Page Readers

In this episode of Page Readers OutLoud, an excerpt from Wotan's Dilemma by award winning author Hank Quense.   

Jared Garrett works as a writer and an instructional designer. He is a family man with an adorable, fun, and way-too-smart wife, six silly kids, a new house with an overgrown back yard, seven fish, and a bunch of chickens. He has written fiction, user manuals, SEO copy, radio scripts and textbooks and has won first place in the Mayhew writing contest at BYU and received honorable mention in the Writers of the Future contest. He lives at the foot of the Wasatch Mountains. Listen to the first few chapters of The Cabin, by Jared Garret in this episode of Page Readers OutLoud.

Reading from No Ocean Here, a collection of peotry and musings by Sweta Srivastava Vikram. No Ocean Here bears moving accounts of women and girls in certain developing and under-developed countries. The stories, either based on personal interviews or inspired by true stories, are factual, visceral, haunting and bold narratives, presented in the form of poems. Visit the author online at www.swetavikram.com

Page Readers OutLoud - Today an excerpt from The Prince Charming Hoax, by Shelley Lieber.The Prince Charming Hoax is the steamy hot and often funny story of best friends Leah Gold and Roxanne Stein, two boomer women trying to break free of the "happily ever after" fairy tale myth of their childhoods.  Abandoned by her latest Prince Charming on the eve of what she expected to be the start of a new life, Leah is left without a home or a man. Frustrated by yet another disappointment in a string of romantic fiascos, she begins an introspective journey through her past for answers. When she discovers what really stands between her and happiness, she sets off on a mission to help spare other women the pain of looking for love in all the wrong places--even though her crusade may just be a battle that destroys her real prince. In contrast to the reclusive Leah, her well-heeled best friend, Roxie, teeters on the edge of self-destruction as she tries to satisfy her unquenchable thirst for excitement. Drugs

Ranjini Rao & Ruchira Ramanujam run the popular food blog, Tadka Pasta. They love to cook, eat, read and write. And Tadka Pasta is a perfect synthesis of all of those things. Hailing from diverse cultural backgrounds - Ruchira is from the North of India and Ranjini, the South, and bearing distinct professional objectivities - Ruchira is a techie and photographer, and Ranjini, a writer and marketing communications specialist - they each bring a uniquely creative edge to their blog, and the two cookbooks under their belts, with many more to come. Today Ranjini joins me today to share her love of cooking and the culture of Indian food, all made easy with the release of her new cookbook Mango Masala.