Outliers Writing University Podcast Series

GTE TO KNOW Author Lorie Lewis Ham

Lorie Lewis Ham lives in Reedley, California and has been writing ever since she was a child. Her first song and poem were published when she was 13, and she has gone on to publish many articles, short stories, and poems throughout the years, as well as write for a local newspaper, and publish 7 mystery novels. For the past 14 years, Lorie has been the editor-in-chief and publisher of Kings River Life Magazine, and she produces Mysteryrat’s Maze Podcast, where you can hear an excerpt of her book One of Us, the first in a new series called The Tower District Mysteries. Book 2, One of You, was released in June of 2024. You can learn more about Lorie and her writing on her website mysteryrat.com

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Peter May

Born and raised in Scotland Peter has lived in France for more than 20 years and has dual French-British nationality.
Author of 31 books which have sold over 15 million copies in more than 40 countries, he is the recipient of national literary awards in the UK, France, Denmark and the USA
May was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published author at twenty-six. In his late twenties, he switched his creative talent to television and became one of Scotland's most prolific television dramatists. He garnered more than 1000 TV credits in 15 years as scriptwriter and script editor on prime-time British television drama. He is the creator of three major television drama series and presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland before quitting television to concentrate on his first love, writing novels.
His breakthrough novel was The Blackhouse. After being turned down by all the major UK publishers, the first of the The Lewis Trilogy - The Blackhouse - was published in France where it was hailed as "a masterpiece" by the French national newspaper L'Humanité and went on to win the French literature award the Prix Cezam.
The Blackhouse was published in English by award-winning publishing house, Quercus. It went on to become an international best seller, and won the US Barry Award for Best Mystery Novel at Bouchercon in Albany NY, in 2013.
In 2021 Peter won the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library. This award recognizes the popularity of an author's body of work with readers and users of libraries. The judges committee is made up of librarians from across the country.
Peter’s Website: http://www.petermay.co.uk/

GET TO KNOW Author and Prosecutor Marcia Clark

Marcia Clark is the best selling author of nine legal thrillers and one memoir, starting with four bestselling legal thrillers featuring prosecutor Rachel Knight: THE COMPETETION, KILLER AMBITION, GUILT BY DEGREES, and GUILT BY ASSOCIATION. TNT optioned the books for a one-hour drama series and shot the pilot, which starred Julia Stiles as Rachel Knight.
Her most recent series features criminal defense attorney Samantha Brinkman and includes BLOOD DEFENSE, MORAL DEFENSE, SNAP JUDGEMENT, and FINAL JUDGEMENT. Marcia’s latest thriller, released in September 2022, THE FALL GIRL, was a standalone featuring two leads with alternating chapters. Marcia narrated the audiobook along with TV writing partner, Catherine LePard.
 
A practicing criminal lawyer since 1979, she joined the L.A. District Attorney’s office in 1981, where she served as prosecutor for the trials of Robert Bardo, convicted of killing actress Rebecca Schaeffer, and most notably, O.J. Simpson. Her 1997 #1 New York Times bestselling book on the trial, WITHOUT A DOUBT, reached #1 on the New York Times, Wall St. Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers lists. It was re-released in 2016 as an ebook with a new foreword.
https://marciaclarkbooks.com/

GET TO KNOW Best-selling Author Don Bruns

Don Bruns is the author of 22 cheap, tawdry murder mysteries. Being a USA Today best seller and #1 Amazon best seller, Bruns only sets his novels in places he wants to visit (and can write off his taxes) The Caribbean, Jamaica, Miami, Key West and New Orleans have played a roll in his novels. A former standup comic and musician, Bruns has warmed up such acts as Ray Charles, Ricky Nelson, The Four seasons and more. He makes  his home in South Florida.
https://donbrunsbooks.com/

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/