Episode 79: Shadows Return.
Lynn Flewelling shares what it's like to return to the favorite characters in the Night Runner series after taking time to write a different trilogy set in the same world 500 years earlier.

Episode 78: Jessica Z..
Every summer, Shawn Klomparens is kicked out of his writing studio so his mother-in-law can stay in the room during her summer-long visit. He shares how he overcomes these difficulties — and the music and books that inspire him while he's at work on a novel — in this intimate chat.

Bonus: Free Chapters of Garden Spells.
As a bonus for Bantam Dell podcast listeners, here are three free chapters from Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen for you to read. In a garden surrounded by a tall fence, tucked away behind a small, quiet house in an even smaller town, is an apple tree that is rumored to bear a very special sort of fruit. In this luminous debut novel, Sarah Addison Allen tells the story of that enchanted tree, and the extraordinary people who tend it....

Episode 77: Say Goodbye.
Lisa Gardner talks about the different ways in which a writer — especially a writer of creepy novels — sees the world, and discusses both her love of research and fascination with spiders.

Episode 76: No One You Know.
Michelle Richmond, author of No One You Know, talks about the joys of researching her protagonist Ellie's career as a coffee buyer, including Michelle's own love of coffee.

Episode 75: How to Talk to a Widower.
In this episode, Jonathan Tropper discusses how he came to the idea for How to Talk to a Widower and also touches on his experiences with Hollywood.