Fiction Authors
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…
Alka Joshi
Born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, Alka Joshi has lived in the U.S. since the age of nine. She graduated from Stanford University and worked in the fields of advertising and PR before starting her own marketing consultancy in 1995. In 2011, she obtained her MFA in Creative Writing from the…
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…
Andra Douglas
ANDRA DOUGLAS is a native of central Florida and a graduate of Florida State University and Pratt Institute. A national champion athlete in rugby and women's tackle football, she was the owner of the New York Sharks Women's Pro Football team for nineteen years and is the founder of the…
Angela K. Durden/Durden Kell
Angela K. Durden won national attention in 2000 for her first published book, Nine Stupid Things People Do To Mess Up Their Resumes. On her first in-studio radio interview, she advised syndicated host G. Gordon Liddy about how to best deal with the long gap in his resume. Angela served…
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…
Anna Gomez
As Christine Brae After experiencing a great loss in her life, Anna Gomez 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.…
Author Amy Larson Marble
Amy is a mom, wife, author and lawyer (the order may vary). She was raised in North Dakota, graduated from Minot State University and then St. Louis University School of Law. She lives in Minnesota with her family and their three dogs (a.k.a. the pack). Read our review of her…
Author Ashley Blooms
Born and raised in Cutshin, Kentucky, Ashley Blooms received her MFA as a John and Renee Grisham Fellow at the University of Mississippi. Her short stories have appeared in The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction and Strange Horizons, among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in the…
Author Chuck Miceli
Chuck Miceli is an award-winning author, editor, playwright and poet. His writings include two textbooks, two plays, two novels and dozens of training courses, short stories and poems. His co-authored text, Fire Behind Bars, was the first book in the country to deal with deadly fires in secure institutions and…
Author John Cammidge
John survived a demanding childhood in Yorkshire, England, and went on to become a very successful Human Resources executive. At the age of 35 he was relocated to the United States by his employer (Bank of America) and subsequently became a U.S. citizen. He worked for Stanford University and the…
Author Spiros Gratsias
Spiros Gratsias was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. Spiros is an engineer, designer, artist, illustrator, screen and fiction writer. He is the screenwriter of the award-winning short film animation "Inverse" based on a story from his book Rootless Roots. He is also the author of the historical fiction novel,…
Barbara N. McLennan
BARBARA MCLENNAN has lived in Williamsburg since 2001. Formerly with the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments, and former Vice President for Government Affairs of the Electronic Industries Association (consumer electronics), she has provided consulting services on investment, valuation, trade and tax issues. Over the last several years, Dr. McLennan has served…
Ben Levin Author Profile
Ben has been in love with stories ever since he was a little boy and has written many throughout his life. “Stories just constantly pop into my mind like magic, and I feel a need to share them with other kids,” says the teenager. Born in Lexington, Massachusetts, the New…
Bernard Dillard
Bernard L. Dillard graduated from Morehouse College with a degree in English Literature. He completed graduate study at Emory University and University of Maryland. He is the author of Lemonade: Inspired by Actual Events, which won first place in Dan Poynter’s Global Ebook Awards in the memoir category. He is…
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…
Brent Robins
Brent Robins has a passion for world travel and learning about other cultures. He began his journey as a study abroad student during his third year of university at the University of York in York, England. He traveled widely through Europe during the academic year. After university, he taught English…
Brian Littlefair
Brian Littlefair has worked with foreign joint ventures, international financial institutions and the government. He has also done penitential volunteer work in food security, development and human rights, recounted here. BOOKS: Desert Burial (2002) Your biggest literary influences: The gleeful mustache-twirling malevolence of Larry Summers’ and Lant Pritchett’s “underpolluted…
Carla Neggers
Carla Neggers is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of more than seventy-five novels of contemporary romance and romantic suspense. Whether creating stories of friendship, family and love or razor-sharp suspense, Carla always takes readers on a captivating journey. Her books have been called “smart and satisfying” (Kirkus Reviews), “extraordinarily memorable” (RT…
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…
Cassandra Finnerty
Cassandra is the author of action-adventure, fantasy and romance. She loves to create bold, untamed and endearing characters who struggle to overcome their flaws. Her fondness for western Ireland – with its rugged shores, hidden caves and wind-swept cliffs — inspired many settings in the Princess of Nature Series. Cassandra…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
Claire Fullerton
Claire Fullerton is the author of Little Tea, the five-time award winning Mourning Dove, Dancing to an Irish Reel, and A Portal in Time. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines, and her novella, Through an Autumn Window appears in the book, A Southern Season. She is represented by Julie…
Crystal Hemmingway
Crystal Hemmingway is a corporate washout and novelist. She lives in Los Angeles with her favorite person and two cats. In her spare time, Crystal enjoys binge-watching TV shows, eating sugary cereals, and pretending to write at coffee shops. Read BookTrib's review of Crystal's book, Mom's Perfect Boyfriend. BOOKS:…
