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Living The Next Chapter: Inspiring Conversations with Amazing Authors and Writers – Better Questions, Better Conversations, Better Connections

Are you an avid reader or an aspiring writer seeking inspiration to embark on your own literary journey? Look no further! Welcome to “Living The Next Chapter,” the podcast that celebrates the world of books and writing. Join us as we connect you with captivating authors who have mastered the art of storytelling.

Living The Next Chapter is more than just a podcast. It is a platform built for meaningful conversations, authentic storytelling, and real connection within the literary world. Each episode highlights inspiring authors who openly share their journeys, including the struggles they have overcome, the triumphs they have achieved, and the lessons they have learned along the way.

This is a space where better questions lead to better conversations, and ultimately, stronger connections. Whether you are an experienced author or continuing to grow your voice, this platform offers a unique opportunity to expand your reach, elevate your message, and connect with a global audience that is passionate about books and writing.

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E323 - Catherine Kennedy - Working with a freelance publicist to build your successful brand Feb 07, 2024

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Episode 323 - Catherine Kennedy - Working with a freelance publicist to build your successful brand
Catherine Kennedy is a public relations professional with more than 16 years of experience planning, managing, and executing successful national and local media campaigns. She started her full-time public relations career at Wiley publishing house, moved onto a position at a boutique PR agency, and then became a freelance publicist helping authors and experts build a successful brand for themselves. She created CK Publicity to continue her work promoting authors and launching books. Kennedy graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a degree in communications.
CK Publicity helps writers build their author platforms and execute successful book launches. We support our author clients through every step of the book promotion process, from book blurbs and Amazon reviews to media interviews and book signing events. The most effective publicity plan starts months before a book’s publication date, so please feel free to reach out even if you are just finishing up your first draft.
The earlier we start, the more buzz we can build for you!
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E322 - Debbie Weiss - Available As Is - widowhood, dating at midlife Feb 05, 2024

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Episode 322 - Debbie Weiss - Available As Is - widowhood, dating at midlife
I turned to writing after George, my partner of 32 years, died of cancer in April 2013, and I found myself living alone for the first time at age 50.

I needed to know I still existed after a year of being his caregiver, watching him disintegrate, feeling deep in my bones that somehow I was failing him. He was in denial so he thought he was going to recover even as his body abandoned him.

I couldn’t fix his illness, not could I jolt him into reality, nor get him to agree to palliative care, nor to involve his parents who were going to lose their only child. I thought I was crawling out of my skin. Through grief therapy, I found out I had post-traumatic stress disorder.

Over the next few years, I sort of got better, in dribs and drabs, but the loneliness enveloped me. For 32 years, George and I had eaten dinner together almost every night, then curled up in bed to wake up beside each other each morning. I still wonder, where does all that love go? Is it transmuted into protective energy or is it just gone?

I was a practicing attorney for over ten years which lends my writing an acrid tone of bitterness and irony. In an effort to work on that, I also earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from Saint Mary’s College of California in May of 2020.

My essays have been published in The New York Times’ “Modern Love” column, HuffPost, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Elle Decor, and Reader’s Digest, among other publications. My award-winning blog, debbieweissauthor.com dispenses empathy and advice on grief and dating after loss.

Book: Available As Is - After losing her husband, George—her one and only since high school prom—to cancer, fifty-year-old Debbie Weiss found herself opening a new chapter of life that she didn’t know how to start.

Initially, she binge-watched Netflix and drank Manhattans. Then she became a dating monster—starting with J-Date and then moving on to multiple other sites. Soon, Debbie was averaging two dates a day; in the blink of an eye, she’d gone from respectable widow to the girl you’d do in your Trans Am but wouldn’t take to the prom. At one point, she was actually dating four guys at once, including a politician who refused to let Debbie meet his family because they’d met online. But as she juggled these many men, she began to feel that midlife dating was less an earnest romantic endeavor and more a battle of the sexes . . . and the line in the sand was how much women were willing to tolerate.

Fed up, Debbie went offline. Only then, without the distraction of dating to keep her busy, did she finally, truly grieve her loss—and as she did, she also realized that she needed to forgive herself, both for George’s death and for losing her identity in their marriage. Equal parts poignant and punchy, Available As Is is a darkly humorous account of seeking love—but finding yourself

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E321 - Justin Glaser - We turn up the heat with Justin's new book - Sweat, Uncovering Your Body's Hidden Superpower Feb 02, 2024

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EPISODE 321 - Justin Glaser - We turn up the heat with Justin's new book - Sweat, Uncovering Your Body's Hidden Superpower
Discover how a health crisis led Justin to the incredible benefits of sauna therapy, sparking his research into this field.
The Book: Sweat: Uncovering Your Body's Hidden Superpower
A revolutionary exploration of sweat's role in health and longevity that challenges current medical thinking about the modern health crisis and offers actionable steps for leading a long, healthy life.

