Featuring attorney and professor Toni Ann Marcolini discussing creativity in all its forms in an interview format with various guests. A show about people and topics of interest ranging from books, films, history, sports, legal cases, healthy lifestyles, cooking and television shows to behind the scenes of the creative process.
A popular writer of books that critics around the world have praised as "electric," "unexpected," "tension-soaked," and "seriously addictive," Pip Drysdale makes her American breakout with the novel, THE CLOSE-UP. Her previous books-The Sunday Girl, The Strangers We Know, The Paris Affair, and The Next Girl-have all been international bestsellers, propelling Australia's Stellar magazine to crown her the next Liane Moriarty. This is a great interview with an exciting new novelist.
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Author Linda Broenniman joins the podcast to talk about her book The Politzer Saga. A housefire in 2011. A box survives. Its contents became the catalyst for a quest whose seeds were planted in 1983 - the day Linda Ambrus Broenniman learned that her Catholic father was Jewish and what little family history she knew was a lie. Searching for truth, Linda pieced together the astonishing story of eight generations of her Jewish ancestors - the Politzer family - their remarkable lives lost to her father's secrets.
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Bestselling author Robert Dugoni returns to the podcast to talk about the latest installment in the Keera Duggan Series.
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Stan Zimmerman is an author of a new book titled The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore , as well as a writer on many television series, including the legendary Season One of Golden Girls, Brothers, Fame, Hooperman, Something Wilder, Roseanne, Wanda at Large and Gilmore Girls. They have two WGA nominations to their credit: "Rose's Mother" from The Golden Girls and"Don't Ask, Don't Tell", the infamous lesbian kiss episode of Roseanne. Jim and Stan created and exec produced two seasons (40 episodes) of Rita Rocks, a half hour comedy series on Lifetime. The first season is out on DVD. In the world of webseries, they created Skirtchasers, for tellofilms.com. Stan made his scripted directing debut with that show. secs & EXECS, their next project for tellofilms, also directed by Stan, earned Mindy Sterling her first Emmy nomination.
Besides writing/producing many television pilots, Stan worked on a few TV movies, including rewriting the Emmy and Peabody award winning Annie for ABC. They also rewrote Christmas Bounty for ABC Family. Most recently he, along with James Berg, created and wrote the all-star female comedy, Ladies of the 80's: A Divas Christmas for Lifetime. Their feature film credits include both now iconic Brady Bunch movies.
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Hailing from Bradenton, Florida, Dr. James R. Gregory is an expert in corporate branding and its effect on Wall Street. The author of six influential business books, Zephyr's War marks his debut novel. Melding his real-life business background as the leader of an unconventional consultancy with the freedom the fiction genre affords, James is thrilled to present this fast-paced thriller which contains all the elements of business realism along with plenty of thrills to captivate and entertain.
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Bestselling authors Jeffrey Deaver and Isabella Maldonado joined the podcast to talk about their first joint collaborative book, Fatal Intrusion, an explosive new Sanchez & Heron Series.
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Actor, writer and producer Dean Butler joined the podcast to chat about his new book, Prairie Man: My Little House Life & Beyond: An illuminating, insider's journey through the world of Little House on the Prairie.
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Robert Wittman wrote the New York Times best-selling memoir Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures, with 2009 Pulitzer Prize Finalist John Shiffman. Priceless follows Wittman through his career with the FBI, providing a first-perspective account of some of the most well-known art heists in modern history and the undercover FBI stings that sought to foil them. He joined the FBI as a Special Agent in 1988 and was assigned to the Philadelphia Field Division. As a result of specialized training in art, antiques, jewelry and gem identification, he served as the FBI's investigative expert in art and cultural property crime investigations. During his 20 year career with the FBI, he recovered more that $300 million worth of stolen art and cultural property resulting in the prosecution and conviction of numerous individuals. In 2005, he was instrumental in the creation of the FBI's rapid deployment Art Crime Team (ACT). He was named the ACT's Senior Investigator and was tasked with instructing the team's founding members in cultural property investigation techniques. He has represented the United States around the world conducting investigations and instructing international police and museums in investigation, recovery and security techniques.
These two successful authors collaborated to write a new thriller, Echo Road, where they bring together two of their iconic characters FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick and Sheriff Bree Taggert to stop a ruthless serial killer.
