http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner en-us Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:55:53 -0700 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:11:25 -0700 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Book-of-the-week-Fall-to-Pieces-by-Mary-ForsbergWeiland?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner Everyone loves a bad boy. Mary Forsberg-Weiland, author of Fall to Pieces, discovered what this love, mixed with drugs, disillusionment and bi-polar depression can cost. Forsberg-Weiland, the wife of Stone Temple Pilots turned Velvet Revolver front m... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:11:25 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Book-of-the-week-Fall-to-Pieces-by-Mary-ForsbergWeiland?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Spotlighting-author-Artie-Kornfeld?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner Artie Kornfeld wrote The Pied Piper of Woodstock to showcase “the history of an era. I wrote this book to take anyone, who wants to join me, inside what it was really like.” The Pied Piper of Woodstock isn’t just a journey into the ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:50:05 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d20-Spotlighting-author-Artie-Kornfeld?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Spotlighting-author-Lloyd-Constantine?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner Priceless: The Case That Brought Down The Visa/MasterCard Bank Cartel is Lloyd Constantine’s debut book. Author, and lead counsel, Constantine led the team that would ultimately take on giants Visa and MasterCard. The plaintiffs, including... Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:23:16 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d19-Spotlighting-author-Lloyd-Constantine?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Spotlighting-author-Lynn-Flewelling?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner Lynn Flewelling loves what she does almost as much as her readers love reading about the worlds she builds in the pages of her novels. Flewelling, renowned author of the Nightrunner series and Tamir Trilogy, generously took the time to share with us ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:38:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Spotlighting-author-Lynn-Flewelling?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Spotlighting-author-QA-with-Sarah-Hoyt-part-two?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner  PC: Is there anything you find particularly challenging in your writing? SH: Getting to the place where I can concentrate on what I’m doing absolutely and without interruptions. It’s easier than it was when the children were to... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:35:24 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Spotlighting-author-QA-with-Sarah-Hoyt-part-two?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Spotlighting-author-QA-with-Sarah-Hoyt-part-one?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner Sarah Hoyt, aka mystery writer Sarah D'Almeida, began her journey as storyteller when she was a child growing up in Portugal. It’s in her blood, having spent much of her youth enthralled by the tales her grandmother skillfully wove for her; sto... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:07:35 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d16-Spotlighting-author-QA-with-Sarah-Hoyt-part-one?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Spotlighting-authors-Marci-Fox-and-Leslie-Sokol?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner  Marci Fox and Leslie Sokol“No one has ever attended a class [where the subject] is thinking about how we think. Instead, we walk around filling our heads with all these doubts.” Leslie Sokol and Marci Fox “really want to teach... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:15:53 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d5-Spotlighting-authors-Marci-Fox-and-Leslie-Sokol?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Spotlighting-author-Tasha-Alexander?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner It was when she was a girl, following along with her mother who read aloud from a Laura Ingles Wilder novel, that Tasha Alexander realized she could read. Skipping ahead of her mother and devouring the words on the page were a defining moment. Alexan... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:30:07 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m11d2-Spotlighting-author-Tasha-Alexander?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Spotlighting-author-Anne-Rice?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner Once again, Anne Rice has created a masterpiece that both invites and provokes the reader. Angel Time introduces a new cast of heroic beings and takes the reader on a voyage of mystical, magical and redeeming proportions. In the pages of an Anne Rice... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:10:13 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d30-Spotlighting-author-Anne-Rice?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Reviewing-Anne-Rices-Angel-Time?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner *Anne Rice, the Queen of Vampiric fiction, has returned to her roots in her latest novel, Angel Time. The author who raised vampires from the crypt of Bram Stroker’s Transylvania and redefined their existence in the hearts of readers everywhere... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:26:19 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d27-Reviewing-Anne-Rices-Angel-Time?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d23-QA-with-author-Shari-Storm?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner  *Shari Storm has written an enlightening new must-read, Motherhood is the New MBA: Using Your Parenting Skills to Be a Better Boss. Being a mother means being boss to a challenging team – your family. Storm uses this parenting knowle... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:24:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d23-QA-with-author-Shari-Storm?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d23-Book-of-the-Week-The-Pied-Piper-of-Woodstock-by-Artie-Kornfeld?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner *Great books are composed with melodic flow. They are songs turned into stories, written with words that sing from the pages into a reader’s heart. A great story compels readers in much the same way great music affects listeners. It takes them ... Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:51:34 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d23-Book-of-the-Week-The-Pied-Piper-of-Woodstock-by-Artie-Kornfeld?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d18-Spotlighting-author-Cici-McNair?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner *Cici McNair began her career as a detective in a “secret hideout.” Little did she know that her adventures stemming from the early days of becoming a detective would lead to writing her memoir, Detective’s Don’t Wear Seat Bel... Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:40:30 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d18-Spotlighting-author-Cici-McNair?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d14-Book-of-the-week-Toxic-Friends-by-Susan-Shapiro-Barash?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner *What happens when Mean Girls grow up? Instead of blossoming into nurturing, caring and devoted members of the sisterhood, they become what Susan Shapiro Barash, gender-expert and gender studies professor at Marymount Manhattan College, calls Toxic F... Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:19:38 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d14-Book-of-the-week-Toxic-Friends-by-Susan-Shapiro-Barash?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d11-Spotlighting-author-PN-Elrod?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner *P.N. Elrod has been delighting readers with her Vampire Files series for almost twenty years. Having written more than twenty novels, she’s an old hand at interviews, writing, and creating. She’s also quick-witted, charming, and gut-bust... Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:34:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d11-Spotlighting-author-PN-Elrod?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d5-Reviewing-Cancer-is-a-Bitch?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner * Charming, fearless and heart-wrenchingly honest, Gail Konop Baker invites readers to travel back with her, through the journey that changed her life, her battle with breast cancer. Her memoir, Cancer is a Bitch is as effective as it is enthral... Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:14:50 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d5-Reviewing-Cancer-is-a-Bitch?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d2-Spotlighting-author-MaryJanice-Davidson?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner MaryJanice Davidson is the creator of wily heroine Betsy Taylor and the Undead Vampire Series. If you haven’t yet acquainted yourself with Betsy, she is a charming, fanged fashionista who also happens to be Queen of Davidson’s Vampire wor... Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:22:27 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d2-Spotlighting-author-MaryJanice-Davidson?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Spotlighting-author-Diana-Orgain?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner As a child Diana Orgain was “reading Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys.” Born to be a mystery author, Orgain vividly remembers “hiding out in my mom’s room, away from my brother, and writing down that I wanted to be a mystery writ... Thu, 01 Oct 2009 10:03:44 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m10d1-Spotlighting-author-Diana-Orgain?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m9d25-QA-with-author-Butch-Wilson?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner *Butch Wilson (aka Eldon Hughes) is the creator of www.ifoundaknife.com, a site where Wilson shares his masterful mysteries stories - via an application designed by Google Apps. Wilson has created fast-paced, suspenseful and gripping novell... Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:24:23 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m9d25-QA-with-author-Butch-Wilson?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m9d25-Spotlighting-author-Dr-Harold-Levinson?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner *“You can’t diagnose a face by the size of a nose.” And you can’t diagnose a person by one symptom, one sign of a condition. Dr. Harold Levinson wrote Smart but Feeling Dumb about diagnosing dyslexia and other disorders &ldquo... Fri, 25 Sep 2009 10:04:54 -0700 http://www.examiner.com/x-5640-Nashville-Authors-Examiner~y2009m9d25-Spotlighting-author-Dr-Harold-Levinson?cid=exrss-Nashville-Authors-Examiner