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Susan McGrath

A native Californian, Susan grew up in western Malibu, riding her horse on the beach and in the hills, weaving stories and daydreaming.  Now, a lifetime later, she still rides in the Santa Monica Mountains—either on a horse or a motorcycle—enjoying flights of fancy along the way. During the intervening…

J. S. Allen

J. S. Allen is a Naturist-Christian writer, linguist, and historian from Kansas City, Missouri. He is the author of the young adult series Sauragia and Knights of Aralia, as well as the Woodland Tales short story anthology for children, which he also illustrated. His work has also appeared in various…

Nadean Stone

Nadean Stone was born in Blind River Ontario, Canada, graduated from Windsor University in 1973 with a BA and McMaster University in 1976 with an MBA. She obtained her Certificate in Journalism in 2002 and her Certificate of Legal Management, CLM in 2011. In 2004, Nadean helped launch a weekday…

Jill Button

Jill is the President & CEO of ProcurePro Consulting, a boutique Procurement, Project Management and IT consulting firm specializing in implementing ERP, Finance, HR, CRM, Payroll, Supply Chain and Procurement systems. A Strategic Sourcing and Supply Chain executive, with over thirty years of supply chain, technology, business and leadership experience,…

Kenya Lee

 Kenya Lee is a Registered Nurse, Artist, Author and Women’s Empowerment Expert. She grew up in Detroit, Michigan where the struggles of urban childhood and adolescence fueled her passion for helping young girls and women thrive in life. Her life journey to evolve into emotional wellness was preceded by hardships…

Sue C. Dugan

Sue C. Dugan is a Michigander transplanted in Nevada. She has one foot in her Midwest roots and another in her adopted Western State. The two locals have served her well, and she has used them both in her work. She has two children, five grandchildren and two writing partners…

Randall Howlett

Randall is a 69-year-old retired and divorced American who has been living in Bangkok for the last ten years enjoying the life as an expat. Prior to that, he worked in middle management for a major insurance company for about 20 years after doing a stint as a Captain in…

M. L. Buchman

USA Today and Amazon #1 Bestseller M. L. "Matt" Buchman has 70+ novels, 125 short stories and 50 read-by-author audiobooks. PW declares of his Miranda Chase action-adventure thrillers that: “Tom Clancy fans open to a strong female lead will clamor for more.” About his military romantic suspense: “Like Robert Ludlum…

Elena Hartwell Taylor

Elena Taylor spent several years working in theater as a playwright, director, designer, and educator before turning her storytelling skills to fiction. Her first series, the Eddie Shoes Mysteries, written under the name Elena Hartwell, introduced a quirky mother/daughter crime-fighting duo. With All We Buried, Elena returns to her dramatic…

Tony Sclama

Tony (Anthony) Sclama is a retired physician with degrees in Biology and Human Physiology from Georgetown University, Medicine from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Business/Healthcare Management from Johns Hopkins University. A Rhode Island native, his medical career spanned thirty-two years and included a full-time practice of Urologic Surgery…

Liz Leonard

Liz Leonard is a passionate storyteller based in NJ, where she lives with her husband, daughter, and dog. After earning her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, she dove into the world of animation, film, and television often drawing inspiration from her own…

Ivan Obolensky

Ivan Obolensky was born in New York and educated in the US and the UK. He began by writing nonfiction articles on economics, finance, history and other social sciences. Inspired by stories about his grandmother, Alice Astor (who died while reading an Egyptian Book of the Dead and was an…

Michael Eon

Michael Eon earned a BA in psychology from the University of Michigan and an MA in international affairs from Columbia University. A former board member of the Audio Publishers Association and a former producer of major motion pictures and television productions, Michael worked in the publishing and entertainment industries for…

MHR Geer

MHR Geer was born in California but raised in the Midwest. After studying Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she started a bookkeeping business. MHR enjoys reading suspense and is always delighted with an unexpected twist. Assumed is her debut novel. She lives in Ventura, CA with her…

Modello Brown

Growing up in Englewood, Chicago — a place of limited opportunity and notorious for being one of the most dangerous cities — Modello knew he had to pursue his dreams to develop the desired future. His enthusiasm for various art forms, such as music, animation, drawing and painting, drove him…

