In this episode of In Conversation with Terry Shepherd, Terry dives deep into the writer's craft with author and artist Karen Ann Phillips to celebrate the release of A Deadly Hook, the third and final installment in her popul...

From DOJ Corridors to Chicago Syndicates: Chad Boudreaux on Crafting Mob JusticeImagine starting a high-stakes job at the Department of Justice on September 10, 2001. For our guest today, Chad Boudreaux, that was reality. After ...

What if the secret to humanity's future was hidden inside a murdered judge's laptop?In this episode of In Conversation with Terry Shepherd, Terry sits down with debut thriller author Gary Fields to explore his glob...

We recently sat down with celebrated anthropologist Dr. Mimi Nichter to discuss her gripping new memoir, "Hostage: A Memoir of Terrorism, Trauma, and Resilience."In 1970, Mimi was a college senior whose flight home from Tel Aviv w...

What happens when a Silicon Valley pioneer trades the boardroom for the open road? 🏍️✨I recently sat down with Michael Yang, the founder of MySimon, to talk about his incredible new memoir, "Coming Alive on the Ride."

From Hollywood "Ghost" to Literary Powerhouse ✍️For 35 years, Peter Fedorenko was the "script doctor" who fixed Hollywood’s biggest stories from the shadows. Then, in 2020, his own heart stopped.Having returned from ...

In celebration of it's paperback release join us for a special look at the journey of Jennifer K. Morita toward publication of her debut novel, "Ghosts of Waikīkī," What happens when an unemployed newspaper reporter returns t...

How well do we truly know the people we love?In the latest episode, I sit down with Danielle Girard to discuss her haunting new thriller, "Pinky Swear." This isn't a story of cartoon villains or "moral origami." Instead, it’s ...

What happens when thirty-four years of corporate finance meets a lifelong passion for animal rescue? You get the Lily Dreyfus mystery series—where the puzzles are intricate, the stakes are high, and the four-legged characters have just a...

What happens when a life built on discipline, survival, and excellence finally makes room for joy?In this episode, we explore Steeped, the powerful memoir of retired neurosurgeon Dr. Craig Y...

What does it actually take to bring that dash of vanilla extract to your kitchen counter?This week, we’re journeying deep into the "dim green hush" of the Madagascar forest canopy with Emmanuel LeRoche, author of A Taste of Ma...

What happens when a master planner tries to out-strategize heartbreak? Corey Seemiller's "The Soulmate Strategy," explores her honest, funny, and deeply relatable journey from trying to control the pain of a very public breakup to discovering t...

Dr. Angela Petersen joins me to discuss her radical new book, "The Wellness Glitch," and why tracking every step and heartbeat might be the very thing keeping us unwell.-------

In the coal-dusted world of Ghost Town, the haunting new novel from James R. Gregory, we travel to Sulphur Creek, a late-19th-century mining town where ambition, isolation, and buried secrets collide. At the heart of the story are...

12 athletes missing. One shadowy conspiracy. No room for error. Award-winning journalist Joe Battaglia has seen it all—from the Beijing Games to London. Now, he’s using that expertise to craft Beneath the Rings, a ge...

With her latest novel, Bye Bye Blackbird, Elizabeth Crowens steps behind the curtain of the hard-boiled mystery to investigate the ghosts that linger around Hollywood’s most iconic sets.

RED GRADE: A Jenn Herrington Wyoming Mystery, drops us into the rarefied world of elite polo when a celebrated player dies mid-match—an apparent accident that quickly unravels into something far more sinister. Underground betting, perfor...

I’m excited to welcome Julie Snider, whose debut novel, Chapel Bay Secrets, follows Brenda Kato, a Japanese American librarian in a quiet coastal California town, where a threatened book ban and long-buried tension...

Christopher Mannino believes that one of the most powerful tools in parenting isn’t a schedule, a screen limit, or a perfect plan—it’s play.In his new book, Making It Up: A Revolutionary Way to Bond with Kids Through Play, Christo...

What if retirement isn’t the finish line—but the beginning of something more intentional? In From Work to What’s Next, husband-and-wife financial advisors Sarah K. Charles and Jim Charles rethink retirement as a redesign, not an e...

The thriller genre has a new dynamic duo. In our latest episode, we sit down with Ryan Steck and Simon Gervais to discuss their debut collaboration, The Second Son.They call it "The Vintage of Collaboration." Despite writing fro...

We dive into the shadows of 1970s Vietnam with author Nancy Cole Silverman and her electrifying new Kat Lawson Mystery, A Spy in Saigon. Kat’s “simple” assignment to write a travel piece and make a covert drop goes off the rails fast, thrusting...

From the outside, Michelle Yang’s life might look like a familiar immigrant success story—but her new memoir, Phoenix Girl, reveals something far more powerful and complex. When her family left their tight-knit Chinese community in Sou...

 Dr. Carolyn Larkin Taylor is a neurologist with decades of experience, and now, she's turning her stethoscope inward in a powerful new memoir, Whispers of the Mind.Through a series of deeply personal essays, Dr. Taylor tak...

Ever feel like eating healthy means giving up the foods you grew up with? Dr. Marissa Toussaint says you don’t have to choose. Her new book Flambeau Kitchen blends Caribbean heritage with real, sustainable wellness—70+ recipes, practic...