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Making It Up with Leanne Sparks, author of The Wrong Woman

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - September 29, 2022 21:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
After a short career in law, Leanne Kale Sparks has returned to her first love—writing about murder, mayhem, and crime. Currently, she is an author with Crooked Lane Books and her current release is The Wrong Woman. Leanne is also working on a new series featuring an FBI agent hunting down her b...

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Making It Up with Leanne Sparks, author of The Wrong Woman

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - September 29, 2022 21:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
After a short career in law, Leanne Kale Sparks has returned to her first love—writing about murder, mayhem, and crime. Currently, she is an author with Crooked Lane Books and her current release is The Wrong Woman. Leanne is also working on a new series featuring an FBI agent hunting down her b...

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Making It Up with Laurie R. King, author of Back to the Garden

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - September 26, 2022 19:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels and other works, including the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes stories (The Beekeeper’s Apprentice was chosen as one of the “20th Century’s Best Crime Novels” by the IMBA.) She has won the Agatha, Anthony, Creasey, Edgar, Lambda, ...

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Making It Up with Laurie R. King, author of Back to the Garden

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - September 26, 2022 19:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels and other works, including the Mary Russell-Sherlock Holmes stories (The Beekeeper’s Apprentice was chosen as one of the “20th Century’s Best Crime Novels” by the IMBA.) She has won the Agatha, Anthony, Creasey, Edgar, Lambda, ...

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Making It Up with David Ellis, author of Look Closer

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - September 08, 2022 21:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
David Ellis is a judge and an Edgar-award-winning author of ten novels of crime fiction, as well as eight bestselling books co-authored with James Patterson. His novels have been translated into more than ten languages worldwide. In December 2014, Dave was sworn in as the youngest-serving Justic...

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Making It Up with David Ellis, author of Look Closer

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - September 08, 2022 21:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
David Ellis is a judge and an Edgar-award-winning author of ten novels of crime fiction, as well as eight bestselling books co-authored with James Patterson. His novels have been translated into more than ten languages worldwide. In December 2014, Dave was sworn in as the youngest-serving Justic...

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Making It Up with Russell James, author of Quest for the Queen’s Temple

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - September 01, 2022 22:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
After flying helicopters with the U.S. Army and a career as a technical writer, Russell James now spins twisted tales best read in daylight. Russell has penned over twenty horror novels including Dark Inspiration, Q Island, and The Playing Card Killer. He also authored the Grant Coleman Adventur...

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Making It Up with Russell James, author of Quest for the Queen’s Temple

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - September 01, 2022 22:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
After flying helicopters with the U.S. Army and a career as a technical writer, Russell James now spins twisted tales best read in daylight. Russell has penned over twenty horror novels including Dark Inspiration, Q Island, and The Playing Card Killer. He also authored the Grant Coleman Adventur...

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Making It Up with James Byrne, author of The Gatekeeper

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - August 25, 2022 21:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
James Byrne is the author of the recent thriller The Gatekeeper. He writes under various names and has published nine other novels in the realm of thrillers and mysteries. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Portland Tribune.  Among other things, Carter and James discuss publishing highs and lows...

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Making It Up with James Byrne, author of The Gatekeeper

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - August 25, 2022 21:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
James Byrne is the author of the recent thriller The Gatekeeper. He writes under various names and has published nine other novels in the realm of thrillers and mysteries. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Portland Tribune.  Among other things, Carter and James discuss publishing highs and lows...

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Making It Up with Pip Drysdale, author of The Next Girl

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - August 18, 2022 18:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Pip Drysdale is a writer, musician, and actor who grew up in Africa and Australia. Her debut novel, The Sunday Girl, was a bestseller and has been published in the United States, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The Strangers We Know was also a bestseller and is being developed f...

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Making It Up with Pip Drysdale, author of The Next Girl

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - August 18, 2022 18:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Pip Drysdale is a writer, musician, and actor who grew up in Africa and Australia. Her debut novel, The Sunday Girl, was a bestseller and has been published in the United States, Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia. The Strangers We Know was also a bestseller and is being developed f...

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Making It Up with Faye Snowden, author of A Killing Rain

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - August 11, 2022 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Faye Snowden is the author of three standalone mysteries and a four-part series of which the first two, A Killing Fire and A Killing Rain, have been released. She also has published short stories and poems in various literary journals including The African American Review, Calliope, Red Ochre Li...

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Making It Up with Faye Snowden, author of A Killing Rain

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - August 11, 2022 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Faye Snowden is the author of three standalone mysteries and a four-part series of which the first two, A Killing Fire and A Killing Rain, have been released. She also has published short stories and poems in various literary journals including The African American Review, Calliope, Red Ochre Li...

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Making It Up with Clare Mackintosh, author of The Last Party

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - August 04, 2022 19:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Clare Mackintosh has sold more than two million copies of her books worldwide and is the multi-award-winning author of the thriller I Let You Go, a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and the fastest-selling title by a new crime writer in 2015. Together, her books have spent more than six...

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Making It Up with Clare Mackintosh, author of The Last Party

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - August 04, 2022 19:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Clare Mackintosh has sold more than two million copies of her books worldwide and is the multi-award-winning author of the thriller I Let You Go, a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and the fastest-selling title by a new crime writer in 2015. Together, her books have spent more than six...

