Get ready for an event unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.
All your favorite authors, one night, five-plus hours of LIVE streaming . . . and it’s all free!
Join us on November 3 for Night of a Thousand Authors, an evening of endless interviews and appearances from some of the biggest names on the thriller and mystery scene today. Co-hosting will be author K.J. Howe (ITW Executive Director) and The Real Book Spy’s Ryan Steck, with special help from The Crew Reviews‘ Michael Houtz and Sean Cameron.
See the official press release below.
David Brown, Deputy Director of Publicity at Atria Books and “driver” of the @AtriaMysteryBus twitter feed, has teamed up with the Executive Director of ITW and ThrillerFest, Kimberley Howe and influential book blogger Ryan “The Real Book Spy” Steck to create NIGHT OF A THOUSAND AUTHORS,election day counterprogramming for mystery, thriller and suspense fans to escape from the stress and anxiety of that day.
Beginning at 3 pm ET on Tuesday, November 3, and streaming from https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl3-UyBi–AoOx6beNP34Jw, NIGHT OF A THOUSAND AUTHORS is being described as The Jerry Lewis Telethon meets Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve with the biggest names in crime fiction and NO TALK OF POLITICS.
Among the confirmed guests are Janet Evanovich, Brad Thor, Lisa Scottoline, Gregg Hurwitz, John Connolly, Kyle Mills, Kathy Reichs, Karin Slaughter, Jennifer Hillier, R.L. Stine, Ruth Ware, Mark Greaney, Brad Taylor, Jack Carr, and Alafair Burke with many more committed (full list below) and still to come.
NIGHT OF A THOUSAND AUTHORS is a marathon of 10 minutes interviews hosted by Howe and Steck—the “special sauce” is that each author will share the first two minutes of their interview on the screen with the previous guest and the last two minutes of their interview with the next guest.
“How often do you get to see this many big name authors in one place over a short period of time?” Howe asked, “The magnitude of star power makes this program unique.”
“This is going to be wild!” Steck said, “Wall to wall and back to back, rapid fire interviews complete with potential odd pairings overlapping and doing it live? It can only go right!”
Bookstores, libraries and review websites will be contacted and encouraged to stream the program from their websites.
The star-studded event—which will live stream across a number of platforms—will serve as the show launch for THRILLER TALK, a brand new podcast from Howe and Steck, who’ve teamed up to bring fans of the genre a fresh, innovative new show that’ll cover the thriller genre in a way that’s unlike anything else available on the web.
Night of a Thousand Authors, produced by Jeff Ayers, will feature a pre and post-game show hosted by Mr. Atria Mystery Bus himself, David Brown. The full lineup of writers who’ll appear can be viewed below, though fans will have to tune in live on November 3 to find out more about author pairings and who will appear when.
Alafair Burke
Alex Segura
Allison Brennan
Andrews and Wilson
Anthony Horowitz
Brad Meltzer
Brad Taylor
Brad Thor
Chris Hauty
Christopher Rosow
David Morrell
Francesca Serritella
Gayle Lynds
Gregg Hurwitz
Hank Phillippi Ryan
J.A. Jance
J.D. Barker
Jack Carr
James Rollins
Janet Evanovich
Jennifer Hillier
Jesse and Jonathan Kellerman
Joel Rosenberg
John Connolly
John Sandford
Karen Dionne
Karin Slaughter
Kathy Reichs
Kyle Mills
Linwood Barclay
Lisa Jewell
Lisa Scottoline
Lisa Unger
Liv Constantine
Mark Greaney
Meg Gardiner
Megan Collins
Megan Miranda
Mindy Mejia
Peter James
R.L. Stine
Rachel Howzell Hall
Ragnar Jonasson
Robert Dugoni
Ruth Ware
Shari Lapena
Steve Berry
Tosca Lee
William Kent Krueger
We’re streaming on…
RainyDayBooks.com (Kansas City, KS)
And these Facebook pages:
Village Square Books (Bellows Falls, VT)
Highland Park Library (Highland Park, IL)
Poisoned Pen (Scottsdale, AZ)
Warwick’s (La Jolla, CA)
Tattered Cover Bookstore (Denver, CO)
Browseabout Books (Rehoboth Beach, DE)
Bookworks (Albuquerque, NM)
Bookmarks (Winston Salem, NC)
Cuyahoga Public Library (OH)
DeKalb Library Foundation and DeKalb County Public Library (GA)
Johnson County Public Library (IN)
McLean & Eakin Booksellers (Petoskey, MI)
A Likely Story (Sykesville, MD)
Creating Conversations Bookstore & Author Events (San Diego, CA)
Next Chapter Books (St. Paul, MN)
South Dakota Humanities Council
Print Bookstore (Portland, ME)
Murder By The Book (Houston, TX)
Vromans’s (Pasadena, CA)
The Doylestown Bookshop (Doylestown, PA)
Atlanta Writers Club (GA)
Novel Suspects (not a bookstore but a source for news)
Simon and Schuster
Atria Books
While additional details (including more participating authors) will be made in the coming days, fans excited to tune in can now go “subscribe” to the THRILLER TALK Youtube channel here.
Praised as “One of the hardest working, most thoughtful, and fairest reviewers out there” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, Ryan Steck has “quickly established himself as the authority on mysteries and thrillers” (Author A.J. Tata). Steck also works full-time as a freelance editor and pens a monthly thriller column for CrimeReads. For more information, be sure to follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He currently lives in Southwest Michigan with his wife and their six children.
Praised as “One of the hardest working, most thoughtful, and fairest reviewers out there” by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline, Ryan Steck has “quickly established himself as the authority on mysteries and thrillers” (Author A.J. Tata). Steck also works full-time as a freelance editor and pens a monthly thriller column for CrimeReads. For more information, be sure to follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He currently lives in Southwest Michigan with his wife and their six children.