Author2Author
489 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsBill Kenower, Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine, talks to writers of all genres about the books we write and the lives we lead, and how these two are one in the same.
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Author2Author with Julia Kelly
March 21, 2023 21:00 - 29 minutes - 25.7 MBBill welcomes bestselling historical author Julia Kelly to the show. Julia is the award-winning author of books about ordinary women and their extraordinary stories. In addition to The Lost English Girl, her novels include The Last Dance of the Debutante, The Last Garden in England, The Whispers of War, and The Light Over London. In addition to writing, she’s been an Emmy-nominated producer, journalist, marketing professional, and (for one summer) a tea waitress. Julia called Los Angeles, Iow...
Author2Author with Brittany Butler
March 14, 2023 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.7 MBBill welcomes debut novelist Brittany Butler to the show. Brittany is a former CIA targeting officer with first-hand knowledge in the recruitment and handling of spies, and the dismantling of terrorist networks abroad. A staunch advocate for Middle Eastern women’s rights, Brittany has worked to promote the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls, and now works within her local community to resettle Afghan refugees. The first in a series, THE SYNDICATE SPY combines fascinating facts w...
Author2Author with Kay Kenyon
March 07, 2023 22:00 - 32 minutes - 28.6 MBBill welcomes science fiction and fantasy author Kay Kenyon back to the show. Kay Kenyon is a science fiction and fantasy novelist and writing teacher. Her work has been shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick award and twice for the American Library Reading List award. She teaches fiction at conferences around the Pacific Northwest, and has just published her sixteenth novel. Kay is a founding member of Write on the River, an organization that for the last fifteen years has been encouraging aspi...
Author2Author with Charlotte Maya
February 28, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBBill welcomes debut memoirist Charlotte Maya to the show. Charlotte was born and raised in California. She received her B.A. from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and her law degree from UCLA. She practiced Trust and Estate Planning law until deciding to raise a family. Widowed at 39 when her children were six and eight as a result of her husband’s suicide, Maya writes about suicide loss, resilience and hope on her blog, charlotte-maya.com. Charlotte’s writing explores the intersections of ...
Author2Author with Claire Heywood
February 21, 2023 22:00 - 34 minutes - 30.4 MBBill welcomes bestselling author Claire Heywood to the show. Claire Heywood is a scholar of the ancient world, with a bachelor's degree in Classical Civilization and a master's degree in Ancient Visual and Material Culture from the University of Warwick. Her first novel, Daughters of Sparta, was a national bestseller. Her latest novel is, The Shadow of Perseus.
Author2Author with Gunhild Øyehaug
February 14, 2023 22:00 - 35 minutes - 31.3 MBBill welcomes poet, essayist and fiction writer Gunhild Øyehaug to the show. Gunnhild is an award-winning Norwegian poet, essayist, and fiction writer. Her story collection Knots was published by FSG in 2017, followed in 2018 by Wait, Blink, which was adapted into the acclaimed film Women in Oversized Men’s Shirts, and in 2022 by Present Tense Machine. Øyehaug lives in Bergen, where she teaches creative writing.
Author2Author with Amy Tector
February 07, 2023 22:00 - 36 minutes - 32.8 MBBill welcomes author Amy Tector back to the show. Amy Tector has spent more than 20 years plumbing the secrets squirreled away in archives — whether it's uncovering a whale's ear (true story) in a box of old photographs, or working in The Hague for the United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for War Crimes in the former Yugoslavia, she has been privy to hidden records and extraordinary secrets. Amy’s debut novel, THE HONEYBEE EMERALDS was published in spring 2022. Her Dominion Archive...
Author2Author with Matthew Hollis
January 31, 2023 22:00 - 37 minutes - 33.4 MBBill welcomes poet and biographer Matthew Hollis to the show. Matthew is a poet, biographer, editor, and teacher. His first full-length collection Ground Water was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for poetry, as well as being a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He is also the author of Now All Roads Lead to France, a critically acclaimed biography of seminal English poet Edward Thomas. His most recent work is Waste Land: A Biograph...
Author2Author Jessica Machado
January 17, 2023 22:00 - 33 minutes - 30 MBBill welcomes memoirist Jessica Machado to the show. Jessica Machado is an editor at NBC News. Previously, she was a staff editor at Vox, The Daily Dot, and Rolling Stone. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Cut, BuzzFeed, Vice, and Elle, among others. Born and raised in Hawai‘i, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Local is her debut memoir.
