Jeff Circle has over twenty years’ experience in counterintelligence and credibility assessment, security operations, personnel vetting, protection, policy, investigations, Red Team, insider threat, and crisis management. In addition to the intelligence world, He’s a veteran of the US Army, a survivor of corporate America, worked a dive boat in the Caribbean, and like me, he is an alumni of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Academy. We never worked together but ran some of the same territory back in the day. Jeff is also the architect behind The Dossier, the go to for undisclosed intel on today’s thriller, mystery, crime, and suspense writers.  Find Jeff at: www.jeffcircle.com IG; @jeffcircle_books X;  @Jeff_Circle Don't forget to check out Ty Benhoff’s new adventure, Overmatch, coming March 1st, on amazon or wherever books are sold. Thanks to Forget the Whale for the music. Tripecoh Media LLC.

James Rosone is the Amazon Top 100 bestselling author of the Red Storm Series and World War III military thriller series. He’s an Iraq War veteran who served 3.5 years in a combat zone as a military interrogator and contractor. During his ten years in the military and eight years as a Department of Defense and Department of State contractor, he fought and hunted down Islamic extremist militants throughout the Middle East, Eurasia, and Europe. James holds a Master of Science degree from the University of Oxford as well as an MBA. He’s written technical articles for European journals and advised numerous European leaders in the fields of identity intelligence and biometrics. James currently writes in two series: the Monroe Doctrine and the Rise of the Republic. Monroe Doctrine is a military-technothriller series that just concluded after 8 books. https://amzn.to/4bC3Isu In Rise of the Republic, a military science fiction thriller. The ninth book, Into the Uncertain, just came out  February 13th, and there are still three more books in the hopper. https://amzn.to/3HUUnOS Find James on X: @jamesrosone and IG: @rosonewatson, or http://www.frontlinepublishinginc.com Don't forget to check out Ty Benhoff’s new adventure, Overmatch, coming March 1st, on amazon or wherever books are sold. Thanks to Forget the Whale for the music. Tripecoh Media LLC.

Welcome to the first episode of Writer Stuff. New name, same great conversations with amazing writers. Updates: -Overmatch, the second Ty Benhoff series is coming your way March 1st. Pre-sale on now. Order here. -I'll have pre-release copies with me at the Amelia Island Book Expo February 24th. Hope I see you there. 10am-4pm, 315 Citrona Dr. Fernandina Beach, FL 32034. Joe Goldberg has been a CIA covert action officer, corporate intelligence director, international political consultant, and currently is a college instructor and writer. He holds degrees in Political Science and Communications from the University of Iowa. In 2014, Joe self-published the novel Secret Wars: An Espionage Story. It was a finalist in both the fiction and historical fiction categories of the Independent Author Network awards. The Spy Devils follows a secret team of intel operators as they take on missions no one else can pull off.  DEVIL’S OWN DAY is the third in the series. Joe can be found at: Joegoldbergbooks.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/joegoldbergbooks X @joegoldbergbook Instagram: Instagram/joegoldbergbooks

Welcoming back thriller writer A.M. Adair to discuss her new book in the Elle Anderson Series, A New Game. A. M. Adair is a retired Chief Warrant Officer from the United States Navy with over 21 years in the Intelligence Community—specializing in counterintelligence and human intelligence. She has been to numerous countries all around the world, to include multiple tours in Iraq, and Afghanistan. Her experiences have been unique and provided her imagination with a wealth of material to draw from to give her stories life. A lifelong fan of the genre, she is an associate member of International Thriller Writers. Her debut novel, Shadow Game, is the first book in the Elle Anderson series. It was published in October 2019 and then was turned into a graphic novel in January 2022. Book 2, The Deeper Shadow, was released in November 2020, and the explosive third installment, Shadow War, was released in March 2022. A New Game In a new game, A killer is on the loose, one with nothing to lose. An assassin is killing cartel members with lethal precision. Each crime scene leaves more questions than answers, and no one in law enforcement or the intelligence communities has any leads. Except for one man: Navy SEAL turned CIA operative Julian Saunders. He knows they’re hunting for a ghost. Someone the U.S. government declared dead. Joined by an elite covert operations team, Julian heads to New Orleans, searching for the only person capable of taking the cartel head-on: Elle Anderson. But as the body count rises and the brutality of the kills becomes more intense, he questions whether the woman they knew still exists or if, by pursuing her, they’re signing their own death warrants. Find A.M. Adair on X: @amadair6 and IG @a.m.adair, or www.amadair.com Don't forget to check out Spoilers on amazon or wherever books are sold. Ty Benhoff two coming soon. Thanks to Forget the Whale for the music. Tripecoh Media LLC.

