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The 66th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Mark Henshaw, CIA analyst, and author of the new suspense thriller RED CELL.

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The 65th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Jay Bonansinga, author of many suspense novels, including SHATTERED and PERFECT VICTIM. Jay’s latest novel, in collaboration with Robert Kirkman, is THE WALKING DEAD: RISE OF THE GOVERNOR.

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Kevin J. Anderson interview

Christopher Golden interview

Tobias Buckell interview

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The 64th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Mark Stevens, author of BURIED BY THE ROAN, the latest mystery novel featuring Alison Coil and rich with the Colorado setting.

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Christopher Golden interview

Tobias Buckell interview

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The 63rd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Chris Evans, author of the Iron Elves series. Evans latest novel is Ashes of a Black Frost.

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The 61st episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Christopher Golden, author of many novels including The Secret Journeys of Jack London, in collaboration with Tim Lebbon, and Joe Golem and the Drowning City, in collaboration with Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy.

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The 60th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Christopher Bollen, author of Lightning People, available in bookstores now.

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The 59th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Jon Merz, author of the The Kensei and other novels in the popular Lawson Vampire series.

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The 57th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Peter Spiegelman, author of Thick as Thieves, Red Cat, Death’s Little Helper’s, and editor of Wall Street Noir.

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The 55th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Norb Vonnegut, author of the financial thrillers TOP PRODUCER and THE GODS OF GREENWICH.

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The 54th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Thomas H. Cook, Edgar-award winning author of many novels including RED LEAVES, THE CHATHAM SCHOOL AFFAIR, and THE QUEST FOR ANNA KLEIN.

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The 53rd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Peter Orullian, author of the new epic fantasy novel THE UNREMEMBERED available in bookstores now.

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The 52nd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Edward Lazellari, author of the new novel AWAKENINGS available in bookstores now.

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The 49th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Todd Ritter, author of BAD MOON and DEATH NOTICE.

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The 48th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Thomas Perry, author of The Informant, the Jane Whitefield series, and many other thriller and suspense novels.

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The 47th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Craig Johnson, author of the Walt Longmire mystery series. Johnson’s latest novel is Hell Is Empty.

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The 46th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Lloyd Kaufman – director of The Toxic Avenger, co-founder of Troma Entertainment, and film producer. Kaufman has written a series of guides for independent film makers, and his latest book Sell Your Own Damn Movie is available in bookstores now.

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The 44th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Aaron Elkins, author of the Gidon Oliver mystery series and a new standalone thriller novel, The Worst Thing. Elkins’ novel Old Bones won the 1998 Edgar Allan Poe award for Best Novel.

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The 43rd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Victor Ostrovsky, author of the thriller novel Black Ghosts, and By Way of Deception, a non-fiction account of his service with the Mossad.

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The 42nd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Brad Taylor, author of the new thriller novel One Rough Man.

Taylor, Lieutenant Colonel (ret.), is a twenty-one year veteran of the U.S. Army Infantry and Special Forces, including eight years with the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, popularly known as Delta Force.

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The 41st episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Jon Armstrong, author of the novels Grey and Yarn, and host of the podcast If You’re Just Joining Us.

Michael Chabon, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, is enthusiastic about Armstrong’s writing. “Jon Armstrong is a genius, with an umlaut, to the fifth power,” Chabon raved.

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The 38th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with James Benn, author of the Billy Boyle World War II mystery series, including Rag and Bone and Evil for Evil.

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The 37th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Raymond Khoury, author of many thriller novels, including The Last Templar and The Templar Salvation.

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The 36th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Mark Greaney, author of the thriller novels On Target and The Gray Man.

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The 35th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Ryan Brown, author of the zombie football thriller novel Play Dead.

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The 34th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Margaret Coel, New York Times bestselling author of the Wind River Reservation mystery series, including The Spider’s Web.

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The 33rd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Steven James, thriller writer and author of The Knight, Book 3 in the Patrick Bowers Files.

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The 32nd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Brian DeLeeuw, author of the literary thriller In This Way I Was Saved.

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The 31st episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Don Winslow, author of SAVAGES, one of the top 10 novels of 2010, according to the New York Times’ Janet Maslin. Winslow’s previous books include The Winter of Frankie Machine, California Fire and Life, and The Death and Life of Bobby Z, among others.

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The 30th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Ken Harmon, author of the new novel The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir.

