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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Thomas R. Weaver discusses his debut novel, Artificial Wisdom. In this techno-thriller murder mystery, Tom tackles two major issues: climate change and artificial intelligence. He began writing this story by asking the question: What if the global community were to put its faith in an AI leader in a Brexit-style referendum? It is 25 years in the future. The world is polarized by politics and is splitting apart. And the planet is gripped by a combination of crises--war, climate change and technology that has advanced exponentially. But all of this serves as a backdrop to a very personal and human story that centers around a reporter whose personal tragedy and grief has a direct connection to the crises that plague the global community. In this episode, I’ll chat with Tom about his writing journey, why writing his own books has made reading fiction much more difficult for him, and what he means when he says that he and his manuscript underwent a great deal of bouncing and interrogating.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Dr. Marschall Runge discusses his debut novel, Coded to Kill. In this techno-medical thriller, a state-of-the-art medical records system gets hijacked, giving the hijackers unfettered access to private information and the ability to change the patient records of some very important people. Does this mean that medicine’s greatest breakthrough is now the world’s most efficient killing machine? You’ll have to read Coded to Kill to find out. As Marschall explains, everything in this book is possible, and some of it has already happened. And he would know. Dr. Marschall Runge is the executive vice president for Medical Affairs at the University of Michigan, dean of the Medical School, and CEO of Michigan Medicine. In this episode, I’ll chat with Marschall about his writing journey, the feedback he has received from his colleagues and students, and how the sequel to Coded to Kill will address real-world issues that are being debated right now.
*** As mentioned in the interview, Dr. Marshcall Runge’s author email is marschall.runge@gmail.com. He would love to hear from readers! The Bookshop at the End of the Internet is also available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, Spotify and iHeartRadio. Subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss an episode!
In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Gary Braver discusses his new book, Rumor of Evil. In this mystery novel, Gary weaves together two seemingly unrelated murders—-one past and one present. Two police detectives catch a case of a woman’s murder that is staged to look like a suicide. As their investigation unfolds, they discover clues leading back to a decades-old murder of a teenage foreign exchange student. In crafting this story, Gary was inspired by the 2014 true-crime Slender Man case, from which he studied the profiles of both the bullied and the bullies. Gary believes the draw of the mystery genre comes down to the differences between true crime stories and fiction-—namely that in fiction, motives become clear and, in the end, justice is usually served. In this episode, I’ll chat with Gary about his writing journey, what his career as an English professor taught him about writing his own stories, and why he says it is important that the detectives have the most to lose in a mystery novel.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author D.P. Behling discusses his new series, Josh & Sen Save the Multiverse. The first book in the series, The Path of One, is out now, and books two and three will be available later this year. This series is a fun mash-up of science fiction, fantasy and buddy comedy. In The Path of One, two unlikely friends, one human and the other immortal, are thrown together to try to accomplish the impossible—rescue Josh’s four-year-old daughter, stop a genocidal soul-harvester, and save the multiverse. Dave’s inspirations for this series include video games, sci fi fandoms, Greek mythology, the difficult job of parenting, and various challenges that arose from the recent pandemic. Despite the sweeping and sometimes serious nature of this series, Dave’s favorite aspect of writing it was working humor into the stories. In this episode, I’ll chat with Dave about his writing journey, what he means by there being no publishing emergencies, and what is in store for the characters in upcoming books.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Emily Shiner discusses her two new books released this past autumn: The Wife in the Photo and The Hotel. If you are like Emily and love a good revenge plot, you’ll want to check out The Wife in the Photo. It’s a psychological thriller filled with secrets, twists, a mysterious death and edge-of-your seat family drama. Emily’s other book, The Hotel, is another story that you might find similarly hard to put down. This novel is a locked-room thriller that reveals what can go wrong when you’re trapped in a beautiful clifftop hotel with a family of strangers. As the author of more than a dozen books, Emily writes stories designed to keep her readers up at night. In this episode, I’ll chat with Emily about her writing journey, how she wanted to be a writer ever since elementary school, and the secret to getting a thriller novel’s “twist” just right.
