Authors On Tour – Live!

Kevin J. Anderson is the bestselling science fiction author of over 100 novels, including twelve novels in the Dune universe, with Frank Herbert’s son Brian Herbert; the Saga of Seven Suns series; Terra Incognita; Resurrection, Inc.; Hopscotch; and many others. Anderson discusses his new novel Clockwork Angels, the novelization of legendary rock band Rush’s new album. Imagine if someone had written the novel of The Wall, Tommy, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band when those classic albums were released. For fans of the multi-platinum band Rush, Clockwork Angels: The Novel is that project. In collaboration with the band, Anderson turns the sonic journey of Rush’s new album into a full-length literary adventure. ($24.95) ECW Press ISBN # 9781770411210. You can visit Kevin J. Anderson’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Neil Landau teaches in the MFA in Screenwriting and Producing Programs at both UCLA School of Film & Television and USC School of Cinematic Arts, and is a faculty adviser in the MFA in Writing Program at Goddard College. An established Hollywood screenwriter and script doctor, his film credits include the cult hit Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead. Landau talks about the role of mystery and suspense in screenwriting and discusses his new book The Screenwriter’s Roadmap: 21 Ways to Jumpstart Your Story. ($21.95) Focal Press ISBN # 9780240820606. You can visit Neil Landau’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Before he wrote stories, Denver young adult author Chris Howard wrote songs, studied natural resources management, and led wilderness adventure trips for teenagers. Howard reads from and discusses his debut novel for young readers Rootless. In this dazzling debut, Howard presents a disturbing world with uncanny similarities to our own. Like the forests his main character, Banyan, seeks to rebuild, this visionary novel is both beautiful and haunting. “There’s a brilliant madness to this deadly post-apocalyptic world, filled with complex characters, shifting loyalties, and layers of mystery… it’s also a nonstop adventure, with wild concepts and an almost hypnotic quality to Banyan’s terse, weather-beaten narration.” – Publishers Weekly, starred reveiw ($17.99) Scholastic ISBN # 9780545387897. You can visit Chris Howard’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, A Crack in the Edge of the World, The Man Who Loved China, and more than a dozen other books. Mr. Winchester was made Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Elizabeth II in 2006. Winchester discusses his fascinating new book Skulls: An Exploration of Alan Dudley’s Curious Collection. In this captivating and visually stunning book, Winchester explores an array of more than 300 animal skulls, from the aardvark to the red-bellied piranha, and shares the fascinating story of the man who amassed much of the collection: an obsessive Englishman named Alan Dudley. ($29.95) Black Dog & Leventhal ISBN # 9781579129125. You can visit Simon Winchester’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Mark Bowden, author of the international bestseller Black Hawk Down, and a preeminent chronicler of our military and special forces, discusses his new book The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Bowden takes us inside the rooms where decisions were made and on the ground where the action unfolded. ($26.00) Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN # 9780802120342. Gregory Johnsen, a former Fulbright Fellow in Yemen, is a PhD candidate at Princeton University and a frequent guest on NPR. Johnsen discusses and his new book The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda, and America’s War in Arabia, a gripping account of how al-Qaeda in Yemen rebounded from an initial defeat to once again threaten the United States. ($27.95) W.W. Norton ISBN # 9780393082425. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Jo Nesbø, the author whose works include the electrifying international best-sellers The Snowman and The Leopard, reads from and discusses his new thriller Phantom. The brilliant, deeply troubled, now former police officer Harry Hole has fled to Hong Kong, fleeing the traumas of life as a cop. When the son of his lost love is charged with murder, Harry returns to Oslo and is plunged into a full-tilt investigation on which his own tenuous future will come to depend. ($25.95) Knopf ISBN # 9780307960474. You can visit Jo Nesbø’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Whitney Otto and Whitney Frick met by chance over an errant e-mail, and only later began working together due to mutual admiration of the other’s work. Otto, author of the bestselling novel How to Make an American Quilt, joins her editor Frick in conversation to discuss her new novel Eight Girls Taking Pictures, a finely woven, textured inquiry into the intersecting lives of women. Eight Girls Taking Pictures is a profoundly moving portrayal of the lives of women, imagining the thoughts and circumstances that produced eight famous female photographers of the twentieth century. It is a bold, immersive, and unforgettable narrative that shows how the art, loves, and lives of the past influence our present. ($25.00) Scribner ISBN # 9781451682694. You can visit Whitney Otto’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. MacNeal reads from and discusses her new Maggie Hope novel Princess Elizabeth’s Spy, in which Maggie returns to protect Britain’s beloved royals against an international plot-one that could change the course of history. When the upstairs-downstairs world at Windsor is thrown into disarray by a shocking murder, Maggie is drawn into a vast conspiracy that places the entire royal family in peril. As she races to save England from a most disturbing fate, Maggie realizes that a quick wit is her best defense, and that the smallest clues can unravel the biggest secrets, even within her own family. ($15.00) Bantam ISBN # 9780553593624. You can visit Susan Elia MacNeal’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Acclaimed journalist Randall Stross discusses his new book The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s Most Exclusive School for Startups. Investment firm Y Combinator is the most sought-after home for startups in Silicon Valley. Twice a year, it funds dozens of just-founded startups and provides three months of guid­ance from Paul Graham, YC’s impresario and his partners. The Launch Pad is the definitive story of a seismic shift that’s occurred in the business world, in which coding skill trumps employment experience, pairs of undergraduates confidently take on Goliaths, tiny startups working out of an apartment scale fast, and investors fall in love. ($26.95) Penguin ISBN # 9781591845294. You can visit Randall Stross’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Justin Cronin is the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed author of The Passage, in which he constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Cronin reads from and discusses his new novel The Twelve, the eagerly awaited second book in The Passage trilogy. A heart-stopping thriller rendered with masterful literary skill, Cronin’s new story is a grand and gripping tale of sacrifice and survival. ($28.00) Random House ISBN # 9780345504982. You can visit Justin Cronin’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Jess Walter, the acclaimed, award-winning author of the national bestseller The Financial Lives of the Poets, reads from and discusses his new novel Beautiful Ruins, the story of an almost-love affair that begins on the Italian coast in 1962, and is rekindled in Hollywood fifty years later. Gloriously inventive, constantly surprising, Beautiful Ruins is a story of flawed yet fascinating people, navigating the rocky shores of their lives while clinging to their improbable dreams. ($25.99) HarperCollins ISBN # 9780061928123. You can visit Jess Walter’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Damien Echols was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1993, only to be found innocent upon appeal and released in 2011. Westword journalist Alan Prendergast joins Damien in conversation in honor of his beautifully written memoir Life After Death, “Damien Echols spent eighteen years on death row for murders he did not commit. Somehow, in the depths of his unspeakable nightmare, he found the courage and strength not only to survive, but to grow, to create, to forgive, and to understand. Life After Death is a brilliant, haunting, painful, and uplifting narrative of a hopeless childhood, a wrongful conviction, a brutal incarceration, and the beginning of a new life.”-John Grisham ($26.95) Blue Rider Press ISBN # 9780399160202. You can visit Damien Echols’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

