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Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with Best-selling Author Lynne Constantine on the Outlier's YouTube Channel and the Outliers Podcast Series WATCH: Outliers YouTube Channel: GET TO KNOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh_A2h6EBQs LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series On Your Favorite Outlet: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows Best-selling Author Lynne Constantine Lynne Constantine is an Edgar Award–nominated and Silver Falchion Award–winning, New Yo

Paul Guyot Talks Jump Starting Your Writing OUTLIERS WRITING UNIVERSITY https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/ What do you write when the words just aren’t coming? Screenwriter and Outliers instructor Paul Guyot has a writing exercise for those days when your current project just does not want to cooperate. Open a blank page and try this: • Choose two characters • Put them in any setting • Give them one assignment: write a breakup scene • Now write that exact scene

Join host DP Lyle MD for a fascinating discussion of violent crime and serial killers. As with alcohol, drugs, gambling, etc., are their activities addictive? LISTEN: Outliers Podcast Series Links: https://www.outlierswritinguniversity.com/shows Dr. Adam Lankford is a criminologist with expertise on mass shootings and targeted violence. His findings have been cited by The White House, by every major media outlet in the United States, and by international media from over 40 co

Trends can be a great way to get your content in front of new readers. The trick is learning which trends to use and how to use them as inspiration while still creating content that sounds and feels like you. 1. Choose Trends That Fit You don’t have to participate in every trending sound, meme, or format (and you really shouldn’t either). Before jumping in, ask yourself: Can I naturally connect this to my books, genre, writing process, or readers? If you’re forcing the connec

Outliers co-founder D.P. Lyle was a guest on the West of the Page YouTube/Podcast show. He chatted about the Rough Country Anthology and his short story “Red Roses.” Best of all, the anthology benefited the US Marshals Survivors Benefit Fund. Purchase the book: https://www.dplylemd.com/books/anthologies

Join Kathleen Antrim and DP Lyle for a conversation with renowned editor Neil Nyren 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 Neil Nyren is the former EVP, associate publisher, and editor in chief of G.P. Putnam's Sons; and the winner of the 2017 Ellery Queen Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the 2025 Thriller Legend award from the I

Coming January 7, 2027 FORENSICS FOR DUMMIES, 3RD EDITION Available for Pre-order Many Updates including the latest in DNA Analysis and a new chapter on Digital Forensics PRE-ORDER NOW: https://www.dplylemd.com/books/forensicscience Original VersionL 2005 Macavity Award Winner 2005 Edgar Nominee

Join DP Lyle for a conversation with best-selling author Ryan Pote 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 Ryan is a twelve-year veteran Navy helicopter pilot and mission commander who was part of a joint interagency special operations task force (JIATF). He did three deployments during Operation MARTILLO countering narcotics smuggling through