Reading And Writing Podcast

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The 277th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with T. R. Ragan.

T.R. Ragan (Theresa Ragan) is a New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author. Ragan’s latest novel is DON’T MAKE A SOUND.

Expand Your Reading

Here’s a great list of African-American mystery writers from the Los Angeles Public Library.

Charles Saunders is an African-American author and journalist currently living in Canada. He’s best known for his Imaro sword-and-sorcery novels.

From the jacket description of Imaro:

Imaro is heroic fantasy like it’s never been done before. Based on Africa, and African traditions and legends, Charles Saunders has created Nyumbani (which means “home” in Swahili), an amalgam of the real, the semi-real, and the unreal. Imaro is the name of the larger-than-life warrior, an outcast, who travels across Nyumbani, searching for a home.

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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 2 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 276th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Kyle McCarthy, author of the debut novel EVERYONE KNOWS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU.

Expand Your Reading

Here’s a great list of African-American mystery writers from the Los Angeles Public Library.

Steven Barnes is an African-American

Steven Barnes is an American science fiction writer, lecturer, creative consultant, and human performance technician.

In addition to his novels, he has written several episodes of The Outer Limits and Baywatch. He has also written the episode “Brief Candle” for Stargate SG-1 and the Andromeda episode “The Sum of Its Parts.” He and his wife Tananarive Due co-wrote the episode “A Small Town” for the new Twilight Zone on CBS All-Access.

Barnes’s first published piece of fiction, the 1979 novelette The Locusts, was written with Larry Niven, and was a Hugo Award nominee. He co-wrote the Dream Park series with Larry Niven. He’s written many other novels, including the Insh’Allah series – Lion’s Blood and Zulu Heart.

Barnes is also an avid practitioner of martial and physical arts.

Libro.fm – Great audibooks from your local independent bookstores

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 2 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 275th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Damyanti Biswas, author of the crime novel YOU BENEATH YOUR SKIN.

Endemol Shine India has optioned  YOU BENEATH YOUR SKIN to develop as a multi-part drama series, with all proceeds from the option going towards social enterprises in Biswas’ native New Delhi.

Expand Your Reading

Here’s a great list of African-American mystery writers from the Los Angeles Public Library.

Chester B. Himes (1909-1984), author of the best-selling novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, was the twentieth century’s most prolific black writer. He is best known for his hard-boiled detective stories including Cotton Comes to Harlem, featuring black New York City police detectives Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson.

A film was made of Cotton Comes to Harlem. Himes began writing while incarcerated for seven years in the Ohio State Penitentiary starting at the age of 19. He lived abroad first in Paris and then in Moraira, Spain. Chester B. Himes: a Biography by Lawrence P. Jackson was just published in 2017.

Libro.fm – Great audibooks from your local independent bookstores

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 2 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 274th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Sarah Relyea, author of the new novel PLAYGROUND ZERO.

A former academic who has taught at universities in New York and Taiwan, she has long addressed questions of identity in her writing, including in her book of literary criticism, “Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin.” Sarah lives in Brooklyn and spends time on the Left Coast.

Expand Your Reading

Here’s a great list of African-American mystery writers from the Los Angeles Public Library.

Harvard educated entrepreneur, Pamela Thomas-Graham was the first black woman partner at a New York consulting firm. She’s written the Ivy League Mystery series featuring Nikki Chase, a black economics professor at Harvard who solves murders not just at her university, but while visiting Yale and Princeton as well.

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 272nd episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with William Forstchen. Forstchen has a Ph.D. from Purdue University with specializations in Military History and the History of Technology. He is a Faculty Fellow and Professor of History at Montreat College. He is the author of fifty books including the New York Times bestselling series One Second After, the Lost Regiment series, and the award-winning young adult novel, We Look Like Men of War. His latest novel is 48 HOURS.

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 271st episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Sarah Pinsker, author of the novel A Song For A New Day.

Sarah Pinsker  is the author of over fifty works of short fiction, including the novelette “Our Lady of the Open Road,” winner of the Nebula Award in 2016. Her novelette “In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind,” was the Sturgeon Award winner in 2014. Her fiction has been published in magazines including Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and Uncanny and in numerous anthologies and year’s bests. Her stories have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, French, and Italian, among other languages, and have been nominated for the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, Eugie, and World Fantasy Awards.

Sarah’s first collection, Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea: Stories was published by Small Beer Press in March 2019, and her first novel, A Song For A New Day, was published by Penguin/Random House/Berkley in September 2019. In April 2020, Sarah’s collection Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into The Sea won the Philip K. Dick award.

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 270th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Isla Morley, author of the new novel THE LAST BLUE.

Isla Morley grew up in South Africa during apartheid, the child of a British father and fourth-generation South African mother.  During the country’s State of Emergency, she graduated from Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth with a degree in English Literature.

Her debut novel, Come Sunday, won the Janet Heidinger Prize for fiction and was a finalist for the Commonwealth Prize.  It has been translated into seven languages.  Her novel, Above was an IndieNext Pick, a Best Buzz Book and a Publishers Weekly Best New Book.  The Last Blue is her third novel.

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 269th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with David Ignatius, best-selling author and prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post. Ignatius’ latest novel is THE PALADIN. His prior novels include THE QUANTUM SPY, THE DIRECTOR, THE INCREMENT, and many others.

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 268th episode of the Reading & Writing podcast features an interview with Bill Boggs, author of The Adventures of Spike the Wonder Dog: As told to Bill Bogg.

Bill Boggs is an Emmy Award-winning TV talk show host and producer, author and professional speaker. His Off-Broadway play, Talk Show Confidential, and first novel, At First Sight, were optioned together for a screenplay inspired by his life. 

His TV credits include the long-running Midday Live with Bill Boggs on Fox, and programs on Showtime, The Travel Channel, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, and ESPN. Bill spent a decade hosting and producing Bill Boggs Corner Table on Food Network. 

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