Bringing Life To Characters

My guest this week is author Mark Edward Jones. Mark is an award-winning author of mystery, thriller, paranormal, and speculative fiction. A retired higher-education finance professional, he began his full-time writing career after retiring in 2017. Born and raised in Duncan, Oklahoma, Mark developed an early love of storytelling. He attended the University of Oklahoma, earning bachelor’s and mast...

My next guests will be Mark McWaters and Mike Strickland with Galaxy Press. Join me as we discuss their books and writing process.

My next guest is author Deborah Wilde. Deborah is a global wanderer and hopeless romantic. After twelve years as a screenwriter, she was also a total cynic with a broken edit button, so, she jumped ship, started writing funny, sexy, urban fantasy and paranormal women’s fiction novels, and never looked back. She loves writing smart, flawed, wisecracking women who can solve a mystery, kick supernatu...

My next guest is author Greg Buck. Greg was born in Denver, Colorado and has always called Colorado his home. He graduated Metropolitan State University in Denver and was a software engineer for over 31 years. Currently living in Westminster, Colorado with his wife and 3 dogs. An avid fly fisherman, fly tier, and archer with a love for the outdoors and nature. "I believe the best cure for wri...

My next guest is author Joel McKay. Joel is an award-winning writer based in Northern British Columbia. His fiction includes the fantasy adventure novel The Dungeoneers and the Treasure of Roan, the werewolf novella Wolf at the Door and short dark fiction anthology It Came From the Trees and Other Violent Aberrations. His short fiction has been published by Tyche Books, Eerie River Publishing, Sle...

My next guest is author Pat Daily. Pat Daily is the CEO of Boundary Layer, Inc., a company dedicated to improving human performance in high-risk endeavors. He is a polymath, serial entrepreneur, gamer, and the author of The SPARK Chronicles, a near future science fiction series.

My next guest is author Ben Leman. Ben Leman is a businessman, rancher, and fourth generation Texan. His craving for adventure has taken him on extended trips to remote parts of Alaska, elk hunting in mountain wildernesses, flying as a licensed pilot, and on travels all over the world. Of Scottish decent, Ben has spent years studying the clashes between Highland clans, and particularly, the conten...

My next guest is author Amy Shannon. Amy is a legend keeper, storyteller, and historian whose roots run deep in upstate New York. A lifelong resident of the Capital Region—Albany, Schenectady, and Saratoga Counties—Amy calls the Ballston Spa/Malta area is her true hometown, a place where she’s planted her heart and built a life of meaning. A mother of four, Amy, shares a close bond with three of h...

My next guest is author TK Cassidy. After 40 years of traveling, award-winning author TK Cassidy has returned home to Montana. She has always been drawn to writing. From the moment she first held a pencil, she felt a profound sense of purpose. By the age of seven, she had already developed a writer's callus on her finger—a testament to her unwavering dedication that persists even after 60 year...

My next guest is author Ann Charles. Ann is a USA Today Bestselling author who writes hilarious, sometimes hair-raising, award-winning books filled with humor, mystery, adventure, romance, supernatural, and more! She has a B.A. in English (creative writing) from the Univ. of Washington. When she isn't escaping into story worlds filled with rowdy characters, she's arm wrestling her kids, road tripp...

My next guest is author Seth Voorhees. Seth is a Black Hills Author. Living in the Black Hills of South Dakota. He enjoys drawing from his experiences as a social worker, particularly in adolescent development and mental health, to shape his characters and their journeys through human morality and challenges. He identifies himself as a dark fiction author because his writing spans over several gen...

My next guest is author Liisa Kovala. Liisa is a Finnish Canadian author, book coach, and podcaster. Like Water for Weary Souls (2025) is her second historical novel. Liisa is the author of Sisu's Winter War (Latitude 46, 2022) and Surviving Stutthof: My Father's Memories Behind the Death Gate (Latitude 46, 2017) which was shortlisted for a Northern Lit Award and published in Finland by Docendo (2...

