Author2Author

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Christina Baker Kline to the show. Christina is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including The Exiles, Orphan Train, and A Piece of the World, and whose books have been published in 40 countries. Her novels have received the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, among other pr...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes the "author's librarian" Vikki J. Carter to the show. As a professional librarian and author, Vikki J. Carter reveals the techniques that librarians use to help writers effectively find valuable sources. Vikki's book, Research Life A Librarian, is available in eBook and in print. Since the publication of her book in March 2021, Vikki has scheduled...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes multi-genre author Kris Faryn to the show. Kris is known for her love of bean burritos, of traveling, and of her patooties at home, including the grown-up one and furry ones. She also loves baking, cooking, a good book, and a crackling fire. She is a multi-award-winning author of Young Adult Fantasy books and Adult Suspense. Most importantly, Kris believes in turning...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes memoirist Marilyn Peterson Haus to the show. Marilyn learned to read and write in a one-room school set in the midst of a sea of corn and oats, and then rode a rickety yellow school bus seven miles to the nearest town (population 700) for middle and high school. Everything was oriented around the railroad that sliced through the tallgrass prairie, heading west. Maril...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist and MD Tammy Euliano to the show. Tammy Euliano, MD, is a practicing anesthesiologist and tenured professor of anesthesiology at the University of Florida. In addition to a prolific list of academic publications, YouTube teaching videos, and numerous teaching awards, she has also written award-winning short fiction. Fatal Intent is her debut novel.

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut fiction author Ellen Birkett Morris to the show. Ellen is the author of Lost Girls, a collection of short stories called "a varied set of tales from a skilled practitioner of the short form" by Kirkus Reviews. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review, South Carolina Review, and Santa Fe Literary Review, among other jou...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist and short story writer Chris Power to the show. Chris is the author of Mothers, which was long-listed for the Rathbones Folio Prize and short-listed for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. His new novel, A Lonely Man, was just published to rave reviews! He lives in London. Don't miss it!

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Kevin McIlvoy to the show. Kevin’s novel One Kind Favor is his eighth published book. He has published five novels, A Waltz, The Fifth Station, Little Peg, Hyssop, At the Gate of All Wonder, and a short story collection, The Complete History of New Mexico. His short fiction has appeared in Harper’s, Southern Review, Ploughshares, Missouri Review, and other l...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Mary Dixie Carter to the show. Mary Dixie graduated from Harvard College with an honors degree in English Literature and holds an MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her writing has appeared in TIME,  The Economist, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer,  The New York Sun, The New York Observer and other p...

Send us Fan Mail Bill turns the tables and is interviewed by author and activist Michael Kaufman. Michael talks to Bill about his new book, Everyone Has What It Takes: A Writer's Guide to the End of Self-Doubt. In addition to hosting Author2Author every week, Bill is the author of Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Writer with Confidence, Write Within Yourself: An Author’s Companion,...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes screenwriter, director, and actor Blake Robbins to the show. Blake is an award winning director, writer, and actor. His feature film writing and directing debut THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL world premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival to rave reviews and went on to win 8 Grand Jury Awards at film festivals around the globe. His follow up film THE SCENT OF RAIN AND LIG...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Lauryn Chamberlain to the show. Laurynwas born and raised in Michigan. She studied journalism and French at Northwestern University and then moved to New York City, where she worked for several years as a journalist, freelance writer, and content strategist (sometimes simultaneously). She currently lives in Toronto. Friends from Home is her debut novel...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes crimes novelist Aidan Truhen to the show. Aidan lives in London. He worked in commodities of one sort or another until he was thirty, which is an age when a man wants his positive achievements to outnumber his acquittals. He's trying to reinvent himself as a writer. We'll see how it goes. He's also the author of The Price You Pay, and, most recently, S...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Clare Whitfield to the show. Clare is a UK based writer living in a suburb where the main cultural landmark is a home store/Starbucks combo. She is the wife of a tattoo artist, mother of a small benign dictator and relies on a black Labrador for emotional stability. People of Abandonned Character is her first novel. Don't miss it!

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes artist and author Rebekah Modrak. Rebekah is a writer and interventionist artist whose artworks resist consumer culture. Re Made Co. (remadeco.org) poses as an online “company” to recreate actual company Best Made Co. by promoting artisanal toilet plungers. RETHINK SHINOLA (rethinkshinola.com) will guide you through the Shinola company’s past and present of marketing...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Jamie Beck to the show. A Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author, Jamie’s realistic and heartwarming stories have sold more than three million copies. She is a two-time Booksellers’ Best Award finalist, a National Readers’ Choice Award winner, and critics at Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and Booklist have respectively called her work “smart,” “uplif...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Lainey Cameron to the show. Lainey Cameron is a digital nomad and author of women’s fiction, as well as the founder and host of The Best of Women’s Fiction series. A recovering tech industry executive, her award-winning novel, The Exit Strategy, was inspired by a decade of being the only woman in the corporate boardroom. Don't miss it!

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes lecturer and author Joshua M. Greene to the show. Joshua M. Greene is a popular lecturer on Holocaust history and an author whose biographies have sold more than a half-million copies worldwide. Greene’s groundbreaking book on the Dachau war crimes trials, Justice at Dachau: The Trials of an American Prosecutor, was deemed “riveting—history writing at its best” by Do...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Tammy Euliano to the show. Tammy is a practicing anesthesiologist and tenured professor of anesthesiology at the University of Florida. In addition to a prolific list of academic publications, YouTube teaching videos, and numerous teaching awards, she has also written award-winning short fiction. Fatal Intent is her debut novel. Don't miss it!

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and coach Martha Beck to the show. Martha is a PhD, a Harvard-trained sociologist, world-renowned coach and New York Times bestselling author. She has published nine non-fiction books including Expecting Adam, Leaving the Saints, and Finding Your Own North Star, one novel, Diane, Herself, and more than 200 magazine articles. Her latest book is The Way of Integ...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut author Laura Maylene Walter to the show. Laura has written for Poets & Writers, Kenyon Review, The Sun, Ninth Letter, The Masters Review, and many others. She has been a Tin House Scholar, a recipient of the Ohioana Library Association's Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, and a writer in residence at Yaddo, the Chautauqua Institution, and Art Omi: Writers. La...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Julie Carrick Dalton to the show. Julie's debut novel WAITING FOR THE NIGHT SONG has been named to Most Anticipated 2021 book lists by CNN, Newsweek, USA Today, Parade, and Buzzfeed, and was an Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Books of the Month. Julie is a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League and is a frequent speaker and workshop leader on the to...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist and lecturer Erica Miner to the show. A Violinist turned author, Erica has a multi-faceted career as an award-winning author, screenwriter, journalist and lecturer. Erica's lectures, seminars and workshops on writing and on opera have received kudos in venues across the West Coast, including the Wagner Societies of New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Die...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Marcia Butler to the show. Marcia has had several creative careers: interior designer, documentary filmmaker, oboist, and author. She was a 2015 recipient of a Writer-in-Residence through Aspen Words and the Catto Shaw Foundation. She was also a writing fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2018 and 2019. Her writing has been published in Th...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes memoirist and screenwriter Melissa Gould to the show. Melissa is an award-winning screenwriter who wrote on such acclaimed TV series as Bill Nye the Science Guy, Party of Five, Beverly Hills 90210, and Lizzie McGuire.​​ Her essays can be found in TheNew York Times, TheLos Angeles Times,TheWashington Post. Widowish, her memoir, is her first book.