Writer's Corner

CHERYL BAILEY is a retired gynecological oncologist and her gripping first novel, “Poised,” is a heart-warming story of her battles as a female, trying to crack the male-dominated field of cancer medicine in 1990s Kentucky with innovative ideas to make things better for patients. Along the way, she becomes attached to some patients, loses some, and expresses both her passion and pathos. Well-known author Rob Jung hosted this interview.

“Girls in a World at War” is author PEGGY SCHOLBERG’s accounting of her mother’s story as one of five women who served in a hospital in France during World War II. It covers a wide swath of their adventures from the initial crossing of the Atlantic to working with German POWs and their adventures from Paris to Switzerland. It offers a female non-combatant’s perspective.

Well-known author Rob Jung hosted this interview.

BRIAN LUTTERMAN, who boasts a long career as an attorney, is the author of the highly acclaimed Pen Wilkinson series, but took a right-turn with his latest novel, “Incel,” a term for involuntary celibates, a psychological thriller about a group of disturbed males who prey on and threaten the lives of successful, powerful women.

ALLEN ESKENS’ latest novel, “The Quiet Librarian,” will be released in February, 2025. A recently retired attorney, his previous novels, translated into 23 languages, have won numerous awards including the Minnesota Book Award, a Barry Award, and he has been a finalist for the prestigious Edgar Award.

Writers Corner founder and host Alan Miller, is interviewed by host Bill Raker, and traces his career from the courtroom to the founding of the award-winning Access to Democracy, and culminating in the publication of his latest novel, Fire Fight in Shelter Rock, the third of the Danni and Mort series, at age 90.

ROB JUNG is an author of four thriller novels, an attorney who graduated from Harvard Law School, a publisher of a monthly newsletter, a producer and host of MN Mystery Night, who also writes limericks under a pen name, and has three proposed novels on his drawing board while he is collaborating with four other authors on a unique five-author thriller.

He is a father, a grandfather and a great grandfather, and an avid fisherman. And on the seventh day he rests  🙂 …

William Kent Krueger is one of Minnesota’s preeminent writers. His 20th Cork O’Connor novel, out in August, “Spirit Crossing,” continuing the history of O’Connor and his family with sensitivity, pathos, and humanity, immediately jumped to the New York Times best-seller list.

His earlier standalone volume, released in 2023, “The River We Remember,” is almost spiritual as it steps back into post-WWII prejudices and challenges of a small Minnesota community.

Kent discussed his background, his writing method, and his latest book, to be released next summer.