Thomas Roehlk

Thomas M. Roehlk is a retired corporate attorney from St. Charles, Illinois. He worked at a variety of major international corporations, including companies in the defense sector, and businesses in consumer products, transportation equipment and financial services. He spent more than 20 years as a general counsel of a public…

Michael Strelow

Michael Strelow was an educator, having taught in the English Department of Willamette University from 1980 to 2015. His first novel, The Greening of Ben Brown (2005), was a finalist for the Ken Kesey Novel Prize (Hawthorne Books).  His second novel, Henry: A Novel of Beer and Love in the…

Bina Shah

BINA SHAH is a Karachi-based author of five novels and two collections of short stories. Her previous novel, A Season for Martyrs, was published in the U.S., France, and India to critical acclaim, while her forthcoming feminist dystopian novel, Before She Sleeps, will be published by Delphinium Books in August…

Charles Langley

CHARLES LANGLEY is the former news editor at the London Evening Standard, Europe’s best-selling evening newspaper. Raised in England, he set out across the United States in 2003 to drive from Florida to California but wound up on a Navajo reservation in Arizona. At a peyote medicine ceremony he met a…

David Plante

David Plante Memoirs Diaries Fiction Critically acclaimed novelist and gifted modern diarist, with background similar to Jack Kerouac, brought up in a French-speaking parish. DAVID PLANTE grew up in Providence, RI, within a French-Canadian parish that was palisaded by its language, a French that dated from the time of the…

Derek Rydall

DEREK RYDALL, one of a new generation of spiritual visionaries and thought leaders, is an Amazon/Barnes & Noble #1 bestselling author of EMERGENCE: Seven Steps for Radical Life Change (Atria/Beyond Words; 2015). This book revealed the revolutionary principle, the Law of Emergence, showing people how to tap into the pattern…

James R. Hannibal

As a former stealth pilot, JAMES R. HANNIBAL is no stranger to secrets and adventure. He has been shot at, locked up with surface to air missiles, and chased down a winding German road by an armed terrorist. He is an award-winning author of multiple series, including the Nick Baron…

Katherine Nouri Hughes

Iraqi-Irish by birth, KATHERINE NOURI HUGHES attended Princeton University, where she earned a Master’s Degree in Near Eastern Studies and where she served on that department’s advisory council for 25 years. After living in Cairo and traveling extensively in the region, she returned to the United States and was a…

Kathleen Hill

KATHLEEN HILL has lived most of her adult life in New York City. In her twenties she and her husband, Clifford Hill, taught in a secondary school close to Lagos, Nigeria, and then a few years later spent a year in Niger with their three young children. After receiving a…

Maxine Rosaler

MAXINE ROSALER started writing fiction over 35 years ago and 35 years later her first book of fiction, Queen for a Day, was published. She has earned a living as a freelance writer and journalist and a freelance copyeditor. Short stories and nonfiction pieces have been published in literary quarterlies…

Jim & Stephanie Kroepfl

JIM and STEPHANIE KROEPFL are a husband-and-wife team who write stories of mystery and adventure from their cabin in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. When they aren’t dodging moose, their story ideas appear during their walks with their dog, who far prefers playing to plotting novels. Jim and Stephanie are world…

Mike Murphy

MIKE MURPHY is a self-made businessman. He started washing dishes at age 15 and owned his own restaurant at age 24. He then started selling cars at age 25 and owned his first automobile dealership at age 33. Since then he has owned and operated a dozen new car dealerships.…

Richard Webb

RICHARD “DEEJ” WEBB is an author, documentary filmmaker and historian. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, he is a multiple award-winning educator who has taught at the high school and university level for more than 25 years. A featured presenter in the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Prohibition documentary Connecticut Goes Dry, Webb is co-creator and co-producer, along with…

Rick Pullen

RICK PULLEN is a journalist by trade who began his novel-writing career in 2011. Naked Ambition, his first novel, made Amazon’s bestseller thriller list in 2016, just three weeks after it was published. The Apprentice was published in 2017, and Naked Truth, a sequel to Naked Ambition, followed in 2018. His agent is…

