In the long tradition of New York love stories, the collaboration between Ashley Wren Collins and Jordan Rockwell arrives with a kind of self-awareness that feels both modern and faintly nostalgic. Their novel, SHE WROTE, HE WROTE: A New York Love Story, is not merely about romance.
There are writers who define a genre, and then there are those who quietly reshape it from the inside out. In this episode, I’m joined by legendary thriller author James Grady, whose breakout novel Six Days of the Condor originally introduced audiences to a world where paranoia, power...
There is a moment, late in Journey Back Into the Vault: In Search of My Faded Cuban Childhood Footprints, when author Mario Cartaya sits on a balcony in Havana and encounters a boy he once was. The scene unfolds as a memory, whole, insistent, and strangely alive.
We dive into the “uneasy space” of literary horror with poet and dancer Kirsten Kashock and her unsettling new novel, An Impossibility of Crows, a story that examines the haunting boundaries of devotion, inheritance, and control.
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.
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