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…
Dd Jaseron
Dd Jaseron lives on the beachside of Central Florida with her husband, her son, and her Standard Poodle, Isabelle. She grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she fell in love with writing at the young age of seven. Her poems and short stories were often published in the Cambridge Chronicle,…
Deborah Curtin
Art and writing have always been the core of Deborah’s background. An opportunity to write "human interest" stories for a local newspaper opened up and she excelled in this endeavor. Several years later she began a column of local interest for an online publication. Soon another writing avenue spoke to…
Diana Altman
Diana Altman is the author of Hollywood East: Louis B. Mayer and the origins of the studio system, a book of film history still quoted in movie star biographies. Her novel In Theda Bara’s Tent was described by Publishers Weekly as “enthralling.” Her latest novel, We Never Told, was compared to…
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…
Ellen Gibson-Adler
Ellen Gibson-Adler was born in Tokyo during the American military occupation of Japan following WWII. She grew up in the nomadic travels of a military family, which took her from Japan to Alaska, Ohio, Texas, Louisiana and Massachusetts. She graduated with honors from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with…
Fae Bidgoli
Fae Bidgoli, slated to become a child bride herself in Iran at the age of 13, managed to escape her fate by a combination of defiance, courage, and luck. However, she entered a forced marriage at age 17. Born and raised in Iran, Fae left the country during the Iranian…
G. Wayne Miller
Wayne Miller is a Providence Journal staff writer, filmmaker, screenwriter, podcaster, visiting fellow at Salve Regina University’s Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, and co-host and co-producer of the Telly Award-winning weekly national PBS TV and SiriusXM Satellite Radio show Story in the Public Square. He is also…
George Robert Minkoff
A rare book dealer for fifty-two years, George Robert Minkoff is a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America as well as the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. Minkoff currently serves as Secretary on the Board of Directors of the Poetry Society of America. George Robert Minkoff Inc. Rare…
Gerard Marconi
Gerard Marconi has a master’s degree in Humanities from Johns Hopkins University and in Theatre from Catholic University. He taught drama and produced theatre at the college level for over thirty years and led study trips to theatres and museums in Washington, Baltimore, London, and Florence, Italy. As Coordinator of…
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…
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…
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…
J. J. Martin
J.J. Martin grew up Catholic in Ontario and pursued graduate studies in the anthropology of religion at the University of Ottawa. He has been writing for twenty-five years. His business writing has appeared in multiple news outlets, including the Globe and Mail and Inc Magazine. For the past twenty years,…
J. O. Quantaman
J. O. has worked as a fishing guide, a photographer, street traffic consultant, a software developer and graphic artist. Currently, he's an indie author and publisher. Founder of Psignologic Services since 1995. Read BookTrib's review of J. O.'s book, Loose Threads. BOOKS: Loose Threads: Cool Assassins 1 (2018) Hot…
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…
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…
Jendella Benson
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Jesse Banner
Jesse Banner is the author of To Hover Over Waters, the first book in a series about children who have magically and mysteriously been made invisible to the world around them. Drawing inspiration from a variety of books and movies, he wrote the novel as an exploration of purpose,…
Joan Spilman
Joan holds an MFA from Wichita State University, where she was awarded a fellowship. She is the author of This Will Never Stop, narrated by four generations of Appalachian women, of which Kirkus Reviews said, “Spilman’s textured prose masterfully evokes the hard-knock lives and locales of these women. A highly…
John DeSimone
John DeSimone is a novelist, memoirist and editor. He’s co-authored bestselling memoirs, including The Broken Circle: A Memoir of Escaping Afghanistan, and others. He taught writing as an adjunct professor at Biola University, and has worked as a freelance editor and writer for nearly twenty years. His novel, The Road…
John Peter Fer
John Peter Fer was born at the Air Force Academy in Colorado and spent his childhood moving between bases. He graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1998 and then served for five years as a missileer. In 2004, he joined the Peace Corps, where he served in Nepal until…
Karen Schutte
The oldest of four daughters, I was born during WWII on a farm in rural Wyoming. I went to the first 8 grades in a two-room school then on to Greybull High School and the University of WY. I read everything I could get my hands on. I always had…
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 Harryman
Kathleen Harryman is a storyteller and poet in the historically rich city of York, North Yorkshire, England, with her husband, children and pet dog and cat. Kathleen was first published in 2015, with her debut novel romantic suspense entitled The Other Side of the Looking Glass. Since then, Kathleen has developed…
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…
Kelli Estes
KELLI ESTES earned a degree in business before deciding to try her hand at writing. Six manuscripts, two kids and fifteen years later, her dream of being an author came true in 2015 with the publication of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk, a USA Today Bestseller and winner of the…