Author2Author with Layla Josephine
January 10, 2023 22:00 - 33 minutes - 30.1 MBBill welcomes award-winning slam poet Layla Josephine to the show. Leyla is a performance poet, theatre maker, screenwriter, facilitator and project leader. She won the 2014 UK National Poetry Slam at The Royal Albert Hall with Hammer and Tongue. In 2019 she performed for the First Minister of Scotland and supported John Cooper Clarke on his Scottish tour. She has been featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC The Social, The Guardian Online, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Upworthy, The National and The Scot...
Author2Author with Henriette Lazaridis
January 03, 2023 22:00 - 36 minutes - 32.4 MBBill welcomes author Henriette Lazaridis back to the show. Henriette's debut novel, The Clover House, was a Boston Globe bestseller and a Target Emerging Authors pick. Her work has been published in such outlets as Elle, Forge, Narrative Magazine, The New York Times, New England Review, The Millions, WBUR’s Cognoscenti and Pangyrus, and she is a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant. Henriette earned degrees in English literature from Middlebury College, Oxford Universit...
Author2Author with Lydia Millet
December 20, 2022 22:00 - 30 minutes - 27.1 MBBill welcomes award-winning author Lydia Millet back to the show. Lydia is the author of A Children's Bible, a finalist for the National Book Award and a New York Times Top 10 book of 2020, among other works of fiction. She has won awards from PEN Center USA and the American Academy of Arts and Letters and been shortlisted for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a Pulitzer Prize finalist...
Author2Author with Priscilla Long
December 13, 2022 22:00 - 41 minutes - 37.5 MBBill welcomes author Priscilla Long to the show. Priscilla is a Seattle-based writer of poetry, creative nonfiction, science, history, and fiction, and a long-time independent teacher of writing. Her seventh book is Dancing with the Muse in Old Age. Her two poetry books are Holy Magic and Crossing Over: Poems. Her awards include a National Magazine Award for a science-based feature. Her how-to-write book is The Writer's Portable Mentor: A Guide to Art, Craft, and the Writer's Life. Other book...
Author2Author with Brian O'Hare
December 06, 2022 22:00 - 39 minutes - 35 MBBill welcomes filmmaker and debut author Brian O'Hare to the show. Brian O’Hare is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and former US Marine Corps officer. His career began in a Baltimore bar, the legendary Club Charles, where director John Waters cast him to appear in his film Cry Baby. Currently, he’s an award-winning writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. His work has appeared in War, Literature and the Arts; Santa Fe Writers Project; Hobart; and other journals, and he has been nominate...
Author2Author Erica Miner
November 29, 2022 22:00 - 34 minutes - 30.3 MBBill welcomes novelist, violinist, and arts lecturer Erica Miner back to the show. Former Metropolitan Opera Orchestra violinist Erica is an award-winning author, lecturer, screenwriter, and arts journalist. Erica’s debut novel, Travels with my Lovers, won the Fiction Prize in the Direct from the Author Book Awards. Her screenplays have won awards in the Santa Fe, WinFemme and Writer’s Digest competitions. Erica’s 3-part Julia Kogan “Opera Mystery” novel series, released by Level Best Books s...
Author2Author: A Success Story
November 15, 2022 22:00 - 17 minutes - 15.5 MBIn this special episode, your host Bill Kenower tells a short story about success, failure, parenting, and creativity. Bill is the author of Everyone Has What It Takes: A Writer’s Guide to the End of Self-Doubt, Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write With Confidence, and Write Within Yourself: An Author’s Companion, and the Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine. In addition to his books, he’s been published in The New York Times, Writer’s Digest,Edible Seattle, Parent Map, and has bee...
Author2Author with Cheryl Klein
November 08, 2022 22:00 - 35 minutes - 31.2 MBBill welcomes memoirist and novelist Cheryl Klein to the show. Cheryl is the author of CRYBABY (Brown Paper Press), a memoir about wanting a baby and getting cancer instead. She also wrote a story collection, THE COMMUTERS (City Works Press) and a novel, LILAC MINES (Manic D Press). And three unpublished novels, which she still thinks are pretty great. She is also a Senior Editor and columnist for MUTHA Magazine, where she often writes about adoption, foster parenting, fear, and her hatred of...
