Drinking With Authors

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Amber Chandler

Guest: Amber Chandler’s middle name is Rain. She only buys thrifted clothes and is a sucker for a road trip. Author of Reclaiming Connection.

Drink of Choice: Coffee! ☕

Amber Chandler is a National Board Certified middle school ELA teacher in Hamburg, New York with a Master’s Degree in Literature, as well as a School Building Leader certification. Amber has enjoyed a wide variety of teaching opportunities--from 6th grade remediation to college courses to education workshops on Differentiation, Danielson’s Domains...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring William Loving

Guest: William Loving has been happily married for 39 years, loves to ski, and Has lived in Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Minnesota and California. Author of Fells Point

Drink of Choice: Hoppy IPA

William Loving is a former newspaper journalist at the Los Angeles Times and Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Raised in Baltimore, Maryland, he lives in Pasadena, California, with his wife Rhonda Hillbery. His new novel, Fells Point, was published in 2026 by Rare Bird Books and Simon & Schuster...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Morgan DeVivo

Guest: Morgan DeVivo enjoys video editing and has made a few animated short films, listens to heavy metal music and has won awards in photography. Author of 40 Days, Sun and Moon, Blood and Bones.

Drink of Choice: Non-alcoholic drink

Morgan DeVivo is a teenage author from Tampa, Florida, whose passion for storytelling has been clear from a young age. Ever since she could hold a pen, Morgan has been crafting stories, developing characters, and immersing herself in the art of writing.

Drinking With Authors | Featuring J.R. Marzolf

Guest: J.R. Marzolf Live and worked overseas for 27 years, is married a Japnese from Osaka, but met her in Panama, raised three daughters in Indonesia, and At 18, went solo to the bush in French Guiana, first time outside the US. Author of Omega Rose, the Omega Rose Trilogy)

Drink of Choice: Armenian Brandy

J.R. Marzolf is a new author of science fiction.

His perspective has been shaped by seven decades of life across multiple continents...

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Drinking With Authors | Featuring Debbie Bishop

Guest: Debbie Bishop says she is a nerd. loves science and loves research. And has studied nutrition since she was 12. She did a podcast with the 5 main AI's (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Meta) just to learn about them. She did that, and now will teach others best practices to use them. She realized recently that everything she has done an...

rinking With Authors | Featuring Christopher Bevard

Guest: Christopher Bevard does the NYT crossword puzzle every day, is obsessed with puzzles and cryptography, and recently developed an app for veterinary records management. Author of Junkman (novel), Cicatrix (podcast)

Drink of Choice: Either coffee or Zombie Dust pale ale!

Christopher Bevard is a critically-acclaimed horror author whose work has been featured in Rue Morgue, Cemetery Dance, Penny Dreadful, and Rag Shock, among others. 

He is also the writer and producer of Cicatrix, a serialized horror podcast released by Sen...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Hazel Anthony

Guest: Hazel Anthony spent a year in Seoul, South Korea, save been a prosecutor for 14 years, and grew up in East TN but now live in Alaska. Author of I Was Never Broken.

Drink of Choice: Slush

4 tea bags in two cups of boiling water

Add two cups of sugar

1 can frozen orange juice

1 can frozen lemonade

7 cups of water

2 cups apricot brandy

Freeze it and pour sprite...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Timothy Found

Guest: Timothy Found (I have four cats. My favorite color is purple. My first DnD character was a warlock who didn't know he was a warlock named Ted Tox who just signed his promotion paperwork and reports to "upper management." Author of Blink

Drink of Choice: Gin and Tonic 🍸

Whether behind the mic as Tyler Laux or writing as Timothy Found, his mission is the same: create work that feels as real and raw as the people reading or listening to it...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Julie Liddell Whitehead

Guest: Julie Liddell Whitehead was the first kid tested for gifted education in her school district in 1977. The little town she grew up in has produced two governors of Mississippi. She was the first female in her family tree to earn a graduate degree. Author of Hurricane Baby: Stories

Drink of Choice: Pink Cow. Strawberry carbonated beverage poured over vanilla ice cream

Julie Liddell Whitehead is an award-winning freelance journalist and author of Hurricane Baby: Stories. Julie lives and writes from...

