July 9, 2024 The Inspiring Act of Connecting to Each Other and Ourselves in Kathy Izard’s Trust the Whisper
June 18, 2024 Melissa Broder’s “Death Valley” Finds Wisdom, Humor, and Healing in the California Desert
June 4, 2024 Traditional Versus Indie Publishing with Internationally Bestselling Author Ellen Butler
May 14, 2024 Savoring Every Page of Curtis Chin’s Powerful Memoir, Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
April 16, 2024 “Between Two Trailers” is a Survival Story: How a Preschool Drug Dealer Became a Duke Divinity School Graduate
April 9, 2024 Katherine Faulkner Weaves Murder, Class, and Motherhood Together in Twisty New Mystery Novel
February 27, 2024 Rekindling an Old Friendship Unravels Secrets in Sarahlyn Bruck’s Light of the Fire
January 23, 2024 Critically acclaimed author David Madden takes a unique approach to memoir in Momma’s Lost Piano
January 16, 2024 New York Times Bestselling Author David Baldacci is Back With Book 2 in the 6:20 Man Series
January 9, 2024 Molly Grantham’s “Practice Makes… Progress” Reveals the Off-Camera Life of an On-Camera Mom
December 26, 2023 Year-End Episode with the Storied Charlotte Blog, Publishing Tips, and Favorite 2023 Reads
December 5, 2023 Double Feature: “Sedona” Unearths the Secrets of a Tourist Town and “The Wisdom of Morrie” is About Living and Aging Creatively and Joyfully
November 14, 2023 New York Times Bestselling Author Jerome Preisler’s Harrowing But True Civil War Naval Thriller
October 31, 2023 Carissa Orlando’s “The September House” takes a Uniquely Scary Approach to the Classic Haunted House Story
October 17, 2023 Stephen Eoannou’s “Yesteryear” is a heroic story about the author of The Lone Ranger
October 10, 2023 Scott Gould explores racism, homophobia, love, and revenge in new Southern novel, The Hammerhead Chronicles
February 21, 2023 New York Times Bestseller Steve Berry, Challenges of a Critique Group, and When to Put Details in Scenes
January 31, 2023 An Ozarks Family Story, a Modern-Day Race Woman, and Hindsight Luxuries of Self-Publishing
January 10, 2023 Seven Authors Discuss Author Platform Building, Book Reviews, and Marketing and Selling Books
December 27, 2022 YEAR END EPISODE: Reading and Writing Aspirations, Lifting Writers Up, and Reflections
November 29, 2022 David Baldacci’s Three 2022 Releases, an Iraq War Thriller, and Writing Believably about Place
November 15, 2022 NYT Bestselling Author Sophie Cousens, Romance Writing Tips, Serial Writing, and More
November 8, 2022 Nairobi Thriller, Road Trip Love Story, Blitz Writing, and the Spiritual and Emotional Aspects of Writing
October 18, 2022 Reach, Creating the Biggest Possible Audience for Your Message, Book, or Cause, and Working with a Book Publicist
September 27, 2022 Books and Writing Tips, Writing Process, Best-Selling Author, One-Hour Adventure Read, and Memoir
September 13, 2022 Writing Poetry, Writers and Procrastination, Plus True Crime Novels and a Smoky Mountain Family Saga
August 30, 2022 Aspiring Author Tips, Writing Perseverance, and Noir, Historical Fiction, Relational, and Suspense Novels
August 9, 2022 Indie Publishing, Debut Author Tips, and Romance, Historical Fiction, Paranormal, Biography, and Faith-Based Books
June 28, 2022 Beyond 300: The New Charlotte Readers Podcast – The Value of Writing Communities, Plus Mystery, Memoir, True Crime and Poetry Features
May 24, 2022 Maggie Smith’s “Truth and Other Lies” Is One Journalist’s Fast-Paced Search for the Truth
May 17, 2022 Author Landis Wade Interviews Characters in Deadly Declarations and Visits with Narrator Bill A. Jones
May 3, 2022 Elan Barnehama’s “Escape Route” Is a Jewish-American Teenager’s Coming-of-Age Story in the Tumultuous late 1960s
April 5, 2022 Jennifer Dasal’s “Art Curious” Is a Colorful, Entertaining Look at the World of Art History
March 22, 2022 David Rudolf’s “American Injustice” Exposes What’s Behind the Criminal Justice Curtain
March 15, 2022 Halli Gomez’s “List of Ten” is a Harrowing yet Hopeful story of a Teen living with Tourette Syndrome
February 22, 2022 Roland Beckerman’s “Seeking Justice” Is One Patient’s Journey Through the Medical Malpractice Legal World
January 11, 2022 Conscience Pervades Robert Conrad’s “John Fisher and Thomas More, Keeping Their Souls While Losing Their Heads.”
