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 →
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 →
Today's Guest: Romance novelist Tracy Anne Warren, author of Wicked Delights. Before I bring on today's guest, historical romance novelist Tracy Anne Warren, let me describe my strategy for reading any historical romance novel with which I might be presented. YAWN. Sorry, Tracy, but it's true. And I'm sure I'm not the only guy who... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Anna David, author, Reality Matters Has your television viewing been subsumed by reality television in recent years? I know mine has. Top Chef, Top Chef Masters, Hell’s Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmare, Big Brother, Survivor, The Dog Whisperer, The Apprentice—original, not the extra-crispy celebrity edition--and even I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here have... 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 →
Mr. Media had no reason to expect this quiet spring morning to erupt with the familiar sounds of his violent past… Oh, sorry. I was just seeing myself in the words of lawyer turned novelist Jeffrey Stephens. I inadvertently injected myself into the opening sentence of Stephens’ first published book, Targets of Deception, a spy... Continue Reading →
Today's Guest: Heather Brewer, novelist, The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod The whole vampire chic thing passed me by. Not just the Twilight movies and the HBO series “True Blood,” either—I never got hooked on Joss Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Series,” either. Vampires? Yuck? I think the last vampire movie I enjoyed was the Dracula... Continue Reading →
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