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Drinking With Authors | Featuring Devrani Barrios

Guest: Devrani Barrios enjoys cooking, the school she owns and operates is for special needs kids, and she really enjoy movies. Author of Foundation Readers Level 1 to 4.

Drink of Choice: A cup of hot chocolate

Devrani Barrios is a mother of 4 kids, with 2 autistic sons. This personal experience, along with her educational training, has equipped her with a practical perspective to become more than a...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Brick Marlin 

Guest: Brick Marlin is an avid trail runner, triathlete and play blues harmonica. He used to play professionally in blues bands. Author of The Zaphnurr Phase, Shadow Out of the Sky, Ozarium, Sectors, Blue Lights In A Jar, Nettie and the Shepherd, Land of the Dead and Dark Places of Rest. 

Drink of Choice: Coffee  

Brick Marlin is the author of twelve books and a good amount of short stories. He began as a horror writer and evolved into the genres of sci-fi and dark fantasy. If he isn...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring MZ Pak

Guest: MZ Pak lives in a 36' Class A RV with her husband, 4 cats, and two dogs. She loves to go off-road climbing rocks and driving on trails. Author of Becoming Lilith "The One..." first in the Becoming Series.

Drink of Choice: Water or Vodka Cranberry, or I dunno...I have options.

MA Pak is an avid reader and writer. She’s married (for the second time) and has three adult children and three grandchildren. She has two M.S. degrees in di...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Sharon Burton

Guest: Sharon Burton has done standup comedy, is on husband #4, and lived in Italy and Mexico. Author of Women in Technical Communication: From Typewriters to Touchscreens

 Drink of Choice: Coffee, water, or wine.

Sharon Burton helps people and organizations make sense of complex stuff through smart content strategy. By day, she works as a content strategist, helping businesses design content that actually works—for the company and for the humans using it. By night (two or three nights a week, to be exact...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Brian Johnson

Guest: Brian Johnson is a storm chaser, his work has been used by NASA, and he’s been alone with a serial killer in his house. Author of Aristid.

 Drink of Choice: Either a Jack and Coke or an Old Fashioned (Bullett Rye, orange bitters, simple syrup)

Brian Johnson's fascination with storytelling began with childhood encounters in mythology and Star Wars, sparking a lifelong passion for science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He has published poetry and short stories in anthologies and online magazines...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Alyson Dawn

Guest: Alyson Dawn has been with her husband since they were fifteen. She has 12 tattoos. And she has ADHD. Author of The Shadowed series: Marked (Book one), Bound (Book two),

Sons of Solstice: Ruined

Drink of Choice: Alani-Purple Cotton Candy

Alyson Dawn is a dark romance and fantasy author who loves to write for the people the world tried to break. She believes that you should still have the world burned for you, even with your flaws and trauma.

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Erik Tucsok

Guest: Erik Tucsok likes long walks on short beaches, loves dogs, and eats way too much salt. Author of Of Perfect Spirit.

 Drink of Choice: Rye and Cola, lots of rye with some cola 

Erik Tucsok is a loving father and fantasy author who lives in London, Ontario. 

He has been spending his time building a grounded and relatable fantasy world named Föld for anyone to enjoy. 

His latest novel is called Of Perfect Spirit...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Maren Jenner

Guest: Maren Jenner loves going to the beach, Coke Zero and chocolate are her afternoon pick-me-ups, and she  collects books and movies Author of Wrighting the Wrong.

