The Wordslinger Podcast

NICK THACKER AUTHOR OF MARK FOR BLOOD Nick is an action-adventure thriller novelist, who writes the types of books he likes to read. That means you won’t find anything boring, slow, or sappy in his stories. People have described his work as “airplane books." Nick was born in Connecticut, grew up in Texas, and lives in Colorado with his wife, two children, three dogs, and a tortoise. He loves...

Andrew Watts graduated from the US Naval Academy in 2003 and served as a naval officer and helicopter pilot until 2013. During that time, he flew counter-narcotic missions in the Eastern Pacific and counter-piracy missions off the Horn of Africa. He was a flight instructor in Pensacola, FL, and helped to run ship and flight operations while embarked on a nuclear aircraft carrier deployed in the Mi...

Kevin Tumlinson is a bestselling and award-winning thriller author, Host of the Wordslinger Podcast, and Director of Marketing for Draft2Digital. He is known as "the Voice of Indie Publishing," appearing on hundreds of podcasts and YouTube channels, and at conferences worldwide, speaking about independent self publishing as a career and a community. CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s): https://ke...

Russell Blake is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author with more than 50 action/adventure and thriller novels, including two co-authored works with the legendary Clive Cussler. CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s): russellblake.com   Facebook: Russell. Blake. Books  Amazon Author page (if applicable): https://www.amazon.com/Russell-Blake/e/B005OKCOLE   MENTIONS: Salt Lake City Comic Con: http://...

Mary Robinette Kowal is the author of historical fantasy novels: Ghost Talkers, and The Glamourist Histories series. She is also a three time Hugo Award winner. Her short fiction appears in Uncanny, Tor.com , and Asimov’s. Mary, a professional puppeteer, lives in Chicago. CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s): http://maryrobinettekowal.com/   Twitter handle(s): @MaryRobinette  Facebook: https://www.facebook....

George S. Mahaffey Jr. is a lawyer, screenwriter, and author. His script Heatseekers was bought by Paramount Pictures with Michael Bay producing and Timur Bekmambetov attached to direct. In addition, he's sold or written scripts for Arnold Kopelson, Blumhouse, Benderspink, director Louis Leterrier and Paul McGuigan, and is the creator of In The Dust, an action-horror graphic novel in the vein of 3...

Josh Haynam is the co-founder of Interact Quiz Builder, a tool used by more than 30,000 businesses including The American Red Cross, Tony Robbins, and Forbes. He's probably seen more quizzes than any other human on earth right now.  CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s): https://www.tryinteract.com   Twitter handle(s): @tryinteract Get full access to The Writer_ at kevintumlinson.substack.com/subscribe Hoste...

Armand Rosamilia is a full-time Horror and crime thriller author, podcaster, podcast network owner, and M&M lover. He's offering free hugs (virtual ... he doesn't like being touched). CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s): http://armandrosamilia.com     http://projectentertainmentnetwork.com   Twitter handle(s): @ArmandAuthor  Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/AuthorArmandRosamilia/   Amazon Author pag...

PHIL WILLIAMS AUTHOR OF NO CONSCIENCE Phil M. Williams is the author of five novels, two nonfiction books, and one children's picture book. His books span many genres, but there are consistent themes such as universal morality, nature, and voluntarism. He currently lives in Central Pennsylvania with his wife on a permaculture homestead.  CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s): http://philwbooks.com/five-star-...

Joe Williams is passionate about helping executives, coaches, and entrepreneurs become world-class communicators! He is the Founder of the Creative Performance Group, where he helps people get their message out to the world in the most powerful way possible. He created The Speakers Bootcamp, an intensive training that has created hundreds of other successful speakers, coaches, consultants and auth...

Jim Heskett was born in the wilds of Oklahoma, raised by a pack of wolves with a station wagon and a membership card to the local public swimming pool. Just like the man in the John Denver song, he moved to Colorado in the summer of his 27th year, and never looked back. Aside from an extended break travelling the world, he hasn't let the Flatirons mountains out of his sight.   CONNECT ONLINE: Webs...

Brian D. Meeks is a full-time author who resides in Iowa when he’s not traveling. He writes across mystery, thriller, YA, science fiction, and humor/satire fiction genres. He has a degree in Economics from Iowa State University only because they didn’t offer Snarkology, his preferred major. Seven years as a data analyst in the auto insurance industry gave him the skills that have been key to his s...

