ABOUT JONATHAN EVISON Jonathan Evison is an American writer best known for his novels All About Lulu, West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving and This is Your Life Harriet Chance!. His work, often distinguished by its emotional resonance and offbeat humor, has been compared by critics to a variety of authors, most notably J.D. Salinger, Charles Dickens, T.C. Boyle, and John Irving. Sherman Alexie has called Evison, "the most honest white man alive." On Amazon; https://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Evison/e/B001JP2P1W/ ABOUT LAWN BOY For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work—and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew—he knows that he’s got to be the one to shake things up if he’s ever going to change his life. But how? In this funny, angry, touching, and ultimately deeply inspiring novel, bestselling author Jonathan Evison takes the reader into the heart and mind of a young man on a journey to discover himself, a search to find the secret to achieving the American dream of happiness and prosperity. That’s the birthright for all Americans, isn’t it? If so, then what is Mike Muñoz’s problem? Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can’t seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it. And it’s looking really good. Find Jonathan at www.jonathanevison.net Twitter and Facebook
MacGregor Literary- the agency was founded by Chip MacGregor in August 2006. Chip has been a publisher with Time-Warner, a senior editor with a couple of houses, and had worked at another literary agency for several years before deciding to create his own company. From the first day, he wanted the company to help authors think strategically about their careers, whether that was in the type of story, the choice of publisher and venue, or simply the direction the author wanted to move in his or her art.Now ten years old, the agency has represented nearly a thousand books, and Chip’s blog is read regularly by people throughout the industry. And, just as when we began, we’re always on the lookout for books that make a difference. When Chip was in first grade, Chip hurried home one day and announced to his mother, “When I grow up, I’m going to be a book guy!” He clearly could see the future —from high school literary magazine editor to writing bestselling books, from speaking at writing and publishing conferences to representing renowned writers, Chip MacGregor is a book guy. Chip has presented workshops at more than 200 publishing conferences, spoken at colleges and universities, and is frequently invited to speak to writers groups around the country on the topics of writing and publishing. He earned his BS with High Honors at Portland State University, earned an MA with Honors from Biola University, and did his doctoral work at the University of Oregon in Policy and Management, focusing on organizational development. He later did a post-doctoral semester at Oxford University. Chip has been written up in numerous writing and publishing related magazines and newsletters, is frequently asked for his opinions on trends in the publishing industry, and his blog is regularly on the list of Writers Digest’s “101 Best Websites for Writers.” www.macgregorliterary.com
ABOUT AUTHOR DAVID MORRELL David Morrell is the award-winning author of First Blood, the novel in which Rambo was created. He was born in Ontario, Canada. As a teen he became a fan of the classic television series, Route 66, about two young men in a Corvette convertible traveling the US in search of America and themselves. The scripts by Stirling Silliphant combined action with ideas and so impressed Morrell that he decided to become a writer. In 1966, the work of Hemingway scholar Philip Young prompted Morrell to move to the US, where he studied with Young at Penn State and received his MA. and PhD in American lit. There, he met the sci-fi author William Tenn who taught Morrell the basics of fiction writing. The result was First Blood, a novel about a returned Vietnam vet suffering from PTSD who comes into conflict with small-town police chief and fights his own version of the Vietnam War. Morrell is considered the “father” of modern action novels. While teaching American literature from 1970 to 1986, he wrote many international bestsellers including the classic spy trilogy, The Brotherhood of the Rose (the basis for the only television mini-series to premier after a Super Bowl), The Fraternity of the Stone, and The League of Night and Fog. Wearying of two professions, Morrell gave up academia to write full time. Shortly after, his fifteen-year-old son Matthew was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and died in 1987-a loss that haunts not only Morrell’s life but his work as in his memoir Fireflies and his novel Desperate Measures-whose main character lost a son. READ MORE ABOUT DAVID MORRELL www.davidmorrell.net https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Morrell
A full-time writer with eighteen books in print, Les Edgerton teaches creative writing in an ongoing online class, and through private coaching of writers. He is very proud that a large number of students and clients have been published. He writes in a variety of forms: novels, short stories, nonfiction books, screenplays and the subjects he chooses to write about are just as varied, including sports, literary fiction, thrillers, black comedy, noir and the craft of writing. Find all of Les Edgerton's books here: https://www.amazon.com/Les-Edgerton/e/B000APH7SI/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/les.edgerton Twitter: https://twitter.com/HookedOnNoir
About Tosca Tosca Lee is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Iscariot, The Legend of Sheba, Demon: A Memoir, Havah: The Story of Eve, and the Books of Mortals series with New York Times bestseller Ted Dekker (Forbidden, Mortal, Sovereign). A notorious night-owl, she loves watching TV, eating bacon, playing video games with her kids, and sending cheesy texts to her husband. You can find Tosca hanging around the snack table or wherever bacon is served. Tosca’s highly-anticipated new thriller, The Progeny (May, Simon & Schuster) is available now!