 Drink of Choice: Pinot Grigio

Maren Jenner lives in Michigan with her supportive husband and spunky daughter. She loves writing, and, when she’s not working on her next book, she’s got her nose in a different one. Her summers are spent on any lake she can visit, but the beaches of Lake Michigan are her favori...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Jordyn Barnes

Guest: Jordyn Barnes is one of those true crime junkies, she has a masters in graphic design from Full Sail, and she lived in California for 10 years (and she friggin loved it)) Author of Hollywoodland series & Wrath of the Furies

Drink of Choice: Since she can’t drink (stupid meds), She’ll be having a tea with a side of water with a boat load of electrolytes (Yaay, POTS). If she COULD drink, it would be an Angry Jamie or five. Angry Orchard with a shot of J...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring A.N. Anderson

Guest: A.N. Anderson served in the US Army, is an architect, and has a good Sméagol impression. Author of The Necromancer Legacies- The Gravekeeper and The Soulweaver

 Drink of Choice: A Pumpkin martini (or two) - 1 part Kavanaugh Pumpkin Irish Cream, 1 part any preferred espresso martini premixed cocktail on ice shaken or stirred.

A.N. Anderson identifies as an architect at day and author at night. She loves doing anything that lets her imagination fly. As an architect, she designs bu...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Marla A. White

Guest: Marla A. White loves putting together jigsaw puzzles (though she’s not sure that's all that interesting ). She owns a "sonic screwdriver" from the 10th Doctor from Doctor Who, and once took a horseback riding trip across "the rooftop of Wales" where her fear of heights was nearly her undoing! Author of Recipe for Murder: A Pine Cove Mystery (book 2)

 Drink of Choice: Grapefruit and Rose Vodka & tonic

Marla White kills people for a living—on paper, at least.

An...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Jamiel Lynn Miller

Guest: Jamie Lynn Miller has taken multiple citizen police and fire academy classes, is a Star Wars nerd, and her favorite way to vacation is on a cruise ship. Author of Shadow Unit series (5 books, special ops soldiers) and Partnersseries (3 books, British Intelligence agents) and also has 8 other standalone novels.

Drink of Choice: Mimosa

Jamie Lynn Miller been writing fiction since childhood and decided to take the plunge and go pro in 2008, finding to her amazement that people truly enjoyed her...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Samuel Abraham Jr

Guest: Samuel Abraham Jr is an US Air Force Veteran, has lived in Spain, and has 6 sisters and no brothers. Author of RORRIM

 Drink of Choice: Drinking Water

Samuel Abraham Jr is the CEO of Muzik And All That LLC an independent music media company, and Author of the recently released book RORRIM (mirror spelled backwards).  The company combines music promotion, production, publishing, and merchandise under one brand ecosystem. The business distributes original tracks, music videos, animated videos, promo content, artist features...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Terreece M. Clarke

Guest: Terreece M. Clarke was a plus model, she is a journalist & an artist. Author of The Six Loves of Ebony Jones– recent Release; The Courageous Love Series - Bestselling series

 Drink of Choice: Brazilian Lemonade: https://www.delish.com/cooking/a42589/brazilian-lemonade-recipe/

"Bestselling author and journalist Terreece M. Clarke writes epic love stories about smart, courageous Black women loved without reservation or hesitation. She is active in her artistic community, including as Lincoln Theatre Artist Fellow (2018 Cohort) and a member of the 100 A...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Steve Altier

Guest: Steve Altier is a ghost hunter, part of the Tampa Bay Spirits Paranormal team, he is also a coin collector, and he loves to travel. Author of Thrillers: The Woman in the Mirror

Lizardville Ghost Stories:

The Camping Trip

Jimmy's Curse

Return to Lizardville

Lizardville Side Stories:

The Ghost Hunter

Old Man Smithers

Gabby and Maddox Adventure series: (Middle-grade)

Over The Falls

Blast Off <...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Ben & Karen Gibson

Guest: Ben & Karen Gibson Be runs at least two TTRPG sessions a week, with over 50 players in my games. Karen is a singer-songwriter who plays piano, mandolin, and Irish whistle. Both were homeschooled all their lives growing up. Author of Freedom's Vow (Book 1 of the Shepherd Trilogy)

 Drink of Choice: Coffee   and Ole Smoky Moonshine 

B.K. Gibson is the pen name for Ben and Karen Gibson, a married co-writing couple, who've turned their lifelong love of stories into worlds of imagination...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Leslie Gray Streeter

