Adam Shepard interview - Tantorious episode 30

Adam Shepard graduated from college in 2006, then set out with nothing more than $25 and the clothes on his back, to prove that the American dream is still alive and well. His book, Scratch Beginnings, is the earnest and passionate account of his journey. In this exclusive interview, Adam explains why he did it and what he learned along the way.

Marc Seifer interview - Tantorious episode 29

Marc J. Seifer is a professor of psychology and the author of more than 70 scientific writings published in numerous magazines. His book, Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla, Biography of a Genius, is the definitive work on the founding father of modern electrical technology. In this exclusive interview, Seifer explains why Tesla has become a cult figure to a new generation of innovators.

Alan Lazar interview - Tantorious episode 28

Alan Lazar is a platinum-selling musician and composer, who has composed music for more than 30 films and television shows. His first novel, Roam, is an insightful and heartwarming story about families, love lost and found, and a special dog named Nelson. In this exclusive interview, he reveals the inspiration for his "novel with music" that includes seven original piano compositions.

Sir Ken Robinson interview - Tantorious episode 27

Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. He is a New York Times bestselling author and received a Knighthood in 2003. His 2001 classic, Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative was recently updated and reissued. Sir Ken explains why creativity is vital to life and business, in this exclusive interview.

Soleil Moon Frye interview - Tantorious episode 26

Soleil Moon Frye was the star of the 1980s sitcom Punky Brewster. Today she is better known as a mom-trepreneur and social media maven, with over 1.4 million followers on Twitter. In her book, Happy Chaos: From Punky to Parenting and My Perfectly Imperfect Adventures in Between, she shares insightful, realistic, in-the-trenches parenting advice, inspiration and fun. She details her journey in this exclusive interview.

Thea Harrison interview - Tantorious episode 25

Thea Harrison is the pen name of author Teddy Harrison. She wrote her first book at age nineteen and had sixteen romance novels published under the name Amanda Carpenter. Her popular Elder Races series includes Dragon Bound, Storm's Heart and Serpent's Kiss. Harrison traces the evolution of the paranormal romance genre, in this exclusive interview.

Marc Eliot interview - Tantorious episode 24

Marc Eliot is the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen books, including highly acclaimed biographies of Walt Disney, Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart. His latest, Steve McQueen: A Biography, takes a definitive look at one of Hollywood's most iconic actors, who was named the King of Cool. Eliot reveals his most interesting source of information about the star, in this exclusive interview.

Mark Bauerlein interview - Tantorious episode 23

Mark Bauerlein is the bestselling author of The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupifies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30). His new book is The Digital Divide: Writings For and Against Facebook, YouTube, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking. Both titles are available as audiobooks. In this exclusive interview, Bauerlein explains why digital tools post a threat to teens.

Laurie Notaro interview - Tantorious episode 22

Laurie Notaro is the New York Times bestselling author of several humorous memoirs, including The Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club, Autobiography of a Fat Bride, and It Looked Different on the Model. They are available as audiobooks narrated by Hillary Huber. In this exclusive interview, Notaro - who has a large social media following - explains why she loves Facebook but Twitter makes her mad.

Simon Mainwaring interview - Tantorious episode 21

Simon Mainwaring is founder and president of We First, a brand consulting firm. His New York Times bestselling book, We First: How Brands and Consumers Use Social Media to Build a Better World, is available as an audiobook narrated by John Lee. In this exclusive interview, Mainwaring reveals his visionary new practice, in which companies leverage social media to earn consumer goodwill, loyalty, and profit while creating sustainable social change.

Allan W. Eckert interview - Tantorious episode 20

Allan W. Eckert is a seven-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and the author of over 40 books. His novel The Frontiersmen tells of the bloody battle for the conquest of the Northwest Territory between the English settlers and native warriors. It is available as an audiobook narrated by Kevin Foley. In this exclusive interview, Eckert describes how Simon Kenton and Tecumseh were friendly enemies.

Phil Scearce interview - Tantorious episode 19

Phil Scearce is the son of Sgt. Herman Scearce, a World War II Pacific War veteran. Phil's new book, Finish Forty and Home, is subtitled The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific. It is available as an audiobook narrated by Danny Campbell. In this exclusive interview, Phil recounts the time young American airmen flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war.

John Pollack interview - Tantorious episode 18

John Pollack is an O.Henry World Pun-Off champion who served as a speechwriter for President Bill Clinton. Pollack's new book, The Pun Also Rises: How the Humble Pun Revolutionized Language, Changed History, and Made Wordplay More Than Some Antics, is now an audiobook narrated by Pete Larkin. In this exclusive interview, Pollack has serious fun explaining how the lowly pun gave rise to human civilization.

Lisa Bloom interview - Tantorious episode 17

Lisa Bloom is an award-winning journalist, legal analyst, and trial attorney. A graduate of Yale Law School and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UCLA, she appears frequently on CBS News, CNN, The Early Show, and The Dr. Phil Show. Her New York Times bestseller, Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World, is now an audiobook narrated by the author. In this exclusive interview, Bloom explains how women can regain control of their lives.

Isabel Gillies interview - Tantorious episode 16

Isabel Gillies is the author of the New York Times bestseller Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story, and now the sequel, A Year and Six Seconds: A Love Story. The new book, narrated in the audiobook edition by Karen White, chronicles the author's efforts to pick herself up after her husband of six years leaves her. In this exclusive interview, Gillies reveals how she rebuilt her life and found true love.