Suspense Magazine was started by us in 2007. We thought there was a need to have a platform where all authors could showcase their work. It’s tough enough to write, but selling your books is like climbing Mt. Everest without oxygen. We started Suspense Radio a couple of years later and in 2014 we expanded the radio network to include four shows. Crime and Science Radio hosted by Doug Lyle and Jan Burke, www.crimeandscienceradio.com. Next bestselling author Steven James hosts The Story Blender where he talks great storytelling by great storytellers, www.thestoryblender.com. Inside Edition is where it all started, where you will hear author interviews and more. Then Beyond The Cover is hosted by master reviewer and author Jeff Ayers and John Raab. Here we cover everything within the genre, not just books, but movies, plays and more. We have created a place where everyone can enjoy the news and creativity within the genre of mystery, suspense, thriller and horror. You can email editor@suspensemagazine.com for more information on the magazine and to email anybody on the radio, email radio@suspensemagazine.com. Our mailing address is: 26500 Agoura Rd #102-474 Calabasas, CA 91302
ABOUT TERRY PERSUN Unless you haven’t already guessed, I love writing. I’ve published novels, novellas, short stories, poetry, nonfiction books on writing, nonfiction books on spiritual subjects, essays, technical articles, and even brochure and ad copy. I’m a writer. I try to take at least one walk every day, then spend time outside feeding horses, scooping their poop, and fixing fences, mowing grass, and doing general maintenance around the house and farm. I really enjoy hiking when I get the chance, and want to spend a few weeks in Utah visiting the National Parks (maybe with one or both of my sons). For my day job, I am a freelance writer and marketing services expert. Before going out on my own, I held VP of Marketing and Sales positions, Editorial Director positions (consumer and business-to-business), worked as an electronics design engineer, and spent six years in the US Air Force. Now, I use all those talents and interests while running an advertising/PR agency. I get to talk with interesting people every day, and help companies gain visibility and sell more of their products and services to an eager customer base. I'm married and have three children, two sons and a daughter. I don't get to see all of them as often as I'd like, but love them from wherever I am and wherever they are. My oldest son is a police officer and has a beautiful daughter. My youngest son just passed his test to be a nurse and is working at a hospital now. He has a smart and good-looking boy. Two grandchildren, if you're keeping track. My daughter is a writer and recently finished getting her MFA. You can see what she's up to at her site: www.NicoleJPersun.com. FIND TERRY PERSUN Facebook: www.facebook.com/TerryPersun Twitter: @tpersun Website: www.terrypersun.com
Robert Dugoni is the NY Times, Wall Street Journal and #1 Amazon Bestselling Author of the Tracy Crosswhite Series, He is also the author of the critically acclaimed, David Sloane series: The Jury Master, Wrongful Death, Bodily Harm, Murder One and The Conviction. Dugoni has twice been nominated for the Harper Lee Award for Legal Fiction, was a 2015 International Thriller Writer's finalist for thriller of the year, and the 2015 winner of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction. His books are sold world-wide in more than 20 countries and have been translated into a dozen languages including French, German, Italian and Spanish. Dugoni and author Steven James teach a four day writing intensive. www.novelwritingintensive.com When a woman's body is discovered submerged in a crab pot in the chilly waters of Puget Sound, Detective Tracy Crosswhite finds herself with a tough case to untangle. Before they can identify the killer, Tracy and her colleagues on the Seattle PD's Violent Crimes Section must figure out who the victim is. Her autopsy, however, reveals she may have gone to great lengths to conceal her identity. So who was she running from? After evidence surfaces that their Jane Doe may be a woman who suspiciously disappeared months earlier, Tracy is once again haunted by the memory of her sister s unsolved murder. Dredging up details from the woman's past leads to conflicting clues that only seem to muddy the investigation. As Tracy begins to uncover a twisted tale of brutal betrayal and desperate greed, she'll find herself risking everything to confront a killer who won't go down without a deadly fight. Once again, New York Times bestselling author Robert Dugoni delivers a taut, riveting thriller in the fourth installment of his acclaimed Tracy Crosswhite series.
