Latest Thriller authors Podcast Episodes
Making It Up with Dean Monti, author of The Monosexual
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - July 04, 2024 12:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDean Monti has worked creatively in a variety of mediums including short stories, plays, novels, journalism, and screenwriting. His latest novel, The Monosexual, will be published July 2024. He is also the author of several one-act plays and has had his works premiered in Chicago, and was a fina...
Making It Up with Victoria Helen Stone, author of Follow Her Down
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - June 27, 2024 14:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVictoria Helen Stone, author of the runaway best seller Jane Doe, writes critically acclaimed novels of dark intrigue and emotional suspense. Aside from Follow Her Down, At The Quiet Edge, The Last One Home, Problem Child, and other chart-topping novels, she also published twenty-nine books as U...
Making It Up with Aimie Runyan, author of Mademoiselle Eiffel
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - June 21, 2024 00:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAimie Runyan is a multi-published and bestselling author of historical and contemporary fiction. She has been nominated for a Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Writer of the Year Award, a Historical Novel Society’s Editor’s Choice selection, and a four-time finalist for the Colorado Book Awards. Sh...
Making It Up with Kimberly Giarratano, author of Devil in Profile
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - June 13, 2024 09:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKimberly Giarratano is an author of mysteries for teens and adults. Her debut novel, Grunge Gods and Graveyards, won the 2015 Silver Falchion Award for Best YA at Killer Nashville. In May 2024 she released the second novel in her Billie Levine series, Devil in Profile, which follows the novel De...
Making It Up with Matt Scott, author of the Surviving the Lion's Den trilogy
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - June 06, 2024 16:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMatt Scott is the author of the Surviving the Lion’s Den thriller trilogy which debuted in 2021. Matt earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Hampden-Sydney College. During his subsequent studies, Matt became fascinated by the CIA and read dozens of books related to Mi...
Making It Up with Louise Doughty, author of A Bird in Winter
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - May 25, 2024 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLouise Doughty is the author of ten novels, most recently A Bird in Winter. Her previous books include Platform Seven, filmed for ITVX; Black Water, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; the bestseller Apple Tree Yard, adapted for BBC One; and Whatever You Love, nominated for the Costa Nove...
Making It Up with Tim Booth, author of When I Died for the First Time
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - May 15, 2024 23:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis week's Making It Up is extra-special as it features Tim Booth, lead singer and lyricist of James, a British band who has been performing for over 40 years and has sold more than 25 million albums globally (James is also Carter’s absolute favorite band, making Tim one of his personal heroes)...
Making It Up with Christopher Reich, author of Matterhorn
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - May 10, 2024 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingChristopher Reich is the New York Times bestselling author of The Take, Numbered Account, Rules of Deception, Rules of Vengeance, Rules of Betrayal, and many other thrillers. His novel The Patriots Club won the International Thriller Writers award for Best Novel in 2006. He is also the author of...
Making It Up with Danny Cherry Jr., author of The Pike Boys
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - May 04, 2024 19:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDanny Cherry Jr., a Customer Service Representative with an MBA, and he writes political and personal essays; novels; narrative nonfiction; and short stories. He has written for Buzzfeed News, Politico, The Daily Beast, and more; and fiction for Apex Magazine, Fiyah Lit Mag, amongst others. His ...
Making It Up with Peter Blauner, author of Picture in the Sand
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - April 28, 2024 23:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPeter Blauner is the author of nine novels, including Slow Motion Riot, winner of an Edgar Allan Poe award for best first novel from Mystery Writers of America, and The Intruder, a New York Times bestseller and a bestseller overseas. He began his career as a journalist for New York magazine in t...
Making It Up with Caroline Cleveland, author of When Cicadas Cry
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - April 19, 2024 02:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCaroline Cleveland credits growing up in the rural South and its quieter way of life for her lifelong passion for books and storytelling. Her dedication to the written word led her to law school at the University of South Carolina, where she earned her degree in 1991. She is certified by the Sou...
Making It Up with Diego Báez, author of Yaguareté White
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - April 12, 2024 03:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingDiego Báez is a writer and educator. He is the author of Yaguareté White, a finalist for the Georgia Poetry Prize and a semifinalist for the Berkshire Prize for Poetry. A fellow at CantoMundo, the Surge Institute, and the Poetry Foundation’s Incubator for Community-Engaged Poets, Báez has served...
Making It Up with Jeff Hoffmann, author of Like It Never Happened
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - April 04, 2024 18:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJeff quit his job at the age of 47 to return to college for his MFA, and his first novel, Other People’s Children, emerged from that decision. His second novel, Like It Never Happened, was just released in March 2024. In addition to his two novels, Jeff’s writing has been published in The Sun, B...
Making It Up with Peg Tyre, author of Strangers in the Night
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - March 29, 2024 21:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingPeg Tyre is director of strategy at the Edwin Gould Foundation in New York City. In addition to her two creative fiction novels that have recently been republished, Tyre has written about education for The New York Times, Politico, The Atlantic, and more. She has been a finalist for the National...
Making It Up with Araminta Hall, author of One of the Good Guys
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - March 21, 2024 19:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAraminta Hall began her career in journalism as a staff writer on teen magazine Bliss, becoming Health and Beauty editor of New Woman. On her way, she wrote regular features for the Mirror's Saturday supplement and ghost wrote the supermodel Caprice's column. She has a MA in creative writing and...
