In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Jolie Tunnell discusses her series, The Idyllwild Mysteries. This historical cozy mystery series is set in 1912 in the real-life, small mountain community of Idyllwild, California. Jolie’s main character, Loveda Brown, is a young woman who reluctantly finds herself in Idyllwild but grows to love the town and begins to thrive there. 1912 is a year of great change for Idyllwild. It is a year that finds the small, isolated community being dragged into the modern age by progressive ideas brought in by visitors and technological advances, such as the automobile. All this upheaval, plus Loveda Brown’s arrival, serves as the backdrop for that key component of all cozy mysteries…murder. In this episode, I’ll chat with Jolie about her writing journey, how she has learned to trust her characters when it comes to twists and turns in the plot, and why she hopes readers will fall in love with Idyllwild, just as she has.

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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Nicholas Erik discusses his numerous science fiction and fantasy novels, including his latest: The Tess Skye series. Nick has written over twenty novels, most of them under the pen name D.N. Erikson. These fast-paced, thrilling books are largely dark, urban fantasy stories with plenty of paranormal elements: vampires, demons, werewolves and supernatural bounty hunters. As an indie author, Nick has been publishing books for the past ten years and has learned a great deal on that journey. To help others who are similarly situated, Nick has collected that knowledge and experience into comprehensive guides for authors to share with them numerous approaches to marketing, building a fanbase and being more productive—all of which are tools he has used himself. In this episode, I’ll chat with Nick about his writing journey, how he shares his writing and publishing efforts (both successful and not) as a learning tool to help others, and why he makes the conscious effort to regularly stop and appreciate where he is on his writing journey.

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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Melissa Sercia discusses the paranormal romance novels in her new Immortal Billionaires series. Each book in this steamy romance series is a standalone novel, connected by a shared world, an underlying plot arc and crossover characters. These paranormal romances feature smart, strong, feisty heroines, plus dangerously hot vampires, demons and werewolves, and, of course, a Happily Ever After. The Immortal Billionaires is the latest series by Melissa, who has written two other urban fantasy series, Blood and Darkness and Beautiful Dark Beasts. In this episode, I’ll chat with Melissa about her writing journey, how her passion for mythology has inspired her stories, and the extensive world-building she undertakes for her books, even when the stories are set in our modern-day world.

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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Barbara Krasner discusses her new middle grade novel, 37 Days at Sea: Aboard the M.S. St. Louis, 1939. It is a novel in verse about a refugee ship fleeing Nazi Germany for Cuba in 1939 with a thousand German-Jewish passengers on board. The story is told from the perspective of twelve-year old Ruthie, who is traveling with her parents. Barbara’s novel is based on the true story of the M.S. St. Louis, a refugee ship that was not permitted to dock in Havana and was forced to return to Europe. Barbara wanted to capture the child’s experience aboard the ship, and she did extensive research for this novel, including interviewing people who were children on board the real-life M.S. St. Louis in 1939. In this episode, I’ll chat with Barbara about her writing journey, how Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist inspired her to pursue writing, and how her novel, 37 Days at Sea, is a refugee story that is not too different from refugee stories today.  

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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Heather Weidner discusses her new cozy mystery series, the Jules Keene Glamping Mysteries. The first book, Vintage Trailers and Blackmailers, is out now. This series is set outside Charlottesville, VA in a luxury camping resort where, as in all good cozy mysteries, life seems to be complicated by mystery, mayhem and murder. Heather loved camping as a kid, but now as an adult she prefers her camping on the more luxurious end. Thus, a glamping resort seemed a perfect setting for her new series. Heather is also the author of the Delanie Fitzgerald mystery series, which features a strong, female sleuth with a knack for solving murder cases and getting herself in and out of humorous situations. In this episode, I’ll chat with Heather about her writing journey, how her love of mysteries started as a  youngster with Scooby Doo and Nancy Drew, and how growing up as a cop’s kid meant her family talked about "true crime" before it was popular.

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