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 Peter Booth
November 13, 2019 22:00 - 33 minutes - 29.4 MBBill welcomes scholar and translator Peter Booth to the show. Peter is a Hafiz scholar and translator, co-author of Dante I Hafiz, and member of the DC area Iranian Culture Association. He studied Sanskrit and sacred Indian texts at Georgetown University in his teens, received a B.A. in English Literature from Bard College, and attended Harvard Graduate School in Persian Language and Literature, studying with Annemarie Schimmel and Wheeler Thackston. He then studied Persian Literature at Fer...
Author2Author with Matt Coyle
November 05, 2019 22:00 - 31 minutes - 28 MBBill welcomes Anthony Award-winning author Matt Coyle to the show. Matt is the author of the best-selling Rick Cahill crime novels. He knew he wanted to be a crime writer when he was fourteen and his father gave him The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler. His foray into crime fiction was delayed for thirty years as he spent time managing a restaurant, selling golf clubs for various golf companies, and in national sales for a sports licensing company. Writing at night for over a decade,...
Author2Author with Michael Niemann
October 29, 2019 21:00 - 31 minutes - 28.2 MBBill welcomes suspense author Michael Niemann to the show. Michael has long been interested in the sites where ordinary people’s lives and global processes intersect. He’s shared umqombothi with shack dwellers outside Cape Town, interviewed Morgan Tsvangirai, former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, when he was still a trade union leader, and seen Eduardo Mondlane’s dorm room at Northwestern University, faithfully recreated at the Museum of the Revolution in Maputo. He has published four thrill...
Author2Author with Chris Fagan
October 22, 2019 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.3 MBBill welcomes adventurer and memoirist Chris Fagan to the show. Chris is a wife, mother and business owner who, along with her husband Marty, was a part of the first American married couple to ski without guide, resupply, or other assistance to the South Pole, becoming Guinness World Record holders in the process. She has summited Denali, in Alaska; run 100-mile trail races through the mountains; canoed the hippo-laden Zambezi River, in Zimbabwe; sailed and paddled through the Inside Passage;...
Author2Author with Susan Welch
October 15, 2019 21:00 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBBill welcomes debut novelist Susan Welch to the show. Susan's first book, A Thread So Fine, won the prestigious 2019 Nancy Pearl Book Award for Fiction at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. An adopted child, her novel grew out of a desire to understand the life of her birth and adoptive mothers' lives in the optimistic but still socially-restrictive post WW II Midwest. Don't miss it!
Author2Author with Hank Phillippi Ryan
October 09, 2019 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.7 MBBill welcomes bestselling suspense writer Hank Phillippi Ryan to the show. Hank is the on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV. She's won 36 EMMYs, 14 Edward R. Murrow awards and dozens of other honors for her groundbreaking journalism. A nationally bestselling author of 11 mystery novels, Hank has also won multiple prestigious awards for her crime fiction: five Agathas, three Anthonys, the Daphne, two Macavitys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. National reviews have calle...
Author2Author with Holly Watt
October 01, 2019 21:00 - 29 minutes - 26.2 MBBill welcomes journalist and debut crime novelist Holly Watt to the show. Holly started her career at the Sunday Times, before moving to the Daily Telegraph. During six years at the Telegraph, she was the Whitehall Editor and jointly ran the investigations team. She then moved to work on the Guardian's investigations team. Holly has been nominated for a wide range of journalism prizes, winning awards for her work on stories including MPs’ Expenses at the Telegraph and the Panama Papers at the...
Author2Author with Frank Heller
September 24, 2019 21:00 - 32 minutes - 28.4 MBBill welcomes novelist Frank Heller to the show. Frank Heller has published biographical and exhibition catalogs on American and European artists, some of which are housed in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in Washington, DC. He was a hospital corpsman in the US Navy during the early years of the Vietnam War. To write THE SECRET EMPRESS, he drew on his thirty years of experience working in and traveling to China in the import business. Don't miss it!
Author2Author with Talia Carner
September 17, 2019 21:00 - 31 minutes - 27.7 MBBill welcomes bestselling novelist Talia Carner back to the show. Talia Carner's first novel, PUPPET CHILD, was listed in “The Top 10 Favorite First Novels 2002” and launched a nationwide legislation–The Protective Parent Reform Act–which became the platform for two State Senatorial candidates. CHINA DOLL made Amazon’s bestsellers list and served as the platform for Ms. Carner’s presentation at the U.N. in 2007 about infanticide in China—the first ever in U.N. history. Her novel, JERUSALEM M...
