Authors on the Air Host Pam Stack welcomes David Swinson, who has had a varied and exceptionally interesting career in punk music promotion, filmmaking, law enforcement and now, best-selling author.  

Swinson also started a Wednesday night evening of conversation and spoken word at Bogart’s with luminaries such as Hunter S. Thompson, Dr. Timothy Leary, John Waters and Jim Carroll. After several years of booking, promoting, as well as developing lasting relationships with such people as Timothy Leary and Hunter S. Thompson, it was a natural segue to develop and co-produce Sound Bites from the Counter Culture for Atlantic Records in 1990. This spoken-word compilation featured writers, orators and politicians, including Thompson, Leary, Carroll, Abbie Hoffman, and Eugene McCarthy. Billboard called the album “essential listening.”  In 1990, while having drinks with Timothy Leary and friend Bill Stankey, an idea for an offbeat buddy film entitled “Roadside Prophets” was conceived. The film eventually found a home with FineLine Features and was distributed theatrically by New Line Cinema. 

In 1994, Swinson pursued another passion – law enforcement. He returned to his home base of Washington DC, where he joined the Metropolitan Police Department.  Learn more at http://davidswinson.com/

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes Simon Wood to the studio for a lively chat about writing thrillers, racing cars, riding bicycles and his unique writing process.    From Simon's website:  Before becoming a full time author, I designed equipment that stopped oil rigs from leaking and kept drinking water clean, raced single seater cars in the UK, tried to cure my fears of heights by becoming a licensed pilot, and along with my wife, Julie, made ends meet by becoming a private investigator and going undercover in casinos to catch gambling cheats.   I didn’t entertain the idea of writing until I moved to America in 1998 and the now defunct Immigration and Naturalization Service is to blame. They took so long to process my permanent residency application that I found myself with a large amount of time on my hands and somewhere along the way, I tinkered with the idea of becoming a writer. There was one thing wrong with this flight of fancy, I’m dyslexic. Writing is difficult and reading is especially challenging. Thankfully, dyslexia doesn’t get in the way of my imagination. That being said, my understanding of rudimentary grammar and writing structure was poor to say the least—there are still a lot of grammatical terms writers and editors use that I have to look up in a dictionary. With Julie’s help, I put myself a self-taught, crash course on creative writing and let rip. That was dozen books and more than a hundred short stories ago.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes pilot, world traveler and best-selling author Philip Donlay to the studio.  Here's a little about Phil's new book, SECONDS TO MIDNIGHT, due March 7th.    While on a routine Eco-Watch flight above northern Canada to study one of the most powerful solar flares in history, Donovan Nash and Michael Ross narrowly miss colliding with another aircraft—a Boeing 737 that's not supposed to be there. With the mysterious 737 trailing smoke, Donovan and Michael watch as the aircraft makes a crash landing on a frozen lake.     As the Boeing breaks through the ice and begins to sink, a figure escapes into the frigid water and manages to climb up onto the ice. Donovan reaches the lone survivor and it's a young woman. Just before she blacks out, she whispers a dire warning, "Don't let them know I'm alive..."    Seconds to Midnight plunges Donovan Nash and the Eco-Watch team into a fight for their lives. While Donovan searches for answers at the bottom of a frozen lake in Canada, his wife, Lauren, runs from operatives embedded in the top levels of the Russian government. With communications in the Northern Hemisphere crippled by the massive solar storm, Donovan, Michael, and Lauren battle for each second, as the clock ticks toward a possible Armageddon.  

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Noir on the Radio host Greg Barth welcomes Crime Fiction author Daniel Vlasaty

Daniel Vlasaty is the author of The Church of TV as God, Amphetamine Psychosis, Only Bones, and A New and Different Kind of Pain. He lives in the Chicagoland area where he works as a substance abuse counselor.

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

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At nineteen, I wanted to be Ernest Hemingway. I read everything by him and about him. In the course of my reading, I stumbled onto a couple of pieces of information concerning Papa’s lifestyle that I tried to incorporate into my own way of being. First of all, Hemingway never wore underwear. Well hell, I thought, whatever was good enough for Papa was good enough for me. Right away I discovered that Hemingway must have been made of sterner stuff, and I went back to wearing my beloved Fruit of the Looms. But I also learned in my reading that Hemingway’s favorite time of day for writing was at first light. I gave it a try. And I liked it.

For several years after moving to St. Paul, we lived at the edge of a quiet neighborhood called Tangletown. (The streets were confusing and lovely.) A block away stood a café called the St. Clair Broiler that opened its doors at 6:00 a.m. I began rising at 5:30 to groom and prepare for the day, then I’d hit the Broiler and spend an hour or so writing before I hustled off to my job that kept food on the table and a roof over our heads. Mostly I wrote short stories, some of which were published, and couple of which won awards. Writing longhand in cheap wire-bound notebooks in booth #4 at the Broiler became for me a part of the magic of the creative process.

Although I write full time now and don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn, I still do. I make the trek to the Broiler and spend a couple of hours hunched over my notebook while the sun rises over the shops across the street and the traffic begins to fill Snelling Avenue. For me, it’s still the best time of every day. Not only am I dreaming in those hours, I’m fulfilling the dream.

