Overview

Joel has been a lawyer in Pennsylvania for most of his life. He has practiced environmental law and uses that information to write his thriller novels.

Joel has used the books he loves to influence his writing and strives to create page turners like Grisham and Clancy.

His Book

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KVKJBJV/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B08KVKJBJV&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=12ad30a143ae5628389346c881a4006a

Favorites

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375701427/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0375701427&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=c0faabc5133010369f522249a0ef4505

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01FMW0C3U/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B01FMW0C3U&linkCode=as2&tag=saschneider-20&linkId=afafb554be783fd2006ec4f9dcb35a81

Midtown Scholar - https://midtownscholar.com

YouTube

https://youtu.be/7KTk75M1T6k

Transcript

[00:00:00] Joel: Are you looking for new books to read? Do you like finding a new, special author? Are you tired of the same old books from the same old authors? Well, then welcome to discovered wordsmiths a podcast where you can hear from fantastic new authors. Join Stephen Schneider is he finds and talks to authors.

You may not know, but authors that have worked hard to write great new books here about their book and why you should check it out. So sit back and listen to today's discovered wordsmith.

[00:00:47] Stephen: Hello, welcome to episode 92 of discovered wordsmiths. Today. I've got Joel Bearcat. He is a retired lawyer, actually an environmental lawyer, and he spent his career [00:01:00] helping fight against environmental problems, uh, in the courts. And he's now using that information to write thriller novels. So he talks to us about his novels, what he's been writing, what he's been doing.

And has some good tips, uh, for other writers that are looking to change careers. So sit back, have a listen to Joel and stick around for the second half. Uh, the author talk where we talk about changing from one career to another. So here's Joel, but today undiscovered wordsmith. I have Joel Bearcat, Joel, welcome to the podcast.

[00:01:36] Joel: Steven. I'm happy to be here. Thank you very much. And

[00:01:39] Stephen: we got through our technical issues.

[00:01:42] Joel: We're here. Everybody's been,

[00:01:45] Stephen: we're all getting used to it though. In today's world.

[00:01:48] Joel: Yes. It's a brave new world. I never used zoom. I think I used Skype a few times before the pan, but obviously like everyone else I've been using zoom and a few other media [00:02:00] and social media kind of platforms, but like everyone, right.

We're starting to get used to it.

[00:02:07] Stephen: Yeah. So Joel, tell everybody a little bit about yourself, where you live your background and what you like to do outside

[00:02:12] Joel: of writing. Yeah. I'm originally from Philadelphia and I live now in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and I've lived here for over 40 years. I came here as a brand new lawyer and went to work for Pennsylv...