International Thriller Writers

My guest today is a New York Times bestselling author.

Omakatsu's books have been nominated for the Stoker, Good Reader's Choice, International Thriller Writers, Locus Magazine, Western Heritage Awards, and more.

She's written spy novels, which draw on her 30-plus year career in intelligence, including working for the CIA.

She also writes novels that combine historical fiction with supernatural and horror elements.

So before we get into that, let me tell you, if you don't know who Maddie Dalrymple is, Maddie Dalrymple is the author of the Lizzie Ballard thrillers and the Ad Kinnear suspense novels and suspense shorts.

She is a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime.

As you may well know, Maddie also podcasts, she writes, she speaks, and she consults on the writing craft and the publishing voyage as the indie author.

And she's a partner member of the Alliance of Independent Authors.

All published at Z, that's the letter Z, James, Z as in ZJ, ZJames at Substack.com. ZJ is immediate past president of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and is an active member of Mystery Writers of America.

and international thriller writers.

He is represented by Terry Wolf, founder and owner of AKA Literary Management.

He's also the author of The Big Weird, Haikus in the Times of Pandemic and Chaos, a collection of sublime poetry

and published it.

So as a result, I'm a lifetime member of International Thriller Writers because they are on the International Thriller Writers approved list of publishers.

Okay, that's nice.

So not only do I get a book, a traditional book deal with a press in London that you don't always get, you know, you can't just walk in the door,