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Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and PNWA President Pam Binder to the show. An award-winning New York Times, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author, Pam Binder has eleven novels and seven novellas to her credit. Drawn to Celtic legends and anything Irish or Scottish, the prolific author blends historical events, characters, and myths into her young adult, romance, historical, time travel, co...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling acclaimed biographer Miranda Seymour to the show. Miranda is a British biographer whose acclaimed books include biographies of Jean Rhys, Lord Byron’s wife and daughter, Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace; Mary Shelley; and Ottoline Morrell. She lives in Nottinghamshire, England.

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Holly James to the show. Holly holds a PhD in psychology and has worked in both academia and the tech industry. She loves telling stories with big hearts and a touch of magic. Nothing But the Truth is her first novel. She currently lives in Southern California with her husband and dog.

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and teacher, and storyteller Matthew Dicks to the show. Matthew is the author of Someday Is Today and nine other books. A bestselling novelist, nationally recognized storyteller, and award-winning elementary schoolteacher, he teaches storytelling and communications at universities, corporate workplaces, and community organizations. Dicks has won multiple Moth...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Kate Brook to the show. Kate lives and works in London. She has a PhD in French Literature and Visual Art from King’s College London, and a master's in European Literature and Culture from the University of Cambridge. Her short-form writing has been published in The Fiction Pool and The Real Story. Not Exactly What I Had in Mind is her debut novel...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist, screenwriter, playwright and journalist Gary Goldstein to the show. Gary has written more than 15 produced telefilms plus the indie features “If You Only Knew,” “Politics of Love” and “Mr. 365.” Gary has also sold or optioned many original screenplays, has a string of episodic TV credits and has sold half-hour pilots to NBC and Warner Bros TV. He was repres...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes film producer and debut memoirist David Winkler to the show. David comes from Hollywood royalty. A successful film producer of such titles as Creed, Rocky Balboa, The Mechanic, and The Gambler, and the son of renowned producer, Irwin Winkler (They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Rocky, Goodfellas, etc), The Arrangement, a love story, is his first book. David lives in Bel Ai...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling author and actress Jennie Mollen to the show. Jenny is a writer, actor, Instagram personality and New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections I Like You Just the Way I Am and Live Fast Die Hot. Heralded by The Huffington Post as one of the funniest women on both Twitter and Instagram and named one of “Five to Follow” by T Magazine, Jenny wr...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist and memoirist Susan Cushman to the show. Susan is the author of five books and editor of three: the memoirs Pilgrim Interrupted and Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s, the novels John and Mary Margaret, and Cherry Bomb, the short story collection Friends of the Library, and the anthologies The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years!, Sou...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes authors Tyron Greer and Beth Weir to the show, who were two of seven contributors to the essay and poetry collection Writing While Masked, a book born from the challenges of lockdown. Tyson Greer is an award-winning writer who, for twenty years, ran her own media company, Tyson Greer….Writes, writing on topics from art to virtual reality for national, regional, and l...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and teacher Nancy Slonim Aronie to the show. Nancy is the author of Writing from the Heart. She has been a regular contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She was recognized for excellence in teaching all three years she taught at Harvard University for Robert Coles. She has joined with physicians and writers from Columbia University...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes filmmaker and debut novelist P. David Ebersole to the show. David is an award-winning independent filmmaker and television director working in both narrative and documentary. Born and raised in Hollywood, he is the son of a psychologist and his step-father was the City Editor of the Los Angeles Times. His credits include the documentary HIT SO HARD (2012) about drumm...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes historical novelist Connie Hertzberg Mayo to the show. Connie grew up in Westchester County, New York, but moved to Massachusetts to get a Literature degree from Tufts University and never ended up leaving. Her first book, THE ISLAND OF WORTHY BOYS, (2015, She Writes Press) won the 2016 Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Co...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling author Charles Wheelan to the show. Charles is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, a former correspondent for The Economist, and the author of assorted books that attempt to make serious topics more accessible, including Naked Economics, Naked Money, Naked Statistics, the family memoir We Came, We Saw, We Le...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling YA author Wendelin Van Draanen to the show. Wendelin Van Draanen has written more than thirty novels for young readers and teens. She is the author of the 18-book Edgar-winning Sammy Keyes series—often called “The new Nancy Drew”—and wrote Flipped, which was named a Top 100 Children’s Novel for the 21st Century by School Library Journal and became a Warne...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Carol Lawrence to the show. Carole is an award-winning novelist, poet, composer, and playwright. In addition to Edinburgh Twilight, Edinburgh Dusk, and Edinburgh Midnight in the Ian Hamilton Mysteries series, she has authored novellas, short stories, and poems—many of them translated internationally. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry and ha...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Caitlin Barasch to the show. Caitlin Barasch earned her BA from Colorado College and her MFA from New York University. Her work has appeared in more than a dozen publications, including Catapult, Day One, The Forge, and Hobart. A former bookseller, Caitlin currently teaches creative writing at the Writers Circle. She was born and raised in New York and...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes poet Kim Dower to the show. Kim, the City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 – October 2018), has published four collections of poetry: Air Kissing on Mars, described by the Los Angeles Times as, “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache,” Slice of Moon, called “unexpected and sublime,” by “O” magazine, Last Train to the Missing...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling British suspense author Philip Gray to the show. Philip Gray, under the pseudonym of Patrick Lynch, is the coauthor of six thrillers that have sold over a million copies worldwide. He published, as Philip Sington, Zoia’s Gold, The Einstein Girl, and The Valley of Unknowing. His most recent novel is the historical suspense novel Two Storm Wood.

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Susan Shapiro to the show. Susan Shapiro freelances for the NY Times, NY Magazine, WSJ, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Salon, Elle, Oprah, Wired & New Yorker online. She's the bestselling author/coauthor of 17 books her family hates like Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, Unhooked and The Forgiveness Tour.  Her popular writing guides The Byline B...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Elizabeth Conte to the show. Elizabeth Conte is a women’s fiction writer, “Creating beauty for the mind.” She is a writer of poetry, short stories, and novels, with her debut book, Finding Jane, releasing this spring. Her short stories are featured in anthologies, The Truths That Can’t be Told (2021), Let’s Begin Again (2022), and Free Spirit (2022). Poetry an...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling novelist Erica Ferencik to the show. There is nowhere on earth Erica won’t go to take you out of your head and into the great wild world. An award-winning novelist, she writes adventure stories featuring women who brave not only internal struggles but face extreme challenges in their environment: remote forests, steaming jungles, and desolated icescapes. ...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes suspense author Lynn Hightower to the show. Lynn is the author of numerous thrillers, including the Sonora Blair and Lena Padget detective series. Her internationally-bestselling novels have been included in the New York Times List of Notable Books, the London Times’ bestseller lists, the WH Smith Fresh Talent Awards, and the Shamus award. She teaches Master Novel cl...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Amy Tector to the show. Amy has spent more than 20 years plumbing the secrets squirreled away in archives — whether it's uncovering a whale's ear (true story) in a box of old photographs, or working in The Hague for the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in the former Yugoslavia, she has been privy to hidden r...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes suspense novelist Emilya Naymark to the show. Emilya is the author of the novels Hide in Place and Behind the Lie, books 1 and 2 in the Sylvan series starring PI Laney Bird. Her short stories appear in A Stranger Comes to Town, edited by Michael Koryta, Secrets in the Water, After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shift, River River Journal, Snowbound: Best New Engl...