Ken Langer
Ken’s love of India began when he spent a college year in Varanasi. After earning his Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard, he spent two years in Pune, India translating Sanskrit love poetry, and another two years in New Delhi as a consultant to high-tech and renewable energy…
Kenneth F. Conklin
Ken Conklin, a native of Los Angeles, lives in Botetourt County in southwestern Virginia. His essays have been published in the Roanoke Times and other publications such as the Victoria Advocate, Easy Reader and Microwave Journal. Norvel is his first book. (Read BookTrib's review here.) Although always a writer, he made…
Kristoffer Polaha
Kristoffer Polaha is best-known for his long starring role in the critically acclaimed series Life Unexpected (The CW). Other TV series credits include Get Shorty with Ray Romano and Chris O’Dowd, the limited series Condor opposite William Hurt and Max Irons, The CW’s Ringer (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and Valentine, as well as North Shore (FOX). In addition to co-starring with…
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…
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…
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…
Leslie Shimotakahara
Leslie Shimotakahara's memoir The Reading List won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize in 2012, and her fiction has been shortlisted for the KM Hunter Artist Award. She has a PhD in English from Brown University. Although Leslie wanted to be a writer since childhood, she ended up taking a slightly nerdy…
Linda L. Richards
Linda L. Richards is a journalist and the author of 15 books, including three series of novels featuring strong female protagonists. She is the former publisher of Self-Counsel Press and the founder and publisher of January Magazine. Her short story, “Terminal City” appeared in Vancouver Noir (Akashic Books) and was…
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…
Lindsay Schuster
Lindsay Schuster is a 24-year-old high school English teacher living in her hometown of Brownsville, TX. While she is a woman of many interests, she has been writing since she was 11 years old and telling fictional stories since she was a toddler. Storytelling was always part of her personality!…
Lori Hart Beninger
Lori Hart Beninger is the author of three critically acclaimed historical novels (Embracing the Elephant, A Veil of Fog and Flames and A Peculiar Peace). The books follow two 19th century teenagers as they struggle with survival and acceptance in the pivotal era of the California Gold Rush, survive the wilds of…
M.L. Huie
M. L. Huie is a writer, teacher and actor. In addition to working as a features journalist, he has written several plays that have been performed throughout the U.S. and in the U.K. Spitfire is his first novel. Read our review of Spitfire here. BOOKS: Spitfire (2020) Biggest literary influencers: Mick…
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…
Mark R. Adams
Mark is a very competitive former basketball coach and teacher who now runs and owns a company that produces and sells crude oil. He plays golf with a passion and carries a handicap of one at 65 years old. His focus has turned to the problems facing the US today.…
Matthew Hickson
Matthew Hickson was born at such a young age that he can hardly even remember it. According to his parents, it was in 1991 and it was messy. He has had a very interesting life so far trying many different things including engineering, geology, and music. He now teaches music…
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…
MerriLea Kyllo
Minnesota is home to MerriLea Kyllo, RN. She and her husband, Barry, raised two daughters in the land of 10,000 lakes and expanded their home to include six foreign exchange students, as well as their nephew, Brad. The cultural exchange that brought their exchange sons and daughters into their home…
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…
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…
Michelle Alstead
MICHELLE ALSTEAD is a single, divorced mom of a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder. She tries to promote autism awareness and advocate for gender equality while raising Sheldon Cooper and searching for some semblance of a love life. Read BookTrib's review of Michelle's latest book, The Last Chapter. BOOKS:…
Mike Bond
Bestselling novelist MIKE BOND has worked in many dangerous and war-torn regions of the world. His critically acclaimed novels portray the innate hunger of the human heart for good, the intense joys of love, the terror and fury of battle, the sinister conspiracies of dictators, corporations and politicians, and the beauty…
Mike McCoy
Mike McCoy is a novelist. His debut novel ASTEROIDS–Bridge to Nowhere, received high praise from critics and was selected as a semifinalist for the 2020 Publishers Weekly Booklife Prize with a rating of 9.5 out of 10. Because of the research Mike conducted for the novel, he has been a…
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…
Paul Budden
We are invited to join a journey with the author which he had no intention of travelling upon, indeed did not even know existed, but which has since becoming unfurled occupied many a waking hour. That uncovers what is believed to be the true story of a shady gentleman called…
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,…
Peter Fortunato
PETER FORTUNATO grew up in Wappingers Falls and Poughkeepsie, New York at a family-run restaurant and resort much like the Villa Giustovera. His father was a stage magician and singer and his mother an extraordinary seamstress and cook. His grandparents and their friends were his earliest connection not only to…
R.J. King
RJ was born and raised in North Carolina. He currently resides in Maryland, about fifteen minutes away from D.C. For more information, visit his website here. Read our review of his debut thriller, A Shepherd of Wolves, here. BOOKS: A Shepherd of Wolves (2021) Your biggest literary influences: At…
Raymond C. Perkins Jr.
