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Matthew Pearl interview – Episode 224 Reading & Writing podcast

The 224th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Chamber, The Last Bookaneer, The Poe Shadow, The Last Dickens, and many other novels.

Matthew Pearl, novelist

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The Dante Chamber novel by Matthew Pearl

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William Schaill interview – Episode 223 Reading & Writing podcast

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The 223nd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with William Schaill, author of the mystery novel DEATH OF A SIREN and many other novels.

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Jennifer Foehner Wells interview – Episode 222 Reading & Writing podcast

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The 222nd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Jennifer Foehner Wells, author of the Confluence series.

Jen was born in 1972 and was raised primarily in rural areas surrounding Highland, Illinois. She grew up reading voraciously and was turned on to science fiction at a young age when a family friend lent her a compilation of Ray Bradbury’s short stories as well as John Wyndham’s The Day of the Triffids, among many other great works of the genre. In 1995 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Monmouth College, Illinois.

After graduation Wells worked as a lab technician in an animal disease diagnostic lab and as the assistant store manager of a locally owned greenhouse, before stopping work outside the home to raise children.

As her children got older, Wells made use of her spare time to pursue hobby writing, particularly a novel length fan fiction in the Stargate Atlantis universe called Futura Memoratia.

When this piece was well received, Wells began work on an original novel, Fluency, in 2012, publishing it in June 2014 using Kindle Direct Publishing. The book was virally successful immediately upon release, selling more than 30,000 copies in the first three months alone and 80,000 copies in the first year.

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Rachel Harper interview – Episode 221 Reading & Writing podcast

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The 221st episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Rachel Harper, author of THIS SIDE OF PROVIDENCE.

Rachel M. Harper is a novelist and screenwriter. Her first novel, Brass Ankle Blues, was a Borders Original Voices Award finalist and selected as a Target Breakout Book. Her newest novel, This Side of Providence, was published in 2016; it was adapted into an original television pilot, City of Providence.

Harper has received multiple fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and was profiled by The Root as part of their 2011 city series on Los Angeles’ black literary giants. A graduate of Brown University and the University of Southern California, Harper is on the faculty at Spalding University’s low-residency MFA in Writing Program. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is currently at work on a new novel and several TV/film projects.

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Lynn Rosen interview – Episode 220 Reading & Writing podcast

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The 220th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Lynn Rosen, author of the novel A Man of Genius.

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Special Episode – Launch

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Three out of five people dream of writing a book. Few follow through. What does it take to take that from dream to reality? In this special preview we hear as John August (Go, Big Fish, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) takes his dream and turns it into a reality. Will it be successful? You’ll find out when we do.

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Siobhan MacDonald interview – Episode 219 Reading & Writing podcast

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The 219th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Siobhan MacDonald, author of the thriller novel TWISTED RIVER.

After many years writing short stories and articles, Siobhán published her first novel TWISTED RIVER in 2016.

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Elizabeth Harris interview – Episode 218 Reading & Writing podcast

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The 218th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Elizabeth Harris, author of Mayhem: Three Lives of a Woman.

Winner of the 2014 Gival Press Fiction Award for her short novel Mayhem: Three Lives of a Woman, Elizabeth Harris is a native Texan who grew up in Ft. Worth. For her first book, she won the John Simmons Prize, awarded by University of Iowa Press, for The Ant Generator, a collection of stories praised for their “sense of wonder and comedy” and “acid-etched existentialism.”

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Glen Erik Hamilton interview – Episode 217 Reading & Writing Podcast

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The 217th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Glen Erik Hamilton, crime and suspense writer, and the author of Past Crimes, Hard Cold Winter, and Every Day Above Ground.

Glen Erik Hamilton’s debut Past Crimes won the Anthony, Macavity, and Strand Magazine Critics awards for Best First Novel, and was also nominated for the Edgar, Barry, and Nero awards.

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Kay Kenyon interview – Episode 216 Reading & Writing podcast

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The 216th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with fantasy and science fiction writer Kay Kenyon. Kenyon’s latest novel AT THE TABLE OF WOLVES has just been published.

Author Kay Kenyon