The Along Came A Writer Show
by alongcameawriter
Bookchat, writing craft. trends, and tips. Host Linda Kozar, author of both traditional and indie-published fiction and nonfiction books interviews authors of every genre, as well as screenwriters, scriptwriters, and personalities.
Episodes
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Along Came A Writer with Guest Author Mary Hamilton
Mary L. Hamilton began writing for publication when her children were young. She sold articles to Christian magazines and later wrote a play for her church’s women’s ministry outreach. That play sparked her passion for fiction even as it humbled her to see it performed. She says, “I gave them…
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Along Came A Writer with guest Caroline Coleman
Author and Podcaster Linda Kozar chats with guests who share the story of their life and how they got to the place they are now. Stories that are sad, touching, bittersweet, and often miraculous. Everyone has a story to tell before they leave this earth and we should hear the unique story of…
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Along Came A Writer Show with Guest Amanda Barratt & Host Linda Kozar
Author and Podcaster Linda Kozar chats with guests who share the story of their life and how they got to the place they are now. Stories that are sad, touching, bittersweet, and often miraculous. Everyone has a story to tell before they leave this earth and we should hear the unique story of…
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Along Came A Writer featuring guest author William Daniel With Your Host Linda Kozar
Along Came A Writer featuring guest author William Daniel With Your Host Linda Kozar William Daniel is a seventh grader, a WWII enthusiast, and a competitive gymnast. He builds model airplanes and wants to be a pilot someday. He has an older sister, Maris, and a twin sister, Calyn, and is the...
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Along Came A Writer featuring guest author Brittany Ann with your host Linda Kozar
Along Came A Writer featuring author Brittany Ann with your host Author/Podcaster Linda Kozar Brittany Ann is an author, speaker, and founder of EquippingGodlyWomen.com, a popular Christian-living website dedicated to helping women be “all in” in faith and family. Brittany is married to an...
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Along Came A Writer with guest author Shelley Shepard Gray and host Linda Kozar
Along Came A Writer featuring author Shelley Shepard Gray with your host Author/Podcaster Linda Kozar About Shelley: I grew up in Houston, Texas, went to Colorado for college, and after living in Arizona, Dallas, and Denver, we moved to southern Ohio about ten years ago. I’ve always thought of...
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Coffee, Tea, Thee—Tell Your Story For His Glory with Guest Henry O. Arnold with your host Author/Podcaster Linda Kozar
Coffee, Tea Thee—Tell Your Story For His Glory Author and Podcaster Linda Kozar chats with guests who share the story of their life and how they got to the place they are now. Stories that are sad, touching, bittersweet, and often miraculous. Everyone has a story to tell before they leave this...
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Along Came A Writer Show featuring romance authors Shelly Shepard Gray and Jennie Goutet
Author/Podcaster Linda Kozar, your host www.lindakozar.com New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Shelley Shepard Gray writes Amish and Inspirational romances for Simon & Schuster, and Kensington, Harlequin, and contemporary women’s fiction for Blackstone Publishing. With over a million...
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Coffee, Tea, & Thee—Tell Your Story For His Glory With Author Deborah Raney
Coffee, Tea Thee-Tell Your Story For His Glory featuring author Deb Raney with your host Author/Podcaster Linda Kozar Author and Podcaster Linda Kozar chats with guests who share the story of their life and how they got to the place they are now. Stories that are sad, touching, bittersweet, and...
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Chat Noir_Debut Author DeborahMaxey
An award-winning author, Deborah Maxey's fascination with character and conflict was the driving force behind her career as a psychotherapist, specializing in work with traumatized, abused, neglected children, and serving as an expert witness in the courts. As an award-winning fine artist, her...
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Along Came A Writer interview with Children's Author Amanda Cleary Eastep
AMANDA CLEARY EASTEP is not related to Beverly Cleary but wishes she were. She is, however, a children’s author, and the Tree Street Kids is her debut series (Moody Publishers, 2021 and 2022). Her children’s writing has been published in Ladybug, The Friend, Sunday school curriculum, and at Story...
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Along Came A Writer with author Donna Vanliere
Donna Vanliere..a mom, a wife, an animal lover, and a closet comedian at home. She's passionate about cooking (...and eating), reading, movies and teaching, inspiring, challenging and encouraging dreamers! She doesn’t like watching sports on TV but is a huge fan of athletes under five feet tall…
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Chat Noir With Suspense Author Ramona Richards
Ramona Richards is the author or contributor of over twenty books, including Memory of Murder, Field of Danger, and The Taking of Carly Bradford. She is the associate publisher for Iron Stream Media and has previously worked for Abingdon Press and Thomas Nelson. Ramona makes her home just outside...
