YA Month – “A Book and a Chat with Heidi R. Kling”

January is YA Radio month on A Book and a Chat, with special guest throughout the month, not only authors but bloggers as well.

Today’s guest on a book and a chat was author Heidi R Kling, whose book “SEA” comes out in June. While I knew a large number of people wanted to listen and talk to Heidi little did I know just how many.

The show was full of questions either from the chat room or from people dialing in. Be it half asleep bloggers, family members, fellow writers or a neighbor Heidi had not spoken to for many years, all wanted to chat to and ask question of the fabulous author.

You can find out more about the show, the links to listen to, as well as the up and coming guests at during YA Radio month at…

http://abookandachat.blogspot.com

Barry Eva (Storyheart)

YA Month – “A Book and a Chat with Sarah MacLean”

January is YA Radio month on A Book and a Chat, with special guest throughout the month, not only authors but bloggers as well.

So what do you get if you cross the daughter of a spy with Jane Austen?

One answer might be Sarah MacLean my guest on today’s “A Book and a Chat”.

Sarah was one of the authors that many wanted to be included in my YA Radio Week, her book “The Season” has been one of the most popular YA novel over the last year.

Check out about Sarah and the show at…

http://abookandachat.blogspot.com

Barry Eva (Storyheart)

YA RADIO MONTH – A Book and a Chat with Alyssa – “The Shady Glade Blog”

January is YA Radio month on A Book and a Chat, with special guest throughout the month, not only authors but bloggers as well. Today my guest on YA MONTH – “A Book and a Chat” was one of the people I call the “Sham-Wow” of YA literature, one of the great Bloggers of Young Adult LiteratureAlyssa who writes in the blog “The Shady Glade”. The show as normal was full of interest and entertainment, this can only be expected from a person who has read 179 books in 2009 which incorporated a total of 33,239 pages as well as making over 400 blog posts. During the show Alyssa was able to share with us some of her favorite books of 2009 as well as some she is looking forward to reading in 2010. We chatted about how the YA literature filed has exploded in popularity during 2009 as well as some of the wonderful things these young bloggers and readers do to help others less well off. the show was so interesting and entertaining the time just flew by, it is one I’m sure listeners of all ages no matter what you read, or even if you read will be able to listen to and enjoy Direct link to the show is… A Book and a Chat Alyssa or you can download the mp3 file of the show from Alyssa To find out more about Alyssa visit her blog at: The Shady Glade YA RADIO MONTH Location: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Across-the-Pond (Listen to the show or else if you want to talk to the guest dial in on 347- 237-5398) [Times are EST shows are 30mins unless marked] Jan 2nd – 11:00am Rhonda Stapleton (Stupid Cupid) 1hr Jan 5th – 7:00pm Bree Despain (The Dark Divine) 1hr Jan 7th – 6:30pm Tirzah – “Compulsive Reader Blog” Jan 9th – 11:00am Michelle Zink (Prophecy of the Sisters) 1hr Jan 12th – 6:30pm Kristi – “The Story Siren Blog” Jan 14th – 6:30pm Alyssa – “The Shay Glade Blog” Jan 16th – 11:00am Sarah MacLean (The Season) 1hr Jan 18th – 6:30pm Kyle – “Goodreads” Jan 19th – 6:30pm Jessica – “Chick Lit Teens Blog” Jan 21st – 6:30pm Sharon – “Sharon Loves Books & Cats” Jan 23rd – 11:00am Heidi R Kling (Sea) 1hr Jan 26th – 7pm Carol Lynch Williams (The Chosen One) 1hr Jan 28th – 6:30pm The Cindy Loves Books Show Jan 30th – 11:00am Lisa Schroedar (Chasing Brooklyn) 1hr Check out http://abookandachat.blogspot.com Barry Eva (Storyheart)

YA Month – “A Book and a Chat with Michelle Zink”

January is YA Radio month on A Book and a Chat, with special guest throughout the month, not only authors but bloggers as well.

