Today on the Oddcast, a special roundup for readers! We’re spotlighting the newly released, critically acclaimed books featured on A Mighty Blaze, where authors with cancelled book tours are getting a hand from fellow authors like Caroline Leavitt and Jenna Blum to publicize their books. With regulars Kelly Simmons, Gregory Frost, Merry Jones, Jon McGoran & Keith Strunk.

Titles featured in this episode include:

The Grace Kelly Dress by Brenda Janowitz A Good Neighborhood by Therese Anne Fowler The Red Lotus by Chris Bohjalian Beheld by TaraShea Nesbitt The Small Crimes of Tiffany Templeton by Richard Fifeld The Everlasting by Katy Simpson Smith The Wartime Sisters by Linda Cohen Loigman The Herd by Andrea Bartz American Rebels by Nina Sankowitch Separation Anxiety by Laura Zigman Wine Girl by Victoria James The Gringa by Andrew Atschul I see you so Close by M Dressler Finna by Nino Cipri Spiked by Jon McGoran

Erica Ruth Neubauer reviewed mysteries and crime fiction for Publisher’s Weekly, the LA Review of Books and Mystery Scene Magazine before writing her acclaimed debut, MURDER AT THE MENA HOUSE. This week, she talks about her background in the military, cop and high school English, the biggest surprises of being a debut author, and more, with Oddcast cohosts Jon McGoran, Gregory Frost, Merry Jones & Keith Strunk.

"Who said that," she said? We say it's time for an authors roundtable on dialogue attribution. With writing tips on how to be clear and effective -- and how to avoid pitfalls like the siren call of the adverb. An honest discussion about dialogue attribution with cohosts Merry Jones, Jon McGoran, and Keith Strunk.

This week Nebula and multi-Award winning Romance and Erotica writers Charity Parkerson (Second Choice) and Jennifer Stevenson (Trash Sex Magic) gang up on the Oddcast with hilarious and helpful tips about writing good sex scenes, and how to make use of sexy witches and demons—with cohosts Gregory Frost, Merry Jones, Keith Strunk, and Jon McGoran.

Alison Gaylin, the USA Today and International bestselling author of 11 suspense novels, has won an Edgar Award, a Shamus and a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice Award. On this week's Oddcast, she talks about her journalism and theater background, cowriting the graphic novel NORMANDY GOLD with Megan Abbott, and her latest novel, IF I DIE TONIGHT, with Oddcast cohosts Jon McGoran, Merry Jones & Keith Strunk.

Time for another spirited authors' roundtable, with writing tips for how to make flashbacks an effective valuable tool, and warnings for when and why they can go spectacularly bad. An honest discussion about making flashbacks work with Oddcast cohosts Merry Jones, Gregory Frost, Jon McGoran, and Keith Strunk.

This week’s Oddcast features a special conversation between our own Jon McGoran and Eoin Colfer, international bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl books, Highfire, and many others. The conversation was part of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s author series and was recorded in front of a live audience at Philadelphia’s Parkway Central Library. The interview is also available as an episode of the Free Library’s podcast, which includes an audience Q & A. https://libwww.freelibrary.org/podcast/episode/1898

Eoin Colfer is an author, screenwriter and playwright most famous for the internationally bestselling Artemis Fowl books, which have sold 25 million copies in 44 languages. Jon McGoran talks with Colfer about writing the final Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy novel, the upcoming Artemis Fowl movie, and his new adult fantasy, Highfire. This special episode of the Oddcast was recorded in front of a live audience as part of the Free Library of Philadelphia’s author series.

YA author Megan “MC” Atwood has written over 40 books for kids and teens, while working as an assistant professor in publishing for children (and she’s a former literary agent and senior editor in those genres, too.) She talks about children’s literature, publishing and her new YA novel THE DEVILS YOU KNOW, with Oddcast cohosts Jon McGoran, Merry Jones, Gregory Frost, and Keith Strunk.

This week the Oddcast welcomes Newberry Medal winner Erin Entrada Kelly, author of HELLO, UNIVERSE, BLACKBIRD FLY, and LALANI OF THE DISTANT SEA. She talks to us about writing middle-grade and “tween” fiction, having study guides included in your books, and how it feels to have one novel being adapted by Netflix while another is being adapted for the stage. With Gregory Frost, Merry Jones, Jon McGoran, and Keith Strunk.

Award-winning author, screenwriter, and performer Tori Eldridge has appeared on Broadway, television, and in film. On this week’s Oddcast, she talks about all that, plus being a fifth-degree black belt Ninja, her acclaimed debut mystery thriller, THE NINJA DAUGHTER, and going to school with Barack Obama. With cohosts Jon McGoran, Merry Jones, Greg Frost & Keith Strunk.