Amy Stewart interview - Tantorious episode 15

Amy Stewart is the New York Times bestselling author of several books on the natural world, including Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon's Army and Other Diabolical Insects, and Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities. They are both available as Tantor audiobooks narrated by Audie Award winner Coleen Marlo. In this exclusive interview, Stewart recounts some of her favorite examples of wicked bugs and plants.

Taylor Anderson interview - Tantorious episode 14

Taylor Anderson is a gun maker and forensic ballistic archaeologist who has been a technical and dialogue consultant for movies and documentaries. In his acclaimed Destroyermen series of novels - narrated in the audiobook edition by William Dufris - a parallel universe adds an extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II. Anderson details the military history that inspired the series, in this exclusive interview.

Larry Beinhart interview - Tantorious episode 13

Larry Beinhart is the author of several novels, including Wag the Dog and Salvation Boulevard, both of which became major motion pictures. A thriller about death, faith, and God, Salvation Boulevard is now an audiobook narrated by Michael Kramer. In this exclusive interview, Beinhart explains how to stay sane when your novel is made into a movie.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell interview - Tantorious episode 12

Josh Kilmer-Purcell is the bestselling author of two memoirs, as well as the novel Candy Everybody Wants. He's also the co-star of Planet Green's documentary television series The Fabulous Beekman Boys. Josh's first memoir, I Am Not Myself These Days, chronicles his journey through Manhattan's underground club scene. The Bucolic Plague tells what happens when two New Yorkers (one an ex-drag queen) become gentlemen farmers. In this exclusive interview, Josh reveals which lifestyle is harder: drag queen or goat farmer.

Eva Gabrielsson interview - Tantorious episode 11

Eva Gabrielsson is an architect, a translator, and the author of several books, including There Are Things I Want You to Know: About Stieg Larsson and Me, an intimate memoir of her lifelong companion, the author of the popular Millennium trilogy of novels that starts with The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Co-written with journalist Marie-Francoise Colombani, There Are Things I Want You To Know is now an audiobook narrated by Cassandra Campbell. In this exclusive interview, Gabrielsson reveals why Book 4 of the series may never emerge.

Diana B. Henriques interview - Tantorious episode 10

Diana B. Henriques is a senior financial writer for the New York Times. She has won a Polk Award and was part of the team recognized as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for its coverage of the financial crisis of 2008. Henriques is also the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, now an audiobook narrated by Pam Ward. In this exclusive interview, Henriques reveals the most remarkable thing Madoff told her from prison.

Christian Cantrell interview - Tantorious episode 9

Christian Cantrell is a science fiction writer and software developer living in Northern Virginia. He is the author of short stories including The Epoch Index, Anansi Island, Human Legacy Project, Venom, and Brainbox. His new novel is called Containment; the audiobook edition is narrated by William Dufris. In this exclusive interview, Cantrell explains how his background led him to self-publish his first novel as an ebook.

David Browne interview - Tantorious episode 8

David Browne is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone Magazine and the bestselling author of Goodbye 20th Century and other books. His new book, Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970, tells the story of four iconic albums of that year - and the lives and times of the artists who made them - set against the backdrop of the turbulent turning of the decade. In this exclusive interview, Browne reveals behind-the-scenes maneuvering in the breakup of The Beatles.

Robert V.S. Redick interview - Tantorious episode 7

Robert V.S. Redick is the author of The Red Wolf Conspiracy, The Ruling Sea, and The River of Shadows. Together with the final volume coming in 2012, these spellbinding novels make up The Chathrand Voyage Quartet, already being hailed as a classic epic fantasy alongside the works of Philip Pullman and George R.R. Martin. In this exclusive interview, Redick describes the original inspiration for this thrilling series.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck interview - Tantorious episode 6

Elisabeth Hasselbeck first become popular as a participant on the reality TV series Survivor. Since joining ABC's The View as a co-host in 2003, she has won an Emmy Award and tackles hot topics every morning, interviewing celebrities and political figures. In this exclusive interview, she describes how her struggle with Celiac disease inspired her to write The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide.

Ursula Hegi interview - Tantorious episode 5

Ursula Hegi is the author of the New York Times bestseller Stones from the River and a dozen other books. Children and Fire, a Tantor audiobook narrated by the author, is the fourth novel in her Burgdorf Cycle. In this exclusive interview, Hegi explains why readers remain passionate about the series 15 years after its debut.

Norb Vonnegut / Robert Fass interview - Tantorious episode 4

Norb Vonnegut earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and worked for Morgan Stanley, Paine Webber, and Kidder Peabody. His second novel centers on the collapse of a hedge fund in Connecticut and a villain in the mold of Bernie Madoff and Gordon Gekko. Vonnegut and Audie-nominated narrator Robert Fass discuss The Gods of Greenwich in this exclusive interview.

Eli Pariser interview - Tantorious episode 3

Eli Pariser is the author of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You (narrated by Kirby Heyborne). The board president and former executive director of MoveOn.org, Pariser has written opinion pieces for the Wall Street Journal and appeared on The Colbert Report. In this exclusive interview, he explains how the hidden rise of personalization is controlling -- and limiting -- the information we consume.

Eric Greitens interview - Tantorious episode 2

Eric Greitens is the author of The Heart and the Fist: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL, also a Tantor audiobook read by the author. Following the killing of Osama bin Laden by a special forces team, Eric has been appearing on major media, explaining how the SEALs operate. In this exclusive interview, he discusses how it is possible to be both a warrior and a humanitarian.

Erich von Daniken interview - Tantorious episode 1

Erich von Daniken is the author of Chariots of the Gods and many other books concerning the topic of Ancient Astronauts -- now available for the first time on audio. In this exclusive new interview, he discusses how he first became interested in the topic, and reveals his surprising prediction for 2012.