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Close Up Radio Spotlights Author, Entrepreneur, and Church Leader Darran Crager
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Nampa, ID - Happily married for 37 years (with bumps along the way), author and spiritual coach Darran L. Crager and his wife Shelly, are working together to teach couples and individuals how to grow a joyful and content marriage that is full of hope.
As an avid storyteller and reader, Darran has always had visions of storylines. About seven years ago, he started putting pen to paper, and soon had a manuscript that a publisher accepted almost immediately. Guarding the Past has helped changed reader lives, “by opening their eyes to lost truths in the world and through spiritual growth.”
Since then, Darran has written six books, publishing five in four years (his next book, Hiding in the Cloud is scheduled to be released in September, 2024).
In Battle in the Bedroom, Darran explains the four stages of intimacy and marriage. Is Your Life Out of Order? offers practical tips and strategies to restore balance and take charge of your life. His action/thrillers fiction books with Christian themes include In a Warrior’s Quiver, Guarding the Past, and Journey of the Hidden.
According to Darran and Shelly, the biggest challenges facing marriages are communication, sex, and money. Sex in marriage is one of the biggest reasons for fights and divorce.
What lies ahead? Darran working on several more thrilling fiction books. He and Shelly are planning a book together focusing on parenting, and they will continue holding marriage and parenting seminars through churches and private/Christian schools.
For more information about Darran or Shelly Crager, please visit https://www.dlcrager.com
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Stephen McQuire
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Thriller mystery and more
fractured power is a dark and psychological thriller about Auden Fletcher a young man who came from humble origins and uses his extraordinary ambition ans devious ingenuity to fulfill his inevitable destiny.
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Voice of Indie Episode 196
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Welcome to Voice of Indie, a production of Fresh Ink Group. Your hosts are Beem Weeks and Stephen Geez. This week we welcome award-winning crime writer Sue Coletta.
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Part 3: Close Up Radio Welcomes Back Author Barry I. Gold
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Oakland, NJ – Barry I. Gold is a retired scientist who studied pharmacology and is passionate regarding the opiate addiction crisis. He now offers his perspective on the growing usage of cannabis (marijuana), with a book proposal titled Hemp, Rope, and Smoke. In addition, he is also the author of two books, We’re Overdosed and the upcoming book Boomer Dad: A Lifetime of Endurance, Resilience, and Disconnection, to be released later in 2024.
“I start the book We’re Overdosed, by discussing the history of opium and where it came from,” explains Barry. “This includes how heroin was invented.”
“I am trying to advance opiate education,” adds Barry.
While Barry has made the painstaking effort to educate others about opiates, he also embraces the challenges of fatherhood at an advanced age, as he is a baby boomer.
“I am the single parent of a fifteen-year-old in addition to two older children, 49 and 47, from a previous marriage,” explains Barry. “I am in the process of writing a book titled Boomer Dad: A Lifetime of Endurance, Resilience, and Disconnection.”
Being the father of a fifteen-year-old son, while having its joys, also has its concerns. Barry cites that 14% of high school freshmen, of which most are the ages between fourteen and fifteen, have already sampled marijuana.
To address the growing usage of marijuana, Barry is in the process of writing a book titled Hemp, Rope, and Smoke.
“Much like opioid addiction, growing marijuana usage is a public health issue,” concludes Barry. “Don’t politicize it!”
For more information, please visit https://www.barrygoldwriter.com/
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Welcome Jayne Ann Krentz
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People in glass houses. Meet Joshua knight who is the main character living in this house of mirrors and you won't believe their powers. Molly comes into his life she's a crystal artist and can't believe she found the Tarnished Knight. Join their journey.
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Voice of Indie Episode 197
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Welcome to Voice of Indie, a production of Fresh Ink Group. Your hosts are Beem Weeks and Stephen Geez. This week we welcome comic book creator Mike Deodato.
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The Kerri Edelman Show Present NYT Bestselling Author Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
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Jennifer Keishin Armstrong's writing takes readers behind the scense of major moment in pop culture history and examines the lasting impact that our favorite TV shows, music, and movies have on our society and psyches. She investigates why pop culture matters deeply, from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Seinfeld, to Sex and the City and Mean Girls, to Beyonce, Taylor, and Barbie. She had written eight books, including the New York Times bestseller Seinfeldia, When Women Invented Television, Sex and The City and Us, and So Fetch. Jennifer began her career in newspapers and spent ten years on stafff at Entertainment Weekly, where she reported from the front lines of Grey's Anatomy, 30 Rock and Lost. Her writing has since appeared in BBC Culture, New York magazine and Billboard. She currently curates and writes the Peabody Finds newsletter. Her own newsletter, Culture Trip, explores the intersections between pop culture, spirituality, and politics. For more information, go to jenniferkarmstrong.com & follow her @JMKArmstrong
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Welcome Ella Ray
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A frienis an engrossing psychological thriller. Shocking and fast paced this -paced this uis riveting the owner of friendshipsnd the deadly weight if lies.
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Voice of Indie Episode 198
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Welcome to Voice of Indie, a production of Fresh Ink Group. Your hosts are Beem Weeks and Stephen Geez. This week we welcome a return visit with children's author B. A. Johnson.
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Gun shot witness
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Imagine someone shooting you without mercy because the killer thinks you are a Martian from outer space and more. Tim Temington came to the authors attention at a memorial service for an engineer turned Bible teacher. Sone journeys atre hard to endure and others require your will to believe in God, know he'll protect you and the family that would risk it all for you. As you take the journey with Timothy and Cindy you will rise up and cheer, cry, feel his pain as he soars each day, finds love in prayer and you will want to meet him as I do
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Voice of Indie Episode 199
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Welcome to Voice of Indie, a production of Fresh Ink Group. Your hosts are Beem Weeks and Stephen Geez. This week we welcome authors and first ladies Abbiegail H. Hugine and Mary L. Smalls.