Episodes

  • MURDERS IN THE FIRST DEGREE - Episode 182 - MBCC 2024 REVEAL PART 4

    MURDERS IN THE FIRST DEGREE - Episode 182 - MBCC 2024 REVEAL PART 4
    Nov 14 2024
    MURDERS IN THE FIRST DEGREE
    MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 182
    Streaming LIVE Wednesday November 13 ,2024
    7 PM ET /6 PM CT /5 PM MT /4 PM PT (US)
    Featuring Authors JAMES CALLAN, KELLY MARSHALL & JINX SCHWARTZ.
    ABOUT JAMES: James R. Callan took a degree in English intent on writing. But when writing did not support a family, he returned to graduate school in mathematics. After graduate school, he worked at a research center for twelve years before he and his wife started a database company, which they ran for twenty-five years.
    After a successful career in mathematics and computer science, receiving grants from the National Science Foundation and NASA, and being listed in Who’s Who in Computer Science and Two Thousand Notable Americans, (and all four of his kids graduated from college and self-supporting), James R. Callan turned to his first love—writing.
    ABOUT KELLY: I always thought I would communicate in the world as a writer. As a child I was a voracious reader and knew someday I would pen a great novel. Life sometimes takes left turns though, and I went to broadcasting school instead of a four-year college. I wanted to be the next Barbara Walters and make a million a year. That didn’t happen, but I did spend thirty years having fun, spinning records, interviewing people, doing love song dedications. I had a ball until…
    The U.S. Congress passed The Telecommunications Act of 1996 allowing broadcast corporations to own multiple radio stations in one market. The gobbling began and soon behemoth broadcasting corporations ate up radio stations like locusts in a wheat field. And radio announcers like me were axed on bloody Fridays with surgical precision. I was working for a small radio station for chump change. Something had to give. I left radio, went to work for the US Federal Government, and in my private hours, began doing what I really loved. Writing.
    ABOUT JINX: USA TODAY BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, Jinx Schwartz is a ninth-generation Texan who lived and worked all over the planet before dropping from the corporate world to write and cruise. Living aboard a boat for many years in Mexico's Sea of Cortez inspired her Award-winning Hetta Coffey Series.
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    1 hr and 31 mins
  • BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE THINGS - Episode 181 - S_M_ Stevens

    BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE THINGS - Episode 181 - S_M_ Stevens
    Nov 7 2024
    BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE THINGS
    MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 180
    Originally aired LIVE Wednesday November 6,2024
    Featuring Author S.M. Stevens.
    ABOUT S.M. - S.M. Stevens began writing fiction during back-to-back health crises: a shattered pelvis and ovarian cancer. She writes contemporary novels designed to make readers laugh, cry and think. Her most recent novel, Beautiful and Terrible Things, was released by Black Rose Writing in July 2024. Her novelette The Wallace House of Pain won a 2023 American Fiction Award and a First Place CIBA prize in the Shorts category. Her novel Horseshoes and Hand Grenades was published by TouchPoint Press. She has also written books for Middle Graders and Young Adult readers.

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • MURDER OUTSIDE THE BOX - Episode 180 - Saralyn Richard

    MURDER OUTSIDE THE BOX - Episode 180 - Saralyn Richard
    Oct 31 2024
    MURDER OUTSIDE THE BOX
    MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 180
    Originally aired LIVE Wednesday October 30,2024
    Featuring Author SARALYN RICHARD
    ABOUT SARALYN: Saralyn Richard writes mysteries that pull back the curtain on people in settings as diverse as elite country manor houses and disadvantaged urban high schools. Her works include the Detective Parrott mystery series, two standalone mysteries, a children’s book, and many short stories published in anthologies. She also edited the nonfiction book, Burn Survivors. An active member of International Thriller Writers and Mystery Writers of America, Saralyn teaches creative writing and literature.
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • A BREATH OF FRESH AIR - Episode 179 - DAVE MURRAY

    A BREATH OF FRESH AIR - Episode 179 - DAVE MURRAY
    Oct 24 2024
    A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
    MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 179
    Originally aired LIVE Wednesday October 23,2024
    Featuring Author DAVE MURRAY
    ABOUT DAVE: Dave Murray was born and bred in the snow capital of the Northeast, Syracuse NY, and for some reason still lives there. He wrote his first book back in 1991: House-Training Your VCR: A Help Manual for Humans. Dave was an associate editor for the legendary Syracuse New-Times, where he wrote music features and a popular humor column, Out of the Ordinary. Dave had his own double-lung transplant 20 years ago and hopes this story will inspire transplant patients, past and future, and people with cystic fibrosis.
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    59 mins
  • BROKEN HORIZONS - Episode 178 - JUAN VENEGAS

