Interviews with Authors

Kate Hope Day is the author of If, Then and the upcoming novel, In the Quick. She holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD in English from the University of Pittsburgh and was an associate producer at HBO. The television rights for If, Then sparked a heated auction, which Heyday Films, the creator of the Harry Potter movies and Gravity, eventually won. Apple TV has greenlit the project contingent upon casting, with NBCUniversal as studio. Kate will be a co-producer for the show.
IN THE QUICK is in stores now.
https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Novel-Kate-Hope-Day/dp/0525511253
https://www.instagram.com/katehopeday

Ep 136 - "Writing IN THE QUICK" with Kate Hope Day, Author, If, Then and In The Quick

Alex London writes books for adults including One Day The Soldiers Came: Voices of Children in Warm, children including Dog Tags series and An Accidental Adventure series, and teens including Proxy. At one time a journalist who traveled the world reporting from conflict zones and refugee camps, he is now a full time novelist living in Philadelphia.
Alex' most recent book, the third and final installment in his Skybound Saga series, Gold Wings Rising, is in stores now!
https://www.amazon.com/Gold-Wings-Rising-Skybound-Saga/dp/0374306893
https://twitter.com/ca_london

Ep 137 - "Writing a Trilogy 101" with Alex London, Author, GOLD WINGS RISING

Chris Enss is an author and screenwriter who has written more than 20 books on the subject of women in the Old West, and has collaborated with producer Howard Kazanjian on seven books, including two about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. Chris has won 5 Will Rogers Medallion Award, 2 Academy of Western Artists Elmer Kelton Award, and the Western Writers of America Spur Finalist Award. Chris has 2 books coming out, the first called Iron Women, about the women who built the railroad, comes out later this year, and an upcoming book with Howard Kazanjian, called the Widow’s Circle, about the Elizabeth Custer, comes out in 2022.
https://twitter.com/4par

Ep 140 - "Writing Historical Nonfiction 101" with Chris Enss, New York Times Bestselling Author

Alan Dean Foster is a writer of fantasy and science fiction, who has written several book series and more than 130 standalone novels. Alan’s works include Splinter of the Mind’s Eye, the first Star Wars Expanded Universe novel, which was originally written to be filmed as a low-budget sequel to Star Wars if the original film was not a success, the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and more than 130 standalone novels including the Humanx Commonwealth novels, Icerigger Trilogy, and Spellsinger series. His newest novel, Madrenga, released November 2020, and is in stores now.
https://www.amazon.com/Madrenga-Alan-Dean-Foster/dp/1680571451/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1621627715&sr=8-3

Ep 143 - Alan Dean Foster, Author, Star Wars Splinter of the Mind's Eye, Over 130 Standalone Novels

Theresa Rebeck is a prolific and widely produced playwright, whose work can be seen and read throughout the United States and abroad. Her fourth Broadway play premiered on Broadway in 2018, making Rebeck the most Broadway-produced female playwright of our time. Other Broadway works include Dead Accounts; Seminar and Mauritius. Other notable NY and regional plays include: Seared (MCC), Downstairs (Primary Stages), The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann and Spike Heels (Second Stage), Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection and Our House (Playwrights Horizons), The Understudy (Roundabout), View of the Dome (NYTW), What We’re Up Against (Women’s Project), Omnium Gatherum (Pulitzer Prize finalist). As a director, her work has been seen at The Alley Theatre (Houston), the REP Company (Delaware); Dorset Theatre Festival, the Orchard Project and the Folger Theatre. Major film and television projects include Trouble, starring Anjelica Huston, Bill Pullman and David Morse (writer and director), “NYPD Blue,” the NBC series “Smash” (creator), and the upcoming female spy thriller 355 (for Jessica Chastain’s production company). As a novelist, Rebeck’s books include Three Girls and Their Brother and I'm Glad About You. Rebeck is the recipient of the William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, the PEN/Laura Pels Foundation Award, a Lilly Award and more.
https://twitter.com/TheresaRebeck

Ep 145 - "Writing Across Different Mediums" with Theresa Rebeck, Playwright, Director, Author

Precious Brady Davis is truly a renaissance woman. You may recognize her name from being the first Trans bride on TLC’s Say Yes to The Dress, but she was trailblazing for years before that: promoting diversity advocacy, LGBTQ rights, environmental justice and more.

