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Author2Author
Bill Kenower, Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine, talks to writers of all genres about the books we write and the lives we lead, and how these two are one in the same.
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Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kate Russo
Send us Fan Mail Kate Russo, author of Until Alison and Super Host, grew up in Maine but now divides her time between Maine and the UK. She has an MFA in…
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Author2Author with Wendy Dale
Send us Fan Mail Wendy is a seasoned memoir-writing coach whose clients have come from Entertainment Weekly, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Ashley Ream
Send us Fan Mail Ashley Ream is a former journalist and the author of two previous novels. Losing Clementine, was a Barnes & Noble debut pick, a Sutter Home…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Megan Abbott
Send us Fan Mail Megan Abbott is the Edgar-winning author of the novels Beware the Woman, The Turnout, Give Me Your Hand, You Will Know Me, The Fever, Dare Me…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jeffrey Konvitz
Send us Fan Mail Jeffrey Konvitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Sentinel (Simon and Schuster- Random House/Ballantine Books). He also wrote…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Linda Dahl
Send us Fan Mail LINDA DAHL began writing as a freelancer about two passions, jazz and Latin America, before turning to fiction. She has written ten published…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Nell Joslin
Send us Fan Mail NELL JOSLIN is a native of Raleigh, North Carolina and received her MFA from North Carolina State University. Besides a fiction writer, she…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kristen Perrin
Send us Fan Mail Kristen Perrin is originally from Seattle, Washington, where she spent several years working as a bookseller before moving to the UK to do a…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Nancy Townsley
Send us Fan Mail Nancy Townsley lives in a floating home along the Multnomah Channel near Portland, Oregon. Her debut novel, Sunshine Girl, was inspired by her…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Ling Ling Huang
Send us Fan Mail Ling Ling Huang is a writer and violinist. She plays with several ensembles, including the Oregon Symphony, Grand Teton Music Festival…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Clay Stafford
Send us Fan Mail Clay Stafford is an American bestselling and award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, and playwright; film and television producer, director…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Robert Bailey
Send us Fan Mail Robert Bailey is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the Jason Rich series, which includes Rich Justice, Rich Waters, and Rich…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author With Alex Kenna
Send us Fan Mail Alex Kenna is a mystery writer, prosecutor, and amateur painter. Before law school, Alex studied painting and art history at Penn. She has…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Nancy Kricorian
Send us Fan Mail Nancy Kricorian, who was born and raised in the Armenian community of Watertown, Massachusetts, is the author of four novels about post-…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with William Luvaas
Send us Fan Mail William Luvaas has published four novels: The Seductions of Natalie Bach (Little, Brown) Going Under (Putnam), Beneath The Coyote Hills…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Elizabeth Rose Quinn
Send us Fan Mail Elizabeth Rose Quinn is a novelist and screenwriter. She graduated with a BA in English from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree in marriage and…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Dennis James Sweeney
Send us Fan Mail Dennis James Sweeney is the author of How to Submit: Getting Your Writing Published with Literary Magazines and Small Presses (New World…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Stuart Nadler
Send us Fan Mail Stuart Nadler is the author of Wise Men, The Inseparables, and Rooms for Vanishing, and the short story collection The Book of Life. His work…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Stephanie Carpenter
Send us Fan Mail A native of Traverse City, Michigan, STEPHANIE CARPENTER is the author of Missing Persons: Stories, which won the 2017 Press 53 Award in Short…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Lisa Genova
Send us Fan Mail Acclaimed as the Oliver Sacks of fiction and the Michael Crichton of brain science, Lisa Genova is the New York Times bestselling author of…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jordyn Taylor
Send us Fan Mail Jordyn Taylor is the former deputy digital editor at Men’s Health magazine and the award-winning author of the young adult novels The Paper…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kim Dower
Send us Fan Mail Kim (Freilich) Dower (City Poet Laureate of West Hollywood from October 2016 – October 2018) has published six highly acclaimed collections of…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jessica Soffer
Send us Fan Mail Jessica Soffer is the author of This Is a Love Story and Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots. She grew up in New York City, attended Connecticut…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Philip Kenney
Send us Fan Mail Philip Kenney is an author and psychotherapist. His most recent work is a novel entitled, The Mercy Dialogues. That work examines the power of…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Rachel Kaplan
Send us Fan Mail Rachel Kaplan, MA, MFT, is a licensed psychotherapist with a thriving practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. Creator and host of the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew
Send us Fan Mail Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew is the author of Swinging on the Garden Gate: A Memoir of Bisexuality & Spirit, now in its second edition; the novel…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kate Winkler Dawson
Send us Fan Mail Kate Winkler Dawson is a seasoned documentary producer, podcaster, and true-crime historian whose work has appeared in The New York Times…
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Author2Author with Nancy Slonim Aronie
Send us Fan Mail Nancy Slonim Aronie has been a commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. She was a Visiting Writer at Trinity College in…
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Big Announcement: Fearless Writing Retreat!
