Authors on the Air Global Radio Network

Host Terri Lynn Coop serves up Angel Luis Colón on The Blue Plate Special.

"Angel Colon is a sick, sick, man, and I say that as a compliment. I thought I knew what I was getting into when I found out this involved a heist set in a sperm bank, but nope, I wasn't even close." - Amazon Reviewer

Angel Luis Colón is the Anthony and Derringer Award-nominated author of NO HAPPY ENDINGS, the BLACKY JAGUAR series of novellas, and the upcoming short story anthology; MEAT CITY ON FIRE (AND OTHER ASSORTED DEBACLES). His fiction has appeared in multiple web and print publications including Thuglit, Literary Orphans, and Great Jones Street.

Support for this broadcast is made possible by Down & Out Books, celebrating 6 years of award-winning crime fiction. Check them out at www.downandout.com.

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Host Terri Lynn Coop serves up Anthony-nominated author and blogger Steve Lauden on The Blue Plate Special.

“Crosswise stands as a glorious bastard child of Goodfellas and The Golden Girls. It’s a taut mystery with a hell of a wicked streak that only further cements S.W. Lauden as one of the best new voices in mystery and crime.” Angel Luis Colón, author of The Fury of Blacky Jaguar

S.W. Lauden is the Anthony Award-nominated author of the Tommy & Shayna Crime Caper novellas include CROSSWISE and CROSSED BONES (Down & Out Books). His Greg Salem punk rock P.I. series includes BAD CITIZEN CORPORATION and GRIZZLY SEASON (Rare Bird Books). He is also the co-host of the Writer Types podcast. Steve lives in Los Angeles.

Support for this broadcast comes from Down & Out Books, celebrating 6 years of award-winning crime fiction. Check them out at www.downandoutbooks.com.

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Host Terri Lynn Coop serves up author, lawyer, and columnist J.D. Rhoades on The Blue Plate Special. 

Bestselling author, attorney, award winning newspaper columnist--J.D. Rhoades is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but with a soft creamy center. He attended the University of North Carolina, where he majored in Spelling. A stint in UNC's creative writing program resulted in his not writing another word of fiction for 13 years, unless you count legal briefs. 

In 1993, Rhoades' local newspaper, the Southern Pines, North Carolina, Pilot, apparently got tired of his snarky and sarcastic letters to the editor and asked him to write a weekly column. After a few years and an award for the column from the North Carolina Press Association, the same editor grudgingly allowed as how Rhoades wasn't a complete hack after all, and suggested he write a novel. "Hey," he said, "how hard can it be?" The answer, as it turns out, was "very hard indeed." 

He wrote a novel. It sank like a stone. For some inexplicable reason, he wrote another. That one, THE DEVIL'S RIGHT HAND, was picked up by St. Martin's Minotaur and was nominated for the Shamus Award for Best First P.I. novel. Several more Jack Keller novels followed, including the most recent HELLHOUSE ON MY TRAIL. 

Support for this broadcast is made possible by Down & Out Books, celebrating 6 years of award-winning crime fiction. Check them out at www.downandout.com 

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Host Terri Lynn Coop serves up military sci-fi/fantasy/thriller author Myke Cole on The Blue Plate Special. 

“Think Vince Flynn plus a whole lot of magic mixed in and baked in hellfire, and you’ve got the gist of how awesome Myke Cole’s new series is shaping up to be.”—Michael Patrick Hicks, author of Emergence

Myke Cole has translated a life in intelligence, the military, and law enforcement into a career as a TV personality, historian, and novelist. On the screen and on the page, he takes you where the action is. 

As a security contractor, government civilian, and military officer, Myke's career has run the gamut from counterterrorism to cyber warfare to federal law enforcement. He’s done three tours in Iraq and was recalled to serve during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

He recently was part of the cast of the TV show Hunted on CBS as part of an elite team of fugitive hunters. All that conflict can wear a guy out. Thank goodness for fantasy novels, comic books, late-night games of Dungeons & Dragons, and lots of angst-fueled writing.

This broadcast is made possible by the support of Down & Out Books, celebrating 6 years of award-winning crime fiction. Check them out at www.downandoutbooks.com

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Host Terri Lynn Coop serves up John Gilstrap, Author of the Jonathan Grave series, on The Blue Plate Special.

John Gilstrap is the New York Times bestselling and Thriller Award-winning author of Final Target, Friendly Fire, Nick of Time, Against All Enemies, End Game, Soft Targets, High Treason, Damage Control, Threat Warning, Hostage Zero, No Mercy, Nathan's Run, At All Costs, Even Steven, Scott Free and Six Minutes to Freedom. In addition, John has written four screenplays for Hollywood, adapting the works of Nelson DeMille, Norman McLean, and Thomas Harris. He will write and co-produce the film adaptation of his book, Six Minutes to Freedom.

A frequent speaker at literary events, John also teaches seminars on suspense writing techniques at a wide variety of venues, from local libraries to The Smithsonian Institution. Outside of his writing life, John is a renowned safety expert with extensive knowledge of explosives, hazardous materials, and fire behavior. John lives in Fairfax, Virginia.

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Host Terri Lynn Coop serves up author, blogger, and photographer Gabino Iglesias on The Blue Plate Special.

