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Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of ONE WRONG WORD
FromWriters on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book Lovers
Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of ONE WRONG WORD
FromWriters on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book Lovers
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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
May 14, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Hank Phillippi Ryan is the USA Today bestselling author of 15 novels of suspense. She has won multiple prestigious awards for her crime fiction, including five Agathas, five Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She’s the on-air investigative reporter for Boston’s WHDH-TV, and has won 37 EMMYs, 14 Edward R. Murrow awards, and dozens of other honors for her groundbreaking journalism. Hank’s novels have been named Best Thriller of the Year by Library Journal, New York Post, BOOK BUB, PopSugar, Real Simple Magazine and others. Hank lives in Boston with her husband, a criminal defense and civil rights attorney. Her new book is One Wrong Word, a twisty non-stop story of gaslighting, manipulation, and murder.
Hank joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett to talk about her journey to writing, the crossover from broadcast journalism, voice, multiple points of view, avoiding the muddled middle, twists, pacing, and much more.
For more information on Writers on Writing and extra writing perks, visit our Patreon page. To listen to past interviews, visit our website. Support the show by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. We’ve stocked it with titles from our guests, as well as some of our personal favorites. You’ll support independent bookstores and our show by purchasing through the store. Finally, on Spotify listen to an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from our listeners.
(Recorded on April 4, 2024) Host: Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHost: Marrie StoneMusic and sound editing: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.)
Hank joins Barbara DeMarco-Barrett to talk about her journey to writing, the crossover from broadcast journalism, voice, multiple points of view, avoiding the muddled middle, twists, pacing, and much more.
For more information on Writers on Writing and extra writing perks, visit our Patreon page. To listen to past interviews, visit our website. Support the show by buying books at our bookstore on bookshop.org. We’ve stocked it with titles from our guests, as well as some of our personal favorites. You’ll support independent bookstores and our show by purchasing through the store. Finally, on Spotify listen to an album’s worth of typewriter music like what you hear on the show. Look for the artist, Just My Type. Email the show at writersonwritingpodcast@gmail.com. We love to hear from our listeners.
(Recorded on April 4, 2024) Host: Barbara DeMarco-BarrettHost: Marrie StoneMusic and sound editing: Travis Barrett (Stream his music on Spotify, Apple Music, Etc.)
Released:
May 14, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Novelist Susan Straight, Mecca: Susan Straight, author of the novel, Mecca, which Michael Connelly called "a masterpiece," talks with Barbara DeMarco-Barrett about her new novel and how it came to be. Susan Straight was born in Riverside, CA, and still lives there with her family. She’s passionate about home, California, the Santa Ana River, the foothills and the deserts, and has been writing about southern California and the inland area for forty years. From her kitchen window, she can see the hospital where she was born, which her three daughters find kind of hilarious and pathetic; most days, she walks her dog Angel beside the Santa Ana River as she has since childhood, and then past the classrooms at Riverside City College, where she wrote her first short story, at 16, which is also kind of hilarious, but hopeful. She has written about the people of California for her new memoir, In the Country of Women, based on women’s stories told for five generations to Straight and her da by Writers on Writing: A Weekly Podcast for Writers, Readers, & Book Lovers