Outliers Writing University Podcast Series

USA Today bestselling author Lucinda Berry is a former psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma. She’s written multiple bestsellers reaching millions of readers worldwide. Some of her bestselling works include The Perfect Child, Saving Noah, When She Returned, The Best of Friends, and Keep Your Friends Close. Her books have been optioned for film and translated into several languages. If Berry isn’t chasing after her...

HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN is the USA Today bestselling author of 15 psychological thrillers, winning the most prestigious awards in the genre: five Agathas, five Anthonys, and the coveted Mary Higgins Clark Award. She is also on-air investigative reporter for Boston's WHDH-TV, with 37 EMMYs and dozens more journalism honors. National book critics call her “a superb and gifted storyteller.” Her current novel is the page-turning standalone...

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 throughout Central and South America. Ryan then served as a search and rescue pilot for the US Navy Experimental Test Wing and NASA. After getting out of the Navy, he was a federal investigator for five y...

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. You’ll find her on socials as @hanna...

After graduating from Georgetown University with a degree in English Literature, I moved to New York City and began my career in media, working in several mediums including print (Premiere Magazine, Esquire Magazine) and broadcast (A&E, The Food Network). I then landed a dream job helping run the Rockefeller Foundation’s Film Fellowships Program, ultimately aiding and guiding the successes of countless writers, filmmakers, and ...

Audrey J. Cole is a USA TODAY bestselling thriller author, and her work has been translated into multiple languages. She resides in the Pacific Northwest with her two children. Before writing full time, she worked as a neonatal intensive care nurse for eleven years.

Sign up for her email list at www.audreyjcole.com to receive free bonus content, promotions, and new release u...

Dave Gaddis was a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent for more than 25 years, serving in some of the most dangerous drug enforcement regions around the world.

From Miami to Mexico, Colombia to Nicaragua, he worked investigations against the Mexican and Colombian cartels responsible for supplying all of the cocaine and most of the heroin destined for the United States.

Beginning as a criminal investigator in Miami’s ...

Outliers Get to Know host Tracey Devlyn sits down with award-winning author Terrence McCauley to discuss his riveting conspiracy-laced historical thriller—THE TWILIGHT TOWN.

A corrupt cop. A rising Fed. A name you didn’t expect: Oswald.

Set in 1963 Dallas, three cops—one dirty, one ambitious, one desperate—unwittingly spiral into a covert game of power and betrayal. Mob ties, political back channels, and the shadows of history coll...

Scott Urbach, a former CIA officer and global security executive turned author, brings a wealth of experience and insider knowledge to the pages of his debut novel Admit Nothing. In this espionage thriller, Scott introduces readers to CIA officer Grant Hunter, a protagonist whose assignments and missions mirror the author’s own career. 

The novel is a gripping tale of espionage, betrayal, and high-stakes geopolitical conflict. With...

John Gaspard

John is an award-winning author of the Eli Marks and Como Lake Players mystery series. He's a screenwriter, filmmaker, and director of six low-budget features. His recent books include the tenth installment of the Eli Marks series, "Twisting the Aces" (with Michael Varma) and “Held Over,” a retrospective of the movie “Harold and Maude” and its over two-year run at The Westgate Theater. He lives in Minneapolis with his ...

Join DP Lyle and Katherine Ramsland for an enlightening and chilling interview with Kathy Kleiner Rubin who survived Ted Bundy’s attack at the Chi Omega Sorority house at Florida State University. Her book, A Light in the Dark: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy, talks about her unbreakable will to survive this and other challenges.

Kathy Kleiner Rubin is a motivational speaker who specializes in survivor impact and is the author of A L...

Ande 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 mayhem, and most importantly, finding the hope in the dark.

When not reading or writing, she can usually be found dabbling in art, scheming up her next trip, or making constant expeditions to the library. Born in Florida, rai...

Supervisory Special Agent, F.B.I. (Ret.) Mark Safarik was one of the most respected members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s elite Behavioral Analysis Unit, during which time he established himself as an internationally recognized expert in the analysis and interpretation of violent criminal behavior. Mr. Safarik’s law enforcement career spans over 30 years, during which time he worked in all levels of police work, from wor...

USA Today bestselling and award-winning author Kaira Rouda has written

more than twenty novels beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics, who’ve

called her books “chilling, satisfying suspense” (Good Housekeeping) and

“delightfully wicked fun” (Kirkus Reviews) that are “destined to fly off the

shelves” (Library Journal). She’s distinguished herself in the popular genre of

psychological suspense by constructing seemingly perfect l...

AFTER ESCOBAR is the gripping true story into the rise and ultimate takedown of what former DEA head Thomas Constantine called “the biggest and most powerful crime syndicate in history”, as told by the agents themselves. By the early 1990s, Colombia’s Cali cartel had become responsible for nearly 85% of the cocaine that reached U.S. soil and 90% worldwide. They were untouchable, earning billions of dollars all while maintaining the...

Outliers Get to Know host Tracey Devlyn sits down with debut author Travis Kennedy to talk about his outrageously fun, heart-thumping, satirical thriller—THE WHYTE PYTHON WORLD TOUR.

A dream gig. A secret mission. A Cold War about to blow its amp.

It’s 1986 and L.A. drummer Rikki Thunder is on the brink of stardom with Whyte Python—until the band’s rise hits a global nerve. What starts as a world tour becomes a mission of epic prop...