My next guest is author Jim Nesbitt. Jim is the author of five hard-boiled Texas crime thrillers that feature battered but dogged Dallas PI Ed Earl Burch — THE LAST SECOND CHANCE, a Silver Falchion finalist; THE RIGHT WRONG NUMBER, an Underground Book Reviews “Top Pick”; THE BEST LOUSY CHOICE, a Silver Falchion winner; THE DEAD CERTAIN DOUBT, a 2024 Independent Press Awards best crime fiction winn...

My next guest is author Kristine Jensen. Kristine is a lifelong writer whose work has spanned scripts, screenplays, and storytelling for brands and organizations. She has spent her career shaping narratives, crafting voices, and distilling complex ideas into language that connects. Born and raised in South Dakota, Kristine drew inspiration for her first novel from the minutes of her grandmother’s...

My next guest is author John DeDakis. John is an award-winning novelist, writing coach, and manuscript editor and a former editor on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." DeDakis is the author of six mystery-suspense-thriller novels. In his most recent novel, ENEMIES DOMESTIC, protagonist Lark Chadwick is a pregnant White House press secretary at a time in the not-too-distant...

My guest is USA Today Bestselling author Lynessa Layne. Lynessa is a native Texan from the small town of Plantersville. She’s a fan of exploration, history, the beach (though she’s photosensitive), Jesus, and America too (RIP Tom). In addition to being an avid reader, she's obsessed with music of all types (hence her reference to Tom Petty). As a child, she created music videos in her mind and...

My Guest is Author Andre Gonzalez. Andre Gonzalez is the international bestselling author of the Wealth of Time Series, and co-owner of M4L Publishing. After surviving the Aurora Theater Shooting in 2012, Andre was inspired to chase his lifelong dream of pursuing a career as an author. This tragedy gave him a new appreciation for life along with a drive to make the world a better place by publishi...

My guest is best-selling author Bruce Most. Bruce writes crime whodunits and short stories. His latest whodunit is NO TIME FOR MURDER. A former crime writer living a rat-race family and professional life reluctantly agrees to investigate whether his best friend’s death was murder, not suicide. Now if he can just find the time. Bruce grew up on a diet of famous whodunit writers including Agatha Chr...

For this episode I'll be streaming live within the Wild Deadwood Reads Facebook group with a few guests stars, including author Johny Weber. I'll be talking about the Wild Deadwood Reads Event being held in Deadwood South Dakota starting June 13th thru the 15th.

Renée Pawlish is the bestselling author of the Reed Ferguson mystery series, the Sarah Spillman police procedural series, the Dewey Webb historical mystery series, supernatural mystery Nephilim Genesis of Evil, and more.

I will be interviewing Best-Selling Mystery Crime author Mike Faricy. Faricy's tightly woven Dev Haskell series is penned with a delightful sense of humor and even some romance. His Jack Dillon Dublin Tales series features US Marshal Jack Dillon who is sent to Dublin and decides to stay. The Hotshot series consists of zany, delightfully entertaining standalone crime tales. The Corridor Man ser...

My guest will be award-winning mystery and thriller author Carmen Amato, best known for the Detective Emilia Cruz police series set in Acapulco. The series draws on her 30 years with the Central Intelligence Agency and knowledge of the war on drugs.

My guest will be Nancy S. Thompson, an award-winning author of three published thrillers - The Mistaken, Leverage, and Stirred. Her two conspiracy thrillers - Against Orders was recently released. And Proximity to Power - is coming soon. Nancy lives with her husband in Seattle, where she owns and runs her own interior and architectural design business. She’s also a freelance editor, paints abstrac...

My guest is Jodi Bowersox, an award-winning author and artist with more than 25 books for children and adults. Her novels span genres from faith fiction to suspense to time travel to sci fi, with small town, big city, and interplanetary settings. Known for her twisty mysteries and page-turning action, even her faith fiction books are full of suspense. Her children's books, under the name J.B....

Join me as I interview award-winning author Leigh M. Hall. Leigh is a believer in fairytales, the kind that keep some people up at night. Leigh published her first novel, Girl Bully (a best-selling psychological thriller), in 2020. Since then, she has published many more intensely dark and captivating novels. Many of her books can be listened to through Audible and Apple books.