Laura McHugh, award-winning author of The Weight of Blood and Arrowood, talks to Daniel Ford about how she became a storyteller, her organic writing process, how she crafts her Midwestern settings, and what she has planned next.

Nicole Blades, author of The Thunder Beneath Us and Earth's Waters, talks to Daniel Ford about her lifelong love of reading and writing, how she developed the character Best Lightburn, and why writers need to use their own voices to write the stories they would want to read.

Lee Child, author of Killing Floor and Make Me, talks to Sean Tuohy about why he still loves writing Jack Reacher adventures, his approach to storytelling, and why he made the decision to explore Reacher's past in his new novel Night School.

Screenwriter John Romano—whose credits include "The Lincoln Lawyer," "Nights in Rodanthe," "Intolerable Cruelty," and Ewan McGregor's directorial debut "American Pastoral"—talks to Daniel Ford about his early love for books, how he caught the screenwriting bug and moved to Los Angeles, and the challenges he faced in adapting Philip Roth's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning screenwriter Robert Schenkkan—whose credits include "All the Way," "The Pacific," "The Quiet American," and the upcoming "Hacksaw Ridge"—talks to Sean Tuohy about his career and how he helped bring U.S. Army medic Desmond T. Doss's story to the screen.

Writer's Bone's dear friend Peter Sherwood stops by Friday Morning Coffee to talk to Daniel Ford about The Murdery Delicious Blood Stone Secret, "the devastating finale of the Murdery Delicious trilogy."

Screenwriter Ted Tally—who won an Oscar for his screenplay for "Silence of the Lambs," and whose other credits include "Red Dragon," All the Pretty Horses," and "The Juror"—talks to Sean Tuohy about the influence acting and theater had on his early career, transitioning from playwright to screenwriter, how he became involved with "Silence of the Lambs," and why any time writing is never wasted.

Daniel Ford discusses Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize win, and then talks to his father Ken Ford about the origins of his love of music, the first album he ever bought, and all the bands he saw live at Providence College from 1969 to 1973.

In Daniel Ford's short story "343," a veteran deals with a past that cryptically inhibits his future.

Tom Shroder, award-winning journalist, writer, and editor, talks to Daniel Ford about his early desire to be a writer, why he got into journalism, and what inspired him to tell his grandfather's story in The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived: A True Story of My Family.