The Story Blender with special guest Kathleen Antrim
b'Kathleen Antrim is the award-winning author of the bestselling political thriller, \\u201cCapital Offense.\\u201d\\xa0 As a national correspondent and columnist, she wrote for \\u201cNewsMax Magazine,\\u201d the \\u201cSan Francisco and Washington, D.C. Examiner Newspapers,\\u201d and was featured weekly on KSFO radio and the nationally syndicated show, \\u201cBattle Line.\\u201d\\xa0 Antrim has appeared on such television shows as \\u201cHannity and Colmes.\\u201d\\n\\nShe worked on Capitol Hill behind the scenes in the U.S. Senate, while researching and writing the biography of former Virginia Governor and U.S. Senator George Allen.\\n\\nHer short story, \\u201cThrough a Veil Darkly,\\u201d is featured in the anthology, \\u201cThriller 2,\\u201d edited by Clive Cussler.\\n\\nShe has taught creative writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the winner of the Rupert Hughes Award for fiction.\\xa0 After serving 5 years at the Vice President on National Events, and running ThrillerFest, for the International Thriller Writers she became Co-President of the organization.\\n\\nHer family, however, wasn\\u2019t to be excluded from her life in the Golden State, having adopted the philosophy that family should be like a bad rash and never go away.\\xa0 So, one by one, they followed her to California.\\xa0 Now, the entire clan lives within a five-mile radius of each other, where they practice the All-American family sport of blissful dysfunction.'