A Radio Collection (with a story of mine!)

Radio has been an enormous part of my life. Except for a short stint as a muffin baker in a donut shop, radio was my first job out of college. (The muffin baking thing only lasted a couple months) Beginning as a rip/rewrite/read newscaster, I worked my way through every airshift of the day, sports play-by-play/color, copywriter, production director, talk show host, music director, assistant Program Director and Operations Manager in 19 ½ years. I was afternoon drive three times and morning drive twice. My studios ranged from the backrooms of an aluminum siding company to Walt Disney World, from a booth in a mall to a trailer suspended 30 feet in the air.

It was an amazing journey with a band of wonderful professionals and friends.

Radio is filled with storytellers. The best people on-air are natural born storytellers, but they’re not the only ones. Salespeople are skilled storytellers and even the off-air support staff know how to tell the tale. It’s one of three places where I have felt that I had found “my people”.

So I’m amazed that I haven’t seen more books like “Air – A Radio Anthology“. This is a collection of stories from small market radio. It’s also a collection that includes one of my stories.

“A Box And A Blast” tells the true story of me, a small, gray metal box, and trust issues. It was fun to write, wonderful to get the word they had purchased the story, and truly exciting to share with the world.

“Air” is now available for just $12. For all of us with radio in our lives, past or present, I would urge you to consider buying a copy. I don’t make a dime from these sales, but I want to help support the small publishing house that put it together. If you grew up listening to the radio and always wondered what it was like in the studio, I’d recommend this book as well. These are the stories radio folk swap when we gather together. They represent the tiniest scratch of the surface of all the stories we could tell.

And told by folks who know how to tell a story.

You’ll find the book HERE.

Thanks!