Chatting With Sherri

Chatting With Sherri welcomes the director and one of the stars of new film: "Switched at Love!" We chatted with the star of the film; Danny Arroyo  and  the director Jamal McWhorter!  "Switched At Love" follows two couples who discover that they may not have found "the one" after all. Whether they're ready to admit it or not, their friends will give them the push they need to find true love.  The romantic comedy "Switched At Love".  stars Danny Arroyo  (“Sangre Negra”), Mike Merrill (“All American”; “American Soul”), Shaquita Smith (BET Her Presents: The Couch’s “Baby Blue”; "Gravesend"), Jacky Oh, Candice Singleton (“Homicide Hunter: Lt Joe Kenda”), and Khalib McAdams (“Snapped Killer: Couples”).         Thanks,

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning author; Peter Wacks! Caller of Lightning; When Halley's Comet blazed across the sky in 1759, onlookers saw a sight far more spectacular--and disastrous--than they ever could have imagined. Destroyed in a magical battle, the comet is rent in two and appears to strike Earth. The event is known as The Sundering, the moment in which the Old World is separated from the New, perhaps permanently isolating the Americas. What's more, The Sundering has brought magic into the world--creatures from folklore and fairy tales come to life, along with wizardry and magework unlike anything seen outside of legend. The New World is now far stranger than before, and the Europeans, Africans, and Indigenous peoples on the American continent must forge new bonds if they are to survive. So, when magic returns to the world of the 1700s, who does the world turn to for help? None other than the father of electricity himself: Benjamin Franklin! But Franklin is in for a shock if he thinks

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning author F. J. Bergmann! F. J. Bergmann edits poetry for Mobius: The Journal of Social Change (mobiusmagazine.com), is the former editor of Star*Line, the journal of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (sfpoetry.com), and imagines tragedies on or near exoplanets. She has competed at National Poetry Slam as a member of the Urban Spoken Word team. Her work appears irregularly in speculative markets that don’t pay enough to be pro, and literary journals that should have known better. F.J. Bergmann. She is a winner of the international contest, The Writers of the Future and was honored at the awards event on October 22nd at The Taglyan Complex in Hollywood.  F.J.'s winning story, "A Prize in Every Box," is published in the anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36 which has been on the bestsellers list in recent years!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award winning author; Jillian Cantor! Beautiful Little Fools; On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool. To the police, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson, a local mechanic, is found in the woods nearby. Then a diamond hairpin is discovered in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of this enigmatic millionaire. Daisy Buchanan once thought she might marry Gatsby—before her family was torn apart by an unspeakable tragedy that sent her into the arms of the philandering Tom Buchanan. Jordan Baker, Daisy’s best friend, guards a secret that derailed her promising golf career and threatens to ruin her friendship with Daisy as well. Catherine McCoy, a suffragette, fights for women’s freedom and independence, and especially for her sister, Myrtle Wilson, who’s trapped in a terrible marria

Chatting With Sherri welcomes award-winning illustrator and designer Phoebe Rothfeld! Phoebe, was honored the awards event at the Taglyan Complex on October 22nd was a black-tie gala honoring all the winners of Volume 36 and Volume 37 as well as announcing the grand prize writer and illustrator winner from each volume.   Phoebe Rothfeld is an illustrator and designer who grew up in the beautiful, tree-filled town of Chico, California and spent her childhood making up elaborate games with her siblings. Very early she found joy in drawing from life as a way to illustrate stories with a sense of seriousness, a devotion to detail and all things miniature, as well as an intense love for fantasy narratives. To this day she always has a sketchbook on her person. Phoebe attended the University of California, Santa Cruz and received her BA in Art and Theater Arts. While she works across a wide range of mediums that include ink, watercolor, gouache, and digital, her projects all come from the same goal—to inspire i

Chatting With Sherri welcomes fantasy art illustrator and best-selling poster artist; Tom Wood! Tom Wood is a fantasy art illustrator who is among the best-selling poster artists in the US and Canada. The “Tom Wood Fantasy Art” brand has sold millions of products since 2005. Tom’s creations of dragons and medieval, death-defying warriors have become iconic images of fantasy culture across America, Europe, and Asia. In addition as a commercial artist, Tom’s clients have included well-known companies: Warner Brothers, Disney, NBA, NFL, NASCAR, MLS, Reebok, Gatorade, and the NCAA. His formal education began at the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville), where he was accepted on a full academic scholarship. His first professional work was in the screen-printing industry, art directing many sports designs. His early career launched and grew during the desktop revolution of the 1990s, where he quickly mastered his digital skills to become an art director and illustrator. This propelled his extensive freelance car

