Authors On The Air Radio

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with author and environmentalist Janisse Ray about her newest book, Wild Spectacle. ABOUT WILD SPECTACLE “Wonderful. Janisse Ray has a heart the size of a manatee and the tenacity (and laugh) of a pileated woodpecker. She is incapable of not loving this world and all that is in it. If you don't yet know her work, today is your lucky day.”―Rick Bass, author of For a Little While: New and Selected Stories “An urgent love letter to our wild places. Part poet, naturalist, and tour guide, Ray is a gifted observer. We finish this remarkable book brimming with gratitude and alive to the wild spectacles around us.”―Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs GUEST: Janisse Ray is a naturalist and activist, and the author of seven books of nonfiction and poetry, including The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River, and Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, which won the American Book Award. Her work has appeared widely in magazines and journals, and she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Nautilus Book Award, and numerous other honors. Ray lives on an organic farm near Savannah, Georgia. www.janisseray.com HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press. Video: https://youtu.be/E5LZKr9t1c0

Bestselling author Kalynn Bayron discusses her YA fantasy novels Cinderella Is Dead and This Poison Heart in conversation with Holland Perryman, Millie Bennett, Alisha Arora, members of Beaufort High School's DAYLO: Diversity Youth Literary Organization, moderated by Jonathan Haupt, executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center--originally presented as part of the Bluffton Book Festival “Bayron weaves science and Greek mythology into a captivating lore that lends weight to this fantastical contemporary story. She conjures entertaining and realistic dialogue and attentive characterization, while incisive descriptions and sumptuous prose evoke a wonderfully gothic atmosphere.”--Publishers Weekly, starred review “This Poison Heart masterfully weaves a unique story grounded in the depths of Greek mythology and Black girlhood, ideal for lovers of folklore or those who enjoy the thrill of a well-paced and unanticipated adventure.” --Booklist, starred review Kalynn Bayron is the bestselling author of the award-winning YA fantasy Cinderella Is Dead and the recently published This Poison Heart. She is a classically trained vocalist and when she's not writing you can find her listening to Ella Fitzgerald on loop, attending the theater, watching scary movies, and spending time with her kids.  The first student intern of the Pat Conroy Literary Center, Beaufort High School senior Holland Perryman is the founder of DAYLO: Diversity Awareness Youth Literacy Organization, winner of the Ann Head Literary Prize for Short Story, and a book reviewer and author interviewer for the Charleston Post and Courier, Beaufort Lowcountry Weekly, and the Southern Review of Books. Beaufort High School junior Millie Bennett and senior Alisha Arora are also Conroy Center interns and members of DAYLO.  Video: https://youtu.be/Kj2kc5id3x8 

Matt Coyle is the author of the bestselling Rick Cahill crime series. His books have won the Anthony, Shamus, Lefty, Ben Franklin Silver, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year Silver, and San Diego Book Awards and have been nominated for the Barry and Macavity awards, among others. Matt hosts the Crime Corner podcast and lives in San Diego with his yellow Lab, Angus. He was named the Mystery Writer of the Year by the San Diego Writers Festival for 2021. LAST REDEMPTION, the eight book in the Rick Cahill series, explores the physical damage caused by a lifetime of violence as Rick risks his life to help a friend. Juliet Grossman is an Assistant Public Defender for the City of Temecula. She's an avid mystery fan who cut her teeth on Agatha Christie as a child and is a proud member of Mystery Writers of America.

Now a licensed psychotherapist specializing in creative issues, Dennis Palumbo is a former Hollywood screenwriter ("My Favorite Year," "Welcome Back, Kotter," etc.). His mystery fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, The Strand, Mystery Weekly and elsewhere, and is collected in "From Crime to Crime" (Tallfellow Press). His acclaimed debut crime novel, "Mirror Image," was the first in a series featuring psychologist and trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi. It was followed by "Fever Dream," "Night Terrors," "Phantom Limb” and the award-winning “Head Wounds.” Panic Attack is the sixth in the series. Matt Coyle is the Shamus, Anthony and Lefty Award-winning author of the Rick Cahill crime series. This podcast is solely owned by the Authors on the Air Global radio Network.

Helaine Mario is the author of the Classical Music Suspense Series which feature classically trianed pianst Maggie O'Shea as the protagonist. Classical piano music and several visits to France, Austria and Cornwall inspired many of the events - and much of the atmospheric and authentic settings - in the series. Helaine believes strongly in "giving back" to her community. For the eight years of the Clinton Presidency, she was a White House volunteer for Tipper and Al Gore in the Office of the Vice President and continues to be a passionate advocate for women & children's issues. In 1998, Helaine founded The SunDial Foundation, Inc., which contributed to non-profit organizations for our most vulnerable women, children and families for 20 years. In 2018, The Helaine and Ronald Mario Fund was established to continue this work. Royalties from all book sales go directly to children's reading, nutrition and health programs. Born in NYC and a graduate of Boston University, Helaine now lives in Arlington, VA, with her husband of 50+ years, Ron Mario. She is grateful to be a 2 time cancer survivor, and is most proud of her 2 children and 5 beautiful grandchildren. Her son Sean studied classical piano for 15 years and inspired the classical music background in Helaine's music suspense series. SHADOW MUSIC is Helaine's 4th book. Matt Coyle is the author of the Shamus, Anthony and Lefty Award-winning Rick Cahill crime series. This podcast is solely owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with award-winning poets Elizabeth Robin and Ann-Chadwell Humphries. Both will be presenting and teaching at the 6th annual Pat Conroy Literary Festival on November 6. GUESTS: Elizabeth Robin is the author of the poetry collections Where Green Meets Blue (2018), Silk Purses and Lemonade (2017), and To My Dreamcatcher (forthcoming in 2022.) She is the 2021 winner of the Cary McCray Nickens Fellowship. Of her work in that competition judge Tiana Clark said: “I see a lunar lyricism reflected by this poet. The language is mystical, mythic, sublime, and romantic. The haunting imagery is fresh and allows for strangeness, devastation, and delight in a way that captures me as a reader.” She will or did appear most recently in Ukweli, Poetry Society of South Carolina Yearbook 2021, COMET buses, Catfish Stew 2021, Drunk Monkeys, Ripples, The Broadkill Review, i am not a silent poet, and Blue Mountain Review. www.elizabethrobin.com Ann-Chadwell Humphries was selected by Muddy Ford Press for publication in their Laureate Series with her debut collection, An Eclipse and a Butcher. A finalist for Carrie McCray Nickens Fellowship, Ann reads and writes using assistive technology. www.Ann-ChadwellHumphries.com HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and coeditor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with award-winning writer and editor Lauren Marino, author of Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves into History. Women have written some of our most extraordinary literary works while living in societies and cultures that tried to silence them. These women dared to put pen to paper to express the multifaceted female experience. In Bookish Broads, Lauren Marino celebrates fierce, trailblazing female writers, reworking the literary canon that has long failed to recognize the immense contributions of women. Featuring more than 50 brilliant bookish broads, Marino cleverly illuminates the lives of the greats as well as the literary talents history has wrongfully overlooked. Each intimate portrait delves into one woman's works and is accompanied by vibrant illustrations depicting each literary legend in her element and time. “In telling the stories of this pantheon of influential women, Lauren Marino empowers burgeoning writers to follow their own creative yearnings and calls upon readers to honor those who have come before us. Each of these life stories is different, affirming that writers and artists can come from everywhere.... Bookish Broads illuminates the transformative legacy of women writers and invites us to join a story still unfolding."--Charleston Post and Courier GUEST: Lauren Marino is the author of What Would Dolly Do? and Jackie and Cassini. The founding editor of Gotham Books, she has published multiple bestsellers and award-winning books. HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and coeditor of Our Prince of Scribes.