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Authors on the Air host Pam Stack welcomes suspense author, writer, composer and all around mensch, ROBERT GREGORY BROWNE,  who is here to discuss his play "CRADLE SONG".  Rob Gregory Browne, writer/composer of CRADLE SONG, a musical about love, loss, forgiveness, and the bonds that tie us. This play was a labor of love, written at a time when I was struggling to cope with the passing of old friends and family. The idea took flight when I found a way to channel my emotions into a plot, characters and songs that spoke from the heart. https://www.facebook.com/CradleSongMusical/?fref=ts  Check out his indiegogo page at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cradle-song-a-musical-play-drama#/. Rob is also the editor and publisher of the highly acclaimed TRIAL JUNKIES series with Brett Battles,  the Edward Fallon Series LINGER and many other books including  The Paradise Prophecy.  Full disclosure:  Rob wrote and plays the theme music for Authors on the Air.

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Host Tabatha Pope welcomes Lori Foster to THE LIBRARIAN on Authors on the Air Global Radio Network.

 

LORI FOSTER is a New York Times, USA TODAY and Publishers Weekly bestselling author of more than 55 titles, beloved for her contemporary romance novels revolving around alpha males and the women they fall for. Lori has been a recipient of the prestigious RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award for Series Romantic Fantasy, and for Contemporary Romance. For more about Lori, visit her website at LoriFoster.com, or check out these online locations where she interacts with readers: Facebook.com/LoriFoster, Twitter.com/LoriLFoster, Goodreads and Pinterest.com/lorilfoster.  You can also sign up for her monthly newsletter.

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Skid Row Chatter host Tom Pitts welcomes journalist and author Bob Mehr, who wrote the definitive book about the 80s sensations TROUBLE BOYS: The True Story of The Replacements.  Hailed by reviewers everywhere, Trouble Boys is the first definitive, no-holds-barred biography of one of the last great bands of the twentieth century: The Replacements. With full participation from reclusive singer and chief songwriter Paul Westerberg, bassist Tommy Stinson, guitarist Slim Dunlap, and the family of late band co-founder Bob Stinson, author Bob Mehr is able to tell the real story of this highly influential group, capturing their chaotic, tragic journey from the basements of Minneapolis to rock legend. Drawing on years of research and access to the band's archives at Twin/Tone Records and Warner Bros. Mehr also discovers previously unrevealed details from those in the group's inner circle, including family, managers, musical friends and collaborators.  

Rolling Stone, 3/10/16

“[Trouble Boys] dives deep…Mehr vividly charts [the band's] bumpy arc…The 'Mats story has been told many times, but Mehr got unprecedented access and his reporting gives their hard-luck tales chilling depth…This detailed backstory makes [the songs] burn anew.”

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Host Tom Pitts is the award-winning noir crime fiction writer of Hustle, Knuckleball and PiggyBack. Find him at http://www.tompittsauthor.com/

A.R. Shaw is not your typical CRIME FICTION FEMALE WRITER because she writes DYSTOPIAN CRIME FICTION and is a best-selling author because of her amazing writing skills and talent.  Authors on the Air host Pam Stack is proud to welcome A.R. Shaw to the studio.  Here's a bit about her:   It’s rare for a new author to pull a favorable Kirkus Review with a debut novel, but that’s just what A. R. Shaw did with The China Pandemic; the first book in the Graham’s Resolution series. Not only that, it hit number one in both Post-Apocalyptic and Dystopian genres in May of 2014. Not bad for a Texas girl and former Radio Operator, who served in the Air Force Reserves.  Since then, she’s written three more novels in the popular Graham’s Resolution series, two Kindle World’s Novellas in the Perseid Collapse world as well as an addition to the popular Wayward Pines Kindle World, Kate’s Redemption. In the works now is a mystery novel and a new post-apocalyptic series, Surrender the Sun, as well as surprise additions to the Graham’s Resolution series. http://authorarshaw.com/.

This is a copyrighted podcast solely owned by the Authors on the Air Global Radio Network LLC.  @authorsontheair  http://authorsontheair.com http://facebook.com/authorsontheair Host Pam Stack is a voracious reader of 400 books a year and the executive producer of the network. She is an internationally awarded women's advocate and a highly sought after public, motivational and conference speaker.  http://facebook.com/4pamstack @PamStackHost

IT'S FEMALE CRIME FICTION WRITERS MONTH and out next NASTY WOMAN is New York Times best-selling author Lynn Cahoon. Lynn Cahoon is the author of the NYT and USA Today bestselling Tourist Trap cozy mystery series. GUIDEBOOK TO MURDER, book 1 of the series won the Reader's Crown for Mystery Fiction in 2015. She's also the author of the Cat Latimer series, with the first book, A STORY TO KILL, out in mass market paperback now. Two more Cat Latimer books will be released in 2017. Lynn started her career writing sweet contemporary romances with heroes ranging from cowboys to warlocks. She lives in a small town like the ones she loves to write about with her husband and two fur babies. http://www.lynncahoon.com/

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