Authors Between the Covers: What It Takes to Write Your Heart Out

Our spotlight is on: Author, musician, and all-around funnyman Sam Barry.

Our hot topic: Why it’s important to write that book already! And how to keep your sense of humor—even when the proverbial poop is hitting the fan.

Your host: Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher of Be Inkandescent magazine, and founder & president of The Inkandescent Group, LLC

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On the "I Got the Music In Me" radio show, we give voice to songbirds, and always ask: “What’s your story?” read more...

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A Note from Hope Katz Gibbs, creator, Inkandescent Radio —Happy 75th anniversary to Highlights for Children, the wonderfully engaging magazine that you likely read as a kid and probably have shared with your own children and grandchildren!

This month, we had the privilege of interviewing Christine Cully, Editor-in-Chief and Chief Purpose Officer of Highlights, who talked with us about the history of this fantastic publication that has touched millions of children. Please scroll down to read our Q&A, and be sure to watch our interview on InkandescentRadio.com and Inkandescent.tv. read more...

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Flora Belle Buckman is 10 years old and hates romance. She prides herself on being a natural-born cynic, and while she wants to believe in superheroes — she just can’t make herself buy into the premise.

At least, that’s how she feels during the summer after 5th grade when she’s reading “The Illuminated Adventures of the Amazing Incandesto!”

With the whoosh of a vacuum cleaner, all that changes. Flora’s neighbor, Mrs. Tickham, while using her new Ulysses Super-Suction, Multi-Terrain 2000X — on the lawn — sucks up an unassuming squirrel — and the incident magically gives him superpowers. From then on, the squirrel is known as (what else?) Ulysses. read more...

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Hello and welcome to the Inkandescent Radio show, “Authors Between the Covers.” I’m your host, the founder of the Inkandescent Radio Network, Hope Katz Gibbs.

I’m thrilled to be here today with Christine Mangan, author of Tangerine, the Hitchcockian tale of Alice Shipley and Lucy Mason — college roommates who reconnect in the Moroccan city of Tangier, 1956. Drama and intrigue ensue, and indeed this page-turner is incredibly hard to put down.

In the last six months, “Tangerine” has gotten tremendous attention — having been a featured in The New Yorker, and reviewed in The New York Times. Also incredibly exciting is that it has been optioned for film by George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures, and Scarlett Johansson is set to star. read more...

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It was an honor and privilege to be interviewed today by Tyler Wagner, Head Honcho @ Authorsunite.com, for his podcast show, The Business Blast.

Be sure to listen to our chat by downloading the podcast now! Scroll down for a transcript of our interview.

Tyler: What’s the best story from your life that has an underlying, valuable message?

Hope: Oh, there are so many to choose from … my dad was a bookie, I got left at the alter, when I left my husband in 2014 to move to Richmond to grow my business, I proceeded to go on 108 first dates, which is the topic of my new book, Why Divorce? The list goes on. But the theme that strings the stories of my life together is that no matter what challenge I was facing, I listened to my gut and heart and let my intuition pull me like a magnet. read more...

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Author Dawn Tripp movingly reveals artist Georgia O’Keeffe as a woman striving to live the life she believes in in her new book, “Georgia,” an imagined story of the life of the infamous artist.

The book draws readers in from page 1 as she writes: “I no longer love you as I once did, in the dazzling rush of those early days. Time itself was feverish then, our bodies filled with fire … the metallic scent of the dark room, smells of sweat and linseed oil, a stain of cocoa on the dining room table. It was all smashed together back then — art, sex, life — mixed into the perfect color, every shadow had a substance, shape, and tone … My hands are cool now, the past remade and packed away. Sometimes, though, late at night the air lifts and I feel it — the faint burn of your eyes on my closed lids. Still. That sense of you rushing back in.” read more...

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“Every month, 5 million people move from the past to the future,” writes Daniel Brook, author of the 2013 tome, “A History of Future Cities.”

“Pouring into developing-world ‘instant cities’ like Dubai and Shenzhen, these urban newcomers confront a modern world cobbled together from fragments of a West they have never seen,” he explains, asking: “Do these fantastical boomtowns, where blueprints spring to life overnight on virgin land, represent the dawning of a brave new world? Or is their vaunted newness a mirage?” read more...

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Jim Barnes is a book editor and director of the IPPY Awards (shorthand for the Independent Publisher Book Awards) — which, for nearly two decades, have rewarded the creativity and innovation of independent authors and publishers who are “changing the face of publishing around the world.”

With more than 75 subject categories, regional awards for eight US and two Canadian regions, and a spectacular awards ceremony in New York on the eve of BookExpo America, the IPPY Awards are one of the most effective — and affordable — marketing tools available to authors and publishers today. read more...

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If you missed Anita Diamant’s “The Red Tent” — a book with such a strong woman protagonist and such a compelling plot that many of us devoured it — then you need to immediately add this title to your reading list.

Published in 1997, it is Diamant’s first work of fiction. Inspired by a few lines from Genesis, the book became a word-of-mouth best-seller thanks to reader recommendations, book groups, and support from independent bookstores. In 2001, the Independent Booksellers Alliance honored “The Red Tent” as its “Booksense Best Fiction” selection. Today, there are editions in more than 25 countries world-wide — from Australia, England, and Finland, to Lithuania, Spain, and Sweden. read more...

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