Episodes

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  This Week in Books #26

  This week hosts Lisa Johnson Mandell and Sam Osborn discuss the hobbling Hobbit adaptation that looks to finally be heading to the screen and Sam reveals his inner dork as he highlights the casting rumors from Middle- Earth. Joining in via Skype is Author,  Bo Caldwell, whose novel ‘City of Tranquil Light’ draws from the [...]

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  This Week in Books #25

  This week hosts Lisa Johnson Mandell and Sam Osborn debate the casting of the reboot of Stephen King’s ‘the Stand’  for the big screen and reveal a new tour of the landscape behind the bestseller ‘the Girl with the dragon tattoo’. To continue the Hollywood theme, this weeks guest is a body double to some [...]

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  This Week in Books #24

  This week hosts Lisa Johnson Mandell and Sam Osborn are joined in studio by Bill Phillips who has transformed the life of many people all over the world with his health and fitness books. Bill explains that we should not build our life around fitness but rather build our lives upon it. In an age [...]

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  This Week in Books #23

  This week hosts Lisa Johnson Mandell and Sam Osborn are joined in studio by Jillian Lauren, author of Some Girls, My Life in a Harem. They discuss her journey to join the Sultan of Brunei’s harem of women and how she became a writer. In Books on the Big Screen they talk about the adaptations [...]

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  This Week in Books #22

  This week is the reboot of This Week in Books with new hosts Lisa Johnson Mandell and Sam Osborn. They are joined in studio by Robert Tercek, a multimedia content expert who has worked with companies like MTV, Sony, Oprah Winfrey Network, and more! They also discuss what they are reading including An Object of [...]

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  This Week in Books #21

  This week Mark Jeffrey interviews Philippa Ballantine, author of GEIST TWiBooks  #21 Coming up:  Mark Twain’s vitriolic autobiography is finally published 100 years after his death, Plus: product placement comes to books and author Phillipa Ballantine joins us on This Week In Books, starting right now! Guest: Philippa ‘Pip’ Ballantine Clip:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EWGpZwwoM8 ** Thank Storm [...]

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  This Week in Books #20

  This week Author Seth Harwood joins us to discuss his new book ‘Young Junius’; the future of physical books versus ebooks, the color Nook, and whether J.K. Rowling is actually planning more Harry Potter novels.

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  This Week in Books #19

  This week, host Mark Jeffrey welcomes guest J. Daniel Sawyer, the Parsec-nominated author of “Predestination,” “Sculpting God” and “Down From Ten.” Plus, we’ll ask the question, “will physical books be gone in five years?” For more information, show notes and an upcoming schedule, go to http://thisweekin.com Coming Up: Nicolas Negroponte declares the paper book dead [...]

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  This Week in Books Episode

  This week we chat with New York Times Bestselling and Parsec Award Winning Author Scott Sigler. Host Mark Jeffrey also gives away a free iPad! Coming up: Why is a New York Times Bestselling author willingly and enthusiastically going back to self-publishing?  The answer to this with my guest Scott Sigler coming up on This [...]

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  This Week in Books Episode

  This week we chat with Kirsten Miller, author of the Kiki Strike series of books: Inside the Shadow City and The Empress’s Tomb and most recently, The Eternal Ones. This Week In Books #17 Guest: Author Kirsten Miller I am thrilled to have a fellow Young Adult author on for the first time.  Kirsten Miller [...]

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  This Week in Books Episode

  This week we give you a very special edition: How To Get Your Book Published. Guests: Literary Agent Margaret O’Connor-Chumley of the Renaissance Literary and Talent Agency and Sarah-Jane Stratford, Author of The Midnight Guardian (2009, St. Martin’s Press). Host Mark Jeffrey opened the show describing the ‘three steps’ to getting you book from your [...]

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  Bibliotech Episode 15: Fraser Kelton

  My guest today is the VP Marketing of Glue (found at GetGlue.com) a website that helps you find your next favorite movie, book, music album or other every day thing (here’s a list of supported categories). Glue shows you things that you’ll like based on your personal tastes, what your friends like, and what’s most [...]

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  Bibliotech Episode 14: Author Anne

  My next guest is hands down the one I’m personally the most excited about. There are two authors I call all-time favorites — Stephen R. Donaldson is one, she is the other. Starting with ‘Interview With The Vampire’ and ‘The Vampire Lestat’, her Mayfair Witches and Vampire Chronicles and other books have collectively sold over [...]

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  Bibliotech Episode 13: Author Margaret

  Here on Bibliotech, we’ve had on several authorpreneurs who write things called ‘novels’. However, today, we are extremely fortunate to have a guest who writes actual Literature. Starting in 1969 with her first book, “The Edible Woman” she has released over forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays including ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, “Oryx and [...]

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  Bibliotech Episode 12: Author Tee

  My guest today is one of the original podiobook authors. Back in the beginning of 2005, he released the epic fantasy ‘Morevi’ as a podcast audiobook. But he didn’t stop there — when he was finished, he actually went back and re-recorded the entire book again as a dramatic reading with voice actors, music and [...]

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  Bibliotech Episode 11: Keith Blount

  When I explain Mahalo, the search service that I am CTO of during my day job, I usually describe the search space as unfinished. There is still room for massive improvement. I then typically contrast this with a software domain that IS finished — Microsoft Word, for example. Word Processing is solved. You can maybe [...]

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  Bibliotech Episode 10: Author Boyd

  My guest today is another Authorpenuer cut from the same cloth as the podiobook authors we’ve previously had on the show. Much like them, he made his own luck by self-publishing his work online. However, his choice of platform was unique: the Kindle. After distributing more than seven thousand copies of his ebook, the Ark, [...]

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  Bibliotech Episode 9: Author Matthew

  Brave men do a lot of things. Normally, you wouldn’t think that a Brave Man would Run, but there is an exception to this rule, and it’s not nearly as strange as it sounds. My next guest is not only the author of Brave Men Run: A Novel of the Sovereign Era, a massively popular [...]

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  Bibliotech Episode 8: Evo Terra

  Sometime in early 2005, the term ‘podiobook‘ first appeared in the public consciousness. Podcasting, the art of creating radio-type shows meant to be downloaded and consumed on mp3 players such as the iPod, had just begun to take off. And somewhere in Arizona, one rather inventive individual got the notion in his head that audiobooks [...]

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  Bibliotech Episode 7: Liz Dubelman

  My guest today has worked with Woody Allen and won two Emmys. She is a digital producer, film producer and director and author. And now, she’s woven these skills together to create VidLit.com, a company that creates professional-grade video promotions for books — called ‘VidLits’. She has created VidLits for authors such as Bill Maher, [...]

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  Bibliotech Episode 6: Author Scott

  My guest today is one of the biggest potty-mouths on the planet. But much like South Park, there’s utter brilliance in his panorama of porcelain. Featuring monsters with rich backstories based on well-researched science, his books are tearing it up on multiple charts. He is one of the very first and most successful podiobook authors [...]