Outliers Writing University Podcast Series

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Amanda Flower

Amanda Flower is the USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning mystery author of over forty novels, including the nationally bestselling Amish Candy Shop Mystery Series, Magical Bookshop Mysteries, and, written under the name Isabella Alan, the Amish Quilt Shop Mysteries. Flower is a former librarian, and she and her husband, a recording engineer, own a habitat farm and recording studio in Northeast Ohio. 
www.amandaflower.com.

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Walter Mosley

WALTER MOSLEY is one of America’s most celebrated writers. He was given the 2020 National Book Award’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America, and honored with the Anisfield-Wolf Award, a Grammy, a PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, the Robert Kirsch Award, numerous Edgars, and several NAACP Image Awards. His work is translated into 25 languages.  He has published fiction and nonfiction in The New Yorker, Playboy, and The Nation. As an executive producer, he adapted his novel, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, for AppleTV+ and serves as a writer and executive producer for FX’s “Snowfall.”
https://www.waltermosley.com/

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Thomas Perry

Pro Bono is Thomas Perry's 32nd novel.  Parade Magazine included his Edgar-Winning novel The Butcher's Boy in their list of "101 Best Mystery Books of All Time," and his Metzger's Dog" was voted by NPR listeners to be one of the "100 Best Killer Thrillers of All Time." The television series based on his book The Old Man starring Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow, and Amy Brennemann has ended its second season.
Web site: https://www.thomasperryauthor.com/

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author James Rollins

JAMES ROLLINS is the #1 New York Times bestseller of international thrillers, sold to over forty countries. His Sigma series has earned national accolades and has topped charts around the world. He is also a practicing veterinarian, who still spends time underground or underwater as an avid spelunker and diver.
https://jamesrollins.com/

GET TO KNOW Author Christa Carmen

Christa Carmen lives in Rhode Island, and most of her writing inspiration comes from gazing upon the ghosts of the past and into the dark corners of nature. Her new Gothic suspense novel, Beneath the Poet’s House, was released on December 10, 2024, and she is also the author of The Daughters of Block Island, a winner of the Bram Stoker Award and a Shirley Jackson Award nominee; the Indie Horror Book Award-winning Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked; and the Bram Stoker Award-nominated “Through the Looking Glass and Straight into Hell” (Orphans of Bliss, Wicked Run Press). She has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from Boston College, and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine. When she’s not writing, she keeps chickens; uses a Ouija board to ghost-hug her dear, departed beagle; and sets out on adventures with her husband, daughter, and bloodhound–golden retriever mix.
https://www.christacarmen.com

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Lynette Eason

Lynette Eason is the best-selling, award-winning author of over sixty-five books with over 3,000,000 copies sold. Her novels have appeared on the USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly, CBA, ECPA, and Parable bestseller lists. She has won numerous awards including the Carol Award, the Selah, the Golden Scroll and more. Her novel, Her Stolen Past was made into a movie for the Lifetime Movie Network in 2018. Lynette teaches and speaks at writing conferences all over the country. She is a member of American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW), Mystery Writers of America (MWA), International Thriller Writers (ITW), Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA) and Faith, Hope, and Love. She lives in Simpsonville, SC with her husband. They have two grown children and a terribly spoiled American Eskimo pup. When she's not writing, she can be found somewhere in nature photographing all the cool critters. 
 www.lynetteeason.com

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Joe Finder

Joseph Finder is the New York Times bestselling author of 17 novels, most recently the forthcoming The Oligarch's Daughter.  His books have won numerous awards, including the ITW Thriller Award, the Strand Critics Award, and the Barry Award. Two of his novels have been made into major motion pictures, High Crimes and Paranoia. 
 
https://josephfinder.com/

GET TO KNOW Award-winning Author Andrew Welsh-Huggins

Andrew Welsh-Huggins, of Columbus, is the Shamus, Derringer, and ITW-award-nominated author of the upcoming thriller The Mailman, featuring Mercury Carter, a former federal agent turned freelance courier. Publishers Weekly said of The Mailman: “With full-throttle pacing from start to finish, this will have Jack Reacher fans hoping Carter is back in action soon.” Welsh-Huggins is also the author of the standalone thriller, The End of the Road; the Andy Hayes Private Eye series; and editor of Columbus Noir. Andrew’s short stories have appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies, including Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock Magazine, and The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021 and 2024.
Website: https://www.andrewwelshhuggins.com/

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Allison Brennan

Allison Brennan
New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Allison Brennan believes that life is too short to be bored, so she had five kids and writes three books a year. A fifth-generation Californian, she moved with her family to Arizona in 2019 where she enjoys hiking, baseball Spring Training, and (of course) reading. Allison is best known for her long-running Lucy Kincaid FBI series, and her Quinn & Costa thrillers. Her new Angelhart PI series launches the summer of 2024.
https://www.allisonbrennan.com/

CRIMINAL MISCHIEF 67: Special Guest True Crime Author Caitlin Rother

Caitlin Rother is the author and co-author of 15 true crime books that delve into the minds of some of Southern California's most notorious killers and mysterious, high-profile deaths. She is an award-winning investigative journalist and a New York Times bestselling author. She writes both fiction and nonfiction stories, with a new fiction series currently in the works.
https://www.caitlinrother.com/