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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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00:13:46

Phil Bayly- Murder on Skis

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/12/22

A ski resort owner in Montana is murdered. Other deaths, once believed to be accidental, receive a fresh look from television reporter JC Snow and police investigators. There could be a serial killer in the resort community. Grizzly Mountain is a ski resort full of snow country characters, from ski racers to ski bums to overdressed billionaires. An unfortunate few may be caught in the claws of Grizzly Mountain. Phil Bayly is a journalist. He's worked in television and radio in Colorado, Wyoming,

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00:10:55

Mo Rocca- Mobituaries

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/12/22

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent and humorist Mo Rocca, an entertaining and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who have long fascinated him. Mo Rocca has always loved obituaries—reading about the remarkable lives of global leaders, Hollywood heavyweights, and innovators who changed the world. But not every notable life has gotten the send-off it deserves. His quest to right that wrong inspired Mobituaries, his #1 hit podcast. Now with Mobituaries, the book, he

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00:11:58

Karen White- The Christmas Spirits On Tradd Street

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/12/18

Two years after The Guests on South Battery became a New York Times hardcover bestseller, Melanie Trenholm returns. Finally married to true-crime bestselling author Jack Trenholm, they are living in Melanie’s historic home with their 18-month old twins and Jack’s fifteen-year-old daughter. But domestic bliss can’t last for long. A new passel of spirits have taken up residence at Fifty-Five Tradd, and they need Melanie’s help to right old wrongs and solve a mystery. In THE CHRISTMAS SPIRITS ON TRADD

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00:09:31

Jeff Lindsay -Just Watch Me

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/12/18

ABOUT THE BOOK: In JUST WATCH ME, Riley aims for an extraordinary target in a heist that will go down in history books: he will try to steal the Crown Jewels of Iran. Lent to the U.S. for diplomatic relations, the jewels are worth billions of dollars. Yet Riley’s draw to the jewels isn’t the potential payoff but rather that it can’t be done. With the best tech guarding the jewels, not to mention two teams of heavily armed mercenaries, a person would need to have a death wish to even attempt it. But

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00:11:02

Bill Buell- George Lunn: The 1912 Socialist Victory...

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/12/13

An Iowa native, George Lunn came to Schenectady in 1904 to become senior pastor at the First Reformed Church in the city's Stockade Neighborhood. He entered politics in 1911 and was elected mayor of Schenectady as a member of the Socialist Party. He worked with General Electric scientist Charles Steinmetz to create Central Park and improve the city's school system, and also initiated free garbage pickup and a health clinic, all while the city's population was rapidly increasing due to immigration

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00:11:17

Jim Quinn-Don't Be Afraid To Win: How Free Agency...

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/12/13

Professional sports is a multi-billion dollar business that pays players extremely well, but it wasn’t always that way. How did pro sports go from a quaint collection of athletes who needed side jobs in the off-season, to the lucrative industry for players it is today? Jim Quinn is the legendary sports lawyer who spearheaded free agency for every professional sports league, including the MLB, MLS, NFL, and NBA. Quinn’s new book, DON’T BE AFRAID TO WIN: How Free Agency Changed the Business of Pro

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00:12:21

Matthew Goodman- The City Game

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2019/11/15

THE CITY GAME by bestselling author Matthew Goodman is the incredible underdog story of the 1949-50 City College Beavers basketball team, their unlikely rise to top and subsequent fall from grace. In this gripping, true-life account, Goodman uncovers the real story behind the greatest American sports scandal since the 1919 “Black Sox.” In 1950 the City College Beavers became the only basketball team in history to win both the NIT and NCAA tournaments in the same year. One year later the team’s star

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00:14:14

Mitch Albom- Finding Chika

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/11/15

Mitch Albom is the author of six consecutive number-oneNew York Timesbestsellers and has soldmore than thirty-four million copies of his books. He returns this year to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade with the release of his new memoir,Finding Chika:A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family. Finding Chikais the story of Mitch and his wife becoming the adoptive guardians of ayoung Haitian orphan,and the incredible bond they formed—and what it means to be a family,

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00:10:22

Ruta Sepetys- The Fountains of Silence

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/11/15

Internationally acclaimed, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys is renowned for writing novels that uncover hidden histories, and for giving a voice to the voiceless. THE FOUNTAINS OF SILENCE is set in Madrid, during the summer of 1957, and told in alternating voices, this riveting novel sheds light on the hidden and all-but-forgotten tragedies of Franco-era Spain to deliver a gripping exploration of identity, dignity, and the debilitating repercussions of war. The Fountains of Silence

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00:11:01

Gene Weingarten- One Day

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/11/15

On New Year’s Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day—chosen completely at random—turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. Weingarten spent the next six years proving that there is no such thing. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year’s turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty,

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00:11:11

Jami Attenberg- All This Could Be Yours

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/10/31

Jami is the author of six books: Instant Love, The Kept Man, The Melting Season, New York Times bestseller The Middlesteins, Saint Mazie, and national bestseller All Grown Up, which was published in March 2017 in the US and the UK, and in Italy, Germany, France, Holland, Poland, Russia, China, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Portugal and Hungary in 2018. Her seventh book, All This Could Be Yours, was published on October 22, 2019. ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS is the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat

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00:10:59

John U. Bacon - Overtime: Jim Harbaugh and the...

