The Open Mic recently added a new wrinkle in sharing the insights of successful authors and writers from across the spectrum – the Open Mic YouTube channel. My first conversation was with previous Open Mic guest Lisa de Nikolits, who talked about her great new...
Author and journalist Charles Leerhsen has made a career out of chronicling the lives of some very famous and complex men, from Chuck Yeager to the renowned race horse Dan Patch. His last book, the award-winning bestseller “Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty,”...
As a decorated aviator who flew on many combat missions over Bosnia and Kosovo, military thriller author Tom Young usually knows his subject matter from first hand experience. But while his seven previous novels are set in the modern day, his new book “Silver...
Aspiring writers have all at one time or another been told to “write what you know.” Well, there aren’t many people around who know more about cybersecurity and data privacy than thriller author Reece Hirsch, who co-heads the cybersecurity division...
From the high school newspaper to corporate America and beyond, for the better part of four decades Tammy Ditmore has been helping writers get better at their craft. Specializing in nonfiction, she offers a full suite of services to help guide writers at any stage of...
In publishing industry terms, novelist Timothy Jay Smith writes thrillers. While he’s fine with the moniker, Tim would be the first to tell you that he is far more focused on telling a certain kind of story than with the box the industry wants it to fit into. We spoke...
