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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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00:21:03

Ryan Steck-Out For Blood

Speaking of Writers ·

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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00:16:44

Jerry Grillo- Big Cat: The Life of Baseball Hall of...

Speaking of Writers ·

2024/06/29

Johnny Mize was one of the greatest hitters in baseball’s golden age of great hitters. Born and raised in tiny Demorest, Georgia, in the northeast Georgia mountains, Mize emerged from the heart of Dixie as a Bunyonesque slugger, a quiet but sharp‑witted man from a broken home who became a professional player at seventeen, embarking on an extended tour of the expansive St. Louis Cardinals Minor League system.Mize then spent fifteen seasons terrorizing Major League pitchers as a member of those

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00:17:49

Ace Atkins- Don't Let The Devil Ride

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2024/06/25

New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins enters new literary territory with DON’T LET THE DEVIL RIDE, a captivating new novel that finds a woman uncovering deadly secrets about her husband after he disappears. Atkins has penned an elevated thriller that tackles difficult themes while also delivering a totally entertaining story. How well do we know the people closest to us? How well do we know ourselves.About the author: Ace Atkins is an award-winning, New York Times bestselling author who

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00:23:46

Randy Wayne White -One Deadly Eye

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2024/06/23

Randy Wayne White is the bestselling and award-winning author of the prolific and longstanding Doc Ford series. In 2022, Randy endured Hurricane Ian on Sanibel Island in Florida, which caused historic damage, destroying houses and knocking out the only bridge to the island. Randy stayed on the island through the storm, unreachable for a tenuous period. Now, he’s rebuilding, like everyone else on the island. This dramatic experience became the inspiration for his new Doc Ford novel ONE DEADLY EYE

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00:16:03

Kimberly Belle- The Paris Widow

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2024/06/21

Seemingly perfect couples running from their pasts and hiding dark secrets that eventually catch up with them are the specialty of USA Today and internationally bestselling author Kimberly Belle. In her latest novel of suspense, The Paris Widow (Park Row Books), Belle draws us into the intrigue, outrage, and rapidly mounting danger surrounding what begins as a horrifying, heartbreaking tragedy for our heroine, Stella Knox. KIMBERLY BELLE is the USA Today bestselling author of nine novels,

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00:16:36

Hart Hanson- The Seminarian

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2024/06/19

Xavier “Priest” Priestly is a snarky former seminarian turned private investigator. Dusty Queen is a hard-as-nails professional stuntwoman and freelance bodyguard. When Dusty’s girlfriend suddenly disappears, a woman in a strange blue wig tries to assassinate Priest, and a twelve-year-old boy shows up claiming to be his son, the two friends are thrown into a maelstrom of intrigue and high-stakes violence that’s as convoluted and dangerous as it is hilarious. Thankfully, Priest and Dusty don’t

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00:10:18

Johnnie Williams- GOD That’s F**cked Up – The Story...

Speaking of Writers ·

2024/06/18

In life, the choices we make determine our levels of success or regret. Ultra successful people (the superrich) rarely take a look back at the lessons of the past. That privilege is often reserved for the regretful, and whether we show it or not, many of us have our secret regrets. What if you realized that you were a regretful success? But that doesn’t make sense, does it? Who would regret their success? Who would want to struggle? What if those struggles were needed to help in revealing your

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00:13:17

Keith O'Brien- Charlie Hustle

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2024/06/08

Keith O’Brien’s CHARLIE HUSTLE is the definitive story of Pete Rose's rise and fall, built with the help of federal court documents never utilized before, interviews with three former associates who placed Pete's bets on baseball, 27 hours of interviews with Pete himself, and over 150 hours of interviews in all. It is the story unlike it's ever been told before at a time when Pete's greatest sin—gambling on sports—is now legal in most places and encouraged by baseball itself. This

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00:18:21

Mindy Friddle-Her Best Self

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2024/06/04

Janelle Wolf longs to be the woman she once was, an adored wife, a loving mother, a career woman, a force in her community—before a mysterious car accident stole her memories, ruined her reputation, and upended her life.These days, her troubled family needs that capable woman from the past, the one she calls “Janelle Before.” Enter Lana, an alluring and magnetic psychic healer who meets secretly with Janelle. Lana coaxes Janelle to remember the circumstances of her accident in order to recover

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00:14:33

Mary Carroll Moore- Last Bets

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2024/06/01

Portrait artist Elly Sorenson leaves her Washington, D.C., life for the Caribbean island of Bonaire, hoping to find refuge from personal tragedy and financial fallout. Instead,she is confronted by old demons, including a gambling underworld that taps paranormal talents she would prefer to leave dormant. On the island she finds an unlikely kindred spirit in teenager Rosie Ryan, an Australian with a gambling father and artistic talents of her own—and a penchant for breaking and entering,

