On this episode of Newts World, author, screenwriter, philanthropist, journalist, and broadcaster,

Mitch Album is an inspiration around the world.

Album is the author of numerous books of fiction and non-fiction,

which have collectively sold more than 40 million copies and 48 languages worldwide.

He's written eight number one New York Times bestsellers,

including Tuesdays with Mori, the best-selling memoir of all time, which topped the list

for four stray years and celebrated its 25th anniversary on 2022. He's also read an award-winning TV films, stage plays, screenplays, a

nationally syndicated newspaper column, and a musical. He appeared for more than 20 years on the ESPN and was a fixture on the sports

reporters.

Through his work at the Detroit Free Press, he was inducted into both the National

Sports Media Association and Michigan Sports Hall of Fame

and was the recipient of the Red Smith Award for Lifetime Achievement.

So with that introduction, I am really pleased to welcome my guest,

Mitch Album, and he's joining us to discuss his new novel, The Little Liar, which is now available in bookstores everywhere. Mitch, welcome, and thank you for joining me on New Twirled.

It's a pleasure, thank you for having me on New Twirled.

It's a pleasure, thank you for having me on. How did you get into writing?

Accidentally, I was a musician and that's all I ever really wanted to be. Never wrote anything

while I was in high school or college. I just wanted to work in the music business and I did that for a few years in New York. It wasn't really getting anywhere and worked at nights mostly and so during the day I had time free and I was in a supermarket one day

and picked up one of those giveaway newspapers that they have there and they had a little thing in the

bottom right corner that said we could use some help with our newspaper if you have time and since I had some time I went down there and I think it was the youngest person in the office by about 70 years and they gave me an assignment that night.

I'd never written anything and they gave me an assignment to cover a parking meters hearing.

And all I knew about journalism

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