Returning guest and author TJ Boyer writes epic fantasy adventures that span the universe and across time. This is what TJ Boyer has to say about himself: "I have been writing and telling stories since I was in my teens. I have been told I am a great storyteller, and now that I am older I decided to publish some of my stories. I like reading and writing, and watching Sci-Fi movies. I have written ten (10) books and only published two (2). I am working on two more; the third one should be out by the end of 2010 and the fourth by mid 2011. One day I would love to see my Mirror Gate Chronicles made into a movie; I have been told by those that have read them that they would be a big hit. I will not argue with them since I agree. I was asked the other day what author my writings were similar to. After thinking about it and with my wife’s help, the person my stories are most similar to is Marion Zimmer Bradley. Robert E Howard: Conan the Barbarian was the first paper back book I read. Then I started reading Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Darkover series." Find TJ Boyer On his website at: www.mirrorgatechronicle.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/tim.j.boyer
ABOUT GAR LASALLE Gar LaSalle is an award-winning author and filmmaker, a physician, a sculptor, and a creator who has been honored widely in the fine arts and medical communities for his leadership and creativity. He is the author of two award-winning historical fiction novels. Widow Walk, published in 2014 by Greenleaf Book Group, won multiple awards including the Eric Hoffer Award for Literature, the eLit Silver Medal, the IndieReaders Award for Best Novel, and the San Francisco Book Festival Grand Jury Prize for General Fiction. Isthmus, the second book in the saga, was published in 2015 and was a finalist for the PNWWA Nancy Pearl award for literature. His third novel, The Fairness of Beasts, is scheduled for release in 2017. ABOUT GAR'S BOOKS AND "THE WIDOW WALK SAGA" WIDOW WALK is based on the real events surrounding the revenge murder of Isaac Ebey, a prominent citizen who lived on Whidbey Island in the mid-1800s. Author Gar LaSalle combines his love of history with a compelling story of a woman’s determination to find her kidnapped son. The novel vividly depicts those turbulent times, when the United States and Britain both attempted to control vast, fertile new lands in the Pacific Northwest and contain its native “aboriginal” populations. In Widow Walk, brave people fight to survive predation and the violent confrontations that inevitably accompany ambition and expansionism. This is a story of courage, character, and the emergence of those who endured. ABOUT THE LASALLE STORYTELLER AWARD This annual award recognizes outstanding work by an established or emerging author of fiction based in Washington State. The recipient receives a $10k grant to continue their work. The grant is awarded through a partnership between the Artist Trust and Gar LaSalle.
New York Times bestselling author James Rollins combines historical mystery and scientific exploration in this thrilling adventure tale in which Sigma Force must stop an ancient plague from decimating the modern world THE SEVENTH PLAGUE If the biblical plagues of Egypt truly happened—could they happen again—on a global scale? As a global crisis grows, Sigma Force will confront a threat born of the ancient past and made real by the latest science—a danger that will unleash a cascading series of plagues, culminating in a scourge that could kill all of the world’s children . . . decimating mankind forever. THE SEVENTH PLAGUE, on sale December 13, 2016, the newest blockbuster thriller from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author James Rollins, finds the leader of a British archeological expedition, Professor Harold McCabe, stumbling out of the sands of the Sudanese desert, frantic and delirious, two years after vanishing with his research team. He dies before he can explain what happened to him. The mystery deepens when an autopsy uncovers a bizarre corruption: someone had begun to mummify the professor’s body—while he was still alive. THE SEVENTH PLAGUE is a complex and compelling novel that intertwines simultaneous storylines that converge through a series of cryptic hieroglyphics, arcane biblical philosophies, a cutting edge power source hidden in a clandestine research lab in the Artic and a desperate search through the deserts of Africa for the origins of the plagues of Egypt. THE SEVENTH PLAGUE is an electrifying thrill ride from a master of the genre at the pinnacle of his career. JAMES ROLLINS is a New York Times bestselling author of international thrillers whose books have been translated into more than forty languages.
