Tart Words Episodes

Tart Words: Authors discuss their latest book, what inspires them, and their creative outlets.
Oct. 25, 2024

Emilya Naymark

Emilya Naymark’s debut novel is “Hide In Place” from Crooked Lane Books. Her short stories appear in the Harper Collins anthology A Stranger Comes to Town,  Secrets in the Water, After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shif…
Oct. 25, 2024

Carrie Stuart Parks

Linda Hengerer talks with Carrie Stuart Parks, an award-winning, internationally known forensic artist. She travels across the US and Canada teaching courses in forensic art to law enforcement professionals including the FBI…
Oct. 25, 2024

Suzanne Fox

Suzanne Fox, writing as Suzanne Scott, is the author of One Hot Summer. Originally published in 1997, Harlequin has re-released it as an ebook.
Guest: Suzanne Fox
Oct. 25, 2024

Joan Lipinsky Cochran

Linda Hengerer is talking with Joan Lipinsky Cochran, whose Becks Ruchinsky Mysteries explore subcultures of American Judaism.
Oct. 25, 2024

Nancy J. Cohen

Nancy J. Cohen writes the Bad Hair Day Mysteries featuring South Florida hairstylist Marla Vail. These books have won numerous awards along with her nonfiction titles, Writing the Cozy Mystery and A Bad Hair Day Cookbook.
Oct. 25, 2024

Joan Wright Mularz

Joan Wright Mularz lives in Florida and summers in Maine. She is the author of the E.T. Madigan YA mystery series. The third book in the series, Maine Roots Run Deep, was a Finalist for BEST YA BOOK at the 2018 Independent P…
Oct. 25, 2024

Annette Dashofy

Annette Dashofy is the USA Today best-selling author of the multi–Agatha Award-nominated Zoe Chambers mystery series about a paramedic and deputy coroner in rural Pennsylvania’s tight-knit Vance Township.
Oct. 25, 2024

Raquel V. Reyes

Raquel V. Reyes is the author of Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking, the second book in the Caribbean Kitchen Mystery series and available now. Mango, Mambo, and Murder, the first book in the series featuring Cuban-American cooki…
Oct. 25, 2024

Christine DeSmet

Christine DeSmet is the author of the Fudge Shop Mystery Series and the novella series, Mischief in Moonstone Mystery Series, both set in Wisconsin. She is a writing coach as well, and spent several years as a Distinguished …
Oct. 25, 2024

Victoria L.K. Williams

Victoria L.K. Williams grew up reading Nancy Drew mysteries in upstate New York. Now she lives in a small town in sunny Florida with her husband of 37 years and her two controlling cats, Miss Marple and Fletch. Her Citrus Be…
Sept. 12, 2021

Hank Phillippi Ryan

In Her Perfect Life, Hank Phillippi Ryan explores the vulnerabilities of being an on-air news reporter.
Aug. 25, 2021

Barbara Barrett

What was the inspiration for Barbara Barrett's cozy mystery series?
Aug. 16, 2021

Hannah Dennison

Where does Hannah Dennison find creative respite?
Aug. 8, 2021

Amy Vansant

How did circus and cruise settings end up with ties to Pineapple Port?
Guest: Amy Vansant
Aug. 2, 2021

Russia Week - Encore: Emilya Naymark

The first of a theme week for the Tart Words podcast is an encore presentation of Emilya Naymark's podcast episode.