Matt Whitten has written TV shows, stage plays, movies and novels. His new thriller THE NECKLACE just came out, and has been optioned for film by Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way and Cartel Pictures. Lee Child says: "This is as fast and tense as a great thriller should be, but it's full of warmth and humanity too - one small-town woman's quest for the most poignant kind of justice you could imagine. Buy it today and read it tonight!"  Matt has written four mystery novels starring amateur sleuth Jacob Burns. The first novel, BREAKFAST AT MADELINE'S, received the Malice Domestic Award. The Library Journal called BREAKFAST AT MADELINE'S "the perfect antidote for a rainy day." Publishers Weekly, reviewing GRAND DELUSION, said "Witten delights with his charming characters, especially Burns himself." The Romantic Times said, "Told with warmth and wit, STRANGE BEDFELLOWS is a wry story that packs a wallop of an ending." Murder Express called THE KILLING BEE "a fast, witty, thoroughly engrossing novel that I was sorry to see end." Matt has written for House, Law & Order, Pretty Little Liars, Medium, Homicide, CSI: Miami, Judging Amy, Supernatural, and other shows. His published plays include The Deal, Washington Square Moves, and The Ties That Bind. They've been produced in theatres all over the world. His movie DRONES, directed by Rick Rosenthal and starring Matt O'Leary and Eloise Mumford, premiered in 2014 at the London Film Festival, the Austin Film Festival, and the AFI Fest. It's available at Amazon.  Matt and his wife Nancy have two sons, Zack and Jacob. Matt Coyle is the author of the Anthony, Shamus and Lefty Award winning Rick Cahill crime novels.  This podcast is solely owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with novelist Jason Mott, author of Hell of a Book. In Hell of a Book, an African-American author sets out on a cross-country book tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Jason Mott's novel and is the scaffolding of something much larger and more urgent: since his novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. Throughout, these characters' stories build and build and as they converge, they astonish. Unforgettably powerful, an electrifying high-wire act, ideal for book clubs, and the book Mott says he has been writing in his head for ten years, Hell of a Book in its final twists truly becomes its title. "Hell of a Book more than lives up to its title. Playful, searching, raw and necessary, this writing, this voice, this novel twisted me up and turned me inside out, dazzled me, surprised me and moved me."—Charles Yu, author of Interior Chinatown GUEST: Jason Mott has published three previous novels. His first novel, The Returned, was a New York Times bestseller and was turned into a TV series that ran for two seasons. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. His poetry and fiction have appeared in various literary journals. HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and co-editor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.  www.patconroyliterarycenter.org

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with novelist Grady Hendrix, author of The Final Girl Support Group. "Take slasher movie adoration, critique, and satire, mix with compelling, flawed characters and neck-breaking plot twists, and drop it all into an industrial blender with large blades. Voilà, you now have Grady's maniacally clever and compulsively readable The Final Girl Support Group."—Paul Tremblay, author of Survivor Song "The Final Girl Support Group is a deft examination of how our culture's obsession with misogynistic violence destroys the lives of women and how those women are able to keep fighting and living after unthinkable trauma. The beating heart of this book is empathy and it's set into a lightning-paced, vicious thriller. Reading it was a catharsis. Absolutely unmissable."—Mallory O'Meara, author of The Lady from the Black Lagoon GUEST: Grady Hendrix is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter living in New York City. He is the author of Horrorstör, My Best Friend's Exorcism, We Sold Our Souls, and the New York Times bestselling The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, which is being adapted into a series by Amazon Studios. Grady also authored the Bram Stoker Award-winning nonfiction book, Paperbacks from Hell, a history of the horror paperback boom of the '70s and '80s. HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and co-editor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.  www.patconroyliterarycenter.org

Tracy Clark, a native Chicagoan, is the Sue Grafton memorial Award-winning author of the Cass Raines Chicago Mystery series, featuring ex-cop turned PI Cassandra Raines. Her novels have won The Sue Grafton Memorial Award, made multiple best of the year lists and have been nominated for multiple Anthony, Shamus and Lefty Awards. Book four in the series, RUNNER, comes out on June 29, 2021. Tracy, a proud member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America, is a lifelong South-Sider and roots for every Chicago team with equal enthusiasm. She has been a journalist for the Tribune Company for nearly three decades and is currently busy writing her next book. Matt Coyle is the Anthony, Shamus and Lefty Award-winning author of the Rick Cahill crime series. This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned soley by the Authors on the Air Global radio Network.

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with novelist Colleen Oakley, author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island. Oakley delivers an unforgettable love story about an eccentric community, a grieving widow, and an outsider who slowly learns that sometimes faith is more important than the facts. “An utterly charming story brimming with heart and humanity. This is the hopeful book we all need right now. I loved it!”—Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lies That Bind "What's a town to do when a recent widow keeps talking to her husband that no one else can see? Follow along, of course. Colleen Oakley's captivating The Invisible Husband of Frick Island is populated with quirky characters that stole my heart. Make this your summer read and discover the joys of a delicious Frick Island cake, the sanctuary of a tight-knit community, and the hope of second chances.”—Amy E. Reichert, author of The Coincidence of Coconut Cake  GUEST: Colleen Oakley is the USA Today bestselling author of You Were There Too, Close Enough to Touch and Before I Go. Her books have been named best books by People, Us Weekly, Library Journal and Real Simple, and have been long-listed for the Southern Book Prize. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband, four kids and the world's biggest lapdog. HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and co-editor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.  