Sandra Mendelson

SANDRA MENDELSON facilitates a deeper understanding between humans and non-humans evolved from her work as a Certified Polychromatic Light Therapist, Equine Photopuncture Therapist and Health Coach. She is a channel of animal consciousness and shares messages from the animal kingdom for the benefit of humans. The author of multiple articles…

Sara Wiseman

SARA WISEMAN is a visionary spiritual teacher and award-winning author of many books on spirituality and intuition, including Messages from the Divine. She’s reached tens of thousands of students worldwide via Intuition University, hosts the Ask Sara radio show and Spiritual Psychic podcast with over 2.1 million subscribers, and writes…

PJ Tracy

P.J. TRACY was the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo P.J. and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their eight novels, Monkeewrench, Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Shoot To Thrill, Off The Grid, The Sixth Idea, and Nothing Stays Buried have become national and international…

Laurie Petrou

LAURIE PETROU is an associate professor at the RTA School of Media at Ryerson University in Toronto. Her first book, a collection of short stories titled Between, was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book. She was the inaugural winner of the Half the World Global Literati Award in 2016 for her unpublished…

Dr Edward Hallowell

  EDWARD M. HALLOWELL, M.D., is the bestselling author of Driven to Distraction and more than 20 books on attention deficit disorder and emotional well-being. In his celebrated new memoir, Because I Come From a Crazy Family, he turns an eye inward to his own life. He is a leading authority…

Robert Steven Williams

ROBERT STEVEN WILLIAMS is an author, documentary filmmaker, singer-songwriter, and musician. His debut novel, My Year as a Clown, was published in December 2013 by Against the Grain Press. As a writer, Williams was a finalist in the 2014 Great American Fiction Contest sponsored by The Saturday Evening Post and the 2005…

Ed Fuller

ED FULLER is a hospitality industry leader, educator, and author of the international Top 20 bestselling business book, You Can’t Lead with Your Feet on the Desk, published by Wiley. He is president of the Irvine, CA-based Laguna Strategic Advisors, a global consortium that provides business consulting services to corporations and…

Nancy Bilyeau

NANCY BILYEAU is a magazine writer and editor who has worked on the staffs of Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and InStyle. She is currently a contributor to Town & Country, Closer, Lifetime/A&E, First for Women, and The Vintage News and the deputy editor at the Center on Media, Crime and…

Gary Grossman

Gary Grossman is a multiple Emmy Award-winning television producer and author of the bestselling international political thrillers Executive Actions, Executive Treason, Executive Command, Executive Force, and Old Earth. He has also written two highly regarded non-fiction books on TV history.  Grossman has been published by Dell/Delacorte, Byron Preiss Publishing, Diversion…

Chris Formant

Novelist CHRIS FORMANT is a student of history, a former top executive of a multibillion-dollar global business, and active early-stage technology investor and CEO. Formant is an unlikely author of historical fiction, but the heroic story of Maryland’s Forgotten 400 drove him to assemble an expert team to help him…

Polly Wirum

POLLY WIRUM is the author of Gateways 2 Peace, an easy-to-read collection of spiritual blogs and articles.  Much of the writing is experiences and lessons learned while raising a family in Alaska. The greatest message shared is that we are all connected to each other, our Universe and a higher…

Jack Hersch

Jack J. Hersch, raised on Long Island, NY, earned both a BS (computer science) and an MBA from Columbia University.  An expert in the field of troubled and distressed companies he works as a strategic advisor to corporate managements and investment institutions. Jack has served as a public corporation board member,…

Kris Frieswick

KRIS FRIESWICK is an award-winning journalist, essayist, editor and humorist who has written for and edited leading national magazines and newspapers for over 20 years. She’s an avid cyclist, traveler and cook. She splits her time between Cape Cod, MA, and St. Croix, USVI, with her husband. Read BookTrib's review of…

Alan Brenham

ALAN BRENHAM has served as a criminal investigator with municipal, county and federal law enforcement agencies, and as a contractor with the U.S. Army in Berlin, teaching college-level law enforcement classes to U.S. military personnel. Later, he was admitted to the Texas state bar and spent his legal career as a…

