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Host Terri Lynn Coop is pleased to serve up author and professor A.J. Hartley (who also writes as Andrew Hart) on The Blue Plate Special. 

About LIES THAT BIND US:

There aren’t many things in life that sound more relaxing to me than a weeklong Grecian getaway with good food, good wine, and good friends. What doesn’t sound relaxing to me? Waking up in a dark room, chained to a wall, with no memory how you got there during said vacation, which is exactly the predicament the protagonist, Jan, finds herself in Andrew Hart’s cautionary thriller, which can be best described as Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train meets Emma Straub’s The Vacationers.

Lies That Bind Us is a riveting novel of suspense that deftly weaves together the rich culture and atmosphere of the Greek islands and their mythology, the fog of mystery surrounding Jan’s captivity, and the lies that led her there. Hart’s depictions are so immersive, I felt like I was there myself, experiencing first the warmth of the coastal sunshine on my skin and the taste of salt on my lips, and later the haze of confusion surrounding a trip gone very, very wrong. - Alicia Clancy, Editor

Andrew Hart is one of the pseudonyms of New York Times bestselling and award-winning author A. J. Hartley. His sixteen novels straddle multiple genres for adults and younger readers and have been translated into dozens of languages worldwide. As Andrew James Hartley, he is also the Robinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. His website is www.ajhartley.net.

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In honor of C.C. Hunter and THIS HEART OF MINE, Wine Women & Writing Radio is serving up a Lewis Wines 2012 Cabernet Sauvignon-Tempranillo from Texas's Newsom Vineyards. NYT-bestseller C.C.—aka Christie Craig—calls this haunting, poignant novel "the book of her heart."

C.C. grew up in Alabama, where she caught lightning bugs, ran barefoot, and regularly rescued potential princes, in the form of Alabama bullfrogs, from her brothers. Today, she's still fascinated with lightning bugs, mostly wears shoes, but has turned her focus to rescuing mammals. She now lives in Texas with her four rescued cats, one dog, and a prince of a husband, who for the record, is so not a frog. When she's not writing, she's reading, spending time with her family, or is shooting things-with a camera, not a gun.

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Authors on the Air Host Pam Stack welcomes New York Times best-seling author Steena Holmes to the show.  With her passion for storytelling, Steena Holmes took her dream of being a full-time writer and made it a reality, writing her first novel while working as a receptionist. Her novels have won awards, such as:

2012 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE BOOK Award for her bestselling novel Finding Emma 

2015 USA BOOK NEWS Award for The Word Game, 

2015 USA BOOK NEWS finalist for The Memory Child.

Now both a New York Times and USA Today bestseller, with over a million copies sold, Steena continues to write stories that touch every parents heart in one way or another.

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Shannon Fisher interviews author Karen Fortunati. The two discuss Fortunati's debut novel, The Weight of Zero, which addresses the emotional journey of bipolar disorder in teens. The book explores the shame, stigma and anxiety that accompany mental illness, especially for a young person already navigating the difficulties of teen years.

For The Weight of Zero, Fortunati won the 2017 Connecticut Book Award for Young Readers. The book was listed by the New York Public Library as one of the 50 Best Books for Teens, named one of Apple's Best Books, as well as being selected as an Editor's Favorite on Amazon, and one of Barnes and Nobles Most Anticipated Debuts. It was also featured in Seventeen Magazine.

Our Lives with Shannon Fisher explores personal and societal perspectives of the American experience. The show delves deeply into the worlds of writers, artists, celebrities, and community leaders. Follow Shannon online: Facebook - Twitter.

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Shannon Fisher's guest tonight is Bob Brody, an essayist and executive from New York City and author of Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age, a memoir about his struggle to become a grown-up family man. "Playing catch" is meant to be taken both literally and as a metaphor for connections made with other humans. Brody describes his personal relationships with his family of origin, and the family he created, with an emotional current that is universally relatable.

"Playing Catch with Strangers is a gem . . . filled with insights, wit, pithy observations, common sense and neighborly decency . . a delightful and thought-provoking memoir." ~ Dan Rather, former CBS-TV anchor

Our Lives with Shannon Fisher explores personal and societal perspectives of the American experience. The show delves deeply into the worlds of writers, artists, celebrities, and community leaders. Follow Shannon online: Facebook - Twitter.

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Shannon Fisher welcomes improv great and comedy writer, Ali Davis, to discuss Ali's book, True P*rn Clerk Stories, a collection of vignettes born of Ali's popular blog in which she shares hilarious stories of her experiences as a video store clerk. The two also discuss Ali's experiences as an improv performer, including three years with The Second City touring company.