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Along Came A Writer with guest, Rachel Dodge, author of The Anne of Green Gables Devotional
Rachel Dodge is the author of Praying with Jane: 31 Days Through the Prayers of Jane Austen (Bethany House 2018) and The Anne of Green Gables Devotional: A Chapter-By-Chapter Companion for Kindred Spirits (Barbour 2020). She teaches college English classes, gives talks at libraries, teas, and…
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Along Came A Writer with guest Elizabeth Macguire, Flea Market Love Letters
Collecting for the Flea Market Love Letters archive project began in 2015. The present mission of the project is to archive and preserve found, vintage ephemera (letters, postcards, photos etc.) often sourced at flea markets. There are now nearly 300 letters in the archive, and that number is...
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense with Mystery Author Nancy Mehl
Nancy Mehl is the author of over twenty-five books, including the Road to Kingdom, Finding Sanctuary, and Defenders of Justice series. She received the ACFW Mystery Book of the Year Award in 2009. She writes from her home in Missouri, where she lives with her husband, Norman, and their puggle,...
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense with Linda Kozar, Nancy Rooney, and Joseph Pedreira
Three siblings discuss what it was like growing up in a haunted house in New Orleans.
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Along Came A Writer with Historical Romance Author Linda Davis
Linda Brooks Davis pens stories inspired by her ancestors' lives of faith and grit, ... She attended Abilene Christian University where she earned a degree in speech pathology in 1968. ... Linda and her husband live in San Antonio, Texas and worship at Oak Hills Church.
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense with Romantic Suspense Author Patricia Bradley
Patricia Bradley is a Romantic Suspense writer living in the Deep South. Her first published works were short-stories published in Woman’s World. Now she the proud author of nine novels and two novellas. She is also proud to be represented by Julie Gwinn of the Seymour Agency.
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense with Danny Mehl, Art Director, Graphic Artist, Book Cover Designer
Interview with Graphic Artist and Book Cover Designer Danny Mehl: "I am a Graphic Designer and Art Director with over ten years of experience working in graphic design firms, ad agencies and the in-house department of a world-renowned ministry. In addition to my day job I also do freelance…
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense with Rachael O. Phillips
Rachael O. Phillips, a church music director, began her unplanned writing career during midlife when the church secretary demanded newsletter articles at gunpoint. At Bethel College, Mishawaka, Indiana, she obtained degrees in Professional Writing and English. There, she made connections that...
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Along Came A Writer with Sharon K. Connell
Sharon K. Connell is the author of four Christian Romance Suspense novel. She writes from her home in Houston, Texas. Her stories are about people who discover that God is able and willing to help, if they ask...and trust in Him and His timing
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense with Author Carla Hoch
Moments before the destruction of her home planet, Carla's parents jettisoned her and her twin brother to earth. He was taken in by a kindly farmer in Kansas while she was embraced by a rather liberal clowder of feral cats in Houston, Texas. While still a toddler, she bid farewell to her feline...
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Along Came A Writer with Kathleen & Robert Turner, A Love Story
When award-winning historical romance author Kathleen Y'Barbo and military man, Robert Turner reconnected years after they first met in high school, sparks flew! But Kathleen's friends crossed their arms and insisted on meeting this prospective man in her life to make sure he was right for her.…
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense with Mystery Author Janet McHenry
After Janet McHenry graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a degree in journalism, she married her high school sweetheart Craig and worked as a newspaper reporter and editor. They eventually settled down in the Sierra Valley in northern California, where Craig is a rancher…
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense with Casket Designer Trey Ganem
Trey Ganem has been designing unique, custom caskets for almost a quarter of a century in Edna, Texas. He's designed thousands of caskets since then, for adults and children, for sports stars, celebrities, and recently for victims of the tragedy in Sutherland Springs. He had just returned from...
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense with Suspense Author Brandilyn Collins
Brandilyn Collins: "When I was a kid I never thought I'd grow up to kill people for a living. Neither did my lovely mother, who often wondered where she went wrong. Fortunately for my victims, the killing is only in my books. I’m best known for my trademarked Seatbelt Suspense®. These novels come...