Author2Author with Brooke Siem
November 01, 2022 21:00 - 34 minutes - 31.1 MBBill welcomes debut memoirist Brooke Siem to the show. Brooke Siem was among the first generation of teens to be medicated with antidepressants. After spending half her life—and her entire adult life—on antidepressants, she wondered: Who might I be without them? Unfurled against a global backdrop, Brooke's writing, speaking, and work as an award-winning chef chronicles explosive and terrifying antidepressant withdrawal and the fight to manage the modern mental health system, all while demandi...
Author2Author with Brian Herskowitz
October 25, 2022 21:00 - 37 minutes - 33.5 MBBill welcomes screenwriter and novelist Brian Herskowitz to the show. Brian has worked as a writer on series such as THE LEGENDARY JOURNEY’S OF HERCULES, BLOSSOM, DREAM ON, and TOUR OF DUTY. He directed ODESSA OR BUST with Red Buttons, Jason Alexander, George Wendt, and Jason Schwartzman, MURRAY GHOST (short content series), and Produced Candace Bushnell’s The Broadroom (web series). Brian has taught the craft of screenwriting for over thirty years, starting with a stint with Writer’s Bootca...
Author2Author with Julia Sullivan
October 18, 2022 21:00 - 36 minutes - 32.4 MBBill welcomes debut novelist Julia Sullivan to the show. Julia started working on Bone Necklace more than twenty years ago, after visiting the Big Hole Battlefield in Wisdom, Montana. Julia first became interested in the Nez Perce story because of the great injustice that the tribe suffered. What kept her interested was their conduct during the war. While under attack, the Nez Perce won the respect of the soldiers sent to fight them and the civilian population. At the end of the war, Canada o...
Author2Author with Sara Bennett Wealer
October 11, 2022 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.5 MBBill welcomes YA novelist Sara Bennett Wealer to the show. Sara grew up in Manhattan, Kansas, where she sang in all the choirs and wrote for the high school newspaper. She majored in voice performance at the University of Kansas before deciding she had no business trying to make a career as an opera singer. She then transferred to journalism school, where no one cares if you can hit a high C or convincingly play a Valkyrie, and became a reporter covering everything from house fires to Hollywo...
Author2Author Michel Oren
October 04, 2022 21:00 - 35 minutes - 31.7 MBBill welcomes author Michael Oren to the show. Former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael is the winner of both the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year Award and the National Jewish Book Award (both for Six Days of War: June 1967 and The Making of the Modern Middle East), as well as a celebrated historian and diplomat. With Swann’s War, Michael Oren returns to his first love, fiction writing, bringing his immense creativity, intelligence, imagination, historical perspectiv...
Author2Author with Randye Kaye
September 27, 2022 21:00 - 35 minutes - 31.4 MBBill welcomes author and inspirational speaker Randye Kaye to the show. Randye harnesses the power of words in her work as a radio personality, improv and stage actor, drama teacher, humorist, podcast host, writer, motivational speaker, voice talent, and audiobook narrator. Her mission is to share her lessons of resilience, humor, and the power of words to help others live happier, with the energy to reach their goals. She wrote Happier Made Simple in response to readers of her first book, th...
Author2Author with Mark A. Salter
September 20, 2022 21:00 - 35 minutes - 31.6 MBBill welcomes debut novelist Mark A. Salter to the show. Like many Americans, Mark A. Salter has a deep love for football–both college and professional. He has an insider’s perspective on both worlds, given that he played the sport in high school and at Canisius College and even had a brief stint with the New York Giants before earning his master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University. While numbers had ruled his career, writing literary fiction and reading philosophy have been his favorite...
Author2Author with Andrea Barrett
September 13, 2022 21:00 - 31 minutes - 27.8 MBBill welcomes National Book Award winner Andrea Barrett to the show. Andrea is the author of ten works of fiction, including the National Book Award–winning Ship Fever and Pulitzer Prize finalist Servants of the Map, and her most recent, Natural History. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Fellowship, as well as a finalist for the Story Prize and a recipient of the Rea Award for the Short Story. Having lived in Rochester, New York, and western M...