Brilliantly whimsical yet oddly informative, The Oatmeal is an entertainment web site full of comics, quizzes, and stories. The site gets more than 5 million unique page views a month; 250,000 blogs and web sites have linked to it. The Oatmeal is written, drawn, and coded by Matthew Inman, a king of all trades when it comes to the Web. Inman discusses his hilarious new collection, How To Tell if Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You. ($14.99) Andrews McMeel ISBN # 9781449410247. You can visit Matthew Inman’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!

After months and months and months of campaigning, political commercials, and robocalls, we have arrived at Election Day 2012. With any luck, when we go to sleep tonight we’ll all know the outcome of this election. Four years ago, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had some words of wisdom for our 44th President, detailed in her book Memo to the President Elect. But when she visited the Tattered Cover book store in LoDo, the race between Barack Obama and John McCain was far from settled. Listen in as Albright details her advice for a successful presidency.

Jasper Fforde, the author of the bestselling Thursday Next mysteries and the Nursery Crime books, reads from and discusses his first novel for young readers The Last Dragonslayer. In his witty, effervescent new novel Fforde introduces fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, who runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away. But when visions of the death of the world’s last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer-and Big Magic! ($16.99) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN # 9780547738475. You can visit Jasper Fforde’s official web site as well. Listen to Authors On Tour – Live! podcasts anywhere – Download our FREE apps for iPhone or Android!