Author2Author with Howard Michael Gould
September 10, 2019 21:00 - 31 minutes - 28 MBBill welcomes novelist Howard Michael Gould to the show. Howard spent five years working on Madison Avenue, winning three Clios and numerous other awards. In television, he was executive producer and head writer of CYBILL when it won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy Series, and held the same positions on INSTANT MOM and THE JEFF FOXWORTHY SHOW. He wrote and directed the feature film THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY LEFAY, starring Tim Allen and Jenna Elfman. He is the author of two novels, LAST LOOKS a...
Author2Author with Marianne Leone
August 27, 2019 21:00 - 32 minutes - 28.7 MBBill welcomes actress and author Marianne Leone to the show. Marianne is an actress, screenwriter and essayist. She had a recurring role on HBO's "Sopranos" as Joanne Moltisanti, Christopher's (Michael Imperioli's) mother. She has also appeared in films by John Sayles, Nancy Savoca and Martin Scorsese. Her essays and op ed pieces on a variety of topics have appeared in the Boston Globe. She is married to Chris Cooper, an academy-award winning actor and was Jesse Cooper's mother for seventeen ...
Author2Author with Alison Sher
August 20, 2019 21:00 - 33 minutes - 29.5 MBBill welcomes author and coach Alison Sher to the show. Alison is a generational change agent, organizational consultant, and the author of The Millennial's Guide to Changing the World. She has spent the past decade working as a journalist interviewing hundreds of people on some of the most pressing issues of our times. Her work has been published in books, newspapers and magazines around the country. Don't miss it!
Author2Author with Beth Mayer
August 13, 2019 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.5 MBBill welcomes award winning short story writer Beth Mayer to the show. Her short story collection We Will Tell You Otherwise won the Hudson Prize in fiction with Black Lawrence Press. Her fiction has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Sun Magazine, and The Midway Review. She was a fiction finalist for The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize (2016), her work recognized among “Other Distinguished Stories” by Best American Mystery Stories (2010), and her stories anthologized in...
Author2Author with Lori Roy
July 30, 2019 21:00 - 31 minutes - 28.2 MBBill welcomes award-winning suspense novelist Lori Roy to the show. Lori Roy's debut novel, BENT ROAD, was awarded the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. Her work has been twice named a New York Times Notable Crime Book and included on various best of lists and summer reading lists. UNTIL SHE COMES HOME was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe award for Best Novel. LET ME DIE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS also received the 2016 Edgar Allen...
Author2Author with Shannon Ethridge
July 23, 2019 21:00 - 33 minutes - 29.7 MBBill welcomes life-coach and bestselling author Shannon Ethridge to the show. Shannon Ethridge is a million-copy best-selling author, international speaker, certified life coach, and advocate for healthy sexuality with a master’s degree in counseling / human relations. Since her mortuary days of embalming many HIV+ and AIDS patients, she has boldly spoken to high school and college students, single adults, and married couples about: * Embracing a lifestyle of sexual integrity* Overcoming pas...
Author2Author with Melissa Studdard
July 16, 2019 21:00 - 30 minutes - 26.8 MBBill welcomes poet and novelist Melissa Studdard to the show. Melissa Studdard is the author of four books, including the poetry collection I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast and the young adult novel Six Weeks to Yehidah. Her short writings have appeared in a wide variety of journals, magazines, blogs, and anthologies, such as The New York Times, Poetry, Psychology Today, The Guardian, New Ohio Review, Harvard Review, Bettering American Poetry, and Poets & Writers. Her awards include the Forwa...
Author2Author with Steve O'Keefe
July 09, 2019 21:00 - 33 minutes - 29.5 MBBill welcomes author and marketing specialist Steve O'Keefe to the show. Steve is the Content Director at Orobora where he designs content marketing campaigns for authors, experts, companies and brands. Steve is the author of The Complete Guide to Internet Publicity, and taught Internet Public Relations at Tulane University for over a decade. In addition to his work with Orobora, Steve is Director of the Staunton Media Lab, a media arts program for the deaf, blind and uniquely able where he s...
