Writer's Corner

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.

Roger Stelljes’ books have graced both the New York Times and USA Today best seller lists. He is the author of two series, the McRyan Mystery Series and the Tori Hunter-Manchester Bay series. His books have been downloaded more than three million times. His most recent book, Taken in the Cold, is the seventh book featuring FBI special agent Tori Hunter.

Doug Dorow is the author of two FBI series. The first series is set in Minnesota and features FBI Special Agent Jack Miller. The second, the Critical Incident Series, is a three-book series of novellas features a rotating cast of characters that comprise the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. Dorow is a graduate of the FBI Citizens Academy.

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.