My guest on today’s one hour special YA MONTH – “A Book and a Chat” is Michelle Zink, one authors asked by many to be part of the YA Radio Week.

Michelle’s book “PROPHECY of the SISTERS” has proved hugely popular with YA readers not just in America but all round the world, indeed the book has now been published in over twenty countries.

You can find out more about Michelle, her book and the radio show and the YA Radio Month at

http://abookandachat.blogspot.com

Barry Eva (Storyheart)

YA Month – “A Book and a Chat with Tirzah (Compulsive Reader Blog)”

January is YA Radio month on A Book and a Chat, with special guest throughout the month, not only authors but bloggers as well.

My guest on today’s YA MONTH – “A Book and a Chat” was one of the YA bloggers I call the Sham-wow of Young Adult LiteratureTirzah who writes in the blog “The Compulsive Reader”.

The show as normal was full of interest and entertainment and Tirzah shared with us how her love of reading had lead her to produce not only her blog, but reviews and book trailers amongst other items. In fact there seems no stopping her. With over a thousand book, I’m sure she’ll have her own library soon.

Many interesting questions were put to Tirzah from people in the chat room, to which she supplied some really interesting answers.

During the show we learned about her favorite books both ones she reads as “comfort books” as well as sharing with us not only her most enjoyed books of 2009 along with some she is looking forward to reading in 2010. We also found out that Tirzah would have loved to have been around in the early twentieth century, chaining herself to railings and shouting “votes for women”.

To find out about this and so much more listen to “YA Month – A Book and a Chat with “Tirzah” and her blog “The Compulsive Reader“

You can find the show links and about Tirzah at…

http://abookandachat.blogspot.com

YA RADIO MONTH

Location: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Across-the-Pond

(Listen to the show or else if you want to talk to the guest dial in on 347- 237-5398)
[Times are EST shows are 30mins unless marked]

Jan 2nd – 11:00am Rhonda Stapleton (Stupid Cupid) 1hr
Jan 5th – 7:00pm Bree Despain (The Dark Divine) 1hr
Jan 7th – 6:30pm Tirzah – “Compulsive Reader Blog”
Jan 9th – 11:00am Michelle Zink (Prophecy of the Sisters) 1hr
Jan 12th – 6:30pm Kristi – “The Story Siren Blog”
Jan 14th – 6:30pm Alyssa – “Shayglade Blog”
Jan 16th – 11:00am Sarah MacLean (The Season) 1hr
Jan 18th – 6:30pm Kyle – “Goodreads”
Jan 19th – 6:30pm Jessica – “Chick Lit Teens Blog”
Jan 21st – 6:30pm Sharon – “Sharon Loves Books & Cats”
Jan 23rd – 11:00am Heidi R Kling (Sea) 1hr
Jan 26th – 7pm Carol Lynch Williams (The Chosen One) 1hr
Jan 28th – 6:30pm The Cindy Loves Books Show
Jan 30th – 11:00am Lisa Schroedar (Chasing Brooklyn) 1hr

Check out http://abookandachat.blogspot.com

Barry Eva (Storyheart)

YA Month – “A Book and a Chat with Bree Despain”

January is YA Radio month on A Book and a Chat, with special guest throughout the month.

My guest on today’s YA MONTH – “A Book and a Chat” was BREE DESPAIN author of “THE DARK DIVINE” which had it’s launch party just a few days ago.

Like all good times when you are enjoying yourself, this one hour special just seemed to fly by, being both a fun and educational sixty minutes.

During the show we learned about how life and directed Bree along the various byways to find her true calling of producing, this her first, but certainly not her last novel.

The Dark Divine has received rave reviews about her book full of suspense and mystery, characters with unexpected depths, a romantic plot yet with twists and turns that keep the reader wanting to turn the page. And all the time as the tension continues to build you’ll learn more about the supernatural elements and the creatures in this fantastic YA novel.