Author2Author with Megan Griswold
June 25, 2019 21:00 - 36 minutes - 32.7 MBBill welcome memoirist Megan Griswold to the show. Megan has trained and received certification as a doula, shiatsu practitioner, yoga instructor, personal trainer, and in wilderness medicine, among others. She has worked as a mountain instructor, a Classical Five Element acupuncturist, a freelance reporter, an NPR All Things Considered commentator, a spokesperson for egg freezing, an off-the grid interior designer, and the creator of the backcountry-meets-high-style online store Little Movin...
Author2Author with Cate Montana
June 18, 2019 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.2 MBBill welcomes author and inspirational speaker Cate Montana to the show. A clarion voice for commonsense & higher awareness, Cate’s books, inspirational talks and videos address and provide solutions for the primary drivers behind our individual and social crises today: lack of self-awareness, confusion about the nature of gender, and an inability to manage ourminds and emotions. A journalist for over 30 years, she has worked in all areas of communication, from network television and radio to...
Author2Author with Maura Roosevelt
June 11, 2019 21:00 - 32 minutes - 29 MBBill welcomes debut novelist and short story writer Maura Roosevelt to the show. Maura’s work has been published in places like The Nation and Vol. 1 Brooklyn. Her first novel, Baby of the Family, was developed from a short story with the same title, which was published in Joyland magazine and given an award for “Most Read Story of 2014.” She has taught writing at NYU and the University of Southern California. She’s currently completing a PhD program at Columbia University, where she is inves...
Author2Author with Devin Murphy
May 28, 2019 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.7 MBBill welcomes bestselling novelist and short story writer Devin Murphy to the show. Devin is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Bradley University. He has worked various jobs in national parks around the country and once had a three–year stint at sea that led him to over fifty countries on all seven continents. His fiction has appeared in over 60 literary journals and anthologies, including The Missouri Review, Glimmer Train, The Chicago Tribune, New Stories from the Midwest, and C...
Author2Author with Alan Gelb
May 21, 2019 21:00 - 32 minutes - 29.1 MBBill welcomes author Alan Gelb to the show. Alan is a writing coach, a communications consultant for higher education, and the author of the bestselling Conquering the College Admissions Essay in 10 Steps. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Daily Beast, Next Avenue, and other publications. He is also of the author of the newly released Seven Steps to Confident Writing. Don't miss it!
Author2Author with Tembi Locke
May 14, 2019 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.4 MBBill welcomes actress and author Tembi Locke to the show. Tembi is passionate about two things: the power of storytelling as a tool to inspire meaningful connection, and savoring the flavors, food and kitchen wisdom from her favorite place in the world, Sicily. An accomplished actor with over sixty television and film performances to her credit, including The Magicians, NCIS: LA, Bones, Eureka, Dumb and Dumber To, Friends, and Proven Innocent, she is also the author of the new memoir, FROM S...
Author2Author with Elizabeth Atkins
May 07, 2019 21:00 - 31 minutes - 28.1 MBBill welcomes author and publisher Elizabeth Atkins to the show. Elizabeth is a best-selling author, actress, TV host and award-winning journalist who uses a multimedia platform to inspire people to unlock their infinite potential and live with passion, prosperity, health and happiness. A health and fitness enthusiast whose 100-pound weight loss was featured on Oprah, Elizabeth co-hosts a weekly television show, MI Healthy Mind, which promotes wellness by shattering stigmas around taboo topi...
Author2Author with Stephen Wallenfels
April 23, 2019 21:00 - 32 minutes - 29.2 MBBill welcomes YA novelist Stephen Wallenfels to the show. Stephen wrote freelance for the Health and Fitness industry for fifteen years before turning writing novels. He has since penned three YA novels: POD, Bad Call, and, most recently, Deadfall. His books have been described as "gripping," "tightly plotted," and "fast-moving." Don't miss it!
Author2Author with Michael Dylan Welch
April 16, 2019 21:00 - 39 minutes - 35.4 MBBill welcomes poet and publisher Michael Dylan Welch to the show. Michael has been investigating haiku and related poetry since 1976. He founded his press, Press Here, in 1989, and cofounded Haiku North America in 1991 and the American Haiku Archives in 1996. He founded the Tanka Society of America in 2000, the Seabeck Haiku Getaway in 2008, and National Haiku Writing Month (www.nahaiwrimo.com) in 2010. Michael was keynote speaker for the 2013 Haiku International Association convention in Tok...