December 14, 2021 Jane Rosenthal’s “Del Rio,” is a Suspenseful Thriller set on the U.S.-Mexico Border
November 23, 2021 Michael Almond’s “The Tannery” is Racial Injustice in the post-Reconstruction South
November 9, 2021 Martin Settle’s “Teaching During the Jurassic” is Wit, Wisdom and Humor in the Classroom
October 29, 2021 Rhyming, Riddles, and Witches on Halloween Night in Lynda Bouchard’s “The Witches Three Count on Me!”
October 26, 2021 Love, Music, and the Rise and Fall of One Rock Band in Brett Marie’s “The Upsetter Blog”
October 22, 2021 Luna Kane Connects with Her Mother Through a Search for Her Father in Christy Hallberg’s “Searching for Jimmy Page”
October 15, 2021 Much Like The Tides, Robert Wallace’s “As Breaks the Wave Upon the Sea” Ebbs and Flows Around Perceptions of Change
October 12, 2021 Money, Greed, Death, and Fatherhood in Chicago During the 2008 Recession in L.C. Fiore’s “Coyote Loop”
October 8, 2021 An Explosive Divorce Leads to a Hitchcockian Scheme in Steven Grossman’s Debut, “Palimony”
October 1, 2021 Michael Cody Chronicles Twelve Transformative Stories in Fictional Runion, NC in “A Twilight Reel”
September 28, 2021 High School Sweethearts Reminisce and Reconnect in Walter Bennett’s “The Last First Kiss”
September 24, 2021 Two Appalachian Nurses Traverse the Same Path a Generation Apart in Rose Senehi’s “Falling Off a Cliff”
September 21, 2021 Four Youths Come-of-Age During the Turbulent and Transformative Sixties in Mike Bond’s “America”
September 17, 2021 Murder, Race, and a High-Stakes Election Haunt Oak Island in Wiley Cash’s “When Ghosts Come Home”
September 14, 2021 Father of NBA Star Documents Love of Basketball in Marvin Williams Sr.’s “Secondary Break”
September 10, 2021 In “Cartledge Creek,” Sam McGee’s Civil War Ancestors Experience the Conflict as Confederates
September 7, 2021 A Mystery Writer Stumbles on a True Crime in Lisa Jewell’s “The Night She Disappeared”
September 3, 2021 Khalisa Rae’s Collection “Ghost in a Black Girl’s Throat” Summons Ghosts of Ancestral Pain
August 31, 2021 From Rural Kentucky to Milan – Young Girl Comes-Of-Age in Muriel Sheubrooks’ “Beyond the Fences”
August 27, 2021 Rediscover Your Authentic Self in Holly Hughes’ Meditative Guide, “Real, Not Perfect”
August 24, 2021 Hope Andersen Offers Life-Lessons and Tools for Your Toolkit in “How to Remodel a Life”
August 20, 2021 Murder, Deceit, and Betrayal in Charleston, SC in Paul Attaway’s “Blood in the Low Country”
August 17, 2021 Dr. Augustus White III Shares Twenty Real-Life Tales of Resilience and Hope in “Overcoming”
August 13, 2021 Carolyn Baker Reflects on Racism and White Complicity in “An Unintentional Accomplice”
August 10, 2021 Dying Literary Icon Tasks Daughter to Write Final Book in “The Audacity of Sara Grayson”
August 6, 2021 Vanessa Riley Illustrates the Remarkable History & Legacy of Dorothy “Doll” Kirwan in “Island Queen”
July 23, 2021 Kristy Harvey Delivers Warm-Hearted Tale of Love and Unconventional Family in “Under the Southern Sky”
July 9, 2021 Environmental Lawyer Oversees a Mining Dispute Turned Deadly in Joel Burcat’s “Amid Rage”
July 6, 2021 Two Unlikely Friends Challenge Sexism in Silicon Valley in Lainey Cameron’s “The Exit Strategy”
July 2, 2021 Jason Mott’s “Hell Of A Book” Is One Character’s Cross Country Book Tour Of Love and Loss
June 29, 2021 Mystery Hero Patrick Flint Investigates Plane Crash that Leads to Mayhem in Pamela Fagan Hutchins’ newest, “Snaggletooth”