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Shireen Magedin! Lifelines; The world is changing, but not fast enough for Tanya Kareem. Her promotion to police inspector sends her to Nawabshah where she will have to prove herself and take a leading role in a man’s world. Sarah Shahzad Shah’s passion for learning and compassion for her patients make her a brilliant doctor in training. But she possesses psychic abilities that she doesn't know how to master... yet. Those gifts will come in handy when she handles some of her more puzzling cases that lead her to Inspector Tanya Kareem.   Dr. Shireen Magedin is a practicing pediatrician who has studied in Pakistan, England, and Ireland. She has always had psychic abilities, and in the beginning they scared her, until she received guidance from trainers and connected with people who had similar abilities, thus knowing she wasn’t alone. Connecting psychically and intuitively with her patients has helped her hone her medical skills. She lives with her cat Pompi (aka Madam Po

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning author Andy Dibble! Andy Dibble lives in Madison, Wisconsin and works as a healthcare IT consultant. He has supported the electronic medical record of large healthcare systems in six countries. He has a long history of volunteering as a programming language instructor and a less fulfilling history in software development. While not writing, he spends his free time reading, running, and eating sushi. Andy came to writing fiction by way of academia. While an undergraduate, he completed four majors—computer science, religious studies, philosophy, and Asian studies—and published a paper on two of India’s great epics, the Mahābhārata and the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. In pursuit of a career as a professor of South Asian religion, he completed a master’s of theological studies at Harvard Divinity School. Along the way, he realized writing about abstruse Sanskrit texts for a living wasn’t for him. Unfortunately, giving up on academia also meant giving up on many opportunitie

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award-winning author; Leah Ning! Leah lives in northern Virginia with her husband and their five animals: two cats, a dog, and two sugar gliders, all of whom are exactly as cute as they sound. Despite her years of residency here, both past and yet to come, her heart lies in the cold, snowy north, and she hopes to get back there someday. She works full time as a programmer and spends her spare non-writing time drawing, playing video games, and learning to make delicious new foods. “Yellow and Pink” is her first writing sale. Leah Ning's winning storie is in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36 which is officially released on April 7th.  

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back Jeff Sturgeon and Steven L Sears! Jeff Sturgeon a long time illustrator\game artist and designer. He is an avid outdoors-man and spend as much time in the mountains or on the coast and in the woods as much possible especially near my home in the foothills of the Cascades with his wife Leslie and twin sons Corwin and Duncan. He is an avid reader and collector of books and art.  He is joined by the always entertaining, fan favorite; Steven L Sears who is a Producer, screenwriter and author.  He produced/wrote TV shows; such as Xena and Sheena! He is also an author and he wrote stories for Last Cities of Earth . WordFire Inc & WordFire Press NioScvemtb7er8a 2u2g, re20i2c319 · Praise for Jeff Sturgeon's Last Cities of Earth, coming January 11 from WordFire Press! "World building aficionados will be eager for additional creative works set in this fascinating future."—Booklist "Every entry is top-notch, managing to balance creative imaginings with moments of true humanity.

Chatting With Sherri welcomes; Stella Claire ter Hart is a well known composer, educator, adjudicator, accompanist and who is now semi-retired from her many musical endeavors.  She is a direct descendent from the Italian composer, Tomaso Vitali, and has many other musical family members and ancestors.  Stella is poignantly inspired by her rich European background which includes French Huguenot ancestors on her father’s side fleeing to the Netherlands in the 15th century to avoid persecution, and the loss of her maternal grandmother’s entire Jewish family (over 1,200 family members) in World War II concentration camps, among them her 79 year old great grandfather and the little 7 year old girl also called Stella.    "Discovering Twins" by Stella ter Hart (Winner of the BookView Review Gold Award and the Literary Titan Good Book Award)  “My mother carried secrets and covered them with lies. She didn’t want to—they were forced upon her. Little by little her secrets gradually unraveled and became part of my exi

Chatting With Sherri welcomes back award winning composer back David Raiklen! David Raiklen is an American composer best known for the science fiction series Space Command and for the Emmy winning Mia, A Dancer’s Journey. David was mentored by Oscar winner John Williams and Pulitzer Prize winner Mel Powel. Dr. Raiklen studied at USC, UCLA, and CalArts and later taught at those universities. He has worked for the major studios including Sony, Fox, Disney, Sprint, Mattel, Warner Bros and PBS, plus many independent productions. His projects have starred Elliott Gould, Doug Jones, Blythe Danner, and Martin Sheen. David made the New York Film Critics Top Ten with the documentary Heist, the short list for an Academy Award® for Worth, and Mia, A Dancer's Journey won the Emmy. An oratorio for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial titled Discovery, a mixed reality giant projection event for the Center Theater Group’s 50th anniversary, episodes of Star Trek Continues, and a violin concerto for festival darling Worth. Dav

