Best NAIWE Podcasts (2025)

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Book Award Winner: Robin Stevens Payes 1:04:19

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Robin Stevens Payes, winner of the NAIWE Book Awards for young adult fiction, is a time traveler who reasons that time and space are just inconvenient rules that other people decided the world must follow. She’s author of the award-winning Edge of Yesterday YA time travel adventure book series chronicling a “whip-smart” modern teen’s quest to meet—…

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Book Award Winner: Sherry Roberts 47:06

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Sherry Roberts is an award-winning author of children’s picture books and middle grade novels. Her debut middle grade book, The Galaxy According to Cece, launched February 24, 2024, and received a Get It: Recommend review from Kirkus Reviews. This book was also featured in the August 2024 list of 40 Indie Books Worth Discovering from Kirkus. Book t…

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Book Award Winner: Tong Ge 1:02:08

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Our guest today is Tong Ge who won the 2024 Book Award for her book The House Filler in the Literary Fiction category. Born and raised in China, Tong Ge moved to Canada in the late 1980s as an international student, earning a Master of Science degree from the University of Saskatchewan in 1992. Since 2012, she has written under both her real name a…

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Book Award Winner: Erin Berkery-Rovner 1:10:49

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Erin Berkery is a freelance writer, creative career advisor, and consultant with a passion for helping people both with their creative life and blending their creative lifestyles and the rest of their life. Erin writes content for companies, career development articles, and creative fiction that is quite humorous despite those previous two categori…

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Book Award Winner: David Berner 1:00:14

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David W. Berner is the author of several books of award-winning personal narrative and fiction. The recipient of honors and awards from the NYC Big Book Award,the Paris Book Festival, the Hawthorne Prize, the Page Turner Awards, Readers' Choice Awards, The Society of Midland Authors, The Chicago Writers Association, and the Eric Hoffer Book Awards.…

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Book Award Winner: Christine Benner Dixon 39:42

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Christine Benner Dixon and her co-author Sharon McDermott have recently published a book called: Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life. Millions of Suns is an open invitation for all writers to create something new. Each chapter features a pair of essays-in-dialogue between two working artists, which addresses aspecific writing element such as meta…

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Book Chat: Karin Beery 1:00:38

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Karin Beery is a published author and editor with experience in traditional and self-publishing, freelance editing, and editing for publishers. She is an active member of Advanced Writers and Speakers Association, Christian Authors Network, and the Christian Proofreaders and Editors Network, as well as a PENInstitute instructor. Her specialty is su…

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Member of the Month: William Butler 1:13:04

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William Butler, an honor student at Syracuse University, a former successful technology executive, built two BI startups and is now an author and speaker. He wrote two nonfiction Amazon #1 bestsellers: Highway to Homelessness: Road to Recovery and Navigate the Medical Maze. He was raised in Fayetteville, New York, and now resides in Westboro, Massa…

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Member of the Month: Charlene Dietz 1:10:55

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Charlene’s professional career started as a teacher in elementary schools. Years later, she transferred to high school where she taught students with special needs and science. Dietz left public education to teach graduate students at a private college and later became an educational consultant for Houghton Mifflin Publishing. Charlene began writin…

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Member of the Month: Claudia Riess 1:10:27

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Claudia Riess, a Vassar graduate, has worked in the editorial departments of The New Yorker and Holt, Rinehart and Winston and has edited several art monographs. Her earliest recollections of word-spinning are of her father, an English professor, telling stories at bedtime—funny stories about a little girl and her daddy going on riotous adventures.…

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Member of the Month: Alfred O'Neill 45:49

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A.E.S. O’Neill grew up going to private school paid for by a mobster father, rocks out to the Grateful Dead and Beethoven for inspiration, reads comics to never lose his inner-child, and disregards most of society’s rules—except for the importance of decency, empathy and humanity. From a childhood marked by wiretaps, mob dinners, and FBI agents fol…

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Member of the Month: George De Stefano 37:44

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George De Stefano is a New York–based writer and editor specializing in culture and politics. He is the author of An Offer We Can’t Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) and a contributor to numerous other books, including the Routledge History of Italian Americans; Mafia Movies (University of Toronto); The Essential Sop…

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Book Chat: Marcia Rosen 44:42

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Marcia Rosen (aka M. Glenda Rosen) is a marketing and public relations advisor for authors and a senior team member creating out-of-the-box strategies for a marketing/advertising agency and client projects. She was owner and founder of a business/marketing and public relations agency and consulting firm in New York City; The Hamptons; and Albuquerq…

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Member of the Month: Ruth Thaler-Carter 46:46

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Ruth E. “I can write about anything!” Thaler-Carter, NAIWE’s Networking Expert, provides writing, editing, proofreading, website critiques and updates, and presentations to publications, associations, businesses, not-for-profit organizations and individuals in diversity, decorative arts, cats, landscaping/gardening, education, facilities management…

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Book Chat: Bob Emery 33:29

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Bob Emery writes under the pen name R.J. Eastwood. Over his long career as a member of the Directors Guild of America, he has written, produced, and directed both feature films and television programming and everything in between. His production work has garnered him over 75 industry awards along the way. To date, Bob has published seven books, fou…