June 22, 2021 Alex George’s “The Paris Hours” Weaves Four Desperate Characters Together in One 24 Hour Post WWI Day
June 18, 2021 #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Brad Taylor Takes Readers to Australia and Taiwan to Save the World in “American Traitor”
June 15, 2021 Katey Schultz Weaves Together the Lives of Three in War-Torn Afghanistan in “Still Come Home”
June 11, 2021 #BlackGirlMagic is a Triumph of Resilience in Julia Jordan-Zachery’s “Black Girl Magic Beyond the Hashtag”
May 28, 2021 In “The Warm Heart of Africa,” Jack Allison Shares A Life-Changing Experience in the Peace Corps
May 21, 2021 Robert Fitzpatrick Warns Readers of the Dangers of Multi-Level Marketing in “Ponzinomics”
May 18, 2021 Books Are the Key to Freedom in Post-Apocalyptic America in Jacqui Castle’s “The Seclusion”
May 14, 2021 Ron Rash’s “In the Valley” Returns to the Villainess Who Propelled Serena to National Acclaim
April 30, 2021 David Baldacci’s “A Gambling Man” Is a 1950s Private Eye Thriller Full of Secrets and Corruption
April 13, 2021 John Hart’s “The Unwilling” Combines Crime, Suspense and Searing Glimpses into the Human Mind and Soul
April 9, 2021 Paolo Bacigalupi Explores Climate Change and Corruption in Near-Future Sci-Fi, “The Water Knife”
April 6, 2021 Find the Secrets to a Good Marriage with Marriage Counselor Lori Epting in “From Chaos to Connection”
March 30, 2021 Danny Bernstein Hikes and Reveals the History and Beauty of the Land in “DuPont Forest: A History”
March 26, 2021 Gina Wilkinson’s “When the Apricots Bloom” Features Women Under Saddam Hussein’s Tyrannical Rule
March 16, 2021 Amy Burle Captures the Complexities of Love and Family in “The Year of Thorns and Honey”
March 9, 2021 Casey Eanes and Seth Ervin Weave A Spectacular Fantasy World in The Keys of Candor Trilogy
March 5, 2021 Tracy Clark’s Chicago Mystery Navigates the Dark Side of Celebrity in “What You Don’t See”
March 2, 2021 Maureen Sherbondy Peers Into a Teenager’s Difficult Past, Present and Future in “Lucky Brilliant”
February 26, 2021 Kristen Rademacher Takes Readers on an Odyssey of Ill-Fated Love, Devastating Loss, and Resilience
February 19, 2021 Wilnona Marie and Jade Dee Cope, Accept and Discover in “And I Thought Divorce Was Bad”
February 16, 2021 Aaron Gwyn’s “All God’s Children” Explores the Paradoxes of the early American frontier, a Place of Enormous Liberty and Terrible Bondage
February 12, 2021 Bess Kercher Weaves an Adventure-Filled, Faith-Driven Middle Grade Tale in “Now and At the Hour”
February 9, 2021 A Cardiac Surgeon’s Hand Tremor Led Dr. Charles Edwards to Dementia Care in “Much Abides: A Survival Guide for Aging Lives”
February 5, 2021 Susan Zurenda’s Vibrant Debut Transports Readers to Small-Town South Carolina in the 60s-70s, Where the Bonds of Love Prevail in the Face of Tragedy
February 2, 2021 Otho Eskin’s “The Reflecting Pool” Is a Fast-Paced Crime Thriller Set in the Nation’s Capital
January 26, 2021 In “The Gift Best Given,” Edward Di Gangi Pieces Together the Extraordinary Life of His Birth Mother, Genevieve
January 22, 2021 Claire Fullerton Examines Southern Life and the Bonds of Love and Friendship in “Little Tea”
January 19, 2021 Dale Neal’s “Appalachian Book of the Dead” Leads Readers to the Dark Side of Reality in this Southern Buddhist Thriller
January 15, 2021 Susannah Marren’s “A Palm Beach Scandal” Twists Sisterhood and Secrets Together In A Glamorous World
January 12, 2021 David Oakley Reveals the Humorous Side of Family Life in “Nobody Eats Parsley: And other things I learned from my family.”