Tonight, I’m talking true crime with radio host and true crime author Alan R. Warren. Alan R. Warren Alan R. Warren is a Best-Selling Author. The Producer and lead host of the Popular NBC Radio shows House of Mystery and Inside Writing, both heard on the 106.5 F.M. Los Angeles/102.3 F.M. Riverside/ 1050 A.M. Palm Springs/ 540 A.M. KYAH Salt Lake City/ 1150 A.M. KKNW Seattle/Tacoma and Phoenix. Al Started writing articles for True Case Files Magazine and is still a contributor for Serial Killer Magazine. Since then, he has completed 24 non-fiction books covering true crime, cults, human trafficking, history, and memoirs for three different publishers, including RJ Parker/Vronksy Publishing in Toronto, Canada & WildBlue Press in Colorado, America. His bestselling True Crime Books in Canada are Beyond Suspicion: The True Story of Colonel Russell Williams, which was featured on CNN's Lies, Crimes, & Videos in Season 4 in the Fall of 2022, and Murder Times Six: The True Story of the Wells Gray Park Murders. In America, his bestsellers include The Killing Game: Serial Killer Rodney Alcala, which has been featured on several television shows such as Very Scary People with Donny Walberg and Oxygen's Mark of a Killer, and Reelz' Killer Trophies and soon to be part of a four-part documentary on the Sundance Channel called Death's Date, and Doomsday Cults: The Devil's Hostages, which was featured on Vice's Dark Side of the '90s. His latest series of books is called Killer Queens, a 6 part-book series covering murders that affect the Gay Community. Book 1 - Leopold & Loeb, Book 2 - Butcher of Hanover: Fritz Haarmann, Book 3 - Grindr Serial Killer Stephen Port, Book 4 - Bruce McArthur: Toronto Gay Killer. Find Alan on IG @Radiocubb or https://www.alanrwarren.com/ Don't forget to check out Spoilers on amazon or wherever books are sold. Ty Benhoff two coming soon. Thanks to Forget the Whale for the music. Tripecoh Media LLC.

Tonight former LEO, Combat Veteran, and Owner of Bandit Custom Rods joins me to figure out where we get our conspiracy theories from. We talk about The Fed, animal spies, and the 4th dimension. Check out Brian at banditcustomrods.com, facebook: @banditcustomrods, IG: @banditcustomrods Don't forget to check out Spoilers on amazon or wherever books are sold. Ty Benhoff two coming soon. Thanks to Forget the Whale for the music. Tripecoh Media LLC.

