Authors on the Air

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes  author Shalini Boland.  She is an Amazon and USA Today bestselling author of psychological thrillers 'THE GIRL FROM THE SEA', 'THE BEST FRIEND', 'THE MILLIONAIRE'S WIFE' (optioned by Legendary Studios for TV), 'THE SECRET MOTHER', THE CHILD NEXT DOOR, 'THE SILENT SISTER' and 'THE PERFECT FAMILY'. THE SECRET MOTHER published in US bookstores by Grand Central on June 4, 2019.  Shalini lives in Dorset, England with her husband, two children and their cheeky terrier cross. Before kids, she was signed to Universal Music Publishing as a singer/songwriter, but now she spends her days writing pyschological thrillers (in between school runs and hanging out endless baskets of laundry).  She is also the author of two bestselling Young Adult series as well as a children's WWII novel with a time-travel twist.

ABOUT THE SECRET MOTHER:  Tessa Markham returns home to find a child in her kitchen. He thinks she’s his mother. But Tessa doesn’t have any children.      Not anymore.     She doesn’t know who the little boy is or how he got there. 

After contacting the police, Tessa is suspected of taking the mystery child. Her whole life is turned upside down. And then her husband reveals a secret of his own…    Tessa isn’t sure what to believe or who to trust. Because someone is lying. To find out who, she must confront her painful past. But is the truth more dangerous than Tessa realises? 

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes the delightful Lauren Willig to the studio.  Lauren Willig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Pink Carnation series and several stand alone works of historical fiction, including The Ashford Affair, That Summer, The Other Daughter, The English Wife, and the collaborative novels, The Forgotten Room and The Glass Ocean. Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages, awarded the RITA, Booksellers Best and Golden Leaf awards, and chosen for the American Library Association’s annual list of the best genre fiction. After graduating from Yale University, she embarked on a PhD in History at Harvard before leaving academia to acquire a JD at Harvard Law while authoring her “Pink Carnation” series of Napoleonic-set novels. She lives in New York City, where she now writes full time.

ABOUT SUMMER COUNTRY:  A brilliant, multigenerational saga in the tradition of THE THORN BIRDS and NORTH AND SOUTH, New York Times bestselling historical novelist Lauren Willig delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet—a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes international best-selling author Tamara Thorne to the studio. 

Tamara's novels range from ghost stories to tales of witchcraft, conspiracies, UFOs, elemental forces, and vampires. No matter what topic she chooses, chances are you'll find a ghost or two lurking in the background. She and her frequent collaborator, Alistair Cross, share their worlds and continue to write about ghosts and other mysterious forces. Tamara also conducts real-life investigations of anomalous phenomena and has seen a number of odd things over the last twenty years. As an open-minded skeptic, she's spoken to many paranormal groups and has appeared on the television show, Ghost Adventures.She has also been featured on many radio programs and in various newspapers on the topics of haunted places and local lore. She occasionally writes about ghosts and hauntings for a syndicate of southern California newspapers, but her first love is, and has always been, telling ghost stories to make people scream. . . and laugh.   

ABOUT BRIMSTONE:  The Brimstone Grand Hotel, owned by reclusive former movie star, Delilah Devine, looms high on Hospital Hill, harboring long-buried family secrets that whisper of unimaginable horrors. Horrors that will echo down through generations.   When Delilah’s granddaughter, Holly Tremayne, who has seen ghosts for most of her eleven years, first comes to live in the Brimstone Grand in the summer of 1968, she’s delighted by its majestic western beauty - and its chilling history. But as she settles in, making friends and enemies alike, the nightmares begin.   Within the walls of the Brimstone Grand, the past has come back to life, and Holly and Delilah are faced with an ancient familial evil that rages just below the old hotel’s serene facade. An evil that won’t rest until it possesses Holly - body, mind, and soul.

Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes debut romantic comedy writer MINNIE DARKE to the studio.  About Minnie:  Minnie Darke - Gemini with Virgo rising, Scrabble cutthroat and knitter, lover of books, freshly sharpened pencils and Russian Caravan tea - wrote Star-crossed to amuse herself and to entertain you. She lives with her family in Tasmania.

