I recently had the great fortune to discover the work of Stephen Mack Jones, the man behind the fantastic August Snow crime fiction series. Poet, playwright, author and a lifelong fan of Detroit-made muscle cars – a man after my own heart! The new Open Mic is...
Connor Sullivan’s debut novel Sleeping Bear earned him the 2022 Barry Award winner for best first mystery/crime novel and tagged him as one of the true rising stars of the thriller genre. I spoke with him recently about that book, his career arc and his follow...
One of the hardest parts of this pandemic is that it has cut a lot of us off from seeing family. For today’s edition of the Open Mic Creativity and COVID-19 Special Project, I travel to South Carolina to check in with two of my favorite past Open Mic guests:...
For Day 29 of the Open mic Creativity and COVID-19 Special Project, I check in with independent editor extraordinaire Kristen Weber. She works with a number of well-known fiction authors, and it sounds like her schedule is as full as always. OM: It sounds like...
For Day 27 of the Open Mic Creativity and COVID-19 Special Project, I check in with author Claire Booth, the person behind the outstanding Hank Worth mystery series. Even with all that must-see TV out there, she is still finding time to write. OM: We’ve all been...
