Steve Richards

Speaking of Writers

Arts EN ↓ 632 episodes

Welcome to Speaking of Writers. Veteran broadcaster Steve Richards interviews local, regional and best selling authors. For more info email steve @ sval622@sbcglobal.net. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/speakingofwriters/subscribeCover art photo provided by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@thepootphotographer

Author

Steve Richards

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Arts

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www.speakingofwriters.com

Latest episode

Jul 7, 2026

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Rowald Holt- 1871-2021 History Debunked: How Wars And The Scapegoat For Zionism Were Created 28.01.2022

This book is dedicated to all the victims of wars that a small minority of evil and soulless monsters have started and supported for power and profit. Their hubris and contempt for human lives and their perfidious and nefarious use of propaganda against those who refuse to submit to their agenda are the biggest threat to our freedom and liberty. My support also goes to all those, Jews and Gentiles...

James Patterson- E.R. Nurses 24.01.2022

They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories.  The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes. “The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses … are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here.” –Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN "James Patterson's account...

Maya Washington- Through The Banks of The Red Cedar: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game 21.01.2022

Growing up Maya Washington didn’t see her father as the world knew him to be—Michigan State University and Minnesota Viking football legend, Gene Washington—she knew him as Dad. Based on Maya’s award-winning documentary, THROUGH THE BANKS OF THE RED CEDAR: My Father and the Team That Changed the Game  follows her journey of uncovering just how difficult Gene’s youth in segregated Texas was, a...

Jaycie Mandrell- Think Like The Killer 18.01.2022

Harmon Bliss thinks he's a psychopath. Harmon has an odd obsession with death, especially when it revolves around murder. He knows about many popular crimes but when a local girl introduces him to a eight-year-old cold case it's the only thing he can think about. Who killed Julia Manhattan and why? Suddenly, this case is taking over his life and he thinks he may actually be able to solve this unso...

Juliet Funt- A Minute to Think 16.01.2022

Do you wish you could stop the mayhem of work and life and just take a minute? Do you sense you could contribute more if there were a little more room in the day? Does busyness deprive you and your burnt-out team of the oxygen your talents need to catch fire? Many have felt that way, yet taking a pause has seemed impossible—until now. In A Minute to Think , Juliet Funt, a globally recognized warri...

Alan Sullivan- Voice of the Wildcats: Claude Sullivan and the Rise of Modern Sportscasting 14.01.2022

As one of the first voices of the University of Kentucky men's basketball program, Claude Sullivan (1924–1967) became a nationally known sportscasting pioneer. His career followed Kentucky's rise to prominence as he announced the first four NCAA championship titles under Coach Adolph Rupp and covered scrimmages during the canceled 1952–1953 season following the NCAA sanctions scandal. Sullivan als...

Richard J. Coffey On The Vengeance Trail 13.01.2022

A homesteading family, consisting of a mother, father and their son Colt, have their quiet life interrupted with the arrival of a wounded bounty hunter, named Jeb. The mother removed two bullets and nurses him back to health. While recovering, he teaches the son the art of the fast draw with a six shooter. When the bounty hunter was fully recovered, he accompanied the son into town for supplies. O...

Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson - W.E.B Griffin's Rogue Asset 09.01.2022

In ROGUE ASSET,  Secretary of State Frank Malone has been kidnapped from his Cairo hotel—his security detail wiped out. President Natalie Cohen is left with several unacceptable options. It's time to think outside the box, and that can only mean one thing: the revival of the Presidential Agent program. Cohen calls for Charley Castillo to come out of retirement to direct a new Presidential Age...

Jeffrey Deaver - The Midnight Lock 06.01.2022

A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment’s supposedly impregnable door lock and rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept. The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage to come. Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the sociopathic intruder, who calls himself “the Lo...

Ted Bell- Sea Hawke 01.01.2022

The next high-octane novel from legendary bestselling author Ted Bell featuring Lord Alexander Hawke, the sixth-richest man in England, gentleman spy, and one of the thriller genre’s most well-liked heroes:   SEA HAWKE (Berkley Hardcover). This gripping, breathtaking new adventure is a great jumping on point for new readers wanting to get to know an author who has been lauded by other giants...

David Rubenstein- The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream 23.12.2021

David M. Rubenstein—visionary co-founder of The Carlyle Group, and host of Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show — has long dedicated himself to interviewing some of the world’s greatest minds and highest performing leaders. In The American Story , Rubenstein brought us conversations from the nation’s most revered historians on critical lessons from American history. In the bestselling How...

Michael Leppert- Flipping The Circle 19.12.2021

Will O’Courtney is the ultimate insider. Having worked as an experienced contract lobbyist in Indianapolis for over a decade, he knows all the ins and outs of back-room deals and trading information. Shortly after his divorce is finalized, Will resolves to turn his life around, and just when he starts to think of leaving the winning course, he lands a contract with a national tobacco company that...

