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Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes celebrated Irish Novelist Anne Enright to the show. Anne has published three volumes of stories, one book of nonfiction, and several novels. In 2015, she was named the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction. Her novel The Gathering won the Man Booker Prize, and The Forgotten Waltz won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her latest novel is Actress. Thi...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes poet Gloria Mindock to the show. Gloria Mindock is the founding editor of Červená Barva Press and one of the USA editors for Levure Litteraire (France). She is the author of, I wish Francisco Franco Would Love Me (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), Whiteness of Bone (Glass Lyre Press, 2016), La Portile Raiului (Ars Longa Press, Romania, 2010) translated into the Romanian by Fl...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling novelist Katrin Schumann. Katrin's work has been featured multiple times on TODAY and in Woman’s Day, The London Times and on NPR, as well as other national and international media. Her debut novel, The Forgotten Hours was a Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller. Her latest novel This Terrible Beauty has been called "luminous and unflinch...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes memoirist Nadine Kenney Johnstone to the show. Nadine is the author of the memoir, Of This Much I'm Sure, winner of the CWA Book of the Year award. Coverage of her memoir has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Today’s Parent, MindBodyGreen, Metro, and Chicago Health Magazine, among others. She teaches at Loyola University and received her MFA from Columbia College in Chi...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Susan Zurenda to the show. After teaching literature, composition, and creative writing to thousands of high school and college students for 33 years, Susan turned her attention to putting a novel in her heart on paper, the genesis of which started with a short story that won a fiction prize some years ago and Bells for Eli  was published on March 2! D...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes memoirist and fiction writer Donna Conrad to the show. Donna  is an award-winning author, journalist, activist, and teacher. Her core values revolve around the concept of individual empowerment, a sustaining ideal running through the books she writes. She has studied writing with the likes of Alan Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Erica Jong. Her writing interests...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and psychologist Andrea Polard back to the show. Andrea is a life-long meditator. Her interest in psychology and happiness began early, at age sixteen. She became a Clinical Psychologist in Germany (1993) and California (2001) and was trained in Primal Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Self-Psychology, and Positive Psychology. When Andrea discovered that...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes lecturer, newscaster, and filmmaker Louise L. Schiavone to the show. Louise is a member of the full-time faculty and Senior Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. She teaches “Business Leadership and Human Values” and “Business Communication” to graduate level students at the Baltimore and Washington D.C. campuses. A career journalist, and TE...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut author and digital marketing guru Jess Zafarris to the show. Jess Zafarris is the author of Once Upon a Word: A Word-Origin Dictionary for Kids. She is also an award-winning innovator of digital content and marketing solutions and a prolific online and print journalist, having served as the Executive Director of Marketing & Communications for Gotham Ghostwr...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist, essayist and short story writer John Michael Cummings to the show. John is the author of the nationally acclaimed coming-of-age novel "The Night I Freed John Brown", winner of The Paterson Prize and recommended by USA TODAY for Black History Month. His 2011 short story collection, "Ugly To Start With", was an IndieFab Award Finalist hail...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Christina Adams to the show. Christina is an award-winning writer, journalist, author, and speaker. She and her work have been featured by National Public Radio, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and the LA Times Magazine. Her book Camel Crazy: A Quest for Miracles in the Mysterious World of Camels explores the scientific and cultural importance of c...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut suspense author Amy K. Green to the show. Amy was born and raised in a small New England town where she was once struck by lightning. She was a practicing CPA before leaving the corporate life to work in film production, write, and wear fewer high heels. Her first novel, The Prized Girl, is receiving rave reviews. Don't miss it!

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling suspense writer Joseph Finder to the show. Joe is the New York Times bestselling author of fifteen previous suspense novels, including JUDGMENT, THE SWITCH, THE FIXER and SUSPICION. He introduced “private spy” Nick Heller in VANISHED, an instant bestseller, and the continuing series includes BURIED SECRETS, GUILTY MINDS and, most recently, HOUSE ON FIRE....

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling crime writer and TV writer and producer Lee Goldberg to the show. Lee is a two-time Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award nominee and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including Washington Post best-sellers Killer Thriller and True Fiction, as well as King City, The Walk, fifteen Monk Mysteries, and the internationally b...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and transformational coach Michael Bianco-Splann to the show. Michael Bianco-Splann, conscious leadership expert, visionary author and inspirational speaker, brings unique and powerful expertise to deliver a differentiated and transformative approach to leaders, organizations and those seeking a life fully engaged and true to one's passion and purpose. He...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author Peter Curtis to the show. Peter was born in Slovakia in 1937, grew up in England, and studied medicine in London. Always as interested in people’s lives as in their ailments, he wrote and published short stories about his country practice. After he and his family moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he was a professor of Family Medicine, he began to writ...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes journalist and memoirist Carmen Gentile to the show. Carmen has written for some of the world’s leading publications including the New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, USA Today and many others. He has also produced online video reporting for The Times and TIME. He also regularly produces radio reports and has published numerous photos with his work. He has covered both t...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes scholar and translator Peter Booth to the show. Peter is a Hafiz scholar and translator, co-author of Dante I Hafiz, and member of the DC area Iranian Culture Association. He studied Sanskrit and sacred Indian texts at Georgetown University in his teens, received a B.A. in English Literature from Bard College, and attended Harvard Graduate School in Persian Language...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes Anthony Award-winning author Matt Coyle to the show. Matt is the author of the best-selling Rick Cahill crime novels. He knew he wanted to be a crime writer when he was fourteen and his father gave him The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler. His foray into crime fiction was delayed for thirty years as he spent time managing a restaurant, selling golf clubs for...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes suspense author Michael Niemann to the show. Michael  has long been interested in the sites where ordinary people’s lives and global processes intersect. He’s shared umqombothi with shack dwellers outside Cape Town, interviewed Morgan Tsvangirai, former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, when he was still a trade union leader, and seen Eduardo Mondlane’s dorm room at Northw...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes adventurer and memoirist Chris Fagan to the show. Chris is a wife, mother and business owner who, along with her husband Marty, was a part of the first American married couple to ski without guide, resupply, or other assistance to the South Pole, becoming Guinness World Record holders in the process. She has summited Denali, in Alaska; run 100-mile trail races throug...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Susan Welch to the show. Susan's first book, A Thread So Fine, won the prestigious 2019 Nancy Pearl Book Award for Fiction at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. An adopted child, her novel grew out of a desire to understand the life of her birth and adoptive mothers' lives in the optimistic but still socially-restrictive post WW II Mid...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling suspense writer Hank Phillippi Ryan to the show. Hank is the on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV. She's won 36 EMMYs, 14 Edward R. Murrow awards and dozens of other honors for her groundbreaking journalism. A nationally bestselling author of 11 mystery novels, Hank has also won multiple prestigious awards for her crime fiction: five Ag...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes journalist and debut crime novelist Holly Watt to the show. Holly started her career at the Sunday Times, before moving to the Daily Telegraph. During six years at the Telegraph, she was the Whitehall Editor and jointly ran the investigations team. She then moved to work on the Guardian's investigations team. Holly has been nominated for a wide range of journali...

Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Frank Heller to the show. Frank Heller has published biographical and exhibition catalogs on American and European artists, some of which are housed in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in Washington, DC. He was a hospital corpsman in the US Navy during the early years of the Vietnam War. To write THE SECRET EMPRESS, he drew on his thirty years of experi...