Laurence O'Bryan is an Irish author, entrepreneur, and internationally recognized book marketing expert whose career has been built around a simple belief: great books deserve to be discovered. As the founder of BooksGoSocial, he has helped thousands of independent and traditionally published authors reach readers worldwide through innovative advertising, promotion, and publishing services. Drawing on decades of experience in sales, digital marketing, and publishing, he has become a respected voice on book promotion, speaking at conferences across Europe and North America and training authors in modern publishing strategies.

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His books: The Istanbul Puzzle, First of five Puzzle books

The Sign of the Blood, First of A Dangerous Emperor series

The Rise of Synne, The First of The Last Seer series

The International Dublin Writers' Festival

David Gutierrez, Non-Fungible Book Club, nfbclub for Audio Books

Prolific Writers Life

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Leif Bristow is an Emmy winning producer, director, screenwriter, and bestselling author who has spent decades bringing unforgettable stories to life for audiences around the world. But Dancing Through the Shadow is far more than just another project. It is a story that found him personally.

The inspiration came through Tia Zhang, an internationally celebrated dancer, Shen Yun artist, and survivor whose extraordinary life story recently earned her the prestigious King Charles III Coronation Medal for her contributions and impact. Tia once taught ballet to Leif and Agnes Bristow's daughter, and through that connection, the family came to learn the unimaginable truth of her life, surviving oppression under Mao era China, enduring extraordinary hardship, and ultimately escaping to freedom.

Agnes Bristow knew this was a story the world needed to read, which led her to write the award winning bestselling novel Dancing Through the Shadow. Leif, as a filmmaker and storyteller, knew it was equally a story that needed to be brought to the screen.

Podcast audiences will gain a fascinating behind the scenes look at how a real life friendship uncovered one of the most remarkable untold survival stories of our time, the journey of transforming truth into powerful storytelling, the creative process behind adapting books to film, and why stories of courage, freedom, resilience, and the human spirit matter now more than ever.

Website, Facebook, (X), Instagram, LinkedIn, Leif's IMDb page where you can see his entire filmography

Dancing Through the Shadow, Agnes Bristow

Love on Safari (2018) Starring Lacey Chabert and Jon Cor, Brittany Bristow

Mao's Last Dancer (2009) Starring Chi Cao, Bruce Greenwood and Kyle MacLachlan

Dr. Robert J. Wolf, Story-Power episode 138, 20 Miracles and 4 Escapes from Tyranny

Love on the Danube: Royal Getaway (2025)

A Sweet Austrian Holiday (2024)

Beyond Black Beauty (2024)

John Rhys-Davies, Actor, Lord of the Rings, and much more

Ken Weene loves words. At times he is so captivated by them that they cannot hold the flow back and they tumble out as novels, short stories, poems, essays, and stage plays. Although Ken desperately tries to hold back those word floods and endlessly edit them, they find their ways into print and electronic form, which can be found by looking for Ken's name anywhere on the internet. He is, after all, the only Kenneth Weene in captivity so he cannot hide from your searches, not on Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, X, Bluesky, Truth Social, or LinkedIn. 
When you do that search, you will learn that Ken grew up as a broody New Englander, has a PhD in Psychology, worked for years as a therapist and teacher in New York, and moved/retired to Arizona in 2003 when he decided to focus on his writing. Married for 58 years to the late artist Rosalyn Weene, much of Ken's work is dedicated and about the love of his life and their love for life.
Website, Facebook, (X), LinkedIn, Bluesky, TruthSocial, YouTube, Amazon
Books and Plays
Coursing, The Boat and Ashes (With Umar O. Abdul) Memoirs From The Asylum, Jumping Over the Ram (With Deng Atem) Times To Try the Soul of Man
Mario Puzo, The Godfather, book and screenplay
Sleeping Dogs (2024) Russell Crowe
Guy Morris, Story-Power guest, Episode 140 aired on November 19, 2025, Books: Swarm, The Image, The Last Ark
Red Bird, Diandra Ford, Story-Power Episode 132 aired on July 30, 2025
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Travels With Charlie
John Dos Passos, Upton Sinclair, authors
Canio's Books, Shelter Island, NY
One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest, Ken Kesey
The Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Gadsden Hotel, Douglas, Arizona
Dave Dahl, Story-Power guest, Episodes 1 aired on July 22, 2020, and 21 aired on July 21, 2021