Send us Fan Mail Bill Kenower will be hosting an in-person Fearless Writing Retreat January 26-31 in Portland, OR. Space is limited! Hope to see you there…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Gary Goldstein
Send us Fan Mail GARY GOLDSTEIN is an award-winning writer for film, TV, and the theatre, with more than 30 produced screen and stage credits. His first novel…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Cat Rambo
Send us Fan Mail Since coming through Clarion West in 2005, Cat Rambo’s 300+ fiction publications have included stories in Asimov’s, Clarkesworld Magazine, and…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Georgia Jeffries
Send us Fan Mail Georgia Jeffries is a writer of Emmy Award winning drama and critically acclaimed noir fiction. Honored with multiple Writers Guild Awards…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jan Gangsei
Send us Fan Mail Jan Gangsei is an award-winning author of books for young adults and tweens. Her debut YA thriller, Zero Day, was named to several state award…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Lilly Dancyger
Send us Fan Mail LILLY DANCYGER is the author of First Love: Essays on Friendship (2024), which Leslie Jamison called "fiercely felt and finely etched;" and…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Adam Plantinga
Send us Fan Mail Adam Plantinga’s first book, 400 Things Cops Know, was nominated for an Agatha Award and won the 2015 Silver Falchion award for best…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kirby Larson and Quinn Wyatt
Send us Fan Mail KIRBY LARSON is the acclaimed author of many books for young people, including the 2007 Newbery Honor Book Hattie Big Sky; Dash, winner of the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Chery Lou Sy
Send us Fan Mail Cherry Lou Sy is a writer and playwright originally from the Philippines and currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA at the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Andrew Bridgeman
Send us Fan Mail Andrew Bridgeman’s debut novel has it all – characters you fall in love with, a plot that keeps you racing from page to page, twists that…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Sebastian Smee
Send us Fan Mail Sebastian Smee is an art critic for the Washington Post and the author of "Paris in Ruins: Love, War and the Birth of Impressionism" (Norton)…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Nadia Salem
Send us Fan Mail As a mythopoeic scholar, Nadia Salem researches mythic structures in narrative throughout literature and film. By understanding mythology’s…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with David Rocklin
Send us Fan Mail David Rocklin is the author of The Luminist and Foreward LGBTQIA award-winning The Night Language. He also wrote The Write Formula: Twelve…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Molly Giles
Send us Fan Mail Molly Giles is an award-winning fiction writer. Her first collection of stories, ROUGH TRANSLATIONS won the Flannery O’Connor Prize for Short…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Andre Dubus III
Send us Fan Mail Bill revisits his conversation with Andre Dubus last year after his release of Such Kindness. Andre Dubus III’s nine books include the New…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Miles Harvey
Send us Fan Mail Miles Harvey is the author of The Registry of Forgotten Objects: Stories, which won The Journal Non/Fiction Prize and was published by Mad…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado
Send us Fan Mail Jeffery Deaver is the award-winning #1 international and New York Times bestselling author of the Lincoln Rhyme, Colter Shaw and Kathryn Dance…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Maribeth Fischer
Send us Fan Mail Maribeth Fischer is the founder and executive director of the Rehoboth Beach Writers Guild. She has received three Delaware Division of the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Emily Jon Tobias
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes poet and fiction writer Emily Jon Tobias to the show. Emily is an American author and poet. She is an award-winning writer whose…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jill Fordyce
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Jill Fordyce to the show. Jill received a law degree from Santa Clara University in 1989. For the majority of her…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Suzette Mullen
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut memoirist Suzette Mullen to the show. Suzette Mullen is the founder of Your Story Finder nonfiction book coaching and a…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Sydney Morrison
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes debut novelist Sydney Morrison to the show. Sidney lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Karan. He is a retired teacher and school…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Kelly McMasters
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes essayist and memoirist Kelly McMasters to the show. Kelly McMasters is an essayist, professor, mother, and former bookshop…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Joyce Maynard
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling novelist Joyce Maynard to the show. Joyce Maynard is the author of twelve previous novels and five books of…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Debra Spark
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist, short story writer, and essayist Debra Spark to the show. Debra is the author of five novels, two collections of short…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Ellen Birkett Morris
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomed award-winning novelist and short story writer Ellen Birkett Morris back to the show. Ellen’s novel Beware the Tall Grass is the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Meredith Heller
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes poet and writing instructor Meredith Heller to the show. Meredith is the author of Writing by Heart, Write a Poem, Save Your…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Anastasia Zadeik
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Anastasia Zadeik to the show. ANASTASIA is a writer, editor, and narrative nonfiction performer. She lives in San…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Hazel Hayes
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes novelist Hazel Hayes to the show. Hazel is an Irish-born, London-based writer and director who for many years wrote primarily…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Jo Piazza
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes author and podcaster Jo Piazza to the show. Jo is a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and critically acclaimed…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Steve Almond
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling author Steve Almond to the show. Steve Almond is the author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, including the…
Author2AuthorAuthor2Author with Eileen Garvin
Send us Fan Mail Bill welcomes bestselling novelist Eileen Garvin to the show. Eileen is the author of the national bestselling novel The Music of Bees and the…