R.G. Belsky is an author of crime fiction and a journalist in New York City. His new suspense thriller, BEYOND THE HEADLINES, is the 4th in the New York TV journalist Clare Carlson series. He is also the author of the Gil Malloy series about a New York City tabloid newspaper reporter. Belsky is a former metropolitan editor of the New York Post, managing editor of the New York Daily News, news editor of Star magazine and - most recently - was managing editor for news at NBCnews.com. He is currently a contributing editor to The Big Thrill magazine. Matt Coyle is the author of the Anthony, Shamus and lefty Award-winning Rick Cahill crime series.

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with novelist De'Shawn Charles Winslow, author of In West Mills, winner of the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction (2021), an American Book Award (2020), and the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize (2019).  "In West Mills is remarkable in its ability to create a fully realized world, the kind that feels like you must have visited before, a place where you'd happily spend all your time.... Winslow's writing is full of compassion and wit and generosity; he skillfully weaves together a story of the power of love and friendship, and their ability to redeem even the most troubled souls. This is the kind of book that leaves you smiling, with faith in humanity, and in art's ability to be gracious and redemptive."--Nylon "Winslow’s stellar debut follows the residents of a black neighborhood in a tiny North Carolina town over the course of several decades . . . Winslow has a finely tuned ear for the way the people of this small town talk, and his unpretentiously poetic prose goes down like a cool drink of water on a hot day."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review GUEST: De’Shawn Charles Winslow was born and raised in Elizabeth City, NC. He holds an MFA and BFA in creative writing, and an MA in English literature. De'Shawn has received scholarships from the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He lives in the New York. HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and co-editor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.  

Caitlin Rother has written or co-authored 14 books and several Kindle ebooks. As a Pulitzer-nominated investigative journalist, Rother worked nearly 20 years for daily newspapers. Drawing from decades of watchdog reporting on topics ranging from addiction to suicide, mental illness, murder, government, and political corruption, she has written books full-time since 2006. A popular speaker, she appears regularly on TV and radio as a true crime expert. As a private narrative non-fiction writing coach, she helps aspiring and published authors to shape, write, research, and promote their books. She also works as a research consultant. She loves to go ocean swimming, and sings and plays keyboards in the acoustic group, breakingthecode.Her latest book, DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case investigates the the traumatic events that occured in July of 2011 at the Spreckels mansion that resulted in two tragic deaths. Matt Coyle is the Anthony, Shamus and Lefty Award-winning author of the RIck Cahill crime series.

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with naturalist Susan Cerulean, author of the memoir I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird. "In her tender and wise memoir chronicling both her end-of-life care for her octogenarian father and her stewardship of seabirds on an isolated Florida island, Susan Cerulean brings to the fore the responsibilities and rewards of bearing witness to and advocating for delicate lives in transition. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird is both elegy and call to action, a beautiful remembrance of a life now gone from this earth and an impassioned plea to serve as caregivers to that same earth and its myriad creatures."--Southern Review of Books GUEST: Susan Cerulean is a writer, naturalist, and activist based in Tallahassee, Florida. Her nature memoir Tracking Desire: A Journey after Swallow-tailed Kites (Georgia) was named an Editors' Choice title by Audubon magazine. Her many other books include UnspOILed: Writers Speak for Florida's Coast, coedited with Janisse Ray and A. James Wohlpart, and Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf, coedited with Janisse Ray and Laura Newton. She is a founding member and former director of the Red Hills Writers Project and was named Environmental Educator of the Year by the Governor's Council for a Sustainable Florida. HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and co-editor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.  

Allison Brennan is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling and award winning author of three dozen thrillers and numerous short stories. She was nominated for Best Paperback Original Thriller by International Thriller Writers, had multiple nominations and two Daphne du Maurier Awards, and is a five-time RITA finalist for Best Romantic Suspense. Allison believes life is too short to be bored, so she had five kids and spends all her non-writing time as a sports spectator, chauffeur, and short-order cook for her munchkins. She has a dog, two cats, and three chickens. Allison and her family live in Arizona. Matt Coyle is the award-winning author of the Rick Cahill crime series.

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with Estelle Ford-Williamson, author of the recently published novel Rising Fawn. “A routine case of identity fraud takes a young woman on a shocking journey of self-discovery, where she’s forced to uncover a tangled skein of family secrets that will change the course of her life. Her journey, which begins in the modern world of corporate business, takes her deep into a wild and primitive landscape that carries its own mysteries and dark secrets. Rich in detail, poetic imagery, and fast-paced narrative, Rising Fawn is the kind of book that keeps you turning pages late into the night.”—Cassandra King GUEST: Estelle Ford-Williamson is a novelist and memoirist whose most recent book, set in Rising Fawn, GA, has won awards from the Sandhills Writers Conference and the Atlanta Writers Conference. Her previous books were Abbeville Farewell: A Novel of Early Atlanta and North Georgia, and Seed of South Sudan: Memoir of a Lost Boy Refugee, written with Majok Marier. She has received Poets and Writers grants for readings and workshops in Atlanta and New York, and has presented memoir workshops through the Pat Conroy Literary Center, as well as for the Lou Walker Senior Center in DeKalb County, GA. A short story drawn from Rising Fawn was a finalist for the Short Story America Festival in 2017. Born in Chattanooga, TN, Ford-Williamson graduated from Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN and worked as a reporter for UPI in Atlanta. She moved to the SC Lowcountry in 2016. HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and co-editor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.  

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes cardiovascular doctor Antonio Gomes about his romance book and more. António aka Anthony Gomes is a Professor of Medicine at The Mount Sinai Medical Center, NYC. He has published more than 150 articles in Cardiovascular Medicine and two textbooks of Cardiology, Signal Averaged Electrocardiography: Basic Concepts Methods and Application  and Heart Rhythm Disorders . He has also published articles in the humanities in anthologies, books, newspapers, and magazines; two books of poetry entitled Visions from Grymes Hill  and Mirrored Reflections ); and three novels, The Sting of Peppercorns ; Nas Garras Do Destino ; and Have A Heart .  ABOUT HAVE A HEART: mAY 1998, Ali and his mother attend the premiere of the ballet Swan Lake at the Metropolitan Opera House, where Anna, the Russian ballerina, is making her American Ballet Theatre debut as Odette/Odile. While dancing in the ballet, suddenly and unexpectedly, Anna, the Swan Queen, collapses, and the story begins. The next day, Dr. Ali is called to consult on Anna. He finds her in heart failure due to weakness of her heart muscle. Anna undergoes a barrage of tests and is crushed that her dancing days are over. During Anna’s hospital stay, and subsequently, Anna and Ali, take a liking to each other and when her heart condition improves, they became lovers.  Several months later, Ali meets Nancy, an investment analyst who works at the World Trade Center. He remains torn for his concern for Anna’s health and his blossoming relationship with Nancy. In Have A Heart, Gomes explores the intertwined romantic and professional lives of three individuals. @copyrighted  Listen on your favorite podcast app.

