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Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with best-selling author Miranda Smith on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and the Outliers Podcast Series. 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet Miranda Smith writes psychological and domestic suspense novels. Her latest novel, SCARY MOVIE NIGHT, releases in July 2026. Two of her titles, NOT MY MOTHER and HIS LOVING WIFE, have been published in Poland. NOT

Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with best-selling authors Meredith Lavender and Kendall Shores on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and the Podcast Series where we chat about their latest book—PERFECT LIFE. 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet Meredith Lavender has spent more than two decades working as a television writer and an executive producer. Most recently, she served as showrunner

Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with best-selling author, screenwriter, and Outlier Matt Witten.

Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with author and Outlier Instructor Ande Pliego on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and Podcast Series. 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet Ande Pliego began writing stories when she discovered she could actually wield her overactive imagination for good. A lover of stories with teeth, she writes books involving mind games, dark humor, general murder and ma

Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with author John Dingle on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and Podcast Series. 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet R. John Dingle lives and writes from a restored 200 year-old house, on a small island in Mid-Coast Maine. The often-haunting themes of the rocky coast, as well as a lifetime of experiences in and around New England’s small towns, farms, and c

Join Outliers GET TO KNOW hosts DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim for a fun conversation with Best-selling Author Jonathan Santlofer. 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet Jonathan Santlofer is an author and artist. His newest novel The Last Mona Lisa will be published by Sourcebook Landmark on August 17, 2021. He is the author of the memoir The Widower’s Notebook, the international bestselling novel, The Death

Join Outliers GET TO KNOW hosts DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim for a fun conversation with bestselling author and Killer Nashville founder Clay Stafford. 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet Clay Stafford has had an eclectic career as an author, filmmaker, story and creative consultant, actor, composer, educator, public speaker and business leader. He has sold nearly four million copies of his works in over

Welcome to another episode of "Get to Know," hosted by DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim! In this amazing interview, we sit down with bestselling author Kaira Rouda . 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet Join us for a class taught by Kaira Rouda! Unreliable Narrators and Twisted Truths: Creating Characters Readers Love to Hate Tuesday, June 16 at 4pm PT / 7pm EST Kaira Rouda is an award–winning USA TODAY and A

Welcome to another episode of "Get to Know," hosted by DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim! In this amazing interview, we sit down with best-selling author Craig Johnson. 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet Craig Johnson is the New York Times bestselling author of the Longmire mysteries, the basis for the hit Netflix original series Longmire . He is the recipient of the Western Writers of America Spur Award f

Welcome to another episode of "Get to Know," hosted by DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim! In this amazing interview, we sit down with the incredible Scott Turow and chat about his life, career, and his latest book which is nominated for the Edgar Award Best Novel 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of fourteen works of fiction, including Presumed Innocent

Welcome to another episode of "Get to Know," hosted by DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim! In this amazing interview, we sit down with the incredible Sandra Brown, author of 77 New York Times bestsellers. Sandra shares the story of how getting fired from a TV job before she turned 30 became a major blessing. She reveals how she found the courage to set up a card table with a typewriter and begin a career that completely changed her life. 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube

Join Outliers GET TO KNOW hosts DP Lyle for a fun chat with Best-selling Authors, Outlier Instructors, and Popular Podcasts Hosts Douglas Pratt and Nicholas Harvey. And check out their podcast: Two Authors Podcast 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet A USA Today Bestselling author, Nicholas Harvey's life has been anything but ordinary. Race car driver, adventurer, divemaster, and since 2020, a full-time

Join Outliers GET TO KNOW hosts DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim for a conversation with best-selling author and Outlier Instructor Linda Castillo 📺 WATCH: Get to Know on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet LINDA CASTILLO is the author of the New York Times bestselling Kate Burkholder series, set in the world of the Amish. The first book, Sworn to Silence, was adapted into a Lifetime original movie titled An Amish Murder starring Ne

Join Outliers GET TO KNOW hosts DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim for a conversation with Best-selling Author Allison Brennan on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and Podcast Series. We celebrate Allison’s 20 years as a published author, her upcoming party at The Poisoned Pen Bookstore in Scottsdale, AZ — Sunday 1-25-26 at 2 PM — and the launch of her next thriller, Make It Out Alive. Don’t miss Allison’s upcoming Outliers Writing University class, The Villain’s Journey, on Tuesday, Fe

Join Outliers hosts for a conversation with bestselling author Dean Koontz, as he prepares to release his

New on the Outliers GET TO KNOW: Outlier and Bestselling Author Michael Grumley Join Outliers GET TO KNOW hosts DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim for a conversation with Best-selling Author Michael Grumleyon the Outlier's YouTube Channel and Podcast Series. 📺 WATCH: 'Get to Know' on Outliers YouTube Channel 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet

Join Outliers GET TO KNOW hosts DP Lyle and Kathleen Antrim for a conversation with Best-selling Author James L’Etoile on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and Podcast Series. 📺 WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel " GET TO KNOW Series": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-UZ48ILPXLvlfs0u8Baew 🎧 LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows James L’Etoile uses his twenty-nine years behind bars as an influence in his award-w

Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with best-selling author T. Jefferson Parker on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and Podcast Series. WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel: GET TO KNOW: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-UZ48ILPXLvlfs0u8Baew LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows T. Jefferson Parker is the author of 30 novels, including Silent Joe and California Girl, both of which won the Edgar Awar

Mary Anna Evans holds a PhD in English and an MFA in creative writing, both of which came in particularly handy while writing the story of The Dark Library’s books and troubled professors.

Join Outliers GET TO KNOW host Tracey Devlyn for a conversation with best-selling authors Simon Gervais and Ryan Steck on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and Podcast Series. 📺 Outliers YouTube Channel — GET TO KNOW: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo-UZ48ILPXLvlfs0u8Baew 🎧 Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows Outliers Get to Know host Tracey Devlyn sits down with bestselling thriller authors Simon Gervais and Ryan