Dr. John Riolo, host of the Insider, interviews Ms. Carmella Broome, author of Carmella's Quest: Taking on College Sight Unseen published by Red Letter Press.

Carmella Broome works for a private counseling agency in the midlands of South Carolina. She holds an Educational degree in Counselor Education Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of South Carolina and is licensed as a Professional Counselor and as a Marriage and Family Therapist/Intern in the state of SC. She works with adolescents,adults, couples, and families and is passionate about relationship issues.She has a particular interest in young adults and all the transitions and choices faced during that phase of life.

Carmella's first book, Carmella's Quest: Taking On College Sight Unseen  describes a part of her own young adulthood.  It is the story of Carmella's first year at a small Christian college in upstate SC .  Carmella has been legally blind since birth due to complications related to  prematurity.  Her struggles with wanting to just be like everyone else while dealing with the day to day  limitations and frustrations of having limited vision are discussed in her book along with the usual college issues of  relationships,  academics, and differentiation.  Visit her blog.

Jason Emerson is an independent historian freelance writer living in Cazenovia, NY. He has published numerous articles and book reviews in both scholarly and popular publications.

He has worked as a National Park Service park ranger at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Gettysburg National Military Park, and the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (the Arch) in St. Louis; a costumed interpreter at the Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, NY, a professional journalist, a newsletter publisher, and a freelance writer. Visit his website.

Dr. John Riolo, host of The Insider, interviews Dr. John Sotos, M.D., author of The Physical Lincoln published by CreateSpace.

Dr. John Sotos, a cardiologist, earned his MD degree and completed all of his medical training at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

He wrote the classic clinical text Zebra Cards: An Aid to Obscure Diagnoses, which catalogs unusual and striking manifestations of disease largely unknown to physicians.

In 2003 Dr. Sotos established that President William Howard Taft had severe obstructive sleep apnea during his Presidency. This grew from his larger work, the award-winning web encyclopedia of The Medical History of American Presidents. It has been the Yahoo! Site of the Day and has twice been a USA Today Hot Site.

Dr. Sotos is currently CEO of Apneos Corporation, a colonel in the Air National Guard, and a medical technical advisor for the television series House, MD.   Visit The Physical Lincoln website.