Writer's Corner

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.

MARJORIE MATHISON HANCE, who was a national sales manager for Honeywell, has spent years with her family on Pelican Lake in northwest Minnesota. She began writing “Pelican Lake” when she found herself alone at the lake following the death of her first husband, and after critical acclaim, authored two more novels set in the northwestern Minnesota area. She is working on a fourth book due out in 2025.

JJ HARRIGAN, who specializes in historical fiction, became a novelist after serving in the army during the Cold War, doing a stint in US Foreign Service in Brazil, and ultimately as a college professor at Hamline University. His novel, “Goodbye Cuba” is wrapped in intrigue about the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. His next novel, “Goodbye Bobby” is about the late Presidential candidate. Robert Kennedy, and wrapped in his pledge to end the Vietnam War. It is due out in November, 2024.

Together with Alan, these accomplished authors discussed the benefits and pitfalls of lesser-known authors, and their methods of getting their books published.