Joseph Cicio

JOSEPH CICIO is a uniquely talented and visionary creative leader in the world of retail, Joseph Cicio’s high-profile positions brought him into contact with leading celebrities of the day. He became close friends with figures such as Lady Nancy Slim Keith, Lauren Bacall, Audrey Hepburn, the Kissingers, and Joan Rivers, earning him…

Alexandre Montagu

ALEXANDRE MONTAGU is a lawyer living in New York City.  Fluent in English, French, Farsi and German he studied at the University of Cambridge, Harvard Law School and Princeton University where he teaches a course in the comparative literature department as a visiting lecturer. Intellectual Property: Money and Power in…

Martin Jay Weiss

MARTIN JAY WEISS  is an award-winning filmmaker who has written, directed and produced a vast anthology of commercials, films, and television projects. He has a BS in Journalism from the University of Illinois and an MFA in Film from New York University. Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives…

Jennifer Trethewey

Jennifer Trethewey’s Highlanders of Balforss series features brawny Scots, sweeping romance, and non-stop adventure laced with a liberal dose of humor. Her foundation for story-telling is grounded in her long career in theater as co-founder and former co-artistic director of Renaissance Theaterworks, one of the most successful and longest running…

Peter Aronson

PETER ARONSON is a former journalist and a former lawyer. Now he writes children’s books full-time. He is currently writing two series: The first is his Groundbreaker Series, biographies about extraordinary people doing extraordinary things, for middle-grade readers. The first book in this series, Bronislaw Huberman: From child prodigy to hero,…

Ann Lineberger

Ann Lineberger is the author of Sunday Best (2018), The Adjustments (Full Fathom Five Digital, 2016) and New Spaces, Old World Charm (McGraw-Hill, 2004). Ann has worked as a reporter, editor, and writer for numerous publications, including Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Cottages & Gardens, and Home Remodeling. She earned a master’s degree in journalism and…

Layne James

Layne James has been writing since she could hold a pen. With a background in photojournalism, she is passionate about telling stories with both her camera and her words. Layne loves gardening, being outside, traveling, keeping life as simple as possible, and time with her heart friends. Her dream is…

Bonnie C. Monte

Bonnie grew up in Brooklyn, long before it was a magnet for hipsters. She’s been writing and editing for three decades — for Parenting magazine, for Sunset books, for big-name catalogs, you name it. But writing fiction is her new favorite endeavor because she gets to make stuff up. The…

Stephanie Jo Harris

      Stephanie Harris is the author of psychological thrillers, and she has a special affection for all things disturbing and uncomfortable. A life-long Midwesterner and a licensed professional counselor, she spends her free time writing, day dreaming, and pursuing atypical conversation. Read BookTrib's reviews of Stephanie's books, The…

Leah Descesare

Leah DeCesare is the award-winning author of Forks, Knives, and Spoons. Her writing has been featured in The Huffington Post, Eligible Magazine, Simply Woman, The International Doula, and The Key, among others. Leah is the cofounder of the nonprofit, Doulas of Rhode Island, and she led the fundraising efforts to…

David Hasley

David Hasley has been described as a business and banking whiz. His career spans more than 40 years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience. He was the lead commercial lender and administer for a regional California bank when he penned the first edition of Starting Up. The book was conceptualized as…

Simon Mayo

Simon Mayo is one of England’s most admired radio presenters. He has worked on BBC radio since 1982 and is now the presenter of Drivetime on BBC Radio 2. He lives in London. He is the author of the historical fiction novel Mad Blood Stirring. Read BookTrib's review of Simon's book,…

Lindsay Blake

Lindsay Blake’s dream list is one hundred deep. She has traveled to over thirty-two countries, caring for others and exploring our beautiful planet. She’s jumped out of a plane, lived in a mud hut in South Sudan, nearly died from a tapeworm in Pakistan, and dreams of flying to outer…

Casey Barrett

Casey Barrett is the author of the Duck Darley crime series. His debut, UNDER WATER, was nominated for a Shamus Award in 2018. He is a Canadian Olympic swimmer and is the co-founder of Imagine Swimming, New York City’s largest learn-to-swim school. He has won three Emmys and one Peabody…

