An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Tom Leihbacher,, on air from December 14th
Tom Leihbacher, author of A Gift Most Rare, the heart-warming yuletide novel, focusing on a young boy, a guardian angel and a quaint New York village that needs Christmas spirit.
It’s Christmastime in the pocket-sized village of Briarcliff Manor. With yuletide spirits flying high, life seems close to perfect in this quaint suburb of Manhattan.
But not everyone feels the holiday cheer. While most go about their joyful holiday pursuits, young Charlie Riverton is restless. Compassionate by nature, he’s especially mindful of the lonely and forlorn.
At the same time, he’s the unofficial leader of a close-knit group of sixth-grade buddies. Together they grapple with pre-teen hijinks, newfound freedoms and an emerging, nerve-wracking interest in girls.
Meanwhile, there’s a curiously gifted newcomer in town. Charlie develops a special friendship with the handsome stranger and together, they set out to craft a Christmas gift for the whole community. Along the way, lives are changed, and people begin to look at Christmas a little differently.
Come spend the holidays in Briarcliff with this feel-good, coming of age story set in small-town America in the early 1970s.
“Congratulations to Tom for writing a heartwarming Christmas story that evokes the traditional Christmas spirit. A Gift Most Rare focuses on a God-honoring relationship between a young boy, a guardian angel and a whole village that rediscovers how best to celebrate Christmas.” – Kevin Sorbo, Actor, Producer, Director
Tom Leihbacher has lived in Briarcliff Manor, New York for most of his life. After graduating from Briarcliff High School and then the University of Florida, he returned home and began a career in the media and advertising sales business. He and his family live in the Tree Streets and enjoy a rich life filled with church and community involvement and great friendships. He listens to Dr. Cook’s Walk with the King broadcast each morning before boarding a Manhattan-bound commuter train at Scarborough Station; passes through Law Park and the Pine Forest frequently; enjoys membership at Sleepy Hollow Country Club; stops for sunsets over the Hudson River and once in a while can be found skating at one of the frozen ponds in town. After more than 35 years in the corporate world, A Gift Most Rare is his first novel. A summer sequel will be ready soon.
Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Keith Leon S, on air from December 7th
After his first book seemingly failed, Keith Leon S. used his second book to build a massive platform, skyrocket his business, and he ended up with the 3 mentors he always wished for. Since then, he’s been sharing how he did it with up-and-coming speakers and authors with inspiring missions and a message that needs to be shared! Keith’s passion is teaching people how to go from first thought to bestseller and how to manifest the life of their dreams.
Keith Leon S. is a multiple international bestselling author, co-owner of a successful book publishing company, and he’s an international speaker who’s spoken at events that included Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor, Neale Donald Walsch, Barbara De Angelis, John Gray, Joe Vitale, and Marianne Williamson. He’s appeared on many TV & Radio shows, including The Jenny McCarthy Show, and his work has been covered by INC Magazine and Huffington Post just to name a few.
Keith recently completed a book, media, and LIVE event tour in the U.S. with his book called, Walking With My Angels: A True Story. Keith has two passions in life, one is to connect you to your inner guidance system, which he calls angels, and the second is to help you get your mission and your message out to the world, with YOUR VERY OWN BOOK, which Keith calls, The World’s Greatest Business Card! Please help me welcome Keith Leon S.
Building your business with Sara Troy and her guest Howard Berg, on air from November 2nd
Howard “Speedy” Berg has been recognized for setting the world record for speed reading. He is listed in the 1990 Guinness Book of World Records for reading more than 25,000 words a minute and writing more than 100 words a minute.
Learn the SPEED READING SECRETS of the World’s Fastest Reader
Howard is a graduate of S.U.N.Y, Binghamton where he majored in Biology and then completed a four-year psychology program in one year. His graduate studies at several New York City colleges, focused on the Psychology of Reading.
Are you retaining what you are learning? Are you able to read faster and in heart flow? Do you know the skills in activating your brain to absorb the relevant information? Do you know how these skills can help anyone from child to elder live a more productive and interactive life? Howard will share the why’s, how’s, and importance of being able to read and absorb faster and speak from your heart to enhance your memory and life.
Howard is the Spokesperson for the Sony E-Reader along with Justin Timberlake, Peyton Manning, and Amy Sedaris.
Howard has appeared on over 1,100 radio and television programs including Neil Cavuto, Jon Stewart, and Live With Regis. His brain-based learning strategies have been hailed as a major breakthrough in publications like Forbes FYI, Selling, Men’s Health, Red Book, and Bottom Line Magazine, and have been featured in dozens of newspaper interviews throughout North America.
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An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Sam Hawksmoor, on air fromJune 1st
Sam is a prolific writer whose latest book Mission Longshot, takes us always on a journey of discovery, not only of what is possible but a discovery of ourselves through adversity and struggle. His books always leaving you wanting more and reflecting on your own life. He writes for both Youth and Adult genres, but each of his books takes you away to an adventure of wonderment and the what if’s.
