Book Lights Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Christopher Rice is an Amazon Charts bestselling author whose works include Bone Music and Blood Echo in The Burning Girl series; the New York Times bestseller A Density of Souls; and the Bram Stoker Award finalists The Heavens Rise and The Vines. He is an executive producer of The Vampire Chronicles, a television show based on the bestselling novels by his mother, Anne Rice. Toge...

Send us Fan Mail LaQuette is a romance author of bold, provocative love stories featuring multicultural characters. Her writing style brings intellect to the drama. She often crafts emotionally epic, fantastical tales that are deeply pigmented by reality's paintbrush. Her novels are filled with a unique mixture of savvy, sarcastic, brazen, and unapologetically sexy characters who are confiden...

Send us Fan Mail When her mother was diagnosed with demenia, Kate Kunkle set out on a quest to discover why this happened, how she could help her mother, and how she could prevent or decrease the odds of it happening to her. She learned what inspired her to embark on what she considered the most important mission of her life, to make dementia and Alzheimers rare diseases and to control and to empo...

Send us Fan Mail Melissa Blue’s writing career started on a typewriter one month after her son was born. This would have been an idyllic situation for a writer if it had been 1985, not 2004. She penned that first contemporary romance, upgraded to a computer and hasn’t looked back since. Outside of writing, Blue works as a mail clerk for the federal government, has a paralegal certificate (that she...

Send us Fan Mail Thriller author Karen Rose is a woman of many talents, her most recent is best selling author. After working in corporate America as a chemical engineer for a decade, she transitioned to teaching high school chemistry and physics, all the while, she penned stories that she figured woudl never see the light of day. Until her fabulous husband told her to go to a writer's group...

Send us Fan Mail Internationally bestselling author Karen Rose was born and raised in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, DC. She met her husband, Martin, on a blind date when they were seventeen and after they both graduated from the University of Maryland, (Karen with a degree in Chemical Engineering) they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Karen worked as an engineer for a large consumer goods company,...

Send us Fan Mail International bestselling author Brad Parks 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 published in fifteen languages and have won critical acclaim across the globe, including stars from every major prepublication review outlet. A graduate of Dartmouth College, Parks is a former...

Send us Fan Mail Photographer, author, and digital imaging consultant, Andrew Darlow has lectured and conducted seminars and workshops around the world at photo-related conferences, and for photography organizations. His latest book Focus and Filter is out now on Amazon. Find Andrew's Free Backup Course Website and Podcast at https://backup.fm. His Photo News & Tips Blog at https://imagin...

Send us Fan Mail Amy Bearce writes magical escapes for young readers and the young at heart. She is the author of the World of Aluvia series, Shortcuts, and Paris on Repeat (July 2020).  She is also a former reading teacher and school librarian. As a military kid, she moved eight times before she was eighteen, so she feels especially fortunate to be married to her high school sweetheart. Together...

Send us Fan Mail USA Today Bestselling author Jess Michaels likes geeky stuff, Vanilla Coke Zero, anything coconut, cheese, fluffy cats, smooth cats, any cats, many dogs and people who care about the welfare of their fellow humans. She is lucky enough to be married to her favorite person in the world and lives in the heart of Dallas, TX where she's trying to eat all the amazing food in the ci...

Send us Fan Mail Ellen Goodwin is a Productivity Trainer, TEDx speaker, and author who uses neuroscience-based principles to enable individuals and businesses to overcome all types of procrastination, build stronger habits, and be more focused so that they can be more efficient and effective with their time. Ellen believes that when it comes to productivity, there is no one-size-fits-all solution,...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome the amazing Amanda Jayde for a quick 15 minute spot to chat about her new release Bewitched, her new witch series and writing! Learn about some great dark romantic fantasy and the fun-loving Amanda!

Send us Fan Mail Bianca D'Arc started her professional life running a laboratory. After grad school, she started to climb the corporate ladder in the shark-infested streets of lower Manhattan. She now writes full time and loves it more than anything, though she'll always miss her first love... her laboratory. You can find out more on her website: https://www.biancadarc.com/Anna Lowe love...