Carole P. Roman

Carole P. Roman is the award-winning author of over fifty children’s books. Whether it’s pirates, princesses, or discovering the world around us, her books have enchanted educators, parents, and her diverse audience of children. She hosts two blog radio programs and is one of the founders of a new magazine,…

Michael Okon

Michael Okon is an award-winning and best-selling author of multiple genres including paranormal, thriller, horror, action/adventure and self-help. He is a screen writer, as well. He graduated from Long Island University with a degree in English, and then later received his MBA in business and finance. Coming from a family…

Brit Lunden

Brit Lunden is a prolific author who’s written over 50 books in assorted genres under different pen names. Bulwark was her first effort in adult fiction and was chosen by several of her fellow authors as the basis for a new series, A Bulwark Anthology.  Using her characters, they are…

Dena Moes

DENA MOES is a Hollywood born, Yale-educated midwife with a BA in literature and an MS in Nursing. Dena is a songwriter, essayist, and the author of The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal, publication date April 2, 2019. Her book is a memoir of…

Margot Suzanne Weyandt

MARGOT SUZANNE WEYANDT holds a bachelor’s degree in education and language arts from SWMN State University. She taught elementary students who had special learning and behavior problems on Leech Lake Indian Reservation, MN. Margot received an MSSW degree from the U of TX, Arlington, and became a LMSW, specializing in…

Jonathan Michael Erickson

JONATHAN MICHAEL ERICKSON is a writer based in Portland, Oregon.  He studied English Literature at UC Berkeley and received his PhD in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, where his research focused on neuroscience and imagination. When he’s not writing science fiction, Jonathan is a life coach, a graduate school instructor,…

Anne Goodwin

ANNE GOODWIN, award-winning author of Stay for Lunch and Come to the Lake, spends her summers in a 1920s cottage on Pleasant Lake in southeastern Wisconsin. Her passions include feeding large groups of family and friends, swimming from shore-to-shore, paddling any non-motorized craft available, observing nature’s glories and taking notes…

Diana Grillo

DIANA GRILLO grew up in a struggling, Italian immigrant family while living in a wealthy suburb in Westchester County, New York. The neighborhood’s substantial wealth and social status starkly contrasted with her family’s, making Diana feel as though she never quite belonged. She became a mother at a very young…

Charita Cole Brown

Charita Cole Brown was diagnosed with a severe form of bipolar disorder while finishing her final semester as an English major at Wesleyan University in 1982. Doctors predicted she would never lead a “normal “ life. Despite that prognosis and because she sought treatment, Charita went on to marry, raise…

Juno Rushdan

Juno Rushdan is an award-winning author of romantic thrillers. She drew from her background as a former military Intelligence Officer to create the Final Hour series, which includes Every Last Breath, Nothing to Fear and Until the End(Sourcebooks Publishing). A native New Yorker, she currently lives in the Washington, DC…

Sue Nelson

Sue Nelson is a multi award-winning British science journalist specializing in space. She makes radio documentaries for the BBC, short films for scientific organizations and the European Space Agency, and co-presents the monthly Space Boffins podcast. A former BBC TV News science correspondent, Sue has reported on a number of…

Charletta Barksdale

Charletta Barksdale was raised in Kansas City, Missouri and currently lives in Roanoke, Texas. She is a Senior Development Engineer, managing the development of code automation. She is also an Independent Published Author working on her first fiction/fantasy series.  Her passions are braiding, reading and writing ideas that come to…

Liana Gardner

Liana Gardner is the multi-award-winning author. The daughter of a rocket scientist and an artist, Liana combines the traits of both into a quirky yet pragmatic writer and in everything sees the story lurking beneath the surface. Engaged in a battle against leukemia and lymphoma, Liana spends much of her…

Dennis McCort

Dennis McCort was born and raised in Hoboken, New Jersey, the “mile square city” on the Hudson, in the shadow of Manhattan. He writes of his experiences growing up there in the postwar industrial era before gentrification in his recently published book, A Kafkaesque Memoir: Confessions from the Analytic Couch,…