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Jonathan Sheldon has worked professionally in film and television for over 15 years. Starting in film development, Sheldon produced several well-regarded independent films and co-authored a seminal book on filmmaking titled "The Declaration of Independent Filmmaking". As post production entrepreneur, Mr. Sheldon boot-strapped a post production company from a desk in Beverly Hills building it to contribute post production expertise and services to over 100 feature films and several network television shows.
He's a Post-Producer at Buffalo 8 and stopped by the podcast to chat about movies.
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Best selling author Lee Goldberg put himself through UCLA as a freelance journalist, writing for such publications as American Film, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times Syndicate, The Washington Post and The San Francisco Chronicle. He's written the novels Lost Hills, True Fiction, My Gun Has Bullets, The Walk, King City, and Watch Me Die, which was nominated for a Shamus Award for Best Novel from the Private Eye Writers of America. He was also the co-author with Janet Evanovich of the five international bestselling Fox & O'Hare novels (The Heist, The Chase, The Job, The Scam and The Pursuit) and two New York Times bestselling prequel novellas (The Shell Game and Pros & Cons). His most recent books include Dream Town (the 5th novel in the Eve Ronin series), Malibu Burning (the first novel in the Sharpe & Walker series) and the genre-bending thriller Calico, a 2024 Spur Award finalist for Best Contemporary Western from the Western Writers of America. We chat today mostly about Eve Ronin and her latest escapade.
Lee's TV writing & producing credits have covered a wide variety of genres, including sci-fi (seaQuest), cop shows (Hunter, The Glades), martial arts (Martial Law), whodunits (Diagnosis Murder, Nero Wolfe), the occult (She-Wolf of London), kid's shows (R.L. Stine's The Nightmare Room), T&A (Baywatch, She Spies), comedy (Monk) clip shows (The Best TV Shows That Never Were). He co-created the hit Hallmark movie series Mystery 101. His two careers, novelist and TV writer, merged when he wrote the eight books in the Diagnosis Murder series of original novels, based on the hit CBS TV mystery that he also wrote and produced. He followed that up by writing fifteen bestselling novels based on Monk, another TV show that he worked on.
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Caroline Cleveland's stunning debut novel, When Cicadas Cry, is about a high-profile murder case in a small South Carolina town rife with racial tension. Her character's are these interesting and flawed people intersecting at a pivotal moment in all of their lives.
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New York Public Library, Jefferson Market Branch Manager Frank Collerius joined the podcast to discuss the importance of the library to the community, his podcast, The Librarian is In, and the latest books on his radar.
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Award-winning producer Kirk D'Amico founded Myriad Pictures in 1998 and has positioned the company as a leading sales and distribution home for diverse films and emerging talent. D'Amico has produced or executive produced over 60 films and Myriad has distributed hundreds of films worldwide. The current release slate includes Walter Hill's DEAD FOR A DOLLAR starring Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe, and April Mullen's SIMULANT starring Sam Worthington and Simu Liu and SxSW Official Selection, REVIVAL69: THE CONCERT THAT ROCKED THE WORLD directed by Ron Chapman. D'Amico produced THE LAST WORD starring Shirley MacLaine and Amanda Seyfried and is serving as Executive Producer on Rebecca Snow's THE BOY IN THE WOODS. In 2010, D'Amico also co-founded Canadian distributor and production company Photon Films. Based in Toronto, Photon has released a diverse slate of bold films in Canada both theatrically and across all platforms. Notable films include THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER starring Tilda Swinton, SOUND OF METAL starring Riz Ahmed, and THE HATING GAME starring Lucy Hale.
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Two time Edgard Award winning author Lori Roy joined the podcast to talk about her latest book, Lake County. Her debut novel, Bent Road, was awarded the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American Author. Her work has been twice named a New York Times Notable Crime Book and has been included on various "best of" and summer reading lists. Until She Comes Home was a New York Times Editors' Choice and a finalist for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel.
Let Me Die in His Footsteps was included among the top fiction of 2015 by Books-A-Million and named one of the best fifteen mystery novels of 2015 by Oline Cogdill. The novel also received the 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel, making Roy the first woman to receive an Edgar Award for both Best First Novel and Best Novel-and only the third person ever to have done so. Gone Too Long was named a People magazine Book of the Week, was named one of the Best Books of Summer 2019, and was excerpted by Oprah magazine.
Lake County, Lori's latest work, will hit stores June 2024.
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