AK22-37. Charles Christian the Urban Fantasist


An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Charles Christian, on air from September 6th

If you are fascinated by the weird, the unexplained and the bizarre, join author Charles Christian on a fascinating road trip around what he calls the Wold Newton Triangle, where rather odd events have occurred, unmatched anywhere else in Britain. He will talk about werewolves, zombies, vampires, green skinned fairy folk, headless ghosts, screaming skulls, ancient warlords, a Parkin-eating dragon, and so so much more!

?Descended from a motley crew of smugglers and witches (*), Christian was born a chime-child with a caul and grew up in a haunted medieval house by the harbourside in the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough. According to folklore a caul-shrouded chime-child can’t drown at sea but can see and talk to faerie folk and also has protection against spells cast by malevolent sorcerers. And yes, he was once commissioned to go on a werewolf hunt on the night of a full moon by a newspaper. Spoiler alert: he didn’t find one. (Or it didn’t find him.)

He is the author of the best-selling ebook Writing Genre Fiction – Creating Imaginary Worlds: The 12 Rules while his latest book is Shuckland: Weird tales, ghosts, folklore and legends from East Anglia’s Waveney valley. He also scripts and presents the Weird Tales Show videos on YouTube and for four-and-a-half years ran the Weird Tales Radio Show. And, yes a UK national newspaper once really did commission him to go on a werewolf hunt on the night of a full Moon. Spoiler alert: he didn’t find one. (Or it didn’t find him!)

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Charles Christian is an English barrister and Reuters correspondent turned writer, podcaster, award-winning tech journalist, and sometime werewolf hunter. He now writes, talks and makes videos mainly about folklore, urban myths, history, and the weird. And yes, an English Fleet Street newspaper once did commission him to go on a werewolf hunt on the night of a full Moon. Spoiler alert: he didn’t find one. Or the werewolf didn’t find him! He was born a ‘chime child’ with a caul so, according to legend, cannot drown at sea but can see and talk to ghosts and fairy folk without fear of coming to harm – allegedly!

Skeptic or Believer? Does Charles Christian personally believe in ghosts, the weird and the paranormal? His answer is the same as the celebrated ghost and supernatural horror writer M. R. James gave in the preface to a collection of his short stories about 100 years ago: “I am prepared to consider the evidence and accept it if it satisfies me.”


He is the author of “A travel guide to Yorkshire’s Weird Wolds: The Mysterious Wold Newton Triangle” and “Saints & Sinners in Dark Age England”. His latest book is “Shuckland: Weird tales, ghosts, folklore and legends from East Anglia’s Waveney valley” – volume one of a new haunted landscapes series – and he is currently writing an almanac of real witches and sorcerers, along with other practitioners of magic – black and white, from earliest times through until the modern era.

* The Mysterious Wold Newton Triangle (Newest book)

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Saints and Sinners in Dark Age England
Creating Imaginary Worlds – The 12 Rules



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AK22-31. Poet & Author Melissa Da Silva


Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Melissa Da Silva, on air from August 2nd

My name is Melissa Da Silva. I talk about self-improvement, anxiety, therapy, relationships, self-help, dating and emotional intelligence. I have three poetry books on amazon
Last Kiss  
Lose me 
A love like ours 

Melissa Da Silva is a Canadian writer who grew up in Toronto, ON. She graduated with a business diploma from Humber College. 

Melissa’s been writing since she was 18. In 2020 she self-published a book called Lose me. Lose me is about a toxic relationship and the importance of loving yourself. Lose me debuted as a top seller on Amazon. Inspired by her own life events. Last Kiss was on Amazons top 10 list. 

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MELISSA DA SILVA IS A CANADIAN WRITER WHO GREW UP IN TORONTO, ON. SHE GRADUATED WITH A BUSINESS DIPLOMA FROM HUMBER COLLEGE. 

MELISSA’S BEEN WRITING SINCE SHE WAS 18. IN 2020 SHE SELF-PUBLISHED A BOOK CALLED LOSE ME. LOSE ME IS ABOUT A TOXIC RELATIONSHIP AND THE IMPORTANCE OF LOVING YOURSELF. LOSE ME DEBUTED AS A TOP SELLER ON AMAZON. INSPIRED BY HER OWN LIFE EVENTS. LAST KISS WAS ON AMAZONS TOP 10 LIST. 

I enjoy listening to podcasts, watching movie, cooking, going on walks, traveling and trying new restaurants. I read poetry, self help and biographies. My life inspires the books I write about.

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AK22-26. China Hand by Scott Spacek


An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Scott Spacek, on air from June 28th

A Thriller By Scott Spacek

Scott Spacek, author of China Hand. Originally from Cleveland, Scott Spacek has lived in China for most of the last two decades, working as a technology executive and advisor to leading corporations and governmental organizations. He attended Harvard University and speaks Mandarin Chinese. Teaching at an elite university in Beijing after college provided revealing details for CHINA HAND, his first novel.

INSPIRED BY ACTUAL EVENTS: When a high-ranking Chinese general wants to defect to the US, the CIA tries to recruit a recent Harvard grad teaching at a Beijing university to exfiltrate the man’s daughter—a treacherous operation that could shape the balance of power for decades.

The whole debacle was classified and buried. Until now.

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It’s 1998, and China’s political and military leaders are torn by ideological divisions. Amid these seething rivalries, Andrew Callahan arrives in Beijing fresh out of Harvard, planning to spend an adventurous year studying Mandarin and teaching at the renowned International Affairs University. The IAU is known as a training ground for diplomats and spies. But Andrew has no idea that his budding relationship with the attractive and self-assured dean’s assistant, Lily Jiang, will also entangle him in a conspiratorial web of worldwide proportions.