Tonight, I’m talking about serial killer Samuel Little with Jillian Lauren, author of “Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer.” Jillian Lauren Jillian Lauren is a writer, storyteller, adoption advocate, rock-wife, and lousy kickboxer. She is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED, and SOME GIRLS: My Life in a Harem, and the novel PRETTY. SOME GIRLS, which recounts her time spent in the harem of the Prince of Brunei, has been translated into eighteen languages. She was the only journalist to extensively interview Samuel Little, the most prolific serial killer in American history. This experience is chronicled in Joe Berlinger’s hit STARZ documentary series, CONFRONTING A SERIAL KILLER, and in Michael Connelly’s podcast MURDER BOOK: The Women Who Brought Down Samuel Little. Her book BEHOLD THE MONSTER: Confronting a Killer is forthcoming. Jillian has an MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University. Her writing has appeared in New York Magazine, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Magazine, Elle, Flaunt Magazine, The Daily Beast, Salon, and many others. Her work has been widely anthologized, including in The Moth Anthology, and True Tales of Lust and Love. Jillian is a regular storyteller with The Moth and performs at spoken word and storytelling events across the country. She did a Tedx talk about adoption and identity at Chapman University in 2014. She has been interviewed on The View, Good Morning America and Howard Stern, to name a few. Jillian is married to Weezer bass player Scott Shriner. They live in Los Angeles with their two sons. Behold the Monster Jillian Lauren had no idea what she was getting into when she wrote her first letter to prolific serial killer Samuel Little. All she knew was her research had led her to believe he was good for far more murders than the three for which he had been convicted. While the two exchanged dozens of letters and embarked on hundreds of hours of interviews, Lauren gained the trust of a monster. After maintaining his innocence for decades, Little confessed to the murders of ninety-three women, often drawing his victims in haunting detail as he spoke. How could one man evade justice, manipulating the system for over four decades? As the FBI, the DOJ, the LAPD, and countless law enforcement officials across the country worked to connect their cold cases with the confessions, Lauren's coverage of the investigations and obsession with Little's victims only escalated. New York Times bestselling author and lead of the Starz docuseries Confronting a Serial Killer Jillian Lauren delivers the harrowing report of her unusual relationship with a psychopath. But this is more than a deep dive into the actions of Samuel Little. Lauren's riveting and emotional accounts reveal the women who were lost to cold files, giving Little's victims a chance to have their stories heard for the first time. Find Jillian on X @Jillylauren and IG @jillianlauren or www.jillianlauren.com Don't forget to check out Spoilers on amazon or wherever books are sold. Ty Benhoff two coming soon. Thanks to Forget the Whale for the music. Tripecoh Media LLC.

Tonight, I’m talking about missing persons in our national forests with Andrea Lankford, former National Park Service Ranger and author of “Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail.” Andrea Lankford Andrea Lankford is the author of Ranger Confidential: Living, Working and Dying in the National Park, a National Geographic "Top Ten Book About U.S. Parks,” and three trail guides. During her twelve-year career as a law enforcement ranger with the National Park Service, Andrea won several awards for her criminal investigations. After leaving the ranger ranks, the accomplished outdoorswoman thru-hiked the entire Appalachian Trail, kayaked from Miami to Key West, and was the first, with Beth Overton, to mountain bike the 800-mile Arizona Trail. Andrea is now a registered nurse living in Northern California. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail As a park ranger with the National Park Service's law enforcement team, Andrea Lankford led search and rescue missions in some of the most beautiful (and dangerous) landscapes across America, from Yosemite to the Grand Canyon. But though she had the support of the agency, Andrea grew frustrated with the service's bureaucratic idiosyncrasies, and left the force after twelve years. Two decades later, however, she stumbles across a mystery that pulls her right back where she left off: three young men have vanished from the Pacific Crest Trail, the 2,650-mile trek made famous by Cheryl Strayed's Wild, and no one has been able to find them. It’s bugging the hell out of her. Andrea’s concern soon leads her to a wild environment unlike any she’s ever encountered: missing person Facebook groups. Andrea launches an investigation, joining forces with an eclectic team of amateurs who are determined to solve the cases by land and by screen: a mother of the missing, a retired pharmacy manager, and a mapmaker who monitors terrorist activity for the government. Together, they track the activities of kidnappers and murderers, investigate a cult, rescue a psychic in peril, cross paths with an unconventional scientist, and reunite an international fugitive with his family. Searching for the missing is a brutal psychological and physical test with the highest stakes, but eventually their hardships begin to bear strange fruits—ones that lead them to places and people they never saw coming. Find Andrea on X @andrea_lankford and IG @hauntedhiker or www.andrealankford.com. Don't forget to check out Brothers Keeper on amazon or where ever books are sold. Ty Benhoff two coming soon. Thanks to Forget the Whale for the music. Tripecoh Media LLC.