ABOUT AUTHOR NICOLE J. PERSUN Nicole J. Persun’s professional writing career began when she was sixteen, after Booktrope—an independent publisher in Seattle—accepted her first novel, a young adult epic fantasy. A Kingdom's Possession later went on to be a finalist for Foreword Reviews' 2011 Book of the Year Award as well as an Amazon Bestseller. Nicole's second novel, an adult epic fantasy titled Dead of Knight, recently won First Place in Foreword Magazine's 2013 Book of the Year Award competition, and has also seen Amazon's Bestseller rankings. Aside from fantasy novels, Nicole enjoys writing short stories and flash fiction in all genres; her poetry has been published in a handful of literary magazines; and she just completed a work of creative nonfiction about her father, Terry Persun, who is also a writer. www.nicolejpersun.com
Jane’s professional writing career began in 1994 with the publication of the award-winning Going by the Book, a memoir about teaching high school English in New Haven Connecticut in the Sixties. In 1999 she gave readers The “M” Word, the first mystery in the Bel Barrett Mystery Series which chronicles the sleuthing of a menopausal community college English prof. Her award-winning historical mystery, The Bones and the Book, published in 2012, is set in Seattle’s Jewish community during the Gold Rush and in 1965. Upheavals have inspired her. Jane began researching their new setting. What she learned formed a story in her head that became The Bones and the Book, a historical mystery set in Seattle’s tiny Jewish community during the Gold Rush and in 1965. Not surprisingly, outsiders and insiders populate this novel written by a “transplant.” It was published in 2012 by Oconee Spirit Press and won a Willa Award in the category of Original Softcover Fiction from Women Writing the West. Jane continues to write her way to putting down new roots in Washington. She is currently completing a mystery set east of the Cascades in the Evergreen State’s Yakima Valley. Below are some pictures taken in 2013 and 2014 while she was doing research in and near this fascinating oasis nestled in the high desert terrain of central Washington. Learn more about Jane Isenberg at www.janeisenberg.com
LOVE BENEATH THE NAPALMWinner of the Notre Dame Review Book Prize http://www.jamesdredwood.com
Susan Wingate hosts debut author, Jill Urbach. Her new book entitled, "Two-Room Flat" is a romantic comedy filled with conflict, humor and (of course) LOVE! For more about Jill Urbach, go to: www.jillurbach.com
Join Susan Wingate, host of Dialogue: Between the Lines when she hosts Jeffrey Blount, author of Hating Heidi Foster-- Hating Heidi Foster, is a young adult novel about the place of honor true friendships hold in our lives. It is about suffering and loss and the ethics of grief. It is about a deep and painful conflict, the bright light of selflessness and sacrifice and the love that rights the ship and carries us safely to port. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0985762705 www.jeffreyblount.com
Susan Wingate will chat with actor, Matthew Arkin about his his Kickstarter campaign for his latest novel. "In the Country of the Blind" is a novel of suspense, introducing Zach Brandis, former New York City attorney turned building super. When a date's roommate is murdered, curiosity turns dangerous, and Zach has to keep one eye open IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND. Zach Brandis has too much time on his hands. Everyone, even Zach himself, wonders why he threw away his promising legal career and is now the super of a five-story brownstone. When his first date with Cynthia ends with her roommate’s dead body and the cops asking all the wrong questions, there’s no good reason that Zach should care, other than the fact that Cynthia is beautiful and in distress. Maybe Zach can be a knight in shining armor, maybe he just needs something to do, and maybe, just maybe, he’ll figure out what he's doing with his life. But what starts out as curiosity turns dangerous, and Zach learns that you have to keep one eye open IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND. Work has already begun on the second novel in the Zach Brandis series, tentatively titled Cherchez La Perp. Here's the pitch: Zach thought he knew New York City inside and out, its rhythms, its bright open spaces, its out of the way places. But the brutal murder of his friend Roger Thewliss draws him into a world he never knew existed, a world where the smear of low-rent sex for sale taints the halls of high-priced white shoe law firms and their elite clientele. While Zach looks for the killer, can he save the woman at the center of it all? For more information on my career and credits, visit www.matthewarkin.com
Normally, Joshua Graham hosts with Susan Wingate, but this week he sits in the hot seat as she interviews him about his latest novel, TERMINUS. "Joshua Graham's TERMINUS is a fantastic read in every definition of that word." ~James Rollins, New York Times bestseller of The Blood Gospel "Terminus will be remembered as one of the BEST books of 2013. A must read." ~J.M. LeDuc, Award Winning author of Cursed Days
Make sure to listen in as The Amazing Kreskin talks with Susan Wingate and Guest Host, Kerry Hartjen on Wednesday, March 6th! The famous Mentalist will surely entertain you as he has been doing for nearly 4 decades. From The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and The Phil Donahue Show, Kreskin has been wowing audiences around the world. http://www.amazingkreskin.com
Join us as we interview NY Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child!