Idol Talk
Rick PullenLove a good mystery? A great thrilIer? I interview your favorite crime fiction authors and go behind the public face to bring their real stories to life. Fun anecdotes, wild career twists, and always a bit of luck play into their bestseller stardom.
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John Grisham on his First Novel, A Time to Kill
One of the best-known stories about John Grisham is how he got his start. But there’s another story not often talked about of how he lost a fortune.
The young lawyer was turned down by every publisher his agent approached until a startup,...
Ed McBain Never Did that Before
Bruce DeSilva was working as a reporter at the Hartford Courant—the nation’s oldest continuously published newspaper—when the Los Angeles Times purchased it with the goal of competing with the Boston Globe. With the Times’ blessing, DeSilva...
Megan Abbott
Bestselling crime author Megan Abbott never considered herself a writer, but rather an academic. Her goal was to teach college literature, but she was a fan of foreboding noir crime fiction––not exactly the type of stuff found in most liter...
ITW’s Audio Anthology Shape-Shifts into a Narrative Crime Story
The International Thriller Writers has been putting out crime fiction anthologies for most of its twenty years of existence and in that time shifted from print to audio. It now has four audio anthologies, but the latest is different. Not on...
Meg Gardner Discovers America
Meg Gardiner was living with her family outside of London when she began her first crime novel, China Lake. She found a British agent and publisher and her book sold well, but her agent couldn’t break into the American market.
Her writing...
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Award-winning investigative reporter and magazine editor Rick Pullen Interviews famous crime novelists for his newsletter IdolTalk. He’s written three novels, one a bestseller.
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