Authors on the Air

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes award-winning author Jenny Milchman to the studio.

Jenny is a suspense writer from New York State, who lived for fifteen months on the road with her family on what Shelf Awareness called “the world’s longest book tour.”  Jenny’s debut novel, COVER OF SNOW, was acquired by Random House. It won the Mary Higgins Clark award, was praised by the New York Times, and chosen as an Indie Next and Target Pick. RUIN FALLS was chosen as an Indie Next Pick.  Jenny’s third novel, AS NIGHT FALLS was chosen as an Indie Next Pick and a Pure WOW Summer Read and is currently in development as a film. Jenny's fourth novel, WICKED RIVER, was chosen as an Indie Next Pick and one of Strand Magazine's Best of the Year. Her fifth novel, THE SECOND MOTHER, releases summer 2020.

About The Second Mother:   Julie Weathers isn't sure if she's running away or starting over, but moving to a remote island off the coast of Maine feels right for someone with reasons to flee her old life. The sun-washed, sea-stormed speck of land seems welcoming, the lobster plentiful, and the community close and tightly knit. She finds friends in her nearest neighbor and Callum, a man who appears to be using the island for the same thing as she: escape.  But as Julie takes on the challenge of teaching the island's children, she comes to suspect that she may have traded one place shrouded in trouble for another, and she begins to wonder if the greatest danger on Mercy Island is its lost location far out to sea, or the people who live there.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes award-winning romance author Rachel Hauck.

Rachel Hauck is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author.  She is a Christy Award Winner and a double RITA finalist. Her book The Wedding Dress was named Inspirational Novel of the Year by Romantic Times Book Club. She is also the recipient of RT's Career Achievement Award.  Her book, Once Upon A Prince, was filmed for an original Hallmark movie. The Wedding Dress, The Wedding Shop and A March Bride have all been optioned for film.

Abouth the book:  Daffodil Caron is not a princess, even though she once dreamed of being one. After all, she grew up as a playmate to royal princes, running through the halls of Perrigwynn Palace in the North Sea’s Lauchtenland. But the day she stumbled upon a royal secret, everything changed.  Flash forward eighteen years, and Daffy’s living a sweet, non-royal life. A skilled art curator for the Royal Trust, she has friends, a flat in the heart of the capital city, and a handsome, successful boyfriend. The last person on her mind is Gus, the prince she once called her best mate.  HRH Prince Augustus is no longer “Prince Pudgy,” as caricatured by the press—he’s charming and gorgeous, possessing a world-famous smile. But after he’s jilted at the altar, then dumped by his second fianceé, the spare heir to Lauchtenland’s ancient House of Blue finds solace on a Florida beach.  When Daffy and Gus find themselves on assignment at Hadsby Castle in preparation for his brother’s wedding ball, their friendship blooms into affection.  Then secrets are exposed, and Gus must choose between his past hurts and his future hope. And Daffy must trust her heart to forever love a prince.    @copyrighted

Authors on the Air presents this exclusive episode of IN CONVERSATION with Victor Methos.

Victor Methos immigrated to the United States from Kabul, Afghanistan, at the age of nine and wrote his first short story in English at the age of ten. He is the bestselling author of over 50 novels and has been nominated for the prestigious Edgar Award for best novel and  won the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.   He attended law school at the University of Utah and has been both a prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, having conducted more than 100 trials ranging from death penalty cases to defending the rights of Native American tribes to practice their religion freely, to suing police departments for civil rights violations.    Methos' books have been #1 bestselling hits in the United States, United Kingdom, India, Australia, and throughout the world. He currently lives in Southern Utah.

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Guest host author Terry Shepherd IN CONVERSATION with best-selling author Danielle Girard about writing, bleeding words and more. Danielle Girard is the USA Today and Amazon #1 bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Exhume, book 1 in the Dr. Schwartzman Series, and Chasing Darkness, as well as The Rookie Club series. Her books have won the Barry Award and the RT Reviewers' Choice Award, and two of her titles have been optioned for movies.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack presents award-winning author Bruce Coffin.

