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Join us on Facebook Live for a new segment of Author Hour, where we discuss all things books and writing with authors. We are joined today by fiction authors William Bernhardt, ( TWISTED JUSTICE), Lou Berney (NOVEMBER ROAD), David Slayton (WHITE TRASH WARLOCK) and Michele Feltman Strider (HOMESTYLE) .
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William Bernhardt is the author of forty-seven books, including the bestselling Ben Kincaid series, the historical novels Challengers of the Dust and Nemesis, two books of poetry (The White Bird and The Ocean’s Edge), and the Red Sneaker books on fiction writing. Bernhardt founded the Red Sneaker Writers Center to mentor aspiring writers. He is also the owner of Balkan Press, which publishes poetry and fiction as well as the literary journal Conclave. Bernhardt has received the Southern Writers Guild’s Gold Medal Award, the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award (University of Pennsylvania) and the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award (Oklahoma State). He has been nominated for the Oklahoma Book Award eighteen times in three different categories, and has won the award twice. In addition to his novels and poetry, he has written plays, a musical (book and score), humor, children stories, biography, and puzzles. He has edited two anthologies (Legal Briefs and Natural Suspect) as fundraisers for The Nature Conservancy and the Children’s Legal Defense Fund. OSU named him “Oklahoma’s Renaissance Man.”
Lou Berney is the author of November Road (winner of the Dagger, Hammett, Anthony, Barry, Lefty, and Macavity, and a Washington Post Best Book of 2018), The Long and Faraway Gone (winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Macavity, and ALA awards), Whiplash River, and Gutshot Straight, all from William Morrow. He’s also written a collection of stories, The Road to Bobby Joe, and his short fiction has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He teaches in the MFA program at Oklahoma City University.
David R. Slayton grew up in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where finding fantasy novels was pretty challenging and finding fantasy novels with diverse characters was downright impossible. Now he lives in Denver, Colorado and writes the books he always wanted to read. Find him on the web at www.davidrslayton.com.
Michele Feltman Strider originally became a writer because of her deep appreciation for near rhyme. Actually, Michele stumbled into writing in an effort to better monetize the time she spent talking to her imaginary friends. Upon publishing her first book Homecoming, Michele realized that becoming a novelist not only exempted her from real work but gave her the opportunity to write third-person biographies about herself. In 2019, Michele executed the rare Reverse Okie, moving from California to Oklahoma with her long-suffering husband and increasingly awful cats.
About the Authors:
William Bernhardt is the author of forty-seven books, including the bestselling Ben Kincaid series, the historical novels Challengers of the Dust and Nemesis, two books of poetry (The White Bird and The Ocean’s Edge), and the Red Sneaker books on fiction writing. Bernhardt founded the Red Sneaker Writers Center to mentor aspiring writers. He is also the owner of Balkan Press, which publishes poetry and fiction as well as the literary journal Conclave. Bernhardt has received the Southern Writers Guild’s Gold Medal Award, the Royden B. Davis Distinguished Author Award (University of Pennsylvania) and the H. Louise Cobb Distinguished Author Award (Oklahoma State). He has been nominated for the Oklahoma Book Award eighteen times in three different categories, and has won the award twice. In addition to his novels and poetry, he has written plays, a musical (book and score), humor, children stories, biography, and puzzles. He has edited two anthologies (Legal Briefs and Natural Suspect) as fundraisers for The Nature Conservancy and the Children’s Legal Defense Fund. OSU named him “Oklahoma’s Renaissance Man.”
Lou Berney is the author of November Road (winner of the Dagger, Hammett, Anthony, Barry, Lefty, and Macavity, and a Washington Post Best Book of 2018), The Long and Faraway Gone (winner of the Edgar, Anthony, Barry, Macavity, and ALA awards), Whiplash River, and Gutshot Straight, all from William Morrow. He’s also written a collection of stories, The Road to Bobby Joe, and his short fiction has appeared in publications such as The New Yorker, Ploughshares, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. He teaches in the MFA program at Oklahoma City University.
David R. Slayton grew up in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where finding fantasy novels was pretty challenging and finding fantasy novels with diverse characters was downright impossible. Now he lives in Denver, Colorado and writes the books he always wanted to read. Find him on the web at www.davidrslayton.com.
Michele Feltman Strider originally became a writer because of her deep appreciation for near rhyme. Actually, Michele stumbled into writing in an effort to better monetize the time she spent talking to her imaginary friends. Upon publishing her first book Homecoming, Michele realized that becoming a novelist not only exempted her from real work but gave her the opportunity to write third-person biographies about herself. In 2019, Michele executed the rare Reverse Okie, moving from California to Oklahoma with her long-suffering husband and increasingly awful cats.
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