Today's Guest: Scott Turow, novelist, author, Presumed Innocent, Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty (Originally published in the St. Petersburg Times, September 23, 2003) ST. PETE BEACH - A lunchtime speech about capital punishment isn't easy, even for a bestselling crime novelist like Scott F. Turow. "I have yet to hear a... Continue Reading →
Part 1 of 2 (More below) Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of people who want to be writers more than they apparently want to take baths – P.U.! … in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! So you want to be a writer, huh? Got a great... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Robert Barclay, novelist, If Wishes Were Horses Part 1 of 2 Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of men who cried real crocodile tears after reading If Wishes Were Horses … in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Believe it or not, there is... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Cynthia Kraack, speculative fiction author, Ashwood trilogy: Ashwood, Harvesting Ashwood and Leaving Ashwood. Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of ambitious, future agricultural estate mistresses… in the new new media capitol of the world… St. Petersburg, Florida! Part 1 of 3 (More below) Visions of the future tend not to... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: William Kent Krueger, novelist, Vermilion Drift Don’t you love it when a friend recommends a book and it turns out he was right? That’s how I got turned on to William Kent Krueger’s new book, Vermilion Drift. A friend knew I would love a good mystery and said, “Read this.” WILLIAM KENT... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Novelist Brenda Novak, author of White Heat. Mr. Media is recorded live before a studio audience of extremely romantic neighborhood dogs in the new new media capital of the world and home of the best team in baseball… St. Petersburg, Florida! Brenda Novak, I hate you. I’m saying this now, while you’re... Continue Reading →
I looked at the title of Nathaniel Lande’s new book and thought, no publisher sticks a book with a title that long and promising unless they’re really confident about the story inside. So with a lot of titles competing for my attention these days, I took a leap of faith with The Life and Times... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Steven Gore, novelist, Final Target Steven Gore already had a pretty good career going for himself when he sidestepped into the world of mystery novelist. Let me quote from Gore’s own description of his life, before publishing his debut novel, as a globetrotting private eye: “It was a career that took me, among... Continue Reading →
How many novels have you ever read that actually upset you? Moved you, frustrated you, left you unsure how you felt about the story itself? That’s the way I felt reading Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s first novel, Wench. I read a lot of books—it comes with the territory when they call you Mr. Media. But this novel... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Lisa McMann, YA novelist, Wake, Fade, Gone, The Unwanteds This is gonna take a minute. It was the last day of our first family vacation in two years and the three of us were unwinding in the enormous Barnes & Noble bookstore in Burlington, Vermont. My 13-year-old son Charlie found two young adult novels... Continue Reading →
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