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Speaking of Writers

Welcome to Speaking of Writers. Veteran broadcaster Steve Richards interviews local, regional and best selling authors. For more info email steve @ sval622@sbcglobal.net. https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/speakingofwriters/subscribe Cover art photo provided by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@thepootphotographer

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00:14:08

Maureen Johnson- Death at Morning House

Speaking of Writers ·

2024/09/05

#1 New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson is out with her first stand-alone mystery in many years! The life-longAgatha Christie aficionado, who has delighted countless critics and fans with her Truly Devious series featuring teen sleuth Stevie Bell, now offers DEATH AT MORNING HOUSE. Johnson’s latest features Marlowe Wexler, a queer teen who unlike Stevie, is no detective. Heartbroken after a disastrous date, she finds herself in a summer job working at a grand but dilapidated house on

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00:16:25

A. J. Bozeman- The Door Behind Me Author

Speaking of Writers ·

2024/09/02

Kristy Ventura is a teenage girl with the deepest of emotional and psychological problems. From family drama (her mother left her at a young age, and she blames her dad) to constantly starting fights with people, Kristy has a hard time keeping herself in check and out of trouble, and as a result, she lost what she considered her best partner, Violet Wayne. One day, Kristy tries to make up with Violet, but then finds out that Violet was in a completely different part of the globe. From this point,

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00:25:23

Robert Schmuhl- Mr. Churchill in The White House

Speaking of Writers ·

2024/08/31

Scores of biographies have been written about Winston Churchill, yet none examine his frequent, sometimes furtive, trips to the White House, where he resided for weeks on end—the (often unclothed) visitor who “dropped out of the sky.” Drawing on years of research, Robert Schmuhl not only contextualizes the days Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower spent together, but also vividly portrays the individual characters, from Churchill himself—a devoted fisherman who never stopped

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00:32:45

Tom Hammond-Races, Games, and Olympic Dreams. A...

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2024/08/31

In sports, not all the long shots who succeed are athletes. In 1984, Tom Hammond, a forty-year-old sportscaster who had primarily worked in Kentucky and the Southeast, got an unlikely opportunity to appear on the NBC Sports telecast of the inaugural Breeders' Cup. Assigned to report from the stall area on what was supposed to be a single broadcast, Hammond performed so well that an NBC executive offered him a chance to call NFL games on the spot. That broadcast launched Hammond's

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00:16:28

Frank Figliuzzi- Long Haul: Hunting the Highway...

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2024/08/24

In LONG HAUL: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers (Mariner Books), veteran FBI special agent, NBC News National Security Contributor, and bestselling author Frank Figliuzzi takes us inside his year-long quest to understand the mysterious subcultures of long-haul truckers, sex trafficked victims, and the crime analysts trying to stop the killing. “Part cowboy, part fighter pilot, and part hermit, long-haul truckers glide along the edge of a certain seam in the fabric of our society—the seam that

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00:15:10

M.P. Woodward - Tom Clancy Shadow State- A Jack Ryan...

Speaking of Writers ·

2024/08/21

In TOM CLANCY SHADOW STATE, Jack Ryan, Jr. finds himself on the run after confronting a Chinese spy ring operating within the American technology supply chain. The vibrant economy of the new Vietnam is a shiny lure for Western capital. Not wanting to be left behind, Hendley Associates sends Jack to acquire a rare earth mining company operating in the Vietnamese highlands. However, the Chinese are determined to keep Jack from discovering a backdoor into critical American defense technology enabled by

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00:19:11

Robyn Harding- The Haters

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2024/08/18

THE HATERS, by bestselling author Robyn Harding, tells the story of high school guidance counselor and newly published author Camryn Lane. After years of struggle and rejection, her first novel is published. Her editor is happy, her friends thrilled, and her teenage daughter proud. All is right with the world; Camryn is living her dream.Until she receives a disturbing online message from an unknown sender…One scathing review, filled with false accusations, turns into a tidal wave of bad reviews,

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00:12:51

Adam Plantinga - The Ascent

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2024/08/12

Adam Plantinga, currently a sergeant with the SanFrancisco Police Department, has written two acclaimed nonfiction books revered by mystery and thriller writers—400 Things Cops Know, an Agatha Award nominee, and Police Craft. Plantinga's debut novel is called THE ASCENT. A high-security prison fails, forcing a down-on-his-luck cop and the governor’s daughter to team up if they want to escape with their lives. Kurt Argento is a former Detroit street cop who can’t let injustice go—and who has the

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00:05:46

Harry Hutchins- Tales of Now and Then

Speaking of Writers ·

2024/08/07

This is a collection of short stories written over many years. Some are more or less contemporary, a few are set in the 19th Century, and a few others were inspired by the work of other people.Harry Hutchins has been interested in folklore, mythology, history, fantasy and science fiction for a long time. His home is largely decorated in full bookcases. During a career as a teacher of mathematics and computer science, he has been writing stories of several kinds. For more info on the book click

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00:11:50

Boyce Upholt- The Great River

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2024/08/03

For thousands of years before America’s founding, Nativepeoples made their homes in the Mississippi watershed, regarding it with awe and adorning its banks with mounds and silhouetted effigies of animals, humans, and spiritual beings. They respected the “great river” and lived peaceably alongside it. However, when European settlers arrived—and later, when American pioneers put down roots—Native lives and ways of working with the river were upended. White men saw the river as a foe to conquer as

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00:25:59

Michel Paradis-The Light of Battle: Eisenhower,...