ABOUT STAR-CROSSED:  When childhood sweethearts Justine (Sagittarius and serious skeptic) and Nick (Aquarius and true believer) bump into each other as adults, a life-changing love affair seems inevitable. To Justine, anyway. Especially when she learns Nick is an astrological devotee, whose decisions are guided by the stars, and more specifically, by the horoscopes in his favorite magazine. The same magazine Justine happens to write for. As Nick continues to not fall headlong in love with her, Justine decides to take Nick’s horoscope, and Fate itself, into her own hands. But, of course, Nick is not the only Aquarius making important life choices according to what is written in the stars. 

Charting the ripple effects of Justine’s astrological meddling, Star-Crossed is a delicious, intelligent, and affecting love story about friendship, chance, and how we all navigate the kinds of choices that are hard to face alone.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes back thriller and suspense author Allan Leverone after a long absence from the studio.  Allan's new book is THE SOVIET ASSASSIN, the 7th entry in the Tracie Tanner series.  If you're a fan of Brad Thor or Vince Flynn, you're going to love this new hero.  It's spring, 1988, and Tracie Tanner is about to discover that the life-and-death choices she makes while operating clandestinely may have devastating consequences that reach far beyond anything she can imagine.       

Last winter, while on a mission to root out and eliminate the driving force behind a Soviet program targeting American operatives for death via poisoning, she captured and tortured a KGB operative in order to extract the intelligence needed to complete her mission. In a fateful decision, Tracie spared the Soviet operative's life.  Now that man has returned, vowing to extract the ultimate vengeance on the woman who humiliated him and left his career in a shambles.  But killing Tracie Tanner will not be enough.  He is determined to make her suffer first.  And someone close to Tracie will die.

ABOUT ALLAN:  Allan Leverone is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of twenty-one novels, and a former winner of the prestigious Derringer Award for excellence in short mystery fiction. His chilling novel, MR. MIDNIGHT, was included in Suspense Magazine's "Best Books of 2013" issue.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes women's historical fiction novelist Barb Warner Deane to the studio.    Barb Warner Deane grew up in the beautiful Finger Lakes area of New York. She graduated from Cornell University and the University Of Connecticut, School of Law.  Barb, her husband, and daughters have lived in the Chicago area for the past twenty-five years, other than two years in Frankfurt, Germany and two years in Shanghai, China. She draws a lot of writing inspiration from travel and her experiences as an expat. On The Homefront, her historical women’s fiction novel, was inspired by a trip to Normandy, France.  After giving up the practice of law, Barb owned Barb's All Romance Book Store, and has worked in many types of jobs, including her current gig as an IT tech specialist for a high school. 

About her book:  THEN THERE WAS YOU:  Marnie Edwards thinks she has her life together. Then State Trooper Scott Randall starts asking mysterious questions at the same time she learns her mother has been hospitalized with cancer. When a bedside confession reveals she was adopted, suddenly Scott's investigation into child-trafficking becomes personal.

Every time Scott turns around, he learns Marnie has something to do with his current investigation. Finding himself falling for the beguiling, strong-willed brunette isn't helping, especially when he's still nursing the wounds of his failed marriage. 

When he and Marnie find themselves thrown together to help a pregnant teen who's being blackmailed into giving up her baby, they have to figure out what's important and who they are to each other, before it's too late.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes guest host for today's show, New York Times best-selling author and Philadelphia attorney William Myers Jr.   His first book A Criminal Defense came out in 2017 and went on to become the Number 6 best-selling book on Amazon Kindle in 2017. His second book An Engineered Injustice came out in January 2018 and was based loosely off of an actual Amtrak train crash that took place in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia in 2015. These are the first two novels in the Philadelphia Legal Series. The third book in the series, A Killer’s Alibi, came out in January of 2019.He also volunteers his time and his staff to the Pennsylvania Innocence Project which helps to exonerate prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted based on solid scientific evidence.

Bill's guest today is author and attorney Mark M. Bello.    Mark is an attorney and award-winning author of the Zachary Blake Legal Thriller Series.  Mark received his B.A. English Literature from Oakland University and his law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School. After working extremely high profile legal cases, Mark wanted to give the public a front row glimpse of what victims face when standing up for justice.  Combining his legal experience and passion for justice with a creative writing style, Mark not only brings high-quality legal services to his clients, but captivating novels to his readers.  When Mark’s not writing legal and political novels, he writes and posts about fairness and justice in the civil justice system on his website, Legal Examiner and Injury Board. He is currently working on his fourth  is due out in 2019.

