December 1, 2013 – Holiday Gift Books

Host Gil Mansergh welcomes you to our annual Word By Word gift books suggestions show from North Bay Public Media, KRCB-FM. Our guests are Sheryl Cotleur and Michele Bellah, the knowledgable frontlist buyers for the Copperfield’s Bookstores. The conversation is about the personally selected novels, and nonfiction for adults, and picture books and stories for …

November 3, 2013 – Jamie Ford

Award-winning novelist Jamie Ford joins host Gil Mansergh for Conversations With Writers. Ford has followed his beloved novel The Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet with a much-anticipated second novel set against the backdrop of Seattle’s depression-era Chinatown. Songs of Willow Frost tells the tale of two youngsters who escape from an orphanage …

October 2, 2013 – Robin Burcell

Word By Word host Gil Mansergh has a conversation with former police officer, detective, hostage negotiator and forensic artist Robin Burcell, the Award-winning author of the Kate Gillespie series featuring the first female SFPD homicide detective in books like Deadly Legacy and Cold Case, and the thriller series featuring FBI forensic artist Sydney Fitzpatrick in …

September 4, 2013 – Sonoma County Book Festival

Host Gil Mansergh welcomes listeners to what has become an annual tradition on KRCB-FM’s Word By Word: Conversations With Writers – a show featuring writers who are part of the current year’s Sonoma County Book Festival. Gil’s guests are: food explorer and radio show host Marcy Smothers, author of SNACKS: Adventures in Food, Aisle by …

August 7, 2013 – Ransom Stephens

Ransom Stephens captured his readers’ attentions with sex, drugs, quantum physics and artificial intelligence in his bestselling first novel The God Patent. Now, in his latest book The Sensory Deception, the Petaluma resident tackles the winner-take-all race for the ultimate gamer experience. Ransom Stephens joins host Gil Mansergh for an entertaining conversation about creating an …

July 3, 2013 – Sonoma Squares Red Harvest murder mystery

Gil Mansergh welcomes listeners to a mysterious “Breakfast Serial*” broadcast of Word By Word where the conversation is with four of the 14 writers for the Sonoma Squares Red Harvest murder mystery serial currently appearing each morning in The Press Democrat in print and online. Gil’s studio guests are: Press Democrat entertainment reporter Dan Taylor …

June 5, 2013 – Authors Bonnie Harvey and Rebecca Rosenberg

Join Gil Mansergh in conversation with two local entrepreneurs and writers: Bonnie Harvey, Co-Founder and Vice-President of Barefoot Cellars for 20 years and the co-author of the business adventure story, The Barefoot Spirit: How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built America’s #1 Wine Brand; and Rebecca Rosenberg the co-owner of Sonoma Lavender and co-author of the …

April 3, 2013 – Oleander Girl

American Book Award winner Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni joins Word By Word host Gil Mansergh for a conversation on her newest novel, Oleander Girl. Known worldwide as an “enticing storyteller with an exquisite moral compass,” Chitra’s bestsellers include Sister of My Heart, One Amazing Thing, and Mistress of Spices which was made into a movie Starring …

March 6, 2013 – The Big Read, Emily Dickinson

This month’s Word By Word program features conversations with writers writers from two distinctive Sonoma County activities – the National Endowment for the Arts March, 2013 Big Read focusing on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, and the 6th Annual Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival which runs from Thursday March 21st through Sunday, March 24th. To honor …