Let Me Tell You A Story With Steve And Becky Lyles

Along with Lisa Hess's beautiful reading of her short story titled "The Hand of a Princess," podcast #23 includes tales of violent spring storms and bullets gone wild, and "Stages," a poem by Laurie Bower about the morning, noon and evening of life.  

Another random podcast for you here! We have fun poetry and serious poetry, guest reader Mary DeMuth reading from "The Day I Met Jesus," stories from Becky's grandmother's younger years and another ex-inmate story from Becky's book "On a Wing and a Prayer." Mary's passion in life is to help people live uncaged lives. Read her blogs and learn more about her writing and speaking at http://www.marydemuth.com/

For those who loved the first chapter of Angela Strong's "The Snowball Fight Professional," you'll be pleased to know this podcast includes the second chapter, titled "I'm Dreaming of a Whitewater Christmas." To read the rest of the story, order Snowball Fight online or through your local bookstore. You'll also hear excerpts from Heather Woodhaven's fun new novel titled, "The Secret Life of Book Club," and Andrea Graham's first book in her Web Surfer science-fiction series titled "Episode One: Regeneration." Both books are available online. Carla Dalke and Steve Lyles both share crazy stories from childhood. Carla writes about sibling trickery and Steve relates a swimming pool incident. And that's all we'll say about that!

Our tenth podcast (woo-hoo!) includes a fun variety of writings from new friends. Steve reads from Eugene Shea's poetry book titled "The Last Caboose," TR Fischer reads from her suspense novel, "A Man Around the House," and I read Carla Dalke's beautiful poem - actually, song lyric titled "I Will Never Leave You." Steve finishes with a couple good quotes and his thoughts about joining a men's group and making new friends there. Happy listening!

Once again, we're featuring local authors with new book releases on our podcast. We're also privileged to have another guest reader. Isaiah Silkwood reads from his fun pirate fantasy novel, "Of Pirates and Werewolves." We also read chapters from Lisa Philips's latest release in her WITSEC Town Series titled "Sanctuary Buried" and BD Riehl's second novel in her Child of Deliverance Series, "The Heavens Are Telling." If you'd like to learn what happens next in these stories, you can find the books online in various formats or order them from bookstores. More about our featured authors can be found at the below links: https://bdriehl.wordpress.com http://www.authorlisaphillips.blogspot.com https://www.facebook.com/IsaiahTSilkwood

Our good friend Ray Ellis kindly agreed to read his short story titled "I" for us on this podcast. Stay alert - the setting in "I" switches from the protagonist's current location to his past memories, again and again. Thank you, Ray! You can find Ray's novels on Amazon as well as at his publishing company's website: nccpublishing.com. We also read a poem by a Texas friend, Larry Long, called "Windy Grace" plus a true story that happened to a Wyoming friend titled "Tattered Angel." Thanks for listening!

Several Idaho authors from the Treasure Valley area have kindly allowed us to read their material on this podcast. We begin with a beautiful poem by Chris White titled "Cycle Drops," followed by "Bad Girl," a short story written by Lisa Hess and found in "Passageways." The last two stories are from Adam Graham's detective novel, "Slime Incorporated," and Angela Ruth Strong's romance, "Love Finds You in Sun Valley, Idaho." To learn more about these wonderful authors, who are also great people, check out their websites: Angela Strong: http://www.angelaruthstrong.com/ Lisa Hess: http://www.lisamichellehess.com/ Adam Graham: http://www.greatdetectives.net/ Chris White: http://www.cpwhitemedia.com/

Again, we're privileged to read writings by local author friends. The podcast begins with the first chapter of Hilarey Johnson's brand-new young-adult novel titled "Heart of Petra." Next is "Free on the Inside" from a book I wrote several years ago about Freedom Fellowship, a prison ministry, followed by a couple devotionals from Lisa Buffaloe's "Living Joyfully Free" collection. The podcast concludes with two vignettes written and read by Steve. Find out more about the authors: http://hilarey.com/ http://lisabuffaloe.com/ http://beckylyles.com/ You can locate Steve on Facebook, where he occasionally stops by for a visit. :-)

Let Me Tell You a Story takes a bit of a turn this podcast when Steve and Becky read pieces that tell of happy times intermingled with the grief that results from great loss. Peter Leavell's short fiction about a girl and her 4-H steer will touch your heart. [PeterLeavell.com] From Becky's book titled "On a Wing & a Prayer," you'll hear the story of a young man and his struggle with meth, and you'll enjoy Steve's poems about farm animals at the end of the podcast.