    BROKEN HORIZONS - Episode 178 - JUAN VENEGAS
    Oct 17 2024
    BROKEN HORIZONS
    MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 178
    Originally aired Wednesday October 16,2024
    Featuring UK author JUAN VENEGAS
    ABOUT JUAN: Juan obtained his PhD in physics from Edinburgh University in 2013. But don’t worry — he soon realized his mistake and started writing film scripts. He went on to create short films like Elle, Blind Justice, and Siguiente Nivel, which won multiple awards and were screened at international festivals. He also wrote others that won no awards and were utterly embarrassing. These things happen. He turned to prose in 2017 and published numerous short stories in prominent blogs such as The Creative Cafe, The Junction, and Data Driven Investor. In 2022, his first Spanish novel, Segunda Juventud, came out. You should totally read it if you speak Spanish. If you don’t, well, you might still like the cover art.
    Broken Horizons is Juan’s second book. He’s currently working on a novel in which a controlling software engineer tries to restore order after everyone in the world swaps bodies with someone else. He’s also working on an Argentine tango novel in which everyone swaps partners all the time, but that’s a bit less dramatic.
    Juan currently works as a technical writer. He’s very much in touch with AI and data science, from which he gathers inspiration for his next stories.

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    59 mins
  • WHY BULGARIA? - Episode 177 - ELLIS SHUMAN

    WHY BULGARIA? - Episode 177 - ELLIS SHUMAN
    Oct 13 2024
    WHY BULGARIA?
    MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 177
    Originally aired Wednesday October 9,2024. Featuring Author ELLIS SHUMAN
    ABOUT ELLIS: Ellis Shuman is an American-born Israeli author, travel writer, and book reviewer. His writing has appeared in The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel, World Literature Today, and The Huffington Post. His short fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and has appeared in Isele Magazine, Vagabond, The Write Launch, Esoterica, Jewish Literary Journal, San Antonio Review, and other literary publications. He is the author of The Virtual Kibbutz, Valley of Thracians, The Burgas Affair, and Rakiya – Stories of Bulgaria.
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    58 mins
  • TAG - Episode 176 - JOSEPH CARRABIS

    TAG - Episode 176 - JOSEPH CARRABIS
    Oct 3 2024
    MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 176
    Originally aired Wednesday October 2,2024
    Featuring Author JOSEPH CARRABIS
    ABOUT JOSEPH: Joseph Carrabis is the author of over a dozen novels and hundreds of short stories, including the Nebula-recommended Cymodoce and the Pushcart nominated The Weight. Raised by his maternal grandfather John, Joseph developed a thirst for knowledge that would motivate him to seek immersion within indigenous societies all over the world. These experiences compelled Joseph to help others and have inspired his writing. In addition to writing fiction, Joseph is the author of internationally best-selling non-fiction. Prior to becoming a full-time author, Joseph sat on several advisory boards including the Center for Multicultural Science and the Journal of Cultural Marketing Strategy. He was a Senior Research Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research, an Annenberg Fellow at the University of Southern California, and served with the UN/NYAS Scientists Without Borders program. Joseph was born in Melrose, MA, and currently lives in Nashua, New Hampshire with his wife, Susan, and their four-legged child, Boo. Blah blah blah... Personally, I think I'm rather boring and dull. I figured that wouldn't make good copy so I asked a bunch of friends how they'd describe me. Everybody said I was "intriguing". That's a nice double-edged word, don't you think? Kind of like something you want to stare at from a distance or with a good, solid, thick piece of steel reinforced glass between you and whatever you're looking at. Me, if I think something's intriguing, I want to know more about it but I don't want to get too close while getting to know more about it. Know what I mean?...
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • MY YEAR OF CASUAL ACQUAINTANCES - Episode 175 - RUTH F STEVENS

    MY YEAR OF CASUAL ACQUAINTANCES - Episode 175 - RUTH F STEVENS
    Sep 26 2024
    MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Episode 175
    Originally aired LIVE Wednesday September 25,2024
    Featuring Author RUTH F STEVENS
    ABOUT RUTH: Ruth F. Stevens likes to create stories that will make you laugh and cry. Author of three novels and two stage plays, Ruth is a former public relations professional (NYC and LA) and current member of the Dramatists Guild of America, the Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and AlzAuthors. She has been writing professionally for her entire career—including advertising campaigns and hundreds of articles for magazines, newspapers, and journals—but creative writing is her passion. Her eclectic interests include hip-hop, Broadway musicals, hiking, and wine-tasting.
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    58 mins