In anticipation of the release of Pinky Swear, join Danielle in conversation with some of her favorite author friends in a series called Pinky Swear Confessions where guests confess to a juicy secret they kept (or didn’t) from childhood and talk about friendship and all things books.
Tessa Wegert is the critically acclaimed author of the ShanaMerchant mysteries, as well as the North Country series, beginning with In the Bones. Her books have received numerous starred reviews and have been featured on PBS and NPR Radio.A former journalist and copywriter, Tessa grew up in Quebec and now lives with her husband and children in Connecticut, where she co-founded Sisters in Crime CT and serves on the board of International Thriller Writers (ITW).
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Amy Meyerson is the acclaimed author of the internationally bestselling The Bookshop of Yesterdays, The Imperfects, and The Love Scribe. Her books have been translated into eleven languages and are frequently chosen for best-of lists, including lists from Good Morning America, Publishers Weekly, The Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Texas Library Association’s Lariat List, among others. Meyerson completed her graduate work in creative writing at the University of Southern California, where she now teaches in the writing department.
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Kimberly Belle is an Edgar Award winning, USA Today & internationally bestselling author with over 1.5 million copiessold worldwide. Her titles include The Paris Widow, The Marriage Lie, a Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist forBest Mystery & Thriller, and the co-authored #1 Audible Original, Young Rich Widows series.
Kimberly’s novels have been optioned for film and television and selected by LibraryReads and Amazon & Apple Books Editors as Best Books of the Month, and the International Thriller Writers as nominee for best book of the year. She divides her time between Atlanta and Amsterdam.
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Lisa Jewell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three novels, including Don’t Let Him In, None of This Is True, The Family Upstairs, and Then She Was Gone, as well as Invisible Girl and Watching You. Her novels have sold more than fifteen million copies internationally, and her work has also been translated into over thirty languages. Connect with her on X @LisaJewellUK, on Instagram @LisaJewellUK, and on Facebook.
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In this episode of Pinky Swear Confessions, Danielle is joined by thriller author John Fram.
John Fram is the author of the critically acclaimed supernatural thrillers THE BRIGHT LANDS, NO ROAD HOME and THE MIDNIGHT KNOCK. He has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times and elsewhere. A lifelong Texan, he lives in Austin.
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C. L. Miller is the internationally bestselling author of the Antique Hunter Series. She started working life as an editorial assistant for her mother, Judith Miller, on The Miller’s Antique Price Guide and other antiquing guides. She lives in a medieval cottage in Dedham Vale, Suffolk, with her family. Visit her at CLMillerAuthor.com.
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In this episode of Pinky Swear Confessions, Danielle is joined by friend and fellow thriller author, Hannah Morrissey.
Hannah is the author of the Black Harbor suspense series which includes Hello, Transcriber, The Widowmaker, When I’m Dead, and The Unlucky Ones. A three-decade survivor ofWisconsin winters, Hannah enjoys putting her characters (and readers) in bone-chilling atmospheres that permeate beyond the page. Naturally, her books have carved out their own sub-genre of “Midwestern Noir.”
Hannah graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madisonwhere she majored in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. She grew up in a small northern town and now lives near Milwaukee with her husband, three pugs, and a TBR pile that never seems to get any smaller.
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Magen Mintchev is a social media strategist, content creator, and founder of Social with Magen, a boutique social media agency helping authors, brands, and executives grow with clarity and strategy. After 20+ years in marketing communications for global tech companies, banks, and newspapers, she launched her agency in 2023 and now partners with clients across the B2B tech, publishing, writing, and education industries to craft authentic, data-driven social media strategies.
Magen also runs the popular Bookstagram account @bonechillingbooks and co-leads a virtual book club with nearly 3,000 members worldwide, uniting readers around their shared love of thrillers and mysteries. Through her platform, she has collaborated with major publishers and entertainment brands including Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Paramount+, and Peacock. Her work has taken her from the Sharjah International Book Fair in Dubai to Prague for Dan Brown’s international launch event, and she’s been a speaker at both Bouchercon and the International Thriller Writers (ITW) conference.
Born in Maine, Magen now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with her husband and two sons, and when when she’s not reading thrillers, she’s likely strategizing social campaigns or watching true crime documentaries.
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Kit Frick is a MacDowell Fellow and International Thriller Writers Award finalist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She studied creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Syracuse University. She is the author of the adult suspense novels The Split and Friends and Liars, the young adult thrillers Before We Were Sorry (originally published as See All the Stars), All Eyes on Us, I Killed Zoe Spanos, Very Bad People, and The Reunion, and the poetry collection A Small Rising Up in the Lungs. Kit loves a good mystery but has only ever killed her characters. Honest. Visit Kit online at KitFrick.com and on Instagram @KitFrick.
