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Bill welcomes novelist and publisher Jon Sealy to the show. Jon Sealy is the author of The Whiskey Baron, The Edge of America, and The Merciful, as well as the craft book So You Want to Be a Novelist. An upstate South Carolina native, he has a degree in English from the College of Charleston and an MFA in fiction writing from Purdue University. His short fiction has appeared in The Normal School, PANK, and The Sun, among other venues, and his nonfiction has appeared in The Rumpus, The Millions, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He currently lives with his family in the suburbs of Richmond, Virginia, where he is the publisher of Haywire Books. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes novelist and memoirist Tara Moss to the show. Since 1999 Tara Moss has written 13 bestselling books, published in 19 countries and 13 languages. Her latest is the internationally bestselling historical crime novel The War Widow published with with HarperCanada, HarperCollins Australia, and launching in Dec 2020 with Dutton Books at Penguin Randomhouse US, and translated to German in Jan 2021 with AufBau as Die Jägerin. Her first non-fiction book, the critically acclaimed The Fictional Woman, became a number one national non-fiction bestseller in 2014, and her iconic cover design, featuring her face labeled with ‘fictions’ or stereotypes about women won Best Non-Fiction Book Design in 2015.

Bill welcomes suspense novelist Edwin Hill to the show. Edwin is the Edgar- and Agatha-award nominated author of Little Comfort, The Missing Ones, and Watch Her. After attending Wesleyan University and graduating with a B.A. in American Studies, he headed west to San Francisco for the dotcom boom. Later, he returned to Boston, earned an MFA from Emerson College, and switched gears to work in educational publishing. He served as the vice president and editorial director for Bedford/St. Martin's, a division of Macmillan Learning for many years before turning to writing full time. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes memoirist Christopher Zyda to the show. Christopher served as Disney’s Chief Investment Officer, overseeing more than $4 billion of company investments. In 2007, he launched Mozaic, a boutique investment management firm. Chris serves on the Board of Visitors for the UCLA Department of English, the Advisory Board for Veterans in Media & Entertainment, and the Advisory Board for the Landing Zone Grace Warrior Retreat. He is also the author of the new memoir The Storm: One Voice From the Aids Generation. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes suspense author E. A. Barres to the show. E.A. Barres' is the author, The Unrepentant, and (most recently) They're Gone; as well as the anthologies The Swamp Killers, and The Night of the Flood; in both anthologies, he served as co-editor and contributor. His column, "Decisions and Revisions," appears monthly in the Washington Independent Review of Books, and he is also the Managing Editor of The Thrill Begins, ITW's online resource for aspiring and debut thriller writers; he also serves on the Board of ITW as the Vice President of Author Programs. In addition to ITW, he is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Crime Writers of Color, and SinC. Barres also runs the Noir at the Bar series for Washington, D.C. He was born in Panama and now lives and writes in the D.C. area. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes novelist Joan Frank back to the show. Joan's two most recent books are WHERE YOU'RE ALL GOING: FOUR NOVELLAS, which won the Mary McCarthy Prize, and TRY TO GET LOST: ESSAYS ON TRAVEL AND PLACE, which won the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize. Joan's 2017 novel, ALL THE NEWS I NEED, won the Juniper Prize for the Novel.Her collected essays about the writing life, BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO: A WRITING LIFE, won the ForeWord Reviews Silver Book of the Year Award. She also reviews literary fiction and nonfiction for The Washington Post. She lives in Northern California. Her new novel, THE OUTLOOK FOR EARTHLINGS, has been described as "An elegant elegy."

Bill welcomes British novelist Stuart Evers to the show. A former bookseller, Stuart is the award-winning author of Your Father Sends His Love, Ten Stories About Smoking, the acclaimed novel If This Is Home, and his most recent, and very fascinating novel, The Blind Light.

Bill welcomes bestselling suspense author Ian K. Smith, M. D. to the show. Ian is best-known for his #1 New York Times bestselling health books, including SHRED: The Revolutionary Diet, and The Clean 20, and his frequent national television appearances on shows including The Rachael Ray Show, The Doctors, Celebrity Fit Club, as well as The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Dr. Oz, Steve Harvey Show, The Talk, Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, MSNBC and many others. The author of fifteen books (eight of them New York Times bestsellers) he has also written three thrillers: The Blackbird Papers (2005 BCALA fiction Honor Book Award winner), The Ancient Nine, and, most recently, THE UNSPOKEN. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes poet and editor Clifford Brooks back to the show. Clifford is the founder of the Southern Collective Experience and Editor-in-Chief of the Blue Mountain Review. He hosts Dante's Old South on NPR/WUTC and This Business of Music & Poetry. He has three books of poetry: The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Athena Departs, and Exiles of Eden. He currently bounces around Georgia writing his new collection, The Book of Old Gods. His poetry/fiction hybrid, The Salvation of Cowboy Blue Crawford, is due out in the spring of 2022. We started this conversation a few weeks ago, and this time we'll finish it. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes debut novelist Brian Selfon to the show. Brian Selfon has worked in criminal justice for nearly twenty years, more than fifteen of them with law enforcement agencies in New York. As the Chief Investigative Analyst for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office, he handled cases ranging from money laundering to first-degree murder. He now lives in Seattle and works as an investigator for the county public defender. He has published nonfiction pieces in the Detroit Jewish News and Fiction Writers Review. The Nightworkers is his debut novel. Don't miss it!