Sondra Helene

Sondra Helene is a board member and writer at GrubStreet, Boston’s center for literary life. Her publications include “Jewish Magic Protected My Sister” in Lilith Magazine, “The Switch” in Voices of Caregiving: Stories of Courage, Comfort and Strength; and “Losing My Sister and the Long Road Back” on better50.com. She…

D.W. Maroney

As a young student living in the suburbs of Dallas at the time of the Kennedy assassination, D.W. grew up on a steady diet of conspiracy theories. To this day, D.W. still loves a good mystery and believes the truth of any event lies somewhere between the eyewitness accounts and…

Jeffrey Michelson

Two geniuses shaped Jeffrey Michelson’s life. In 1967, Norman Mailer hired him as houseboy and sparring partner and they became lifelong friends. In 1970, John Lennon chose Jeffrey to create the advertising campaign for his album “Imagine.” Apple then asked Jeffrey to form an advertising agency to oversee all their…

Tom Weidlinger

Tom Weidlinger is an independent filmmaker who has been writing, directing and producing documentary films for thirty-five years. Many of his films have won festival awards, and twenty-one have aired nationally on public television. Concerned with themes of social justice, his work deals with a broad range of topics, from…

DeWana Green

DeWana Green knows about foster care. In fact, she spent most of her formative years in foster care. Her experience includes living in over 20 different foster homes, 5 long term treatment facilities, 3 group homes, and the pain that many foster children endure of people constantly giving up on…

Anita Speake

Anita Swanson Speake was born and raised in Minnesota. She completed her nurse’s training and began her nursing career in Minneapolis before moving to Los Angeles. She spent thirty one years working as a registered nurse in emergency rooms and intensive care units. As she finished her career in nursing…

Dr. Ghoulem Berrah

His Excellency Dr. Ghoulem Berrah was a freedom fighter for the Independence of Algeria, an American man of Science, lecturer at the Yale School of Medicine, Ambassador and Emissary of President Houphouët-Boigny of Côte d’Ivoire. He was a tireless proponent of world peace. In 1976 he initiated the first secret…

Kimberly Townsend

Dr. Kimberly Townsend is President and CEO of Loretto Management Corporation in Syracuse, NY. She is an expert in the fields of healthcare management, board governance, and leadership. Kimberly Townsend, MBA, MPA, JD, Ed.D, CPA, GPHR, is a role model for anyone who wants to make positive change in the…

Maren Cooper

Maren Cooper grew up in the Midwest and now resides in Minnesota. During her long career as a health services executive, she led a number of organizations in their efforts to respond to the challenges of new, competitive business models, improve their operating systems, and optimize their governance structures. A…

Jessica L. Jackson

Jessica Jackson has been writing since she was nineteen. She thought she was going to be a science fiction writer, but could never seem to come up with a decent idea. Her youngest sister reminded her of the years when she used to read romances every day and suggested that…

Allison Pittman

Allison Pittman is an award-winning author of fourteen novels in the Christian historical fiction space. Her novels span the centuries from the Protestant Reformation (Loving Luther, Tyndale) to the American Dust Bowl (On Shifting Sand, Tyndale). When not writing, Allison works as a freelance editor for The Christian Communicator and…

J. Alexander Greenwood

J. Alexander Greenwood is the author of the award-nominated John Pilate mystery series including Pilate’s Cross, Pilate’s Key, Pilate’s Ghost, Pilate’s Blood, Pilate’s 7 and Pilate’s Rose. The books are recognized for John Pilate’s world of offbeat characters, exotic settings, action, and humor. He also co-wrote the Western action novel…

Michelle Cox

Michelle Cox is the author of the multiple award-winning Henrietta and Inspector Howard series as well as “Novel Notes of Local Lore,” a weekly blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents. She suspects she may have once lived in the 1930s and, having yet to discover a handy time machine lying…

A. F. Brady

A. F. Brady is a NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor born and raised in Manhattan, currently living in New York with her husband, their children and their dog. Her first novel THE BLIND (Park Row Books) was published in September 2017. Her second novel ONCE A LIAR (Park Row Books)…

