Guests
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Michael Rowe
Michael Rowe was born in Ottawa in 1962 and has lived in Beirut, Havana, Geneva, and Paris. An award-winning journalist, and literary nonfiction writer, he is the author of Writing Below the Belt: Conversations With Erotic Authors, a critically-acclaimed study of censorship, erotica and popular culture, as well as the essay collections Looking for Brothers and Other Men’s Sons. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in the Globe & Mail, National Post, The Advocate, and The Huffington Post, as well as CFQ, The Scream Factory, All-Hallows, among many others. For 17 years he was the first-tier Canadian correspondent for Fangoria. He has won the Lambda Literary Award, the Randy Shilts Award, and the Spectrum Award, and has been a ...Read More»
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Thomas Waite
Thomas Waite is the best-selling author of cyber thrillers. His debut novel, TERMINAL VALUE, was critically praised (one critic wrote “I believe with time he will become the John Grisham of the murderous technology novels.”) and reached #1 at Amazon. His latest novel, LETHAL CODE, tells the shocking and frighteningly possible story of a massive, anonymous cyber-attack on the United States by an unknown enemy-—and the unforgettable men, women, and children who fight back against the invisible invasion. Tom was born in the seaside town of Ipswich, Massachusetts, once home to the authors John Updike (who was a patient of his Dad, which enabled Tom to build a nice collection of signed first edition novels), Adele Robertson, John Norton, and th...Read More»
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Larissa Ione
Larissa Ione is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. An Air Force veteran, she traded in a career as a meteorologist to pursue her passion of writing. She now spends her days in pajamas with her computer, strong coffee, and supernatural worlds. She believes in celebrating everything, and would never be caught without a bottle of Champagne chilling in the fridge…just in case. She currently lives in Wisconsin with her U.S. Coast Guard husband, her teenage son, a rescue cat named Vegas, and her very own hellhound, a King Shepherd named Hexe. BUY FROM OUR SITE AND SUPPORT THE SHOW Azagoth: A Demonica Novella (1001 Dark Nights)
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Calpernia Addams
Calpernia Addams is an actress, musician, author and activist who also consults with A-List actors and directors in Hollywood on trans portrayals in film and television. Her clients have been nominated for, or have received Academy Awards (Oscars), Golden Globes, Emmys and many other awards. She herself has received a Peabody Award, GLAAD Media Award, Task Force Leadership Award and won seven beauty pageant crowns in her younger days. Calpernia is a decorated war veteran who served as a field medical combat specialist in the First Gulf War, and the tragic story of the murder of her Army boyfriend by bigoted fellow soldiers was told in the movie “Soldier’s Girl”. Her company, “Deep Stealth Productions”, creates trans...Read More»
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Kristen Johnston
KRISTEN JOHNSTON won two Emmys for her role on THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN. She has appeared on many other television shows including UGLY BETTY, ER, BORED TO DEATH and, perhaps most memorably, as the party girl whose famous final words were “I’m so bored I could die” on SEX AND THE CITY. She’s currently on television on TV Land’s hit series, “The Exes”, which is now in its fourth season. Just a few of Johnston’s many stage credits are SO HELP ME GOD! (Drama Desk Nomination), THE WOMEN, AUNT DAN & LEMON, LOVE SONG on the West End, as well as starring in three Shakespeare in The Park productions, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, 12TH NIGHT and THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH. She is a long-time member of The Atlantic Theater Comp...Read More»
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Margaret Stohl
Margaret Stohl is the author of ICONS, the first book in the Icons Series – as well as the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Indie-Bound and Internationally Bestselling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures Novels (with Kami Garcia.) Including BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (2009), BEAUTIFUL DARKNESS (2010), and BEAUTIFUL CHAOS (2011), BEAUTIFUL REDEMPTION (2012)– along with DREAM DARK, a Beautiful Creatures story available exclusively online (August, 2011) – the Beautiful Creatures Novels have been translated into 28 languages and 37 countries. The Beautiful Creatures movie based on the books comes out February 14, 2013 from Alcon and Warner Bros. It stars Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Viola Davis, Emma Thompson, ...Read More»
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Kami Garcia
Kami Garcia is the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Beautiful Creatures & Dangerous Creatures Novels & the author of the instant New York Times bestseller & Bram Stoker Award nominated novel UNBREAKABLE, and the sequel UNMARKED, in the Legion Series. She is also a USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, IndieNext, Los Angeles Times, and international bestseller. BEAUTIFUL CREATURES has been published in 50 countries and translated in 39 languages, and the series has sold over 5 million copies. BEAUTIFUL CREATURES was a finalist for the ALA’s William C. Morris Debut Author Award, a SCIBA Award Finalist, a New York Public Library’s “Books for the Teen Age” selection, and a YALSA “Teen Top Ten” Pick. BEAUTIFUL CREATURE...Read More»
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Terry Hayes
Terry Hayes began his career as a journalist for The Sydney Morning Herald, when as foreign correspondent in the US he covered Watergate and President Nixon’s resignation, among many major international stories. He then went on to become a successful screenwriter, having written the screenplays for Mad Max 2, Dead Calm, Bangkok Hilton, Payback, and From Hell. He lives in Sydney with his wife and four children. BUY FROM OUR SITE AND SUPPORT THE SHOW I AM PILGRIM Past Episodes Ep. 78 – SINCE YOU DIDN’T ASK! (feat. TERRY HAYES) – MONO Ep. 80 – MARCIA CLARK/ TERRY HAYES – MONO
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Steve Berry
Steve Berry is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of The Lincoln Myth, The King’s Deception, The Columbus Affair, The Jefferson Key, The Emperor’s Tomb, The Paris Vendetta, The Charlemagne Pursuit, The Venetian Betrayal, The Alexandria Link, The Templar Legacy, The Third Secret, The Romanov Prophecy, and The Amber Room. His books have been translated into 40 languages with 17,000,000 copies in 51 countries. They consistently appear in the top echelon of The New York Times, USA Today, and Indie bestseller lists. History lies at the heart of every Steve Berry novel. It’s his passion, one he shares with his wife, Elizabeth, which led them to create History Matters, a foundation dedicated to historic preservat...Read More»
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M.J. Rose
M.J. Rose grew up in New York City mostly in the labyrinthine galleries of the Metropolitan Museum, the dark tunnels and lush gardens of Central Park and reading her mother’s favorite books before she was allowed. She believes mystery and magic are all around us but we are too often too busy to notice… Books that exaggerate mystery and magic draw attention to it and remind us to look for it and revel in it. Rose is a the Co-President and founding member of International Thriller Writers and the founder of the first marketing company for authors: AuthorBuzz. She runs the blog, Museum of Mysteries. In 1998, her first novel Lip Service was the first e-book and the first self-published novel chosen by the LiteraryGuild/Doubleday Book...Read More»
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Armistead Maupin
Armistead Maupin was born in Washington, D.C., in 1944 but grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam. Maupin worked as a reporter for a newspaper in Charleston, South Carolina, before being assigned to the San Francisco bureau of the Associated Press in 1971. In 1976 he launched his groundbreaking Tales of the City serial in the San Francisco Chronicle. Maupin is the author of nine novels, including the Tales of the City series, Maybe the Moon, The Night Listener and, most recently, Michael Tolliver Lives. Three miniseries starring Olympia Dukakis and Laura Linney were made from the first three Tales novels. The ...Read More»
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