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with novelist Tina McElroy Ansa and journalist Wanda S. Lloyd, editors of Meeting at the Table: African American Women Write on Race, Culture, and Community.  GUESTS: Tina McElroy Ansa is the author of five award-winning novels, including Baby of the Family, The Hand I Fan With, Ugly Ways and You Know Better. In 2004, she founded the Sea Island Writers Retreat, and in 2007, she founded DownSouth Press, which published her fifth novel, Taking After Mudear. Ansa has been honored with he Bebe Moore Campbell Memorial Award of the National Book Club Conference and the Stanley W. Lindberg Award for contributions to the literary arts of Georgia. SIn 2011, Ansa was awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts from her alma mater Spelman College.  Wanda S. Lloyd is author of the memoir Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism. A retired newspaper editor with experience at seven daily newspapers, including The Washington Post and USA Today, Lloyd grew up in Savannah. She retired from daily journalism in 2013 as executive editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, and accepted the position of chair and associate professor of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications at Savannah State University. In 2019 Lloyd was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists Hall of Fame. She served on the Board of Trustees at Spelman College, her alma mater, for almost 20 years. In 2016, Spelman awarded her the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters. HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and co-editor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.  

David Putnam is the author of the bestselling Bruno Johnson thrillers. During his law enforcement career, Dave worked primarily in California on teams for Patrol, Investigations, SWAT, Narcotics (street level and majors), Violent Crimes, Criminal Intelligence, Internal Affairs and the Detective Bureau. He rounded out his law enforcement career with a few years in the Hawaiian Islands as a Special Agent–part of a real-life “Hawaii-50” team. He’s now retired from law enforcement and spends his time growing organic California avocados and writing, with his wife Mary and their three dogs. THE RUTHLESS is his eight Bruno Johnson novel. Matt Coyle is the bestselling author of the Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning Rick Cahill crime series. This podcast is solely owned by the Auhtors on the Air Global Radio Network.

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with novelist Heather Bell Adams, author of The Good Luck Stone.  ““The Good Luck Stone is a taut and lyrical literary thriller that I found difficult to put down. This novel immerses us expertly in the high society world of modern Savannah and the tropical heat of the Philippines during World War II, both anchored by an endearing character you’ll never forget, caught up in an intricate plot that will keep the pages turning long into the night. Heather Bell Adams is a truly gifted novelist.” --Silas House, author of Southernmost GUEST: Heather Bell Adams’ first novel, Maranatha Road , won the gold medal for the Southeast region in the Independent Publisher Book Awards and was selected for Deep South Magazine’s Fall/Winter Reading List. Her second novel, The Good Luck Stone, appears on Summer Reading Lists for Deep South Magazine, Writer’s Bone, The Big Other and Buzz Feed. Her short fiction, which has won the James Still Fiction Prize and Carrie McCray Memorial Literary Award, appears in The Thomas Wolfe Review, Atticus Review, Pembroke Magazine, Broad River Review, Clapboard House, Gravel, The Petigru Review, Pisgah Review, and elsewhere. Heather lives in Raleigh, NC. She works as a lawyer and volunteers on the Raleigh Review fiction staff. HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and co-editor of Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy.  

Julie Slavinsky is the Director of Events for Warwick’s Bookstore. She has been in the book business for sixteen years, has been with Warwick’s for eleven of those, ten of them as the Director of Events.  She was born and raised in Los Angeles, has a Bachelor of Arts degree from San Diego State University and has called San Diego home since 1979. Her passion is reading, and connecting readers and authors. Matt Coyle is the Anthony, Shamus and Lefty Award-sinning author of the Rick Cahill crime series. This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned soley by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. 

Jeff Dotseth has over 20 years of sports radio broadcasting experience having hosted shows in the premium morning and afternoon drive time slot for multiple San Diego and Los Angeles stations, as well as "College Football Saturdays" heard nationally on Fox Sports Radio.   Dotseth developed and hosted "Clinch Gear Radio" for SiriusXM and the Armed Forces Radio network. Jeff is involved with numerous charities including The Alpha Project, Rancho Coastal Humane Society and The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He's also on the board for the local Chapter of USA Boxing. He lives in San Diego with his sons Cade and Jack.   Matt Coyle is bestselling author of the Rick Cahill crime series. His books have won the Anthony, Shamus, Lefty, Ben Franklin Silver and San Diego books awards. His latest Rick Cahill novel , BLIND VIGIL, was just released December 1st.  

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with Cinelle Barnes, Ivelisse Rodriguez, and Natalia Sylvester, the editor and two of the contributing writers to A Measure of Belonging: Twenty-One Writers of Color on the New American South, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book published by Hub City Press in Spartanburg, South Carolina, with sales supporting the Southern Poverty Law Center.       ABOUT A MEASURE OF BELONGING: Assembled by editor and essayist Cinelle Barnes, essays in A Measure of Belonging acknowledge that from the DMV to the college basketball court to doctors' offices, there are no shortage of places of tension in the American South. Urgent, necessary, funny, and poignant, these essays from new and established voices confront the complexities of the South's relationship with race, uncovering the particular difficulties and profound joys of being a Southerner in the 21st century. This collection celebrates the incredible diversity in the contemporary South by featuring essays by twenty-one of the finest young writers of color living and working in the region today.   "Sharp and witty, this collection shows that there are many different ways to live, breathe, thrive and be a person who belongs in the South." --Bookpage, starred review

Gary Phillips is the son of a mechanic and a librarian, weaned on too many comic books, Dashiell Hammett, reruns of the original Twilight Zone, and experiences ranging from community organizer, delivering dog cages to running a political action committee. He has published various novels, written comics, penned over seventy short stories and edited or co-edited several anthologies including the Anthony-winning The Obama Inheritance: Fifteen Stories of Conspiracy Noir. He was a story editor on the FX cable show "Snowfall," about crack and the CIA in 1980s South Central where he grew up. His latest novel is Matthew Henson and the Ice Temple of Harlem. Matt Coyle is the author of the Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning Rick Cahill crime series. This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.

