Suspense Radio

We are pleased to bring you author JT Ellison. Beyond the Cover is hosted by Jeff Ayers and John Raab. We go beyond the book cover and explore everything involved with the suspense / mystery / thriller / horror genre.  All the shows on the Suspense Radio network are brought to you by Suspense Magazine. Make sure you follow us through ITunes to get every episode of every show, that inlcudes The Story Blender, Crime and Science Radio, Beyond The Cover, Suspense Radio Inside Edition and One on One.  Every show has a little bit of something for everyone. If you want to contact any show, simply email radio@suspensemagazine.com  

Suspense Radio One on One in partnered with Partners in Crime Tours.net brings you Cy Wyss and his book "Dimorphic". "Dimorphic":  It’s easy to become a superhero. First, discover a superpower. It might take a while to get used to, though — especially if it’s something as weird as being your twin brother half the time. Second, recruit a sidekick. Or, two. It’d be nice if they weren’t a pyromaniacal sycophant and a foul-mouthed midget, but you get what you get. Third, and most important, hire a mentor — preferably not a vicious mobster with a God complex, however, this may, realistically, be your only choice. Finally: go forth and fight crime. Try not to get shot, beaten, tortured, or apprehended in the process. Good luck!

Suspense Radio brings you two hours of author interviews. We have four outstanding authors headlined by Glen Erik Hamilton and M.C. Beaton. Also Carter Wilson and Phillip Donaly will be joining us. Suspense Radio is the place you will hear the very best in author interviews, book news, reviews, and much more.  With five shows on the Radio network we have something for everybody. Crime and Science Radio, The Story Blender, Beyond the Cover and One on One.  Suspense Radio is brough to you by Suspense Magazine. www.suspensemagazine.com 

The Story Blender is hosted by author Steven James and guest hosted by editor Pam Johnson. Today's show Steven has a fantastic guest Lisa Cron. Lisa Cron - author and Hollywood story consultant Lisa has worked in the publishing industry, served as a literary agent, and was a producer for Showtime and Court TV. As an expert on how our brains process and understand stories, she has also served as a story consultant for Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow. Tune in as she talks through some of the storytelling principles from her groundbreaking book Wired for Story.

Show Title: Personal Violence: Sex and Domestic Crimes: An Interview with Former Federal Prosecutor and Author Allison Leotta BIO: For twelve years, Allison Leotta was a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., where she specialized in sex crimes, domestic violence, and crimes against children. Drawing on this experience, she now writes legal thrillers, for which she has been dubbed  “the female John Grisham.” Her goal is for John Grisham to be dubbed “the male Allison Leotta.” After publishing her debut, LAW OF ATTRACTION, Simon & Schuster asked Allison to continue writing about her fictional sex-crimes prosecutor, Anna Curtis.  A series was born! There are now four books in the Anna Curtis series, and a fifth is in the works. LAW OF ATTRACTION earned a starred review in Library Journal, which said, “In this riveting debut, Leotta joins the big league with pros like Linda Fairstein and Lisa Scottoline.” Allison’s second novel, DISCRETION, was named one of the Top Ten Books of 2012 by Strand Magazine an

SHOW TITLE: Things That Go Boom in the Night: An Interview with Weapons and Explosives Expert and Author John Gilstrap. BIO: John Gilstrap is the New York Times bestselling author of Friendly Fire, Nick of Time, Against All Enemies, End Game, Soft Targets, High Treason, Damage Control, Threat Warning, Hostage Zero, No Mercy, Nathan’s Run, At All Costs, Even Steven, Scott Free and Six Minutes to Freedom.  Four of his books have been purchased or optioned for the Big Screen.  In addition, John has written four screenplays for Hollywood, adapting the works of Nelson DeMille, Norman McLean and Thomas Harris.  He will co-produce the film adaptation of his book, Six Minutes to Freedom, which should begin filming in the spring of 2016 for a 2017 release. A frequent speaker at literary events, John also teaches seminars on suspense writing techniques at a wide variety of venues, from local libraries to The Smithsonian Institution.  Outside of his writing life, John is a renowned safety expert with extensive knowled

Beyond The Cover is hosted by John Raab and Jeff Ayers. This is where you will hear author interivews, reviews, industry news and much more.  On tonight's show John and Jeff will be interviewing two wonderful authors. Rebecca Drake and Matthew Betley.  Beyond The Cover is one of five shows on the Suspense Radio network.  The Suspense Radio network is brought to you by Suspense Magazine. Go to www.suspensemagazine.com for more information. If you would like to contact anyone on the show, please email editor@suspensemagazine.com

Suspense Radio One on One in partnered with Partners in Crime Tours.net brings you Eliot Peper on today's show. Eliot's book "Uncommon Stock":  Book 1 of The Uncommon Series – Continued in Book 2, Uncommon Stock: Power Play. Mara Winkel is rock climbing, mountain biking, and ‘studying’ her way through school at the University of Colorado, Boulder. But when her best friend James asks her to partner with him to start a disruptive new software company she discovers that the world of technology startups is fraught with intrigue, adrenaline, soaring successes, and scorching failures. It turns out this is especially true when your technology threatens entrenched drug cartels. Mara has to juggle mysterious investors, opaque partners, critical customers, and a team that is as brilliant as it is dysfunctional until only one question remains: win or die.