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In this week’s episode, I’m celebrating the 200th episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet. I’m also celebrating the podcast’s five-year anniversary since the first episode went live on the various podcast platforms. There have been so many wonderful guest authors who visited the Bookshop to discuss their books and their writing journeys. In this episode, however, I’m doing something a little different. In fact, I’m doing something that I have never done in any of the prior 199 episodes. Today, I’m discussing my own books -- Sycamore Lane, Inland, and The Elixir Vitae Adventures series (and giving a preview of my upcoming adult novel) -- as well as my own writing journey.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Becca Wierwille discusses her new middle grade novel, Road Trip Rescue. In this book, 12-year-old Kimmy loses her dog named Bo. But Bo is more than just a pet. He is Kimmy’s best friend -- because Bo never made fun of her for being born with only one hand. Two years after Bo goes missing, Kimmy stumbles across a magazine photo of a dog eating an ice cream cone, and Kimmy knows in her heart that the dog is Bo. She enlists the aid of her Aunt Skylar, an adventure-seeking, pink-haired woman who agrees to take Kimmy on a road trip and promises to stop in the town where the photo was taken so they can try to find the dog. Becca was inspired to write this story by an actual photo she found of a dog eating an ice cream cone. She began asking “what if” questions, and the story developed from there. Becca and her main character Kimmy share something in common -- they were both born with a limb difference. Born with only half of her right arm, Becca uses her stories to help others find beauty in what makes them extraordinary. In this episode, I’ll chat with Becca about her writing journey, why she chooses to write for middle grade readers, and why hearing from readers she doesn’t know is her favorite part of the job.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Nancy McCabe discusses her new book, Vaulting Through Time. This is Nancy’s first novel for young adults. A 16-year-old biracial high school student named Elizabeth is coming to the end of her competitive gymnastics career. But that isn’t the only thing that has her head spinning. Elizabeth discovers a mystery surrounding about her birth that her mother has kept secret from her. She also finds herself catapulted through time, through her family’s own history as well as great moments in gymnastics history, in order to solve that mystery and stop a fellow time traveler whose actions may prevent her from being born at all. This book holds a special place in Nancy’s heart, because she has always loved time travel stories, and her main character Elizabeth was inspired by Nancy’s own daughter, who was a competitive gymnast. Nancy has taught writing at the university level for many years, but she admits Vaulting Through Time is unlike anything she has ever written before. In this episode, I’ll chat with Nancy about her writing journey, why she credits her students with convincing her to try her hand at writing a time travel novel, and the one simple truth she tells all her students: the more you read, the better writer you become.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Maggie Giles discusses her new book, Twisted. It is Maggie’s second novel and the first book in a duology, with the final installment, Wicked, due out next year. In Twisted, a mysterious drug is believed to be linked to several unsolved murders. When Detective Ryan Boone’s investigation finds more questions than answers, he has no choice but to team up with escort service madame Mel Parker to unravel the mystery behind the medication before someone else winds up dead. Maggie also discusses her debut novel, The Things We Lost. This book is a suspenseful take on the idea of an alternate reality. The main character Maddie has been haunted for many years by the death of a close friend. When Maddie wakes up one morning to find herself in a different life, one in which her friend is still alive, Maddie thinks she’s been given a do-over. But this second chance may mean giving up the life she had and never seeing her kids again. In this episode, I’ll chat with Maggie about her writing journey, how she writes her novels while dealing with aphantasia, a characteristic that means she lacks a visual imagination, and the reactions from her readers to the very human ideas of second chances and having a do-over.