New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today Bestselling writer, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, blogs on the publishing industry every Thursday at her website kriswrites.com . She writes science fiction, mystery, fantasy, mystery, and romance as Rusch, noir mystery as Kris Nelscott, and fractured fairy tale romances as Kristine Grayson. Her novel, A Dangerous Road written as Kris Nelscott, is in de...

Kelly heads Findaway Voices, a new audiobook creation and distribution service from Findaway. Kelly’s team works closely with independent authors and small to mid-sized publishers to connect them with a community of world-class narrators, create audiobooks, and market and sell those audiobooks everywhere in the world. At Findaway, Kelly also played a key role in launching the Navy eReader Device (...

Carla King is the creator of the Self-Publishing Boot Camp educational series of books and workshops and a publishing coach with Author Friendly. A tech writer turned adventure traveler turned self-publishing expert, she published her first book in 1995 and, by popular demand, created a business teaching others how to self-publish, too. She splits her time between San Diego and Baja, California. ...

Frances Caballo is an author and social media strategist and manager for writers. She’s a contributing writer at TheBookDesigner.com , and blogger and Social Media Expert for BookWorks. She’s written several social media books including Social Media Just for Writers. Her focus is on helping authors surmount the barriers that keep them from flourishing online, building their platform, finding new r...

Dean Wesley Smith is a bestselling author with over 21 million books in print. He is considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction and has written just about everything. Seriously.  CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s): www.deanwesleysmith.com   Amazon Author page:  https://www.amazon.com/Dean-Wesley-Smith/e/B000APCDJ6/ __ GOT A QUESTION FOR KEVIN AND HIS GUESTS? CALL 281-809-WORD (9...

JENNIE NASH CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER & FOUNDER OF AUTHOR ACCELERATOR Jennie Nash is founder and chief creative officer of Author Accelerator, a book coaching service that gives writers the feedback, accountability and support they need to write their best books. CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s): jennienash.com   authoraccelerator.com   Twitter handle(s): @jennienash Amazon Author page:  https://www.am...

Ricardo Fayet is the co-founder of Reedsy, a global network that connects authors and publishers with top editorial, design, marketing and ghostwriting talent. A technology and startup enthusiast, he likes to imagine how small players will build the future of publishing.  CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s):  https://reedsy.com Twitter handle(s): @RicardoFayet __ GOT A QUESTION FOR KEVIN AND HIS GUESTS? CA...

Shivani Bhargava is the CEO & Founder of TheRightMargin, a goal-driven writing app that helps you finish what you write. Bay Area born, Boston bred, Shivani has spent most of her professional life in health tech. After being the product manager of PatientsLikeMe in Cambridge, MA, she moved back to CA in 2014 and immediately caught the startup bug. CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s): https://www.therig...

Joanna Penn is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of thrillers under J.F.Penn. She also writes inspirational non-fiction for authors and is an award-winning creative entrepreneur and international professional speaker. Her site, TheCreativePenn.com is regularly voted one of the top 10 sites for writers and self-publishers. CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s): www.thecreativepenn.com     www....

ROB PRICE FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF GATEKEEPER PRESS Rob began his career as a self-published author at the age of 19 with 200,000 copies sold and subsequently founded the small traditional house, Price World Publishing. Seeing a shift in the industry towards self-publishing, Rob launched Gatekeeper Press in 2015. Gatekeeper authors earn 100% of their royalties, retain 100% of their rights, and the...

MICHAEL ANDERLE INDIE PUBLISHING OUTLAW & AUTHOR OF THE KURTHERIAN GAMBIT Michael Anderle is a bestselling author, but he's also a driving force behind the success of many indie authors just getting a start in the business. With his 'rising tide lifts all boats' approach, he has helped to bootstrap the careers of several indie authors, and is working on new ways to revolutionize publishing. CO...

Dave Chesson ... the 'Dude' at the heart of Kindlepreneur.com and KDP Rocket. Dave has made a career out of learning the ins and outs of KDP and sharing them with a growing and appreciative audience. In this week's Wordslinger Podcast, Dave shares his story and his tools for author success. CONNECT ONLINE: Website(s):  https://Kindlepreneur.com   https://kdprocket.com/ Twitter handle(s): @DaveChes...

Angelique L’Amour was born in Los Angeles Ca. The daughter of author, Louis L’Amour, she grew up in the household of a prolific writer where writing and storytelling were a way of life. In 1988 Angelique wrote and edited a volume of quotes from her father’s works. Published by Bantam Doubleday Dell in 1988, A Trail of Memories spent 16 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List and was also a Pub...