Authors on the Air Global Radio Network

Bestselling author Brad Taylor, a retired Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel, stops in to speak with Gavin Reese about how he researches plots, still puts his own boots on the ground, and brings personal and professional authenticity to his writing.

Brad's works:

https://www.amazon.com/Brad-Taylor/e/B003UQZJ2U?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1551501378&sr=1-2

Gavin's works:

https://www.amazon.com/Gavin-Reese/e/B072W5PPGS/

For more information:

https://gavinreese.com

Owl Goingback has been writing professionally for over thirty years, and is the author of numerous novels, children’s book, screenplays, magazine articles, and short stories. He is a Bram Stoker Award Winner, a Nebula Award Nominee, and a Storytelling World Awards Honor Recipient. His books include Crota, Darker Than Night, Evil Whispers, Breed, Shaman Moon, Eagle Feathers, and The Gift.

Owl’s short story collection Tribal Screams was published as a limited run in 2016, and recently republished to a much larger audience. The Coffee Shop of Horrors created an Owl Goingback’s Tribal Screams roasted chestnut flavored coffee to tie-in with the collection. Owl was also one of eight writers chosen for DC Entertainment’s 2016 Talent Development Workshop, and recently added comic book writer to his professional resume. His newest novel, Coyote Rage, will be published in 2019.

In addition to writing under his own name, Owl has ghostwritten for Hollywood celebrities—including a science fiction novel for a multiple Emmy Award winning actor.

When not writing, Owl can be found investigating historic and haunted places throughout the country. He served in the United States Air Force, owned a restaurant/lounge, and worked as a cemetery caretaker. He is a member of the Authors Guild, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the Horror Writers Association.

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Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for thirty years.hough her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She switched to novels a few years later, and achieved publication in 1981 with Sweet and Deadly.

Sookie Stackhouse has proven to be so popular that Alan Ball,produced a new HBO series based upon the books True Blood.. Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the American Crime Writers League, Sisters in Crime, and the International Crime Writers Association. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and MWA, and MWA.,Science Fiction Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, and RWA,

John Lescroart's previous book, FATAL, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list, his eighteenth NY Times bestseller. His latest, POISON, hailed as "a marvelous novel" by the Associated Press, debuted on February 13, 2018.

John Lescroart is the co-President (with Heather Graham) of the International Thriller Writers ("ITW") and the New York Times Bestselling author.

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Fiction and fantasy author Susan K. Hamilton began writing at an early age but rediscovered her passion while in college. Her first novel, "Darkstar Rising," was published through Xlibris in 2003. Her upcoming title, "Shadow King," was a Top Ten Finalist in the 2016 Launchpad Manuscript Competition and will be released later in 2017 through Inkshares. Susan lives outside of Boston, MA with her husband, cat, and horse.

AUGUST TURAK is a successful entrepreneur and award-winning author who attributes much of his success to his 20-year stint as a frequent monastic guest of the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey. As a monastic guest, he lives and works alongside the monks sometimes for months at a time.

Recipient of the prestigious Templeton Prize, Brother John is the true story of a meaningful encounter between a man going through a mid-life crisis, and an umbrella-wielding Trappist monk. This magical encounter on Christmas Eve eventually leads the author, and us all, to the redemptive power of an authentically purposeful life. Uplifting, deeply moving, Brother John is dramatically brought to life by over twenty full color paintings by Glenn Harrington, a multiple award-winning artist. Brother John's moving story takes place at Christmastime, and its inspirational message and rich illustrations are sure to bring the reader back again and again throughout the year.

After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to accept an unthinkable condition of continued employment: the famously rogue agent must now work with a partner.

Pendergast and his new colleague, junior agent Coldmoon, are assigned to investigate a rash of killings in Miami Beach, where a bloodthirsty psychopath is cutting out the hearts of his victims and leaving them with cryptic handwritten letters at local gravestones. The graves are unconnected save in one bizarre way: all belong to women who committed suicide.

But the seeming lack of connection between the old suicides and the new murders is soon the least of Pendergast's worries. Because as he digs deeper, he realizes the brutal new crimes may be just the tip of the iceberg: a conspiracy of death that reaches back decades.

Today’s guest is the domestic violence awareness advocate Cindy Brown, who was married to serial killer and so called Classified Ad Rapist Bobby Joe Long before he began an infamous murder spree that claimed the lives of ten women across a seven month span in Tampa, Florida. Cindy and Bobby married in 1978 and had two children together. Their marriage began happily, but by its end Bobby was inflicting life threatening beatings on his wife. He’d suffered a number of serious head injuries in his lifetime, including one in a major motorcycle crash, after which Cindy said he became much more violent. This is of interest because a number of serial killers have been found to have suffered head trauma before they began killing.

During Long’s marriage to Cindy, and in the years after their divorce, he’s believed to have committed between 50 and 150 rapes of women he found through newspaper classified ads. These women were selling furniture and other wares. Bobby would arrange to meet them at their homes, then sexually assault them. He was eventually caught and pleaded guilty to multiple murders and rapes in 1985. Nearly thirty five years later, he still is still awaiting execution on Florida’s death row.

Cindy Brown joined us by phone this week to discuss her marriage to Bobby, her experiences as a survivor of violence, and how her story is helping other women escape violent relationships.

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Peter Atkins is the author of the novels Morningstar, Big Thunder, and Moontown and the screenplays Hellraiser II, Hellraiser III, Hellraiser IV, and Wishmaster. His short fiction has appeared in such anthologies as The Museum of Horrors, Dark Delicacies II, Hellbound Hearts, Gutshot, and The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes and has been selected eight times for one or more of the various ‘Year’s Best’ anthologies. He can be found on the web at: peteratkins.blogspot.com

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