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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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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Michael C. Bland discusses his new science fiction trilogy, which he has crafted with both thriller and dystopian elements. The first two books in the series are out now: The Price of Safety and The Price of Rebellion. Michael chose to set this story in the year 2047, and it is inspired by our world as it currently stands. He started with the premise that technology can make our lives better, but it can also be used against us. What if, while no one was paying attention, someone out there was actually paying attention to everything. In Michael’s near-future world, everyone has a computer implant. In fact, not having one is illegal. But that technology ends up in the hands of bad actors who do not have everyone’s best interest at heart. Michael is hard at work on the last book in the trilogy, and we look forward to book #3 in the very near future. In this episode, I’ll chat with Michael about his writing journey, how he started with comic books at the age of 10, and why his first job in finance (as a debt collector) is ripe with stories for future books.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Mark Angelo discusses his children’s picture book, Can We Play Baseball, Mr. DeMille? It is a fun, uplifting story inspired by events in his own childhood. When Mark was a young boy, he and his brother Chris shared a love of baseball. The Dodgers had just moved to Los Angeles, and baseball fever was sweeping the city. Mark and Chris were looking for a place to play with their friends. Open spaces were difficult to find in Los Angeles, but Mark and his friends found the perfect spot—a lovely patch of land perfect for playing baseball. The only problem was that it was owned by none other than Hollywood legend Cecil B. DeMille. Being the youngest of the group, Mark was nominated to go and speak with Mr. DeMille to ask permission to play on his property. Did the Hollywood legend say yes? You’ll have to read the book to find out. In this episode, I’ll chat with Mark about his writing journey, his love of all things baseball, and how, after years of writing for a university audience, his grandchildren inspired him to start writing children’s books.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Reenita Hora discusses her book, Operation Mom: My Plan to Get My Mom a Life and a Man. This young adult rom-com novel features a 17-year-old native of Mumbai and her mother, a middle-aged Punjabi woman. Reenita is quick to point out that this book is a work of fiction, not a self-help guide, and is more comedy than romance. In fact, it is inspired by the comedy of her everyday existence and the zany, feisty and fabulous women in her life. Her goal with Operation Mom was to write a comedic story that would be universal, while still showcasing Indian characters and aspects of their lives that most audiences have not seen before--especially the everyday humor. Reenita is also the producer of two podcasts: one is a narrative fiction “radio drama” of her magical, coming-of-age novel, Shadow Realm; and the other is the True Fiction Project, which explores the journey from unscripted to scripted wherein a nonfiction interview is used as the basis for a work of fiction. In this episode, I’ll chat with Reenita about her writing journey, her books, both fiction and nonfiction, and her desire to write stories that reflect the South Asian experience.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Brooklyn Quintana discusses her latest book, Blood in the Water. It is the second book in her Fynneas Fog series, and the follow up to her debut novel, Nine of Swords. Blood in the Water is a young adult fantasy novel that takes place at a nightmarish military academy on a tropical island. A catastrophic event has changed everything for Fynneas Fog and his friends, and they must pick up the pieces and try to move on, as the story becomes darker with much more at stake. Brooklyn aimed for a more horror-story vibe with this latest novel, while still carrying on the mystery in the background and punctuating the tension with moments of levity. Even though this series is a passion project for Brooklyn, and one whose story idea has been with her since she was a little girl, she was very nervous about writing book two. Would the characters sound and behave like themselves? Fortunately for fans of the series, the answer is yes. In this episode, I’ll chat with Brooklyn about her writing journey, why Blood in the Water took almost twice as long to write as the first book, and her ongoing efforts to turn these books into a graphic novel series.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Laura Moe and actor Preston Geer discuss their collaboration on the audio book for Laura’s young adult novel, Breakfast with Neruda. This novel is the award-winning first book in a trilogy that includes, Blue Valentines and The Language of the Son. When the time came for Laura to make Breakfast with Neruda into an audio book, she began her search for the perfect narrator. Then she heard actor Preston Geer’s sample, and she knew she had found the one. In addition to being a working actor in Hollywood, Preston is the narrator of almost 70 audio books, so Breakfast with Neruda was in safe hands. In this episode, I’ll chat with Laura and Preston about their audio book journey, why a request from a Hollywood producer became the catalyst for turning the novel into an audio book, and Laura’s preparation to turn the novel into a screenplay for a streaming series.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Candace Kade discusses her new novel, Enhanced, book one in The Hybrid series. Enhanced is a young adult novel that blends cyberpunk with science fiction and is set in a part of our world known as the Asian Federation in the year 2123. This is a time when everyone has genetic enhancements, if they can afford them. The main character, a young woman named Lee Urban, unfortunately was born a Natural, someone lacking such enhancements. Lee’s genetic make-up places her in danger, and she plays a deadly game of trying to fit into the world of the Enhanced. In creating this novel, Candace asked the question: What would society look like if CRISPR and DNA modification really took off? The answer might just resemble the world she has created in this new series. In this episode, I’ll chat with Candace about her writing journey, how her experiences as an American child growing up in China provided insight for her main character, and how her dream since high school was to write at least one book set in Asia.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Amanda Lees discusses her latest book, The Midwife’s Child. It is the third book in a loosely connected series set during World War II, featuring female agents fighting in the Resistance. Her main characters in the books are all based on real women who were decorated for their leadership and heroism during WWII. Amanda loves history and credits one of her teachers in a convent boarding school for sparking her interest in the subject at an early age. She admits that The Midwife’s Child is the hardest book she has ever written. While the book is based on a real-life love story that Amanda came across during her research, the novel is partly set in Auschwitz. Amanda worked hard on this book as a way to honor those who were sent there, those who died and those who survived, and to be true to what happened. But Amanda is quick to point out that The Midwife’s Child, like all the other books in the series, is a story filled with courage and hope. In this episode, I’ll chat with Amanda about her writing journey, how coming back to the publishing industry after a long hiatus was a very different experience than when she first got started, and what she means when she says she writes “dangerously.”