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Along CameA Writer with Nonfiction Author/Publisher/Speaker Athena Dean Holtz
Author, publisher, pastor’s wife and Always Faithful radio host, Athena Dean Holtz, has been speaking to groups, large and small, for over 30 years. Her passion is to see believers come to a place ofunderstanding the undeniable faithfulness of God, no matter how difficult our circumstances might...
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense with Mystery Author Kathleen Y'Barbo Turner
Kathleen Y'Barbo Turner has written over 80 books and won a ton of awards, though there’s still way too much room on her award shelf in my humble opinion. She’s won a RITA and been a Carol award nominee. Over one million copies of her books are currently in print in the US and abroad and…
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense with Mystery Author Sandra Orchard
Sandra Orchard is the award-winning author of numerous romantic suspense and mysteries, including A Fool and His Monet, Another Day Another Dali and the Port Aster Secrets series. The winner of six Canadian “The Word” awards and a Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Award, Sandra has also received a...
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Along Came A Writer with Author/Speaker Pamela Christian
For over twenty years, Pamela Christian, has been helping people in matters of faith. Her training and experience includes certification in Christian Apologetics from Biola University, teaching Bible study for Community Bible Study and speaking at re- treats and conferences coast to coast..As a...
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Along Came A Writer with Contemporary Fiction Author Marilyn Marriott
Merilyn Marriott Is an author, a speaker, and a counselor (M.S. LPC). Her first novel, The Children of Main Street, was followed by "God Bless the Child," both published by Firefly Southern Fiction.
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Along Came A Writer with Historical Romance Author Annette O'Hare
Growing up in Houston, Texas in the 1970’s, historical romance author Annette O'Hare loved the stories about ghosts haunting the old Spaghetti Warehouse and the mysterious “blue light” cemetery. But it was "Devil's Island," the magical woods across from her childhood home where her imagination...
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Along Came A Writer, with Author/Editor/Speaker Linda Yezak
Linda W. Yezak lives with her husband and their funky feline, PB, in Texas, where tall tales abound and exaggeration is an art form. She has a deep and abiding love for her Lord, her family, and salted caramel. And coffee--with a caramel creamer. Author of award-winning books and short stories…
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Along Came A Writer, with Author/Podcaster/Speaker Parker J. Cole
Parker J Cole is an author, radio show host, speaker, and executive of PJC Media Network. She writes Christian romance novels. For speculative fiction, she writes under the name Parker Payne. As a radio show host, Parker showcases Christian authors worldwide on Tuesdays at 7 pm Eastern time. As a...
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense, Christian Fiction Author Chautona Havig
Chautona Havig lives in an oxymoron, escapes into imaginary worlds that look startlingly similar to ours and writes the stories that emerge. An irrepressible optimist, Chautona sees everything through a kaleidoscope of It’s a Wonderful Life sprinkled with fairy tales. Find her at chautona.com and...
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense, Medical Suspense Author Dr. Richard Mabry
Medical Suspense Author, Dr. Richard Mabry, is a retired physician who, in addition to writing, is a husband and grandfather, plays (and enjoys) golf, and does the hundred-and-one other things that retired people do. He got into non-medical writing after the death of his first wife with his book,...
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense, FightWrite Author Carla Hoch on Writing Believable Fight Scenes
Carla is a Writer's Digest author. Her book, Fight Write: How to Write Believable Fight Scenes, 2019. She is a professional fight scene editor, consultant, videographer, and FightWriting teacher.
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Chat Noir Mystery & Suspense, Cozy Mystery Author Janice Hanna Thompson
Award-winning author Janice Thompson also writes under the pseudonym Janice Hanna. She got her start in the industry writing screenplays and musical comedies for the stage. Janice has published over 100 books for the Christian market, crossing genre lines to write cozy mysteries, historicals,...
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Young Adult (YA) Author Allison Mackey
Interview with author Allison Mackey about her new book, "The Edge of Everywhen." A.S. Mackey is proud to be represented by agent Elizabeth Bennett at the Transatlantic Literary Agency. She is a member of the Shoals Writers Guild and the Society for Children's Book Writers and Illustrators…
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Regency Romance Author Carolyn Miller
Author Carolyn Miller lives in New South Wales, Australia, with her husband and four children. A longtime lover of Regency romance, Miller’s novels have won a number of Romance Writers of America and American Christian Fiction Writers contests. She is a member of the American Christian Fiction...