Jon McGoran is the author of eleven novels for adults and young adults, including his latest science fiction thriller, The Price of Everything, coming April 2025 from Solaris Books, and currently in development. He also works as a freelance writer, ghostwriter, developmental editor, and writing coach. Visit his website at www.jonmcgoran.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsonthea...
Mar 10, 2025•29 min•Ep 121•Transcript available on Metacast Elizabeth Crowens is bi-coastal between Los Angeles and New York. For over thirty years, she has worn many hats in the entertainment industry, contributed stories to Black Belt, Black Gate, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazines, Hell's Heart, andthe Bram Stoker-nominated A New York State of Fright, and has a popular Caption Contest on Facebook. Crowens writes multi-genre alternate history and historical Hollywood mysteries. Please visit her website at: https://www.elizabethcrowens.com/ Spies, Li...
Mar 03, 2025•38 min•Ep 120•Transcript available on Metacast Anthony Gedell writes from New Jersey publishing in Hobart, Poverty House, Variant, Revolution John, Punk Noir Magazine, and Bull. He is an editor at Tough Magazine. LOVE LIES IN THE THROES OF RHETORIC is his first novel. Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecomme...
Feb 24, 2025•25 min•Ep 119•Transcript available on Metacast Mark Greaney is the New York Times bestselling author of The Gray Man series. MIDNIGHT BLACK is the fourteenth novel in that series. Please visit his website at markgreaneybooks.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #bookaddicted #boo...
Feb 17, 2025•19 min•Ep 118•Transcript available on Metacast Robert Crais is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-four novels, twenty of them featuring private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic, ex-Marine partner, Joe Pike. Before writing novels, Crais spent several years writing for such major television series as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, and Miami Vice. Visit his website at www.robertcrais.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #...
Feb 03, 2025•26 min•Ep 117•Transcript available on Metacast Ward Larsen is a USA Today bestselling author, and multiple-time winner of the Florida Book Award. His first thriller, The Perfect Assassin, has been optioned for film by Amber Entertainment. He has also been nominated for the Macavity and Silver Falchion Awards. A former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, Larsen has served as a federal law enforcement officer, airline captain, and is a trained aircraft accident investigator. Visit his website at: www.wardlarsen.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is c...
Jan 27, 2025•17 min•Ep 116•Transcript available on Metacast ALLISON BRENNAN is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of over forty-five novels. She has been nominated for Best Paperback Original Thriller by International Thriller Writers and the Daphne du Maurier Award. A former consultant in the California State Legislature, Allison lives in Arizona with her husband, five kids and assorted pets. Visit her website at: www.allisonbrennan.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofins...
Jan 20, 2025•19 min•Ep 115•Transcript available on Metacast Rodger Carlyle beats that Dos Equis guy for the title of "most interesting man in the world." He is a storyteller who draws on an enormous personal library of experiences. He's an adventurer, political strategist, and ghostwriter whose love of flying began in the Navy. Visit his website at www.rodgercarlyle.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupp...
Jan 13, 2025•24 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast KIT TURNER worked for 25 years as an undercover CIA officer in East Asia, South Asia, and Europe, where he ran sensitive operations against top-tier objectives. After one risky deployment, he was awarded the Intelligence Star, a rare commendation for valor. After retiring, Turner wrote “The CASSIA Spy Ring” (McFarland & Co., 2017), a nonfiction book about an ill-fated coterie of agents handled by the US Office of Strategic Services, the CIA’s forerunner. In 2022, CASSIA was featured in a two...
Jan 06, 2025•37 min•Ep 114•Transcript available on Metacast Michael Garner has had a remarkably diverse career, including journalism, data science, computational lexicography, project management, graphic design, intelligence analysis, and teaching. He worked with NASA, CIA, Meta (Facebook), Amnesty International, Department of State, and one of the oldest independently-owned newspapers in the U.S., the Lakeville Journal. He also founded a nonprofit animal rescue organization. He is now an artist and author. Please visit his website at michael-garner.com/...