A CIA officer approaches Andrew and informs him that Lily’s father is a top Chinese general caught in a power struggle. The general wants to defect but won’t do so without his wife and daughter. Even more shocking is that the Agency needs Andrew’s assistance for Lily to evade round-the-clock surveillance and escape to the US.

If Andrew agrees, he’ll face lethal odds against China’s ruthless security services to help pull off one of the greatest intelligence coups in American history. If he refuses, it could cost Lily and her family their lives.

Set against the backdrop of a beautiful culture at a turbulent time, China Hand is the story of a reluctant spy and a mission whose deadly consequences continue to reverberate today.


Scott Spacek, originally from Cleveland, has lived in China for most of the last two decades, working as a technology executive and advisor to leading corporations and governmental organizations. He attended Harvard University and speaks Mandarin Chinese. Teaching at an elite university in Beijing after college provided revealing details for this novel, his first.

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AK22-18 Dina Marais, My Mess is My Message

Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Dina Marais, on air from May 3rd

Elevate your brand, visibility & income by becoming a bestselling author.

My passion is to support successful female entrepreneurs to take their business to the next level, because of the ripple effect of their expansion to raise the vibration of the planet. Becoming a bestselling author is one of the best strategies to accomplish this.

Dina is the founder of Soul Purpose Publishing and Coaching. She is the #1 Amazon International Bestselling Author of the multi-author book; My Mess is My Message.

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Dina works with successful entrepreneurs to elevate their brand, visibility, income, and impact by becoming a bestselling author. She publishes multi-author and solo books.

As a Certified Quantum Leap Transformation Coach, Dina specializes in Soul-Alignment for Business Success. With 2 decades of neuro-coaching experience and her own journey of healing the fear of unworthiness, she believes that this is the biggest obstacle to success. She created the 5 Steps to Manifest a New Reality as a process and system that she uses in her coaching programs.

Dina is passionate about expanding the consciousness of the world through her books and coaching.

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AK22-10 Don Cook. Does Our World Need A Reboot?

Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Don Edward Cook, on air from March 8th

Don Cook plunges readers into a layered world of science and religion in this intricate first installment in the Last of the Atlanteans series. In Cook’s premier book of this saga, not only humanity — but the entire world — is in danger of becoming extinct. Can humanity be saved and transported to another planet? Can an alien help save humanity?  Cook has readers on edge, from start to finish.

“I enjoy writing meaningful tales that force the reader to question everything and not to be blind,” says Cook. “For the seeking individual who wants to discover a good, moral foundation, they may find it wrapped up in my adventurous tale.”

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Trends in science-fiction thrillers and why Judeo-Christian ones are very popular

Is humanity in danger of destroying itself – and in need of a fresh start?

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 In the new book, Noah has warned the world about the coming flood. But other than his family, no one has paid any attention. No one listened … except for an Atlantean telepathic wunderkind-scientist, Ithyanna. Ithy, as her friends called her, saw the impending destruction and, through her extensive doctoral research, urged the building of at least one space-ark to carry a nucleus of humans to safety. But only a handful of people signed on, one of them a wealthy financier-cultural demagogue, and thus work began on Project Life-Escape and its starship of life.

Battling ever-growing economic woes, scoffing masses, the duplicity of her benefactor, a growing threat of all-out war with totalitarian Lemuria, and resistance from the Divine, Ithyanna and her project workers toil bravely to save humanity. But will Ithyanna’s valiant efforts to get humans to another world succeed… or fail?

What happens when the creator himself comes and stands in the way? Cook keeps the action brisk and tension high, and his vast sci-fi world is utterly intricate, demanding careful reading on readers’ part. Jumping between various timelines and managing a large array of characters, Cook has masterfully created a whole new world.
Don Edward Cook decided to become a writer late in life. As a Canadian who identifies with classic American ideals, and his faith in God and love for science fiction, Cook was inspired to write a Judeo-Christian, science fiction thriller, Ithyanna, Last Daughter of Atlantis: Book 1 – how the world Ended Millennia Ago.

This novel is based upon his short film, The Last Atlantean (2009), which garnered a place in the top ten percentile of IMDb’s MovieMeter (during the summer of 2010.)

He was a member of the Canadian Authors Association and the London Area Writers. He was affiliated with Raindance Toronto, a filmmaking institute for independent filmmakers. His strongest creative influences are The Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling, Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry, and legendary author C.S. Lewis. Cook, 59, published his first book several years ago, The Invader Candidate.

When Cook, who has Asperger’s Syndrome, is not penning save-the-world novels, he enjoys several hobbies. He is an avid model builder, whose specialty subjects include MiGs (a Soviet/Russian line of fighter aircraft), Mirages (a French line of mostly delta-winged military jets), and Mach-busters (a term that is self-explanatory). He is also a huge fan of classic rock, especially The Moody Blues, as well as surf pioneers, The Beach Boys, and country music icon Johnny Cash.

Born in Stratford, Ontario, and raised in Bornholm, Ontario, he attended Fanshawe College in London, Ontario. He earned a General Arts and Sciences Degree, a diploma on broadcasting Television, and a post-graduate diploma in the Advanced filmmaking program. Mr. Cook currently resides in London, Ontario, Canada.

“This first installment of a religion-themed SF/fantasy saga focuses on the high-tech but intrigue-wracked… nation of Atlantis and how a brilliant woman trusts science to rescue humanity from doom… In this engrossing tale, treachery, arrogance, violence, nonbelief, and selfishness beset the eponymous hero’s plans and illuminate God’s true path… This work certainly isn’t part of the Tim LaHaye/Jerry B. Jenkins school of Christian fantasy. An engaging, offbeat, and Bible-inspired apocalyptic tale.” — Kirkus Reviews


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