Bruce is the award-winning author of the bestselling Detective Byron mystery series. A former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement, he supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine's largest city. Following the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, Bruce spent four years investigating counter-terrorism cases for the FBI, earning the Director's Award, the highest award a non-agent can receive.

His novel, Beyond the Truth, winner of Killer Nashville's Silver Falchion Award for Best Procedural, was a finalist for the Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel and a finalist for the Maine Literary Award for Best Crime Fiction. His short fiction appears in several anthologies, including Best American Mystery Stories 2016. Bruce is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. He is a regular contributor to Murder Books blogs.

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Jeff Ayers and host Pam Stack talked about their favorite books and authors and what they are reading now. We think Jeff Ayers will be back again and soon. His insights are excellent!

Jeff Ayers is a freelance book reviewer for The Associated Press, Library Journal, and Booklist. He is the author of Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion, and several other books in both fiction and non-fiction. Jeff co-hosts a podcast with John Raab, the editor of Suspense Magazine, called Beyond the Cover, and has interviewed over 500 authors for various magazines, books, newspapers, and panels. Look here for more information: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Voyage…781416503491. Some of Jeff's articles - muckrack.com/jeff-ayer

Landis is a native Charlotteean who loves reading and writing. And dogs. Which is why he starts each day walking Gus and Lori, two rescue dogs named after characters from Larry McMurtry’s classic western, Lonesome Dove, one of his favorite books.

Landis has been writing all his life. That’s what lawyers do. But he had a revelation in his mid-50s when he realized it was more fun to write about conflict than to experience it. And so, while still practicing law, he began writing fiction when he penned a Christmas story for his family that turned into his first published book.

And because Landis is curious and sometimes frustrated by technology, he asked himself this question as he approached retirement from his law firm: “I wonder if I can create, manage and produce a great podcast that features authors reading their work?” He looks forward to hearing the answer to this question from the podcast’s listeners.

Charlotte Readers Podcast:  This is the show where we meet Charlotte and regional authors and we hear them read their work. Author and host Landis Wade encourages authors to read and talk about their award-winning, published and emerging works, the kind of stories and poems that touch the emotions, followed by the kind of questions and answers that offer depth and insight into the readings.  https://charlottereaderspodcast.com/

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Authors on the Air presents author Terry Shepherd and Kate Anslinger IN CONVERSATION.

Kate Anslinger is the author of three novels, including her debut novel Saving Jason, which touches upon the struggles of PTSD. In addition to her life as a novelist, she is a journalist, freelance writer, and a veteran of the United States Air Force.

Terry Shepherd says " spend every free minute in front of a keyboard, spilling out the contents of my disordered mind. Someday maybe it will coalesce into something with commercial appeal. I’m ok if it doesn’t .

Jessica Ramirez is my “protagonist”, what we call our heroes and heroines in the trade. Yes, she is based on a real Latina cop and her many of her adventures are based on real events in that cop’s life. To protect the innocent, I weave a composite of traits and adventures in the lives of some amazing police women I’ve had the honor of knowing. Jess has had her share of troubles navigating her career in a department that is one of the last bastions of overt male chauvinism. She’s far from perfect, but has a good heart and a desire for both justice and compassion. Her wild hair tendencies get her into trouble. “La Familia Ramirez” is her rock and her best friend and sometime partner Ali Clark is a confidant and fellow troublemaker.

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In a brilliant hour conversation, Executive Director Jonathan Haupt of the Pat Conroy Literacy Center discussed writing, poetry and more with award-winning writer Anthony Grooms. Here is their exceptional #podcast.

The Live from the Pat Conroy Literary Center podcast returns Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. when I'll be in conversation with the brilliant Tony Grooms, a rare two-time winner of the Lillian Smith Book Award, about his most recent novel, The Vain Conversation, published by Story River Books. We'll also get to talk about Tony's new novel in progress, his poetry, empathy and culpability in race relations dialogues, honoring the legacies of recently lost champions of the Civil Rights Movement, and the precarious nature of progress amid our strange and challenging times.