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When you think of 1968, you may think of places like San Francisco or Chicago. But Ryan Walsh is here to tell you that many of the strangest threads of counter-culture back then flowed through the city of Boston.

His new book ASTRAL WEEKS takes you on an epic tour of this weird, wild, unsettling time in American history, seen through a cast of characters that includes everyone from Van Morrison to Timothy Leary and Chevy Chase to Andrew Weil. It's a book about music, cults, drugs, The Thomas Crown Affair, and the Boston Strangler, with stories that are as strange as the era itself. You'll read about Mark Frechette, who was literally plucked off a street corner to star in a Hollywood movie -- and later became a bank robber.  Or how about the band Orpheus, which found that their producer was hiring imitation bands to play tour dates for them? 

Intrigued? Well, buckle up, because you ain't seen nothing yet.

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Brian Freeman, host of TRUE STORY, is an award-winning author of psychological thrillers. His novel THE NIGHT BIRD was one of the top 20 Kindle bestsellers of 2017. Find out more about him at bfreemanbooks.com.

Your Book Garden host Tina Susedik welcomes Char Chaffin and Cheryl Yeko to the show.

Char Chaffin and Cheryl Yeko, editors and authors at Soul Mate Publishing, developed a project called The Soul Mate Tree Collective. Inviting twelve of their authors to participate, they were asked to create stories in any romance sub-genre and any time frame. From space travel to Oregon Trail travel, these Soul Mate authors captivate the reader with their unique perspective on this ancient tree and how it helps those in need find their true love.

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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Host Terri Lynn Coop is pleased to serve up bestselling author Kari Lynn Dell on The Blue Plate Special.

"Look out, world! There's a new cowboy in town." —CAROLYN BROWN, New York Times Bestselling Author for Tangled in Texas

Kari Lynn Dell is a native of north-central Montana, a third generation ranch-raised cowgirl, horse trainer and rodeo competitor. She attended her first rodeo at two weeks old and has existed in a state of horse-induced poverty ever since. She currently resides on the family ranch on the Blackfeet Reservation, loitering in her parents’ bunkhouse along with her husband, son and Max the Cowdog, with a tipi on the front step, a view of Glacier National Park from her writing desk and Canada within spitting distance.

Come visit at KariLynnDell.com, hear what's next on the publication front, learn firsthand about ranch life on the east slope of Rockies and laugh with us at the tales of woe and wonder that come with living on the northern frontier.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes a superstar of the thriller world, the one and only CATHERINE COULTER.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes JAMES ANDERSON to the studio.  James Anderson was born in Seattle, Washington and raised in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. He received his undergraduate degree in American Studies from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and his Masters Degree in Creative Writing from Pine Manor College in Boston Massachusetts.   We will be talking about his new book Lullaby Road.  

Praise for Lullaby Road:   “As he did in his 2015 debut, “The Never-Open Desert Diner,” James Anderson delivers an unconventional mystery melding near lyrical prose with a strong sense of atmosphere and an affinity for oddball characters… A sense of the menacing hangs over the plot of “Lullaby Road,” and when violence erupts, it’s expected, yet still surprising… Lullaby Road works well as a story about isolation, loss, parenting and predators… Anderson evocatively illustrates the beauty and harshness of Utah’s high desert while also delving deep into the characters and their motives for living where they do.” - The Associated Press

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes Carolyn Brown!

After childhood plans to become the captain of a starship didn’t pan out, Suzanne Brockmann took her fascination with military history, her respect for the men and women who serve, her reverence for diversity, and her love of storytelling, and explored brave new worlds as a bestselling romance author. Over the past twenty-five years she has written more than fifty-five novels, including her award-winning Troubleshooters series about Navy SEAL heroes and the women—and sometimes men—who win their hearts. Her personal favorite book is All Through the Night,  the first mainstream romance novel with a hero and a hero to hit the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list.In addition to writing books, Suz has co-produced several feature-length indie movies, the rom-com The Perfect Wedding, which she co-wrote with Ed and Jason, and the upcoming thriller Russian Doll. She has also created a line of m/m category romantic comedy novellas called Suzanne Brockmann Presents. Her most favorite thing ever was dancing at her son Jason’s wedding to his husband, Matt, in California in the spring of 2016. Her least favorite things are Nazis, bigotry, carefully-learned-and-taught hatred of the “other,” religious fundamentalists and zealots, white supremacists, stupidity, and willful ignorance.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes NICK KOLAKOWSKI to the show.  Nick Kolakowski's writing has appeared in Shotgun Honey, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Thuglit, The North American Review, Spinetingler Magazine, Plots with Guns, and various anthologies. He lives and writes in New York City.

Nick's a little shy about dicussing his work but that's okay.  When he's in the studio, I'm going to grill him like a hamburger.  Stay tuned to hear about Nick's terrific crime fiction.  Slaughterhouse Blues catches up with Bill and Fiona, the chattery and gun-happy anti-heroes of A Brutal Bunch of Heartbroken Saps, soon after they’ve escaped the Rockaway Mob, the criminal enterprise from which Bill “borrowed” several million dollars. 

Holed up in Havana, Bill and Fiona know the Mob is coming for them—it’s just a question of time. But they’re not prepared for who the Mob sends: a pair of assassins so utterly amoral and demented, their behavior pushes the boundaries of sanity. Seriously, what kind of killers pause in mid-hunt to discuss the finer points of thread count and luxury automobiles? 

Forced on the run (again), Bill and Fiona will venture from the crumbling streets of Cuba to the steaming jungles of Nicaragua, and finally back to the mean streets of New York City. If they want to survive, our fine young criminals can’t retreat anymore: they’ll need to pull off a massive (and massively weird) heist—and the loot has some very dark history… 

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes back international best-selling author JOHN LESCROART.  John's new release is called POISON, a riveting novel about the unexpected, shattering, and lethal consequences of a one-night stand on a seemingly happily married couple that will “appeal to Harlan Coben or Gillian Flynn fans” (Booklist, starred review).  John writes full-time, with intense focus and a renewed dedication after a brush with death 11 years earlier. The resulting books, richer in terms of theme and story, found a devoted readership and propelled him into the elite circle of bestselling authors—only twenty years to overnight success!

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes man-of-all-trades ERIC BEETNER.

Eric writes hardboiled crime fiction. He's been nominated for two Anthony Awards, an ITW award, a Derringer and  won a few awards like the 2012 Stalker award. Eric has been described as "the James Brown of noir - the hardest working man in crime fiction" (Crime Fiction Lover) and "The 21st Century's answer to Jim Thompson" (LitReactor) He is the author of Rumrunners, Leadfoot (Anthony Award nominee), The Devil Doesn't Want Me, When The Devil Comes To Call, Criminal Economics, Dig Two Graves, The Year I Died Seven Times, White Hot Pistol, Stripper Pole At the End Of The World, the story collection A Bouquet Of Bullets, co-author (with JB Kohl) of the novels Over Their Heads, One Too Many Blows To The Head and Borrowed Trouble. He co-authored The Backlist and The Short List with Frank Zafiro and he has written the novellas FIGHTCARD: Split Decision and FIGHTCARD: A Mouth Full Of Blood under the name Jack Tunney as well as two in The Lawyer series of western novellas.He is a 2017 ITW Award nominee and two-time 2017 Anthony Award nominee for best paperback original and best anthology for Unloaded: Crime Writers Writing Without Guns which he edited and created. His award-winning short fiction has appeared in more than two dozen anthologies.Eric also co-hosts the podcast Writer Types along with writer SW Lauden and he hosts the popular Noir at the Bar reading series in Los Angeles for six years and counting.

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