KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Joseph Badal
JOSEPH BADAL has published 13 books- thrillers and mysteries. He is an Amazon #1 Best-Selling Author.
His latest book, out this Month is -OBSESSED. It's the 2nd in a series he calls the Curtis Chronicles. It picks up the story where his last book, THE MOTIVE, leaves off.
Before writing thrillers, Joseph Badal spent 40 years in the world of finance, banking and mortgage lending. He has been president and CEO of several companies and he has served on corporate boards.
Before becoming a novelist, Badal wrote Business and Trade Journal articles and short stories
He was a member of the NM House of representatives - representing NE Albuquerque from 1978-1979.
Badal is a decorated army veteran who served in Vietnam…. and other exotic locations around the globe. He uses those experiences liberally in his thrillers.
He has won numerous awards, including The Tony Hillerman Prize for Best Fiction Book for Ultimate Betrayal. He has won Gold and Silver Medals from the Military Writers Society of America for his writing.
Badelle lives in NM and writes full-time.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Kari Bovee
Kari Bovee is a newly published novelist. Her debut novel, Girl With A Gun- an Annie Oakley Mystery- is just out in paperback and Kindle.
After earning a bachelors degree in English Literature at the University of San Diego, Bovee landed a job as a technical writer for a Fortune 500 Company. She started a family and continued to work part-time as a freelance writer for magazines and newsletters.
Meanwhile, at night she wrote her first two novels and acquired her first agent. Those two books never found a publisher at that time.
Fast forward to today- Bovee did not give up- she is now a published novelist and she is currently reworking her unpublished books into the first books of three separate series. Her books focus on strong, empowered women in history.
In addition to her passion for writing, Kari Bovee has a passion for horses. She is an avid horsewoman who trains her own horses and with them, has competed at the local, regional, and national levels. Bovee now lives in Corrales NM
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is a landscape historian, landscape preservationist and writer, who is also credited with saving New York City's Central Park… and that's the title of her newest book, - Saving Central Park, A History And A Memoir.
Beginning in 1980 Rogers rallied city leaders, politicians, financial backers, and citizens to resuscitate the majestic 843 acre park in the center of Manhattan. Rogers was appointed Central Park Administrator beginning 1979 and in 1980 she formed the Central Park Conservancy. It was the first public- private park partnership in the united states and became the model for parks throughout the country.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in art history. She then went on to earn a masters in city planning from Yale.
Rogers is the author of ten books including Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History, Frederick Law Olmsted's New York and Learning Las Vegas: Portrait of a Northern New Mexican Place.
Rogers was born in San Antonio, Texas, and moved permanently to New York in 1964. Rogers spends part of the year in Santa Fe, NM.
There is a plaque honoring Elizabeth Barlow Rogers in Central Park on the path leading to Summit Rock.
KSFR RADIO 101.1 FM SANTA FE NM
Producer and Host: Abigail Adler
Guest: Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg is well-know writer and writing teacher and painter. Her latest book is Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home. When Natalie Goldberg's life took a devastating, unexpected turn- so, of course, did her writing. This book is about Goldberg's journey through the corridors of modern medicine, death, dying and ultimately…life.
Natalie Goldberg has published more than a dozen books including the best-seller about how to write - Writing Down the Bones.
Goldberg has been a Zen practitioner, for more than thirty years. She wholeheartedly brings the lessons of Zen Buddhism to her writing, her life and her teaching.
Goldberg is also a prolific painter. Her book Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World. She refers to painting as her second art form. Goldberg travels the world teaching and painting. Natalie Goldberg lives in Northern NM.