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Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Jacquelyn Mitchard to the show. Jacquelyn's first novel, The Deep End of the Ocean, was published in 1996, becoming the first selection of the Oprah Winfrey Book Club and a #1 New York Times bestseller. Nine other novels, four children's books and six young adult novels followed, including Two if By Sea, No Time to Wave Goodbye, Still Summer, All We...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Monica McGurk to the show. Award-winning author Monica McGurk likes nothing better than weaving complex, multi-layered stories that bring contemporary issues and strong female characters to life through different genres of popular fiction. Her previous work includes three volumes of paranormal YA romance—The Archangel Prophecies: Dark Hope, Dark Rising, and...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes Irish author Bernard MacLaverty to the show. Bernard is the author of five previous collections of stories and five novels, including Grace Notes, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and Midwinter Break, shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Born in Ireland, he now lives in Glasgow, Scotland.  

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Andrew Lipstein to the show. Andrew's first novel, Last Resort, has been receiving rave reviews prior to its release January 18. We talked about how he dealt with the years of rejection preceding it's publication, the importance of getting into the flow of writing, as well as his unusually creative approach to securing that first contract. Ch...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes coach and author Shawn Singleton II to the show. Shawn Singleton II is a 2021 CREA Award winner, Brainz Executive Contributor, Scribd featured speaker for leadership and mindset, published author of "Brick by Brick: Reshape Your Thinking," Certified Personal Trainer, and Cognitive Behavioral, Life, and Business Coach who has committed the last 14 years of h...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes award-winning novelist Jason Mott to the show. Jason is a Bestselling author, National Book Award Winner, Sir Walter Raleigh Award for Fiction Winner, Pushcart Prize nominee, and Carnegie Medals For Excellence Longlist nominee, His poetry and fiction has appeared in various literary journals, and Entertainment Weekly listed him as one of their 10 “New Hollywood: Next...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes poet and memoirist Gabrielle Myers to the show. Gabrielle is a professor, writer, and chef. Her memoir, Hive-Mind, details her time of love, awakening, and tragic loss on an organic farm. Her poetry manuscripts have been top finalists for the Catamaran West Coast Poetry Prize (2018 & 2020) and the 42 Mile Press Poetry Award (2014). Her poetry has been published i...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Farhad J. Dadyburjor to the show. Born and based in Mumbai, Farhad J. Dadyburjor has been an entertainment & lifestyle journalist for more than twenty years. He has written for many publications and held several senior editorial positions, including at DNA newspaper, as launch editor at the international men’s magazine FHM, and currently at The Leela mag...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Michael Leppert to the show. Michael Leppert is a lecturer at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business, an adjunct professor at IU’s O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, a columnist and an author. Immediately following his time as a student at IU, Michael went to work for the State of Indiana. His government career began at the Ind...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut thriller writer Yasmin Angoe to the show. Yasmin is a first-generation Ghanaian American from Northern Virginia where she grew up in two cultural worlds. In 2020, she received the Sisters in Crime Eleanor Taylor Bland Award for Emerging Writers of Color and is a proud member of SinC, Crime Writers of Color, and International Thriller Writers. Yasmin was a middl...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Meredith Jaeger to the show. Meredith is the USA Today bestselling author of The Dressmaker's Dowry, Boardwalk Summer, and her recently released The Pilot’s Daughter. Meredith was born and raised in Berkeley, California, and holds a BA in modern literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She lives outside San Francisco with her husband and...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes slam poetry sensation Sabrina Benaim to the show. Sabrina is a poet, storyteller, and workshop facilitator. She is one of the most-viewed spoken word poets of all time: her videos have reached more than one hundred million people. In 2017, her debut collection, Depression & Other Magic Tricks, was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist, finishing just behind Rupi Kau...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist author Christy Hallberg to the show. Christy Alexander Hallberg is the author of the novel SEARCHING FOR JIMMY PAGE, from Livingston Press. She is a Teaching Professor of English at East Carolina University, where she earned her BS and MA in English. She received her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) from Goddard College. She is Senior Associate Editor...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes New York City–based documentarian, artist, and the creator of Subway Book Review, Uli Beutter Cohen, to the show. Uli explores belonging to a time and place through writing and photography. She is a sought-after speaker and panelist. Her work has been featured in print, on TV, and online by New York magazine; Esquire; Vogue; Forbes; O, The Oprah Magazine; Glamour; th...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Maria Marotti to the show. Maria Marotti is a retired academic and author of several essays and books of literary criticism. More recently she has published two books in the Detective Captain  Fusco Mystery Cases Series: A Question of Class (2021) and The Etruscan Princess (2020). Maria is at work on the third volume of the series. She also writes animal/paran...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Laura Davis to the show. In her 30+ year career as an author, Laura Davis has written seven non-fiction books that have changed peoples’ lives. The Courage to Heal paved the way for hundreds of thousands to heal from the trauma of sexual abuse. Becoming the Parent You Want to Be helps parents develop a vision for the families they want to create. And I Thought...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling novelist and indie publishing guru Joanna Penn to the show. Joanna writes non-fiction for authors and is an award-nominated, New York Times and USA Today bestselling thriller author as J.F. Penn. She’s also an award-winning podcaster, creative entrepreneur, and international professional speaker. 

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and speaker David Richman to the show. David is an author, public speaker, philanthropist, and endurance athlete whose mission is to form more meaningful human connections through storytelling. In his first book, Winning in the Middle of the Pack, he discussed how to get more out of ourselves than ever imagined. With Cycle of Lives, David shares the interconne...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes poet Sarah Lipton-Sidibeh to the show. Sarah Lipton-Sidibeh, BA Honours, LLCM, FRSA, was born in London, England. She has written three volumes of short stories, three volumes of poetry, a play, a children's book, film scripts, song lyrics and two educational textbooks. Some of her short stories were broadcast on the radio, and her poetry has been published in n...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes suspense author Gregg Olsen to the show. Gregg is a #1 New York Times, #1 Amazon Charts, #1 Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and USA Today bestselling author of more than 30 crime books. An impassioned voice for victims and their families, Olsen has been a guest on Dateline, 48 Hours, 20/20, William Shatner's Aftermath, Deadly Women, Good Morning America, CB...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes suspense author Kevin O'Brien back to the show. Before his thrillers landed him on the USA Today and New York Times Bestseller lists, Kevin O’Brien was a railroad inspector.  The author of 21 internationally-published thrillers, he won the Spotted Owl Award for Best Pacific Northwest Mystery. His work has been translated into over a dozen languages. Press &...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling novelist Lemony Snicket (AKA Daniel Handler) to the show! Lemony Snicket is the author of far too many books, including the four-volume All the Wrong Questions and the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events. His new book, Poison for Breakfast, publishes fall 2021. When inconvenience or treachery prohibits him from making an appearance, Mr. Snicket...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Lyanda Lynn Haupt to the show. Lyanda is an award-winning author, naturalist, ecophilosopher, and speaker whose writing is at the forefront of the movement to connect people with nature in their everyday lives. Her newest book is Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit(Little, Brown Spark 2021). Lyanda’s previous books include: Mozart’s S...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes Author Lee Zacharias to the show. Lee is the author of four novels, a collection of essays, and a collection of short stories. She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council, has twice won the North Carolina Sir Walter Raleigh Award for a book of fiction, and has received many other prizes, including two silver m...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Asha Lemmie to the show. Asha is the New York Times bestselling author of Fifty Words for Rain. After graduating from Boston College with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing, she relocated to New York City where she worked in book publishing. Asha writes historical fiction that focuses on bringing unique perspectives to life.