January 8, 2021 Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle’s Novel “Even As We Breathe” Examines Race and Class in the Secluded Microcosm of Asheville’s Grove Park Inn During 1942
January 1, 2021 Kim Wright Takes Readers To The Carolina Coast in “The Longest Day of the Year” where Four Women Discover The Truth About Their Lives
December 29, 2020 Landis Wade Brings the 2020 Literary Podcast Year to a Close, Reads Two of His 2020 Published Stories and Offers Literary Hopefulness for 2021
December 24, 2020 Lifelong Minister Leighton Ford Discerns God’s Voice and His Own in “A Life of Listening”
December 22, 2020 Jerry, Ryan and Sam McGee Deliver Laughs, Tears and More in “Sidelines & Bloodlines: A Father, His Sons and Our Life in College Football”
December 18, 2020 Ian Malone Takes Readers On a Science Fiction Outer Space Thrill Ride in “Detron City Vice,” a Place of Temptation Where People Go Missing
December 15, 2020 George Arnold Brings Courage, Danger and Romance With His Western “Wyandotte Bound” and a Christmas Short Story, Too
December 8, 2020 Audiobook Narrator Bill A. Jones and Landis Wade Explore The Making of the Christmas Courtroom Trilogy Audiobooks
December 4, 2020 Jordan O’Donnell’s “Zoon Garden” Is Political Allegory and Social Critique in the Vein of George Orwell’s “Animal Fam”
December 1, 2020 Poets Christopher Davis And Allison Hutchcraft Bring Lives and Nature to the Page in “Oath” and “Swale”
November 27, 2020 Lauren Jacobs Brings a Forgotten Female Religious Leader to Life in “Shelamzion: Queen of Israel”
November 24, 2020 Joy Callaway Brings History to Life In “The Fifth Avenue Artists Society” and “Secret Sisters”
November 20, 2020 Natasha Tynes Shares Her Literary Murder Mystery That Draws on Her Jordanian-American Heritage
November 17, 2020 Joseph Mills Pulls Back the Curtain on the Lives of Soccer Moms and Dads in “Bleachers: fifty-four linked fictions”
November 13, 2020 David Collins Captures the True Essence of the Painful and Emotional Fight for Marriage Equality in “The Accidental Activists”
November 10, 2020 Kathleen Burkinshaw’s Young Adult Novel “The Last Cherry Blossom” Is Based on Her Japanese Mother’s First-Hand Experience as a Hiroshima Survivor
November 6, 2020 Natasha Boyd Brings to Life the Little Known Story of 18th Century Southern Heroine Eliza Lucas Pinckney in “The Indigo Girl”
November 3, 2020 Charlie Lovett Spins A Literary Tale Tied to Early New York Children Mystery Writers in “Escaping Dreamland”
October 30, 2020 Michele Tracy Berger Mixes Racial Conspiracy with Psychological Horror in “Reenu – You”
October 27, 2020 Dixie Gamble’s Story Of A Childhood Mystic Turned Nashville Music Executive Turned Filmmaker and Human Rights Activist Comes Alive in “Witch Hairs”
October 23, 2020 Sara Johnson Takes Readers to the Wilds of New Zealand In Her Alexa Glock Mystery “The Bones Remember”
October 20, 2020 Heather Bell Adams Takes Readers on a Literary Mystery from the War-Torn Philippines of WWII to the Modern Mansions of Savannah in “The Good Luck Stone”
October 16, 2020 Renea Winchester Writes About Hardscrabble Southern Appalachia and the Strong Women Who Survive in “Outbound Train”
October 13, 2020 Lee Matalone’s Literary Fiction Characters Search for Home, Identity and Belonging in “Home Making”
October 9, 2020 Eliot Parker Spins Short Stories With Strange, Creepy and Sometimes Poignant Twists in “Snapshots”
October 6, 2020 Anthony Abbott 2020 Inductee in the NC Literary Hall of Fame Shares His Wonderful Poetry and His Literary Journey – May He Rest in Peace
October 2, 2020 Katherine Snow Smith Leads Us to Laughter And Tears in Her Memoir-in-Essays, “Rules For The Southern Rulebreaker”
September 29, 2020 Poet Gail Peck Brings the Dust Bowl Photographs of Dorothea Lange to Life in “An Instant Out of Time”
