{"id":4330,"date":"2012-04-12T15:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2018-06-27T12:36:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T18:36:15","slug":"april-14-2012-stephen-spignesi-titanic-and-shaeri-richards-dancing-with-your-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=4330","title":{"rendered":"April 14, 2012 &#8211; Stephen Spignesi, &#8220;Titanic&#8221; and Shaeri Richards, &#8220;Dancing With Your Dragon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 14, 2012\u00a0 Show Archives\/Pod Casts\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archives2012.gcnlive.com\/Archives2012\/apr12\/AmerikaNow\/0414121.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Hour 1<\/a> &#8211;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/archives2012.gcnlive.com\/Archives2012\/apr12\/AmerikaNow\/0414122.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hour 2 <\/a>&#8211;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/archives2012.gcnlive.com\/Archives2012\/apr12\/AmerikaNow\/0414123.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hour 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hour 1:\u00a0 Stephen Spignesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joining Amerika Now during the first hour of the show is Stephen Spignesi, a renowned <em>New York Times <\/em>bestselling author who writes about historical biography, popular culture, television, film, American and world history, and contemporary fiction.\u00a0 He is also a university professor, novelist, poet, screenwriter, and musician.\u00a0 Stephen will be discussing his recent work, <strong><em>Titanic for Dummies,<\/em><\/strong> as part of the show&#8217;s live commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.<\/p>\n<p>Spignesi has been christened &#8220;the world&#8217;s leading authority on Stephen King&#8221; by <em>Entertainment Weekly <\/em>magazine, and has worked with Stephen King, Turner Entertainment, the Margaret Mitchell Estate, Ron Howard, Andy Griffith, the Smithsonian Institution, George Washington&#8217;s Mount Vernon, Viacom, and other personalities and entities on a wide range of projects. He&#8217;s also contributed essays, chapters, articles, and introductions to a wide range of books.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen&#8217;s more than 50+ books have been translated into numerous languages, and he also has written for <em>Harper&#8217;s, Cinefantastique, Saturday Review, TV Guide, Mystery Scene, Gauntlet<\/em>, and <em>Midnight Graffiti<\/em> magazines. As well, Stephen has contributed articles to the <em>New York Times, New York Daily News, New York Post, New Haven Register, <\/em>the French literary journal, <em>Tenebres<\/em>, and the Italian online literary journal, <em>Horror.It.\u00a0 <\/em>Spignesi has also appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and other TV and radio outlets; and has also appeared in the 1998 E! documentary, <em>The Kennedys: Power, Seduction, and Hollywood,<\/em> as a Kennedy family authority; and in the <em>A&amp;E Biography<\/em> of Stephen King that aired in January 2000. Spignesi&#8217;s 1997 book, <em>JFK, Jr.,<\/em> was a <em>New York Times<\/em> bestseller. His <em>Complete Stephen King Encyclopedia<\/em> was a 1991 Bram Stoker Award nominee.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to writing, Stephen also lectures on a variety of popualr culture and historial subjects and is a Practitioner at the University of New Haven and Adjunct Professor at Gateway Community College. He is the Found and Editor-in-Chief of the small-press publishing company, The Stephen John Press. In addition, he was recently praised for &#8220;reinventing the psychological thriller&#8221; upon the publication of his acclaimed debut novel, <em>Dialogues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hour 2 at 9:30 PST, 12:30AM EST:\u00a0 Shaeri Richards<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4339\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/ShaeriRichardsPHOTO3-480x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"138\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joining Amerika Now during the second half of the second hour is Shaeri Richards to discuss her first self-help book, <strong><em>Dancing With Your Dragon:\u00a0 The Art of Loving Your Unlovable Self. <\/em><\/strong>Shaeri will lead you on a simple yet profound journey toward self-worth and unconditional love.\u00a0 She will help you expand your awareness while opening your heart to the deeper layers of your being.\u00a0 Most importantly, Shaeri will teach you the art of loving yourself&#8211;even when you don&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>Although Shaeri Richards is currently in demand as an author, speaker, and hypnotherapist, her foundational background was forged in the fields of communication and the performing arts.\u00a0 In addition to her accomplishments as a musician, actress, and filmmaker, Shaeri Richards spent 30 years in radio and television as a journalist and talk show host.\u00a0 During those years, she spent much of her free time studying metaphysics, astrology, and spirituality as tools for self-discovery, an effort that would become the foundation for her current life work.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4342\" src=\"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/DancingwithyourDragonCOVER1-90x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"90\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This background education, along with 10 years of study in a mystery school founded by her mother, led Shaeri to the writing of <strong><em>Dancing With Your Dragon<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 She&#8217;s also the author of an audio book for the young and young-at-heart called, <strong><em>Maressa &amp; Merlone:\u00a0 A Musical Fairy Tale<\/em><\/strong>, and the Writer\/Director of the Award-Winning Short Film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themothertree.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>The Mother Tree<\/em>.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information about Shaeri Richards and her book, please visit her website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dancingwithyourdragon.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.dancingwithyourdragon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLEASE CALL\u00a0 800-259-5791\u00a0 TO SPEAK WITH SHAERI. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 14, 2012\u00a0 Show Archives\/Pod Casts\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hour 1 &#8211;\u00a0 Hour 2 &#8211;\u00a0 Hour 3 Hour 1:\u00a0 Stephen Spignesi Joining Amerika Now during the first hour of the show is Stephen Spignesi, a renowned New York Times bestselling author who writes about historical biography, popular culture, television, film, American and world history, and contemporary fiction.\u00a0 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-show_archives","7":"category-guests","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12226,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions\/12226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}