Author2Author with Erin Quinn
April 02, 2019 21:30 - 31 minutes - 28.3 MBBill welcomes New York Times bestselling romance author Erin Quinn to the show. Erin writes dark paranormal romance for the thinking reader. Her books have been called “riveting,” “brilliantly plotted” and “beautifully written” and have won, placed or showed in the RWA RITA Award, Booksellers Best, WILLA Award for Historical fiction, the Orange Rose, Readers Crown, Golden Quill, Best Books, and Award of Excellence. She's a good one, people!
Author2Author with Hallie Ephron
March 26, 2019 21:00 - 32 minutes - 28.9 MBBill welcomes New York Times bestselling author and suspense writer Hallie Ephron to the show. Hallie is an Edgar Award finalist, and five-time finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. A sought-after writing teacher, her Writing and Selling Your Mystery Novel was nominated for Edgar and Anthony awards. An award-winning crime fiction book reviewer, Hallie also wrote the ON CRIME column for the Boston Globe for ten years. Should be awesome!
Author2Author with Iris Graville
March 19, 2019 21:00 - 32 minutes - 28.7 MBBill welcomes author Iris Graville to the show. Her profiles and personal essays have been published in national and regional journals and magazines. Her first book, Hands at Work—Portraits and Profiles of People Who Work with Their Hands, received numerous accolades including a Nautilus Book Gold Award, Independent Publishers Award, and an Indie Next Generation Book Award. Her second book, Bounty, combines photographs, profiles by Iris, and recipes to present an intimate, behind-the-scenes ...
Author2Author with Karen Rose
March 12, 2019 21:00 - 31 minutes - 28 MBBill welcomes internationally bestselling suspense writer Karen Rose to the show. A former high school teacher of chemistry and physics, Karen's debut suspense novel, DON'T TELL, was released in 2003. Since then, she has published over twenty novels and two novellas. Her books have appeared on the bestseller lists of the New York Times, USA Today, London's Sunday Times, and Germany's der Spiegel (#1), and the Irish Times, as well as lists in South Africa(#1) and Australia! Her novels, I'M WAT...
Author2Author with Kayce Stevens Hughlett
March 05, 2019 22:00 - 32 minutes - 29.2 MBBill welcomes author and life coach Kayce Stevens Hughlett to the show. Kayce is a life coach and author who began her writing career as a blogger in the early 2000s. She has gone to pubish three popular books: As I Lay Pondering: Daily Invitations To Live a Transformed Life, Blue: a novel, and most recently SoulStroller: Experiencing the Weight, Whispers, & Wings of the World, a memoir of self-discovery. Don't miss it!
Author2Author with Brad Taylor
February 26, 2019 22:00 - 32 minutes - 28.9 MBBill welcomes bestselling suspense author Brad Taylor to the show. Brad served in the military for more than 21 years, retiring as a Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel. In 2011, he published his debut novel, One Rough Man, which was an immediate success and launched the Pike Logan series. Now with more than 12 installments and more than 2 million copies sold, the series has consistently hit the New York Times bestseller list. When not writing, he serves as a security consultant on asymmetric ...
Author2Author with Lillian Stulich
February 12, 2019 22:00 - 32 minutes - 29.1 MBBill welcomes author and educator Lillian Stulich to the show. Lillian is a middle school teacher who took a traumatic experience (2012 superstorm Sandy), and turned it into a creative opportunity: her first children's book Host a Little Ghost. Tune in to meet this very cool woman!
Author2Author with Kerrie Flanagan
February 05, 2019 22:00 - 32 minutes - 28.8 MBBill welcomes author Kerrie Flanagan to the show. Kerrie is an author, writing consultant, accomplished freelance writer with over 18 years’ experience, and the founder of Hot Chocolate Press. Her work has appeared in publications such as, Writer’s Digest, Alaska Magazine, The Writer and six Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Her article, “How to Find Success in the Magazine World,” has been featured in the Writer’s Market for the past six years. She is also the author of eight books all publi...
