Origin Story is a new live series I’m starting over on my Substack. I’ll talk with writers about their beginnings and their journeys to where they are today.

My first guest, on August 4th at noon Pacific Time, is thriller author Jaime Parker Stickle. Her debut novel, Vicious Cycle, came out last summer to much acclaim. The second book in Jaime’s “Corey in Los Angeles” thriller series comes out August 4th, so we get to talk with her on her pub day!

Take Hart is the follow-up to Jaime’s popular debut, Vicious Cycle: “Between her LAPD consulting gig, fledgling indie news blog, and postpartum panic disorder, former TV journalist Corey Tracey-Lieberman is barely keeping it together. Then a mother named Sonja Hart vanishes in her Highland Park neighborhood, and the case is all but ignored. Sparked by maternal fury, Corey’s investigative instincts come roaring back to life.”