Author2Author with Conner Habib
September 06, 2022 21:00 - 31 minutes - 28.1 MBBill welcomes podcaster, essayist and debut novelist Conner Habib to the show. Conner the host of Against Everyone with Conner Habib, an author, a lecturer, and a sex workers’ rights advocate. Conner gives lectures around the world about sexuality, spirituality, ography, science, and art. He served for two years as the elected Vice President of the Adult Performer Advocacy Committee and is a member of PEN America. His essays and poetry have appeared in dozens of print and online publications,...
Author2Author with Peter Gibb
August 30, 2022 21:00 - 42 minutes - 37.6 MBBill welcomes author and teacher Peter Gibb back to the show. Peter is a writer, speaker, workshop leader, coach, and musician. He is the author of the critically acclaimed, multiple award-winning memoir, King of Doubt (2017) and non-fiction, Mindful Conversation: Speak Openly, Connect Deeply, Live Joyously (Atmosphere Press, 2022). Following his graduation from Brown University, Peter worked with the U.S. Foreign Service. He has taught at the high school and college levels; served 4 years w...
Author2Author with Colleen M. Story
August 23, 2022 21:00 - 35 minutes - 32 MBBill welcomes bestselling novelist and writing coach Colleen M Story to the show. Colleen is a novelist, freelance writer, writing coach, and speaker with over 20 years in the creative writing industry. Her latest release, The Beached Ones, and her previous novel, Loreena’s Gift, was a Foreword Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards winner, among others. Colleen has written three books to help writers succeed. Your Writing Matters was a bronze medal winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards...
Author2Author with Siena Sterling
August 16, 2022 21:00 - 37 minutes - 33.2 MBBill welcomes debut author Siena Sterling to the show. Siena is an American journalist and writer living in London with her family. Before moving to England, she worked at Doubleday bookstore in New York, in political campaigns, and for the Federal Railroad Administration. She plays poker and tennis, and has a passion for Jack Russell terriers. Tell Us No Secrets is her debut novel.
Author2Author with Pam Binder
August 09, 2022 21:00 - 34 minutes - 31 MBBill welcomes author and PNWA President Pam Binder to the show. An award-winning New York Times, USA Today and Amazon bestselling author, Pam Binder has eleven novels and seven novellas to her credit. Drawn to Celtic legends and anything Irish or Scottish, the prolific author blends historical events, characters, and myths into her young adult, romance, historical, time travel, contemporary and fantasy fiction. Pam is president of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and annually chairs ...
Author2Author with Miranda Seymour
July 26, 2022 21:00 - 32 minutes - 28.9 MBBill welcomes bestselling acclaimed biographer Miranda Seymour to the show. Miranda is a British biographer whose acclaimed books include biographies of Jean Rhys, Lord Byron’s wife and daughter, Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace; Mary Shelley; and Ottoline Morrell. She lives in Nottinghamshire, England.
Author2Author with Kate Brook
July 05, 2022 21:00 - 31 minutes - 28.1 MBBill welcomes debut novelist Kate Brook to the show.Kate lives and works in London. She has a PhD in French Literature and Visual Art from King’s College London, and a master's in European Literature and Culture from the University of Cambridge. Her short-form writing has been published in The Fiction Pool and The Real Story. Not Exactly What I Had in Mind is her debut novel.
Author2Author with Gary Goldstein
June 23, 2022 21:00 - 32 minutes - 28.8 MBBill welcomes novelist, screenwriter, playwright and journalist Gary Goldstein to the show. Gary has written more than 15 produced telefilms plus the indie features “If You Only Knew,” “Politics of Love” and “Mr. 365.” Gary has also sold or optioned many original screenplays, has a string of episodic TV credits and has sold half-hour pilots to NBC and Warner Bros TV. He was represented on the Los Angeles stage in 2017 with the World Premiere of his acclaimed three-sisters dramedy "April, Ma...
Author2Author with David Winkler
June 21, 2022 21:00 - 36 minutes - 32.1 MBBill welcomes film producer and debut memoirist David Winkler to the show. David comes from Hollywood royalty. A successful film producer of such titles as Creed, Rocky Balboa, The Mechanic, and The Gambler, and the son of renowned producer, Irwin Winkler (They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Rocky, Goodfellas, etc), The Arrangement, a love story, is his first book. David lives in Bel Air, California, but likes to consider himself anything but the typical Hollywood type. He spends most of his free t...
