Authors on the Air

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Rusty Barnes is the founder and editor-in-chief of Tough magazine, which features some of the finest crime-fiction authors working today. He's also the author of the new "The Last Danger," the sequel to "Ridgerunners" (both from Shotgun Honey). On this edition of "Noir on the Radio," we're getting into the nitty-gritty of indie publishing, crime fiction... and why readers often seem to care more a...

Sylvia Shults is the author of 44 Years in Darkness, Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital, and other books of true ghost stories. She has spent the past twenty years working in a library, slowly smuggling words out in her pockets day by day to build a book of her own. She sits in dark, spooky, haunted places so you don't have to. She lives a short, ten-minute motorcycle ride a...

Bob Brill talks in depth about how his historical interest in the burlesque queen of the 50s and 60s, Patti Waggin, started and how he gathered real letters and ephemera to write his nonfiction book about her. Find out about his movies, and a great opportunity for anyone who reads his Western novels to contribute an idea and get credit in the book. Bob Brill's website: http://www.bobbrill.com/ Chr...

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes former screenwriter and award winning author ED PROTZEL to the studio. About Ed: Ed’s writing career began in college after one of his professors encouraged his talent. He wanted to write screenplays full time then, but had to make a living and put the endeavor aside, working on his scripts in his spare time and on weekends. After several years, he took a...

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes two international best-selling author ALLISON BRENNAN & TAYLOR STEVENS IN CONVERSATION. About Allison: Allison Brennan believes life is too short to be bored, so she had five children and writes three books a year. A former consultant in the California State Legislature, Allison is now a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than three d...

Authors on the Air Host Pam Stack welcomes a panel of voracious book lovers to talk about audiobooks. Audio book narrator Kevin Pierce joins this panels including Tori Eldridge, author, Peter Rozovsky, writer and photographer, Natasha Bajema, author, Penni Jones, author. Audiobooks are fun. They are perfect driver companions. They make every long trip much shorter – and much more entertaining. The...

Karen Brissette has been living in New York since 1995, when she moved there to do her undergrad in English at NYU. She received her Masters in Library Science from Queens College, with a specialization in readers' advisory, and gave a presentation at ALA on using Goodreads as a readers' advisory tool, after creating a readers' advisory group on the site as her final thesis-project. She has worked...

Dr. Bruce Olav Solheim talks about both his fiction and nonfiction books, especially his latest release, Timeless: A Paranormal Personal History, as well as his first fiction book, Ali's Bees. Listeners will find out what other books are coming down the pike, why including personal stories in his books is important to him, the course "Boots to Books" that he co-founded to help recently returned ve...

Fame and obsession collide in this darkly twisted novel from an incredible new voice in suspense. SOMEONE IS WATCHING Washed up teen star Liv Hendricks quit acting after her beloved younger sister inexplicably disappeared following a Hollywood party gone wrong. Liv barely escaped with her life, and her sister was never heard from again. But all this time, someone's been waiting patiently to finish...

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes delightful author Patricia Smiley to the studio to discuss her books and writing career. About Pat: Los Angeles Times bestselling author Patricia Smiley has written four books in a mystery series featuring amateur sleuth Tucker Sinclair. PACIFIC HOMICIDE (Nov 2016) is the first in a new series about LAPD Homicide Detective Davie Richards. Davie's story co...

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes back to the studio collegue and award-winning author Matt Coyle. About Matt: Coyle's debut novel, Yesterday's Echo, won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the San Diego Book Award for Best Mystery, and the Ben Franklin Silver Award for Best New Voice in Fiction. Night Tremors was a Bookreporter.com Reviewers' Favorite Book of 2015 and was an Anthony,...

Enginerds author Jarrett Lerner stops by the Middle Grade Mayhem corporate HQ to talk literacy advocacy, mentorship, and turd missile ballistics on this fun and very informative episode

Perfectionism is one of the biggest bugaboos of creativity. One solution? Sometimes you just have to play pig.

Award-winning author, Sara Dahmen is a successful small business entrepreneur, has been a contributing editor in trade publications and is a mother of three. She is a copper and tin smith apprentice and her days are spent writing and managing her American cookware line, House Copper & Cookware. She is an avid cook, a reader of history or religion books and the weekly Economist.

David Howard Thornton is an actor in stage, film, and voice over. He is best known for his roles as Grandpa Who in the 1st- 5th national tours of "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas: The Musical", the voice of Shizoku and others in the video game "Invizimals: The Lost Kingdom", The Joker in the YouTube series "Nightwing Escalation", and Art the Clown in the film "Terrifier". Join the Thorne...

“A Dark Turn” welcomes author Cutter Wood to the show to discuss his new book “Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime.” I spoke with Cutter last week at the Miami Book Fair about this compelling work of true crime/memoir, which powerfully blends the author’s investigation of a disappearance and homicide with his personal story. Some background on the author: Wood was born in Ce...

Ava's Cozy Corner welcomes Author Lisa B. Thomas. Lisa discusses her books, the stories behind the books, and her writing process. Born and raised in Texas, I always knew I wanted to be a writer. Finally, after thirty-three years as a high school Journalism and English teacher, I released my first novel. Having grown up reading Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, and Agatha Christie, I was drawn to the coz...

Dana King is the author of a series of police procedurals set in the (fictional) town of Penns River, including "Worst Enemies," "Grind Joint," and "Resurrection Mall" (all from Down & Out Books). Today, we're sitting down to talk about the latest one, "Ten Seven," which is coming Jan. 21. King has two Shamus Award nominations (for "A Small Sacrifice" and "The Man in the Window"), and his short st...

Peter James talks about the true life story of how his latest book (published October 2018) ABSOLUTE PROOF came about—the whole story, front to end. And, ever wonder what it’s like to sit in the audience of your own play? Peter tells us all about it, and his upcoming stage play, THE HOUSE ON COLD HILL! *ABSOLUTE PROOF is currently available on audiobook only in the US and will be available in pape...

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes international best-selling author JEFF ABBOTT to the studio to discuss his latest thriller THE THREE BETHS. About Jeff: Jeff Abbott is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of many mystery and suspense novels. He has been called “one of the best thriller writers in the business” (Washington Post). His novels have been called “compulsively r...

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes author JJ Hensley to the studio to discuss his new book RECORD SCRATCH. About JJ: J.J. Hensley is a former police officer and former Special Agent with the U.S. Secret Service. Hensley is the author of the crime novels RESOLVE, MEASURE TWICE, CHALK'S OUTLINE, BOLT ACTION REMEDY, RECORD SCRATCH, and several short stories. He is originally from Huntington,...

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes thriller author J.R. Backlund to the studio. About J.R.: While J. R. Backlund's heart resides in North Carolina, where he was born, his parents transplanted him to the Sunshine State before he was old enough to put up a fight. Prior to writing his first novel, he studied journalism at the University of Florida, then took a thirteen-year detour in construc...

The heart is easy to grasp---it's merely plumbing. The brain? That's a whole different animal. Understanding a bit about how it works can help you craft your fictional crime stories.

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