Dec 30, 2024•35 min•Ep 113•Transcript available on Metacast Described as “a writer of faraway mysteries,” Eliot Pattison’s travel and interests span a million miles of global trekking. A former resident of Boston and Washington, he resides on an 18th century farm in Pennsylvania with his wife, three children, and an ever-expanding menagerie of animals. Please visit his website at eliotpattison.com/ Spies, Lies, and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheai...
Dec 23, 2024•30 min•Ep 112•Transcript available on Metacast Steve Stratton started his military career at the White House Communications Agency supporting Presidents Ford and Carter, Vice Presidents Rockefeller and Mondale and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. He later transitioned to the US Secret Service and became a Green Beret in 1986. Today he advises cybersecurity companies that support the warfighter and IC. Visit his website at https://www.stevenstrattonusa.com/ Spies, Lies, and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Net...
Dec 16, 2024•33 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast Andrews & Wilson is New York Times best-selling coauthor team of multiple covert ops and action-adventure thriller series: TIER ONE, SONS of VALOR, THE SHEPHERDS and Tom Clancy’s ACT OF DEFIANCE. DEFENSE PROTOCOL is their latest Tom Clancy thriller. Visit their website at: www.andrews-wilson.com/ Spies, Lies, and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingautho...
Dec 09, 2024•30 min•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast Alex Kenna is a prosecutor and an avid Sunday painter. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, son, and giant schnauzer. BURN THIS NIGHT is her second novel. Please visit her website at www.alexkenna.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecommendations #book...
Nov 25, 2024•20 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast MICHAEL CANNELL is the author of A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder, Inc, and three other works of non-fiction. He has worked as an editor at The New York Times and contributed to The New Yorker and many other publications. He lives in New York City. A more complete catalog of his work may be found at michaelcannell.com. Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #au...
Nov 18, 2024•35 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast Vince Palamara is the leading civilian Secret Service authority and the author of the books Survivor’s Guilt: The Secret Service and the Failure to Protect President Kennedy (2013), JFK: From Parkland to Bethesda: The Ultimate Kennedy Assassination Compendium (2015), The Not-So-Secret Service: Agency Tales From FDR to the Kennedy Assassination to the Reagan Era (2017), Who’s Who in the Secret Service: History’s Most Renowned Agents (2018), and Honest Answers About the Murder of President John F....
Nov 11, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast David List, a native New Yorker, began his career in the mailroom of the New York office of the William Morris Agency, quickly rising to become an agent in their exclusive TV Packaging division. Subsequently, he moved to Los Angeles and segued into film and television production, first as Senior Vice President of Development and Production for Dodi Fayed, who later lost his life in an automobile crash with Princess Diana, and then for Albert S. Ruddy, legendary film producer of Oscar-winning fil...
Nov 04, 2024•39 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast Terrance Layhew is an author and swashbuckler. He hosts the Suit Up! Podcast and lives in Des Moines, Iowa. You can follow him on on social media @ Tlayhew , and his writing at terrancelayhew.com Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #book...
Oct 28, 2024•26 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast Ever wondered how much of spy fiction is rooted in reality? Join us as we dive into the brilliant mind of Julian Fisher, author of Think Like a Spy. If you're a fan of spy thrillers or just curious about the clandestine world of espionage – and how you can use spy craft skills in everyday life, this episode is a must-listen! Julian Fisher has had a varied career, quickly spurning the financial sector to work for the British government in the field of international relations, with postings in Eas...
Oct 21, 2024•43 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast Mark Pawlosky is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, editor in chief of CNBC on msn, and editorial director for American City Business Journals (ACBJ), he oversaw financial news channels in the US, London, Munich, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong. BLACK BIRD is the latest novel in his Nik Byron book series. Please visit his website at: www.markpawlosky.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcom...