Welcome to Suspense Radio Inside Edition, just one of the five shows on the Suspense Radio Network. Today we have four outstanding guests. Starting it off will be Jon Land, then D.P. Lyle, followed by Lisa Lutz and then Blue Cole. Suspense Radio brings you the very best in author interviews, giving you the fan the personal inside look into your favorite authors, along with letting you find some new ones. Please make sure you check out all the shows on the network, including:  Crime and Science Radio The Story Blender Beyond the Cover Suspense Radio One on One Suspense Radio is brought to you by Suspense Magazine.  www.suspensemagazine.com 

The Story Blender is hosted by Steven James, author of the Patrick Bowers series. On the show you will hear guests talk about the art of storytelling in their own way. Steven uses many different styles of storytelling to give the fan a wide range of topics.  On today's show: Glen Erik Hamilton - Edgar-nominated crime writer As a powerful new noir talent, Glen shares practical advice to first-time authors on time management, working successfully in a writers group, and learning writing skills from well-established authors. Glen grew up on a sailboat in Seattle which helped teach him to not limit his creative boundaries. His debut novel Past Crimes is a 2016 Edgar Award nominee and his second book, Hard Cold Winter, will be released in March 2016.

Show Title: Follow the Money: Catching Cheaters, Frauds and Con Artists — An Interview with Securities Fraud Investigator Richard B. York, Part 2 Richard B York began his career in Law Enforcement over forty years ago, when he became a police officer in Arkansas City, Kansas. He holds degrees in police science, criminal investigation and police administration, and received several certifications for financial crimes investigations.  From 1984-2011, he served in the Office of the Kansas Securities Commissioner in Wichita, Kansas, where he became the Director of Enforcement. This is the Kansas State agency overseeing registration and enforcement of investor related laws (The Kansas Uniform Securities Act).  He personally handled over 300 investigations and supervised over 1,000 investigations.  Most involved some form of fraud and overlap of other federal or state laws. Many investigations were coordinated with outside law enforcement agencies. His activities included training and supervising other investigat

Show Title: Building a Better Law Enforcement: An Interview with Chief Scott LaChasse, Burbank Police Department Scott LaChasse has 36 years of experience in law enforcement and security. He joined the Burbank Police Department as Interim Chief in January, 2010 and was named permanent Chief in April, 2013.  Chief LaChasse worked for the Los Angeles Police Department from 1970-2002, most recently holding the position of Deputy Chief. In this capacity, he managed almost 1,600 personnel in South Los Angeles. During his tenure at the LAPD, he held a variety of high-profile positions including Commanding Officer for the Criminal Intelligence, Narcotics, and Uniformed Services Groups. He also served as Assistant Commanding Officer of Operations for the Valley Bureau where he administered the activities of 1,800 personnel in the San Fernando Valley. His resume includes work as the Vice President of Security and Emergency Services for Paramount Pictures and Corporate Manager for Regulatory Compliance at Southern C

Mark Greaney: "Back Blast":  Court Gentry was the CIA’s best agent. Until the day the Agency turned against him and put out a kill on sight order. That’s when the enigmatic international assassin called the Gray Man was born—and Court has been working for himself ever since Now, Court is back in Washington looking for answers. He’s determined to find out what happened all those years ago that made the Agency turn against him. On his list to interrogate are his former partners and the men who sent him on his last mission. What he doesn’t realize is that the questions that arose from that mission are still reverberating in the U.S. intelligence community, and he’s stumbled onto a secret that powerful people want kept under wraps. And now, they have Court in their crosshairs. Court Gentry is used to having people on his trail, but this time, it’s on U.S. soil—the last place he wants to be. Now, he’ll have to find the answers to his fate while evading capture…and avoiding death.  