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Making It Up with Joey Hartstone, author of The Local

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - July 28, 2022 21:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Joey Hartstone is a film and television writer who has written two feature films, LBJ and Shock and Awe, both directed by Rob Reiner. He wrote on the first two seasons of the legal drama The Good Fight and is currently a writer on the Showtime series Your Honor. His debut legal thriller, The Loc...

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Making It Up with Ashley Winstead, author of The Last Housewife

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - July 21, 2022 20:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Novelist Ashley Winstead holds a Ph.D. in contemporary American literature from Southern Methodist University and a B.A. in English and Art History from Vanderbilt University. Her 2021 thriller, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, was a breakout hit, and is being followed up with her August 2022 releas...

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Making It Up with Ashley Winstead, author of The Last Housewife

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - July 21, 2022 20:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Novelist Ashley Winstead holds a Ph.D. in contemporary American literature from Southern Methodist University and a B.A. in English and Art History from Vanderbilt University. Her 2021 thriller, In My Dreams I Hold a Knife, was a breakout hit, and is being followed up with her August 2022 releas...

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Making It Up with Hannah Mary McKinnon, author of Never Coming Home

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - July 11, 2022 19:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The 50th EPISODE (!) of Making It Up features Hannah Mary McKinnon, who led a successful career in recruitment before quitting the corporate world in favor of writing. Her debut, Time After Time, was a rom-com but she has since transitioned to suspense novels. Of five, four are bestsellers and h...

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Making It Up with Hannah Mary McKinnon, author of Never Coming Home

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - July 11, 2022 19:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
The 50th EPISODE (!) of Making It Up features Hannah Mary McKinnon, who led a successful career in recruitment before quitting the corporate world in favor of writing. Her debut, Time After Time, was a rom-com but she has since transitioned to suspense novels. Of five, four are bestsellers and h...

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Making It Up with Hilde Lysiak, author of Hilde on the Record

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - June 27, 2022 19:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Hilde Kate Lysiak founded the newspaper Orange Street News at the age of seven. Now, at fifteen, she’s written and published hundreds of stories, has been recognized for her work in the New York Times, The Today Show, GMA, and The Washington Post. Additionally, she has a book series with Schloas...

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Making It Up with Elle Marr, author of Strangers We Know

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - June 20, 2022 21:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Novelist Elle Marr strives to tell powerful and compelling stories of women who demonstrate resilience in the face of great obstacles. She is the author of three thrillers, The Missing Sister (2020), Lies We Bury (2021), and Strangers We Know (May 2022).  The Missing Sister was the #24 Best Sell...

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Making It Up with Jess Montgomery, author of The Echoes

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - June 06, 2022 21:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Jess Montgomery is the author of the Kinship Historical Mysteries, set in 1920s Appalachian Ohio and inspired by Ohio’s true first female sheriff. Under her given name, she writes the “Level Up Your (Writing) Life” column for Writer’s Digest. She also hosts the “Tea with Jess: Chatting with Auth...

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Making It Up with D.P. Lyle, author of Double Blind

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - May 28, 2022 22:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
D.P. Lyle is the award-winning author of 22 books, both non-fiction and fiction. He is the International Thriller Writer’s VP for Education and runs CraftFest, Master CraftFest, and ITW’s online Thriller School. D.P has also written for television shows such as Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Cold Case...

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Making It Up with D.P. Lyle, author of Double Blind

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - May 28, 2022 22:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
D.P. Lyle is the award-winning author of 22 books, both non-fiction and fiction. He is the International Thriller Writer’s VP for Education and runs CraftFest, Master CraftFest, and ITW’s online Thriller School. D.P has also written for television shows such as Law & Order, CSI: Miami, Cold Case...

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Making It Up with Ananda Lima, author of Mother/land

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - May 23, 2022 20:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Ananda Lima is a poet whose most recent collection, Mother/land, is the winner of the Hudson Prize. She is also the author of Chapbooks Translation (winner of the Vella Chapbook Prize), Amblyopia, and Tropicália (winner of the Newfound Prose Prize). Her work has appeared in the American Poetry R...

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Making It Up with Katrina Monroe, author of They Drown Our Daughters

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - May 12, 2022 00:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Katrina Monroe is a novelist whose debut title, They Drown Our Daughters releases in July 2022 from Sourcbooks. The book has been named one of CrimeReads' 16 Horror Novels To Look Out For In 2022 and Tor Nightfire's Horror Books We're Excited About In 2022. Katrina lives in Minnesota with her wi...

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Making It Up with Katie Lattari, author of Dark Things I Adore

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - May 04, 2022 18:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Katie Lattari is the author of two novels, American Vaudeville, a small press work, and her recent thriller debut, Dark Things I Adore. Her short stories have appeared in such places as NOO Journal, The Bend, Cabildo Quarterly, and more.  Among other things, Carter and Katie discuss creepy smal...

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Making It Up with Erica Ferencik, author of Girl In Ice

Carter Wilson's Making It Up - April 20, 2022 20:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating
Novelist Erica Ferencik is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Boston University. Her most recent release, Girl In Ice, was named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Los Angeles Times Best Crime Novel of Winter 2022, and a Reader’s Digest Best Fiction Book of 2022.  Among other...

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