Sylvia Shults is the author of 44 Years in Darkness, Fractured Spirits: Hauntings at the Peoria State Hospital, and other books of true ghost stories. She has spent the past twenty years working in a library, slowly smuggling words out in her pockets day by day to build a book of her own. She sits in dark, spooky, haunted places so you don't have to. She lives a short, ten-minute motorcycle ride away from the haunted asylum that features in so many of her books. She considers it the highest privilege to share the incredible, compassionate history of the Peoria State Hospital. After battling an intense, lifelong fear of the dark, Sylvia decided to become a ghost hunter. (What WAS she thinking?) As a paranormal investigator, she has made many media appearances, including a tiny part in the Ghost Hunters episode "Prescription for Fear", about the Peoria State Hospital. She is also the writer, director, producer, and host of the true ghost story podcast Lights Out, available on YouTube, iTunes, iHeart Radio, Spotify, and anywhere else great podcasts are found. Tonight Sylvia is here to talk about her book, The Spirits of Christmas: The Dark Side of the Holidays. Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming guests on Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! by visiting Tamara and Alistair at their websites: alistaircross.com and tamarathorne.com

Authors on the Air is proud to present this exclusive IN CONVERSATION event featuring guest host author Matt Phillips and guest author Lee matthew Goldberg. Matt Phillips was born in Palm Springs, California and raised in the Coachella Valley and nearby Mojave High Desert. He lives in San Diego. His books include Countdown, Know Me from Smoke, The Bad Kind of Lucky, Accidental Outlaws, Three Kinds of Fool, Redbone, and Bad Luck City. Short fiction has appeared in Mystery Tribune, Yellow Mama, Shotgun Honey, Flash Fiction Offensive, Tough Crime, Near to the Knuckle, Powder Burn Flash, Pulp Metal Magazine, Manslaughter Review, and Fried Chicken and Coffee.  Matt earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Texas at El Paso.  His debut collection of poetry, Journeyman Vagabond Gadabout, is available from CW Books.    For more see https://www.mattphillipswriter.com/  Lee Matthew Goldberg is the author of the novels The Ancestor,  Sloe Down, The Mentor from St. Martin’s Press, and The Desire Card.  He has been published in multiple languages and nominated for the 2018 Prix du Polar.  He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Fringe,and  is the co-curator of The Guerrilla Lit Reading Series and lives in New York City. Follow him at LeeMatthewGoldberg.com @Copyrighted

Author and host Matt Coyle of Crime Corner welcome author Andrea Carter to the studio.   Andrea Carter grew up in Laois and studied law at Trinity College Dublin, before moving to the Inishowen peninsula in Co. Donegal where she ran the most northerly solicitors’ practice in the country. In 2006 she returned to Dublin to work as a barrister before turning to write crime novels.     She is the author of the Inishowen Mysteries, most recently Murder at Greysbridge and The Body Falls. Her books are published by Little, Brown in the UK, Goldmann Verlag in Germany, Oceanview in the US and will shortly be adapted for television. Filming is due to begin in Donegal next summer.  The Sunday Times has said ‘Carter excels in re-creating the cloistered, gossipy confines of a small Irish village…the Inishowen community where everybody knows everybody else’s business is a fine stand-in for the mannered drawing room society of a Christie mystery.’  Learn more at https://andreacarterbooks.com/ Matt Coyle is the award-winning author of the Rick Cahill P.I. Series, The next installment, BLIND VIGIL is available for pre-order now at https://amzn.to/3eoluCF.  Learn more about Matt at https://mattcoylebooks.com/ @copyrighted        

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes M.E. (Micki) Browning to the studio.  This second visit with Micki is all about her new brand and new book SHADOW RIDGE.    Micki Browning writes the Jo Wyatt Mysteries and the Agatha-nominated and award-winning Mer Cavallo Mysteries (as Micki Browning). An FBI National Academy graduate, Micki worked in municipal law enforcement for more than two decades and retired as a captain. Micki also writes short stories and nonfiction. Her work has appeared in dive magazines, anthologies, mystery magazines, and textbooks. She is a professional divemaster and owns a vast array of scuba equipment she uses for "research".   About SHADOW RIDGE:  Echo Valley, Colorado, is a place where the natural beauty of a stunning river valley meets a budding hipster urbanity. But when an internet stalker is revealed to be a cold-blooded killer in real life the peaceful community is rocked to its core.   It should have been an open-and-shut case: the suicide of Tye Horton, the designer of a cutting-edge video game. But Detective Jo Wyatt is immediately suspicious of Quinn Kirkwood, who reported the death. When Quinn reveals an internet stalker is terrorizing her, Jo is skeptical. Doubts aside, she delves into the claim and uncovers a link that ties Quinn to a small group of beta-testers who had worked with Horton. When a second member of the group dies in a car accident, Jo’s investigation leads her to the father of a young man who had killed himself a year earlier. But there’s more to this case than a suicide, and as Jo unearths the layers, a more sinister pattern begins to emerge–one driven by desperation, shame, and a single-minded drive for revenge.  As Jo closes in, she edges ever closer to the shattering truth–and a deadly showdown that will put her to the ultimate test.      @copyrighted

The Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network proudly present executive director Jonathan Haupt in conversation with award-winning writer John Lane, author of the newly published novel Whose Woods These Are. GUEST: A 2014 inductee in the South Carolina Academy of Authors (the Palmetto State’s Literary Hall of Fame), environmentalist, memoirist, poet, and novelist John Lane is one of the founders of the Hub City Writers Project in Spartanburg, SC. Lane attended Wofford College, the Breadloaf School of English, and Bennington College. Among his many book awards, his selected poems Abandoned Quarry won the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Alliance Poetry Book Award, his nonfiction book Coyote Settles the South was named a finalist and a Nature Book of Uncommon Merit by the John Burroughs Society, and his novel Fate Moreland’s Widow (published by Pat Conroy’s Story River Books) was named Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medalist. His second novel, Whose Woods These Are, is newly published by Mercer University Press. Lane is also a contributing writer to Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy and to State of the Heart: South Carolina Writers on the Places They Love. He recently retired as professor of environmental studies and director of the Goodall Center for Environmental Studies at Wofford College.   HOST: Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Conroy, named by Garden & Gun Magazine as one of "the top ten things to love about the South."  Lean more at www.patconroyliterarycenter.org Copyrighted.  

Michael Schutz was born and raised in the frozen tundra of Wisconsin, where the macabre tales of Ray Bradbury and Stephen King kept him warm at night. He’s seen way too many horror movies to be healthy. He is the author of the novels Plank Children, Edging, and Blood Vengeance. His short fiction has been featured in Crossroads in the Dark II,III, and IV, Ravenwood Quarterly, Dark Moon Digest, and Sanitarium. He lives with his naughty cat-children in northern California. You can keep tabs on him at http://michaelschutzfiction.com Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming guests on Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! by visiting Tamara and Alistair at their websites: alistaircross.com and tamarathorne.com This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio, LLC.    

