Bringing Life To Characters

Bruce Robert Coffin is the award-winning author of the Detective Byron Mysteries, co-author of The Turner and Mosley Files along with bestselling author LynDee Walker, and author of the forthcoming Detective Justice Mysteries. A former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine's largest city. F...

This week I'll be interviewing audiobook producer Phillip Polite to talk about the books he's produced, which includes two of my books.

This week I have two for the price of one, with award-winning authors S. Lee Manning and J.B. Manning. The married couple, both lawyers and each with new books we'll discuss. Deadly Choice is out Sept 18th and The Kingdom of the Hatch on Sept. 25th.

Margaret Mizushima is the author of the award-winning and internationally published Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries. Active within the writing community, Margaret serves as past president for the Rocky Mountain Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, was elected the 2019 Writer of the Year by Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and is also a member of Northern Colorado Writers, Sisters in Crime, and Women W...

On this episode, I'll chat with Jim Nesbitt, the author of four hard-boiled Texas crime thrillers that feature battered but dogged Dallas PI Ed Earl Burch. Nesbitt was a journalist for more than 30 years, serving as an editor and roving correspondent for newspapers and wire services in Alabama, Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Washington, D.C. He chased hurricanes, e...

On this edition I'll be interviewing author, Mary Yungeberg. Mary has been an avid writer all her life. After graduating from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Animal Science and almost a minor in English, she pursued several careers that included selling hybrid swine breeding stock, professional resume writing, and the airline industry. Along the way she wrote numerous freelance articles,...

My guest will be Reed Farrel Colemen. Called a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan and the noir poet laureate in the Huffington Post, Reed Farrel Coleman is the New York Times-bestselling author of thirty-one novels—including six in Robert B. Parker’s Jesse Stone series—short stories, poetry, and essays. In addition to his acclaimed series characters, Moe Prager and Gus Murphy, he has writt...

My next guest on Bringing Life to Characters is Helen Starbuck. A Colorado native and former OR nurse, Helen Starbuck is an award-winning author of The Annie Collins Mystery Series and standalone contemporary romantic suspense. No relation to the coffee bunch, she (sadly) doesn't get free coffee. She has two crabby cats and a retired 22-year-old pampered pasture-pet horse. When she’s not writi...

This month's guest is T.O. Paine. An award-winning author of fast-paced thriller suspense novels. He is a member of International Thriller Writers and holds a master’s degree in computer information systems. When he is not writing, you can find him running and cycling through the mountains of Colorado, USA. T.O. has run fifty marathons in fifty states, ridden his road bike over 10,000 miles up...

This week I'll have Award-winning author Kathleen Donnelly, who was a handler for Sherlock Hounds Detection Canines—a Colorado-based narcotics K-9 company. She retired from the K-9 work, but continues to enjoy crafting realism into her fictional stories from her dog-handling experience. Along with working dogs, Kathleen trained horses and loves spending time with her own mare. Her love of the...

This month my guest is award-winning author MARY KELIIKOA the author of DON'T ASK, DON'T FOLLOW, a domestic thriller, the Silver Falchion Finalist and Ippy Silver Award-winning HIDDEN PIECES and Silver Falchion Finalist, Foreword Indie Finalist, and Ippy Bronze Award-winning DEADLY TIDES in the Misty Pines mystery series featuring small-town Sheriff Jax Turner. In addition, the author of t...

My guest this week is #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Barbara Nickless, who promised her mother she’d be a novelist when she grew up. What could be safer than sitting at a desk all day? But a sense of adventure led her astray for a few decades. Now an award-winning author and creative writing instructor, she spends her free time snowshoeing, caving and hiking the Colora...

My next guest will be Philip Kushner. Philip is an experienced trial and appellate lawyer, whose focus is commercial litigation, white-collar criminal defense and crisis management. He is often involved in high-profile matters with high-stakes and extensive media coverage. He also is an aspiring author looking to publish his novel, The Devil Comes to Kindland.

