In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Heather Dixon discusses her two new releases, her debut novel Burlington, which released in August, and Last Summer at the Lake House, which released in October. Both of these books are stand-alone novels. Burlington is a unique twist on the domestic suspense genre. In this book, a mother of two moves to a new neighborhood and quickly gets caught up in the drama of the other mothers. However, the schoolyard politics soon take a dark turn when one of the moms goes missing. In contrast, Last Summer at the Lake House is work of women’s fiction. The story features three sisters who are called back to the family lake house after their father’s death only to learn that he was hiding a dark secret from them all. The setting for this story is near and dear to Heather’s heart, because it’s based on the lake house her family visits every summer. In this episode, I’ll chat with Heather about her writing journey, why she says character comes first in her stories, and what makes her books similar, despite being in different genres--mainly, the themes of motherhood, belonging and identity.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Douglas J. Wood discusses his new book, The Shakespeare Killer. It is the sequel to his critically acclaimed novel, Blood on the Bayou. In this new thriller, an FBI profiler is on the hunt for a serial killer whose actions indicate that he is taking a particular William Shakespeare quote literally: “kill all the lawyers.” Doug became fascinated by his research into FBI profiling, and this interest helped him craft his main character, Special Agent Chris DiMeglio, a man who is a consummate professional in his work but flawed and struggling in his personal life. Doug also took a great deal of care to weave into this story various Shakespeare theories and quotes. The result is a fast-paced police procedural that is every bit the cat and mouse game. An attorney himself, Doug practiced law for nearly 50 years, but readily admits that writing fiction is his passion. In this episode, I’ll chat with Doug about his writing journey, the various other books he’s written, including a legal career memoir, and why he thinks authors are well suited to write novels about the dark parts of our society.

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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author C.J. Milacci discusses the first two books in her Talionis series: Recruit of Talionis and Fugitive of Talionis. These sci fi dystopian novels were written for the young adult audience, but fans of C.J.’s series vary in age with the youngest fan being just 10 years old, and oldest being ninety-eight. In this series, the main character Bria is a young woman haunted by personal tragedy who is kidnapped to become a recruit in an army of secret soldiers, forced to fight in a war that she wants no part of. What was C.J.’s inspiration for this series? She started with a question: What would happen if America fell like Rome did, while the rest of the world moved on and abandoned the survivors of America’s collapse? From C.J.’s answer to that question, the Talionis series was born. In this episode, I’ll chat with C.J. about her writing journey, the reason she is became a fan of plotting her stories, and what she loves about dystopian novels.

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.In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Tim Facciola discusses his new Vengeful Realm series. The first book, The Scales of Balance, is out now, with books two and three to follow next year. Tim describes his fantasy series as Game of Thrones meets Spartacus’s rebellion from Rome. Told from seven different points of view, The Scales of Balance follows the story of several main characters, one of whom is Zephyrus, a gladiator with amnesia and a mysterious prophecy who finds himself fighting for his freedom while also serving as a royal spy. This book is filled with combat, conspiracies, betrayals, gods and magic. But at its heart, it is a story about finding one’s identity which, as you can imagine, is more difficult than it sounds, especially given the epic sweep of this tale. In this episode, I’ll chat with Michael about his writing journey, how this series was a decade in the making, and how he used Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs to start his world building.

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