Authors on the Air is proud to present author Jeff Crawford IN CONVERSATION with Reavis Wortham. About Rev and his books: Author Reavis Z. Wortham's first novel, The Rock Hole, is described by Kirkus Reviews as "an unpretentious gem written to the hilt and harrowing in its unpredictability." Kirkus also listed it as one of the "Top 12 Mysteries of 2011."  Reavis also penned Doreen's 24 HR Eat Gas Now Café. More than 2,500 newspaper and magazine articles bear the byline of this award-winning Texas writer. The Rock Hole was a finalist in the prestigious Benjamin Franklin Award presented by the Independent Book Publishers Association, is a member of Mystery Writers of America, the Writers' League of Texas, International Association of Crime Writers (North American Branch), and International Thriller Writers.  Host author Jeff Crawford is former cowboy, proud Scott, still outdoorsman, constant writer of suspense--thrillers--twists & turns.  Learn more here https://www.facebook.com/jeff.crawford.5283 LISTEN TO THIS INTERVIEW ON YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST APP OR GO TO www.soundcloud.com/authorsontheair. @copyrighted

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes author Gloria Nagy to the studio. GLORIA NAGY is the internationally best-selling author of twelve books including The Beauty, Remain Calm, Looking For Leo, SeaSick, Marriage, and the New York Times best-seller, A House in the Hamptons. She Lives with her husband Richard Saul Wurman in Miami, FL. They have four children, six grandchildren and a yellow lab, Jacob. About PEOPLE DIE IN SUNSHINE:  People Die in Sunshine is the carnival ride through the externally glamorous, but internally twisted lives of those two people, Frederick and Coco Rothenstein and their world; one most of us only know about from reading true crime stories and news accounts of the lives of the super-rich and entitled dwellers in the bastions of wealth and privilege where families such as the Rothensteins reign. The first four words of Gloria Nagy's scorching, ironic tale of greed, glamour, envy, avarice and the Janus headed coin of love and hate are: "Money. Money. Money. Money." What Ms. Nagy accomplishes in a work of humor, heartbreak, murder, and redemption reinforces those four words. A theme reflecting the world we have created that rises and falls with the same quite simple motivation that has driven every facet of human life since man stood upright. It is not the world we want to see, but it is the real world and where better to set a novel that is as much a social chronicle of our times as it is a gripping tale of the maze like search for a killer, than Miami. @copyrighted.  Support for this podcast is provided by Author-Guide David Invester, with our gratitude.

Originally from a small town in Northern California, Holly West moved to the big city to attend Loyola Marymount University, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Screenwriting. After shoving a few unproduced scripts in the proverbial desk drawer, she succumbed to her baser instincts and turned to writing crime fiction. She’s the author of the Mistress of Fortune series, set in late 17th century London and featuring amateur sleuth Isabel Wilde, a mistress to King Charles II who secretly makes her living as a fortuneteller. The first in the series, Mistress of Fortune, was published by Harlequin’s Carina Press in February 2014 and was nominated for the Left Coast Crime Rosebud Award for Best First Novel in 2015. Holly’s short stories appear online and in numerous anthologies, including The Big Book of Jack the Ripper, Unloaded, and Killing Malmon. Her short fiction has been honored with Anthony Award nominations three times, including her latest published story, “The Best Laid Plans,” which appears in Florida Happens, the 2018 Bouchercon anthology (September 2018). Her latest novella, The Money Block, came out in March. Holly’s also the editor of Murder-A-Go-Go’s, a crime fiction anthology inspired by the music of The Go-Go’s.  Holly lives in Northern California with her husband, Mick, and dogs, Stella and Brando. She’s a member of the Mystery Writers of America, for which she edits the Southern California chapter’s newsletter. She’s also a member of Sisters in Crime and was formerly on the Local Organizing Committee of Bouchercon 2020 Sacramento, where she served as registrar and webmaster. Matt Coyle is the author of the Anthoney, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning Rick Cahill crime series.

Robert Masello is an award-winning journalist, television writer, and the bestselling author of many books. His produced television credits have aired on networks ranging from CBS to Showtime, Fox to Syfy, and include such popular shows as “Charmed,” “Sliders,” “Poltergeist: the Legacy,” and “Early Edition.” His latest novel, The Haunting of H.G. Wells, is available now.  Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming guests on Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! by visiting Tamara and Alistair at their websites: alistaircross.com and tamarathorne.com This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio, LLC.

Authors on the Air is proud to present award-winning author (and former cop) Bruce Robert Coffin IN CONVERSATION with New York Times best-selling author Craig Johnson. Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve Walt Longmire mystery novels, which are the basis for Longmire, the hit Netflix original drama.   He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for fiction, and his novella Spirit of Steamboat was the first One Book Wyoming selection. He lives in Ucross, Wyoming, population twenty-five. The books are set in northern Wyoming, where Longmire is sheriff of the fictional county of Absaroka. The series debuted in 2004 and as of September 2019, Johnson has written 15 novels, two novellas, and many short stories featuring Longmire.  for more information go to www.craigallenjohnson.com Author Bruce Robert Coffin is the award-winning author of the bestselling Detective Byron mystery series. A former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine's largest city. Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Bruce spent four years investigating counter-terrorism cases for the FBI, earning the Director's Award, the highest award a non-agent can receive.   His novel, Beyond the Truth, winner of Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion Award for Best Procedural, was a finalist for the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel and a finalist for the Maine Literary Award for Best Crime Fiction. His short fiction appears in several anthologies, including Best Americann Mystery Stories 2016. @copyrighted.  Listen to this podcast on Spotify/authorsontheair, or www;.soundcloud.com/authorsontheair or your favorite app.

