Writers Unplugged

Join us to hear about Laura Samotin's latest book, The Sins on Their Bones.

 

Mustafa Marwan is an Egyptian writer, aid worker, and trainer with over a decade of experience in more than a dozen conflict zones in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. He will discuss his debut novel, Guns and Almond Milk, 

 

Angela Crook is a local Cleveland writer and will talk about her most recently published book, Hurt Mountain.

Join us as local Cleveland writer Abby L. Vandiver talks about her latest book.  

Hannah Mary McKinnon is an internationally best-selling writer of suspense novels. We will talk about her latest book, Only One Survives.

The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia is the just-published book by best-selling and award-winning writer Juliet Grames. She will discuss this book and her inspiration for the story. 

Writers Unplugged is a chance to hear your favorite writers or new to you writers in conversation as you were eavesdropping on them in a coffee shop.

Join writer, Mark Sullivan as he talks about his recently published book, Thrive: When Trouble Visits! Being Your Best in Tough Times.

Wendall Thomas is the 2024 Lefty Award Winner for Best Humorous Mystery Novel. We will talk about her latest book, Cheap Trills. 

 

Samuel studied at Westminster Film School and now works as an author and freelance TV executive. We will discuss his debut novel, The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers.

Cara Black is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 20 books in the Private Investigator Aimée Leduc series, and two World War II-set novels featuring American markswoman Kate Rees.

Lisa Unger is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of twenty-one novels, including her latest "The New Couple in 5B."   Fellow writer Ana Reyes describes this book as “If The Shining’s Overlook Hotel were a luxury apartment building, it might resemble The Windermere—architecturally stunning, a tribute to a gilded past, yet deeply sinister.”

Local writer, Susan Petrone, will discuss her latest book, The Musical Mozinskis. Co-creator of How I Met Your Mother, “Popping with magical realism and buzzing with humor and heart, it’s an earworm of a book, a song I never wanted to end.”

USA Today bestselling author, Christina McDonald, will introduce us to the start of her new series with These Still Black Waters. Of Christina’s previous books, The Night Olivia Fell has been option for television by a major Hollywood studio.

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Jess Montgomery, writer of the Kinship series which fuses history and crime fiction. The main character, Lily Ross, is the first female sheriff of Ohio, and tasked with solving cases in her area.

Author and screenwriter, Lee Matthew Goldberg, will join us to talk about his newest book, The Great Gimmelmans, a story of a mild-mannered family on the run from loan sharks and the FBI.

Beloved for her rom-coms, Meredith Schorr will talk about her latest, Someone Just Like You.

Ausma Khan is the writer of a relatively new series that features a trio of Muslim, Latina and Black investigators. Blood Betrayal, the second in the series.