"An essential read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of health, detoxification, and the transformative power of sweat." - Katie Kaps, co-founder of Higher Dose

Unleash Your Body's Hidden Superpower...
In the quest for well-being, one ancient practice has been overlooked by modern medicine: the transformative power of sweat. "Sweat: Uncovering Your Body's Hidden Superpower" is not just a book—it's a revelation that will redefine your approach to health and vitality.

What You Will Discover:

How science is embracing the art of sweating and its ability to unlock unprecedented levels of health and well-being.
The universal tradition of saunas and their varied, potent health benefits.
An exploration of the types of saunas (like steam rooms, dry saunas, and infrared saunas).
How our modern civilization has overrun us with toxins and chemicals that require detoxification, and how sweat is a secret weapon.
Groundbreaking research that sheds light on how sweat influences our vitality, longevity, and overall well-being.
The world's most powerful detoxification protocols that has changed the lives of thousands.
Simple, actionable strategies to harness the power of sweat in your daily routine.

"A truly fascinating journey into a remarkably neglected aspect of our well-being. Sweat is a must-read for anyone committed to optimal health in the modern world." - Dan Root, President of PureBeing

Take Control of Your Health Journey... Are you ready to embrace a life of energy and vitality? To tap into ancient wisdom backed by modern science? "Sweat" is your guide to exploring the life-changing benefits of this natural process.

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E320 - Kim McCollum - What Happens in Montana - A Murder Mystery Jan 31, 2024

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Episode 320 - Kim McCollum - What Happens in Montana - A Murder Mystery
Kim McCollum lives in Bozeman, Montana with her blended menagerie of five kids, two dogs, and seven spoiled chickens. An excerpt from her upcoming novel What Happens in Montana (release date January 25, 2024) appeared in The Copperfield Review Quarterly and her short stories have appeared in The Dillydoun Review, Beyond Solace, and Fiction on the Web. She was a finalist in Now Novel's character writing contest and is the author of the travel blog happygoluckytraveler.com.
Book: What Happens in Montana explores friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness with blunt truth and witty insights. Join Maude and her newfound friends as they confront the challenges of life, love, and the occasional poltergeist. Is their friendship strong enough to get them through it all?
A girlfriend’s reunion at a haunted, holistic hot springs retreat in Montana leads to spilled secrets and betrayal, but does it also lead to murder?

Whiskey-swigging Maude Reeves, the nearly eighty-year-old chef, longs for the glory days when the retreat hosted martini-sipping celebrities instead of long-haired hippies who refuse to wear deodorant. She prefers the company of her dog and the ghost who haunts the retreat to regular people, but one of the ladies who arrives for the reunion bears a striking resemblance to her late daughter, and she is helplessly drawn in. Brooke, feisty, adventurous, and a bit reckless, proposes the reunion at the retreat with her best friends to get away from the current chaos of her life. One of those friends, Tracy, has devoted her life to her children and her husband despite her excruciating boredom. But a long-held secret threatens these friendships she holds most dear. Haunting the place is a ghost who, in life, dealt with tragedy by turning to prostitution which led to her murder over 100 years ago at the very place they are all staying.

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E319 - Beyond The Pen Podcast - From Book to Clients Learn How to Market Your Book Authentically with Judy M. Baker Jan 29, 2024

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Episode 319 - Beyond The Pen Podcast - From Book to Clients Learn How to Market Your Book Authentically with Judy M. Baker
Hi everyone! I wanted to introduce you to another great author podcast called "Beyond the Pen" This is a feed drop - a full episode from Beyond the Pen for you to check out right here on Living The Next Chapter.
Macabee Griffin is your host and his guest is Judy M Baker - here is the show notes from this episode on Beyond the Pen

Original Episode Date - April 11, 2023

In This Episode

Dive into the world of book marketing with Maccabee Griffin and notable guest author and book marketer Judy M. Baker as they explore innovative strategies and share insider tips to help authors captivate their ideal readers. In this episode of Beyond the Pen, Judy reveals the secrets of building a powerful brand, harnessing the power of third-party verification, and mastering the art of email lists.
Whether you're a seasoned author or just starting out, tune in to learn how to elevate your book marketing game and enchant your audience like never before! Join us as we discuss the love for books, the ever-evolving publishing industry, and the importance of thinking outside the box. Don't miss out on Judy's exclusive offer for her transformative book marketing course that will take your author journey to new heights!

