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Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Brian Selfon to the show. Brian Selfon has worked in criminal justice for nearly twenty years, more than fifteen of them with law enforcement agencies in New York. As the Chief Investigative Analyst for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, he handled cases ranging from money laundering to first-degree murder. He now lives in Seattle and works as an...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and coach Bridgit Dengel Gaspard to the show. Bridgit is the author of The Final 8th, and the founder of the New York Voice Dialogue Institute. She is a former performer who earned a master's degree from Columbia University and teaches at numerous professional settings, including the Omega Institute. She lives in New York City, where she maintains a thriv...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes poet, publisher and editor Clifford Brooks to the show. Clifford is the founder of the Southern Collective Experience and Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Mountain Review. He hosts Dante's Old South on NPR/WUTC and This Business of Music & Poetry. He has three books of poetry: The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, and Exiles of Eden....

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes suspense novelist Joseph Reid to the show. Joseph is a patent attorney and the author of a popular series about air marshal Seth Walker. His most recent book is Departure, in which Walker is called to investigate the disappearance of an electrical engineer from one of America’s premier tech companies who disappears inside the San Francisco International Airport befor...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes journalist, music critic, and debut fiction author David Hajdu to the show. David  is the music critic for The Nation and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining The Nation in January 2015, he served for more than ten years as the music critic for The New Republic. His most recent book, Adrianne Geffel, is "fictional...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes internationally bestselling suspense writer Brad Parks to the show. Brad is the only writer to have won the Shamus, Nero, and Lefty Awards, three of American crime fiction’s most prestigious prizes. His novels have been translated into 15 languages and have won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major pre-publication review outlet. A gradua...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and educator Jen Knox to the show. Jen is an educator and storyteller who teaches writing, leadership, and meditation. She is also is the co-owner of Unleash Creatives. Her books include the short story collections The Glass City and After the Gazebo, and her novel-in-stories, RESOLUTIONS. Her writing has been nominated for the Pen Faulkner, The Best of the Ne...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes architect and author Donald M. Rattner to the show. Donald's professional and academic activities have been featured on CNN and in such publications as The New York Times, Work Design Magazine, Better Humans, Town & Country, Robb Report, Connecticut Cottages & Gardens, Builder, Traditional Building, L-Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, ChildArt Magazine, Desig...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist and coach Rea Frey to the show. Rea is an award-winning author of several nonfiction books and the novels Not Her Daughter, Because You’re Mine, and Until I Find You. She is also the founder and CEO of Writeway, which teaches writers about the business of publishing—not just the craft. Don't miss it!

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Sharon Harrigan to the show. Sharon is the author of the new novel Half. In a starred review Booklist said, “Fans of Jeffrey Eugenides, Andre Dubus III, and Jane Smiley will adore Harrigan’s suspenseful, lyrical, and consuming exploration of two difficult lives, intertwined. . . Raw and powerful, Half will stay with you.” Publisher’s Weekly wrote, “Harrigan’s...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and educator Geraldine Woods to the show. Geraldine  has taught and tutored every level of English from 5th grade through AP for more than four decades. She makes snarky comments on grammar and usage in her blog, www.grammarianinthecity.com. She is the author of more than 50 books, most recently, 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way. She's written...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes memoirist, aviator, and professor Cecilia Aragon to the show. Cecilia is a professor at the University of Washington, and the winner of many awards for her work. She’s published hundreds of articles, co-authored the book Writers in the Secret Garden, taught astronauts to fly, and worked with Nobel Prize winners. Her innovative research has been lauded by President Ob...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes poet, teacher, and councilor Jude Rittenhouse to the show. An award-winning poet, short-story, and non-fiction writer, Jude  is also a teacher, speaker, and holistic practitioner with a Master’s degree in Counseling. For over twenty years, she has been helping others learn how to use their creativity to achieve positive change and growth. Her work has been published...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes suspense author Glen Erik Hamilton to the show. A native of Seattle, Glen Erik Hamilton was raised aboard a sailboat and grew up around the marinas and commercial docks and islands of the Pacific Northwest. His novels have won the Anthony, Macavity, and Strand Magazine Critics awards, and been nominated for the Edgar®, Barry, and Nero awards. He now lives in Californ...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes memoirist Heather Siegel to the show. Heather Siegel is a writer, teacher, and creative with interests in the arts, food, and animal welfare. In her past life, she founded several independent businesses, including a coffeehouse, a café, an organic juice bar, and a natural beauty bar. She currently teaches creative and academic writing for local colleges, continuing e...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist and screenwriter David Klass to the show. David is the author of many young adult novels, including You Don't Know Me, Losers Take All, and Grandmaster. He is also a Hollywood screenwriter, having written more than twenty-five action screenplays, including Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman and Ashley Judd, Walking Tall, starring The Rock, and Desp...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes literary suspense author August Norman to the show. August has called Los Angeles home for two decades, writing for and/or appearing in movies, television, stage productions, web series, and even, commercial advertising. A lover and champion of crime fiction, August is an active member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, and Sisters...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist, screenwriter, and filmmaker Ann Crawford to the show. Ann is the bestselling author of ten books, a screenwriter, and an award-winning filmmaker. She has been a part of an improv team, did the odd acting gig here and there, and even had a stint in talent management. Her latest novel, Life in the Hollywood Lane, takes a funny and compassionate look at the ch...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist, essayist, and teacher Aimee Liu to the show. Aimee is the author of numerous bestselling novels as well as nonfiction books on medical and psychological topics. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, Ms., and many other publications. She is on the faculty of Goddard College's MFA in Creative Writing Program at Port...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Ashley E. Sweeney to the show. Ashley is the winner of the 2017 Nancy Pearl Book Award for her debut novel, Eliza Waite. A native New Yorker, she is a graduate of Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, and resides in the Pacific Northwest and Tucson. Answer Creek is her second novel. She has long been enamored with underserved women’s voices. Her techniqu...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes poet, memoirist and speaker Albert Flynn DeSilver to the show. Albert Flynn DeSilver is an American poet, memoirist, novelist, speaker, and workshop leader. His work has appeared in more than 100 literary journals worldwide including ZYZZYVA, New American Writing, Hanging Loose, Jubilat, Exquisite Corpse, Jacket (Australia), Poetry Kanto (Japan), Van Gogh’s Ear (Fran...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Amy Engel to the show. Amy is a former criminal defense attorney who grew up in Iran and Missouri. Her debut novel, The Book of Ivy, published in 2014, won the Missouri Gateway Readers Award and the Georgia Peach Book Award. After this promising start, she's gone on to publish The Revolution of Ivy, The Roanoke Girls, and, her most recent, The Familiar...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Sahar Mustafah to the show. Sahar is the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, from which she draws inspiration for her fiction. She is an acclaimed writer of short stories, having been awarded the Guild Literary Complex Prize for fiction, a Distinguished Story honor from Best American Short Stories, and three Pushcart Prize nominations. The Beauty of Yo...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist, speaker, and productivity coach Allie Pleiter to the show. An avid knitter, coffee junkie, and devoted chocoholic, Allie writes both fiction and non-fiction. The enthusiastic but slightly untidy mother of two, Allie spends her days writing books, buying yarn, and finding new ways to avoid housework. Allie hails from Connecticut, moved to the midwest to atte...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist, speaker, and folklorist Kate Ristau to the show. Kate is an author, and the executive director of Willamette Writers. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and she is the author of the middle grade series, Clockbreakers, and the young adult series, Shadow Girl, including her most recent, Shadow Queen. In her ideal world, ma...