Apricity Publishing

Introducing Apricity Publishing, the publishing arm of Blue 2 Media. Apricity Publishing has worked with numerous authors to create, illustrate, publish, and market their works. the Apricity Publishing podcast features authors we've worked with, authors we are inspired by, and so many others in the publishing realm to talk about their stories.

Episodes

Circles of Collaboration Series: Dr. Ina Gjikondi on Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Power of a Question

September 9, 2025 • 6 mins

In our conversation with Dr. Ina Gjikondi, she reflects on the question Christine Merser asks every woman at the end of a Circles of Collaboration interview: if you could share a meal with anyone, living or dead, who would it be? Her answer is Barbara Marx Hubbard, a futurist who once challenged President Eisenhower during the nuclear era with a question that feels just as urgent today. Dr. Gjikondi imagines how Hubbard’s perspecti...

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Circles of Collaboration Series: Building Trust in Intuition: Lessons for Life and Work with Dr. Ina Gjikondi

September 9, 2025 • 19 mins

Christine Merser invites Dr. Ina Gjikondi to expand on an article she wrote about intuition. Ina recalls a moment at the airport when she thought she had lost her ID and stress began to take over. And where was it? In her wallet all along. By pausing, trusting her instincts, and listening to a simple cue from a stranger, a kind of unexpected collaborator, she discovered it was with her. For Ina, this was not luck but intuition in a...

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Circles of Collaboration Series: Ecocentrism and Collaboration

August 26, 2025 • 19 mins

As we launch Circles of Collaboration from Apricity Publishing, our guest, Dr. Ina Gjikondi, introduces the concept of ecocentrism, the belief that nature itself holds agency and that all beings and elements, human and non-human, exist together in a delicate balance. In other words, we are collaborators with the earth itself. That perspective changes everything. Instead of treating nature as a backdrop, ecocentrism asks us to reco...

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Great Authors Series: Talking Writing & Multitasking with Author Kathy Aspden

August 26, 2025 • 24 mins

Our head of Publishing Christine Merser, chats with author and Apricity Publishing client Kathy Aspden about her irritating ability to get more done in a day than anyone Christine has ever encountered. She walks through how she does it. It’s a fun and interesting discussion about habits and to-do lists. (Did you know you shouldn’t make a to-do list?) And Kathy would recommend multitasking while you listen. Get more from Kathy Aspd...

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Great Authors Series: The Tragic Story Behind Ethel Rosenberg with Author Anne Sebba

August 26, 2025 • 47 mins

Ethel Rosenberg. Not guilty. A victim of a patriarchal U.S. government plan (remember Hoover?) to get her husband to confess by putting her on trial. A bad plan gone worse—the destruction of her reputation and motherhood was a deliberate strategy. Do not miss this new take on the Rosenbergs and what really happened. Anne Sebba, a New York Times bestselling author of eleven biographies, is mesmerizing as she tells the backstory of t...

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Great Authors Series: A Fascinating Account of Taking a Book to the Big Screen, old Hollywood Tales & More with author Warren Adler

August 26, 2025 • 53 mins

Join Christine Merser as she shares her one-on-one interview with the legendary literary figure Warren Adler—the man who named the Watergate complex in D.C. Though he didn’t publish his first book until he was 46, Warren Adler has gone on to pen over 50 novels, 12 of which have been optioned by Hollywood, including The War of the Roses, starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito, and Random Hearts, starring Harris...

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Great Authors Series: The Story of Wallis Simpson & Other Extraordinary Women in History with author Anne Sebba

August 26, 2025 • 48 mins

Anne Sebba, extraordinary New York Times bestselling author, talks about the women she has chosen to write about. From Ethel Rosenberg to That Woman, the Duchess of Windsor, to Mother Teresa—they all have something in common. She sheds light on her writing process, her next book about the women’s orchestra at Auschwitz, and life after loss. Decades of enlightening writing from a woman who has so much to teach us all, on and off the...

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Circles of Collaboration Series: How to Do the Ask with Patrice Tanaka

August 26, 2025 • 38 mins

With the upcoming launch of Apricity Publishing's Circles of Collaboration by Christine Merser and Leslie Grossman, PR powerhouse Patrice Tanaka of Joyful Planet joins Christine for a conversation. Their focus? Two pivotal chapters: Do the Ask and Quid Pro Quo. Do the AskAsking for what you need isn’t easy for everyone—but Patrice? She’s mastered it since childhood. Hear how she approaches the ask with confidence and ensures she...

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Episodes

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Circles of Collaboration Series: Ecocentrism and Collaboration

Great Authors Series: Talking Writing & Multitasking with Author Kathy Aspden

Great Authors Series: The Tragic Story Behind Ethel Rosenberg with Author Anne Sebba

Great Authors Series: A Fascinating Account of Taking a Book to the Big Screen, old Hollywood Tales & More with author Warren Adler

Great Authors Series: The Story of Wallis Simpson & Other Extraordinary Women in History with author Anne Sebba

Circles of Collaboration Series: How to Do the Ask with ​Patrice Tanaka

Popular Podcasts

Circles of Collaboration Series: Dr. Ina Gjikondi on Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Power of a Question

Circles of Collaboration Series: Building Trust in Intuition: Lessons for Life and Work with Dr. Ina Gjikondi

Circles of Collaboration Series: How to Do the Ask with Patrice Tanaka