Episode 59: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Grace Wynter
This year Grace Wynter and I were recipients of the 2025 Barbara Neely Scholarship for Black crime writers. I wanted to meet my counterpart and here she is! Grace Wynter and I talk books, writing, and the future of publishing.
Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions.
You can find Grace:
Website: www.gracewynter.com
BlueSky: @ggwynterwrites.bsky.social
Show Notes: books, writers, and topics we discuss:
Judy Blume
Jane Austen
Toni Morrison
Jamaica Kincaid
Dean Koontz
Stephen King
Beverly Neely
Karin Slaughter
Yasmine Angoe
Kathleen Early (Will Trent Series narrator)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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Episode 58: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Noël Stark
Noel Stark is a debut author! Her romance has some basis in reality: it’s all about Hollywood. In this interview, we talk about what romance has meant to her, the puzzle of storytelling, and the future of romance fiction.
Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions.
You can find Noël:
Website: www.noelstark.com
TikTok: @noelstarkauthor
Instagram: @noelstarkauthor
Show Notes: movies, books, writers, and topics we discuss:
Love, Camera, Action by Noel Stark
Lavyrle Spencer
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
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Episode 57: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Kara Infante
It’s April! No fools here. This month, I have the pleasure of speaking with podcaster and mom, Kara Infante. Her podcast is Bookish Flights. On each episode, she features a guest who talks about three books centered on a theme. We talk about ways that women funnel their creativity.
Books! Talking! Conversations! All my favorite things.
Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions.
You can find Kara:
Instagram: @bookishflights
Facebook: @bookishflights
Website: bookishflights.com
Show Notes: movies, books, writers, and topics we discuss:
Bookish Flights Podcast
Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
Moloka’i by Alan Brennert
Cold Hearted Rake by Lisa Kleypas
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Episode 56: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Brenda Janowitz
This month which brings the Ides of March, I have the true joy of speaking with women’s fiction author Brenda Janowitz. I met Brenda about a billion years ago when we co-blogged at Girlfriend’s Book Club, an early author blog co-founded by Hank Phillipe Ryan. Brends’s had an interesting journey that I can’t wait to share with you.
Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions.
You can find Brenda:
Website: brendajanowitz.com
Facebook: BrendaJanowitz
Instagram: @brendajanowitzwriter
Show Notes: movies, books, writers, and topics we discuss:
Modern Love: He’s Never Going to Put Away That Shirt
Someone Else’s Wife (formerly titled The Good Enough Husband)
The Secrets She Keeps
Taming the Bad Boy
What Was Perfect (The Story of Us Trilogy)Books by Brenda:
The Lonely Hearts Club
The Grace Kelly Dress
Other mentions:
Brenda’s CBS NY Book Club Pick – The Audrey Hepburn Estate
Burnout by Emily & Amelia Nagasaki
Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
Sold a Story (podcast on the corruption of reading education in the U.S.)
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism By Eve L. Ewing
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Episode 55: A Time to Thrill – Conversation with Aime Austin – featuring Kimberley Troutte
Say hello to thriller author Kimberley Troutte! Kimberley started out like so many of us writing romance but had a hard time staying in a single lane. We talk about genre hopping, starts and stops in a writing career, and what she’s up to now.
Let’s chat. I have *so* many questions.
You can find Kimberley:
Website: https://kimberleytroutte.com/
Facebook: NYTBestsellingRomanceAuthor
Instagram: @kimberleytroutte
Show Notes: movies, books, writers, and topics we discuss:
Anne Marsh
Ray Bradbury
Laura Bradford
Angela James
Seals of Summer
RITA/Vivian
TH*IR*DS – post apocalyptic play.
Cora Seton
Lynn Raye Harris
Sharon Hamilton
Books by Kimberley:
Soul Stealer
Catch Me in Castile
Lock and Load (Rita Nominee)
Pilot Down (Vivian Nominee)
The Package (Infiltrix Series)
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