Bree shared with us her experiences from her writing and having Egmont as a publisher, to her book launch where King’s English Bookshop or TKE in Salt Lake City, where so many people turned up it was standing room only, how some people even had “Dark Divine” t-shirts. the book stored which actually “asked” if they could host the book launch, and despite extra copies of the book sold out on that day. They even baked special purple halfmoon cookies for the event.

During the show Bree divulged the writing of a second and possibly a third novel about the more in the lives of the Divine family as they deal with their problem and Grace and Daniel learn to accept and cope with the differences between them.

And why does Bree dream about large lumps of cheese covered in honey?

To find out about this and so much more listen to “YA Month – A Book and a Chat with “Bree Despain”

Direct link to the show is…

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/across-the-pond/2010/01/06/ya-radio-month–a-book-and-a-chat-with-bree-despa

or you can download the mp3 file of the show from

Bree Despain

To find out more about Bree and her writing visit

The Dark Divine

YA RADIO MONTH

Location: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Across-the-Pond

(Listen to the show or else if you want to talk to the guest dial in on 347- 237-5398)
[Times are EST shows are 30mins unless marked]

Jan 2nd – 11:00am Rhonda Stapleton (Stupid Cupid) 1hr
Jan 5th – 7:00pm Bree Despain (The Dark Divine) 1hr
Jan 7th – 6:30pm Tirzah – “Compulsive Reader Blog”
Jan 9th – 11:00am Michelle Zink (Prophecy of the Sisters) 1hr
Jan 12th – 6:30pm Kristi – “The Story Siren Blog”
Jan 14th – 6:30pm Alyssa – “Shayglade Blog”
Jan 16th – 11:00am Sarah MacLean (The Season) 1hr
Jan 18th – 6:30pm Kyle – “Goodreads”
Jan 19th – 6:30pm Jessica – “Chick Lit Teens Blog”
Jan 21st – 6:30pm Sharon – “Sharon Loves Books & Cats”
Jan 23rd – 11:00am Heidi R Kling (Sea) 1hr
Jan 26th – 7pm Carol Lynch Williams (The Chosen One) 1hr
Jan 28th – 6:30pm The Cindy Loves Books Show
Jan 30th – 11:00am Lisa Schroedar (Chasing Brooklyn) 1hr

Check out http://abookandachat.blogspot.com

Barry Eva (Storyheart)

YA RADIO – Tuesday 7pm – BREE DESPAIN

Throughout January on my blog radio show “A Book and a Chat” (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Across-the-Pond on I will be hosting writers and bloggers of Young Adult Literature.

The Next guest will be “BREE DESPAIN” author of the fantastic YA novel “The Dark Divine“

The next YA BOOK Book and a Chat with Bree Despain will be on TUESDAY January 5th at 7pm EST

Here are the full details for the month

YA RADIO MONTH

Location: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Across-the-Pond

(Listen to the show or else if you want to talk to the guest dial in on 347- 237-5398)

[Times are EST shows are 30mins unless marked]

Jan 2nd – 11:00am Rhonda Stapleton (Stupid Cupid) 1hr

Jan 5th – 7:00pm Bree Despain (The Dark Divine) 1hr

Jan 7th – 6:30pm Tirzah – “Compulsive Reader Blog”

Jan 9th – 11:00am Michelle Zink (Prophecy of the Sisters) 1hr

Jan 12th – 6:30pm Kristi – “The Story Siren Blog”

Jan 14th – 6:30pm Alyssa – “Shayglade Blog”

Jan 16th – 11:00am Sarah MacLean (The Season) 1hr

Jan 18th – 6:30pm Kyle – “Goodreads”

Jan 19th – 6:30pm Jessica – “Chick Lit Teens Blog”

Jan 21st – 6:30pm Sharon – “Sharon Loves Books & Cats”

