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Bill welcomes author Mitch Horowitz to the show. A writer, speaker, and publisher with a lifelong interest in man’s search for meaning,  Mitch Horowitz is the author of One Simple Idea: How Positive Thinking Reshaped Modern Life. Mitch has written on everything from the secret life of Ronald Reagan to the war on witches for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Salon. Politico, and Time.com. He often discusses spiritual issues in the national media, including CBS Sunday Morning, Dateline NBC, Coast to Coast AM, and NPR’s All Things Considered. Should be a good one. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes inspirational speaker, teacher, and writer Lee Milteer to the show. Dame Lee Milteer is an Internationally known and celebrated Entrepreneur, Visionary, Best Selling Author, Award winning Professional Speaker, TV Personality, and Intuitive Business Mentor. Lee provides business and success advice and resources to nearly 250,000 people around the world. She has authored 11 books, including Success Is An Inside Job, Spiritual Power Tools for Successful Selling. Join us as we discuss her most recent book, Reclaim the Magic. Don't miss it.

Bill welcomes debut novelist Laurel Saville to the show. Join Bill as he and Laurel discuss the joys and terpidations of publishing that first novel, as well as the long road we travel to get there. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes one-of-a-kind novelist Matt Ruff to the show. Matt is the author of the novels Fool on The Hill (1988),  Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy (1997), Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls (2003),  Bad Monkeys (2007), and The Mirage (2012). His new novel, Lovecraft Country, has just been published by HarperCollins, and it's a good one. Join us as we talk fiction, storytelling, and how to make a life as an author. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes bestselling suspense writer Philip Donlay to the show. As a young man, Philip Donlay's life was shaped by two distinct events. At the age of seventeen, he earned his pilot's license, and at eighteen was published in a national aviation magazine. The combination of these two passions: flying and writing, has led to successful careers as both a professional pilot and novelist.

He's been a flight instructor, flown a private jet for a Saudi prince, and for twenty-eight years flew a corporate jet for a Fortune 500 company. Licensed to fly six different jets and having logged nearly 14,000 hours, his travels have taken him to over forty countries on five continents. No longer flying, Donlay now divides his time between Montana and the Pacific Northwest. He's the bestselling author of six novels, Category Five, Code Black, Zero Separation, Deadly Echoes, Aftershock and his latest: Pegasus Down. He's an interesting guy. Don't miss it.

For today's episode Bill Kenower offer's a crash course on fearless writing. We don't begin writing until we forget to be afraid. If you've ever had a good day of writing - a day where you lost track of time, where your characters talked to you, where you were surprised by where the story went - then you've written fearlessly. The question, then, is not whether you will write fearlessly, but whether you will do it on purpose. In this crash course, Bill offers three tips to focussing our attention on our inherent fearlessness so that we can have the writing experience we crave and deserve. Don't miss it.

Something different for today's episode. Most writers spend far more time editing and rewriting the stories they tell on the page than the stories they tell themselves about their writing experiences. Too many writers do not question the stories they tell themselves about rejection and acceptance, talent, intelligence, luck, and craft. Many of the stories I've heard about the most common experiences all writers face do not serve the writer. Today I'll offer a new story about writing, a story about how everyone is born with whatever they need to tell any story they want. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes bestselliong author Susan Mallery to the show. Susan  is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of novels about the relationships that define women's lives—romance, friendship, family. With compassion and humor, Susan keenly observes how people think and feel, in stories that take readers on an emotional journey. Sometimes heartbreaking, often funny, and always uplifting, Susan's books have spent more than 200 weeks on the USA Today bestsellers list, thanks to her ever growing legions of fans.

How can you beat that? Should be a lot of fun. Don't miss it.

Bill welcomes bestselling suspense writer Lisa Gardner to the show. With over 22 million books in print, Lisa is published in 30 countries. Her success crosses into the small screen with four of her novels becoming movies (At the Midnight Hour; The Perfect Husband; The Survivors Club; Hide) and personal appearances on television shows (TruTV; CNN). Her novel THE NEIGHBOR was recognized as the Best Hardcover Novel from the International Thriller Writers in the United States and Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle, prix du policier in France. She was also recognized with the Daphne duMaurior Award presented by RWA in 2000 for THE OTHER DAUGHTER. Should be a good one. Don't miss it.

Bill welcomes Tami Hoag to the show. Tami Hoag is the #1 international bestselling author of more than thirty books published in more than thirty languages worldwide, including her latest thrillers—BITTER SEASON, COLD COLD HEART and THE 9TH GIRL. Renowned for combining thrilling plots with character-driven suspense, Hoag first hit the New York Times Bestseller list with NIGHT SINS, and each of her books since has been a bestseller. What can we say? Tami knows how to tell a good story. Don't miss it.