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Jamie Saloff Listen to Jamie Saloff on Johnny Tan's Weekly Radio Show!

Mothers of every type and kind are honored on Johnny Tan's weekly Blogtalk Radio show, based on his book, "From My Mama's Kitchen: Food for the Soul, Recipes for Living." This week's featured guest, Rev. Jamie Saloff, author of "Transformational Healing," spoke on The Balancing Act of Motherly Love and Career. Saloff, who also owns and operates the Polka Dot Banner website for authors, spoke on how her mother's in-home business influenced her to start her own, which initially afforded Saloff the luxury of being able to be a stay-at-home, homeschooling mom.

Later, as a book designer and self-publishing expert, Saloff has carefully guided countless authors through the profit and pitfalls of Print on Demand publishing. Also discussed were Saloff's former work with a children's writing center, where she headed a 100-volunteer program that produced over 1000 kid-written books annually; and her long-time volunteer work with Pennwriters, a national writers organization based in Pennsylvania that promotes craft, education, networking, and marketing for writers of all-genres.

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Michael Druxman
Michael B. Druxman
is a veteran Hollywood screenwriter whose credits include Cheyenne Warrior with Kelly Preston; Dillinger and Capone starring Martin Sheen andF. Murray Abraham; and The Doorway with Roy Scheider, which he also directed. He is also a prolific playwright, his one-person play, Jolson, having had numerous productions around the country. Other produced stage credits include one-person plays about Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Spencer Tracy and Orson Welles.

Once Upon a Timr in HollywoodAdditionally, Mr. Druxman is the author of twelve other published books, including several nonfiction works about Hollywood, its movies, and the people who make them (e.g., Basil Rathbone: His Life and His Films, Make It Again, Sam: A Survey of Movie Remakes, One Good Film Deserves Another: A Survey of Movie Sequels, Merv (Griffin) and The Musical: From Broadway to Hollywood). He has written two novels, Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake and Shadow Watcher, plus Family Secret, a non-fiction book co-authored with Warren Hull, which reveals the true facts behind the 1947 murder of mobster “Bugsy” Siegel in Beverly Hills.

"Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: From the Secret Files of Harry Pennypacker" is a revisionist history of Hollywood's Golden Era and the tabloid press that covered it. Harry Pennypacker was a prolific and revered newspaper columnist; a colleague of Louella Parsons, Walter Winchell, and the other great columnists of the day. Unfortunately, nobody has ever heard of him because the papers never ran his articles. They were too hot. Too dangerous. Too likely to tarnish the delicate image of silver screen icons. The newspaper syndicate couldn't fire him because he had an ironclad contract, so Pennypacker wrote his stories ... and the editors buried them. Until now. The secret files of Harry Pennypacker are secret no longer.

Topics of conversation:

  • Breaking into Hollywood, and the secrets to longevity in the industry
  • Who was Harry Pennypacker?
  • Today's Hollywood vs. The Golden Era of Film
  • Several classic Druxman stories, including how he met Elvis
  • Heros, mentors, and how to be an effective storyteller

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Authors Access is a joint project of Loving Healing Press and Reader Views. Each week we bring insightful interviews from people around the world who can help you get your work published, and if already published, noticed! The forum is geared for writers, both published and unpublished. Your hosts are Victor R. Volkman, owner/publisher of Loving Healing Press and Irene Watson, Managing Editor of Reader Views. See the lineup for future presentations and listen to previous podcasts.

Tweed ScottOn June 21st, 2009  Irene Watson and Victor R. Volkman spoke with professional speaker, humorist, and author Tweed Scott about how to profitably combine speaking and sales events. Tweed is an award winning speaker and the author of the 3-time national award-winning book, Texas In Her Own Words.  He has sold nearly 5,000 copies of his book almost exclusively by hand selling in the back of the room after one of his presentations. He’s here to share with you how he does it and how you can do it too. Tweed shared about what went into developing his marketing plan that led to the back of the room sales and a speaking career.  Key points include

  • A system for selling in the back of the room
  • Three ideas that will lead to moving more products in the back of the room
  • How this approach changes your business model
  • How to promote and grow your speaking business

Tweed Scott is the owner of Tejas Communications, a writing and public speaking company.  His book is sold at some remarkable places including the Alamo, The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, both of the State capitol building gift shops, San Jacinto Monument & Battleground, the Sam Houston Statue & Park in Huntsville and even at the general store in Luckenbach.He is also the president of the board of the Writers’ League of Texas. He speaks statewide about Texas and the Texan character. Tweed loves spreading what he calls the ‘Gospel of Texas.’ He speaks nationally on Attitude, Leadership and Change.

Listen to Tweed Scott: Turn Your Book into a Speaking Career & Sell Your Book at the Back of the Room

Next show: Authors Access will interview Dan Oja - Digital Publishing: Beyond the Printed Page

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Dana Lynn SmithAuthor Jack Eadon’s rich and diverse life has inspired his American Drama Series: his sixties memoir focusing on his rock band in Chicago; a novel of mystical revenge set in a corporation in Texas; the story of getting over loss in his life at a new advertising photography studio in southern California; studying his wife deal with a male-dominated corporation, also in California; a novel about how karma affects a young couple, set in Wisconsin; a novel about a copywriter's email relationship with an abused Asian woman, and a neighborhood mystery surrounding a mysterious hit-and-run death in a burgeoning community in Kansas.

Jack Eadon is sponsoring the Jack Eadon Award for the Best Book in Contemporary Drama in the Reader Views Literary Awards. To win, the characters must be vividly portrayed as those individuals who can exist side-by-side with someone living in this world now, dealing with issues of today in a dramatic fashion. The setting must be excruciatingly real.

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