Authors on Fire

Authors on Fire

Speak Up Talk Radio is home to the Firebird Book Awards, author interviews, audiobook production, the PC PodCast Awards, and podcast production - services with a charitable twist!

Episodes

The Mind of a Horse Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

April 30, 2025 • 30 mins
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David Dummer Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

April 30, 2025 • 28 mins
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Larry Freeland Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

April 24, 2025 • 31 mins
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Billy Peterson Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

April 22, 2025 • 38 mins
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Donna M. Young Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

April 22, 2025 • 31 mins
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Maureen Metcalf Positive Change Podcast Award Winner Interview

April 17, 2025 • 30 mins
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Debbie Berlin Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

March 19, 2025 • 28 mins
  D.R. Berlin is an award-winning author, U.S. Army veteran, and General Surgeon with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Writing minor from MIT. A graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, her career in high-pressure environments fuels the pulse-pounding suspense and authentic detail in The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor....
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John O'Brien Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

March 19, 2025 • 32 mins
With over three decades of experience, John O’Brien is a seasoned expert in guiding individuals through significant life transitions by offering practical and ac­tionable strategies to navigate change with ease. He is a licensed psychologist in private practice specializing in grief, trauma, and addiction. He has offered numerous trainings to professional associations and businesses throughout...
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Ana Hebra Flaster Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

March 14, 2025 • 33 mins
Hi. I’m Ana. I was five when my family emigrated from Cuba to the U.S. in 1967. Ever since, I’ve been striving to honor my family’s story and Cuban American culture through storytelling. Currently, I’m at work on Radio Bemba, a full-length memoir about my family’s experience. In the past, my commentary has been featured in The...
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Pearl and Shell Riter Authors On Fire Author Interview – KINGDOMS IN THE SHADOWS

March 2, 2025 • 22 mins
    Pearl Riter and Shell Riter were in 5th and 8th grade when the book was published in Jan 2024 and have burst on the literary scene with their debut novel, “Kingdoms in the Shadows: A Tale of Mystery, War, and Betrayal.” Their aim is to kindle the imaginations of readers by weaving tales...
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Muffy Walker Authors On Fire Interview

February 18, 2025 • 24 mins
    Hi, I’m Muffy Walker, an author with a passion for crafting compelling fiction that educates and inspires. Through my stories, I aim to shed light on important topics, sparking meaningful conversations and fostering greater understanding. My journey to becoming an author has been shaped by a rich background in mental health advocacy. As...
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Alia Luria Authors on Fire Interview

February 18, 2025 • 34 mins
  I am an award-winning author born in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in Tampa, Florida. I attended Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa and was a voracious reader from the time I was little, graduating quickly from books like The Phantom Tollbooth to authors such as Stephen King. I began writing young, including poetry and...
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Leoni Rosenstiel Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

February 13, 2025 • 30 mins
  Jack Canfield, the co-creator of the Chicken Soup  for the Soul books, calls Léonie Rosenstiel a cultural whistleblower. Léonie started out as an award-winning classical musician. She graduated from Barnard College, then from the Ph.D. program at Columbia University. Later she also earned degrees in counselling ministry (The New Seminary), Oriental medicine (Tri-State College), and public health (Walden University). ...
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Jared Hayes Author On Fire Interview

February 4, 2025 • 27 mins
  Thomas “Jared” Hayes graduated from the University of Ottawa with an MA in History. He currently lives in the Ottawa Valley and works in the Records and Information Management field. Since publishing his first book, “From Mill to Museum” in 2021, Jared has been working on a second book about Anglican Bishop John Strachan...
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Annelies George Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

January 20, 2025 • 30 mins
Author, blogger, senior model, financial executive and initiator of Loveable Light Born in Bussum, the Netherlands, I began writing in my youth. During the summer holidays I wrote short stories with my sister, Marianne. I began writing in earnest at a later age. Concerned about the current situation in this world, I started to write...
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Patricia Leavy Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

December 17, 2024 • 33 mins
  Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, arts advocate, and internationally recognized leader in research design and arts-based research. She is widely considered the world’s most visible proponent of arts-based research as a means of making research publicly accessible. Moreover, she coined the terms “social fiction” and “fiction-based research” and has been pioneering...
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Karen Bonofiglio Authors on Fire Interview

December 15, 2024 • 33 mins
In 2020, my life as I knew it changed forever. Prior to this year, I had been my parent’s caregiver for nine years and helped them draw their last breaths. In 2019, my father passed at 95. One year later, my 90-year-old mother died, one day short of my father’s death date. They had lived...
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John Russell Authors On Fire Interview

December 4, 2024 • 28 mins
  John Russell has been a professional psychic for 50 years. He is a Psychic/Psychic Reader, a Medium, a Certified T.A.R.O.T. Master, a Paranormal Investigator, and now a published Author. Internationally known, he has provided psychic readings for clients in over 40 countries. For over 15 years he has been a popular featured guest, heard...
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Farial English Author Interview

November 14, 2024 • 21 mins
Farial English lives in a small rural community with her husband and two dogs. Several years ago, they moved from their home in a Chicago suburb to an old farm in upstate New York. Surrounded by woods and fallow fields, their dogs run free and Farial spends most of her time outdoors, planting and tending...
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R.G. de Rouen Firebird Book Award Winner Author Interview

October 30, 2024 • 31 mins
R.G. de Rouen is a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature in Connecticut and writes fiction that inspires a love of reading with a pinch of humor along the way. Throughout his 25+ years as an elementary teacher throughout the world, he has also been an advocate of animal and nature protection which he...
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