Today's Guest: Novelist Jim Butcher, author of The Dresden Files. I am NOT the world’s biggest Harry Potter fan. The only book in the series that I’ve read is the first, which my wife and I took turns reading aloud to my daughter when she was just learning to read herself. Since then, they’ve... Continue Reading →
Sci-fi writer Kevin J. Anderson: To Alderaan and beyond! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Kevin J. Anderson, novelist, Hidden Empire: The Saga of Seven Suns, Young Jedi Knights, Allies, Last Son of Krypton, Ground Zero If you create or own a sci-fi or other genre character or franchise, one of the top, go-to guys for a writer who will admirably adapt your property for novelization is... Continue Reading →
Illegal! Novelist Paul Levine writes it so! PODCAST INTERVIEW
I’m Mr. Media—not Mr. Know-It-All. So I hope I can be excused for not realizing what a clever, entertaining writer Paul Levine is, at least not before I read his latest novel, Illegal. It’s a fast-paced, often funny, often frightening story that personalizes the case of illegal immigration, reducing it from faceless masses crossing... Continue Reading →
Mama insisted I interview first time novelist Deborah Sharp! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Deborah Sharp, novelist, "Mama Does Time." In Himmarshee, Florida. And Mama’s middle daughter, Mace, an animal trapper, is pissed. That’s all you need to know to get interested in the first novel by my old friend Deborah Sharp. It’s titled Mama Does Time, and boy, does she ever. Deborah was a long-time... Continue Reading →
Novelist Michele Cameron shares her Moments of Clarity! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Michele Cameron, romance novelist, Never Say Never, Moments of Clarity Romance is the top genre in fiction with more than $1.47 billion dollars in sales for 2007. The average romance reader is voracious and goes through 6-7 books per month. Within the genre, there are many specializations, including tonight’s topic: romance novels... Continue Reading →
Legendary cartoonist Jules Feiffer explains his Explainers! PODCAST INTERVIEW
The word that comes to mind when I think about the comic strips of Jules Feiffer is this: My Microsoft Word dictionary - hey, it's convenient! - defines it as “the act of speaking while alone, especially when used as a theatrical device that allows a character’s thoughts and ideas to be conveyed to... Continue Reading →
Kristin Harmel teaches Mr. Media The Art of French Kissing! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Kristin Harmel’s new novel, her fourth, in fact, is titled The Art of French Kissing. It’s a sweet, surprisingly gentle story of a young boy-band publicist, who’s a woman from Orlando, whose life there collapses, and she goes to Paris to escape and maybe find herself again. It’s chick-lit for sure, but I enjoyed... Continue Reading →
Novelist James Sheehan gets The Law of Second Chances! PODCAST INTERVIEW
I met James Sheehan at a St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading event back in 2005. I was there promoting my new biography of Will Eisner and he was riding a wave of excellent reviews for his first novel, The Mayor of Lexington Avenue. As we got talking, however, we realized we had met... Continue Reading →
74 Sex, magic, wizardry… novelist Jim Melvin’s Death Wizard Chronicles! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Jim Melvin has been a friend of mine for more than twenty years and, for as long as I’ve known him, his driving interest has been writing an epic fantasy series, something that might find shelf space alongside J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy. But life kept getting in the way. He was... Continue Reading →
12 Florida writer Tim Dorsey packs a Hurricane Punch of parody! PODCAST INTERVIEW
Today's Guest: Novelist Tim Dorsey, author of Hurricane Punch. The first time I tried my hand at fiction in high school, it was a way of dealing with people and issues that I couldn’t handle in real life. My friends thought it was hysterical and that I was a little twisted. In college, I... Continue Reading →