Steve Richards
Speaking of Writers
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
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Steve Richards
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Jul 7, 2026
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Sean Parnell-All Out War 25.10.2019 10:32
ALL OUT WAR delivers an authentic thrill-ride that parachutes readers right into the action of an international crisis that could threaten the safety and freedom of America. The advance praise has been nothing short of phenomenal from Brad Thor to Lee Child, Nelson DeMille and Clive Cussler—Sean Parnell is the writer to watch! Author Bio - Sean Parnell is the author of the bestselling...
Adrienne Brodeur- WILD GAME: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me 25.10.2019 8:38
When Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words: Ben Souther just kissed me. Adrienne instantly became her mother’s confidante and helpmate, and Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would become an epic affair with her husband’s closest friend . There were calamitous consequences for everyone involved. WILD GAME is a daughter’s...
William Rawlings- The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes 19.10.2019 12:40
John Wesley O'Toole is a disbarred Savannah attorney who is trying to get his life back together after his release from prison following a vehicular homicide charge. No longer able to practice law, he's become an art dealer after inheriting his grandmother's gallery on Liberty Street. O'Toole is in deep financial trouble and about to lose everything when he is contacted by Abraham Deig...
TEXAS FLOOD The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan by Alan Paul and Andy Aledort 19.10.2019 11:41
The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble’s Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon. Just a few years after he almost died from a severe addiction to cocaine and alcohol, a clean and sober Stevie Ray Vaughan was riding high. His last album was his most critically lauded and commercially successful. He...
Peter Seth- When I Got Out 19.10.2019 8:12
PETER SETH’s When I Got Out : Larry Ingber fell deeply in love once...and it cost him forty years of his life. Branded “The Ivy League Killer” by the media that followed his sensational story of obsession and its consequences, Larry has at last been freed from prison and tossed into a world he barely understands. Filled with tension, nuance, and revelation, When I Got Out is a remarkable story abo...
Robert Crais- A Dangerous Man 21.09.2019 12:13
Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are arrested. But instead of putting the drama to bed, the arrests are only the beginn...
Karin Slaughter - The Last Widow 21.09.2019 10:08
About THE LAST WIDOW: THE LAST WIDOW begins with an abduction. The routine of a family shopping trip is shattered when Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves the mall with her young daughter. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but in the end...they find nothing. It’s as if she disappeared into thin air. A month later, on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, medical examiner Sa...
Richard Russo- Chances Are 22.08.2019 10:49
ABOUT CHANCES ARE . . . From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today–Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, T...
Maureen Callahan- American Predator 22.08.2019 11:29
A New Kind of Monster A predator who struck at random, Israel Keyes had no M.O. or victim type—which helped him go undetected by law enforcement for over a decade. He would fly into a city, rent a car and cross state lines, abduct his victims, kill them, and dispose of their remains so expertly he left no DNA. Then he’d get back in his car and put thousands of miles between himself and the crime s...
The Flight Girls- Noelle Salazar 28.07.2019 9:20
It's a little-known chapter in history - the era of the Women Airforce Service Pilots - whose courage during World War II turned ordinary women into extraordinary heroes! And now a new book brings to light the lives and stories of these women. "The Flight Girls" by author Noelle Salazar - is inspired by their stunning story and re-imagines the heroines at its center. Fans of " Hidden Figures" and...
The New Girl- Daniel Silva 28.07.2019 12:11
#1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva is “quite simply the best” (Kansas City Star) writer of foreign intrigue and suspense at work today—and his iconic creation Gabriel Allon is “one of fiction’s greatest spies” (Kirkus Reviews). Silva’s twenty-second novel, THE NEW GIRL (published by HarperCollins) finds Allon, the legendary chief of Israeli intelligence, in the most unlikely o...
The Orphan’s Song By Lauren Kate 21.07.2019 10:09
The historical adult debut novel by # 1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Kate, The Orphan’s Song is a sweeping love story about family and music–and the secrets each hold–that follows the intertwined fates of two Venetian orphans. “A tangled knot of betrayal and love, lies and redemption. Marvelous.” –Fiona Davis, author of The Address A song brought them together. A secret will tear them...
K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches By Tyler Kepner 21.07.2019 10:11
From the New York Times baseball columnist, an enchanting, enthralling history of the national pastime as told through the craft of pitching, based on years of archival research and interviews with more than three hundred people from Hall of Famers to the stars of today The baseball is an amazing plaything. We can grip it and hold it so many different ways, and even the slightest calibration can t...
