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The final Season 4 authors have all been interviewed and we just need to edit and upload them to our broadcast system.
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The Haunted Hearts Paranormal Romance Series book one from D.S. Stephens is tentatively slated for a February 2026 release date to kick off our Season 5 Lovefest!
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We have begun putting together the 2025 holiday special issue for Book Banter Magazine. This issue will be a memorial tribute to Stephen Burckhardt, Dianne Burckhardt's father who sadly passed last August. For more information see About Stephen.
Dianne Burckhardt
Host of Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt - Book Talk Podcast
Author of Fiction, Thrillers, and Non-fiction
Dianne Burckhardt started her writing career as a journalist and on-air anchor for an international news service based in Wichita, KS. Since moving to Europe, she has worked as a social media manager, ghostwriter, and more recently she has been building the Burckhardt Books and Book Banter Productions brands. Dianne had published several books under pen names but her first book to be published under her own name, Free Bad Haircuts With Each Craniotomy, is slated to be released in 2025. To read more About Dianne click the link below.
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Stephen Burckhardt
Author of the Historical Fiction Family Saga, The Into the West Saga Serial
Stephen Burckhardt has finished writing the first series in his Territories Saga Serials collection. Into the West is the first saga with seven books in publication. The series was completed with the publication of part seven, Into the West: Family Ties. This novella closes out the Into the West Saga Serial and sets up in the next saga, Surviving the West. Release dates for the next saga to be announced as soon as they become available. Join our mailing list to stay up to date on release information for this and other titles coming from Burckhardt Books.
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8/25/25
Romance author, D.S. Stephens, has joined Burckhardt Books. We had put a hold on adding her romance books to our selection for the time being as we built Book Banter Magazine. We plan to move forward with this genre and D.S. Stephens in the near future. The wait is over, The Haunted Hearts Paranormal Romance Series is in production! More info coming soon.
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