September 22, 2020 Kevin Winchester Channels “A Confederacy of Dunces” in Small Town, North Carolina in “Sunflower Dog”
September 18, 2020 Amy Williams Brings Adventure and Inspiration with Her Pig of a Friend, Wanda Petunia
September 15, 2020 Rebecca McClanahan Brings the Sights, Sounds, Tastes and Feelings of the Big City to Life “In the Key of New York City”
September 11, 2020 Karen McElmurray’s Haunting Book, “Wanting Radiance” Starts with the Murder of a Fortune Teller
September 8, 2020 John Russell’s “All the Right Circles” Turns a Lawyer’s Life Upside Down When He Learns A Family Secret in North Carolina’s Racial History
September 4, 2020 Poet, Writer and Professor Charles Israel Shares His Love of Poetry and Short Stories
August 28, 2020 Paloma Capanna Deals With the Messy Bits of Life in “Nearly Fifty, A Collection of Essays”
August 25, 2020 Mary Laura Philpott Addresses the Humor and Difficulties of Life in “I Miss You When I Blink”
August 21, 2020 Molly Grantham Reveals the Authenticity of Motherhood and Career in “The Juggle is Real”
August 18, 2020 David Joy’s Characters Battle Addiction in a Changing Culture in “When These Mountains Burn”
August 11, 2020 Gail Martin Takes Readers on an Epic and Urban Fantasy Ride in Her Books that Go Bump in the Day and Night
July 24, 2020 Jeanne Adams and Nancy Northcott Serve Up Inter-Stellar Science Fiction Conflict in “Christmas on Outcast Station”
July 21, 2020 Meagan Lucas Offers a Gritty Novel Featuring a Survivor Female Protagonist in “Songbirds & Stray Dogs”
July 17, 2020 Catherine Goodman Farley’s Children Book Collection Explores History, Conservation and Faith in the Low Country
July 14, 2020 Kimberley Motley Recounts Her Unrelenting Fight For Justice in Afghanistan in “Lawless”
July 10, 2020 Danielle Stewart’s “The Bend in Redwood Road” Centers Around the Secret of an Unusual Adoption
July 7, 2020 Cat Warren’s “What the Dog Knows: Scent, Science and the Amazing Ways Dogs Perceive the World”
June 30, 2020 Mark Peres Visits with 100 Influential People About the Topic That is the Title of his Book, “On Life and Meaning”
June 19, 2020 Tracie Barton-Barrett’s Novel About Families and Their Pets is “Buried Deep in Our Hearts”
June 16, 2020 Jack Grossman’s “Child of the Forest” Follows a Young Girl’s Fight For Life Following the Nazi invasion of her Small Town
June 12, 2020 Betsy Mack’s Memoir is “Mid-Reach: A Book To Inspire, Empower and Celebrate Failing While in the Midst of Success”
June 9, 2020 Mary Kratt Shares Poetry and History in “Watch where you walk” and “Charlotte, NC, A Brief History”
June 2, 2020 George Hovis’ “The Skin Artist” Is an Edgy Story Set in the Shadows of the Shiny Banking City of Charlotte, NC
May 26, 2020 Cynthia Newberry Martin’s Young Characters Struggle With Marriage in Her Literary Fiction Novel, “Tidal Flats”
May 22, 2020 Poet Donna Love Wallace Navigates Her Experience with Breast Cancer in “Between the Stones”
May 19, 2020 Scott Syfert’s “The First American Declaration of Independence? The Disputed History of the Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20, 1775″”
May 15, 2020 Michael Croley’s Beautiful Collection of Essays Explores Ordinary Lives in “Any Other Place”
May 12, 2020 Sarah Archer’s Clever Protagonist Is a Robotics Engineer Who Builds Her Perfect Date in “the Plus One”
May 8, 2020 Rachael Brooks Story as a Rape Survivor is Told in “Beads: A Memoir About Falling Apart and Putting Yourself Back Together Again”
May 5, 2020 Tom Hanchett’s “Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875 to 1975″
April 28, 2020 Craig Johnson Talks About His Best-Selling Walt Longmire Novels that Became a Hit Netflix Original Series, “Longmire”
April 24, 2020 Belinda Smith-Sullivan Offers a Delicious Array of History, Photographs and Peach Recipes in “Just Peachy”
April 17, 2020 Matthew Duffus “Swapping Purples for Yellows” is Equal Parts Campus Novel and Family Drama.
