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Bill welcomes debut author Laura Maylene Walter to the show. Laura has written for Poets & Writers, Kenyon Review, The Sun, Ninth Letter, The Masters Review, and many others. She has been a Tin House Scholar, a recipient of the Ohioana Library Association's Walter Rumsey Marvin Grant, and a writer in residence at Yaddo, the Chautauqua Institution, and Art Omi: Writers. Laura is currently a writer/editor for the Cleveland Public Library, serves as editor in chief of Gordon Square Review, and blogs for the Kenyon Review. Body of Stars is her debut novel.

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Bill welcomes novelist Julie Carrick Dalton to the show. Julie's debut novel WAITING FOR THE NIGHT SONG has been named to Most Anticipated 2021 book lists by CNN, Newsweek, USA Today, Parade, and Buzzfeed, and was an Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Books of the Month. Julie is a member of the Climate Fiction Writers League and is a frequent speaker and workshop leader on the topic of Fiction in the Age of Climate Crisis. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, BusinessWeek, The Chicago Review of Books, and other publications. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes novelist and lecturer Erica Miner to the show. A Violinist turned author, Erica has a multi-faceted career as an award-winning author, screenwriter, journalist and lecturer. Erica's lectures, seminars and workshops on writing and on opera have received kudos in venues across the West Coast, including the Wagner Societies of New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Diego and Northern California. Erica's writings also have appeared in Leitmotive, the magazine of the Wagner Society of Northern California, Italian American Magazine, San Diego Jewish Journal, Del Mar Lifestyle, Opera+ St. Petersburg Music & Art Magazine, Vision Magazine, WORD San Diego, Istanbul Our City, and numerous E-zines. Her most recent novel is Staged for Murder. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes novelist Marcia Butler to the show. Marcia has had several creative careers: interior designer, documentary filmmaker, oboist, and author. She was a 2015 recipient of a Writer-in-Residence through Aspen Words and the Catto Shaw Foundation. She was also a writing fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 2018 and 2019. Her writing has been published in The Washington Post, Literary Hub, PANK Magazine, Psychology Today, Aspen Ideas Magazine, Catapult, Bio-Stories, Kenyon Review and others. Her memoir, The Skin Above my Knee, received rave reviews, as did her first novel, Pickle's Progress. Her third book, Oslo, Maine, draws on indelible memories of performing for many years at a chamber music festival in central Maine. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes memoirist and screenwriter Melissa Gould to the show. Melissa is an award-winning screenwriter who wrote on such acclaimed TV series as Bill Nye the Science Guy, Party of Five, Beverly Hills 90210, and Lizzie McGuire.​​ Her essays can be found in TheNew York Times, TheLos Angeles Times,TheWashington Post. Widowish, her memoir, is her first book.

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Bill welcomes novelist and gender activist Michael Kaufman to the show. Michael Kaufman, PhD, is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction books. As an advisor, activist, and keynote speaker, he has developed innovative approaches to engage men and boys in promoting gender equality and positively transforming men's lives. Over the past four decades his work with the United Nations, governments, non-governmental organizations, corporations, trade unions, and universities has taken him to fifty countries. His books include The Guys Guide to Feminism, Cracking the ArmourPower, Pain and the Lives of Men, and, most recntly, the crime novel The Last Exit.

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Bill welcomes poet and novelist Tim Garvin to the show. Tim  grew up in Arizona, then the Alaskan wilderness. Now he lives beside a creek outside Durham, North Carolina, with his wife, Cynthia, and dog, Blue. He built a cabin beside the creek, and in the mornings goes down there to write. In the afternoons, he throws pots, gardens, reads, discusses life with Cynthia, and sometimes coaxes her and Blue to the coast to float around the Outer Banks in a little sailboat. His debut novel, A Dredging in Swann was released last November. He has an MFA in fiction from the University of Arkansas and has published short stories and poems in literary journals. He’s also optioned two screenplays, Dead Money with Magic Hour Entertainment and Anvil City with Twentieth Century Fox. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes novelist Wendy Webb to the show. Wendy got her first writing job with City Pages, an arts and entertainment weekly in Minneapolis. She has been a journalist ever since, writing for national and local magazines and newspapers, including Duluth Superior Magazine, where she was editor-in-chief for almost eight years. Even though she loved her career as a journalist, she never forgot her dream of being a novelist. Though it took several years, she eventually found the time to start writing her first novel. And she never looked back. She is now the author of six novels: The Tale of Halcyon Crane, The Fate of MercyAlban, The Vanishing, The End of Temperance Dare, Daughters of The Lake, and, most recently, The Haunting of Brynn Wilder. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes novelist Bharti Kirchner to the show. Winner of the 2020 prestigious SALA Award in creative writing, Bharti is the prolific author of twelve books -- eight novels and four cookbooks. Her latest is MURDER AT ANDAMAN: A MAYA MALLICK MYSTERY. Her sixth, a literary historical novel Goddess of Fire was short-listed for the Nancy Pearl Award. Her work has been translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, Marathi, Thai and other languages. Her fourth novel Pastries: A Novel of Desserts and Discoveries was selected for the Summer Washington Reads program. Shiva Dancing, her first novel, was chosen by Seattle Weekly to be among the top 18 books by Seattle authors in the last 25 years. Don't miss it!

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Bill welcomes novelist and publisher Jon Sealy to the show. Jon Sealy is the author of The Whiskey Baron, The Edge of America, and The Merciful, as well as the craft book So You Want to Be a Novelist. An upstate South Carolina native, he has a degree in English from the College of Charleston and an MFA in fiction writing from Purdue University. His short fiction has appeared in The Normal School, PANK, and The Sun, among other venues, and his nonfiction has appeared in The Rumpus, The Millions, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He currently lives with his family in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, where he is the publisher of Haywire Books. Don't miss it!