Rikem J Philippe- The Neo Sophia of the 21st Century 10.12.2021

From poet-author Rikem Philippe comes an anthology of poetry that brings forth expressive and profound ideas and ideals which make readers think, remember, understand, accept and act on. In this new poetry collection, “The Neo Sophia of the 21st Century”, there might be some poems that seem to be too profound but when readers go through them, they will realize that these are actually some of the s...

Dirk Cussler- Clive Cussler's The Devil's Sea 05.12.2021

Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt, “oceanography's answer to Indiana Jones” (Associated Press), must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in CLIVE CUSSLER’S THE DEVIL’S SEA, the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Dirk Pitt Adventure® series created by the “grand master of adventure” Clive Cussler and written by his son Dirk Cussler. In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of...

Richard Sills- Christmas Story 01.12.2021

Author Richard Sills draws from his experience as a former teacher of elementary classes in writing children’s books. In his book, “Christmas Story”, he retells the well-known holiday narrative “The Night Before Christmas” so both the young and adults can enjoy this classic tale. In this story, he lets the adults experience the Christmas magic. While the children remain sleeping in their beds, it...

Greg Peters- Our National Forests 24.11.2021

Stories from America’s Most Important Public Lands Across 193 million acres of forests, mountains, deserts, watersheds, and grasslands, national forests provide a multitude of uses as diverse as America itself. Welcoming 170 million visitors each year to hike, bike, paddle, ski, fish, and hunt, “the people’s lands” offer more than just recreation. Timber is harvested, lost habitats are recovered,...

Genevieve Piturro- Purpose, Passion and Pajamas 20.11.2021

Genevieve M. Piturro took a big risk when she gave up the security of a successful job as the vice president of creative services for a television syndicate to launch the national nonprofit Pajama Program, which gives children cozy pajamas and inspiring storybooks , while providing critical sleep health education resources for parents, caregivers, and educators. Genevieve was inspired to start the...

Tom Clavin- Lightning Down 09.11.2021

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story....

Todd Doughty- Little Pieces of Hope Happy Making Things in a Difficult World 27.10.2021

In March 2020 Todd Doughty knew he needed to do something to help him stay connected to the everyday joys of daily life, so he made a list on Instagram of things that make him happy: Someone believing in you. Your foot sticking out from under a blanket in order to find the cool spot. Freshly cut yellow tulips. A really good burger. In the following weeks, as he continued to post lists and as a com...

Samantha Durbin- Raver Girl 18.10.2021

About the book: Set against the neon backdrop of the San Francisco Bay Area's 90s rave scene, ​Raver Girl ​details Samantha’s double life as she teeters between self-indulgence and sobriety, chaos and calm, all while sneaking under the radar of her entrepreneur father. About the author:  SAMANTHA DURBIN’S writing has appeared in POPSUGAR , Yahoo Style , Real Simple , PureWow , Zagat , The Bol...

Hank Phillippi Ryan- Her Perfect Life 14.10.2021

Bestselling and award-winning author and investigative reporter Hank Phillippi Ryan returns with a lightning-paced novel of suspense that will keep readers guessing until the last page: HER PERFECT LIFE (A Forge Hardcover, eBook, and Macmillan Audio). Touching on issues of privacy, family secrets, social media, and living life in the public eye— that’s something Ryan, the longtime on-camera invest...

George F. Will- AMERICAN HAPPINESS AND DISCONTENTS: The Unruly Torrent, 2008-2020 06.10.2021

Since 1974, George F. Will has been a steadfast voice of wisdom and reason for the American people. One of this country’s leading columnists and the author of fifteen previous books, Will has been called “perhaps the most powerful journalist in America” by the Wall Street Journal . Now, he returns with his ninth and most expansive collection reflecting on American culture and the many attacks on e...

Linda Sands- Precious Cargo 28.09.2021

After helping a frightened girl who flagged down their Kenworth in Austin and delivering her to safety, trucker Jojo Boudreaux and co-driver Gator Natoli believe that’s the end of it. Until they find her again in Oklahoma City, and this time she doesn’t want to be saved. They soon find themselves pulled into dangerous territory. Somali Mafia territory. A place where powerful people manipulate a hu...

Jai Chakrabarti- A Play For The End Of the World 22.09.2021

Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, has just entered a new relationship with Lucy Gardener—a southerner, also newly arrived in New York—when he learns his oldest friend, Misha, has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India. Travelling there alone to collect his ashes, Jaryk soon realizes this won’t be as simple a trip as he thought once he learns that Misha...

Marc Straus- One-Legged Mongoose: Secrets, Legacies, and Coming of Age in 1950s New York 21.09.2021

Set in 1950s New York in the shadow of the execution of the Rosenbergs, the memoir documents two pivotal years of Straus’s childhood on Long Island, beginning with him being forced by his parents to leave public school and commute four hours a day to a Yeshiva in Queens where the kids studied the Talmud—in the original Aramaic—for half a day five days a week and fought with words, not fists. But i...

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