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Bill welcomes bestselling crime writer and TV writer and producer Lee Goldberg to the show. Lee is a two-time Edgar Award and two-time Shamus Award nominee and the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels, including Washington Post best-sellers Killer Thriller and True Fiction, as well as King City, The Walk, fifteen Monk Mysteries, and the internationally bestselling Fox & O’Hare books, cowritten with Janet Evanovich. He has also written and/or produced scores of TV shows, including Diagnosis Murder, SeaQuest, Monk, and The Glades. We’ll be discussing, among other things, his latest novel, Lost Hills. Don’t miss it!

Bill welcomes author and transformational coach Michael Bianco-Splann to the show. Michael Bianco-Splann, conscious leadership expert, visionary author and inspirational speaker, brings unique and powerful expertise to deliver a differentiated and transformative approach to leaders, organizations and those seeking a life fully engaged and true to one's passion and purpose. He is the author of Conscious Leadership, and, most recently, Dying to Live: A Tapestry of Reinvention. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes author Peter Curtis to the show. Peter was born in Slovakia in 1937, grew up in England, and studied medicine in London. Always as interested in people’s lives as in their ailments, he wrote and published short stories about his country practice. After he and his family moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina where he was a professor of Family Medicine, he began to write the story of what his parents, grandparents and he went through in the great and tragic dislocation of WWll. His novel Cafe Budapest won first place in the Pacific Northwest Writer's Conference 2019 Nancy Pearl Award in fiction!

Bill welcomes journalist and memoirist Carmen Gentile to the show. Carmen has written for some of the world’s leading publications including the New York Times, TIME, Newsweek, USA Today and many others. He has also produced online video reporting for The Times and TIME. He also regularly produces radio reports and has published numerous photos with his work. He has covered both the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, embedding with soldiers on the frontline. His work has also taken him to Nigeria, where he reported on the continuing unrest in the oil-rich Niger Delta. In September 2010, Carmen was shot by a rocket-propelled grenade while reporting on U.S. and Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan. Following a lengthy recovery, he returned to Afghanistan and resumed embed reporting for USA Today and others. He is also the author of the memoir Blindsided by the Taliban: A Journalist's Story of War, Trauma, Love, and Loss.

Bill welcomes scholar and translator Peter Booth to the show. Peter is a Hafiz scholar and translator, co-author of Dante I Hafiz, and member of the DC area Iranian Culture Association. He studied Sanskrit and sacred Indian texts at Georgetown University in his teens, received a B.A. in English Literature from Bard College, and attended Harvard Graduate School in Persian Language and Literature, studying with Annemarie Schimmel and Wheeler Thackston. He then studied Persian Literature at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, on a scholarship from the Shah of Iran. For 32 years he was a resident in Avatar Meher Baba’s home, Meherabad, in rural India, where he helped build water and electrical systems, roads, and other infrastructure, and through extensive afforestation and applied environmental technology, increased the area's average annual rainfall from 9 to over 20 inches. He also contributed translations to the just relased The Illuminated Hafiz: Love Poems for the Journey to Light. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes Anthony Award-winning author Matt Coyle to the show. Matt is the author of the best-selling Rick Cahill crime novels. He knew he wanted to be a crime writer when he was fourteen and his father gave him The Simple Art of Murder by Raymond Chandler. His foray into crime fiction was delayed for thirty years as he spent time managing a restaurant, selling golf clubs for various golf companies, and in national sales for a sports licensing company. Writing at night for over a decade, his debut novel, Yesterday’s Echo, was finally published in 2013. The wait was almost worth it as it won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel, the San Diego Book Award for Best Mystery, and the Ben Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Fiction. He has gone on to publish five other novels in the series, including his most recent, Lost Tomorrows, which comes out December 3rd. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes suspense author Michael Niemann to the show. Michael  has long been interested in the sites where ordinary people’s lives and global processes intersect. He’s shared umqombothi with shack dwellers outside Cape Town, interviewed Morgan Tsvangirai, former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, when he was still a trade union leader, and seen Eduardo Mondlane’s dorm room at Northwestern University, faithfully recreated at the Museum of the Revolution in Maputo.He has published four thrillers featuring UN investigator Valentin Vermeulen: Legitimate Business, Illicit Trade, llegal Holdings, and, most recently, No Right Way. Illegal Holdings won the 2019 Silver Falchion Award for Best Thriller at Killer Nashville. His short stories have appeared in Vengeance, the 2012 Mystery Writers of America anthology edited by Lee Child, and Mysterical-E. On the non-fiction side, he is the author of A Spatial Approach to Regionalism in the Global Economy.

Bill welcomes adventurer and memoirist Chris Fagan to the show. Chris is a wife, mother and business owner who, along with her husband Marty, was a part of the first American married couple to ski without guide, resupply, or other assistance to the South Pole, becoming Guinness World Record holders in the process. She has summited Denali, in Alaska; run 100-mile trail races through the mountains; canoed the hippo-laden Zambezi River, in Zimbabwe; sailed and paddled through the Inside Passage; and biked through remote Tanzania. She is also the author of the memoir The Expedition: Two Parents Risk Life and Family in an Extraordinary Quest to the South Pole. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes debut novelist Susan Welch to the show. Susan's first book, A Thread So Fine, won the prestigious 2019 Nancy Pearl Book Award for Fiction at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference. An adopted child, her novel grew out of a desire to understand the life of her birth and adoptive mothers' lives in the optimistic but still socially-restrictive post WW II Midwest. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes bestselling suspense writer Hank Phillippi Ryan to the show. Hank is the on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV. She's won 36 EMMYs, 14 Edward R. Murrow awards and dozens of other honors for her groundbreaking journalism. A nationally bestselling author of 11 mystery novels, Hank has also won multiple prestigious awards for her crime fiction: five Agathas, three Anthonys, the Daphne, two Macavitys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. National reviews have called Hank a "master at crafting suspenseful mysteries" and "a superb and gifted storyteller." Her novels have been named Best Thrillers of the Year by Library Journal, New York Post, BOOK BUB, PopSugar, Real Simple Magazine and others. Her newest book is the acclaimed standalone psychological thriller THE MURDER LIST, which CNN named an Ultimate Beach Read and the Library Journal rave starred review calls it "a riveting must read!" Don't miss it.