Tonight, I’m talking to Eric Bishop, author of⁠ Ransomed Daughter⁠. About Eric Bishop: Eric grew up in Connecticut, and relocated to the South after college. After becoming restless moves to the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest occurred before finally heading back East to raise a family. The wanderlust has never left Eric and he's always yearning for the next adventure. After many years in corporate America, he decided to turn his passion for the written word and dreams of crafting a novel into reality. Eric's debut novel The Body Man came out in 2021, the sequel Breach of Trust will be out in 2024. In September 2023 he released his first novella titled Ransomed Daughter. Eric lives in the foothills of South Carolina with with kids and dog. You can normally find him exploring the great outdoors most weekends, grilling out on his back deck, all the while dreaming up the next great novel. Ransomed Daughter A father will do anything to protect his daughter. One Girl. They warned him. Go to the local authorities, and your daughter dies. Report the abduction to anyone in the government, and we’ll kill her. One Ransom. Faced with his worst nightmare, a wealthy father must decide how to respond. Follow the ransom demands and pay the abductors? Or use his connections to get his daughter back another way? One Solution. In his desperation, a father turns to a group that operates outside the purview of the United States government. The Omega Group. When Troy Evans and his elite team discover their latest mission is far more complex than rescuing an abducted girl, it’s clear the consequences of failure will have much broader implications. Find Eric on X and IG @epbauthor or ⁠www.ericpbishop.com⁠ Don't forget to check out ⁠Brothers Keeper⁠ on amazon or where ever books are sold. Ty Benhoff two coming soon. Thanks to ⁠⁠Crush Limbo⁠⁠ for the music. Tripecoh Media LLC.

Tonight, I’m talking to Brian Andrews, author of the Tier One, Sons of Valor, and Shepherd series from Andrews and Wilson. Brian Andrews is a US Navy veteran, Park Leadership Fellow, and former submarine officer with a psychology degree from Vanderbilt and a master’s in business from Cornell University. Brian also is a principal contributor at Career Authors, a site dedicated to advancing the careers of aspiring and published writers. He and writing partner Jeffrey Wilson are the authors of multiple series including the Tier One, Sons of Valor, and Shepherd series. They have also written for the W.E.B Griffin and Tom Clancy franchises. In Sons of Valor III: War Machine, Chunk and Whitney are forced into a deadly match of wits with a terrorist mastermind and a terrifying weapon, unlike anything they’ve ever encountered. After a shootout in Dubai left Hamza al Saud dead and elevated brilliant aeronautical engineer Qasim Nadar to hero status in England, everyone assumes the terrorist threat from al Qadar has been eliminated. Everyone except JSOC counter-terrorism analyst Whitney Watts. But when she decides to help MI6 penetrate Nadar’s secret network, Watts she gets a little too close to the truth and finds herself in a deadly situation not even her teammates from Tier One can save her from. As Lieutenant Commander Keith “Chunk” Redman and the rest of Tier One fan out across London in search of Watts, Nadar prepares to unleash his most dangerous weapon yet—an advanced drone with artificial intelligence and stealth technology. To stop a horrifying attack on London, Chunk and his Navy SEAL brethren must seek help from an unexpected ally and find a way to stop a war machine that was designed to be unstoppable. Find Brian and Jeff on IG @andrewsandwilson or https://www.andrews-wilson.com/ Don't forget to check out ⁠Blood Red Ivory⁠ on amazon or where ever books are sold. Ty Benhoff two coming soon. Thanks to ⁠Crush Limbo⁠ for the music. Tripecoh Media LLC.