Dennis Palumbo lives a fascinating duality. By day, his psychotherapist identity absorbs the quiet catastrophes and operatic inner lives of his patients. By night, he transforms those same emotional currents into fiction, threading trauma and resilience into the pulse of a mystery narrative.
Karen Ann Phillips has written not just a mystery, but a quiet meditation on resilience, disguised, as all the best ones are, as a story you pick up simply to see what happens next.
In this episode of In Conversation with Terry Shepherd, Terry sits down with debut thriller author Gary Fields to explore his globe-spanning, time-bending novel, The Book of Judges — already drawing comparisons to The Da Vinci Code.
After seven years of sampling just about every conference and conclave I could find, conferences have played an important role in my understanding of the writer’s craft. Here are eleven learnings gleaned from attending.
Meet the “Dog Whisperer of the Garden State,” Darlene Dziomba, as we discuss her authentic cozy mystery, Tail of Deception.
What happens when a life built on discipline, survival, and excellence finally makes room for joy?
What happens when a master planner tries to out-strategize heartbreak? Corey Seemiller’s “The Soulmate Strategy,” explores her honest, funny, and deeply relatable journey from trying to control the pain of a very public breakup to discovering the freedom that comes with letting...
With her latest novel, Bye Bye Blackbird, Elizabeth Crowens steps behind the curtain of the hard-boiled mystery to investigate the ghosts that linger around Hollywood’s most iconic sets.
RED GRADE: A Jenn Herrington Wyoming Mystery, drops us into the rarefied world of elite polo when a celebrated player dies mid-match—an apparent accident that quickly unravels into something far more sinister.
What if retirement isn’t the finish line—but the beginning of something more intentional? In From Work to What’s Next, husband-and-wife financial advisors Sarah K. Charles and Jim Charles rethink retirement as a redesign, not an ending.
In “Flambeau Kitchen,” Dr. Marissa Toussaint stakes a claim: that culinary heritage and long-term wellness need not stand in opposition.
In The Accord, author Mark Peres explores grief, love, and the blurred lines between human and machine through the bond between a professor and her sentient AI.
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