Show Title: Research, Education, and the Future of Forensic Science: an Interview with Dr. Katherine A. Roberts, Director of the CSULA Graduate Program in Criminalistics  Dr. Roberts is the Director of the California State University, Los Angeles Graduate Program in Criminalistics. She has served as the Director of the Master of Science degree program there since 2002,and played a leading role in the university’s FEPAC accreditation. Her research interests cover a wide array of forensic disciplines, but focus primarily of trace evidence analysis, sexual assault evidence, and mitochondrial DNA analysis. Dr. Roberts was the PI of a National Institute of Justice-funded study to investigate the use of samplematrix™ to stabilize crime scene biological samples for optimized analysis and room temperature storage from 2009-2011. She is the PI for a National Science Foundation grant that was awarded to CSULA in 2015 to establish the Center for Interdisciplinary Forensic Science Research as a research site within the

Suspense Radio One on One in partnered with Partners In Crime Tours.net brings you a blog stop for author Steve Gossington. Steve Gossington "Fractured Eden":  When a doctor loses everything and is forced to start over, he finds himself in a strange town filled with addiction and mental illness. Now he must find a way to survive his dark and deadly patients … Dr. Aaron Rovsing, Family Practice Physician, is charged with incompetence and fired from his medical practice in Connecticut. After he flees and starts over in a town in East Texas, he discovers that things are not as they first appear, and soon Aaron must combat the deranged and addicted minds of the townspeople. But things take a deadly turn when he finds himself the next chosen victim of a serial killer who plans to add the doctor to his collection of skeletons. In this town of insanity and with a serial killer waiting to strike, how can Aaron manage to stay sane . . . and alive?

Today on Suspense Radio Inside Edition we have three great authors, two of them from across the pond. First up Adam Dunn, then M.C. Beaton and finally Mick Sims.  Suspense Radio brings you the very best in author interviews, industry news, experts, science, movies and much more. All the shows on Suspense Radio are brought to you by Suspense Magazine. www.suspensemagazine.com Other shows on the network include Beyond The Cover hosted by John Raab and Jeff Ayers. Then Crime and Science Radio hosted by D.P. Lyle and Jan Burke and finally The Story Blender hosted by author Steven James.  

Welcome to The Story Blender with your host Steven James.  Today's show: Mark Alpert - critically acclaimed science thriller author Get ready for insect cyborgs, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, and aliens as we tap into the imagination and childlike wonder of astrophysicist and science thriller author Mark Alpert. Called “the heir to Michael Crichton,” Mark pens thrilling stories that merge cutting-edge science with edge-of-the-seat suspense. Mark shares his passion for writing, for life, and for ways to feed the creative juices. For more information on all The Story Blender shows go to www.thestoryblender.com 

Show Title: Follow the Money: Catching Cheaters, Frauds and Con Artists — An Interview with Securities Fraud Investigator Richard B. York Richard B York began his career in Law Enforcement over forty years ago, when he became a police officer in Arkansas City, Kansas. He holds degrees in police science, criminal investigation and police administration, and received several certifications for financial crimes investigations.  From 1984-2011, he served in the Office of the Kansas Securities Commissioner in Wichita, Kansas, where he became the Director of Enforcement. This is the Kansas State agency overseeing registration and enforcement of investor related laws (The Kansas Uniform Securities Act).  He personally handled over 300 investigations and supervised over 1,000 investigations.  Most involved some form of fraud and overlap of other federal or state laws. Many investigations were coordinated with outside law enforcement agencies. His activities included training and supervising other investigators; wor

Jessica Strawser Having spent the last decade working for Writer’s Digest, Jessica Strawser has edited literally hundreds of articles on the craft of writing and on storytelling excellence. A novelist herself, she shares insights gained from sitting in the editor’s chair and from her writer’s perspective. For more information on all the Story Blender shows go to www.thestoryblender.com  All Suspense Radio shows are brought to you by Suspense Magazine. www.suspensemagazine.com For more information on the host Steven James, visit www.stevenjames.net  If you have questions or comments email radio@suspensemagazine.com

We are pleased to bring to you author James Thayer. He will be on the first half of the show, followed by John and Jeff talking books, reviews and much more. James Thayer: Jim Thayer is the author of thirteen critically acclaimed novels. To his books he brings writing that "is smooth and clear. Deceptively simple, it wastes no words, and it has a rhythm that only confident stylists achieve." (Newgate Callendar, New York Times Book Review.) His novels have been translated into all major European languages and Japanese and Chinese. He recently completed a manual for novelists, The Essential Guide to Writing a Novel. Thayer is the son of an eastern Washington farmer and his wife, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington State University and of the University of Chicago Law School. He teaches novel writing at the University of Washington extension school, where he received the 2015 Excellence in Teaching Award in the Arts, Writing, and Humanities. He lives in Seattle with his wife and two daughters.