LIVE from the Pat Conroy Literary Center and the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.  Executive Director Jonathan Haupt is IN CONVERSATION with Pushcart winner, writer Valeria Sayers.  Val is a 2 time Pushcart Prize recipient for short fiction, a SC Academy of Authors honoree, author of six novels (two of which were adapted into a film), and author of the new story collection The Age of Infidelity, which we'll be discussing. She was a Beaufort High School psychology student of Pat Conroy's and she's a contributing writer to Our Prince of Scribes and a member of the Conroy Center board of directors. Valerie Sayers is the author of six critically acclaimed novels: The Powers, Brain Fever, The Distance Between Us, Who Do You Love, How I Got Him Back, and Due East. Her stories, essays, and reviews have appeared the New York Times, Washington Post, Commonweal, Agni, Zoetrope: All-Story, Ploughshares, Image, Witness, and many other magazines and anthologies. Her literary honors include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature and two Pushcart Prizes for stories, as well as appearances on several “Notable Books of the Year” lists, including the New York Times Book Review. Born and raised in Beaufort, South Carolina, which became the thinly-disguised Due East of much of her fiction, Sayers was educated at Fordham and Columbia and lived for many years in Brooklyn with her husband, Christian Jara, and their two sons. In 1993, she joined the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame, where she is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English. Host Jonathann Haupt is the executive director of the Pat Conroy Literary Center. @copyrighted  Listen on Spotify/authorsotheair Soundcloud.    

Originally from central Indiana, thriller and mystery author August Norman has called Los Angeles home for two decades, writing for and/or appearing in movies, television, stage productions, web series, and even, commercial advertising. A lover and champion of crime fiction, August is an active member of the Mystery Writers of America, the International Thriller Writers, the Sisters in Crime (National and LA), and regularly attends the Santa Barbara Writer's Conference. For more info: augustnorman.com August's debut thriller, Come and Get Me was included in Suspense Magazine's Best of 2019 Awards in the Debut category. The second Caitlin Bergman Novel, Sins of the Mother, was released on Sept. 8. Matt Coyle is the Anthony, Shamus, and Lefty Award-winning author of the Rick Cahill crime series. This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio  

DANIEL KRAUS is a New York Times bestselling author. With Guillermo del Toro, he co-authored The Shape of Water, based on the same idea the two created for the Oscar-winning film. Also with del Toro, Kraus co-authored Trollhunters, which was adapted into the Emmy-winning Netflix series. Kraus’s The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch was named one of Entertainment Weekly‘s Top 10 Books of the Year, and he has won two Odyssey Awards (for both Rotters and Scowler) and has been a Library Guild selection, YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults, Bram Stoker finalist, and more. Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming guests on Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! by visiting Tamara and Alistair at their websites: alistaircross.com and tamarathorne.com This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio, LLC.  

A New York Times bestseller since his first publication at the age of twenty-two, Christopher Rice is the author of BONE MUSIC (an Amazon Charts bestseller and the first novel in the Burning Girl series) and its sequel, BLOOD ECHO, as well as the Bram Stoker finalists THE HEAVENS RISE and THE VINES. BLOOD VICTORY, his third Burning Girl novel releases in August 2020. He is an executive producer on the television adaptation of The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, and he also collaborated with her on RAMSES THE DAMNED: THE PASSION OF CLEOPATRA, a sequel to her phenomenally popular novel THE MUMMY OR RAMSES THE DAMNED. Together with his best friend and producing partner, New York Times bestselling novelist, Eric Shaw Quinn, he runs the podcast and video network, TDPS, which you can find at www.thedinnerpartyshow.com. Learn more about Christopher at www.christopherricebooks.com. Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming guests on Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! by visiting Tamara and Alistair at their websites: alistaircross.com and tamarathorne.com This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio, LLC.  

  The Pat Conroy Literary Center presents executive director Jonathan Haupt IN CONVERSATION with best-selling author Laura Trentham. This from Laura:  I was born and raised in a small town in Northwest Tennessee. Although, I loved English and reading in high school, I was convinced an English degree equated to starvation! So, I chose the next most logical major - Chemical Engineering- and worked in a hard hat and steel toed boots for several years. Now I live in South Carolina with my husband and two children. In between school and homework and soccer practices, I love to get lost in another world, whether it's Regency England or small town Alabama.    My first two Falcon Football books received TOP PICKS from RT Book Reviews and a STARRED review from Library Journal. KISS ME THAT WAY, won the Stiletto Contest and was a finalist for the National Readers Choice Award. THEN HE KISSED ME, was named an Amazon Best Romance of 2016. TILL I KISSED YOU Book 3, is a finalist for the Maggie Award. And, LEAVE THE NIGHT ON Book 4, was named an iBooks Best Book of August and was featured on NPR! ​WHEN THE STARS COME OUT was named a Best Romance of February by Amazon! About Jonathan:  Jonathan Haupt is the executive director of the nonprofit Conroy Center and the former director of the University of South Carolina Press, where he created the Story River Books fiction imprint with Pat Conroy. About the Pat Conroy Literary Center:  https://patconroyliterarycenter.org/about/ @copyrighted  Listen on your favorite podcast app or at www.soundcloud.com/authorsontheair

Authors on the Air is proud to welcome best-selling author Reece Hirsch to the studio for this special IN CONVERSATION broadcast with author Chad Zunker. About Reece: Reece Hirsch is the author of six thrillers that draw upon his background as a privacy attorney. His first book, The Insider, was a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel. Dark Tomorrow, the second book in a series featuring FBI cybercrime investigator Lisa Tanchik, will be published by Thomas & Mercer on May 12. His three prior books, The Adversary, Intrusion, and Surveillance, all feature former Department of Justice cybercrime prosecutor Chris Bruen. Hirsch is a partner in the San Francisco office of an international law firm and co-chair of its privacy and cybersecurity practice.  About Chad:  CHAD ZUNKER is the author of the David Adams legal thriller, An Equal Justice, as well as The Tracker, Shadow Shepherd, and Hunt the Lion in his Sam Callahan series. Chad has worked for some of the country's most powerful law firms and serves at Community First! Village, a 51-acre master planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for men and women coming out of chronic homelessness. He lives in Austin with his wife, Katie, and their three daughters, and is hard at work on his next novel. @copyrighted  Listen to all of our podcasts at www.soundcloud.com/authorsontheair or onn your favorite podcast app  

Authors on the Air presents this exclusive IN CONVERSATION interview with guest host author GABINO IGLESIAS (Coyote Songs) and JOSH MALERMAN (Bird Box). About Gabino:  Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, journalist, and book reviewer living in Austin, Texas. He is the author of COYOTE SONGS, ZERO SAINTS (both from Broken River Books), and GUTMOUTH (Eraserhead Press). He is the book reviews editor at PANK Magazine, the TV/film editor at Entropy Magazine, and a columnist for LitReactor and CLASH Media. His nonfiction has appeared in places like The New York Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the LA Times, El Nuevo Día, and other venues.  About Josh:  Josh Malerman is an American author and also one of two singer/songwriters for the rock band The High Strung, whose song "The Luck You Got" can be heard as the theme song to the Showtime show "Shameless." His book Bird Box is also currently being filmed as a feature film starring Sandra Bullock, John Malkovich, and Sarah Paulson. Bird Box was also nominated for the Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the James Herbert Award. His books Black Mad Wheel and Goblin have also been nominated for Stoker Awards. @copyrighted. Listen on your favorite podcast app or check out all of our interviews on www.soundcloud.com/authorsontheair