An award-winning diversity advocate, communications professional, and public speaker, she currently serves as the associate regional communications director at the Sierra Club. She served for three years as the assistant director of diversity recruitment initiatives at Columbia College Chicago, her alma mater, implementing the campus-wide diversity initiative and providing leadership and oversight of national diversity recruitment and inclusion policy initiatives. She also served as the youth outreach coordinator at the Center on Halsted, the largest LGBTQ community center in the Midwest. During Precious's tenure, she launched a $1.6 million CDC HIV prevention grant, which provided outreach, education, youth programming, and testing services to over three thousand young African American and Latinx gay, bi, and trans youth. Precious is married to Myles Brady and lives in Hyde Park on the South Side of Chicago, where they are raising their daughter, Zayn.
 
For the first time ever, Precious is telling her story in her own words with the debut of her memoir I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ME which releases TOMORROW, JULY 1st, 2021!

https://www.amazon.com/Have-Always-Been-Me-Memoir/dp/1542044316/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Ep 146 - "Writing I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ME" with Precious Brady Davis, Author and Diversity Advocate

Mason Engel is a writer and filmmaker from Columbus, Indiana. Mason's short film, Amends, earned 3rd place in the Broadcast Education Association Film Festival and was accepted into the prestigious Hollywood Florida Film Festival. Mason is also very passionate about community involvement and has spoken at Hope Elementary School for Read Across America Day and the community Facebook channel, Celebrate Columbus.
Here are some fun facts about Mason.
​He loves sci-fi, fantasy, and anything by Neil Gaiman
He’s a Hufflepuff (and slowly learning to accept that)
He went to Purdue but bleeds Carolina blue
He was a math major (emphasis on "was")
He LOVES independent bookstores
​Mason’s new short film, THE BOOKSTOUR, a 30 minute documentary and the story of his road trip to 50 indie bookstores in 50 days, is releasing in mid July to raise money for the Book Industry Charitable Foundation. The Foundation is using 100% of the profits to help indie bookstores recover from the pandemic.
https://www.thebookstourfilm.com
https://twitter.com/theamasonengel

Ep 147 - "THE BOOKSTOUR" with Mason Engel, Writer and Filmmaker

Travis M. Andrews is an author and staff writer for the Washington Post's style section, where he covers internet, pop culture, and the ways we live now. Previously, he was an associate travel and culture editor for Southern Living and a contributing pop culture reporter for Mashable and The Week. He has also written for Time, Esquire, GQ, and the Atlantic, among others. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he acquiesces to the every wish of his puppy Stevie Nix and misses his native New Orleans.
His new book, BECAUSE HE’S JEFF GOLDBLUM: THE MOVIES, MEMES, AND MEANING OF HOLLYWOOD'S MOST ENIGMATIC ACTOR released in May, 2021, and is in stores now!
https://www.amazon.com/Because-Hes-Jeff-Goldblum-Hollywoods/dp/1524746037
https://twitter.com/travismandrews

Ep 151 - "BECAUSE HE'S JEFF GOLDBLUM" with Travis M. Andrews, Author, Staff Writer, Washington Post

Daniel Joshua Rubin is a multimedia writer and founder of Story 27 in Evanston, Illinois, a writing studio that provides consulting and education to storytellers in all media. He has written for television (NBC, the WB); new media (The Motley Fool, National Lampoon); and theater (with plays produced at Steppenwolf in Chicago, off-Broadway in NYC, and on the West End of London). He has taught dramatic writing at Loyola University in Chicago, and at the University of California, San Diego. He holds an MFA in Playwriting from the Yale School of Drama, where he graduated with honors and a BS in Drama Studies from the State University of New York at Purchase.
27 Essential Principles of Story: Master the Secrets of Great Storytelling, from Shakespeare to South Park is in stores now!
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Principles-Story-Storytelling-Shakespeare/dp/1523507160
https://twitter.com/DanJoshuaRubin

Ep 153 - "27 Essential Principles of Story" with Daniel Joshua Rubin, Writer, Founder, Story 27

Murr is a writer, executive producer, and actor, best known as "Murr" on the hit television show Impractical Jokers on truTV. Originally from Staten Island, he now lives in Princeton NJ with his wife and puppy.
Darren Wearmouth is a bestselling author and co-author of many novels, including Critical Strike and Fast Forward. He is a member of the International Thriller Writers Group and the British Science Fiction Association, and currently lives in Calgary, Alberta with his wife and daughter.
Together, they are the co-authors of the international bestselling Awakened trilogy, the thriller Don’t Move, and their brand new book, THE STOWAWAY, just released and is in stores now!
https://www.amazon.com/Stowaway-Novel-James-Murray/dp/1250263654
https://twitter.com/jamessmurray
https://twitter.com/darrenwearmouth

Ep 159 - "Writing a Novel 101" with Murr from Impractical Jokers and Darren Wearmouth, Co-Writers

