Bedside Reading's AUTHORS THAT THRIVE

Danielle Girard is the USA Today and Amazon #1 bestselling author of Chasing Darkness, The Rookie Club series, and the Dr. Schwartzman Series—Exhume, Excise, Expose, and Expire, featuring San Francisco medical examiner Dr. Annabelle Schwartzman. Danielle’s books have won the Barry Award and the RT Reviewers’ Choice Award, and two of her titles have been optioned for movies.

A graduate of Cornell University, Danielle received her MFA at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. She, her husband, and their two children split their time between San Francisco and the Northern Rockies. White Out, the first book in her new series, will be out July 7, 2020.

Taken from the Bedside Reading Authors That Thrive podcast, Danielle connects with Lou Diamond and takes us behind the scenes into her creative works and process.

Jeanne Blasberg is a novelist, travel writer, and adventurer.

She is an award-winning, bestselling author of Eden and The Nine. She has won the the Beverly Hills Book Awards for Women’s Fiction and has been a finalist for both the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Fiction and the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction.

Jeanne is the founder of the Westerly Memoir Project as well as a board member of the Boston Book Festival. She is a student and board member of Grub Street, one of the country’s pre-eminent creative writing centers, where she wrote and revised The Nine and is currently developing her next novel.

Jeanne shares her story and how she comes up with her stories with Lou Diamond on Bedside Reading's Authors That Thrive.

Success magazine calls Simon T. Bailey one of the Top 25 people that will help you reach your business and life goals. He joins a list that includes Oprah Winfrey & Dr. Brene Brown. His viral video posted by Goalcast to Facebook has over 87 million views.

Simon is a Breakthrough Strategist who goes beyond feel-good content and provides real-life deliverables that impact lives.

He is the author of ten books and in his latest, "Be The Spark", Simon shares how you have the opportunity to Be the Spark for your company, customers, and employees, and this book will teach you how.

Enjoy this conversation between Lou Diamond and Hall of Fame speaker Simon T Bailey.

Dr. Ivy Ge is a professor who writes for women wanting to take charge of their lives.

From an aspiring actress to working for airline executives, to becoming a pharmacy professor and a multi-genre author, she has transformed her life while being a full-time working mom.

She is the author of The Art of Good Enough - The Working Mom's Guilt-Free Guide to Thriving While Being Perfectly Imperfect.

Enjoy this fun conversation with Dr. Ivy Ge on Authors That Thrive.

Deke Copenhaver currently serves as Principal of Copenhaver Consulting, LLC, a niche consulting firm in Augusta, Georgia serving the needs of businesses, nonprofits and local governments. In May of 2019 he published his first book “The Changemaker: the Art of Building Better Leaders” with Advantage|Forbesbooks.

Deke served as Mayor of Augusta, Georgia from 2005 through 2014. Since leaving office Deke has served as the host of “There it is With Deke Copenhaver”, a daily call-in radio show on WGAC New Talk Radio, as well as Managing Consultant for the Augusta Economic Development Authority.

Deke became the first American mayor to complete all three legs of a sanctioned Ironman event and has subsequently completed four more Ironman 70.3’s.

Enjoy this conversation between Deke and Lou Diamond on the Bedside Reading’s Authors That Thrive podcast.