Neighborhood Bookstore

On the Season One Finale of Neighborhood Bookstore, historian and journalist April White discusses her narrative nonfiction book THE DIVORCE COLONY. This episode particularly warms my heart. First, it is the culmination of all our work to make season one of Neighborhood Bookstore happen. Second, I have known this author, April White, since high school. It is such a privilege to see her career blos...

On episode 5 of the Neighborhood Bookstore podcast, bestselling author David Morrell (creator of Rambo) discusses his Bram Stoker Award-winning horror novel CREEPERS. In this episode: Researching and writing an urban exploration (UrbEx) thriller Writing in “real time” The fascination of life frozen in time Never getting over The Wild Bunch, and Peckinpah’s influence on writing action in First Bloo...

Welcome to Episode 4 of Neighborhood Bookstore! Host Eric Harper talks with popular western author Peter Brandvold about his bounty hunter novel THE DEVIL AND LOU PROPHET. In this episode: •Baking bread and talking books •Writing a lighthearted western •Being classmates with David Foster Wallace •Writing for a market, being practical, and making money •Sex and violence! •The marketing genius of Mi...

Welcome to the third episode of Neighborhood Bookstore, an author interview podcast. Each month I’ll talk to an author about a book from their back catalog, then take a look at what they have coming up next. This time around, co-host Craig Duster and I chat with cozy mystery author Abby Collette about her novel A Deadly Inside Scoop. In this episode: • Learning the rules of writing cozy mysteries...

Host Eric Harper talks with fantasy, horror, and Young Adult author Christopher Barzak about his haunted town novel The Gone Away Place. Listen to Neighborhood Bookstore here: < http://EricHarperPresents. Substack.com > or on other major podcast platforms. Coming soon: • Transcripts and Closed Captioned Video Buy The Gone Away Place here: Buy Christopher Barzak’s latest books, MONSTROUS ALTE...

Host Eric Harper talks with bestselling author James Grady (Six Days of the Condor) about his hard-boiled crime novel Steeltown — based on Youngstown, Ohio and Butte, Montana. In this episode: • Riffing on Dashiel Hammett’s Red Harvest • Visiting Youngstown in 1988 and finding an underground casino five years before the FBI • 58 car bombings in a year • “The Bug” (IYKYK) • Hammett’s murder-for-hir...