Authors on the Air

 Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes author Abbi Waxman to the studio.  

Abbi Waxman was born in England in 1970, the oldest child of two copywriters who never should have been together in the first place. Once her father ran off to buy cigarettes and never came back, her mother began a highly successful career writing crime fiction. She encouraged Abbi and her sister Emily to read anything and everything they could pull down from the shelves, and they did. Naturally lazy and disinclined to dress up, Abbi went into advertising. Eventually she quit advertising, had three kids and started writing books, TV shows and screenplays, largely in order to get a moment’s peace.  Abbi lives in Los Angeles with her husband, three kids, three dogs, three cats, a gecko, two mice and six chickens. Every one of these additions made sense at the time, it’s only in retrospect that it seems foolhardy.

The only child of a single mother, Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, a kick-butt trivia team, a world-class planner and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book. When the father Nina never knew existed suddenly dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! They're all—or mostly all—excited to meet her! She'll have to Speak. To. Strangers. It's a disaster! And as if that wasn't enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny, and deeply interested in getting to know her. Doesn't he realize what a terrible idea that is? It's time for Nina to come out of her comfortable shell, but she isn't convinced real life could ever live up to fiction.

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 Authors on the Air host Pam Stack is proud to welcome new writer Alexander Tilney to the studio.

Alexander Tilney is a graduate of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony. His writing has appeared in The Southwest Review, The Journal of the Office for Creative Research, and Gelf Magazine. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, theater artist Sarah Hughes. 

St. James is an exclusive New England boarding school known for grooming generations of leaders. Ben Weeks is a true insider -- his ancestors helped found St. James, his older brother taught him all the slang, and he's just won a national championship in squash.But after fourteen long years of waiting, Ben arrives at school only to find that the reality of St. James doesn't quite match up with his imaginings. At the same time, his new roommate, Ahmed Al-Khaled, the son of a fabulously wealthy Emirati sheik, can't navigate the unspoken rules of New England blue bloods. Even as Ben and Ahmed struggle to prove themselves in the place they have revered for so long, each of them must face losing it forever.

The Expectations is at once a finely drawn portrait of American privilege and a subtle exploration of class, race, and tradition. Above all, it is a tender, sharp, and evocative debut about the pain and treachery of adolescence, and the difficulty -- wherever one finds oneself -- of truly belonging.

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Authors on the Air host and executive producer Pam Stack is proud to welcome the hosts from the network.  Let us introduce you to these wonderful broadcast and podcast hosts.

Alistair Cross and Tamara Thorne, authors and host of Thorne & Cross: Haunted Nights Live!

David Ivester, PR guru and host of Author Guide to Marketing

Eliot Parker, award-winning author and host of Now Appalachia!

Kevin Deutsch, award-winning journalist, publisher of Bronx Justice News, author of true crime and host of A Dark Turn.

Libby Hellmann, multiple award-winning author, TV host and host of Second Sunday Books.

Maddie Margarita, literary bon vivant, author and host of Character Floss.

Shannon Fisher, women's activist, National Press Club correspondent, writer and host of Our Lives.

Vanessa Fewings, USA today best-selling author and host of The Romance Show.

Kerry Schafer, best-selling author, creativity expert, funny lady and host of Creativity Quest.

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 Authors on the Air Pam Stack and executive producer of the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network would like to introduce you to the first half of our radio show and podcast hosts.  Presenting Tessa and Riley of Romancing the Reader,  Tina Susedik of Your Book Garden , an award-winning author, Skid Row Chatter host Tom Pitts, Crime Corner with award-winning author host Matt Coyle, The Cozy Corner's Alexia Gordon, also an award-winning author, Christie Stratos, author, editor and publisher who hosts Creative Edge Writer's Showcase,  USA Today best-selling author Vanessa Fewings of The Romance Show, award-winning author and host Eliot Parker of Now Appalachia!, USA Today best-selling author and Silver Falchion winner Pamela Fagan Hutchins who hosts Wine, Women and Writing, thriller writer and creative Alex Dolan who hosts Thrill Seekers, Randy Powers of Practical Prepping Period, whose timely advise will help us all get through the heatwave and more, Dr. Natasha Bajema, advisor to the Pentagon and expert of the WMD, host of Authors of Mass Destruction, star of Writers on the Beat, author and ex LEO Gavin Reese, Masterclass host on crime fiction, Doug (DP) Lyle, of Criminal Mischief and William Myers, Jr, best-selling author of the Philadelphia series and host of Writing Wrongs.

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 Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes best-selling and highly acclaimed writer Hilary Davidson.  

Hilary’s debut novel, The Damage Done, won the 2011 Anthony Award for Best First Novel, and the Crimespree Award for Best First Novel. It also launched the Lily Moore series that continued with The Next One to Fall and Evil in All Its Disguises. Hilary’s first standalone thriller, Blood Always Tells,was published  in 2014. Her latest novel is One Small Sacrifice, the bestselling first book in the Shadows of New York series, published by Thomas & Mercer in June 2019. The next book in that series is Don’t Look Down; it will be released by Thomas & Mercer in February 2020. 