"Call him the Barrio Palahniuk, a badass Henry Miller, Charles Willeford in Cholo-land--whatever the moniker, for my money Gabino Iglesias is one of the most fearless, original and riveting writers working today. If there's any justice on this hellhole of a planet, Zero Saints--an instant, wild-ass classic--should launch its author far from outlier status into the wet, palpitating heart of contemporary literature. This is a fierce, nasty, beautiful, sucker-punch of a novel. You'd be an idiot not to read it immediately." - Jerry Stahl, author of Permanent Midnight and I, Fatty

Gabino Iglesias hides near a dumpster in Austin, Texas, where he works as a freelance journalist and convinced a college to give him a PhD. His nonfiction has appeared in places like The New York Times, Z Magazine, El Nuevo Día, and others. The stuff that's made up has been published in Red Fez, Flash Fiction Offensive, Drunk Monkeys, Bizarro Central, Paragraph Line, Divergent Magazine, Cease, and Cows. When not writing or fighting ninja squirrels, he devours books and spits out reviews that have been published in Verbicide, The Rumpus, Word Riot, Heavy Feather Review, The Lazy Fascist Review, Bookslut, Electric Literature, Atticus Review, Entropy, HorrorTalk, Necessary Fiction, The Magazine of Bizarro Fiction, Out of the Gutter, Spinetingler Magazine, and Buzzy Mag.

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Host Terri Lynn Coop serves up Anthony nominated John Shepphird on The Blue Plate Special.

Life can turn on a dime against the jagged cliffs of California’s Central Coast... Bruised, battered, but determined, Jane Innes must navigate a tangled web of deception, depravity, and murder, and turn the tables on cunning swindlers. Using the art of deception, this out-of-work actress embarks on a daring caper—her last chance to take down a deadly adversary.

From Down & Out Books, following THE SHILL and KILL THE SHILL, BEWARE THE SHILL concludes this thrilling trilogy from Shamus Award-winning author John Shepphird, an author and writer-director of TV movies.

His three SHILL novellas were inspired by noir master James M. Cain; it is a terse, tense, and twist-filled trilogy with a cast of characters immersed in the art of deception, depravity, and murder. The Art of Deception is a theme common in his crime fiction.

Support for this broadcast comes from Down & Out Books, celebrating six years of award-winning crime fiction. Check them out at www.downandoutbooks.com. 

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Host Terri Lynn Coop serves up Meg Gardiner and her newest book UNSUB.

“Like The Silence of the Lambs, this novel scared the hell out of me. I dare you to try putting it down The UNSUB, or unknown subject, at the heart of Meg Gardiner’s thriller is terrifying.” —Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of The Cartel

Meg Gardiner is the author of thirteen thrillers. UNSUB, her latest novel, features homicide detective Caitlin Hendrix. Meg was born in Oklahoma and raised in Santa Barbara, California. A graduate of Stanford Law School, she practiced law in Los Angeles and taught writing at the University of California Santa Barbara. She's also a three time Jeopardy! champion. Meg lives in Austin, Texas.

She's the author of the Evan Delaney series and the Jo Beckett novels. China Lake won the 2009 Edgar award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Paperback Original. The Dirty Secrets Club won the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award for Best Procedural Novel of 2008. The Nightmare Thief won the 2012 Audie Award for Thriller/Suspense audiobook of the year. Phantom Instinct was an O, the Oprah magazine, "Best Books of Summer."

This broadcast was made possible through the sponsorship of Down & Out Books, celebrating six years of award-winning crime fiction. Check them out at www.downandoutbooks.com

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Host Terri Lynn Coop serves up author Greg Barth on The Blue Plate Special Podcast

Greg Barth is the author of Selena, Diesel Therapy, Suicide Lounge, Road Carnage, Bona Fide Jobs, Where Moth and Rust Corrupt, and Everglade. Greg cut his literary teeth reading the Parker novels by Richard Stark. The Stark influence is evident in Barth's lean, compact prose. As a fiction writer, he has a thing for amoral characters in bad situations without good options who proceed to make things worse for themselves. A devoted fan of noir fiction in all its forms, Greg is also the host of Noir on the Radio, an affiliate of the Authors on the Air Global Network. He lives and writes in Bowling Green, KY.

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Noir on the Radio host Greg Barth welcomes author Eric Van Lustbader

Eric Van Lustbader’s first novel, The Sunset Warrior, was published in 1975. Since then, he has published more than twenty five best-selling novels, including The Ninja, in which he introduced Nicholas Linnear, one of modern fiction’s most beloved and enduring heroes, continuing his exploits in five subsequent best-sellers. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages; his books are bestsellers worldwide.

 Mr. Lustbader is also the author of two successful and highly regarded major fantasy series, The Pearl, and The Sunset Warrior Cycle. He is also the author of “Batman” The Dark Angel,” which was the only graphic novel to be chosen as a Monthly Choice of the Quality Paperback Book Club.

In 2003, he was asked by Estate of the late Robert Ludlum to continue the series based on Jason Bourne. The Bourne Legacy, published in 2004 continues and updates the adventures of Robert Ludlum’s famous international assassin.

In 2008, Mr. Lustbader wrote First Daughter to wide acclaim. The novel features Jack McClure and Alli Carson, Mr. Lustbader’s first continuing characters since Nicholas Linnear and Jake Maroc. The second novel in the series, Last Snow, was published in January, 2010. The third novel in the series, Blood Trust, is published in May, 2011.

Host Greg Barth is the author of Selena, Diesel Therapy, Suicide Lounge, Road Carnage, and Everglade.

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