Our Lives with Shannon Fisher explores personal and societal perspectives of the American experience. The show delves deeply into the worlds of writers, artists, celebrities, and community leaders. Follow Shannon online: Facebook - Twitter.

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Host Terri Lynn Coop is pleased to serve up writer Brynne Chandler on The Blue Plate Special.

Brynne Chandler is a former professional Santa’s Helper and beauty school dropout best known for her work in writing TV animation during the 1980s and 1990s. Her first paid writing gig was as a ghostwriter for the Atari computer game based on the novel “Dragonworld” written by Byron Price and J. Michael Reaves.

Her first produced TV animation script was written as a spec for the original “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe”. It was featured as part of the show’s launch at Mann’s Chinese Theater. Her last produced script was an episode of Disney’s “Gargoyles”, a show she also story-edited.

In between those two scripts, Chandler was the first solo female Story Editor at DiC and 10 years later, she was the first solo female Story Editor at Disney. During that time, she wrote 200 produced scripts, including Transformers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and My Little Ponies, went through several name changes, had two children and received an EMMY nomination for “Batman: The Animated Series.”

After her TV career ended and she completed production of a third child, Chandler spent two years as Senior Editor at boutique manga publisher “Go! Comi” where she had to learn how to read books backwards.

She is still writing.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes highly acclaimed author PETER SWANSON.  We will be discussing his new book ALL THE BEAUTIFUL LIES.  Peter Swanson is the author of four novels: The Girl With a Clock For a Heart, an LA Times Book Award finalist; The Kind Worth Killing, winner of the New England Society Book Award, and finalist for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger; Her Every Fear, an NPR book of the year; and his most recent, All the Beautiful Lies. His books have been translated into 30 languages, and his stories, poetry, and features have appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Atlantic Monthly, Measure, The Guardian, The Strand Magazine, and Yankee Magazine.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes debut novelist SEAMUS HEFFERNAN to the show. 

About Seamus:    As a child, Seamus Heffernan’s parents indulged him far too much in his love of comic books, crime TV and pulp novels, and this is how he has decided to repay them. Prior to his writing career, he worked in education, journalism, marketing and politics, and earned an MA in criminology from the University of the Fraser Valley. Born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, he has called several places home, including a lengthy stint in London, England. He currently resides in British Columbia, where he splits his time between Abbotsford, Mission and Vancouver.

About NAPALM HEARTS:  Find the girl. Find the truth.      Thaddeus Grayle is a successful but bored American private investigator who has grown weary of snooping after the cheating spouses of his adopted city of London, England. Recently divorced and even more recently sober, he fills what little free time he has with movies, baseball and his own torrid affairs. He wants a change, and it finally arrives thanks to a wealthy businessman desperate to find his hard-partying wife—a young woman who might be in the biggest trouble of her life.     Capably aided by his associates—the whip-smart Charlotte ‘Charlie’ Colbourne, and ex-copper Francis Ruddick—Grayle goes all in on the case he always wanted, which takes him deep into the city's seedy underbelly, and face-to-face with an upper-class at war with its own vices.    A cinematic neo-noir told with breakneck urgency, NAPALM HEARTS is the debut novel from an exciting new voice in crime fiction.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes superstar IRIS JOHANSEN to the studio.  

IRIS JOHANSEN is the New York Times bestselling author of Your Next Breath, The Perfect Witness, Live to See Tomorrow, Silencing Eve, Hunting Eve, Taking Eve, Sleep No More, What Doesn't Kill You, Bonnie, Quinn, Eve,Chasing The Night, Eight Days to Live, Blood Game, Deadlock, Dark Summer, Pandora's Daughter, Quicksand,Killer Dreams, On The Run, Countdown, Firestorm, Fatal Tide, Dead Aim, and more. And with her son Roy Johansen, she has coauthored The Naked Eye, Sight Unseen, Close Your Eyes, Shadow Zone, Storm Cycle, and Silent Thunder.

Johansen began writing after her children left home for college. She first achieved success in the early 1980s writing category romances. In 1991, Johansen began writing suspense historical romance novels, starting with the publication of The Wind Dancer. In 1996 Johansen switched genres, turning to crime fiction, with which she has had great success. She had seventeen consecutive New York Times bestsellers as of November 2006.

Johansen lives near Atlanta, Georgia and is married. Her son, Roy Johansen, is an Edgar Award-winning screenwriter and novelist. Her daughter, Tamara, serves as her research assistant.

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