Author2Author with Jenny Mollen
June 14, 2022 21:00 - 33 minutes - 29.8 MBBill welcomes bestselling author and actress Jennie Mollen to the show. Jenny is a writer, actor, Instagram personality and New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections I Like You Just the Way I Am and Live Fast Die Hot. Heralded by The Huffington Post as one of the funniest women on both Twitter and Instagram and named one of “Five to Follow” by T Magazine, Jenny wrote a regular column for Parents magazine and has contributed to Cosmopolitan, Glamour, New York, Elle.com, “Wake-...
Author2Author with Susan Cushman
June 07, 2022 21:00 - 29 minutes - 26.3 MBBill welcomes novelist and memoirist Susan Cushman to the show. Susan is the author of five books and editor of three: the memoirs Pilgrim Interrupted and Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s, the novels John and Mary Margaret, and Cherry Bomb, the short story collection Friends of the Library, and the anthologies The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years!, Southern Writers on Writing, and A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be. She has also published ess...
Author2Author with Tyson Greer and Beth Weir
May 31, 2022 21:00 - 35 minutes - 31.5 MBBill welcomes authors Tyron Greer and Beth Weir to the show, who were two of seven contributors to the essay and poetry collection Writing While Masked, a book born from the challenges of lockdown. Tyson Greer is an award-winning writer who, for twenty years, ran her own media company, Tyson Greer….Writes, writing on topics from art to virtual reality for national, regional, and local magazines. She also wrote and directed corporate television and documentaries, which aired on local cable a...
Author2Author with Nancy Slonim Aronie
May 24, 2022 21:00 - 35 minutes - 31.6 MBBill welcomes author and teacher Nancy Slonim Aronie to the show. Nancy is the author of Writing from the Heart. She has been a regular contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She was recognized for excellence in teaching all three years she taught at Harvard University for Robert Coles. She has joined with physicians and writers from Columbia University's program in narrative medicine to lead workshops using her Writing from the Heart. Her latest book is Memoir as Medic...
Author2Author with P. David Ebersole
May 17, 2022 21:00 - 33 minutes - 29.8 MBBill welcomes filmmaker and debut novelist P. David Ebersole to the show. David is an award-winning independent filmmaker and television director working in both narrative and documentary. Born and raised in Hollywood, he is the son of a psychologist and his step-father was the City Editor of the Los Angeles Times. His credits include the documentary HIT SO HARD (2012) about drummer Patty Schemel of the seminal grunge band Hole. Along with his husband and business partner Todd Hughes, he is E...
Author2Author with Connie Hertzberg Mayo
May 10, 2022 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.6 MBBill welcomes historical novelist Connie Hertzberg Mayo to the show. Connie grew up in Westchester County, New York, but moved to Massachusetts to get a Literature degree from Tufts University and never ended up leaving. Her first book, THE ISLAND OF WORTHY BOYS, (2015, She Writes Press) won the 2016 Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction in the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Connie’s short story, “Little Breaks”, was published by Calyx Journal in 2017. Her latest novel, THE SHARP EDGE OF M...
Author2Author With Charles Wheelan
May 03, 2022 21:00 - 36 minutes - 32.9 MBBill welcomes bestselling author Charles Wheelan to the show. Charles is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, a former correspondent for The Economist, and the author of assorted books that attempt to make serious topics more accessible, including Naked Economics, Naked Money, Naked Statistics, the family memoir We Came, We Saw, We Left, and, most recently, Write For Your Life: A Guide to Clear and Purposeful Writing (and Presentations).
Author2Author With Wendelin Van Draanen
April 26, 2022 21:00 - 32 minutes - 28.5 MBBill welcomes bestselling YA author Wendelin Van Draanen to the show. Wendelin Van Draanen has written more than thirty novels for young readers and teens. She is the author of the 18-book Edgar-winning Sammy Keyes series—often called “The new Nancy Drew”—and wrote Flipped, which was named a Top 100 Children’s Novel for the 21st Century by School Library Journal and became a Warner Brothers feature film, with Rob Reiner directing. Her latest novel, The Peach Rebellion, explores the lives and ...
