Clarissa Goenawan, Kathleen Valenti & Ellison Cooper: Debut Authors
I’m thrilled to introduce three new ITW Debut Authors this week. Clarissa Goenawan, Kathleen Valenti, and Ellison Cooper CLARISSA GOENAWAN Clarissa Goenawan is an Indonesian-born Singaporean writer. Her debut novel, Rainbirds, is the winner of the 2015 Bath Novel Award. Her short stories have won several awards and been published in various literary […]
Bruce Robert Coffin on Homicide Investigation, Novel Writing, and Working with the FBI
This week I’m hanging out with novelist Bruce Robert Coffin. Bruce is the bestselling author of the Detective Byron mystery series and former detective sergeant with more than twenty-seven years in law enforcement. At the time of his retirement, from the Portland, Maine police department, he supervised all homicide and violent crime investigations for Maine’s largest city. […]
Bestselling Author, Allen Eskens on Writing, Publishing, and Movie Deals
I’m thrilled to have award-winning novelist Allen Eskens join us on my blog today. Allen Eskens is the USA Today-bestselling author of The Life We Bury, The Guise of Another, and The Heavens May Fall. He is the recipient of the Barry Award, Minnesota Book Award, Rosebud Award, and the Silver Falchion Award and has been […]
Brian Klingborg: Small Town Murder, Big Time Thriller
This week’s interview is with ITW debut author Brian Klingborg. THE AUTHOR Brian Klingborg works in the educational publishing field. He’s written books on Kung Fu, and he wrote for the Winx Club television series. Kill Devil Falls is his first novel. He lives in New York City. You can find Brian on Twitter THE INTERVIEW You […]
Author David McCaleb on the Craft of Writing
This week’s guest blog is from ITW Debut Author David McCaleb. David writes the national bestselling RedOps series, which began with Recall and continued with Reload. David McCaleb is a thriller author, humorist, entrepreneur, business owner, veteran, USAFA grad, proud husband, and father. His experiences include a stint in bullet manufacturing, patenting an environmentally safe oil-changing […]
Writing Dark Thrillers: Debut Author S. A. Stovall
This week I get to hang out with ITW Debut Author S.A. Stovall. Her first novel, Vice City is available on Amazon, Barnes & Nobel and DSP Publications. S.A. Stovall grew up in California’s central valley with a single mother and little brother. Despite no one in her family having a degree higher than a […]
Filmmaking, Novel Writing, and Surviving the Yukon in Winter: Author Elle Wild
This week, continuing my series on the authors in this year’s Debut Author Program through the International Thriller Writers, I’m heading north of the border. The Canadian border that is. Elle Wild, author of the debut novel Strange Things Done, grew up in Canada and now lives on a tiny island in the Salish Sea. Well-traveled […]
The Debutona 500: ITW Debut Author Program
International Thriller Writers is thrilled to announce that as of this summer, more than five hundred writers have been through the Debut Author Program. This year’s Debut Author program chair, Elena Hartwell sat down (well, virtually anyway) in conversation with our first Debut Author and our five hundredth Debut Author, to find out a little bit about where we started […]
Debut Author, David Eric Tomlinson on Kenpo, Children, and Writing His Second Novel
Thrilled to introduce all of you to ITW Debut Author, David Eric Tomlinson. In David’s debut novel, The Midnight Man, Dean Goodnight, the first Choctaw Indian employed by the Oklahoma County public defender’s office, pulls a new case—the brutal murder of a once-promising basketball star. The only witness is Caleb, the five-year-old son of the prime suspect. […]
Jennifer Soosar, Debut Author Finds Suspense in the Classroom
Introducing ITW Debut Author Jennifer Soosar. She’s joining me this week to talk about her experiences writing her first novel. Jennifer Soosar watched too much ‘America’s Most Wanted’ growing up and has been writing about shady characters ever since. She was born and raised in Toronto and has a degree in anthropology from York University. Her […]