidance to people of all walks of life, surely make this one interview that you most certainly do not want to miss. Dallas starts us off strong at 10 PM EST and Stanley brings us home at 10:22 PM EST.