Author2Author with Carole Lawrence
April 19, 2022 21:00 - 33 minutes - 30 MBBill welcomes novelist Carol Lawrence to the show. Carole is an award-winning novelist, poet, composer, and playwright. In addition to Edinburgh Twilight, Edinburgh Dusk, and Edinburgh Midnight in the Ian Hamilton Mysteries series, she has authored novellas, short stories, and poems—many of them translated internationally. She is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry and has won the Euphoria Poetry Prize, the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award, the Maxim Mazumdar playwriting prize, the Jerr...
Author2Author with Caitlin Barasch
April 12, 2022 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.9 MBBill welcomes debut novelist Caitlin Barasch to the show. Caitlin Barasch earned her BA from Colorado College and her MFA from New York University. Her work has appeared in more than a dozen publications, including Catapult, Day One, The Forge, and Hobart. A former bookseller, Caitlin currently teaches creative writing at the Writers Circle. She was born and raised in New York and now lives in Brooklyn. A Novel Obsession is her debut novel.
Author2Author with Kim Dower
April 05, 2022 21:00 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MBBill welcomes poet Kim Dower to the show. Kim, the City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood (October 2016 – October 2018), has published four collections of poetry: Air Kissing on Mars, described by the Los Angeles Times as, “sensual and evocative . . . seamlessly combining humor and heartache,” Slice of Moon, called “unexpected and sublime,” by “O” magazine, Last Train to the Missing Planet, “poems that speak about the grey space between tragedy and tenderness, memory and loss, fragility and pe...
Author2Author with Philip Gray
March 29, 2022 21:00 - 33 minutes - 29.7 MBBill welcomes bestselling British suspense author Philip Gray to the show. Philip Gray, under the pseudonym of Patrick Lynch, is the coauthor of six thrillers that have sold over a million copies worldwide. He published, as Philip Sington, Zoia’s Gold, The Einstein Girl, and The Valley of Unknowing. His most recent novel is the historical suspense novel Two Storm Wood.
Author2Author with Susan Shapiro
March 22, 2022 21:00 - 31 minutes - 27.9 MBBill welcomes author Susan Shapiro to the show. Susan Shapiro freelances for the NY Times, NY Magazine, WSJ, Washington Post, L.A. Times, Salon, Elle, Oprah, Wired & New Yorker online. She's the bestselling author/coauthor of 17 books her family hates like Five Men Who Broke My Heart, Lighting Up, Unhooked and The Forgiveness Tour. Her popular writing guides The Byline Bible and The Book Bible were inspired by 25 years of teaching writing and publishing in her popular "instant gratification ...
Author2Author with Erica Ferencik
March 08, 2022 22:00 - 32 minutes - 28.9 MBBill welcomes bestselling novelist Erica Ferencik to the show. There is nowhere on earth Erica won’t go to take you out of your head and into the great wild world. An award-winning novelist, she writes adventure stories featuring women who brave not only internal struggles but face extreme challenges in their environment: remote forests, steaming jungles, and desolated icescapes. To research The River at Night, Into the Jungle, and her new thriller GIRL IN ICE, she ventured deep into the remo...
Author2Author with Lynn Hightower
March 01, 2022 22:00 - 32 minutes - 14.3 MBBill welcomes suspense author Lynn Hightower to the show. Lynn is the author of numerous thrillers, including the Sonora Blair and Lena Padget detective series. Her internationally-bestselling novels have been included in the New York Times List of Notable Books, the London Times’ bestseller lists, the WH Smith Fresh Talent Awards, and the Shamus award. She teaches Master Novel classes in the UCLA Extension Writing Program, and works as a Manuscript Consultant/Writing Coach for novelists.
Author2Author with Emilya Naymark
February 15, 2022 22:00 - 33 minutes - 29.5 MBBill welcomes suspense novelist Emilya Naymark to the show. Emilya is the author of the novels Hide in Place and Behind the Lie, books 1 and 2 in the Sylvan series starring PI Laney Bird. Her short stories appear in A Stranger Comes to Town, edited by Michael Koryta, Secrets in the Water, After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shift, River River Journal, Snowbound: Best New England Crime Stories 2017, and 1+30: THE BEST OF MYSTORY. When not writing, Emilya works as a visual artist and reads...