Judy M. Baker is the Book to MoneyMaker coach.

Her personal plot twist came with a diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Along with this challenge, she discovered an unyielding resilience and tenacity that shines through her work with authors. Her path to healing brought deep insights, enriching her approach to book marketing with creativity, compassion, and curiosity.

She connects with authors at every stage of their journey, offering personalized coaching, engaging workshops, and comprehensive programs and courses designed to illuminate the path to success.

Judy’s poetry and stories grace multiple anthologies and her current publishing projects are infused with inspiration and practical guidance.

Judy helps authors put marketing into everyday conversations, she demonstrates how small, strategic actions build awareness, gain attention, grow connections, and sell more books.

Links

Writer Beware - https://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/
Judy's Freebies: https://bookmarketingmentor.com/freebie
Redwood Writers: https://redwoodwriters.org/
Masterclass: https://bookmarketingmentor.com/mca12

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E318 - Paula Delgado-Kling - Leonor The Story of a Lost Childhood in Colombia Jan 26, 2024

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EPISODE 318 - Paula Delgado-Kling - Leonor The Story of a Lost Childhood in Colombia
Our Guest: Paula Delgado-Kling holds degrees in comparative literature, French civilizations, international affairs, and creative writing from Brown, Columbia and the New School, respectively.
This is her first book. It has been excerpted in Narrative Magazine (Winter 2008 issue), The Literary Review (Winter 2009 issue and reprinted in the 60th anniversary issue, fall 2017), Pacifica Literary Review (Winter 2017 issue), The Grief Diaries (February 2017 issue), and translated into Japanese for happano.org (January 2017 issue).
For this book, she received two grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and won the OneWorld Prize in nonfiction from the Pan African Literary Forum, for which she was awarded a trip to Accra, Ghana to share her work. Paula’s website is pauladelgadokling.com. Her reportage, “El Diario de Maher Arar,” was anthologized in Las Mejores Crónicas de Gatopardo (Random House Mondadori, 2006).
Since March 2005, she has been an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. She lives in New York.
The Book: Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood Paperback - Set in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.
Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member of the FARC forced into sexual slavery by a commander thirty-four years her senior, through her rehabilitation and struggle with alcohol and drug addiction, to more recent days as the mother of two girls.
Leonor’s physical beauty, together with resourcefulness and imagination in the face of horrendous circumstances, helped her carve a space for herself in a male-dominated world. She never stopped believing that she was a woman of worth and importance. It took her many years of therapy to accept that she was also a victim.
Throughout the story of Leonor, Delgado-Kling interweaves the experiences of her own family, involved with Colombian politics since the 19th century and deeply afflicted, too, by the decades of violence there.
https://www.amazon.ca/Leonor-Story-Childhood-Paula-Delgado-Kling/dp/1682194477
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E317 - Katherine Snow Smith - Watch Your Step, Life Has Many Chapters Jan 24, 2024

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Episode 317 - Katherine Snow Smith - Watch Your Step, Life Has Many Chapters
Katherine Snow Smith has lived throughout the south as a newspaper reporter,
magazine editor, adjunct instructor, daughter, sister, mother, wife, divorcee and friend. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and started her journalism career covering three minuscule towns in South Carolina. After a stint covering business in Charlotte she got married, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, and started a 20-year career at the Tampa Bay Times. Katherine raised three children with her husband, a fellow journalist. After their 24-year-marriage ended and last child went away to college, Katherine returned to her native North Carolina to be closer to her parents in Raleigh. Now, three kids, two careers and one divorce later, she’s back at her alma mater getting a master’s degree in Media and Communications so she can teach journalism on a college level. Most of her classmates are less than half her age. They help her with coding homework and she waxes on annoyingly about how life has many chapters they’ll never expect. Some are piercing. Some are priceless. Keep turning the page.
Book - Stepping on the Blender - Journalist Katherine Snow Smith returned to her native North Carolina after her last child left the nest and a 24-year marriage ended. With more baggage and less time on the clock, she thought of fellow Tar Heel Thomas Wolfe’s book You Can’t Go Home Again. She writes with vulnerability and humor about forging an unexpected path, parenting, dating, reporting, aging, loss and launching the next act in a full life.