 2x TEDx speaker and international bestselling author; Mitchell Levy Global Credibility Expert Mitchell Levy is a 2x TEDx speaker and international bestselling author of over 60 books. After interviewing 500 thought leaders on credibility, he created the Credibility Nation community, published a 5-country international bestselling book, delivered a TEDx, created courses, and is working on getting the definition of credibility rewritten in the dictionary. He's an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 750 books. He's provided strategic consulting to hundreds of companies and has been the chairman of a board of a NASDAQ-listed company. Mitchell has been happily married for thirty-one years and prior to covid-19, regularly spent four weeks a year in Europe with family and friends.  

Chatting With Sherri welcomes artist and Illustrator and Grand Prize winner; Anh Le! I'd like you to consider doing a story on Kansas City artist, Mr. Anh Le. He is the grand winner in our international illustration contest, The Illustrators of the Future and was announced at the awards event on October 22nd at The Taglyan Complex in Hollywood.  Anh was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and is a graduate of Kansas City Art Institute. The Contest has flown him to Hollywood for a week-long professional workshop, an awards event and his art has been published in our bestselling anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36, which has been on the bestseller lists numerous times in recent years and will be officially released on Nov. 2nd! Mr. Le won the grand prize trophy, The Golden Brush award, and a cash prize of $5,000 and his winning art is published in the bestselling anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 37.  

New Years Resolution for Writing with John Goodwin! John and I discuss about New Years Resolutions and fear stops us from going forward with the tasks that we set for ourselves.  And how it is best to find positive voices especially as a writer to reach your goals.  Writers Of The Future is a very positive group and it helps launch new writers with no bias about who they are or where they are from or anything.  The only requirement is to write a short story to the best of your ability. John Goodwin, President Galaxy Press, has been involved with book publishing since 1986, publishing all the fiction works of bestselling author L. Ron Hubbard which includes the internationally acclaimed Writers of the Future anthology, now completing its 36th year. He has been a board member of the Audio Publishers Assn, a national organization of the audio publishing industry. He has become very active in the Hollywood community the past several years as a Board member of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and as a Board mem

Sherri's Playhouse presents a new radio-play; Ask The Fallen Angels by Arielle Strauss Brueland! It is the re-imagined tale of Romeo and Juliet. The two lovers are reincarnated into the children of two long-time exes with, unbeknownst to them, some business left unfinished. If Fate is merciful, their conflict may yet get resolved. But the unfortunate children of this long-split pair must not only learn the truth of their parents’ past, they must also heed the legend of their past lives in order to avoid a grim tragedy here in this life. Will Beckett and Camille’s love break the cycle of inter-generational trauma once and for all? Ask the fallen angels, and the answers may be revealed in this spell-binding radio play, broadcasting live on January 16th at 7pm pt! Audio engineering by XV Podcasters 

Chatting With Sherri welcomes the cast of; Ask The Fallen Angel! The cast Sherri's Playhouse are so excited to chat with you about our new radio-play written by our own;  Arielle Strauss Brueland called Ask The Fallen Angel!  We are going to chat about the play, themes, how it was to work on and how much we are looking forward to you getting hear it!

Chatting With Sherri welcomes author Barbara Lund! Barbara Lund was announced as the grand prize winner of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future contest for 2021 (Volume 37) on Oct. 22nd, 2021 at the L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards Event at the Taglyan Complex in Hollywood, California earning her The Golden Pen Award trophy and a cash prize of $5,000.  Barbara was paired with artist and Illustrators of the Future winner, Mr. Will Knight of Los Angeles, California and this is the illustration Will created for Barbara's story, "Sixers".

For New Years Eve weekend; For the holidays; Sherri's Playhouse reprises; Joe Kronus; Capture The Kaiser!!! It's a Sequel of the hit radio-play which takes off where part one ended. Does Terrence get his revenge? Does Joe save the day?   Listen in to the exciting second part of this fun exciting show! Tune in and find out! Written and Directed by Sherri Rabinowitz Music and Special Effects by Nicholas Davidge Editing and Additional Special Effects by XV Podcasters

For the holidays; Sherri's Playhouse reprise of the amazing Joe Kronus!  Come along for adventure with Joe Kronus in this time travel radio play!   Join Joe to see other times and listen as Joe stops those who would interfere with time.... What Does Jane Austen have to do with Gold in California?  Find out!     Written and Directed by Sherri Rabinowitz Music and Special Effects by Nicholas Davidge Editing and Additional Special Effects by XV Podcasters