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Jen Delozier, who writes under the pen name J.L. Delozier, discusses her new novel, The Photo Thief. Jen is a retired physician who worked in disaster relief for many years. Now, as an author of five novels, she finds herself inspired by science that exits on what she calls “the edge of reality” -- such things as bizarre medical anomalies, new genetic discoveries, and anything that seems too weird to be true. The Photo Thief, her latest novel, is a modern gothic murder mystery. In this book, a grieving detective meets a troubled, epileptic teen who claims her socialite mother was murdered. The young woman’s evidence? Dead people. Specifically, those appearing in a series of vintage crime-scene photographs displayed on the wall of her family’s mansion. Are her sources from beyond the grave correct? You’ll have to pick up a copy of The Photo Thief to find out. In this episode, I’ll chat with Jen about her writing journey, the inspiration for her main character, Detective Brennan, and the interesting historical tidbit that gave her the idea for the book’s title.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Claire Seeber discusses her new book, The Birthday Reunion. Claire is the author of nine books, all of them dark, twisty, psychological thrillers. The Birthday Reunion is no exception. This novel is a twist on the domestic thriller, featuring four middle-aged women who were best friends in their early twenties but haven’t spoken in twenty years. When three of them are invited to the fourth woman’s birthday party on a gorgeous island in the Mediterranean, the four women reunite. And in typical Claire Seeber fashion, everything goes horribly wrong. As a psychotherapist, Claire has always been fascinated by the reasons people do the things they do, particularly when it comes to secrets and lies. Her work has informed her writing, and the results are fast-paced novels full of cliff-hangers and complex human psychology. In this episode, I’ll chat with Claire about her writing journey, how her former training and work as an actor and director helps shape her stories, and why she says she feels “compelled” to write.
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Paul Lamb discusses his new book, One-Match Fire. Paul describes this novel as a love story—involving the love between grandfather, father and son, as well as the love they all share for a little cabin in the Ozarks. The cabin is a place where the characters can leave their lives behind and just be themselves. That setting was inspired by Paul’s own cabin in the Ozarks, and he admits that the cabin in his novel became a character itself with its own emotional journey. Paul also explains that he never intended to write this novel. In fact, it was never meant to be more than a short story. But when that short story got published, Paul decided to write another one…and then another and another. He wrote ten short stories in all, and by that time he decided there was probably enough to sit down and finally draft a novel. In this episode, I’ll chat with Paul about his writing journey, his plans to write more books featuring the characters from One-Match Fire, and why he believes “everybody is a story.”
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, best-selling author Matthew Farrell discusses his latest book, The Woman at Number 6, a gripping psychological thriller with a killer twist. Matthew loves to write characters that a lot of readers can relate to -- typical families, suburban neighborhoods, and so on. But what he really loves is to interject turmoil into that world, to place his normal characters into abnormal situations where something important is at stake. Matthew believes this might be the key to his success with writing such great tension into his stories. The Woman at Number 6, like all of Matthew’s books, is a fast-paced, tension-filled ride. He admits that it is hard work to keep up the pace of the stories as he writes them. The end result? Well, the response he receives from readers is that they can’t put them down. In this episode, I’ll chat with Matthew about his writing journey, how long it took him to finally break into the traditional publishing world, and what he means when he says he writes about “real fear.”
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In this week’s episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet, author Derek Baxter discusses his book, In Pursuit of Jefferson: Traveling through Europe with the Most Perplexing Founding Father. Derek’s book is about a little-known travel guide written by Thomas Jefferson in 1788 titled, “Hints for Americans Traveling in Europe.” Jefferson wrote the book for the sons of two wealthy friends who were setting out on a tour of the European continent. Derek came across this mysterious travel guide online and was surprised to find out that it wasn’t talked about much by historians. It also stirred up fond memories for Derek of his own days backpacking through France at age twenty. So, armed with the guide, Derek and his family set out to recreate Jefferson’s travels and to follow his “Hints for Americans.” Derek took nine trips to Europe, following Jefferson’s guided tour, and his book, In Pursuit of Jefferson, tells the tale. In this episode, I’ll chat with Derek about his writing journey, why Jefferson is such a perplexing figure in American history, and the most interesting parts of Jefferson’s European tour—the architecture, the gardens and the wine!
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