Send us Fan Mail #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan joins us to talk about her paperback release of Dark Illusion and her upcoming Dark Song. We'll talk all things Dark!

Send us Fan Mail HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN has won five Agatha Awards, in addition to the Anthony, Macavity, Daphne du Maurier, and Mary Higgins Clark Award for her bestselling mystery novels. As an investigative reporter, her work has resulted in new laws, criminals sent to prison, homes saved from foreclosure, and millions of dollars in restitution for victims and consumers. Along with her 36 Emmys an...

Send us Fan Mail Katie Golding is a racing fan with a writing problem. The recovering cheerleader lives in a small town outside of Austin, Texas, mom to a future philanthropist, and wife to a superman. Her writing playlists range from 80s love songs, 90s grunge, 00s punk, to new age underground in less time than it takes her to burn dinner, and she is currently at work on her next romance novel—un...

Send us Fan Mail Eric is a former bookseller, cellist, and comic seller currently living in Saint Louis, Missouri. A lifelong enthusiast of books, music, toys, and games, he discovered a love for the written word after being dragged to the library by his parents at a young age. When he is not writing, you can usually find him reading, gaming, or buried beneath a small avalanche of Transformers. Yo...

Send us Fan Mail Makenna Lee is an award-winning romance author living in the Texas Hill Country with her real-life hero and their two children. Her oldest son has Down syndrome and taught her to appreciate the little things, and he inspired one of her novels. As a child, she played in the woods, looked for fairies under toadstools, and daydreamed. Her writing journey began when she mentioned all...

Send us Fan Mail Ann Charles is a USA Today Best-Selling author who writes award-winning mysteries that are splashed with humor, romance, and whatever else sounds fun. Ann has a B.A. in English with an emphasis on creative writing from the University of Washington. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and Western Writers of America. She is currently toiling away on her next book, wishing she was on...

Send us Fan Mail LM Gonzalez's first love was romance books. After she read “Sweet Savage Love” by Rosemary Rogers one summer, it encourage her to write her first story. Ever since, she's written and in 2006 after submitting a story for an antholgy to the Wild Rose Press, she got that email that every writer waits for. A request, but not for her short story. No, they wanted her to expand...

Send us Fan Mail Suzy Vadori is a Book Coach, Editor, Public Speaker and the Calgary Bestselling Author of The Fountain Series (The Fountain, The West Woods, Wall of Wishes). This fantastical Young Adult Series has received two Aurora Nominations for Best Young Adult Novel, as well as Five Stars and a bronze medallion from Readers’ Favorite Book Awards. She is represented by Naomi Davis of Bookend...

Send us Fan Mail Nan Reinhardt is a USA Today bestselling author of sweet and sexy romance novels for older women. Writing is my first and most enduring passion. She wrote her first romance novel at the age of ten. It involved a love story between the most sophisticated person I knew at the time, my older sister (who was in high school!), and a member of Herman’s Hermits. If you know who they are,...

Send us Fan Mail Cynthia is an award-winning paranormal romance author that writes for sassy nerds with a sharp sense of humor. Starting her adult life in theater, she earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Costume Design, but her first love was telling stories. After some encouragement, she dove down the writing rabbit hole, creating magical worlds, snarky heroines, and sexy heroes with a dash of &quot...

Send us Fan Mail Reese Ryan is the author of fifteen published works of romantic fiction and counting. Her stories feature complex, deliciously-flawed characters. She presents her characters with family and career drama, challenging love interests, and life-changing secrets while treating readers to an emotional love story with unexpected twists. Born and raised in the Midwest, she now resides in...

Send us Fan Mail Lisa Kessler is a Best Selling author of dark paranormal fiction. She's a two-time San Diego Book Award winner for Best Published Fantasy-Sci-fi-Horror and Best Published Romance. Her books have also won the PRISM award, the Award of Excellence, the National Excellence in Romantic Fiction Award, the Award of Merit from the Holt Medallion, and an International Digital Award fo...