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The 266th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Steff Green / Steffanie Holmes – USA Today bestselling author of the paranormal, gothic, dark, and fantastical.

Steff is also the creator of Rage Against the Manuscript – a resource of free content, book, and courses to help writers tell their story, find their readers, and build a badass writing career. She’s a popular speaker and contributor to discourse on crowdfunding, the literary gothic, making a career as an artist, disability and diversity in literature, sex and romance, speculative fiction, and indie-publishing.

This episode of the Reading & Writing podcast is sponsored by Libro.fm. Libro.fm is the first and only company which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. You can pick from more than 125,000 audiobooks, including New York Times best sellers and recommendations from booksellers. You’ll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story — one that supports community. Use the code RWPODCAST today to get 3 audiobooks for the price of one.

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The 264th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with New York Times-bestselling writer Sherrilyn Kenyon.

Kenyon has had more than 80 novels on the New York Times list in all formats and genres, including manga and graphic novels, and has more than 70 million books in print worldwide. Her current series include: Dark-Hunters®, Chronicles of Nick®, Deadman’s Cross™, Black Hat Society™, Nevermore™, Silent Swans™, Lords of Avalon® and The League®.

This episode of the Reading & Writing podcast is sponsored by Libro.fm. Libro.fm is the first and only company which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. You can pick from more than 125,000 audiobooks, including New York Times best sellers and recommendations from booksellers. You’ll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story — one that supports community. Use the code RWPODCAST today to get 3 audiobooks for the price of one.

There are multiple ways to listen to the Reading & Writing podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app. My favorite iPhone app for listening to podcasts is Overcast. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast via email, click here.

Check out these other Reading & Writing podcast interviews that you might enjoy:

Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

Allison Pang interview

Richard Knaak interview

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The 263rd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with New York Times-bestselling writer Dean Koontz. Koontz’s latest novel DEVOTED has just been published.

Fourteen of Koontz’s novels have risen to number one on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list (One Door Away From Heaven, From the Corner of His Eye, Midnight, Cold Fire, The Bad Place, Hideaway, Dragon Tears, Intensity, Sole Survivor, The Husband, Odd Hours, Relentless, What the Night Knows, and 77 Shadow Street), making him one of only a dozen writers ever to have achieved that milestone. Sixteen of his books have risen to the number one position in paperback. His books have also been major bestsellers in countries as diverse as Japan and Sweden.

This episode of the Reading & Writing podcast is sponsored by Libro.fm. Libro.fm is the first and only company which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. You can pick from more than 125,000 audiobooks, including New York Times best sellers and recommendations from booksellers. You’ll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story — one that supports community.

There are multiple ways to listen to the Reading & Writing podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app. My favorite iPhone app for listening to podcasts is Overcast. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast via email, click here.

Check out these other Reading & Writing podcast interviews that you might enjoy:

Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

Allison Pang interview

Richard Knaak interview

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The 262nd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Karen Hugg, author of THE FORGETTING FLOWER.

Hugg lives in Seattle where she writes literary mysteries and thrillers inspired by plants. Her work has appeared in the Rooted anthology, Minerva Rising, and Mothers Always Write. Her novel The Forgetting Flower is the first in her Botanique Noire trilogy from Magnolia Press. 

This episode of the Reading & Writing podcast is sponsored by Libro.fm. Libro.fm is the first and only company which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. You can pick from more than 125,000 audiobooks, including New York Times best sellers and recommendations from booksellers. You’ll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story — one that supports community.

There are multiple ways to listen to the Reading & Writing podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app. My favorite iPhone app for listening to podcasts is Overcast. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast via email, click here.

Check out these other Reading & Writing podcast interviews that you might enjoy:

Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

Allison Pang interview

Richard Knaak interview

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The 261st episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Bill Schutt, co-author of three suspense novels featuring zoologist and adventurer Captain R. J. MacCready, THE HIMALAYAN CODEX, HELL’S GATE, and THE DARWIN STRAIN.

Bill Schutt is a vertebrate zoologist and author. He is a research associate in residence at the American Museum of Natural History and a professor of biology at LIU-Post. Bill’s first book, Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, was critically acclaimed by E. O. Wilson and the New York Times.

This episode of the Reading & Writing podcast is sponsored by Libro.fm. Libro.fm is the first and only company which lets you purchase audiobooks directly from your favorite local bookstore. You can pick from more than 125,000 audiobooks, including New York Times best sellers and recommendations from booksellers. You’ll get the same audiobooks at the same price as the largest audiobook company out there (you know the name). But you’ll be part of a different story — one that supports community.

There are multiple ways to listen to the Reading & Writing podcast: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app. My favorite iPhone app for listening to podcasts is Overcast. If you’d like to subscribe to the podcast via email, click here.

Check out these other Reading & Writing podcast interviews that you might enjoy:

Dean Koontz interview

James Lee Burke interview

Allison Pang interview

Richard Knaak interview

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The 254th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Ezekiel Boone, author of THE MANSION and THE HATCHING series.

Ezekiel Boone was born in Canada but lives in upstate New York, with his wife and children. The internationally bestselling THE HATCHING series (THE HATCHING, SKITTER, and ZERO DAY) has sold in twelve countries and nine languages. THE MANSION, is Ezekiel Boone’s fourth novel. When not writing thrillers, Zeke writes acclaimed literary fiction under the name Alexi Zentner. Zeke has two poorly behaved dogs and enjoys the outdoors.

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The 249th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Evan Winter, author of the debut fantasy novel THE RAGE OF DRAGONS.

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Dean Koontz interview

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The 244th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Ted Geltner author of the literary biography – BlOOD, BONE, & MARROW – A Biography of Harry Crews.

The late Harry Crews was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. His first published novel, The Gospel Singer, appeared in 1968. His novels include: A Feast of Snakes, The Hawk Is Dying, Body, Scar Lover, The Knockout Artist, Karate Is a Thing of the Spirit, All We Need of Hell, The Mulching of America, Car, and Celebration. Crews published a memoir in 1978 titled A Childhood: The Biography of a Place. Crews wrote essays for Esquire, Playboy, and Fame. He had a column in Esquire called “Grits” for fourteen months in the 1970s, where he covered such topics as cockfighting and dog fighting. Crews had a tattoo on his right arm which said: “How do you like your blue eyed boy Mr. Death” (from the poem Buffalo Bill’s by E. E. Cummings) beneath a skull.

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The 240th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Gerald DiPego, author of WRITE! Find the Truth in Your Fiction.

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The 239th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Jason Brick, writer and organizer of a brand-new flash fiction anthology campaign on Kickstarter.com. Support the anthology on Kickstarter now.

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