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Bill welcomes journalist and debut crime novelist Holly Watt to the show. Holly started her career at the Sunday Times, before moving to the Daily Telegraph. During six years at the Telegraph, she was the Whitehall Editor and jointly ran the investigations team. She then moved to work on the Guardian's investigations team. Holly has been nominated for a wide range of journalism prizes, winning awards for her work on stories including MPs’ Expenses at the Telegraph and the Panama Papers at the Guardian. She has reported from a wide range of countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Libya, Jordan and Lebanon. As well as flying around the world on everything from Lynx helicopters to Air Force One, Holly also worked as an undercover journalist. In 2008, she was the Laurence Stern Fellow, spending several months working at the Washington Post. She is also the author of the widely-praised debut crime novel, To the Lions. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes novelist Frank Heller to the show. Frank Heller has published biographical and exhibition catalogs on American and European artists, some of which are housed in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries in Washington, DC. He was a hospital corpsman in the US Navy during the early years of the Vietnam War. To write THE SECRET EMPRESS, he drew on his thirty years of experience working in and traveling to China in the import business. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes bestselling novelist Talia Carner back to the show. Talia Carner's first novel, PUPPET CHILD, was listed in “The Top 10 Favorite First Novels 2002” and launched a nationwide legislation–The Protective Parent Reform Act–which became the platform for two State Senatorial candidates. CHINA DOLL made Amazon’s bestsellers list and served as the platform for Ms. Carner’s presentation at the U.N. in 2007 about infanticide in China—the first ever in U.N. history. Her novel, JERUSALEM MAIDEN won the Forward National Literature Award in the Historical Fiction category. HOTEL MOSCOW, won USA Book News award in the Multicultural category. Her latest novel, THE THIRD DAUGHTER, is a daring exposé of sex trafficking.Over 70 of Carner’s award-winning short stories, articles, and personal essays have appeared in anthologies, literary magazines, and leading websites. She's a board member of HBI, a research center for Jewish women’s life and culture at Brandeis University. She is also an honorary board member of several anti-domestic violence and child abuse intervention organizations and sits on committees of organizations that work toward Israeli causes. Her addictions include chocolate, ballet, hats—and social justice. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes novelist Howard Michael Gould to the show. Howard spent five years working on Madison Avenue, winning three Clios and numerous other awards. In television, he was executive producer and head writer of CYBILL when it won the Golden Globe for Best Comedy Series, and held the same positions on INSTANT MOM and THE JEFF FOXWORTHY SHOW. He wrote and directed the feature film THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY LEFAY, starring Tim Allen and Jenna Elfman. He is the author of two novels, LAST LOOKS and BELOW THE LINE, both featuring tortured, eco-maniacal private eye Charlie Waldo. The film version of LAST LOOKS, starring Charlie Hunnam and Mel Gibson and directed by Tim Kirkby, is currently in post-production. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes actress and author Marianne Leone to the show. Marianne is an actress, screenwriter and essayist. She had a recurring role on HBO's "Sopranos" as Joanne Moltisanti, Christopher's (Michael Imperioli's) mother. She has also appeared in films by John Sayles, Nancy Savoca and Martin Scorsese. Her essays and op ed pieces on a variety of topics have appeared in the Boston Globe. She is married to Chris Cooper, an academy-award winning actor and was Jesse Cooper's mother for seventeen years. After his death in 2005, her essay on grief was published in the Boston Globe ("He Was Our Touchstone".) Her memoir, Jesse: A Mother's Story, grew out of that essay.

Bill welcomes author and coach Alison Sher to the show. Alison is a generational change agent, organizational consultant, and the author of The Millennial's Guide to Changing the World. She has spent the past decade working as a journalist interviewing hundreds of people on some of the most pressing issues of our times. Her work has been published in books, newspapers and magazines around the country. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes award winning short story writer Beth Mayer to the show. Her short story collection We Will Tell You Otherwise won the Hudson Prize in fiction with Black Lawrence Press. Her fiction has appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Sun Magazine, and The Midway Review. She was a fiction finalist for The Missouri Review’s Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize (2016), her work recognized among “Other Distinguished Stories” by Best American Mystery Stories (2010), and her stories anthologized in both American Fiction (New Rivers) and New Stories from the Midwest (Ohio University). She currently teaches English at Century College in Minnesota. Don't miss it!

Bill welcomes back bestselling suspense author Robert Crais to the show. Robert Crais is the author of the best-selling Elvis Cole novels. He began his creative career writing for such hit TV shows as Hill Street Blues and Miami Vice. He decided to leave the lucrative world of television to pursue his dream of writing novels. Though it took some time, he hit paydirt with first published novel: The Monkey's Raincoat, which became a smash hit and went on to win the Anthony and Macavity Awards. He has since published over twenty novels and remains one of the most read and respected suspense writers working today!Note - this week's show airs on Wednesday, not Tuesday!

Bill welcomes award-winning suspense novelist Lori Roy to the show. Lori Roy's debut novel, BENT ROAD, was awarded the Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. Her work has been twice named a New York Times Notable Crime Book and included on various best of lists and summer reading lists.  UNTIL SHE COMES HOME was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a Finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe award for Best Novel. LET ME DIE IN HIS FOOTSTEPS also received the 2016 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Novel, making Lori the first woman to receive an Edgar Award for both Best First Novel and Best Novel, and she is only the third person to have ever done so. Her latest, GONE TOO LONG, just hit shelves this June.

Bill welcomes life-coach and bestselling author Shannon Ethridge to the show. Shannon Ethridge is a million-copy best-selling author, international speaker, certified life coach, and advocate for healthy sexuality with a master’s degree in counseling / human relations. Since her mortuary days of embalming many HIV+ and AIDS patients, she has boldly spoken to high school and college students, single adults, and married couples about:* Embracing a lifestyle of sexual integrity* Overcoming past sexual & emotional baggage* Cultivating genuine intimacy in marriage* Instilling sexual values in young children.Should be interesting!