Oh yeah, she stepped on a blender minutes before leaving Florida for this latest chapter. Sometimes you just have to prop your bloody foot on the dashboard and put it in drive.

Book: Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker - Southern women are inundated with rules starting early―from always wearing sensible shoes to never talking about death to the dying, and certainly not relying on song lyrics for marriage therapy.

Nevertheless, Katherine Snow Smith keeps doing things like falling off her high heels onto President Barack Obama, gaining dubious status as the middle school “lice mom,” and finding confirmation in the lyrics of Miranda Lambert after her twenty-four-year marriage ends. Somehow, despite never meaning to defy Southern expectations for parenting, marriage, work, and friendship, Smith has found herself doing just that for over four decades.

Rules for the Southern Rule Breaker will resonate with every woman, southern or not, who has a tendency to wander down the hazy side roads and realizes the rewards that come from listening to the pull in one’s heart over the voice in one’s head.

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E316 - Steve O'Connell - Welcome to Earth - Your Manual On How To Break Those Chains Jan 22, 2024

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Episode 316 - Steve O'Connell - Welcome to Earth - Your Manual On How To Break Those Chains
About the Author
Steve O’Connell, a proponent of the human race, is best known for his simple, clear, impartial observations of humanity and life’s nuances. Always seeking betterment and growth through knowledge and understanding, he loves writing with the purpose of bringing people together, encouraging his human family to embrace real freedom—the freedom they innately desire.
The book: Welcome to Earth
Welcome to Earth Description:
From the perspective of an indifferent, unbiased outsider, Welcome to Earth exposes the imbalance in today’s society and reveals the truth behind the current plight of mankind. If you’re one of the many who feel humanity is beyond hope, if you feel stuck and powerless, or if you just need reassurance that all hope is not lost, you will find comfort in the pages of this book.
Welcome to Earth raises awareness to subconscious limiting beliefs, stimulates vitality within the human spirit, and offers healing for the oppressed. This book is the key to your freedom—humanity’s freedom—real freedom.
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E315 - Bob Mackay - Canadian Author Shares His Historical Fiction Writings and Stories of Military History Jan 19, 2024

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Episode 315 - Bob Mackay - Canadian Author Shares His Historical Fiction Writings and Stories of Military History
Robert W. Mackay is an award-winning author, former naval officer, submariner, teacher, and lawyer. He writes historical fiction with the backdrop of Canada’s armed forces and a newsletter, Forces With History, which comes out every two weeks.
Robert was born in Vancouver and lives in BC. He takes great pride in contributing to Canadians’ knowledge of their military heritage, and is happy to do speaking engagements on related topics.
Book - Soldier Of The Horse
Winner of the Gold Medal for Military/Wartime Fiction at the 2012 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards.
Book - Terror On The Alert
Winner of the Silver Medal for Military/Wartime Fiction at the 2015 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards
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E314 - Morgan Christie - Boolean Logic - Powerful and Lyrical Essays from a New and Noteworthy Poet and Fiction Writer Jan 17, 2024

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Episode 314 - Morgan Christie - Boolean Logic - Powerful and Lyrical Essays from a New and Noteworthy Poet and Fiction Writer
Powerful and Lyrical Essays from a New and Noteworthy Poet and Fiction Writer
Morgan Christie's book is in conversation with various themes including race, gender inequity, socioeconomic disparities, and others as questions regarding how experiences define us are viewed through a BOOLEAN LOGIC lens, where sums do not always equal their parts. These essays intertwine sport, family, and community and other aspects that assist in shaping identities through lineage and the lessons we take from them.
Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Family & Relationships. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies.
About the Author
Morgan Christie's essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Room, Callaloo, The Hawai'i Review, Sport Literate, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Variations on a Lobster's Tale, was the winner of the 2017 Alexander Posey Chapbook Prize, and her first full-length short story manuscript, These Bodies (Tolsun Books, 2020), was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in fiction.
Her most recent poetry chapbook, when they come (Black Sunflowers Press, 2021) is featured in the Forward Arts Foundation's National Poetry Day exhibit. She is the 2022 Arc Poetry Poem of the Year Prize recipient, and her collection People Without Wings (Black Sunflowers Press, 2021) is the winner of the 2022 Digging Chapbook Series Prize. Her new short story collection, Boolean Logic, is the winner of the 2023 Howling Bird Press Nonfiction Prize. Her novella Liddle Deaths (Stillhouse Press) is due out in 2024. Christie currently splits her time between North Carolina and Toronto.
To learn more, please visit
https://www.morganchristiewrites.com/
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