Ray is a retired middle school Social Studies teacher who began writing along with his students early on in his teaching career. He has written and published three books for young readers in the B.T. and Jimmy Adventure Series. Spychip Armageddon is his first attempt at adult fiction. Growing up…
Renaii West
Renaii West has been writing and performing from an early age. After earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, she became the dramatic arts instructor in a performing arts program, where she wrote and directed many of her own productions. Desiring to spread her creative wings, she is now creating…
Rick Swaine
Rick grew up in Miami, Florida and is a graduate of Florida State University. A semi-retired Certified Public Accountant and Florida Supreme Court Certified Family Mediator, he has been a rabid baseball fan since the age of nine and still plays the game in age appropriate leagues and tournaments throughout…
Rita Dragonette
Rita Dragonette is a writer who, after spending nearly thirty years telling the stories of others as an award-winning public relations executive, has returned to her original creative path. The Fourteenth of September, her debut novel, is based upon her personal experiences on campus during the Vietnam War. The novel, which came…
Robert Burnham
Robert Burnham is a licensed professional forensic engineer with two University of Michigan engineering degrees. He is a member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers and the National Society of Professional Engineers. Burnham’s scientific and analytical background enabled him to accurately assess the possibility that Hitler’s scientists could have…
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…
Rory Surtain
Rory Surtain is a 2020 debut author and novelist. They reside on the Gulf Coast of the USA, dodging hurricanes, airports, and alpha-personality domestic cats. After a few decades being creative in the technical corporate world, freedom has taken the form of fitness, Irish whiskey, and full-time writing and self-publishing.…
Roy E. Schreiber
After college (UCLA and the University of London), Roy Schreiber spent a good deal of time teaching British History at a branch campus of Indiana University. Like all the other professors, he wrote academic books. His were about people who lived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Only (roughly) fifty…
S.E. Keller
S. E. Keller is a first-time author and dedicated reader. She loves to write stories and explore human psychology, hoping to inspire readers to take a closer look at the world around them. She grew up in a small town in Wyoming, where she still lives and writes. Read our…
Sharon Geltner
Sharon Geltner’s career has spanned social work, social climbing, social media and more recently, social distancing. She’s worked as a reporter in Washington, D.C., and Boca Raton, FL, written for celebrity authors, and traveled the world on assignment including to the Mideast as a war correspondent. Her achievements include a…
Sheri Williams
Sheri Williams has worked in the publishing industry for 23 years. She is a publisher and a freelance editor. Her educational background includes Journalism, Creative Writing, Business Administration, and Criminal Justice. She is a founding faculty member of the Pitch Me! Workshops for fiction and nonfiction writers. Sheri is also…
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,…
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…
Stacey Wilk
Stacey Wilk wrote her first novel in middle school to quiet the characters in her head. It was that or let them out to eat the cannolis, and she wasn't sharing her grandfather’s Italian pastries. Many years later her life took an adventurous turn when she gave birth to two different kinds of characters.…
Steven M. Forman
Steven Forman was born in the Boston area in 1942, graduated the University of Massachusetts in 1963 and started his own seafood marketing company in 1970. He has always had a passion for writing but did not publish his first book until 2009. He has devoted most of his adult…
Stevie Z Fischer
Stevie Z Fischer writes about the dynamics of people, nature, and power in small-town New England. Her first novel, River Rules, looks at how everyday heroes can be forged as lives are changed by forces seemingly beyond our control. Stevie's focus on the bonds of friendship, love of nature, and…
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…
Susan Wingate
Susan Wingate writes unputdownable, surprising and twisty stories with crackling dialogue that exhibit a rare deftness in style offering up stories that are riveting, original and with a humanity rarely seen in contemporary fiction. She is a #1 Amazon bestseller and award-winning author of over fifteen novels. BOOKS: How…
Thomas Duffy
Thomas Duffy is a New York-based writer who has authored several fiction novels, including 2016’s 9/11 themed To Never Know. He finds stories of day-to-day challenges fascinating and intriguing. Duffy has written about different topics such as working in retail, mental illness, romance and existentialism. Stockboy Nation is his eighth novel and his…