Authors Over 50 Podcast
1) The Abandoned Wives Handbook with Pat Backley
My guest today is English but emigrated to New Zealand when she was 59. She published her first book just before her 70th birthday and is currently writing book number 8. Having discovered her passion...Show More
2) Coast Guard Commander Writes for Children with Darcy Guyant
My guest today is a retired U.S. Coast Guard Commander with 25 years of military service. He holds a Bachelor of Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. Now, he has logged over 7,000 ho...Show More
3) Writing in English and Arabic with Gretchen McCullough
My guest today was raised in Texas, but after graduating from Brown University, she taught in Egypt, Turkey, and Japan. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and was aw...Show More
4) Lost Her Sight but Not Her Imagination with Chrissy Hartmann
My guest today always wanted to be a librarian, but when she lost her eyesight, she did the next best thing and became a sweet contemporary Western romance author. And novels aren't the only thing she...Show More
5) Writing the 21st Century's Defining Topics with Lucy Weldon
My guest today was born in Hong Kong, and is a British writer. She has a degree in Spanish and a Masters in Responsible Business Practice and Sustainability. She’s a published nonfiction author who ha...Show More
6) NPR Interviewer Becomes the Interviewee with Martha Anne Toll
My guest today writes fiction, essays, and book reviews and reads anything that’s not nailed down. She brings a long career in social justice to her work, covering authors of color and women writers a...Show More
7) Childhood in the Segregated South with Joel Johnson
My guest today has an MBA in corporate finance and has been self-employed for twenty-five years. The father of three, he and his wife live in Concord, MA, and his book of poems, Where Inches Seem Mile...Show More
8) From Childhood Trauma to Child Advocacy with Joan Ulsher
My guest today is a San Antonio-based writer, award-winning child advocate, and retired U.S. Army Major. As a former foster care youth and abuse survivor, she chronicled her journey from childhood tra...Show More
9) An Editor Who Writes with Judith F. Brenner
My guest today owns Creative Lakes Media, LLC, a freelance writing and book editing services company. She’s the author of the novel The Moments Between Dreams, five nonfiction educational books, and a...Show More
10) Executive Editor Publishes First Novel with Sharon J. Wishnow
My guest today is a transplanted New Englander who makes her home in Northern Virginia. In addition to writing upmarket fiction with environmental themes, she writes non-fiction in the science, techno...Show More