Jan 23rd – 11:00am Heidi R Kling (Sea) 1hr

Jan 26th – 7pm Carol Lynch Williams (The Chosen One) 1hr

Jan 28th – 6:30pm The Cindy Loves Books Show

Jan 30th – 11:00am Lisa Schroedar (Chasing Brooklyn) 1hr

Check out http://abookandachat.blogspot.com

Barry Eva (Storyheart)

YA Month – “A Book and a Chat with Rhonda Stapleton”

January is YA Radio month on A Book and a Chat, with special guest throughout the month. Rhonda Stapleton author of “Stupid Cupid” which was launched just before Christmas, joins me today on a Book and a Chat, launching “YA BLOG RADIO MONTH” on “A Book and a Chat” with a one hour special to chat about her life and her writing.

After gaining a Master’s degree in English and a Bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and producing a couple of books, Rhonda finally listened to the voices in her head and produced her book. Not only her first book “Stupid Cupid” but also two follow up novels “Flirting with Disaster” (March 2010) and “Pucker Up”" (May 2010).During the show Rhonda explains how her book changed from one novel into a trilogy, also what writings she is planning to add to produce in the future.

During the show Rhonda shares her views about writing and publishing, the trials and tribulations of both. Rhonda also reveals some of her likes and dislikes from “blue food” to “singing at the drop of a hat”. As you will hear, Rhonda brings her own brand of humor to the show, making the hour go very quickly and producing a great start to “YA Blog Radio month”

So why not sit back and listen to “YA Month – A Book and a Chat with “Rhonda Stapleton”

Direct link to the show is…

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/across-the-pond/2010/01/02/ya-radio-month–a-book-and-a-chat-with-rhonda-stap

or you can download the mp3 file of the show from

Rhonda Stapleton

To find out more about Rhonda and her writing visit

Stupid Cupid

YA RADIO MONTH

Location: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Across-the-Pond

(Listen to the show or else if you want to talk to the guest dial in on 347- 237-5398)
[Times are EST shows are 30mins unless marked]

Jan 2nd – 11:00am Rhonda Stapleton (Stupid Cupid) 1hr
Jan 5th – 7:00pm Bree Despain (The Dark Divine) 1hr
Jan 7th – 6:30pm Tirzah – “Compulsive Reader Blog”
Jan 9th – 11:00am Michelle Zink (Prophecy of the Sisters) 1hr
Jan 12th – 6:30pm Kristi – “The Story Siren Blog”
Jan 14th – 6:30pm Alyssa – “Shayglade Blog”
Jan 16th – 11:00am Sarah MacLean (The Season) 1hr
Jan 18th – 6:30pm Kyle – “Goodreads”
Jan 19th – 6:30pm Jessica – “Chick Lit Teens Blog”
Jan 21st – 6:30pm Sharon – “Sharon Loves Books & Cats”
Jan 23rd – 11:00am Heidi R Kling (Sea) 1hr
Jan 26th – 7pm Carol Lynch Williams (The Chosen One) 1hr
Jan 28th – 6:30pm The Cindy Loves Books Show
Jan 30th – 11:00am Lisa Schroedar (Chasing Brooklyn) 1hr

Check out http://abookandachat.blogspot.com

>Barry Eva (Storyheart)

JANUARY 2010 YA RADIO MONTH

To start of the New Year I am as they say in the North of England, “Chuffed to little meat balls” to be hosting a YA RADIO MONTH.

Throughout January on my blog radio show “A Book and a Chat” (http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Across-the-Pond on I will be hosting writers and bloggers of Young Adult Literature.

After realizing that I already had several YA Bloggers booked to appear on the show in January I thought “Why not make the whole month dedicated to YA Literature?”.

I contacted several of the top YA Bloggers asking them for their top YA Authors in 2009. Not counting Julia Holban who will be making a return appearance in March, I then contacted about 10 of these writers. I am so pleased to say that every writer who returned my email was only too willing to appear on the show.

