Starting this week, as a premium host on BlogTalkRadio you can host your show using Skype, without Skype charges.
This new feature allows you to:
—Easily dial into your show with a Skype-to-Skype call directly from the switchboard.
—Enhance the quality of your audio broadcast.
—Avoid domestic and international phone charges.

If ever there were a time when family time was money—and less of both to boot—that time is now. Or more simply (albeit crudely) put: It’s a bitch out there for moms.
Fortunately, this week’s Blurb! Book of the Week honoree, Kristin Delfau, can help.
For her 272-page Turbo-Mom’s Guide to Saving Money Without Wasting [...]

Today’s PR props go to Maegan Carberry—for being the latest BlogTalkRadio personality to hit the national press.
The co-host (with Ted Johnson and Teresa Valdez Klein) of Wilshire & Washington spoke to U.S. News & World Report recently for its Nov. 1 feature headlined “The Youth Movement: Confident, entrepreneurial, and socially conscious, generation Y begins [...]

Go figure. Bella Thorne, the 13-year-old actress whose supernatural thriller, Forget Me Not, debuts tonight at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Hollywood, keeps a wolf as a house pet!
Interviewed on Film Festival Radio, the former child model reveals what it’s like cohabitating with the carnivore she calls Voodoo—who’s nearly as tall as she is.
“[Wolves] [...]

Just how devoted are Jo Ann Kubasek’s celebrity guests to the Stardish Radio host? Consider this anecdote: A few months back, Seamus Dever, who plays Detective Kevin Ryan on the hit ABC series Castle, was scheduled to appear on Jo Ann’s show. But shortly before the interview, the actor was unexpectedly called to the [...]

If you’re planning to get hitched anytime soon, read on. (If you’re not planning to get hitched, call your significant other pronto, say, “Honey, we’ve got to get hitched soon,” then read on.)
Because this week’s Blurb! Book of the week winner, as selected by Blurb! hosts Sally Shields and Dr. Kent, has got a how-to [...]

As ultimately-whacked mob boss Phil Leotardo on The Sopranos, Frank Vincent put the bad in bada-bing.
And now he’s back on the Mafia map as aging hitman Lou Marazano in the new flick, Chicago Overcoat, which had its world premiere Oct. 10 at the Chicago International Film Festival.
So who did Frank and his fellow goodfellas invite [...]

Julian Lennon has said goodbye to fiancée Lucy Bayliss.
May Pang—who dated Julian’s dad, John Lennon, during the late Beatle’s so-called “lost weekend” in the late ’70s—reveals that Julian is not only single, but has scant romantic prospects on the horizon.
Dishing on Dinner Specials, her new BlogTalkRadio show launched Oct. 9 to coincide with what would [...]

Disclosure No. 1: We’re humongous fans of Robert B. Parker, the Boston-based of author so many brilliant Spenser novels—which more than do justice to the memories of noir masters Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler.
That said, you can imagine how thrilled we were that this week’s Blurb! Book of the Week honors go to Rick Robinson, [...]

BlogTalkRadio will be attending BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas next week, from Oct. 15 through Oct. 17.
We have a booth at the event and will be broadcasting live interviews from the show floor.
And as we know that many of our hosts will also be attending, we thought it would be great to provide you with [...]