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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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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.”
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?
What a Noah’s Ark of today – a spacecraft – would look like today
The number of parallels between the world of Atlantis and today’s times
Does technology foster and exacerbate evil in the world?
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
An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Laurel Anne Hill, on air from February 1st
YA author Laurel Anne Hill. She will discuss her latest novel, Plague of Flies, which takes readers back in time to 1846 and the western section of Mexican Alta California, on a mystical fantasy adventure. Laurel Anne will talk about why it’s important for young adult readers (teens, aged 14 and up) to read fiction. She can also discuss how research into her Mexican heritage revealed a dark secret about her ancestors — those who were threatened to let go of their land, to make way for a new railroad.
Laurel Anne Hill recently released her third novel, Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846. The YA historical fantasy tells the story of a 16-year-old Mexican girl, Catalina, and her fight for her country after American invaders declare war on Mexico.
Circumstances compel Catalina to protect all those she holds dear when American invaders, called the Bear Flaggers, declare that Mexican California belongs to the United States. Faced with the imprisonment and murders of her friends, Catalina relies on guidance from people and places more powerful than herself. Catalina risks her reputation, future with the man she loves, and, ultimately, her soul to prevent the calamity she fears.
Author Laurel Anne Hill is also known for her award-winning novel, The Engine Woman’s Light. Hill has received over thirteen awards and honors including a Kirkus Star and the Kirkus Top 100 Indie Books recognition.
Laurel says about her newest book, “My Mexican great-grandmother, as a teen in US California during the 1860s, recruited Mexican ex-patriots to return to their country of birth and rid Mexico of French soldiers. Her dedication, and that of my great-great-grandmother and many others, helped restore the Mexican Republic. How could this bit of family history not inspire me to create a character such as Catalina? A brave young woman in the 1840s who learns to believe the unbelievable and accomplish what only she is meant to do?”
About the author:
Laurel Anne Hill is an author and former underground storage tank operator. She grew up in San Francisco with more dreams of an adventure than good sense or money. Her close brushes with death, love of family, respect for honor, and belief in a higher power continue to influence her writing and her life.
Laurel has authored over 30 published short stories and two award-winning YA novels, including The Engine Woman’s Light, the gripping spirits-meet-steampunk, coming-of-age heroic journey of a young Latina in an alternate 19th Century California. The Engine Woman’s Light has won a total of 13 honors and awards, including a Kirkus Star. Sand Hill Review Press released Laurel’s latest YA novel, Plague of Flies: Revolt of the Spirits, 1846 on October 16th 2021.
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