Guest: Leslie Gray Streeter is a single mom in her 50s and needs all the coffee. She is a Law and Order enthusiast. She was a vegan till the day she moved back to Maryland and was offered a crab cake. Is a very bad but passionate acoustic guitarist. She makes a mean vegan cheese ball. Her kid and she recently had an All-American Rejects marathon on the way to the beach and she’s not sure what that says about her parenting but she likes it. Black Widow, Family an...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Cindy Kehagiaras (key-ha-jar-us)

Guest: Cindy Kehagiaras  Author of Tennent Series, Songs, Sails & Silly Dating Schemes, The Winds Of Tinos

 Drink of Choice: Greek liquor mentioned in THE WINDS OF TINOS book “Tsipouro”

Join her award-winning MID LIFE CRISIS! Where she tells swoony stories of silver foxes falling for women their own age.

*There may be some kidnappings, gangsters, treasure hunting, female friendships over 50, found family, cyber theft, adorable pets, second chances, and a whole lot of spice.*

THE PERPETUAL, h...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Candice Lola 

Guest: Candice Lola is a graduate From NYU, can go days without speaking to anyone except herself, and is a closet circus freak. Author of Women of Glass and Other Parables. 

Drink of Choice: wine 

Candice Lola is a bold new voice in women’s storytelling and the author of Women of Glass, a transformative work that explores the beauty and burden of emotional resilience. Her writing captures the unseen moments with intention. Through her work, Candice challenges silence, reclaims narrative, and inspires women to step full...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Maureen Morrissey 

Guest: Maureen Morrissey has climbed the Manitou Incline, run half marathons, and been on 5 continents. Author of Seeing is Believing 

Drink of Choice: tea or wine  

Maureen Morrissey is a writer, retired educator, wife/mother/grandmother/ daughter/auntie/dog mommy, avid reader, photographer, traveler, blogger, and most recently, half-marathon runner. In her spare time, she volunteers at animal shelters and investigates the quality of rooftop bars in New York City, her hometown. Oh, and she loves concerts, museums, and Broadway shows, too. 

Maureen...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring David Bernknopf 

Guest: David Bernknopf began work at CNN BEFORE it even went on the air. Is what you call an original CNN employee. He has flown (as a pool reporter) on Air Force 1 and has spent much of last year travelling the country attending live music events. Author of Two Years on Another Planet....or is it Alaska? 

Drink of Choice: coffee in a special Alaska mug 

The national news networks weren’t calling David Bernknopf with job offers anymore. If fact, they...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Alexis and Jorge Romero 

Guest: Alexis and Jorge Romero Alexis's eyes change color. Jorge builds Gundham models. They met on a dating app. Author of The Undoing Series on Amazon 

Drink of Choice: Alexis Stella Rosa Black Jorge 3 Floyds Beer 

Alexis and Jorge Romero are married couple who write dark paranormal romance books. They first published in 2024. They met in 2017 and got married in 2019. They have two daughters and two fur children. Jorge is a union electrician and Alexis has her master's in social work but currently is a...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Suzy Langevin 

Guest: Suzy Langevin was a contestant on Jeopardy! in 2019. In addition to writing, she’s a trained classical singer and knows how to tap dance! She discovered she has a rare kind of hearing loss at 41, and it's been like this her entire life! Author of American Royalty, The Christmas in the City collection. Forthcoming: The Plus One Pact (July 2026), The Sound of Summer series (2027) Anthologies: Tender & Tempting Tales 

Drink of Choice: Polar Seltzer, a central MA speciality!  