Mona Patel

Mona Patel is a dynamic entrepreneur with 17-years experience convincing leaders at some of the world’s biggest brands, including NASA, BMW, and Microsoft, to understand, value and optimize their customers’ experiences. As the CEO and Founder of Motivate Design, a user-centered design agency based in New York City, Mona developed…

Jean P. Moore

Jean P. Moore was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Miami, Florida. She received her PhD in English and began her professional career teaching American literature and writing. She later worked in telecommunications as an executive director of workforce development. Jean has since returned to her first…

Christy Chafe

Christy holds a BS in Creative Writing from Miami University and an MA in English from Xavier University, and is very grateful for the freedom of her writing schedule. In her real life, she is a full-time mom of three wonderful kids, and has a 14-pound, white, furry best friend…

Philip Wolfson

Philip Wolfson studied Chinese politics, spycraft, language and culture at Columbia University in the 1960s, while passing the Foreign Service Examination of the United States Information Agency—all of which fueled his ongoing interest in espionage and international relations, including propaganda and cultural warfare. In his 9-year stint as Creative Supervisor…

Diane Pomerantz

Dr. Diane Pomerantz is a Baltimore area psychologist who has been in practice for the past 39 years. She is a blogger for Psychology Today and has published articles and poetry in Motherwell Magazine, Adoption Today, Story Circle Journal and other literary magazines.  Lost in the Reflecting Pool, published by…

Alice Inoue

This book offers a new system from an ancient framework for personal guidance on how to deal with life like the Superhero you have within you—in command of your life and more confident every step of the way. The exclusive Archetype Quiz will reveal your natural elemental nature. Who are…

Laura Pavlov

Read BookTrib's review of Laura's book, Beautifully Damaged.   BOOKS: Beautifully Damaged (2019) Biggest literary influencers: Jamie McGuire, Stephanie Meyer, Lauren Layne, Colleen Hoover Last book read: The Mister by E.L. James The book that changed your life: Well, I read a lot, so I’m not sure I can pinpoint…

Jane Pollak

Jane Pollak was born in the heart of the Midwest, but she inherited the city gene from her New York City-native parents. When Pollak’s marriage ended in 2011, she moved back to Manhattan, where she currently resides contentedly single. She has three grown children and three grandchildren. Her first book,…

Christine Davis Merriman

Christine Davis Merriman completed her MFA in Imaginative Writing/Fiction at UMass Amherst forty years ago. As an undergrad, she won Towson State University’s John S. Lewis Fiction Award for a collection of short stories, and was eager to pursue a career in fiction. Then “life” intervened, with marriage, a son,…

Herb Freed

Herb Freed started his adult life as an ordained rabbi and became the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Shalom in Lake Mahopac, NY, while producing and directing three shows at the Maidman Playhouse in New York City. Eventually, he resigned his pulpit to become a movie director. He has directed and…

Dan Grant

In life, Dan has taken the road less traveled. Crossroads have been faced with a mix of apprehension and an explorer’s passion. But the paths people take help make us who we are. “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave…

Gregory Lee Renz

In 2006 Gregory Lee Renz was inducted into the Fire and Police Hall of Fame for the dramatic rescue of two boys from their burning home. In 2008 Captain Renz retired, exchanging his turnout gear for a writing desk to pursue his passion, storytelling. After eight years, numerous creative writing…

Christine Brae

Four years ago, after experiencing a great loss in her life, Christine Brae decided that it was time to channel her feelings on paper and see where it would take her. She never imagined that her words would touch the hearts of many women with the same stories to tell.…

Wiley Blevins

Wiley is a writer and educator living in New York City. He is originally from West Virginia, taught school in both the United States and South America, trains teachers throughout the US and Asia, and graduated from Harvard University. He also teaches a writing course at the Highlights Foundation. Read…

Jeanne McWilliams Blasberg

Jeanne Blasberg is the author of Eden, the winner of the Beverly Hills Book Awards for Women’s Fiction, and finalist for the Benjamin Franklin Award for Best New Voice in Fiction, and Sarton Women’s Book Award for Historical Fiction. Eden was released in May 2017 by She Writes Press. After graduating from Smith…