Bookshop Interview with Author Amanda Lees, Episode #186
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Release Date: 08/09/2023
Bookshop Interview with Author S.R. Watts and Narrator Preston Geer, Episode #208
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Author Stephen Watts (pen name S.R. Watts) and actor and narrator Preston Geer discuss their audio book collaboration for Stephen’s new novel, The Celestial Flame. This is book one in the Divine Saga, a 5-part sweeping epic that combines both fantasy and science fiction and is filled with familial dynasties, political drama and intergalactic war. Stephen wrote this novel hoping it help people find some relief from anxiety, depression and trauma, much like his favorite fantasy books (such as LOTR) did for him when he was young. And Preston Geer worked hard to bring The Celestial Flame to...
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Bookshop Interview with Authors M.M. Downing and S.J. Waugh, Episode #207
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Authors M.M. Downing and S.J. Waugh discuss their new middle grade series, The Adventures of the Flash Gang, about eleven-year-old boy named Lewis Carter who is orphaned and left to fend for himself during the Great Depression in 1930’s Pittsburgh. But Lewis has some physical challenges that make it difficult for him to pull off the same stunts as other streeter orphans. So, Lewis resorts to science to help him in his plight. He becomes so successful that people assume there is an entire gang at work, and he becomes the most notorious food thief in all of Pittsburgh. By the way, he foils a...
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Bookshop Interview with Author Candace Kade, Episode #206
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Author Candace Kade discusses her newest book, Hybrid. It is the second installment in Candace’s young adult near-future science fiction trilogy known as The Hybrid Series, which she likens to Ready Player One meets Divergent. In Hybrid, Candace takes on the issues of CRISPR and genetic alteration, adoption and the meaning of family, as well as a bit of fun, including the wonderful celebration of the Lunar New Year. Even though Hybrid is the second book in the series, it is really more of an origin story for main character Lee Urban as she struggles with the idea of family—how difficult...
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Bookshop Interview with Author Thomas R. Weaver, Episode #205
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Author Thomas R. Weaver discusses his debut novel, Artificial Wisdom. In this techno-thriller murder mystery, it is 25 years in the future. The world is polarized by politics and is gripped by war, climate change and technology that has advanced exponentially. Tom began writing by asking: What if the global community were to put its faith in an AI leader in a Brexit-style referendum? But all of this serves as a backdrop to a very personal and human story that centers around a reporter whose personal tragedy and grief has a direct connection to the crises that plague the global community.
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Bookshop Interview with Author Dr. Marschall Runge, Episode #204
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Author Dr. Marschall Runge discusses his debut novel, Coded to Kill. In this techno-medical thriller, a state-of-the-art medical records system gets hijacked, giving the hijackers unfettered access to private information and the ability to change the patient records of some very important people—which means that medicine’s greatest breakthrough has become the world’s most efficient killing machine. As Marschall explains, everything in this book is possible, and some of it has already happened.
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Bookshop Interview with Author Gary Braver, Episode #203
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Author Gary Braver discusses his new book, Rumor of Evil. In this mystery novel, Gary weaves together two seemingly unrelated murders—one past and one present. Two police detectives catch a case of a woman’s murder that is staged to look like a suicide. As their investigation unfolds, they discover clues leading back to a decades-old murder of a teenage foreign exchange student. Gary believes the draw of the mystery genre comes down to the differences between true crime stories and fiction—namely that in fiction, motives become clear and, in the end, justice is usually served.
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Bookshop Interview with Author D.P. Behling, Episode #202
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Author D.P. Behling discusses his new series, Josh & Sen Save the Multiverse. In the first book, The Path of One, two unlikely friends, one human and the other immortal, are thrown together to try to accomplish the impossible—rescue Josh’s four-year-old daughter, stop a genocidal soul-harvester, and save the multiverse. Dave’s inspirations include video games, sci fi fandoms, mythology, the difficult job of parenting, and the recent pandemic. Despite the sweeping and sometimes serious nature of this series, Dave’s favorite aspect of writing it was working humor into the stories.
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Bookshop Interview with Author Emily Shiner, Episode #201
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Author Emily Shiner discusses her two of her new books: The Wife in the Photo and The Hotel. If you love a good revenge plot, check out The Wife in the Photo. It’s a psychological thriller filled with secrets, twists, a mysterious death and edge-of-your seat family drama. Emily’s other book, The Hotel, is a locked-room thriller that reveals what can go wrong when you’re trapped in a beautiful clifftop hotel during a blizzard with a family of strangers. As the author of more than a dozen books, Emily writes stories designed to keep her readers up at night.
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Bookshop Interview with Author & Host Stacey Horan, Episode #200
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This is the 200th episode of The Bookshop at the End of the Internet and a celebration of the podcast’s five-year anniversary, since the first episode went live on the various podcast platforms. There have been so many wonderful guest authors who visited the Bookshop to discuss their books and their writing journeys. In this episode, however, host Stacey Horan is doing something a little different. In fact, she is doing something that she has never done in any of the prior 199 episodes. Today, host and author Stacey Horan discusses her own books—Sycamore Lane, Inland, and The Elixir...
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Bookshop Interview with Author Becca Wierwille, Episode #199
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Author Becca Wierwille discusses her new middle grade novel, Road Trip Rescue, in which 12-year-old Kimmy loses her dog Bo. But Bo is more than just a pet. He is Kimmy’s best friend—because Bo never made fun of her for being born with only one hand. When Kimmy stumbles across a magazine photo of a dog eating an ice cream cone, she knows in her heart that the dog is Bo. With the aid of her Aunt Skylar, an adventure-seeking, pink-haired woman, Kimmy goes on a road trip to try to find her dog. Becca and her main character Kimmy share something in common—they were both born with a limb...
info_outlineAuthor Amanda Lees discusses her latest book, The Midwife’s Child. It is the third book in a series set during World War II featuring female agents fighting in the Resistance. Amanda admits that The Midwife’s Child is the hardest book she has ever written. While the book is based on a real-life love story, the novel is partly set in Auschwitz. Amanda worked hard on this book as a way to honor those who were sent there, those who died and those who survived, and to be true to what happened. But Amanda is quick to point out that The Midwife’s Child, like all the other books in the series, is a story filled with courage and hope.