Dean Koontz is the author of eighty NewYork times bestsellers, fourteen of which were #1. His books have sold over five hundred million copies worldwide, a figure that increases by more than seventeen million copies per year, his work is published in thirty-eight languages, and The Times (of London) has called him a “literary juggler.” He was born and raised in Pennsylvania and lives in California with his wife, Gerda, their golden retriever, Elsa, and the enduring spirits of their goldens, Trixie and Anna.
Dean’s newest collection, NAMELESS: SEASON TWO, released on Amazon Original Stories on June 10, 2021. It’s available to read and listen free to Prime members as well as Kindle Unlimited subscribers. Readers can download each story individually to their Kindle or Kindle app, or get the whole collection with just one click. Stories are also available for non-members for $1.99, with the option to add digital audio for free.
Dean's newest novel, QUICKSILVER, is releasing on January 25, 2022!
https://www.amazon.com/Nameless-Season-2/dp/B0942VGDTN
https://www.amazon.com/Quicksilver-Dean-Koontz/dp/1542019907/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1640379922&sr=8-1
https://twitter.com/deankoontz

Ep 161 - "How to Write Novelettes and Novellas 101" with Dean Koontz, 80 Time NYT Bestselling Author

Robert is an award-winning journalist, television writer, and the bestselling author of many books, including supernatural and historical thrillers, The Night Crossing, The Romanov Cross, and The Einstein Prophecy (a #1 bestseller in the Amazon Kindle store).
His latest book, the second and revised edition of "Robert's Rules of Writing: 111 Unconventional Lessons that Every Writer Needs to Know," released a few months ago, and his latest historical suspense novel, "The Haunting of HG Wells," was published last October.
https://www.amazon.com/Roberts-Rules-Writing-Second-Unconventional/dp/1621537838/ref=asc_df_1621537838/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=533377895464&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7190103906615167768&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9073502&hvtargid=pla-1405510015858&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/Haunting-H-G-Wells-Novel-ebook/dp/B08133NVPK
https://twitter.com/robertmasello

Ep 164 - "Robert's Rules of Writing" with Robert Masello, Bestselling Author

Zoe Whittall is the author of the Giller-shortlisted The Best Kind of People, the Lambda-winning Holding Still for As Long As Possible, and her debut, Bottle Rocket Hearts. She has published three collections of poetry: The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life, Precordial Thump, and The Emily Valentine Poems. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Cosmonauts Ave, The Believer, The Cut, The Toronto Star, The Globe & Mail and more. She is also a Canadian Screen Award-winning TV and film writer, with credits on The Baroness Von Sketch Show, Schitt's Creek, Degrassi and others.
Zoe’s newest novel, THE SPECTACULAR, is in stores now!
https://www.amazon.com/Spectacular-Novel-Zoe-Whittall/dp/1524799416
https://twitter.com/zoewhittall

Ep 166 - "Writing THE SPECTACULAR" with Zoe Whittall, Author, TV Writer, and Screenwriter

Lucinda Halpern is a literary agent with over 15 years experience, and the founder of Lucinda Literary, based in New York. Prior to founding her agency, she worked in the Publicity division of HarperCollins, where she assisted on the media campaign for Freakonomics among other New York Times bestsellers. She later worked as a marketing consultant for Gretchen Rubin (The Happiness Project), before launching her career as an agent. She has worked with all major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, Hachette, and Scholastic, and currently represents New York Times and internationally best-selling authors in the categories of business, health, lifestyle, popular science, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and upmarket fiction.
Her classes and coaching programs have been taught to hundreds of writers worldwide, and became the inspiration for Get Signed: Find an Agent, Land a Book Deal, and Become a Published Author (Hay House; Penguin Random House; February 6th, 2024).
Learn more at:
https://www.getsignedbook.com/
https://www.lucindaliterary.com/
and follow Lucinda Halpern on Instagram and Twitter:
https://www.instagram.com/lucindaliterary/
https://www.twitter.com/LucindaLitNYC/
https://www.twitter.com/LucindaBlu/

Ep 185 - NEW! "Get Signed" with Lucinda Halpern, Literary Agent and Author, "Get Signed"

Barbara Bottner is a New York Times bestselling author. Since growing up in the 1960s Bronx, Barbara has had a hand in almost every aspect of book publishing. She has written and illustrated over 50 books for children, has reviewed books for major trade and consumer publications such as The New York Times, has published short stories and essays in national newspapers and magazines, has written written sitcoms and screenplays, and has been teaching writing and illustrating in major institutions, including UCLA, Otis Parsons, and the University of Miami since 1973. Barbara’s first young adult novel since the 1980s, I AM HERE NOW, just released in August and is on sale now. Set in the 1960s, I AM HERE NOW is a heartbreaking, powerful, and inspiring novel in verse about one artist’s coming of age--a strong depiction of what it's like to shatter your life and piece it all back together.
https://www.amazon.com/Am-Here-Now-Barbara-Bottner/dp/125020769X
http://barbarabottnerbooks.com/

