7 APR 2024 · Welcome to the third episode of Neighborhood Bookstore, an author interview podcast. Each month I’ll talk to an author about a book from their back catalog, then take a look at what they have coming up next. This time around, co-host Craig Duster and I chat with cozy mystery author Abby Collette about her novel A Deadly Inside Scoop. In this episode: • Learning the rules of writing cozy mysteries • The mysteries and charms of Chagrin Falls, Ohio • Does Crewse’s Creamery really exist? • The similarities and differences between indie publishing and mainstream publishing • Tackling a book series • Creating characters that are educated and professional • Writing a book in 30 days, and teaching others how to do it too • Transitioning from being an attorney and economics professor to full-time author • Receiving monthly checks from Amazon versus earning out an advance from Penguin • What makes a thriller?

4 MAR 2024 · Host Eric Harper talks with fantasy, horror, and Young Adult author Christopher Barzak about his haunted town novel The Gone Away Place. Listen to Neighborhood Bookstore here: <http://ericharperpresents.substack.com/?fbclid=IwAR1mPE68zmF6na2e6ot7el_U_LfjAYg42Mue63yk9BPdodE5wnKQcLtuh1E> or on other major podcast platforms. Coming soon: • Transcripts and Closed Captioned Video Buy The Gone Away Place here: Buy Christopher Barzak’s latest books, MONSTROUS ALTERATIONS and A VOICE CALLING here and support https://www.facebook.com/POPABCStore?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZW4wQtmVpKHYyg0hEIk1Gzmv6xpjhHq6MHTZmtCkLFoQzuMBF1xdlcWHmGFq31pGgj2cXcZZZfkYqA-74TMv3b1vo-mf_mfGtyEZmGxpF_rbfiCIsUQIgmcVIcP-C5O3Fx5zzY_KSjoRtavFAKKSJW4fMvIfiSL54HtCl4ItcSm7XTXAtsDat00oCI8ckmTC_c&__tn__=-%5DK-R: <https://bookshop.org/shop/popabcstore?fbclid=IwAR2xAXtub6RZhTyKDx2W2xJn1xMm6dnaaPErcvm5B6dO0SCVKHTSz5YmZg0> In this episode: • Having a book banned • When the countryside is dark and creepy • Sad ghosts and haunted towns • The tornadoes that attacked Ohio • Studying Clarissa Pinkola Estes and writing about community trauma • The supernatural: do you believe? • Having your work adapted: the novel One for Sorrow into the movie Jamie Marks Is Dead, and The Gone Away Place into a youth theater play • Sophomore slumps and new audiences • Recreating myths for a modern audience • No guilty pleasures, no gatekeeping

4 FEB 2024 · Host Eric Harper talks with bestselling author James Grady (Six Days of the Condor) about his hard-boiled crime novel Steeltown — based on Youngstown, Ohio and Butte, Montana. In this episode: • Riffing on Dashiel Hammett’s Red Harvest • Visiting Youngstown in 1988 and finding an underground casino five years before the FBI • 58 car bombings in a year • “The Bug” (IYKYK) • Hammett’s murder-for-hire contract • The killing of union organizer Frank Little • Organized crime in the heartland • Bruce Springsteen, the greatest author of a generation • Next time it will be Stealtown with an A • Changing pop culture with Six Days of the Condor • Day of the Locust by Nathanael West • Starting a new crime trilogy, and writing about working people