Her short fiction has won the Anthony Award, the Derringer Award, and the Spinetingler Award. Hilary’s stories have appeared in Ellery Queen, Thuglit, Beat to a Pulp, Crimespree, All Due Respect, Crime Factory, Spinetingler, and Needle: A Magazine of Noir, and other dark places. Her work is featured in many anthologies, including Florida Happens(the 2018 Bouchercon collection), Passport to Murder (the 2017 Bouchercon collection), and At Home in the Dark.

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 Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes award-winning and best-selling thriller author Danielle Girard to the studio.  Danielle Girard is the award-winning and bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Expire, book 4,  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.  Says Danielle “I’VE IMAGINED MONSTERS IN THE CORNER FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER…”

About "Expire":  San Francisco medical examiner Annabelle Schwartzman has spent eight years looking over her shoulder. Stalked by her vengeful ex-husband, Spencer, she’s always known they’d meet again. Has her nightmare come true? Abducted, blindfolded, yoked, and tethered, she’s being held prisoner in an isolated cabin in Idaho. But it’s the unknown that terrifies Annabelle now. Because the man’s voice in the dark, though eerily familiar, is not Spencer’s.

Annabelle’s partner and lover, Inspector Hal Harris, knows in his gut that Annabelle’s disappearance is tied to the past. Except Spencer is fifteen hundred miles away. To save Annabelle, Hal is tracking every move Spencer makes. But is it drawing him closer to finding Annabelle? Or is it luring him farther from her desperate cries for help?

As a cruel game of retribution begins, Annabelle must rely on her wits, her will to survive, and a plan of escape. But time is running out. And her captor’s three chilling words make her fear that the worst is yet to come: sweet dreams, Bella.

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 Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes New York Times best-selling author Julie Ann Walker.  Monday July 1, 2019 was a momentous day for Julie Ann Walker.  Her trilogy In Moonlight and Memories was released to overwhelming acclaim. IT IS AN EPIC TALE OF SACRIFICE, FRIENDSHIP, AND THE AWE-INSPIRING POWER OF LOVE.

Maggie: Ten years ago, Cash Armstrong stole my heart. Then he promptly joined the army—dragging my best friend with him—and left me crying on the front porch in a red sequined prom dress. Now he’s back. They’re both back. Cash, the one who still has my heart. And Luc, the one who saved my life.

Cash: How do you know if you’re at the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end? That’s what I’ve been trying to figure out since a traumatic brain injury made me “unfit to serve.” I’m back in New Orleans, and picking up the shattered pieces of my past means I must confront where my life’s journey began… and where it all might end.

Luc: Long ago, Maggie May was mine. Not mine in the way you might think. She was mine because she was my only friend. Then Cash came along and we became brothers by something stronger than blood. We became brothers by choice. When tragedy struck, I was forced to make a decision that changed all our lives. I thought, after ten years, it was safe to come back home. I was wrong…

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Kristin Rockaway is a native New Yorker and recovering corporate software engineer. After working in the IT industry for far too many years, she finally traded the city for the surf and chased her dreams out to Southern California, where she spends her days happily writing stories instead of code. When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and son, browsing the aisles of her neighborhood bookstores, and planning her next big vacation.   Her second novel, How to Hack a Heartbreak, will be released from Graydon House/HarperCollins on July 30, 2019. Her debut, is The Wild Woman’s Guide to Traveling the World.

How to Hack a Heartbreak:   By day, Mel Strickland is an underemployed help-desk tech at a startup incubator, Hatch, where she helps entitled brogrammers--"Hatchlings"--who can't even fix their own laptops, but are apparently the next wave of startup geniuses. And by night, she goes on bad dates with misbehaving dudes she's matched with on the ubiquitous dating app, Fluttr.    But after one dick pic too many, Mel has had it. Using her brilliant coding skills, she designs an app of her own, one that allows users to log harassers and abusers in online dating space. It's called JerkAlert, and it goes viral overnight.     Mel is suddenly in way over her head. Worse still, her almost-boyfriend, the dreamy Alex Hernandez--the only non-douchey guy at Hatch--has no idea she's the brains behind the app. Soon, Mel is faced with a terrible choice: one that could destroy her career, love life, and friendships, or change her life forever.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes multiple award-winning and international best-selling author Jeffery Deaver whose latest book THE NEVER GAME has won five star reviews from readers and reviewers alike,  Jeff was the keynote speaker (and gave a very funny and interesting talk) after lunch at the Mystery Fest Key West.  Just before that event, Jeff agreed to chat with our host for a few minutes.

Mystery Fest Key West is an annual writer and reader conference in the heart of Old Town Key West, Florida.  Authors on the Air host Pam Stack had a chance to sit with a few of the author panelists  including Heather Graham, international best-selling author, Lisa Black, thriller writer and forensics specialist from Cape Coral Police Department and, former police captain and underwater forensics and thriller writer Micki Browning and author-panelist Robert Coburn.