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00:16:12

Jon Clinch- The General and Julia

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2024/05/27

From the acclaimed author of Marley and Finn, a novel both intimate and epic capturing Ulysses S. Grant during his final days as he reflects on his life and reckons with his complicated legacy. About the Author: Jon Clinch is the author of the acclaimed novels Finn, Kings of the Earth, The Thief of Auschwitz, Belzoni Dreams of Egypt, and Marley. A native of upstate New York, he lives with his wife in the Green Mountains of Vermont. For more info on the book click

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00:17:00

Timothy Kent Smith-Behind the Hedgerows

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2024/05/20

Behind the Hedgerows is a fictional drama about human nature and the conflicts that go with it.It is 1987 in the Hamptons. Cocaine is the drug of choice, AIDS is rampant, and the Old Guard is trying to hang on as new money invades Long Island's East End. Hunter McPherson, East Hampton resident, entrepreneur, and fitness trainer to those of wealth, takes the reader "south of the highway" behind the manicured hedgerows for a firsthand look at the opulent and romanticized lives of the

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00:08:14

Robin Hosking- Journey Beyond

Speaking of Writers ·

2024/05/17

This book is a visual journey taking the reader beyond their own mundane reality, leading them to a place of peace and calm within their mind. Author Information Robin is a Canadian Born author/surrealism abstract artist with a multi-cultural heritage of UK: Central Southern England, Northwestern European (Walse, Scottish-having descended through the Baldwin Clan, which is connected to the Stuart Clan which was the Clan of Mary Stuart who was the Queen of (Scots) Scotland. Irish as well as

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00:13:42

Don Winslow- City in Ruins

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2024/05/14

Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond his wildest dreams rich. The former dock worker, Irish mob soldier and fugitive from the law is now a respected businessman – a Las Vegas casino mogul and billionaire silent partner in a group that owns two lavish hotels. Finally, Danny has it all: a beautiful house, a child he adores, a woman he might even fall in love with. Life is good. But then Danny reaches too far. When he tries to buy an old hotel on a prime piece of real estate with plans to build his dream resort,

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00:21:17

Kevin Baker- The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise...

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2024/05/05

Baseball is “the New York game” because New York is where the diamond was first laid out, where the bunt and the curveball were invented, and where the home run was hit. It’s where the game’s first stars were born, and where everyone came to play or watch the game. With nuance and depth, historian Kevin Baker brings this all vividly back to life: the still-controversial, indelible moments—Did the Babe call his shot? Was Merkle out? Did they fix the 1919 World Series? Here are all the legendary

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00:12:24

Ray Rhodes-It's Hard Enough, Let Me Help You : Basic...

Speaking of Writers ·

2024/05/03

This book is for those who truly want more out of life. Living paycheck to paycheck gets old, does it not? A budget truly is imperative to adhere to. But, it is not the only step in becoming financially literate. You do not have to be living paycheck to paycheck to get anything out of this book, nor struggling financially. There is always room for improvement, and always time that should be set aside to ensure your retention of financial proficiency. The “small” tweaks you make day to day, paycheck

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00:15:51

Camille Aubray-The Girl From The Grand Hotel

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2024/04/30

ABOUT THE BOOK Summer, 1939. The glittering Côte d’Azur is having a particularly brilliant season, as the world’s wealthiest vacationers collide with Hollywood’s illustrious movie stars for the first-ever film festival onthe French Riviera. Into this hothouse playground comes an American named Annabel Faucon. Having left a dead-end job and a broken heart back in New York, she’s escaped to a summer stint at the fabulous Grand Hotel, where her uncle is the manager. But when a major movie studio

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00:12:58

Mike Lawson-Kingpin

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2024/04/27

Edgar and Barry Award finalist Mike Lawson resumes his beloved Joe DeMarco series with a pulse-pounding thriller starring the Washington DC “troubleshooter” as he tries to pin down a Boston billionaire soaring at the top of the world in KINGPIN (Atlantic Monthly Press). As evidenced by his ever growing Boston empire, Carson Newman doesn’t usually get his hands dirty. Joe DeMarco, on the other hand, is paid to do that, and by the former Speaker of the House, John Mahoney. Brian Lewis, an intense

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00:16:15

Boo Trundle-The Daughter Ship

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2024/04/23

Boo Trundle is a writer, artist, and performer whose work has appeared across various platforms and publications, including The Brooklyn Rail, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and NPR’s The Moth. She has released three albums of original music with Big Deal Records. She lives in New Jersey. The Daughter Ship is her first novel. Katherine, an attentive mother to her teenagers, comfortably married to her strapping provider of a husband, longs to overcome her dark thoughts and intermittent fears of

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00:19:05

Scott Howard-Cooper -Kingdom on Fire

Speaking of Writers ·

2024/04/20

In the tradition of Blood in the Garden and Three Ring Circus, Kingdom on Fire presents a bold narrative history of the iconic UCLA Bruins championship teams led by legendary coach John Wooden. This incredible true story about the messy, never-easy pursuit of perfection led by Wooden is not your typical sports book: Kingdom on Fire is the story of a team and a time, placing an unprecedented seven title winning streak against a fractured America of the 1960s and 70s. Los Angeles native and

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