Making It Up with Joe and Kasey Lansdale, authors of The Case of the Bleeding Wall
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - March 15, 2024 01:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJoe Lansdale has written novels in many genres, including Western, horror, science fiction, and mystery, and has written for comics such as "Batman: The Animated Series." As of 2020, he had written 50 novels and published more than 30 short-story collections. He has won ten Bram Stoker Awards, a...
Making It Up with L.R. Jones, author of The Wedding Party
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - March 07, 2024 18:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingL.R. Jones, or Lisa Renee Jones, is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. Her dark, edgy fiction includes the novels You Look Beautiful Tonight, The Poet, A Perfect Lie, and the Lilah Love series. Prior to publishing, Lisa owned a multistate staffing agency recognized by the Austin ...
Making It Up with Matt Coyle, author of the Rick Cahill series
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - March 01, 2024 00:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMatt Coyle is the author of the best-selling Rick Cahill crime novels. He graduated with a degree in English from University of California at Santa Barbara. His foray into crime fiction was delayed for thirty years as he spent time managing a restaurant, selling golf clubs for various golf compa...
Making It Up with Audrey Gale, author of The Human Trial
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - February 24, 2024 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAudrey Gale is the author of the new release, The Human Trial. After twenty-plus years in the banking industry, Audrey pursued her master’s in fiction writing at the University of Southern California. Her first novel, a legal thriller entitled The Sausage Maker’s Daughters, was published under t...
Making It Up with Katherine Howe, author of A True Account
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - February 16, 2024 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingKatherine Howe, author of A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself, is a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian and novelist. She is the author of several novels for adults and young adults, has edited two volumes of primary sources for Peng...
Making It Up with Boyd and Beth Morrison, authors of The Last True Templar
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - February 08, 2024 20:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingBoyd Morrison is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twelve thrillers, including six collaborations with Clive Cussler in the Oregon Files series. His first novel, The Ark, was an Indie Next Notable pick. He has a PhD in industrial engineering from Virginia Tech. His latest thriller The ...
Making It Up with Sara DiVello, author of Broadway Butterfly
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - February 02, 2024 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSara DiVello is a true crime writer and the founder and host of the popular author interview series, Mystery and Thriller Mavens. Her latest book, Broadway Butterfly: A Thriller, received starred reviews from Library Journal and Book List, was a CBS New York Book Club pick, an Entertainment Week...
Making it Up with Hailey Piper, author of Cruel Angels Past Sundown
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - January 24, 2024 22:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Cruel Angels Past Sundown, Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, The Worm and His Kings series, and other books of dark fiction. She is also the author of over 100 short stories, and her non-fiction appears in Writer’s Digest, Library Journ...
Making it Up with Hailey Piper, author of Queen of Teeth
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - January 24, 2024 22:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHailey Piper is the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth, A Light Most Hateful, The Worm and His Kings series, and other books of dark fiction. She is also the author of over 100 short stories, and her non-fiction appears in Writer’s Digest, Library Journal, CrimeReads, and others....
Making It Up with Abbott Kahler, author of Where You End
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - January 17, 2024 23:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAbbott Kahler (formerly Karen Abbott) is the author of four New York Times bestselling works of narrative nonfiction, including The Ghosts of Eden Park and Then Came the Devil. Her debut novel, Where You End, is inspired by a true story of identical twins and amnesia. USA Today once named her “a...
Making It Up with Kathleen Willett, author of Anything For A Friend
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - January 12, 2024 21:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNovelist Kathleen Willett has a B.A. in English from Holy Cross and a M.A. in English Education from Columbia University. An English teacher who grew up in New Jersey and London, Kathleen lives in Manhattan with her husband, two daughters, and a cat named Mr. Sparkles. Willett's debut novel, Mot...
Making It Up with Emily Smith, author of You Always Come Back
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - January 05, 2024 00:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingNovelist Emily Smith is a New Jersey native, who pursued her BFA in Dramatic Writing at NYU and her MFA in Creative Writing at American University. Her electrifying debut novel, You Always Come Back, was released in late 2023 to rave reviews. Among other things, Emily and Carter discuss Emily’...
Making It Up with Elise Hart Kipness, author of Lights Out
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - December 29, 2023 02:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingElise Hart Kipness is a former television sports reporter turned thriller writer. LIGHTS OUT is based on her experience in the high-pressure, adrenaline-pumping world of live TV. In addition to reporting for Fox Sports Network, Elise was a reporter at New York’s WNBC-TV, News 12 Long Island, an...
Making It Up with Martin Clark, author of The Plinko Bounce
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - December 22, 2023 03:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingEntertainment Weekly called Martin Clark “hands down, our finest legal-thriller writer.” The New York Times stated that he is “the thinking man’s John Grisham.” Martin’s novels have appeared on multiple bestseller lists and have been chosen as a New York Times Notable Book, a New York Times Edit...
Making It Up with Erin Hoover, author of No Spare People
Carter Wilson's Making It Up - December 15, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingErin Hoover is the author of two poetry collections, Barnburner and No Spare People. Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry and Best New Poets, and in journals such as Cincinnati Review, Florida Review, Poetry Northwest, and Shenandoah. She lives in rural Tennessee and teaches creat...
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