April 14, 2020 Elaine Orr’s Characters are “Swimming Between Worlds” in the Early Stages of The Civil Rights Movement in NC
April 10, 2020 Leslie Hooton Examines Complicated Relationships of Love and Ambition in “Before Anyone Else”
April 3, 2020 M.L. Huie’s WWII Female Spy Livy Nash Has a Secret Assignment that Could Kill Her in “Spitfire”
March 31, 2020 Tamra Wilson and Amy Rogers – “Idol Talk: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations That Changed Their Lives”
March 27, 2020 Rita Woods “Remembrance” Is a Magical Take on the Black Female Experience Spanning Generations
March 24, 2020 Poet Irene Blair Honeycutt – “Beneath the Bamboo Sky,” “Before the Light Changes,” “Waiting for the Trout to Speak” and “It Comes As a Dark Surprise”
March 20, 2020 Stacey Simms is “The World’s Worst Diabetes Mom: Real-Life Stories of Raising a Child with Type 1 Diabetes”
March 13, 2020 Anissa Gray’s Novel “The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls” Highlights the Fortitude of Women of Color
March 10, 2020 Judy Schindler and Judy Seldin-Cohen – “Recharging Judaism: How Civic Engagement is Good for Synagogues, Jews, and America”
March 3, 2020 Patrice Gopo and “All the Colors We Will See: Reflections on Barriers, Brokenness, and Finding Our Way”
February 28, 2020 Donna Everhart’s “Moonshiner’s Daughter” Is Full of Colorful Characters and Twists and Turns
February 21, 2020 Bethany Johnson Shares and Discusses “You’re Doing it Wrong! Mothering, Media and Medical Expertise.”
February 11, 2020 Rosy Crumpton and Kamaria Delaney – Truths Surface in “All I Left Unsaid” and “Soul PWR”
February 4, 2020 J.A. Walsh’s Debut Thriller, “Purpose of Evasion,” Takes Its Title From the CIA Oath
January 28, 2020 Carrie Knowles Shares Fiction From “Black Tie Optional,” “The Inevitable Past,” and “A Garden Wall in Provence”
January 21, 2020 Valerie Nieman’s Strange and Mysterious “To the Bones” and Her Sideshow Poetry Collection, “Leopard Lady”
January 17, 2020 Dennis Carrigan’s Mystery “Unusual Suspects” Offers a Cast of Quirky, Loveable Characters
January 10, 2020 Fabi Preslar’s “Fabulous F Words of Business Ownership: Redefining Choice Words to Fuel Your Small Business”
December 17, 2019 Charlotte’s Women’s National Book Association Bibliofeast – 8 Talented Authors Come to Dinner
December 10, 2019 Heidi Brown Explores The Power of Introversion in “The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy”
December 3, 2019 Phillip Lewis Takes Us to Old Buckram in “The Barrowfields” – Literary Fiction Set in the North Carolina Mountains
November 26, 2019 Charles Oldham’s “The Senator’s Son” Is Early 20th Century True Crime at the North Carolina Outer Banks
November 19, 2019 Laura King Edwards Honored Her Sister With Her Heart and Her Feet in “Run to the Light”
November 5, 2019 Frank Morelli’s “No Sad Songs” Forces a Teenager to Come to Terms with the Loss of His Parents and a Grandfather with Dementia
October 29, 2019 Jon Buchan’s “Code of the Forest” Is A Good Ole Boy Political Thriller Set in South Carolina
October 22, 2019 Barbara Johnson and Roger Colberg Share Their Award-Winning Short Stories and Memoir
October 15, 2019 Scott Huler’s Adventure is “A Delicious Country: Rediscovering the Carolinas along the Route of John Lawson’s 1700 Expedition”
October 8, 2019 Amber Smith’s “Something Like Gravity” Is a Novel About Teenage Love Involving a Transgender Male
October 1, 2019 Philip Gerard’s “Cape Fear Rising” Reveals the Truth About the 1898 White Supremacist Coup in Wilmington, N.C
September 24, 2019 Marybeth Whalen’s “Only Ever Her” Pulls a Town Apart in This Women’s Psychological Novel
September 3, 2019 Scott Fowler Shares His True Crime Podcast, His Carolina Panthers Book and His Young Adult Adventure
August 27, 2019 Surabhi Kaushik, Pam Turner and Landis Wade – Prose, Poetry, Essay and Season 4 Preview
