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  • Episode 62: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Caitlyn O'Leary

    Episode 62: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Caitlyn O'Leary
    2025/12/01

    It’s Caitlyn O’Leary! I think she’ll be my fourth SEAL author! Today, we finally find out what makes SEALs so arresting! This episode is sponsored by Audible. (Click my link for many great offers from Audible.) My recent audiobooks: Julie Chan is Dead, and Beautiful Ugly.

    Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions.

    You can find Caitlyn: Website/Blog: caitlynoleary.com Instagram: @caitlynoleary_author Facebook: @CaitlynOLearyAuthor FB Group: Caitlyn O’Leary’s Crew

    Show Notes: books, writers, and topics we discuss: Other SEAL authors I’ve interviewed: Cora Seton, Sharon Hamilton, and Lynn Raye Harris. Becca Syme Interview on A Time to Thrill Joy’s Homecoming by Caitlyn O’Leary Fate Harbor Series (menage) by Caitlyn O’Leary Bella Andre, Jeneva Rose, and Lauren Blakely (authors with great marketing savvy) Robert Ludlum (Jason Bourne) Tom Clancy James Patterson Gennita Low Suzanne Brockmann Susan Stoker Maryann Jordan Pat Conroy (Great Santini, The Prince of Tides) W.E.B. Griffin Nora Roberts Johanna Lindsey Jennifer Greene Kristin Ashley Nalini Singh Protectors of Jasper Creek Series by Caitlyn O’Leary
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    1 時間 19 分
  • A Special November Announcement...or Apology

    A Special November Announcement...or Apology
    2025/11/02

    OMG I’m *mortified* My November episode is in iris.fm processing limbo. As soon as I can get it out of the cloud and edited, I’ll have it up on the feed. In the meantime, I have 60 other episodes that you should listen to, if you haven’t already.

    Some fan favorite episodes include:

    Episode 34: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Sharon Hamilton Episode 15: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Theodora Taylor Episode 39: A Time to Thrill – Encore: Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Synithia Williams Episode 17: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Rachel Grant Episode 9: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Elizabeth Decker

    and many more….

    This episode is sponsored by Audible. (Click my link for many great offers from Audible.)

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  • Episode 61: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Sarah Vance-Tompkins

    Episode 61: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Sarah Vance-Tompkins
    2025/11/01

    Meet Sarah Vance-Tompkins. Though she was born in Michigan, she’s a local to Southern California. I can’t wait for you to hear our chat about weather that’s not weather and the path from fiction to mystery.

    [Please support my sponsor, Audible. Check out mine and 1000s of books @Audible]

    Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions. You can find Sarah: Website/Blog: sarahvancetompkins.com Instagram: @sarahvantom X/Twitter: @sarahvtompkins

    Show Notes: books, writers, and topics we discuss: Agatha Christie (Miss Marple Series author) Barbara Cartland (romance author) The Taming of Tamsin by Mary Wibberly Shanna by Kathleen E Woodiwiss A Promising Young Woman by Emerald Fennell (Script/Variety) Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding On Christmas Tree Cove by Sarah Vance-Tompkins Save the Cat by Blake Snyder Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Kisses on a Paper Airplane by Sarah Vance-Tompkins Smut University -Audible and Amazon affiliate links provide monies to the podcast at no cost to you.
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    1 時間 13 分
  • Episode 60: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Chris Keniston

    Episode 60: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Chris Keniston
    2025/10/01

    This month I have a chat with New York born, but Texas-based based USA Today Bestselling Romance author Chris Keniston. Chris is one thing that most of us aren’t: an extrovert. It’s a conversation that’s different than the usual,

    Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions.