Author2Author With Bill Kenower: Fearless Writing
January 29, 2019 22:00 - 34 minutes - 30.4 MBJoin host Bill (William) Kenower for a special edition of Author2Author as he discusses why Everyone Has What it Takes. Based on his popular writing book Fearless Writing: How To Create Boldly and Write With Confidence, Bill disbands the widely accepted myth that "some people have what it takes, and some don't." This belief is not only untrue, but can stand in your way as you try to write the book you want to write and lead the life you want to lead. Don't miss it!
Author2Author with Anne Tucker
January 22, 2019 22:00 - 32 minutes - 28.6 MBBill welcomes author, life coach, and entrepreneur Anne Tucker to the show. Anne spent years working at the top of the corporate world, coaching executives and advising them on how to reach their goals in the workplace. She was successful, but found herself asking, “Is this all there is?” After a truly global search with some wonderful teachers and mentors, she's embraced her purpose as a spiritual healer, author (Undoubtedly Awesome: How Doubt Creeps into Your Decision Process), and the fou...
Author2Author with Betsy Bell
January 15, 2019 22:00 - 32 minutes - 29.1 MBBill welcomes memoirist Betsy Bell to the show. Betsy Bell, born before WWII in New York City, spent her formative years in the Jim Crow town of Muskogee, Oklahoma. As a Girl Scout, she began her social justice activism working with a bi-racial team to integrate public schools after the 1954 Supreme Court decision mandating the end of school segregation. After completing her BA and MA at Bryn Mawr College, she began an academic career in Lawrence, Kansas where her husband taught. In Lawrence,...
Author2Author with Taylor Adams
January 08, 2019 22:00 - 32 minutes - 28.7 MBBill welcomes suspense author Taylor Adams to the show. Taylor Adams directed the acclaimed short film And I Feel Fine in 2008 and graduated from Eastern Washington University with the Excellence in Screenwriting Award and the prestigious Edmund G. Yarwood Award. His directorial work has screened at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival and his writing has been featured on KAYU-TV’s Fox Life blog. He is also the author of the novels Our Last Night, Eyeshot, and No Exit. Don't miss it.
Author2Author with Beau L'Amour
December 18, 2018 22:00 - 31 minutes - 27.7 MBBill welcomes author Beau L'Amour to the show. Beau is a writer and entertainment industry jack-of-all-trades. He is the son of bestselling novelist Louis L'Amour and has managed his father's literary estate since 1988. Striving to maintain that legacy, he has done editorial work, revised unfinished manuscripts, managed a literary magazine and an audio/radio drama series, done art direction, been a comic book writer and producer and become an expert in marketing. In the years since his father...
Author2Author with James R. Hansen
December 11, 2018 22:00 - 33 minutes - 29.6 MBBill welcomes historian and author James R. Hansen to the show. James is a professor emeritus of history at Auburn University. A former historian for NASA, Hansen is the author of twelve books on the history of aerospace and a two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in History. His 1995 book Spaceflight Revolution was nominated for the Pulitzer by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the only time NASA ever nominated a book for the prize. He serves as co-producer for the major m...
Author2Author with Two Sisters Publishing
December 04, 2018 22:00 - 32 minutes - 28.7 MBBill welcomes authors and publishers Elizabeth Atkins and Catherine Marie Atkins Greenspan. Elizabeth Ann Atkins and Catherine Marie Atkins Greenspan are the siblings behind Two Sisters Writing and Publishing. Elizabeth, now the author of nearly 20 books, has been a guest on Oprah, Montel, NPR, Good Morning America Sunday and CBS Evening News. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Essence, Ebony and the Detroit News, for which her articles on race were nominated for the Pulitzer Pr...
Author2Author with John Pavlovitz
November 27, 2018 22:00 - 31 minutes - 27.5 MBBill welcomes author and pastor John Pavlovitz to the show. John is a writer, pastor, and activist from Wake Forest, North Carolina. In the past four years his blog Stuff That Needs To Be Said has reached a diverse worldwide audience. A 20-year veteran in the trenches of local church ministry, John is committed to equality, diversity, and justice—both inside and outside faith communities. In 2017 he released his first book, A Bigger Table. His new book, Hope and Other Superpowers, was publish...