August 20, 2019 Maureen Ryan Griffin Offers Tips With Her “Spinning Words into Gold: A Hands-On Guide to the Craft of Writing,” Plus Poetry Readings
August 13, 2019 Readings at a 40th Davidson College Reunion With Students Turned Authors John Gerdy, Hans Watford and Elizabeth Holmes
August 6, 2019 Martha Kearse’s “The Sun is Up” Is One White Minister’s Acknowledgement of White Privilege and How White People Should Pay Attention
July 16, 2019 Greg Jarrell Offers Uncomfortable Truths in “A Riff of Love: Notes on Community and Belonging”
July 2, 2019 David Radavich and Dede Wilson Share Their Poetry Books “America Abroad: An Epic of Discovery” and “Eliza: The New Orleans Years”
June 25, 2019 Kathryn Schwille’s “What Luck, This Life” Explores Life on the Ground and the Fall-Out From the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
June 11, 2019 Lisa Saunders Is One Minister’s Memoir About How She Was Inspired by the People She Pastored “Even At The Grave”
June 4, 2019 Abigail DeWitt’s Literary Fiction Novel “News of Our Loved Ones” Explores Love and Loss in World War II France
May 28, 2019 Mark de Castrique Puts the FUN in Funeral in His Buryin’ Barry Series and His Sam Blackman Murder Mystery Series
May 24, 2019 Charlotte Readers Podcast Meets Charlotte Squawks – An Interview with Mike Collins and Brian Kahn
May 14, 2019 Kathy Izard’s Award-Winning “The Hundred Story Home” Is a Memoir And a Search for a Solution to Homelessness
May 7, 2019 Gavin Edwards Reveals Real-Life Stories of Celebrities in “The World According to Tom Hanks” and “The Tao of Bill Murray”
April 23, 2019 Remembering Season 1 – Reflections, Readings and Conversations with Eleven Charlotte Authors
April 9, 2019 Chris Arvidson, Ellyn Ritterskamp and Caroline Kenna and “The Love of Baseball-Essays by Lifelong Fans”
March 26, 2019 Cathy Pickens Shares Ghost Stories Set in Charleston, S.C. and True Crime Stories Set in Charlotte, N.C
March 19, 2019 Bryn Chancellor’s “Sycamore” And Her Award-Winning Short Stories Are Literary Fiction Set in the Southwest
March 12, 2019 Nora Gaskin Shares Her True Crime Book About a Murder in Chapel Hill and “The Worst Thing,” Suspense With a Deranged Predator
March 5, 2019 Bud Schill’s “Not Exactly Rocket Scientists and Other Stories” Features Stupid Things Boys Do in Groups Growing up in the 50s
February 26, 2019 Rosie Molinary Shares Her Books About Body Image, Growing up Latina and “Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance”
February 19, 2019 Randell Jones Shares Stories About A Revolutionary Battle, Daniel Boone, A Civil War Prison Camp and “The Truth at 13”
February 12, 2019 Gilda Morina Syverson’s “My Father’s Daughter: From Rome to Sicily” Is An Italian-American Story, Plus Poetry and More
January 29, 2019 JD DuPuy Reads from “Poetic Justice: Legal Humor in Verse” And He and Landis Laugh with (and at) Lawyers
January 22, 2019 Linda Phillips Young Protagonist in “Crazy” Struggles Knowing Her Mother Belongs in the Nut House, Plus Poetry
January 15, 2019 Tommy Tomlinson Tells Hard Truths With “The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man’s Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America”
January 8, 2019 Landis Wade Shares A Dedication Story To His Father Ham and Offers A Season 2 Preview
December 14, 2018 The Christmas Heist – A Podcast Audio Rendition – Performed by Landis and Janet Wade – And Janet Interviews Landis
December 10, 2018 Judy Goldman Brings Us “Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap” And Poetry, Too
November 27, 2018 Paula Martinac Shares Her Award Winning LGBT Novels “The Ada Decades” and “Clio Rising”
November 13, 2018 Molly Barker, Founder of Girls on the Run, Embarks on a Cross-Country Trip and Returns with “The Wisdom Stories”
October 23, 2018 Brooke Reynolds Makes Our Halloween Episode Scary With Her Stories from the Dark Side
October 16, 2018 Cathia Friou’s Award winning “Rock, Paper Scissors” Offers Scenes from a Charmed Divorce