    You can find Chris: Website/Blog: chriskeniston.com Facebook: ChrisKenistonAuthor X (Twitter): @CKenistonAuthor Instagram: @ckenistonauthor

    Show Notes: books, writers, and topics we discuss: Nancy Drew Mysteries – Carolyn Keene Hardy Boys Mysteries – Franklin W. Dixon Clifton Strengths from Gallup (bonus: Interview with Strengths coach Becca Syme) JAG – TV Series The Homecoming by Chris Keniston The Champagne Sisterhood by Chris Keniston Aloha Texas by Chris Keniston Shell Game by Chris Keniston (Golden Girls meets Miami Vice) H.M. Ward – The Arrangements

    A Man in a Kilt (Castle Blackstone #1) by Sandy Blair A Rogue in a Kilt (Castle Blackstone #2) by Sandy Blair A Thief in A Kilt (Castle Blackstone #3) by Sandy Blair

    Emily March Susan Mallery Virgin River Series by Robyn Carr

    Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb J.K. Rowling/Robert Galbraith
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    1 時間 10 分
  • Episode 59: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Grace Wynter

    Episode 59: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Grace Wynter
    2025/06/01

    This year Grace Wynter and I were recipients of the 2025 Barbara Neely Scholarship for Black crime writers. I wanted to meet my counterpart and here she is! Grace Wynter and I talk books, writing, and the future of publishing.

    Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions.

    You can find Grace: Website: www.gracewynter.com BlueSky: @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social

    Show Notes: books, writers, and topics we discuss: Judy Blume Jane Austen Toni Morrison Jamaica Kincaid Dean Koontz Stephen King Beverly Neely Karin Slaughter Yasmine Angoe Kathleen Early (Will Trent Series narrator)

    The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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    1 時間 27 分
  • Episode 58: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Noël Stark

    Episode 58: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Noël Stark
    2025/05/01

    Noel Stark is a debut author! Her romance has some basis in reality: it’s all about Hollywood. In this interview, we talk about what romance has meant to her, the puzzle of storytelling, and the future of romance fiction.

    Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions.

    You can find Noël: Website: www.noelstark.com TikTok: @noelstarkauthor Instagram: @noelstarkauthor

    Show Notes: movies, books, writers, and topics we discuss: Love, Camera, Action by Noel Stark Lavyrle Spencer Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
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    1 時間 12 分
  • Episode 57: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Kara Infante

    Episode 57: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Kara Infante
    2025/04/01

    It’s April! No fools here. This month, I have the pleasure of speaking with podcaster and mom, Kara Infante. Her podcast is Bookish Flights. On each episode, she features a guest who talks about three books centered on a theme. We talk about ways that women funnel their creativity. Books! Talking! Conversations! All my favorite things.

    Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions.

    You can find Kara:

    Instagram: @bookishflights Facebook: @bookishflights Website: bookishflights.com Show Notes: movies, books, writers, and topics we discuss: Bookish Flights Podcast Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Moloka’i by Alan Brennert Cold Hearted Rake by Lisa Kleypas
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    1 時間 23 分
  • Episode 56: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Brenda Janowitz

    Episode 56: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Brenda Janowitz
    2025/03/01

    This month which brings the Ides of March, I have the true joy of speaking with women’s fiction author Brenda Janowitz. I met Brenda about a billion years ago when we co-blogged at Girlfriend’s Book Club, an early author blog co-founded by Hank Phillipe Ryan. Brends’s had an interesting journey that I can’t wait to share with you.

    Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions.

    You can find Brenda:

    Website: brendajanowitz.com Facebook: BrendaJanowitz Instagram: @brendajanowitzwriter Show Notes: movies, books, writers, and topics we discuss: Modern Love: He’s Never Going to Put Away That Shirt Someone Else’s Wife (formerly titled The Good Enough Husband) The Secrets She Keeps Taming the Bad Boy What Was Perfect (The Story of Us Trilogy)

    Books by Brenda: The Lonely Hearts Club The Grace Kelly Dress Other mentions: Brenda’s CBS NY Book Club Pick – The Audrey Hepburn Estate Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagasaki Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly Sold a Story (podcast on the corruption of reading education in the U.S.) Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism By Eve L. Ewing

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    1 時間 23 分