This episode features Mia P. Manansala, a writer and book coach from Chicago who loves books, baking, and bad-ass women. She uses humor (and murder) to explore aspects of the Filipino diaspora, queerness, and her millennial love for pop culture.

This episode features David Heska Wanbli Weiden. An enrolled citizen of the Sicangu Lakota nation, David is author of the novel WINTER COUNTS (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020), nominated for the 2021 Edgar Award for Best First Novel and winner of the 2021 Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel. WINTER COUNTS, an IndieBound and Amazon bestseller, is a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice and was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Amazon, Sun Sentinel, LitReactor, CrimeReads, Deadly Pleasures, Air Mail, MysteryPeople, and BOLO Books.

This episode features Rachel Howzell Hall, author of the acclaimed Lou Norton series, the standalone thriller They All Fall Down, and co-author of The Good Sister with James Patterson, which appeared in the New York Times bestselling anthology The Family Lawyer. She is the senior development officer for the Donor Relations Department at Cedars Sinai. Currently she serves on the Board of Directors for the Mystery Writers of America, is a member of Sisters in Crime, and has participated as a mentor in the Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ Writer-to-Writer Program. She lives in Los Angeles.

This episode features Eliza Jane Brazier, author of the debut adult psychological suspense novel If I Disappear. Eliza is an author, screenwriter, and journalist. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is developing If I Disappear for television.

This episode features Halley Sutton, author of the debut feminist noir The Lady Upstairs. Halley is a former Pitch Wars mentee. She currently lives in Los Angeles, CA, where she enjoys the noir history and trivia, reading about old murders, and discovering new nuggets about Hollywood and the cults in the area.