Sam’s latest book.
Alignment seems such an innocent word. We always seem to expect the stars to align one day in our favor, or with good planning, everything might fall into place before the battle. It’s a positive word – until it isn’t. When suddenly everything aligns against you with such overwhelming force there’s little you can do to prevent disaster. This is that story.
From the award-winning author of The Repossession of Genie Magee trilogy & Girl with Cat (Blue) MISSION LONGSHOT. Jarred awake after twenty-three years in a life-pod on colony-ship Nova, Celeste discovers she’s the only survivor – a trillion miles from home. Celeste knows no one will cross the entire universe to save one life. She is alone forever save for the company of a maintenance bot called SVIMON. Stella is testing a light-speed ship in 2057. It’s the only chance they have to save Celeste. On her return, the Moonbase has vanished. Florida is no longer flooded. Cities across the world still shine at night. None of this is possible since climate change and nuclear war. Landing on Ochee Island, she discovers trees instead of a space research platform. Stella overwhelmed by her first experience of Earth gravity is rescued by three space geeks, Gerry, Kali and Jolene, out hunting aliens. It’s Millennial New Year’s Eve 1999. Stella accidentally went back in time 57 years. Saving Celeste just became the biggest longshot of all.
Review: Mission Longshot is a terrific story, wonderfully written. The adventures are gripping. The characters are deftly drawn and engaging and the relationships among them draw the reader in even further. Walli F Leff – New York
The Repossession of Genie Mgee by Sam Hawksmoor – Book One –Three
Thirty-four kids are missing from the town of Spurlake B.C., vanished without trace. The community is considering electronic tagging all their children. Reverend Schneider of the Church of the Free Spirits leads all night vigils to pray for their souls and for God to stop a sickness in the town that seems to drive the kids away. Meanwhile Genie Magee (15) is imprisoned behind bars at home by the same Reverend Schneider, who claims her soul is possessed by the Devil.
As storm clouds gather over the mountain town, Rian, her boyfriend, spectacularly breaks her out of the house and they go on the run. As they escape on the river there is a devastating flash flood. Spurlake is literally swamped. Barely alive, Genie and Rian wash up miles down the river at Marshall’s remote mountain farmhouse. But who is this strange man? Why has he got newspaper clippings of all the missing children on his bathroom wall? Have they accidentally arrived at the lair of a serial killer?
They may never find out, as first Genie falls ill, then Rian. Is this delirium? Who are these mysterious shadows that seem to walk through walls in Marshall’s house and why do they think Genie can help them? Genie is about to confront Marshall when he is found convulsing on the floor. The awful secret of the missing teens, when discovered, is too horrific for two kids to handle, but face it they must, or even more, kids will literally disappear forever.
Sam’s books take you a journey, it does not matter if it is for the youth of or for adults, it always leaves us thinking and reflecting on life in the now, he goes into different dimensions and we explore other worlds that link together. He takes on an adventure and who dun it, and surprises you every time, and also makes you look at life in a different way.
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The CASE: Delaney and Asha run the Office of City Oversight. Their role is to expose the scams, keep Berg City safe from unscrupulous contractors. When something looks too good to be true – it’s a scam, right? But what if the scam works? What kind of scam is that?
308 complaints about Jirdasham are suddenly withdrawn. It gets Delaney’s interest. When he meets Mr Abrams, owner of the last bookshop in the city, he learns he paid thirty grand to the Jirdasham Institute to be rid of his pain. Seems it worked – for a month. Delaney knows something about this stinks, but what exactly? As the contract says – any pain after that is ‘new’ pain and caveat emptor.
A city is gripped by fear as a lethal virus approaches from the East Coast. No one knows how many are dying. People are afraid of being quarantined. Once parted, best friends Kira and Liz are scared they will never see each other again. Teen lovers, Chris and Rachel, prepare to escape to the islands, to wait it out. But everyone lives in deathly fear of strangers now. Kira and her restless family have already fled to a secluded Gulf Island off the British Columbia Mainland – but after just six weeks they are going completely stir-crazy. To make matters worse, Kira hears rumours of people going from island to island burning and looting. Liz’s family have escaped to the Baja, but the virus is already there, waiting with chilling effect. Without electricity we are never more than three days away from total civic breakdown and the virus quickly exposes our vulnerability. Prophet Arnold’s Church of Final Redemption promises salvation to all those who believe. But what kind of life awaits the survivors? Realistic and relentless, Hawksmoor and North’s ‘Another Place to Die’ is a blueprint for anyone seeking survival tips for the coming plague. There is no cure – the pandemic is coming to a city near you – very soon
Imagine Lundein; a city devastated by war. Imagine you’re one of the last survivors patrolling the ruins with your fierce Blue Lynx, trained to protect you from all enemies. Imagine there’s a way out, a secret tunnel to London, a treacherous labyrinth that few survive. Nevertheless, you must find it or die. Imagine an art gallery. Jules falls in love with a stunning portrait of a girl, her faithful Cat at her side. The artist, Kye tells you it’s his sister Saska in a city that impossibly exists in the exact same space as London – invisible to all. Saska seeks the tunnel and a way out. Kye can’t remember the way back. Jules courts madness in believing any of it is real. The tunnel is out there – all you have to do is believe.