Oct 14, 2024•27 min•Transcript available on Metacast Jeffrey Archer is one of the world’s bestselling authors, with sales of over 275 million copies in 97 countries, and is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (twenty times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries). AN EYE FOR AN EYE is his latest novel. Please visit his website at www.jeffreyarcher.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunit...
Oct 07, 2024•21 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast Joe Clifford is the author of several books, including The One That Got Away, Junkie Love, and the Jay Porter Thriller Series. I WON'T SAY A WORD is the latest in his SAY MY NAME series. Joe’s writing can be found at www.joeclifford.com . Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #b...
Sep 30, 2024•34 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast When author Steph Post's publishing plans went awry - she did something a little (a lot!) different. Listen to her fantastic story on this 100th episode! Steph Post is the author of the novels Holding Smoke, Miraculum, Walk in the Fire, Lightwood, and A Tree Born Crooked. She graduated from Davidson College as a recipient of the Patricia Cornwell Scholarship for creative writing and a winner of the Vereen Bell writing award for fiction. Her latest handcrafted novel TERRA INCOGNITA is availab...
Sep 23, 2024•44 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast In the beginning, Robert Swartwood planned to write horror - but realized thrillers were his writer sweet spot. Swartwood is the USA Today bestselling and ITW Thriller Award-winning author of The Killing Room, The Serial Killer’s Wife, No Shelter, Man of Wax, and several other novels. He’s also the author of Girl Gone Mad, One Year Gone, and Dear Seraphina, written under the pseudonym Avery Bishop. Please visit his website at www.robertswartwood.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted b...
Sep 16, 2024•38 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast Shadow State - book 12 in the Jack Ryan Jr. series - is M. P. Woodward's first Jack Ryan Jr. book. He chats with Terrence about writing in a high profile series already well underway and shares his thoughts about how readers are evolving in their reading preferences. Woodward is a veteran of both US intelligence ops and the entertainment industry. After leaving the Navy, he ran international distribution marketing for Amazon Prime Video. Today, he is a full-time writer based in Washington St...
Sep 09, 2024•28 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast Debut author Adam Plantinga talks about how his work in law enforcement has shaped his writing. As he says – “there’s no shortage of material on the job!” Adam began his career in law enforcement in 2001 as a Milwaukee police officer. He is currently a sergeant with the San Francisco Police Department assigned to street patrol. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, daughters, and Chow Chow named Ziggy. The Ascent is his debut novel. Please visit his website at www.adamplantinga.c...
Sep 02, 2024•20 min•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast A lifelong Coloradoan, John graduated from the University of Northern Colorado in 1996 with a degree in Business Administration and Computer Information Systems. He spent the next sixteen years developing accounting software and Internet-based, workflow collaboration solutions. His Sean Coleman Thrillers (no relation to Reed Farrel Coleman) are available everywhere books are sold. Please visit his website at www.johndalybooks.com/ Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air...
Aug 26, 2024•34 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast Reed Farrel Coleman is a New York Times bestselling author whose works have won Macavity, Barry, Anthony, and Shamus awards. Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #podcast #author #interview #authors #SpiesLiesandPrivateEyesPodcast #authorsontheair #podcast #podcaster #authors #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writers...
Aug 19, 2024•25 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast Shannon Bohrer served 27 years in the Maryland State Police. Following retirement, he taught at the FBI Academy in Quantico Va. He has written numerous Law Enforcement articles and writes a monthly column for a local newspaper. He holds an M.B.A. from Frostburg State University and has been an expert witness on the use of force in both state and federal courts. Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #podcast #author #interview #authors #SpiesLiesan...
Aug 12, 2024•32 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast Steve Anderson is the author of the Kaspar Brothers series and other works centered on WWII and its aftermath. LINES OF DECEPTION is his latest novel from Open Road Media. Please visit his website: www.stephenfanderson.com Spies, Lies and Private Eyes is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecomm...
Aug 05, 2024•30 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast 