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The 29th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Steven Polansky, author of the new novel The Bradbury Report. You can download Polansky’s interview here, or subscribe to the podcast via iTunes to get all the interviews delivered directly to your computer via iTunes.

 

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The 28th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Danny Tobey, author of the new thriller/suspense novel The Faculty Club

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The 27th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with international bestselling crime and suspense novelist Jeffery Deaver. The author of twenty-seven novels and two collections of short stories, Deaver has been nominated for six Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America, an Anthony Award and a Gumshoe Award.

The Burning Wire, Deaver’s latest novel in the Lincoln Rhyme series, was published in June.

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The 26th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Boyd Morrison, author of the new thriller The Ark. Morrison has published several bestselling eBooks, and he discusses how his eBook success lead to his hardcover book deal.

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The 25th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Lisa Lutz, author of the popular Isabel “Izzy” Spellman mystery series, and New York Times bestselling author of The Spellmans Strike Again.

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The 24th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Jonathan Maberry, a multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author, magazine feature writer, comic book scripter, and the author of the Joe Ledger thriller The Dragon Factory, movie novelization The Wolfman, and upcoming zombie coming-of-age novel Rot & Ruin.

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The 23rd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Katy Munger, author of the recently released mystery Desolate Angel published by Berkley’s Prime Crime imprint under the psueodynm Chaz McGee. Previously, Munger published five books in the Casey Jones mystery series under her own name, and Munger’s first published books were in a third series – the Hubbert and Lil books – published under the psuedonm Gallagher Gray.

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The 22nd episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Michael Bracken, author of 11 books, including the novel All White Girls, and 1,200 shorter works.

His short story “All My Yesterdays” received a Derringer Award, his short story “Cuts Like A Knife” was short-listed for a Derringer Award, his short story “Of Memories Dying” appeared on the preliminary ballot for a Nebula Award, and his short story “Dreams Unborn” was named one of the year’s best by the editors of The Best American Mystery Stories 2005.

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The 20th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Stephen White, author of many New York Times-best selling suspense novels, including The Siege, in bookstores now.

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The 19th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Stephen Jones, editor of 100 anthologies and collections of horror literature, including the brand new zombie fiction anthology The Dead That Walk

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The 18th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Tarquin Hall, author of The Case of the Missing Servant: A Vish Puri Mystery, introducing Vish Puri, India’s Most Private Investigator.

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The 17th episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with David Morrell, New York Times bestselling thriller and suspense novelist and the original creator of the Rambo character. Morrell’s latest novel The Shimmer is available in bookstores now.

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The sixteenth episode of the Reading and Writing podcast features an interview with Meg Gardiner, crime novelist, and author of The Memory Collector, available in bookstores now.

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Welcome to the fifteenth episode of the Reading and Writing podcast featuring an interview with Mitch Joel, President of Twist Image, an award-winning marketing agency. Joel is the author of the new book about Internet marketing Six Pixels of Separation. He also writes the widely-read blog Six Pixels of Separation, and records the long-running Six Pixels of Separation podcast.

This interview is also the inaugural episode of a new podcast that I’m starting – the Book Marketing podcast. I’ll be interviewing writers and marketers about using Internet marketing and social media marketing to market and sell books. If that sounds interesting to you, check out the Book Marketing podcast.

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Welcome to the fourteenth episode of the Reading and Writing podcast featuring an interview with Brett Battles, suspense and thriller writer, and author of Shadow of Betrayal, The Deceived, and The Cleaner.

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Welcome to the twelfth episode of the Reading and Writing podcast featuring an interview with Jason Starr, author of many dark crime and noir novels. Starr’s latest novels include Panic Attack and The Follower.

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“This is the ultimate page-turner—a thriller that brilliantly blends psychological and physical suspense. It’s rare that you get either one in a book, but Jason Starr delivers them both in spades.” —Michael Connelly, New York Times bestselling author of The Brass Verdict

“Panic Attack is that rare thing—a novel that manages to be both flat-out terrifying and completely brilliant. Jason Starr’s prose is as taut, vicious, relentless, and elegant as a jeweled hand tightening around your throat. Even as it has you gasping, you can’t help but appreciate the grip. If there is such a thing as the perfect thriller, Starr has just written it. The ending alone will have you breathing in paper bags for a week.” —Jerry Stahl, New York Times bestselling author of Permanent Midnight and Pain Killers

“Fast-moving, psychologically astute, and 100 percent chilling.” —Andrew Gross, New York Times bestselling author of The Dark Tide

 

Welcome to the tenth episode of the Reading and Writing podcast featuring an interview with Kevin J. Anderson, the author of more than one hundred novels, 47 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over 20 million books in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for numerous prestigious awards, including the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, the SFX Reader’s Choice Award, the American Physics Society’s Forum Award, and New York Times Notable Book. Anderson’s latest novels include The Edge of the World (Terra Incognita), Enemies & Allies, and The Winds of Dune.

