Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt - Book Talk Podcast

Updated: 28 May 2025 • 173 episodes
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Join award-winning, indie author, Dianne Burckhardt, as she chats with fellow authors and industry insiders around the world about their work, inspirations, greatest challenges, and triumphs. Writing is often the easy part, and the real work begins once the author writes, "The End."  Dianne and her guests shed light on what it takes to be a successful author in today's markets whether as an indie author or traditionally published. Dianne's guests share their insights on their personal journeys to creating a successful writing career. They discuss everything from their writing process, common obstacles in publishing today, marketing, customer engagement, and resources to help create engaging content, and so much more!  Be sure to check out our website: BurckhardtBooks.com.  Wednesdays are better with a little good book banter ... join us for chats that are entertaining, uplifting, and help you find new books to feed your soul! BIO: Dianne Burckhardt is a podcaster and award-winning designer and author (writing as Stephen Burckhardt). Her historical fiction series, The Into the West Saga Serial is complete and she is currently writing her medical memoir Free Bad Haircut With Each Craniotomy. Dianne is an American from Wichita, Kansas, but currently resides in Germany with her Chilean husband, and their Russian rescue dog, Shaggy. She is also a proud bonus mom to twin adult daughters in Chile.

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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today Dianne is so happy to share with all of you her chat with the incredible author, Jennifer Vido. Jennifer is not only a wonderful person to just sit and chat with about anything, she is also an accomplished and highly acclaimed author.   Her sweet Lowcountry

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Join the conversation, text us now. **Disclaimer: This episode features Christian author, Chaplain Patrick Day. While we never discuss religious doctrine (for any religions), many authors share how their beliefs inspired their writing. Chaplain Day"s fiction book is inspired by his jail and add!ct!on ministry work as a

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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Dianne is thrilled to bring you today"s guest author, Josh Mendoza. Josh had already established himself in the film industry before he decided to add published author to his credits. Josh is an award-winning filmmaker known for his post-apocalyptic feature film,

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Join the conversation, text us now. NOTE: there are two bleeped words, v!ct!m and s€xual Hello Happy People, Today on Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt – Book Talk Podcast, Dianne brings you the amazing award-winning author, Lynne Hugo. Lynne was a National Endowment For the Arts Fellowship recipient and has also rece

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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello Happy People, Today we have a rare return guest author. Her first guest appearance on Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt–Book Talk Podcast was in season 2 episode #59. Be sure to check out her first interview to learn about Linaya"s background and her first book in The Forever

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Join the conversation, text us now. Hello My Happy People,  Dianne is thrilled to share her interview with you today with the incredible mystery author, D.M.S. Fick.  Besides being an amazing author, she is an Emmy-nominated and grant-awarded animator and has worked on two Peabody Award-winning programs broadcast on PB

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