The Big Fella Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy 21.07.2019 11:56
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax , comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth—the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity." A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe | Publishers Weekly | Kirkus | Newsweek | The Philadelphia Inquirer | The...
Bryan Hoch- Mission 27 04.07.2019 10:48
A comprehensive history of the 2009 squad's rise to the championship Boasting a mix of homegrown talent and All-Star signings, the 2009 Yankees were composed of the very best. With the previous season's failed playoff bid still as fresh as the paint job on the new Yankee Stadium, a 27th championship flag represented the singular objective of a squad that ultimately carved out a unique spot am...
Ron Swoboda- Here's The Catch 24.06.2019 20:28
In time for the 50th anniversary of the Mets' miraculous 1969 World Series win, right fielder Ron Swoboda tells the story of that amazing season, the people he played with and against (sometimes at the same time), and what life was like as an Every Man ballplayer. Ron Swoboda wasn’t the greatest player the Mets ever had, but he made the greatest catch in Met history, saving a game in the 1969 Worl...
Mike Maden- Tom Clancy Enemy Contact 21.06.2019 11:30
In ENEMY CONTACT, Jack Ryan, Jr. finds himself at odds with an international criminal conspiracy. An inside leak has allowed the CIA’s deepest secrets to be given away for a larger agenda that threatens to undermine the entire Western intelligence community. Director of National Intelligence Mary Pat Foley wants it stopped but doesn't know who, how or why. Jack, meanw...
Senator Tom Cotton - Sacred Duty 21.06.2019 10:24
An extraordinary journey behind the scenes of Arlington National Cemetery, Senator Tom Cotton’s Sacred Duty offers an intimate and inspiring portrait of “The Old Guard,” the revered U.S. Army unit whose mission is to honor our country’s fallen heroes on the most hallowed ground in America. Cotton was a platoon leader with the storied 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment—The Old Guard—between combat tours in...
Dan Abrams-Theodore Roosevelt for The Defense 21.06.2019 11:42
In their New York Times bestseller, Lincoln’s Last Trial, ABC News chief legal affairs anchor Dan Abrams and bestselling author David Fisher unearthed a little-known chapter from the life and career of America’s most revered president, shedding new light on his national ascendency. Now, in THEODORE ROOSEVELT FOR THE DEFENSE: The Courtroom Battle to Save his Legacy (Hanover Square Press; May...
George F Will- The Conservative Sensibility 18.06.2019 16:01
The Conservative Sensibility takes readers back to the Founders' vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution, which gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government, religious freedom, and in human virtue and dignity ushered in two centuries of American prosperit...
John Urschel-MIND AND MATTER: A Life in Math and Football 16.06.2019 9:34
John Urschel is a respected mathematician pursuing his PhD at MIT. He is also a former offensive lineman for the Baltimore Ravens. He may seem like a walking contradiction, but Urschel’s experiences on the field and in the classroom have brought him closer to understanding how emotion and reason, the body and the mind, are always working together. In MIND AND MATTER: A Life in Math and Football ,...
Stewart O'Nan- Henry, Himself 16.06.2019 9:51
In his 2002 novel Wish You Were Here Stewart O’Nan introduced readers to the Maxwells, as Emily Maxwell gathered together her extended family after the death of her husband Henry. O’Nan’s 2011 novel Emily, Alone, an “utterly captivating portrait of widowhood and old age” (NPR), followed Emily years later as she discovers her own hidden strength and independence. In his new novel HENRY, HIMSELF (Vi...
Scott Pelley- Truth Worth Telling 16.06.2019 20:44
An inspiring memoir from the frontlines of history by the award-winning 60 Minutes correspondent. Don’t ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, what’s the meaning of you? With this provocative question, Truth Worth Telling introduces us to unforgettable people who discovered the meaning of their lives in the historic events of our times. A 60 Minutes correspondent and former anchor of the...
Charles Lane- Freedom's Detective 10.05.2019 10:17
In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American men had gained their voting rights and would soon have a chance to transform Southern politics. Former Confederates and other white supremacists mobilized to stop them. Thus, the KKK was born. After the first political assassination carried out by the Klan, Washington power brokers looked for help in breaking th...
Harlan Coben- Run Away 10.05.2019 10:21
A perfect family is shattered in RUN AWAY, the new thriller from the master of domestic suspense, Harlan Coben. You’ve lost your daughter. She’s addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she’s made it clear that she doesn’t want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she’s not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and c...
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