Author2Author with Rita Dragonette
November 20, 2018 22:00 - 33 minutes - 29.5 MBBill welcomes debut novelist Rita Dragonette to the show. Rita is a writer who, after spending nearly thirty years telling the stories of others as an award-winning public relations executive, has returned to her original creative path. The Fourteenth of September, her debut novel, is based upon personal experiences on campus during the Vietnam War. She lives and writes in Chicago, where she also hosts literary salons to showcase authors and their new books to avid readers. Don't miss it!
Author2Author with Carla Neggers
November 13, 2018 22:00 - 32 minutes - 28.4 MBBill welcomes bestselling author Carla Neggers to the show. Carla is the New York Times bestselling author of more than 75 novels, including her popular Sharpe & Donovan and Swift River Valley series. Her books have been translated into dozens of languages and sold in over 35 countries. Her books have been called “smart and satisfying” (Kirkus), “extraordinarily memorable” (RT Book Reviews) and “highly entertaining” (Publishers Weekly), and she has been praised for her “unerring knack for cr...
Author2Author with Karen I. Treiger
November 06, 2018 22:00 - 33 minutes - 29.4 MBBill welcomes debut author Karen Treiger to the show. Karen retired from her law practice in 2015 to research and write My Soul is Filled With Joy: A Holocaust Book, a book about her in-laws Sam and Esther Goldberg. She in an accomplished and dynamic speaker and has presented at many Continuing Legal Education Conferences, community events, and is a member of the Seattle Holocaust Center Speakers’ Bureau. Don't miss it!
Author2Author with Jeff Herman
October 30, 2018 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.4 MBBill welcomes author and literary agent Jeff Herman to the show. Jeff opened his literary agency in the mid-1980s while in his mid-20s. He has made nearly one-thousand book deals, including many bestsellers. His own books include JEFF HERMAN’S GUIDE TO PUBLISHERS, EDITORS & LITERARY AGENTS (more than 500,000 copies sold), and WRITE THE PERFECT BOOK PROPOSAL (coauthored with Deborah Herman). He has presented hundreds of workshops about writing and publishing, and has been interviewed for dozen...
Author2Author with Adam Cayton-Holland
October 23, 2018 21:00 - 34 minutes - 30.7 MBBill welcomes comedian and memoirist Adam Cayton-Holland to the show. Adam is a national touring headliner who was named one of 25 “Comics to Watch” by Esquire magazine and one of “10 Comics to Watch” by Variety. Along with his co-horts in the The Grawlix comedy troupe, Adam created, writes and stars in truTV’s “Those Who Can’t,” in which Adam plays Spanish teacher and bon vivant Loren Payton. He has also appeared on CONAN, The Late Late Show with James Corden, The Meltdown with Jonah and ...
Author2Author with Caitlin Hamilton Summie
October 16, 2018 21:00 - 33 minutes - 29.4 MBBill welcomes short story writer and publicist Caitlin Hamilton Summie to the show. Caitlin is the former Marketing Director of MacMurray & Beck and also of BlueHen Books/Penguin Putnam. At each company she also managed imprint profile and directed all publicity, hardcover & paperback. Her first book, a collection of short stories called TO LAY TO REST OUR GHOSTS, was published to excellent reviews nationwide, including a starred Foreword. The title won Silver in the Foreword INDIES Book of ...
Author2Author with Stephen Markley
October 09, 2018 21:00 - 31 minutes - 27.9 MBBill welcomes debut novelist Stephen Markley to the show. Stephen is the author of the novel Ohio. He's also the author of memoir Publish This Book and the tavelogue Tales of Iceland. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and his essays and short fiction can be found scattered across the internet. Ohio is a lyrical and emotional novel set in an archetypal small town in northeastern Ohio—a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—d...
Author2Author with Elizabeth Fournier
September 25, 2018 21:00 - 32 minutes - 28.5 MBBill welcomes author and undertaker Elizabeth Fournier to the show. Elizabeth, known as The Green Reaper, is the owner and operator of Cornerstone Funeral Services, outside of Portland, Oregon, in a tiny town called Boring. She serves on the Advisory Board for the Green Burial Council, and lives on a farm with her husband, daughter and many rescue goats. She is also the author of The Green Burial Guide: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial. Don't miss it.