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Praise for The Winds of Dune:

“Delivers solid action and will certainly satisfy.”
–Booklist

“This satisfying tale from Herbert’s son and Anderson follows Jessica, the mother of galactic emperor Paul Atreides. . . . Fans of the original Dune series will love seeing familiar characters, and the narrative voice smoothly evokes the elder Herbert’s style.”
–Publishers Weekly

Praise for the bestselling novel, Paul of Dune:

“This vital link between the first two books of the Dune saga begins immediately after the close of Dune. . . . This is good reading. . . . Standing well enough on its own for Dune novices, it goes without saying that it’s must reading for established fans.”
–Booklist

“Drawing on Frank Herbert’s massive body of notes, the coauthors of the new Dune series continue their expansion and illumination of the unexplored pieces of one of the genre’s most significant and powerful stories. A priority purchase for libraries of all sizes. Highly recommended.”
–Library Journal (starred review)

 

Welcome to the ninth episode of the Reading and Writing podcast featuring an interview with Seth Harwood, the author of Jack Wakes Up. You can download the podcast here, or subscribe via iTunes.

“Jack Wakes Up rocks! It’s a fast, smooth ride on a highway not found on any map.” —Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Brass Verdict

“Exhilarating . . . reads like a long-lost Mickey Spillane tale as directed by Robert Rodriguez.”
—Megan Abbott, Edgar Award winning author of Queenpin

“A cold, refreshing slap of glorious mayhem that doesn’t allow you to blink until you turn the last page.”
—Jason Pinter, bestselling author of The Mark

 

Welcome to the eighth episode of the Reading and Writing podcast featuring an interview with Joe Lansdale, the mojo storyteller, and the author of Vanilla Ride which will be published on June 30th. You can download the podcast here, or subscribe via iTunes.

“Joe Lansdale is a master and Vanilla Ride proves it once again. Every page of this book brims with humor and character and most of all, kick ass story telling. Front to back, the satisfied smile on my face never went away.” – Michael Connelly

“Joe Lansdale is one of a kind. His Hap and Leonard novels should be read and treasured.” – James Swain, author of The Night Stalker

“Among the best fiction writers in America today, Joe Lansdale turns on the juice and cuts the damn thing loose. Enjoy the ride!” – Kinky Friedman, author of You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can’t Make Him Think

 

Welcome to the seventh episode of the Reading and Writing podcast featuring an interview with Warren St. John, New York Times reporter and author of the new book Outcasts United. You can download the podcast here, or subscribe via iTunes.

“If you only read one book over the next few months, it should be Outcasts United.”
—Bill Littlefield, NPR

“Not merely about soccer, St. John’s book teaches readers about the social and economic difficulties of adapting to a new culture and the challenges facing a town with a new and disparate population…This wonderful, poignant book is highly recommended…”
—Library Journal, starred review

A “richly detailed, uplifting account of a young Jordanian immigrant who created a soccer program in Georgia for young refugees from war-torn nations . . . educational and enriching.”
— Kirkus Reviews

 

Welcome to the sixth episode of the Reading and Writing podcast featuring an interview with James Reasoner, author of Hunt at the Well of Eternity, Texas Wind, and many other novels. You can download the podcast here, or subscribe via iTunes.

Spur Award nominee James Reasoner is one of the most prolific and in-demand Western writers working today, with more than 200 books to his credit, both under his own name and under various pen-names. He was a contributor to Bantam’s New York Times bestselling Wagons West series. In the mystery field he is best known for the novel Texas Wind, which has achieved legendary status as a collectible paperback. For several years early in his career, he wrote the Mike Shayne novellas in MIKE SHAYNE MYSTERY MAGAZINE under the famous pseudonym Brett Halliday. Under his own name in recent years he has written a ten-book series of historical novels set during the Civil War and several historical novels about World War II. He lives in Texas with his wife, award-winning mystery novelist Livia J. Washburn.

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Seth Harwood decided to podcast his novel, Jack Wakes Up, for free, and he ended up getting a book deal with Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House. Seth explains in this video.

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