This week I'll be interviewing the sister writing team of Blythe Hudson and Carter Fielding.

My next guest on Bringing Life to Characters is Elizabeth Crowens. Elizabeth has worn many hats in the entertainment industry in NY and LA for over 25 years. Writing credits include short stories and articles in Black Belt, Black Gate, and Sherlock Holmes Mystery magazines, stories in Hell’s Heart and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated A New York State of Fright, and three alternate history/SFF novel...

My guest this week on Bringing Life to Characters is Manuel Ramos. Manual is the author of eleven novels and a short story collection. He has received the Colorado Book Award (twice), the Chicano/Latino Literary Award, the Top Hand Award from the Colorado Authors League, and Honorable Mentions from the Latino International Book Awards. His first novel, The Ballad of Rocky Ruiz, was a finalist for...

On his episode of Bringing Life to Characters, I'll be speaking with award-winning and best-selling Author Sara Paretsky. Sara revolutionized the mystery world in 1982 when she introduced V.I. Warshawski in Indemnity Only. By creating a detective with the grit and smarts to take on the mean streets, Paretsky challenged a genre in which women historically were vamps or victims. V.I. struck a ch...

This month my guest is Silver Falchion and CIBA Murder & Mayhem award-winning author Lori Roberts Herbst, who writes the Callie Cassidy Mystery series. Lori is a proud member of Sisters in Crime and currently serves as Board Secretary, as well as moderator of the Cozy Cup group. She is also a member of the SinC North Dallas chapter and Mystery Writers of America. A former journalism teacher an...

My guest this week is author Scott Graham. Scott is the author of the National Park Mystery Series, published by Torrey House Press. The nine-books-and-counting in the critically acclaimed series feature archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family as they encounter villainous intrigue in America’s iconic western national parks, illuminating environmental and social justice issues specific to the par...

My guest is Cynthia Swanson. Cynthia writes psychological thrillers, often using historical settings. Cynthia’s debut novel, The Bookseller, was a New York Times bestseller, an Indie Next selection, the winner of the 2016 WILLA Literary Award for Historical Fiction, and is slated to be a motion picture produced by Julia Roberts. The Bookseller was also nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award and...

My guest is Jodi Burnett. Jodi is a Colorado native and a mountain girl at heart. She loves writing Mystery and Suspense Thrillers from her small ranch southeast of Denver, where she lives with her husband and their two big dogs. There she dotes on her horses, complains about her cows, and writes to create a home for her imaginings. Burnett is a member of Novelists, Inc. and Sisters in Crime. Get...

My guest is author Aaron Philip Clark. Aaron is a native of Los Angeles, CA. He is a novelist, screenwriter, educator, and author of the International Thriller Writers Award-nominated Detective Trevor Finnegan series. Clark teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension and finds inspiration while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains and exploring the many facets of Los Angeles.

My next guest is Christy Award-winning author Patricia Raybon. Patricia was reared near Denver, Colorado under big sky, bright sunshine, and the humbling mystery of Christ. A newspaper journalist who turned to historical fiction, she authors devotional writing for Our Daily Bread Ministries and writes the Annalee Spain Mystery series set in Colorado's 1920s Klan era. She and her husband Dan li...

My next guest is author Ann Parker. Ann is a science writer by day and fiction writer at night. Her award-winning Silver Rush mystery series, published by Poisoned Pen Press (a Sourcebooks imprint), is set primarily in 1880s Colorado, and more recently in San Francisco, California, the “Paris of the West.” The series was named a Booksellers Favorite by the Mountains and Plains Independent Booksell...

My next guest is author Mark Stevens. The son of two librarians, Mark Stevens was raised in Lincoln, Massachusetts and has worked as a reporter, television news producer, and in public relations. He's the author of The Fireballer (2023, Lake Union). He's also the author of The Allison COil Mystery Series including Antler Dust, Buried by the Roan, Trapline, Lake of Fire, and The Melancholy...