In this episode, host Landis Wade reflects on the positive arc of the show in the first complete calendar year of Charlotte Readers Podcast and shares exciting news about what’s coming in 2020.

The year 2019 was a year of steady growth for both the podcast and host Landis Wade, a recovering trial lawyer who left the full time practice of law to jump into the world of podcasting with both feet. Landis is grateful for the sponsors, authors, listeners, advisers and supporters who kept him on the right track and for all that he has learned in the last year.

Season 5 Line-Up

Season 5 will include 15 episodes with 19 authors, with novels, non-fiction, poetry and short stories. This episode features audio clips of the 19 authors giving voice to their written words. Here’s the line-up:

Jan. 7 S5-01 Jaki Shelton Green – North Carolina Poet Laureate

Jan. 14 S5-02 Webb Hubbell – The East End

Jan. 21 S5-03 Valerie Nieman – To The Bones and Leopard Lady

Jan. 28 S5-04 Carrie Knowles – Short Fiction and Essay

Feb. 4 S5-05 J.A. Walsh – Purpose of Evasion

Feb. 11 S5-06 Rosy Crumpton and Kamaria Delaney– All I Left Unsaid and Poetry

Feb. 18 S5-07 Kimmery Martin – The Antidote for Everything

Feb. 25 S5-08 Mary Ann Claud and Mary Flinn – Alex Dances and Lumina

Mar. 3 S5-09 Patrice Gopo – All The Colors We Will See

Mar. 10 S5-10 Judy Seldin-Cohen and Rabbi Judith Schindler – Recharging Judaism

Mar. 17 S5-11 Peter Guzzardi – Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons from Over the Rainbow

Mar. 24 S5-12 Irene Blair Honeycutt – Beneath the Bamboo Sky

Mar. 31 S5-13 Tamra Wilson and Amy Rogers – Idol Talk

April 7 S5-14 Jodi Helmer – Protecting Pollinators

April 14 S5-15 Elaine Orr – Swimming Between Worlds

Under the Covers Episodes

Because there are too many engaging local and regional authors and not enough room for them on the existing podcast, Charlotte Readers Podcast will provide even more author content in 2020 with a new show entitled the “Under the Covers” episode of Charlotte Readers Podcast.

Each Under the Covers episode will release on Fridays, beginning January 10^th. They will be much like the existing show, only shorter, around twenty minutes in length. The authors will discuss their books, read from them and discuss their writing lives.

The first four Under the Covers episodes are:

Jan. 10             Under the Covers with Fabi Preslar

Jan. 17             Under the Covers with Dennis Carrigan

Jan. 24             Under the Covers with Jenifer Ruff

Jan. 31             Under the Covers with Sandy Hill