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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes the authors and editor of the anthology UNLOADED VOLUME 2. Joining Pam today are editor Eric Beetner, and contrbutors  James Ziskin, Kris Calvin, Alex Segura and Laura McHugh.

The Anthony-nominated collection of crime stories without guns—the collection we didn't want to be necessary—is back for Volume 2.  Two dozen more crime writers have come together to raise their voices and take pen in hand to call for a sensible and reasoned debate about guns in America. As the mass shootings continue, the avoidable accidents, the suicides, the gun violence that consumes our country rolls on unabated and unaddressed by our leadership other than to say, “Now is not the time to discuss it,” these crime writers have chosen to start the dialogue. 

In stories of crime, mystery and suspense these authors have left the guns out to show for a short while that we can do without them and the plot doesn’t fall apart. Maybe, in a small way, we can show that the American way of life doesn’t cease to be, either. 

Not anti-gun, Unloaded Volume 2 is pro-reason. These authors comprise gun owners and non-owners, voters on both sides of the political aisle. The cause that unites us all is the desire to see the senseless killing stop and to be able to have the discussion without the divisive language, vitriol and name calling that too often accompanies this debate. 

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Host Terri Lynn Coop is pleased to serve up writer, filmmaker, and podcaster ERYK PRUITT. 

Eryk Pruitt is a screenwriter, author and filmmaker living in Durham, NC with his wife Lana and cat Busey. His short films FOODIE and LIYANA, ON COMMAND have won several awards at film festivals across the US. In 2015, he was a finalist for the Derringer Award for his short story "Knockout.". His third novel, WHAT WE RECKON, has been nominated for the prestigious Anthony Award and can be found on bookshelves across the country. His short fiction will be collected for the first time this October in the upcoming publication from Polis Books, TOWNIES AND OTHER STORIES OF SOUTHERN MISCHIEF. He is the host of the Noir at the Bar series in Durham. A full list of credits can be found at erykpruitt.com.

Eryk has also helped create the podcast THE LONG DANCE. This is the story of the lives touched by the murders of Patricia Mann and Jesse McBane. Produced by crime fiction author Eryk Pruitt, investigative reporter Drew Adamek, and sound engineer Piper Kessler, it uses recorded interviews to tell the tragic tale of North Carolina’s most baffling murder case.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes author and journalist WALLACE STROBY.   

Wallace Stroby is an award-winning journalist and the author of eight novels, four of which feature professional thief Crissa Stone, whom Kirkus Reviews named "Crime fiction's best bad girl ever."   A Long Branch, N.J., native, he's a lifelong resident of the Jersey Shore. His debut novel THE BARBED-WIRE KISS, which The Washington Post called "a scorching first novel ...full of attention to character and memory and, even more, to the neighborhoods of New Jersey," was a finalist for the 2004 Barry Award for Best First Novel.   His 2010 novel GONE 'TIL NOVEMBER was picked as a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, as was the second Crissa Stone novel KINGS OF MIDNIGHT. 

ABOUT THE BOOK:   Ray Devlin is retired, living a simple life off the grid in Florida, when a visit from an old colleague stirs some bad memories--and ends with a gunshot. Soon Devlin is forced to again face a past he'd hoped to leave behind, as a member of a mercenary force that helped put a brutal South American dictator into power.    Tracy Quinn is an investigative reporter at a struggling Philadelphia newspaper decimated by layoffs and cutbacks. Then one day what appears to be a straightforward homicide--a body left in an abandoned rowhouse--draws her and Devlin together, and ultimately enmeshes both in a conspiracy that stretches over twenty years and reaches to the highest levels of the U.S. government.Before long, they're both the targets of a ruthless assassin haunted by his own wartime experiences. For Devlin, it could all mean a last shot at redemption. For Tracy, the biggest story of her career might just cost her life.

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Slid Row Chatter host Tom Pitts presents WE ARE THE CLASH authors Ralph HeibutzkI and Mark Andersen.

The Clash was a paradox of revolutionary conviction, musical ambition, and commercial drive. We Are The Clash is a gripping tale of the band's struggle to reinvent itself as George Orwell's 1984 loomed. This bold campaign crashed headlong into a wall of internal contradictions, and rising right-wing power.

While the world teetered on the edge of the nuclear abyss, British miners waged a life-or-death strike, and tens of thousands died from US guns in Central America, Clash cofounders Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon, and Bernard Rhodes waged a desperate last stand after ejecting guitarist Mick Jones and drummer Topper Headon. The band shattered just as its controversial final album, Cut the Crap, was emerging.

Andersen and Heibutzki weave together extensive archival research and in-depth original interviews with virtually all of the key players involved to tell a moving story of idealism undone by human frailty amid a climatic turning point for our world.

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LIVE from Thrillerfest with the A-List authors

Host Terri Lynn Coop is pleased to serve up Carole Oldroyd (writing as Lee Connor) and The Prison Wife Survival Guide - How to Survive the First Few Weeks. 

What would you do if your husband was arrested? Would you crawl into bed with a family-size bag of potato chips and a pint of Ben & Jerry's? Or would you sweep up the crumbs of your life, bake a new cake, and handle your new role as an inmate's wife? There's no rule that says you can't do both. With over two million jail and prison inmates in America and the majority of them men, it's not as unlikely as you might think. People are taken into police custody for good reason and for no reason at all. All you have to do is watch the news or check your Twitter feed to know it's true. I never thought it could be my family's story, either. And yet, here we are.

Book 1, How to Survive the First Few Weeks, is a quick-start guide that gives you an inside look:

•What happens after an arrest?

•Where will they take him?

•When can you visit?

•What do you need to know about researching attorneys?

•What can you do to help him?

•What should you never, ever do?

•What's life like for him? 

It doesn't matter if he's a terrible person who did a terrible thing or a really great guy caught on the wrong side of the law. That has nothing to do with you. There is absolutely no shame in being a prison wife, and don't let anyone--not the police, not investigators, not jail guards, nor society in general--tell you otherwise. 

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Host Pam Stack welcomes authors from Thrillerfest.

Randy Weir is the author of seven Jarvis Mann, P.I. novels. His writing beckons back to the days of detectives and dames, but with modern plots and twists. PI Jarvis Mann is tough, resourceful and a man with as many faults as virtues. His oddball sense of humor is much like Randy's, though he's not nearly as tough and fearless as Jarvis is. Though no evil stands a chance against his written word!

Tina Susedik is an award-winning, Amazon best-selling, multi-published author with books in both fiction and non-fiction, including history, children’s, military books and romances. Her favorite is writing romance stories where her characters live happily ever after. Tina also writes spicier romance as Anita Kidesu. She lives in northwestern Wisconsin where winters are long, summers short, and spring and fall beautiful.

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Matthew W Harrill lives in the idyllic South-West of England, nestled snugly in a village in the foothills of the Cotswolds. Born in 1976, he attended school in Bristol and received a degree in Geology from Southampton University. By day he plies his trade implementing share plans. By night he spends his time with his wife and four children.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes international best-selling author Paul Levine.  Is Jake Lassiter done?  No more courtroom brawls?  What's going on here?  We get to the bottom of this and ask Levine the hard questions!   

From Paul Levine:  This is the LAST time I'll trade insults and punches with Jake Lassiter. He's so damn ungrateful for all I've given him! https://paul-levine.com/bum-deal-levine-vs-lassiter/

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