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Authors on the Air Host Pam Stack welcomes New York Times best-selling author Chris Pavone.  CHRIS PAVONE is author of three national-bestselling thrillers: THE EXPATS, which won both the Edgar and Anthony awards for best first novel and was translated into 20 languages; THE ACCIDENT, another New York Times bestseller; and most recently THE TRAVELERS, an Indie Next bestseller that's being developed for film.  Chris grew up in Brooklyn, graduated from Midwood High School and Cornell University, and held editorial positions in publishing for nearly two decades. Then his wife got a job in Luxembourg, and the family moved abroad, where Chris raised their twin boys and started writing The Expats. They now live again in New York City with an Australian Labradoodle named Wally. 

About the Paris Diversion:  American expat Kate Moore drops her kids at the international school, makes her rounds of chores, and meets her husband Dexter at their regular cafe.    Tech CEO Hunter Forsyth stands on his balcony, wondering why his police escort just departed, and frustrated that his cell service has cut out. Mahmoud Khalid climbs out of an electrician’s van and elbows his way into the crowded courtyard of the world’s largest museum. He sets down his metal briefcase, and removes his windbreaker.   He is planning to die today. And he won’t be the only one.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack is delighted to welcome Wendy Wax to the studio.  Wendy was one of Pam's first guests when she created Author on the Air in 2012.  

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution says USA Today bestselling author Wendy Wax “writes with breezy wit and keen insight.” Her contemporary women’s fiction explores family, friendship and self-discovery and has been compared to that of Jennifer Weiner, Jane Green, and Mary Alice Monroe.

My Ex-Best Friend’s Wedding, released May 14, 2019.    Prized and stored away for safekeeping, the timeless ivory wedding dress, with its scooped neck and cleverly fitted bodice, sits gently folded in its box, whispering of Happily Ever Afters. To Kendra, Brianna, and Lauren it’s a reminder of what could have been, the promise of a fairy tale, and a friendship torn apart. But as Kendra knows firsthand: it wasn’t the dress’s fault.  Once closer than sisters, Lauren and Bree have grown up and grown apart, allowing broken promises and unfulfilled dreams to destroy their friendship. A successful author, Lauren returns home to the Outer Banks, fiancé in tow, to claim the dress she never thought she’d wear. While Bree, a bookstore owner, grapples with the realities of life after you marry the handsome prince. As the former best friends wrestle with their uncertain futures, they are both certain of one thing: some betrayals can never be forgiven. 

Now on the eve of her daughter Lauren’s wedding, Kendra struggles with a secret she’s kept for far too long. And vows to make sure the dress will finally bring Lauren and Bree back together—knowing they'll need each other to survive the coming storm.

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Alexia Gordon throws down the challenge to Catroina McPherson to enter a no hold barred mana-a-mana IN CONVERSATION interview on Authors on the Air.  Join host Pam Stack when she moderates this word battle till the end.  Who will win Round 2?

Challenger #1 & host Alexia Gordon:    A writer since childhood, I continued writing through college but put literary endeavors on hold to finish medical school and Family Medicine residency training. My medical career established, I returned to writing fiction.  I won a Lefty Award, was nominated for an Agatha Award, and was chosen one of Suspense Magazine‘s best debuts of 2016.  Raised in the southeast and schooled in the northeast, I migrated to the southwest after a three-year stint in Alaska reminded me how much I needed sunlight and warm weather. After a time in the desert, I missed deciduous trees so I headed northeast to the Chicago area. I completed Southern Methodist University’s Writer’s Path program in Dallas, Texas. If pushed, I will admit Texas brisket is as good as Carolina pulled pork. I enjoy classical music, fine whiskey, art, travel, embroidery, and a good ghost story.

Challenger #2 & guest Catriona McPherson:   I was born in Edinburgh and lived therebefore moving to California in 2010. A born swot, I finally left school at age thirty with a PhD in linguistics from Edinburgh University. Proper jobs have included banking (hopeless), library work in local studies and fine art (marvellous), and a short burst of academia (miserable). I'm now a full-time writer and hope never to have a proper job again!

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