An Interview with Ronald Chapman: Author of A Killer’s Grace
I have a consulting and coaching business, www.MagneticNorth.com, that provides the foundation for my other work. A Killer’s Grace is my fourth book, and I have two audio sets also in the marketplace. Many of the ideas about which I write find their way into workshops, speeches and online content.
Tell us about your book.
A Killer’s Grace is first and foremost a redemption story. Based on my actual correspondence with a serial killer who was put to death for his crimes, my protagonist, a journalist named Pitcairn, receives a letter from a fictional serial killer. It proposes a […]


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I was born and raised in Virginia, and received undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Virginia. After a long career in academic emergency medicine and palliative medicine, I am now a physician executive in Dallas, where I write, teach undergraduates at the University of Texas at Dallas, front a cover band, and play mediocre golf when time allows. I travel and speak nationally about the role of art and the humanities in the professional development of physicians. My wife and I live in a home owned and operated by our cats, Sox and Jester, and are grateful that […]
Larry Kilham has traveled extensively overseas for over twenty years. He worked in several large international companies and started and sold two high-tech ventures. He received a B.S. in engineering from the University of Colorado and an M.S. in management from MIT. Larry has written books about creativity and invention, artificial intelligence and digital media, travel overseas, and three novels with an AI theme. His book website is
I’ve published over the years 22 or so books, They comprise adult fiction, young adult fiction, adaptations of adult fiction and non-fiction, children’s books, gender studies, art criticism. Several of my books have won prestigious awards. In fiction, I like to experiment and grow as a writer. I never write the same character or story twice. I went to a good college and learned a lot about writing, but I’m also an autodidact.
Shirley Melis, a graduate of Vassar College, is a longtime business writer, travel writer and newspaper columnist who traveled the world interviewing everyone from busboys to heads of international organizations before launching a career in public relations in Washington, D.C.
I’ve been chased by moose, river otters, and mad mother partridges. And that’s recent. My seriously unsupervised childhood exploring clam flats, deep forests, and secret streams grew into the marrow that became my novel,