Ep 120 - "Writing Free Verse 101" with Barbara Bottner, New York Times Bestselling Author

Carol Weston is the author of 16 books, both fiction and non-fiction and has been the "Dear Carol" advice columnist at Girls' Life since the magazine's first issue in 1994. Her newest book is Speed of Life, which received starred reviews in Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and Booklist. The New York Times Book Review called it "perceptive, funny and moving."  About Ava and Pip, the New York Times Book Review said, "This is a book about sisterhood, but also a love letter to language." Carol has been on Today, CNN, Oprah, and The View and teaches writing at the New York Society Library. She’s also big on cats, walking, skiing, and art museums. Her husband, Rob Ackerman, a playwright who has done props for the SNL film unit for 25 years, was previously on the show. Carol published 3 personal essays in 2020, “Book Club With My Husband”, “Why My App Is So Very Proud of Me”, and “How I Finally Finally Finally became a Novelist”, which can all be found on her website.
https://www.amazon.com/Speed-Life-Carol-Weston/dp/1492654493
http://www.carolweston.com/
https://twitter.com/carol_weston

Ep 121 - "Writing Speed of Life" with Carol Weston, Author and "Dear Carol" Advice Columnist

Christopher Golden is the New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning author of Ararat, Snowblind, Dead Ringers, and Of Saints and Shadows, among many other novels. With Mike Mignola, he is the co-creator of two cult favorite comic book series, Baltimore and Joe Golem: Occult Detective. Chris is also the editor of such anthologies as Seize the Night, The New Dead, and Dark Cities. 
His new novel, RED HANDS (released December 8th through St. Martins Press), is a part of the Ben Walker series which has been optioned by AGC for television development. This new supernatural thriller finds "weird shit expert" Ben Walker on the hunt for a young woman who has been infected by a deadly bioweapon, and must unravel the mystery of her now deadly touch.
https://www.amazon.com/Red-Hands-Christopher-Golden/dp/125024630X
https://twitter.com/ChristophGolden

Ep 126 - "Writing RED HANDS" with Christopher Golden, New York Times Bestselling Author

Adalyn Grace is a New York Times bestselling author of All the Stars and Teeth, which was named “2020’s biggest YA fantasy” by Entertainment Weekly. Prior to becoming an author, Adalyn spent four years working in live theatre, acted as the managing editor of a nonprofit newspaper, and studied storytelling as an intern on Nickelodeon Animation’s popular series The Legend of Korra. Local to San Diego, Adalyn spends her non-writing days by watching too much anime, and by playing video games with her dorky dog. 
Adalyn's newest book, All the Tides of Fate, releases today, February 2nd!
https://www.amazon.com/Tides-Fate-Stars-Teeth-Duology/dp/1250307813/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
https://www.instagram.com/authoradalyngrace

Ep 131 - "Writing a Duology 101" with Adalyn Grace, Author, ALL THE TIDES OF FATE

Paul Vidich is an author and former senior executive in the entertainment industry for over twenty years. After leaving his business career he turned to writing full time. His first novel, An Honorable Man, a Publisher's Weekly top 10 Mystery and Thriller in 2016, was followed by The Good Assassin and The Coldest Warrior. His essays and nonfiction have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Lit Hub, The Nation, CrimeReads, and elsewhere. 
Paul's newest novel, THE MERCENARY, is in stores now!
https://www.amazon.com/Mercenary-Novel-Paul-Vidich/dp/1643136208
https://twitter.com/paulvidich

Ep 134 - "How to Write a Spy Novel 101" with Paul Vidich, Author, THE MERCENARY

Carol Edgarian is the author of the New York Times bestseller Three Stages of Amazement and the international bestseller Rise the Euphrates, winner of the ANC Freedom Prize. Her articles and essays have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, NPR, and W, among many others. She is co-founder of the non-profit Narrative, a leading digital publisher of fiction, poetry, and art, and Narrative in the Schools, which provides reading and writing resources to teachers and students around the world. She’s also written for the screen, is developing a  limited series for Three Stages of Amazement, teaches fiction, and is a frequent speaker at speaking events around the world on the art of story.
Carol's newest novel, VERA, is in stores now!
https://www.amazon.com/Vera-Novel-Carol-Edgarian/dp/1501157523
https://twitter.com/caroledgarian

Ep 135 - "Writing VERA" with Carol Edgarian, New York Times Bestselling Author

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