Before his thrillers landed him on The New York TimesBestseller list, Kevin O’Brien was a railroad inspector who worked all the live long day and wrote novels at night. His job took him all over the Pacific Northwest, and he wrote most of his first novel in Best Westerns and Red Lions. The result, ACTORS was translated into three languages. Kevin’s second book, ONLY SON was optioned for film rights thanks to interest from Tom Hanks. ONLY SON was also chosen by Reader’s Digest for their Select Editions—alongside John Grisham’s THE PARTNER. His first thriller, THE NEXT TO DIE became a USA Today Bestseller. Three more USA Today bestselling thrillers followed, and then came THE LAST VICTIM which hit the New York Times Bestseller list and won the Spotted Owl Award for Best Pacific Northwest Mystery. Kevin has continued to turn out New York Times best-selling thrillers and is on the board of Seattle 7 Writers, a collective of bestselling, award-winning authors, dedicated to supporting literacy, writing and education. Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming guests on Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! or visit Tamara and Alistair at their websites: alistaircross.com tamarathorne.com This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio.

Matt Ruff is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning novels 88 Names, Lovecraft Country, Bad Monkeys, The Mirage, Set This House in Order, Fool on the Hill, and Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy. He lives in Seattle, Washington. Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming guests on Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! by visiting Tamara and Alistair at their websites: alistaircross.com and tamarathorne.com This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio, LLC.  

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes award-winning author Jenny Milchman to the studio. Jenny is a suspense writer from New York State, who lived for fifteen months on the road with her family on what Shelf Awareness called “the world’s longest book tour.”  Jenny’s debut novel, COVER OF SNOW, was acquired by Random House. It won the Mary Higgins Clark award, was praised by the New York Times, and chosen as an Indie Next and Target Pick. RUIN FALLS was chosen as an Indie Next Pick.  Jenny’s third novel, AS NIGHT FALLS was chosen as an Indie Next Pick and a Pure WOW Summer Read and is currently in development as a film. Jenny's fourth novel, WICKED RIVER, was chosen as an Indie Next Pick and one of Strand Magazine's Best of the Year. Her fifth novel, THE SECOND MOTHER, releases summer 2020. About The Second Mother:   Julie Weathers isn't sure if she's running away or starting over, but moving to a remote island off the coast of Maine feels right for someone with reasons to flee her old life. The sun-washed, sea-stormed speck of land seems welcoming, the lobster plentiful, and the community close and tightly knit. She finds friends in her nearest neighbor and Callum, a man who appears to be using the island for the same thing as she: escape.  But as Julie takes on the challenge of teaching the island's children, she comes to suspect that she may have traded one place shrouded in trouble for another, and she begins to wonder if the greatest danger on Mercy Island is its lost location far out to sea, or the people who live there. @Copyrighted.  Listen on your favorite podcast app.      

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes international best-selling author Karen Dionne to the studio. Karen Dionne is the USA Today and #1 international bestselling author of The Marsh King’s Daughter, a psychological suspense novel set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula wilderness published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in the U.S. and in 25 other languages. Her next psychological suspense novel, The Wicked Sister, will publish August 4, 2020. Karen has been active in the writing community for over twenty years. She co-founded the online writers community Backspace, organized the Backspace Writers Conferences in New York and the Salt Cay, Bahamas Writers Retreat, and served on the board of directors of the International Thriller Writers.  Learn more here www.karendionne.com About The Wicked Sister:  For a decade and a half, Rachel Cunningham has chosen to lock herself away in a psychiatric facility, tortured by gaps in her memory and the certainty that she is responsible for her parents’ deaths. But when she learns new details about their murders, Rachel returns to the place where she once felt safest in a quest for answers: her family’s sprawling log cabin in the remote forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. As Rachel begins to uncover what really happened on the day her parents were murdered, she learns that home can be a place of unspeakable evil, and that the bond she shares with her sister might be the most poisonous of all. @copyrighted  

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes New York Times best-selling author Christopher Reich to the studio. About Chris:  Christopher 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 lives in Encinitas, California.  Full bio here:  https://christopherreich.com/bio/ About The Palace:  Life is good for Rafael de Bourbon. The forty-year-old Spaniard recently married to a wealthy English beauty, and is days away from opening a luxury boutique hotel off the southern coast of Thailand. But when the Royal Thai Police storm the hotel and arrest him for blackmail and extortion, "Rafa" is thrown into Bangkok's most notorious jail. In desperation, he reaches out to the one man who can prove his innocence.  Simon Riske, ex-con and now "private spy," owes Rafa his life. Once he and De Bourbon were the closest of friends, until a woman came between them. Riske rushes to Bangkok to secure his friend's release and overnight, finds himself caught up in a web of intrigue larger and more dangerous than he could imagine. In hours, it is Riske who finds himself the wanted man.  On the run in a foreign country, pursued by powerful unseen forces who will stop at nothing until he is killed, Riske must stay alive long enough to uncover the truth behind an international conspiracy that threatens to wreak carnage across the glittering capitals of Europe. https://amzn.to/3kdYNn9 @copyrighted  Listen on your favorite podcast app.

Danielle Girard is the USA Today and Amazon #1 bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Exhume, book 1 in the Dr. Schwartzman Series, and Chasing Darkness, as well as The Rookie Club series. Her books have won the Barry Award and the RT Reviewers' Choice Award, and two of her titles have been optioned for movies. Her brand new thriller, WHITE OUT, is the first in a new series.    She and her husband split time between San Francisco and the Northern Rockies.  Matt Coyle is the Shamus, Athony, and Lefty award winning author of the Rick Cahill Series.

Samantha Downing is the author of the bestselling My Lovely Wife, nominated for the Edgar, ITW, and Macavity awards for Best Debut Novel. Amazon Studios and Nicole Kidman's Blossom Films have partnered to produce a feature film based on the novel. Her second book, He Started It, was released on July 21, 2020. She currently lives in New Orleans, where she is furiously typing away on her next thriller. Join the Thorne & Cross newsletter for updates, book deals, specials, exclusives, and upcoming guests on Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights LIVE! by visiting Tamara and Alistair at their websites: alistaircross.com and tamarathorne.com This is a copyrighted, trademarked podcast owned solely by the Authors on the Air Global Radio, LLC.