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Jan 01: Happy New Year! NYT Bestselling Author Grant Blackwood on Successful Author Collaboration

Red Star Falling coauthored by NYT Bestselling Author Steve Berry & Grant Blackwood

Grant Blackwood coauthor of Red Star Falling

Grant Blackwood joins us to discuss Red Star Falling, his latest thriller collaboration with Steve Berry,

In the waning days of the Cold War, Steve Berry’s returning protagonist Luke Daniels, sets out to find the legendary lost library of Ivan the Terrible. Will that unlikely key end a looming threat orbiting two hundred miles above the Earth?

Since more authors are collaborating these days, curious minds want to know how they work together and why. What are the benefits? The challenges? Who drives the plot? The story? The action scenes? Do they each adopt a specific role or do they dig in together and hash things out? And what about research and travel? Did Steve and Grant both visit Russia and Ukraine for Red Star Falling? Listen in to find out.

Meet Grant Blackwood – NYT Bestselling Author

Grant Blackwood is the New York Times bestselling author of the Briggs Tanner series. He’s also the coauthor of The Fargo Adventure Series with Clive Cussler. The New York Times bestselling Dead Or Alive with Tom Clancy. And Kill Switch with James Rollins. A US Navy veteran, Grant Blackwood spent three years aboard a guided missile frigate as an operations specialist and a pilot rescue swimmer. Red Star Falling is the second book he has coauthored in Steve Berry’s Luke Daniels Thriller Series.

Steve Berry originated the Luke Daniels character and thriller series. Steve is the NYT and #1 Internationally bestselling author of 18 Cotton Malone novels, five stand alone thrillers, and several works of short fiction. He has more than 26 million books in print, translated into 41 languages. Steve Berry is the founder of History Matters; serves as an emeritus member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board; and was a founding member and former co-president of the International Thriller Writers. Steve Berry has been our guest on many occasions – to find conversations with Steve, type Steve Berry into Conversations Live search box.

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Fiction, Suspense, Thriller, Writers on Writing

Best Selling Author Robert Dugoni: Her Deadly Game

Her Deadly Game with Author Robert Dugoni

Seattle Author Introduces New Protagonist, Prosecutor Keera Duggan

Robert Dugoni’s new character, Keera Duggan, worked hard to build an impressive reputation as Seattle prosecutor. When she makes a major life change, she gets more than she bargained for, and is immediately thrown into the middle of mayhem.

We discuss why and how Robert developed a host of new characters for Her Deadly Game. What the author did to ensure realism in his tense courtroom drama, and how he uses dialogue to develop the story. Robert shares his favorite type of scenes to write, and why he keeps sex scenes to a minimum. We also learn his elixir for managing stress and keeping life balanced in these crazy times.

About Robert Dugoni

Robert Dugoni is the critically acclaimed New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and #1 Amazon bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite police series set in Seattle, which has sold more than 8 million books worldwide. He is also the author of The Charles Jenkins espionage series, the David Sloane legal thriller series, and several stand-alone novels. 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.

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