Outliers Writing University Podcast Series

GET TO KNOW Author and Physician Tammy Euliano

Tammy Euliano’s writing is inspired by her day job as a physician, researcher and educator at University of Florida. She’s received numerous teaching awards, ~100,000 views of her YouTube teaching videos, and was featured in a calendar of women inventors. In addition to award-winning short fiction, she writes medical thrillers including Fatal Intent (2021) and Misfire (2023) published by Oceanview. Kathy Reichs called it, “Medical suspense as sharp as it gets.”
Website www.teuliano.com

GET TO KNOW Author Lori Duff

Lori B. Duff is a two-time winner of the Georgia Bar Journal’s fiction competition and a popular humor blogger. Her humorous essays have earned multiple awards, including the Foreword Indies Gold Medal for Humor, as well as first place in the National Society for Newspaper Columnists annual contest in the humor category. In addition to her writing, Duff is a graduate of Duke University and the Emory University School of Law. She serves as the Managing Partner of Jones & Duff, LLC, and is also a municipal court judge. Duff has been president of the Georgia Council of Municipal Court Judges and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists and has served in various leadership roles in those and other legal and writing organizations. 
 
loriduffwrites.com.

GET TO KNOW Author Steven Harms

Steven C. Harms had a career as a sports business executive spanning over thirty years across the NBA, NFL, and MLB, managing a portfolio of multimillion-dollar sports partnerships. Now retired, he consults in the sports business.
As an author, his debut mystery thriller, Give Place to Wrath, a Roger Viceroy novel, was published in 2017. The book garnered two awards - Finalist of the 2018 American Fiction Award, and a 2018 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalist. His second book in the series, The Counsel of the Cunning, was published in November 2021, also earning a Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award Finalist in 2022. His third book, a stand alone thriller, is in process. A native of Brookfield, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–La Crosse. He resides in west Michigan.
https://stevencharms.com

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Charlaine Harris

A native of the Mississippi Delta, Charlaine Harris has lived her whole life in the South. Her first book was published in 1981. After that promising debut, her career has had a few lows and many highs. She’s a very happy camper. Charlaine is married and has three children and two grandchildren.
 
Website: https://charlaineharris.com

GET TO KNOW Author, Screenwriter, Producer J. Todd Scott.

J. Todd Scott was born in rural Kentucky and put aside an early ambition to write to pursue a long career as a federal agent. His assignments once took him all over the U.S and the world, but a badge and gun never replaced his passion for stories and writing. He’s authored six critically acclaimed crime, suspense, and thriller novels, including the Chris Cherry/Big Bend trilogy (THE FAR EMPTY, HIGH WHITE SUN, THIS SIDE OF NIGHT) and most recently, the 2024 International Thriller Writers Award finalist for Best Paperback Original, CALL THE DARK. He’s also a film/TV producer and screenwriter, including the Lawmen: Bass Reeves series, for Paramount+
Website: http://jtoddscott.com/

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Robert Dugoni

Robert Dugoni is a critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author, reaching over 9 million readers worldwide. He is best known for his Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle. He is also the author of the Charles Jenkins espionage series, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and several stand-alone novels including The 7th Canon, Damage Control, The World Played Chess, and Her Deadly Game. His novel The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell received Suspense Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year, and Dugoni’s narration won an AudioFile Earphones Award. Washington Post named his nonfiction exposé The Cyanide Canary a Best Book of the Year.
 
Several of his novels have been optioned for movies and television series. Dugoni is the recipient of the Nancy Pearl Award for Fiction and a three-time winner of the Friends of Mystery Spotted Owl Award for best novel set in the Pacific Northwest. He has also been a finalist for many other awards including the International Thriller Award, the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, the Silver Falchion Award for mystery, and the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award.
Dugoni’s books are sold in more than twenty-five countries and have been translated into more than thirty languages.
https://www.robertdugonibooks.com/

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GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Jenny Milchman

Jenny Milchman is the Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning and USA Today bestselling author of the psychological thrillers Cover of Snow, Ruin Falls, As Night Falls, Wicked River, and The Second Mother. Her work has received praise from media ranging from the New York Times to the San Francisco Journal of Books; earned spots on Top 10 lists from Suspense Magazine to the Strand Magazine; made Best Of lists from PopSugar to PureWow; and garnered starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness, in addition to numerous other mentions. Before turning to fiction, Jenny earned a graduate degree in clinical psychology and practiced at a rural community mental health center for more than a decade. She lives in the Catskill Mountains with her family.
https://jennymilchman.com

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author David Putnam

David Putnam
During his career in law enforcement, best-selling author David Putnam has worked in narcotics, violent crimes, criminal intelligence, hostage rescue, SWAT, and internal affairs, to name just a few. He is the recipient of many awards and commendations for heroism. The Diabolical is the eleventh novel in the acclaimed and best-selling Bruno Johnson Crime Series. Putnam lives in the Los Angeles area with his wife, Mary.
The Blind Devotion of Imogene comes out July 9th.
The Diabolical (a Bruno Johnson novel) came out last Feb.
A stand alone novel, The Obsession of Harvey Usher comes out next January.
Also, a third in the Dave Beckett series, A Gray Cadaverous Dawn comes out this October.
http://davidputnambooks.com/

GET TO KNOW Author and Film Maker Jennifer Moorhead

Jennifer graduated from Louisiana State University in Baton
Rouge. Geaux Tigers! She has written and produced three
indie short films that each made top 20 at the Louisiana Film
Prize and were awarded at festivals around the world. She
lives in Louisiana with her husband, two needy doodles, one
very un-needy shelter kitty, and a plethora of farm animals.
Her grown daughters are off creating their own life stories.
When she’s not writing, she’s photographing the swamps
and winding trails in her backyard or she’s on a tennis court
laughing and providing job security for her coach.
https://jennifermoorhead.com/