Based on a tragic real life event, Marikka flees from an arson attack on her home to the sea, where she meets Starfish boy – a runaway working for Jackson, a sinister scarred man hiding from the world. Meanwhile her father; long believed dead, searches for her with the aide of Anya, ‘the girl who can read objects’. Set on the wild Lincolnshire coast, Marikka is a classic haunting tale
A powerful young love story set in the bleak badlands of a ruined civilization. Two young lovers are determined to stay together even though love is prohibited. Jeyna and Kruge are orphans raised in an oppressive city orphanage under the control of a corrupt Warden. The City of Bluette is run on extreme fundamentalist lines. Boys are educated, girls are not. Sometime around 2017/18, a group not unlike ISIS irradiate the world’s oil supply and all of civilization collapses. J&K 4Ever takes place sixty years later and the Ministers that run the city have banned everything. Electricity, even combs are an abomination and banished to the scraps. To stay together Jeyna and Kruge must flee to the wastelands, but coming after them, are the cruel enforcers who will bring them back dead or alive. No one can ever leave Bluette.
Tomas is a boy haunted by a nightmare of being bombed. Night after night in his dreams he runs to the bomb shelter as the sirens scream. Every morning he wakes gasping for breath surprised to be alive.
Gabriella is his best friend waiting in the Lou-Lou’s café as a terrible storm is brewing outside. Tomas goes to get new glasses. The storm breaks and he rushes to the café for shelter – only its no longer a café – it’s an old fashioned butchers shop and suddenly air-raid sirens are screaming and everyone is running for the bomb shelter under the church. Tomas tries to believe it is another nightmare, but it feels intensely vivid. The same people are in the shelter, the little girl with snot under her nose, the cop who will soon have his head split open. The bombers come. They drop their terrible weapons of destruction and this time… Tomas doesn’t wake up in his bedroom. This time he has to fight his way through rubble as everything burns around him.
Gabriella goes to school the next day and discovers her first class is Double German. She realizes she’s the only person in the whole school who remembers that Germany didn’t win the war!
I highly recommend these books to read as a family,(check on if it is an adult book or youth first) We feel your pain and Another place to die, are adult orientated.
An Authors Kiss with Sara Troy and her guest Jenny Story, on air from May 18th
Jenny is speaking about her Fantasy Fiction Trilogy, Dysnomia her second book of the series that has just been published on May 1st, 2021. Also, she is a 2D and 3D Animator and am doing a short-animated film and also doing a script for her Trilogy books, making them into movies. All this and a self-advocate for Autism.
Jenny is a self-advocate for Autism and shines her light on other Autistics and to go after their dreams and lets anyone say they can’t. She won the 2020 Self Advocate Award at the Autism BC Awards. And the money she was given for winning was $1000.00 and I gave half of it to a Single Mom and two Autistic boys and the other half of it I gave to Spectrum Productions who work with Autistic individuals.
I had a documentary filmed about me through Telus Optik not long ago and again to shine a positive for Autism and give others hope and see anything is possible. To believe in yourself.
Jenny Story was born in Yellowknife but lived the majority of her life in Vernon, B.C. She attended Vancouver Film School in 2011 to 2013 and became a 2D and 3D Animator. She is also an author of a best-selling, award winning book called, “Dysnomia Outcast on A Distant Moon”, the first of a trilogy and her second book, “Dynomia, Home Lies in Your Heart”, just was published May 1st, 2021. She won the ANCA World Autism Festival for Literary Arts in 2016, a finalist for Book of Excellence Awards in 2019, and was the winner of the Self Advocate Award at the Autism BC Awards 2020. Recently, she was in a Telus Original Documentary with another autistic individual called “Stories from the Spectrum: Growing up with Autism”. During the covid-19 pandemic, she has been writing the third book and working on an animated short that she hopes to also share this year. Also writing the script for the first book as making the Trilogy into Animated movies. Despite being diagnosed with Autism, Jenny has always remained focused on pursuing her dreams and is passionate about inspiring others to do the same.
Free Give away: I would like to, through my Mom, give away my Mom’s book about me, “The Autistic Author and Animator”, that takes a person through my journey with Autism, through her eyes, as she was my rock, sounding board, and voice. They can contact me on my website for this and will get back to them.
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