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2024/08/01

THE LIGHT OF BATTLE begins in the closing months of 1943, when Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met in Tehran to negotiate Allied strategy against Germany and Roosevelt's surprise selection of Dwight Eisenhower to lead the invasion of France that would mark the beginning of the end of Hitler's Germany. Paradis brings Eisenhower vividly alive as a complicated man, who craved simplicity, and who learned to navigate the buffeting crosscurrents of diplomacy, duty, family, and fame to become a

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00:26:03

Allen Guelzo- Our Ancient Faith

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2024/07/29

Award-winning historian and best-selling author Allen C. Guelzo has published highly acclaimed books on Gettysburg and Robert E. Lee, but he is best known as one of the most respected Lincoln scholars in the world. Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment is a return to his greatest passion and expertise. An intimate study of Abraham Lincoln’s powerful vision of democracy, which guided him through the Civil War and is still relevant today. ALLEN C. GUELZO is Senior

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00:15:20

Ann Hood- The Stolen Child

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2024/07/27

For decades, Nick Burns has been haunted by a decision he made as a young soldier in World War I, when a French artist he’d befriended thrust both her paintings and her baby into his hands—and disappeared. In 1974, with only months left to live, Nick enlists Jenny, a college dropout desperate for adventure, to help him unravel the mystery. The journey leads them from Paris galleries and provincial towns to a surprising place: the Museum of Tears, the life’s work of a lonely Italian craftsman

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00:15:10

Marcus Kliewer- We Used to Live Here

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2024/07/25

As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve lets them in.As soon as the family enters their home, strange and inexplicable things start happening,

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00:18:19

TJ Alexander- Triple Sec

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2024/07/20

From TJ Alexander, a 3-time Indie Next Pick recipient and author of the Lamda Literary Award-nominated “urgent and intimate” (New York Times) Chef’s Choice, comes TRIPLE SEC , starring a jaded bartender who is wooed by a charmingly quirky couple in this fresh and sizzling polyamorous rom-com, set in the glamorous world of high-end cocktail bars. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: TJ Alexander, the critically acclaimed author of Triple Sec, Second Chances in New Port Stephen, Chef’s Kiss, and Chef’s Choice,

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00:22:09

Tom Hoffarth-Perfect Eloquence An Appreciation of Vin...

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2024/07/14

When Vin Scully passed away in 2022, the city of Los Angeles lost its soundtrack. If you were able to deliver a eulogy for him, what might it include? What impact did he have on you? What do you carry forward from his legacy? Sixty-seven essayists—one representing each season of his career calling games for the Los Angeles Dodgers, from 1950 through 2016—reflect on the ways his professional and private life influenced them. The contributions include a range of stories and remembrances from those who

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00:13:33

Dan Hampton- Vanishing Act -The Enduring Mystery...

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2024/07/09

In the dark days after the devastating Pearl Harbor attacks during the spring of 1942, the United States was determined to show the world that the Axis was notinvincible. Their bold plan? Bomb Tokyo. On April 18, 1942, sixteen B-25s, known as the Doolittle Raiders, hit targets across Japan before escaping to China. The eighth plane, however, did not follow the other raiders. In VANISHING ACT: The Enduring Mystery Behind the Legendary Doolittle Raid over Tokyo (St. Martin’s Press;) Retired US Air

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00:17:21

Larry Tye- The Jazzmen

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2024/07/06

From the New York Times bestselling author of Satchel and Bobby Kennedy, a sweeping and spellbinding portrait of the longtime kings of jazz—Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie—who, born within a few years of one another, overcame racist exclusion and violence to become the most popular entertainers on the planet.Larry Tye is the New York Times bestselling author of Bobby Kennedy and Satchel, as well as Demagogue, Superman, The Father of Spin, Home Lands, and Rising from the Rails, and

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00:17:55

David G Swanson- Air-Conditioned Bus Tours

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2024/07/03

Who doesn’t like vacations with ultimate relaxation preferences? The type of vacation a person takes depends upon individual desires. Most folks like to be wined-n-dined and pampered as if they’ve snuck into the 1/10 of 1% demographic. A few eccentrics prefer different vacations. Developing the ability to ignore inconveniences that’s like a gym rat who refuses to believe their feet smell. DARREN, prefers these vacations. Being a backpack traveler, he’s just returned from his latest adventure and

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00:21:03

Ryan Steck-Out For Blood

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2024/07/02

Winters in Montana can be deadly, but it wasn’t the cold that was killing Matthew Redd . . . Gavin Kline, executive assistant director of the FBI’s Intelligence Directorate, is escorting a high-value prisoner with the intel to bring down a global conspiracy when their plane comes under attack. In the aftermath, much of Kline’s team is dead, but he recovers a phone from a member of the hit team that reveals another attack is imminent. This time they’re going after the man who was instrumental in

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