Coming January 10th – An Additional Show – The Under the Covers Version

A new 20 minute show is coming in January, 2020, starting Friday, January 10th.

This will be the Friday release of Charlotte Readers Podcast where we get “Under the Covers” with our author guests.

The long form 60 minute show will still release on Tuesdays and both shows will be free on this website, Apple Podcasts or wherever you like to get your podcasts.

Sara Vavra and Landis Wade Discuss the Launch of the Under the Covers Series

Voice talent Sara Vavra and host Landis Wade recently recorded a few audio pieces to use to promote the new show. Here’s one that pokes fun at the idea but shares some of what we’re up to with the new Friday show.

SV: Landis, I heard a rumor that you want to do something…Under the Covers?

LW: Absolutely, but only on Fridays

SV:  Why Fridays?

LW: Because that’s when we’re going to do it.

SV:  Do what?

LW: Get Under the Covers.

SV:  I don’t understand

LW: With the authors

SV:  You’re … going… to… get …Under the Covers…with your authors?

LW: Only on Fridays

SV: What are you talking about?

LW: It’s an additional series of episodes of Charlotte Readers Podcast

SV:  On Fridays?

LW:  Yes

SV:  Why?

LW: More authors, more fun, but a little quicker, around 20 minutes

SV:  Because you’re …Under the Covers…?

LW: Absolutely…Hey, could you just do the lead?

SV:  Sure…[clear throat]

On Fridays, you’re invited to join us…Under the Covers …with host Landis Wade and his author guests ….on engaging but quick, twenty minute episodes of Charlotte Readers Podcast, where we explore what’s Under the Covers of books by local and regional authors

SV:  How was that?

LW: Perfect…

First Four Episodes in the new Under the Covers Series

Friday, January 10th – Under the Covers with Fabi Preslar

Fabi Preslar is the author of “The Fabulous F Words of Business Ownership:Redefining Choice Words to Fuel Your Small Business.” Fabi knows what it’s like to fail in business. Her father failed when she was young and her family lost everything. It happened in her family’s previous generation, too, and yet, she always wanted to be a business owner and it shows in the awards she has received along the roller coaster ride she calls owning a small business.

This book is about creating and growing a business. It’s part memoir and part how-to and how-not-to when running a business. From fear, failure, and fatigue to faith, flourish, and fusion, “Fabulous F Words of Business Ownership” chronicles one business owner’s footsteps and the choice words she redefined to fuel her small business.

Friday, January 17th – Under the Covers with Dennis Carrigan

Dennis Carrigan is the author of “Unusual Suspects,” which involves a bunch of oddball, quirky, funny, loveable characters thrown into a chaotic mix when a dead body is found on the front porch of a small North Carolina town.

Dennis is a member of the Charlotte Writers Club and the author of two novels. He says that “Unusual Suspects” plays to his strengths because he loves wisecracks, witticisms and quirky characters.

Friday, January 24th – Under the Covers with Jenifer Ruff

Jenifer Ruff is the author of “Pretty Little Girls,” a mystery thriller that takes place in Charlotte. The plot of the novel involves sex trafficking, a serious topic.

Jenifer is an Amazon and USA Today Bestselling author who has three book series in process—the Brooke Walton series, the Agent Victoria Heslin series, and the Quinn Traynor/Madeline Hamilton series.

Friday, January 31st – Under the Covers with Sandy Hill

Sandy Hill is the author of five novels, four historical fiction books and one mystery. She worked for many years as an editor for The Charlotte Observer and is a lifelong reader, who wrote her first short story at age 10. Growing up poor in Pennsylvania in a small, rural town informed her work, particularly her novel “The Blue Car,” a coming of age story set in the North Carolina foothills that deals with difficult choices and the courage to stand up for what is right.

Although “Deadline for Death” was Sandy’s first novel, her favorite novel is “Tangled Threads,” set in a turn-of-the-century Piedmont cotton mill village. She became inspired by “From Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers” at the Museum of the New South, and focused the book on the girls who worked in those textile mills. She reads from “Bonds of Courage,” inspired by a true story from her family’s distant past.