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Bill welcomes poet and novelist Tim Garvin to the show. Tim  grew up in Arizona, then the Alaskan wilderness. Now he lives beside a creek outside Durham, North Carolina, with his wife, Cynthia, and dog, Blue. He built a cabin beside the creek, and in the mornings goes down there to write. In the afternoons, he throws pots, gardens, reads, discusses life with Cynthia, and sometimes coaxes her and Blue to the coast to float around the Outer Banks in a little sailboat. His debut novel, A Dredging in Swann was released last November. He has an MFA in fiction from the University of Arkansas and has published short stories and poems in literary journals. He’s also optioned two screenplays, Dead Money with Magic Hour Entertainment and Anvil City with Twentieth Century Fox. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes novelist Wendy Webb to the show. Wendy got her first writing job with City Pages, an arts and entertainment weekly in Minneapolis. She has been a journalist ever since, writing for national and local magazines and newspapers, including Duluth Superior Magazine, where she was editor-in-chief for almost eight years. Even though she loved her career as a journalist, she never forgot her dream of being a novelist. Though it took several years, she eventually found the time to start writing her first novel. And she never looked back. She is now the author of six novels: The Tale of Halcyon Crane, The Fate of MercyAlban, The Vanishing, The End of Temperance Dare, Daughters of The Lake, and, most recently, The Haunting of Brynn Wilder. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes novelist Bharti Kirchner to the show. Winner of the 2020 prestigious SALA Award in creative writing, Bharti is the prolific author of twelve books -- eight novels and four cookbooks. Her latest is MURDER AT ANDAMAN: A MAYA MALLICK MYSTERY. Her sixth, a literary historical novel Goddess of Fire was short-listed for the Nancy Pearl Award. Her work has been translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, Marathi, Thai and other languages. Her fourth novel Pastries: A Novel of Desserts and Discoveries was selected for the Summer Washington Reads program. Shiva Dancing, her first novel, was chosen by Seattle Weekly to be among the top 18 books by Seattle authors in the last 25 years. Don't miss it!

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.