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Christina Kovac is the author of The Cutaway. She worked for seventeen years managing Washington, DC, newsrooms and producing crime and political stories in the District. Her career as a television journalist began with Fox Five’s Ten O’Clock News, and after that, the ABC affiliate in Washington and then at NBC news. She lives with her family outside of Washington, DC.
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Holly Seddon is the author of several thrillers, including theinternational bestseller Try Not to Breathe, The Hit List, and 59 Minutes. After growing up in the English countrysideobsessed with music and books, Holly worked in London as a journalist and editor. After several years in Amsterdam, she now lives in Kent with her family and writes full time. Find out more at HollySeddon.com.
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Vanessa Lillie is the USA Today bestselling author of Blood Sisters, a new series centered on the stories of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, which was a Target Book Club pick and GMA Book Club Buzz Pick, as well as a best mystery of the year from the Washington Post, Amazon Editor’s and Reader’s Digest. The sequel, The Bone Thief, will be released October 28th. Her other bestselling thrillers are Little Voices, For the Best and she’s the creator and coauthor of the # 1 Audible Charts bestseller and International Thriller Writers award nominated, Young Rich Widows series, set in Providence, RI where she lives. Originally from Miami, Oklahoma, she is a proud citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Vanessa was a Sisters in Crime board member and wrote a weekly column for the Providence Journal about her experiences during the first year of the pandemic. She hosts an Instagram Live show, ‘Twas the Night Before Book Launch, where she chats with authors the night before their book is out in the world.
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Kate Belli is the author of The Gallery Assistant and the widely praised Gilded Gotham historical mystery series. She holds a doctorate in art history and has variously worked as an antiques appraiser, a museum curator, and a college professor. Kate is currently a gallery director at a Pennsylvania college. Find out more at KateBelli.com
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Chevy Stevens lives on Vancouver Island with her husband and daughter. When she isn’t working on her next book, she’s spending time with her family and their two dogs. Her books, including Still Missing, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the International Thriller Writers Award for Best First Novel, have been published in more than thirty countries.
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Zoë Rankin grew up in a village in Scotland. She studied International Relations and Arabic before going on to qualify as a primary school teacher. She spent many years travelling in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and eventually settled in New Zealand. She has always been passionate about writing as well as spending time outdoors and exploring by bike, often with her two small children who are equally adventurous.
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Internationally bestselling author Hannah Mary McKinnon was born in the UK, grew up in Switzerland and moved to Canada in 2010. Her eight suspense novels include THE REVENGE LIST, ONLY ONE SURVIVES, and A KILLER MOTIVE, and her work has been optioned for the screen. She also writes holiday romantic comedies as Holly Cassidy. Hannah Mary lives near Toronto, Canada with her husband and three sons.
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Angeline Boulley, an enrolled member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is a storyteller who writes about her Ojibwe community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a former Director of the Office of Indian Education at the U.S. Department of Education. Her debut novel Firekeeper's Daughter was an instant #1New York Times bestseller and recipient of many international accolades including the ALA Printz and Morris Awards; the YA Goodreads Choice Award; the Walter Award for Outstanding Children's Literature; and is Carnegie Mellon nominated. Angeline lives in southwest Michigan, but her home will always be on Sugar Island.
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Christina Baker Kline is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including The Exiles, Orphan Train, and A Piece of the World. Published in more than forty countries, her novels have received the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, among other accolades, and have been chosen by hundreds of communities, universities and schools as “One Book, One Read” selections. Christina divides her time between New York City and Maine. While PLEASE DON’T LIE is her first thriller, she has a penchant for writing characters who meet untimely ends.
Anne Burt’s debut novel, The Dig, was an ABA IndieNext pick, the Strand Book Store’s top mystery selection for spring 2023, and IndieNext’s lead “Thrills & Chills” reading group title for summer 2024. Anne is also the editor of My Father Married Your Mother: Dispatches from the Blended Family and coeditor, with Christina Baker Kline, of About Face: Women Write About What They See When They Look in the Mirror. Her essays and fiction have appeared in numerous publications and venues, including Salon, NPR, and The Christian Science Monitor; she is a past winner of Meridian’s Editors’ Prize in Fiction. Anne graduated from Yale University with a BA in history, and from New York University with an MFA in creative writing. She lives in New York City, Weston CT, and the dark corners of her own imagination.
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A graduate of Wesleyan University, Melissa Pace is a former editor and writer for Elle, as well as a past finalist for the Humanitas New Voices Fellowship for emerging film and television writers. The mother of three amazing children, Pace lives with her husband in Los Angeles, and when not writing she likes to lace up her cleats and get all her ya-yas out on the soccer field. The Once and Future Me is her first novel.
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Katie Bishop is the author of The Girls of Summer. Her writing has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vogue, The Independent, and other publications. She lives in Birmingham, U.K. with her partner.
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