Writer's Corner

Colin Nelson, who has been a prosecutor, defense attorney, and adjunct professor, still found the time to write seven books before his latest, “The Havana Syndrome,” a fictional thriller focused on the mysterious syndrome which struck United States officials in Havana in 2016 and still has not been resolved.

Colin spent time in Cuba before the embargo, and got to know and like the people. He is married and lives in Plymouth, MN, and he still finds time to play the saxophone in two bands.

Colin Nelson, who has been a prosecutor, defense attorney, and adjunct professor, still found the time to write seven books before his latest, “The Havana Syndrome,” a fictional thriller focused on the mysterious syndrome which struck United States officials in Havana in 2016 and still has not been resolved.

Colin spent time in Cuba before the embargo, and got to know and like the people. He is married and lives in Plymouth, MN, and he still finds time to play the saxophone in two bands.

David Housewright is one of the nation’s top authors.A former President of the Mystery Writers of America, winner of three Minnesota Book Awards for crime fiction, and the prestigious Edgar Award.

He has two new novels for this year, “Girl in a Dumpster” in his Holland Taylor series, and “Them Bones,” the 22nd book in his Rushmore McKenzie series, due for release four days after his interview with Alan on June 20th.

He discussed the difference between the two main characters and many of the choices he faced in completing these two books, each destined to be a best seller.

“This book should accompany every AARP registration,” was part of the introduction of Andrea Gilats’ memoir “Radical Endurance” about “growing old in the age of longevity.” Gilats, who holds a Ph.D., nearing 80 years old, is a writer, educator and former Yoga instructor and who authors a very personal story of her aging process filled with quotations from a variety of experts, philosophers, and writers, and offers suggestions about dealing with old age, and even facing the prospect of death.

Jeffrey Burton, a return guest, has written several previous series, his latest in the Chicago K-9 novel, “The Second Grave,” in which his two “cadaver dogs” uncover a suicide and then discover two graves, on with three bodies and one with only one. This leads to the difficulty of finding the story behind the killings and an intriguing twist involving a decades old bank robbery.

The prolific MARY SEIFERT, author of the Katie & Maverick Cozy mystery, discussed her writing career with Alan, and disclosed that she has just completed her tenth novel.

From upstate Minnesota, she spoke of the fact that familiar surroundings aided her writing, in addition to friends and family, many of whom she included in her novels using other names, Mary talked of the rigors of the editing process, disclosed that she did not do complete outlines, and how she always knows how her stories would end.

She has won multiple awards for her work.