by Mike Carlon | Oct 17, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch I remember the days before our triplets could read and I’d spend at least an hour between the three of them reading stories every night. By the time I got to my son, who always wanted to be last so he could get “more daddy time,” my eyes would be so heavy...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 14, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch One thing stayed with me after my conversation with Joy Jordan Lake. She opened up to me about how a fear of failure as a writer prevented her from fully embracing it as a career. Don’t get me wrong, most authors have a challenging time making ends meet...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 13, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch Prior to meeting Nobel Prize winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah a few weeks ago, the only thing I knew about his home country of Zanzibar was that Freddie Mercury was born there and Billy Joel wrote a song by that name, though I’m pretty sure it was about a...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 12, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch Do you wonder why bad things always seem to happen to good people? Do you want to know how to overcome adversity and become successful despite terrible odds? Would you like to know what a parkway on Long Island has to do with two evil dictators? Well,...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 11, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch Many years ago I was taking guitar lessons with a great teacher named Ken Volpe, or Master Ken as I liked to call him. When shooting the breeze over a song one day, I said to him, “I don’t like the solo. I would do something differently.” He said, “Oh...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 10, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch When I was eighteen, I was very clear on what I wanted to be when I grew up—a psychologist. Two people are to blame for my fascination in this social science; Mr. Michael Roper, who taught Intro to Psychology at my high school and Thomas Harris, who wrote...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 7, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch I’ll admit it, I became a subscriber to Sirius XM when Howard Stern left terrestrial radio for satellite. One evening, though, on a long drive from Boston to Connecticut, I came across The Catholic Channel and listened to a program called The Busted Halo...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 6, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch Sometimes when I’m writing I get into what I call “The Zone.” Time seems to stop and I’m only pulled out of it when my presence is missed, which is a nice way of saying someone is yelling at me to rejoin the family. Lauren Forsythe calls this...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 5, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch I’ve interviewed a lot of lawyers turned authors on Uncorking a Story but who I haven’t interviewed is a lawyer turned author who received a call from former President Bill Clinton to shoot the breeze about his work. That all changed the day I interviewed...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 4, 2022 | Authors, Business Leaders, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch For the past twenty years, I’ve been the father of triplets and so much of my identity is tied to my role as father. But what happens when they fly the nest and begin living independently? I’ll admit it, I had a bit of an identity crisis when they went...
by Mike Carlon | Oct 3, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch About Sangu Mandanna: Sangu was four years old when an elephant chased her down a forest road and she decided to write her first story about it. Seventeen years and many manuscripts later, she signed her first book deal. She joins me today to talk about...
by Mike Carlon | Sep 27, 2022 | Authors, Podcast, The Longs
Listen Watch Allison is an award-winning journalist and author of numerous books including Passed and Present and Parentless Parents. Her forthcoming book, Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman, is the inspiring story of a...