Suzy Langevin loves love, even though she forgot how to say i...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring D. W. Brooks 

Guest: D. W. Brooks had a kidney transplant (over 8 years in), spent almost a month in Africa with her family last summer, and used to be on her high school and college dance teams, Author of Romantic Suspense: The CHAOS Universe 

Contemporary Romance: Meet Your Match 

Drink of Choice: Chai  

D. W. Brooks is an author who has independently published three romantic suspense books and two contemporary romance novels. Writing stories about people who looked like her was D. W.’s first career goal at age...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Madeline Sanderson 

Guest: Madeline Sanderson “Mule Capital” of America, her cardinal senses are better on water than on land. and supposedly, she is a distant relative of Benjamin Franklin. Author of Hatch. 

Drink of Choice: Rye whiskey and coke  

Madeline Sanderson is a young debuting writer originally from Tennessee, who currently resides in Michigan. With a captivating fascination for horror and the macabre, Sanderson weaves intricate tales that explore the darker aspects of human experience. Her writing is distinguished by its feminist elements and sharp societal critiques, often challenging t...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Jenna Avery

Guest: Jenna Avery teaches yoga, loves making sourdough, and has two devon rex cats. Author of Skies of Avalon.

Drink of Choice: Red wine blend

The origin story of Jenna Avery is complex, weird, and requires numerous alcoholic beverages to regale. The current story? She's an elder millennial with a penchant for evolving and growing. This is a polite way of saying her ADHD makes her choose a new hobby every three months. By the time you read this, who knows what she'll...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring J.D. Harbor 

Guest: J.D. Harbor met his wife on a cruise, is a former military journalist, and the parent of neurodivergent children. Author of RomantiSea Serenades series 

Drink of Choice: Spicy Margarita  

2oz Mezcal or Tequila 

1oz Lime Juice 

1oz Cointreau 

0.5oz Agave Nectar 

1-2 droppers Boy Drinks World Serrano Cocktail Spice (adjust to spice tolerance) 

garnish with Tajin seasoned salt rim 

J.D. Harbor is a romance novelist and travel advisor who believes the b...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring JM Paquette 

Guest: JM Paquette just relocated to Canada, is a super Tolkien nerd, and is allergic to UV light. Author of Rock Star Fairy Tales, Klauden's Ring Saga, Conjuring Fascination Series, Shawarma Warrior King series, The General Worldbuilding Guide, 10 Steps series 

Drink of Choice: Hot tea, either orange pekoe or chamomile (because I'm an old woman)  

Author of the Klauden’s Ring Saga as well as the Conjuring Fascination, Rock Star Fairy Tales, and Shawarma Warrior King series, JM Paquette writes fantasy and paranormal romance novels with love triangles a...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Nina Brown 

Guest: JC BRown has ADHD, used to perform in the Rocky Horror Picture Show with a small cast called the RKO Army, and went to Europe in high school. Author of: JC Brown: Breaking the Curse (A Dark Fairytale Retelling), The Sinful Seven Novels (Series): Asmodeus the Gift of Lust, Beelzebub the Gift of Gluttony, Leviathan the Gift of Envy 

Nina Brown: (Rent Me) Anthony - Foxy's Rent a Date, Mister St. James - CEO's of Kink, Faking the Heat - Firehouse 99 

Drink of Choice: Pink Moscato  ...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Patricia Smith 

Guest: Patricia Smith has ridden a camel in Timbuktu (lived and taught for a year in Senegal); has lived in Paris; and has been a hair model for L'Oreal. Author of The Year of Needy Girls. 

Drink of Choice: red wine! (probably cabernet sauvignon)  

Patricia Smith is the author of The Year of Needy Girls, a Lambda Literary Award finalist. Her fiction has appeared in Blue Mountain Review, The Master’s Review, So to Speak, and The Tusculum Review.  

A three-time Pushcart nom...

Drinking With Authors | Featuring Ayman Samman 

Guest: Ayman Samman fronted metal bands, was a tour Guide in Egypt, and worked with Clint Eastwood. Author of Hidden From View 

Drink of Choice: Coffee 

Ayman Samman was born in Cairo, Egypt. After earning a degree in Egyptology and fronting one of the very first Heavy Metal bands in Egypt, he moved to Chicago and pursued a career in music. While in Chicago he fell in love with acting and studied and performed with Chicago's best. He lives in L...