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/10/25

OVERTIME: Jim Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines at the Crossroads of College Football offers a powerful look into a legendary program—and the sport itself—that only bestselling author John U. Bacon could deliver. Based on Bacon’s unprecedented access to the program, OVERTIME follows the University of Michigan’s coaches, players, and staffers through the 2018 season, including head coach Jim Harbaugh, offensive stars Shea Patterson and Karan Higdon, and NFL-bound defensive standouts Rashan Gary,

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00:10:32

Sean Parnell-All Out War

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2019/10/25

ALL OUT WAR delivers an authentic thrill-ride that parachutes readers right into the action of an international crisis that could threaten the safety and freedom of America. The advance praise has been nothing short of phenomenal from Brad Thor to Lee Child, Nelson DeMille and Clive Cussler—Sean Parnell is the writer to watch! Author Bio - Sean Parnell is the author of the bestselling memoir Outlaw Platoon and the novel Man of War. He is a retired U.S. Army Infantry captain who served in some of the

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00:08:38

Adrienne Brodeur- WILD GAME: My Mother, Her Lover,...

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/10/25

When Adrienne was fourteen, her mother, Malabar, woke her at midnight with five simple words: Ben Souther just kissed me. Adrienne instantly became her mother’s confidante and helpmate, and Malabar came to rely on her daughter to help orchestrate what would become an epic affair with her husband’s closest friend. There were calamitous consequences for everyone involved. WILD GAME is a daughter’s tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother – a story of resilience and a reminder

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00:12:40

William Rawlings- The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/10/19

John Wesley O'Toole is a disbarred Savannah attorney who is trying to get his life back together after his release from prison following a vehicular homicide charge. No longer able to practice law, he's become an art dealer after inheriting his grandmother's gallery on Liberty Street. O'Toole is in deep financial trouble and about to lose everything when he is contacted by Abraham Deign, a wealthy businessman. Deign offers him a hefty sum to find a missing painting, and with it, his estranged

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00:11:41

TEXAS FLOOD The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan by...

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/10/19

The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, and foreword and afterword by Double Trouble’s Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon. Just a few years after he almost died from a severe addiction to cocaine and alcohol, a clean and sober Stevie Ray Vaughan was riding high. His last album was his most critically lauded and commercially successful. He had fulfilled a lifelong dream by collaborating with his first and greatest musical hero, his brother

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00:08:12

Peter Seth- When I Got Out

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/10/19

PETER SETH’s When I Got Out: Larry Ingber fell deeply in love once...and it cost him forty years of his life. Branded “The Ivy League Killer” by the media that followed his sensational story of obsession and its consequences, Larry has at last been freed from prison and tossed into a world he barely understands. Filled with tension, nuance, and revelation, When I Got Out is a remarkable story about what happens when the world you left behind and the world you never knew collide. --- Support this

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00:12:13

Robert Crais- A Dangerous Man

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/09/21

Joe Pike didn't expect to rescue a woman that day. He went to the bank same as anyone goes to the bank, and returned to his Jeep. So when Isabel Roland, the lonely young teller who helped him, steps out of the bank on her way to lunch, Joe is on hand when two men abduct her. Joe chases them down, and the two men are arrested. But instead of putting the drama to bed, the arrests are only the beginning of the trouble for Joe and Izzy. After posting bail, the two abductors are murdered and Izzy

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00:10:08

Karin Slaughter - The Last Widow

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/09/21

About THE LAST WIDOW: THE LAST WIDOW begins with an abduction. The routine of a family shopping trip is shattered when Michelle Spivey is snatched as she leaves the mall with her young daughter. The police search for her, her partner pleads for her release, but in the end...they find nothing. It’s as if she disappeared into thin air. A month later, on a sleepy Sunday afternoon, medical examiner Sara Linton is about to have lunch with her boyfriend Will Trent, an agent with the Georgia Bureau of

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00:10:49

Richard Russo- Chances Are

Speaking of Writers ·

2019/08/22

ABOUT CHANCES ARE . . . From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls comes a new revelation: a riveting story about the abiding yet complex power of friendship. One beautiful September day, three men convene on Martha’s Vineyard, friends ever since meeting in college circa the sixties. They couldn’t have been more different then, or even today–Lincoln’s a commercial real estate broker, Teddy a tiny-press publisher, and Mickey a musician beyond his rockin’ age. But each man holds his own

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