The first of these shows is on Saturday when Rhonda Stapleton author of “Stupid Cupid” will be my guest

Any way here are the full details for the month

YA RADIO MONTH

Location: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/Across-the-Pond

(Listen to the show or else if you want to talk to the guest dial in on 347- 237-5398)

[Times are EST shows are 30mins unless marked]

Jan 2nd – 11:00am Rhonda Stapleton (Stupid Cupid) 1hr

Jan 5th – 7:00pm Bree Despain (The Dark Divine) 1hr

Jan 7th – 6:30pm Tirzah – “Compulsive Reader Blog”

Jan 9th – 11:00am Michelle Zink (Prophecy of the Sisters) 1hr

Jan 12th – 6:30pm Kristi – “The Story Siren Blog”

Jan 14th – 6:30pm Alyssa – “Shayglade Blog”

Jan 16th – 11:00am Sarah MacLean (The Season) 1hr

Jan 18th – 6:30pm Kyle – “Goodreads”

Jan 19th – 6:30pm Jessica – “Chick Lit Teens Blog”

Jan 21st – 6:30pm Sharon – “Sharon Loves Books & Cats”

Jan 23rd – 11:00am Heidi R Kling (Sea) 1hr

Jan 26th – 7pm Carol Lynch Williams (The Chosen One) 1hr

Jan 28th – 6:30pm The Cindy Loves Books Show

Jan 30th – 11:00am Lisa Schroedar (Chasing Brooklyn) 1hr

Check out http://abookandachat.blogspot.com

Barry Eva (Storyheart)

What has 107, 101, 2 and 24 to do with 2009?

Almost the end of 2009, and I am facing it with very mixed feelings. It has been a year when family issues, medical issues and work issues have overwhelmed the literature, radio and friendship aspects of the past 365 days.

From the very start of the year leading up to my major back surgery until today when my youngest son was back in hospital, there has hardly been a day go by when one of the family was not sick or at the dentist, doctors, doing physiotherapist or at the chiropractor.

So let’s forget about that part, let’s look at the good aspects of 2009.

What has 107, 101, 2 and 24 to do with 2009?

“107″ that is the total reviews my book “Across the Pond” has received at Amazon since it first came out. I am so totally overwhelmed with the words of support, encouragement and the fact that so many people have enjoyed the book. As many writer guest on my radio show have stated, receiving reviews or an email knowing that a reader has enjoyed your work, makes it all worthwhile!

“101” is the total number of “A Book and a Chat” radio shows I have presented this year. I have had so much fun doing the shows, learnt much and made some great friends. Over the year I’ve had guests from central Europe, Australia and England as well as Canada and the US. I’ve had calls from guests parked on the side of roads, half way up hillsides, in restaurants and in the middle of forests. I can honestly say through all the time, I have enjoyed myself and from the feedback and the requests for return visits so have the people so have my guests.

“2” is the number of top ten books for 2009 that “Across the Pond” has appeared on during December, I am so shocked. As anybody knows who has listened to me chatting on the radio either as a host or a guest, I don’t class myself as a writer, I am know literary genius, just a humble story teller.

Locations of top ten mentions:

http://www.pussreboots.pair.com/blog/2009/comments_12/ten_best_arcs_of_2009.html

http://childrensandteensbookconnection.wordpress.com/2009/12/16/give-the-gift-of-reading-this-holiday-season

“24” is a number I’m not quite so proud of. It the meager number of chapters I have managed to write for the follow up to “Across the Pond” a book called “Across the Pond and Back Again”. This would be even less if it was not for the support, encouragement and almost bullying (I need it) I have received from a couple of readers whom I am now proud to call friends. Finally though I seem to be getting back into the stride of things and home to get the book written over the next few months.

My final blog of 2009 tomorrow I’ll be sharing with you all an event I will be running through January, that is my YA RADIO MONTH.

So check out tomorrows blog.

Barry Eva (Storyheart)