Category: Words

Rewind Interview with Best-selling Author Robert Crais

  By crime fiction, motion pictures, novelist, on writing, publishing, thrillers, Words, writing workshops

This week, the Liars Club Rewind Interview is with New York Times bestselling author Robert Crais. His latest thriller is A Dangerous Man. He just gets better and better.

Robert Crais Rewind

 

Gavin Grant Entertains & Informs the Oddcast

  By anthology, book stores, collection, editing, fantasy fiction, horror fiction, Karen Joy Fowler, on writing, publishing, reading, science fiction, short stories, story collection, Words

This week a terrific interview with award-winning publisher/editor/and now bookstore owner (Book Moon) Gavin J. Grant. His publishing house, Small Beer Press, started in 2000 with a story collection, Stranger Things Happen, which Salon named a “Book of the Year,” and The Village Voice proclaimed as one of its 25 Best Books. He offers sage advice on navigating the mad world of publishing in the 21st century, and speaks to the return of the brick-and-mortar bookstore.

Gavin Grant, photographed by Adrianne Mathiowetz.

Q&A Authors’ Roundtable at Towne Book Center

  By children's books, editing, illustration, Images, literary agents, novelist, on writing, picture books, publishing, reading, science fiction, short stories, teaching writing, Words, worldbuilding

Authors' Roundtable

A special live authors’ roundtable is driven by questions from publishing execs and writers — about idea theft, the dangers of creating characters from real people, the perils of writing near-future sci-fi, and more! Recorded live at the Towne Book Center and Wine Bar. Legendary children’s book author Judy Schachner even shows up with a question or two for Oddcast cohosts Kelly Simmons, Merry Jones, Gregory Frost, Jon McGoran, and Keith Strunk.