Ann Kidd Taylor
Ann Kidd Taylor is the author of the novel The Shark Club and coauthor of Traveling with Pomegranates, a memoir written with her mother, Sue Monk Kidd. Published by Viking in 2009, it appeared on numerous bestseller lists, including the New York Times list, and has been published in several languages.
Ann lives in North Carolina with her husband, son, and two dogs.
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Lilli Sutton
Lilli Sutton writes contemporary adult fiction. She holds a BA in English from Shepherd University. From Maryland, she now lives in Colorado. She draws inspiration for her writing from the natural world and the intricacies of human relationships.
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Delia Ephron
Bestselling author and screenwriter Delia Ephron's most recent novel is Siracusa. Her other novels include The Lion Is In and Hanging Up. She has written humor books for all ages, including How to Eat Like a Child and Do I Have to Say Hello?; and nonfiction, most recently Sister Mother Husband Dog (etc.). Her films include You’ve Got Mail, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Hanging Up (based on her novel), and Michael. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, and Vanity Fair. Her hit play Love, Loss, and What I Wore (co-written with Nora Ephron) ran for more than two years off-Broadway and has been performed all over the world. She lives in New York City.
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Marina Adair
Marina Adair is a New York Times author whose fun, flirty contemporary romances have sold over a million copies. She has hit #1 overall in Amazon Kindle Paid and her St. Helena Vineyard series was optioned and made into the original Hallmark Channel Vineyard movies: Autumn in the Vineyard, Summer in the Vineyard, and Valentines in the Vineyard. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds a MFA from San Jose University and currently lives in Northern California with her husband, daughter, and two neurotic cats. Please visit her online at MarinaAdair.com and sign up for her newsletter at www.MarinaAdair.com/newsletter.
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Eleanor Wilde
Eleanor Wilde is the pen name of an acclaimed YA author. Wilde holds a master's of education and worked for several years in the U.S. public education system. She has a love for books and gardening and spends her weekends up hills or foraging for wildflowers in the woods. June in the Garden is her debut adult novel.
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Karolis Klimas
Karolis Klimas (g. 1991 m. Vilniuje) – rašytojas, mokytojas.
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2009-2011 m. studijavo VU Teisės fakultete ir gyveno Tilto gatvėje, kuri padarė itin didelę įtaką autoriaus kūrybai. Būtent čia parašytas apsakymas „Kur pradingo Tomas Morisonas?“ sulaukė sėkmės: 2010 m. gruodžio 17 d. kūrinys apdovanotas „Literatūros ir meno“ redakcijos rengiamo apsakymo konkurso antrąja premija. Tais pačiais metais autorius tapo ir VU „Filologijos rudens“ laureatu. 2011 m. K. Klimas įstojo į VU lietuvių filologijos studijas, o 2012 m. Lietuvos rašytojų sąjungos žurnale „Metai“ publikavo apysaką „Juliana“ (kūrinys nominuotas Antano Vaičiulaičio premijai).
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Katie Berry
Katie Berry is a Canadian Author of Thrillers.
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Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Katie moved west to British Columbia during a family migration that occurred during the later-half of the 20th century.
A longtime writer and voracious reader, Katie enjoys a variety of creative and recreational activities when she's not absorbed in the written word.
With many years of keyboard experience, Katie is an avid digital musician, involved in many musical theatre and stage productions in the beautiful West Kootenay region of BC over the past several years.
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Lilly Lucas
Lilly Lucas wurde 1987 in Ansbach geboren und studierte Germanistik in Bamberg. Heute lebt sie mit ihrem Mann, ihrem Sohn und endlos vielen Büchern in Würzburg. Ihre Liebesromane New Promises, New Dreams, New Horizons, New Chances, Find me in Green Valley, A Place to Love und A Place to Grow wurden zu Spiegel-Bestsellern. Wenn sie nicht Romane über die Liebe und das Leben schreibt, sieht sie sich am liebsten die Welt an, steckt ihre Nase in Bücher oder lebt ihre Film- und Seriensucht auf der heimischen Couch aus.
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Bo Svernström
Lives in Stockholm and works as a full time writer.
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Previously worked as a journalist at the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet for 19 years.
Studied at University of Gothenburg. First physics and biologi, but later on literature, linguistics and philosophy. Studied as a Phd candidate in literature, but dropped out.
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Ana Woods
Ich schreibe schon, seit ich im Stande bin einen Stift in der Hand zu halten. Das geschriebene Wort faszinierte mich schon immer, sodass ich als kleines Kind immer zu meinen Eltern gesagt habe, dass ich unbedingt Autorin werden will, wenn ich groß bin. Meiner älteren Schwester habe ich schon immer Geschichten erzählt und ihr Bücher vorgelesen – obwohl das hätte eher andersherum sein sollen.
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Mit meinen Kurzgeschichten und Gedichten habe ich während der Schulzeit schon meine Klassenkameraden und Lehrer beeindruckt, weshalb ich für Schulveranstaltungen meistens die Moderationstexte und die Dialoge für unsere Theaterstücke schreiben durfte. Doch das war mir nicht genug – ich wollte mehr.
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Emily Henry
Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation, and Beach Read, as well as the forthcoming Happy Place. She lives and writes in Cincinnati and the part of Kentucky just beneath it.
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Petra Hülsmann
Petra Hülsmann, Jahrgang 1976, wuchs in einer niedersächsischen Kleinstadt auf. Nach einem erfolgreich abgebrochenen Studium der Germanistik zog es sie nach Hamburg, wo sie in Anwaltskanzleien arbeitete, heiratete und Hummeln im Herzen schrieb. 2013 reiste sie durch Südostasien. Auch ihr zweiter Roman Wenn Schmetterlinge Loopings fliegen überzeugte ihre Fangemeinde.
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Katarina Bivald
Katarina Bivald is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend and The Murders in Great Diddling.
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She grew up working part-time in a bookshop and lives in Sweden outside Stockholm with her books and her dog. -
Camille Pagán
I’m the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of ten books, including Good for You, I'm Fine and Neither Are You, and Life and Other Near-Death Experiences, which was recently optioned for film. My novels have been translated into twenty languages.
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I've written for Forbes, The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Parade, Real Simple, Time, and many others. I'm also a master certified coach and the founder of Even Better Co.
When I'm not at my computer, you'll find me with my nose in a book, running after my two kids, or talking shop with other writers. Be the first to know about my new releases and other updates by signing up for my newslettter at camillepagan.com/subscribe. -
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Menna Van Praag
Menna van Praag was born in Cambridge, England and studied Modern History at Oxford University. Her first novella - an autobiographical tale about a waitress who aspires to be a writer - Men, Money & Chocolate has been translated into 26 languages. Her magical realism novels are all set among the colleges, cafes and bookshops of Cambridge. The House at the End of Hope Street (2014), The Dress Shop of Dreams (2015), The Witches of Cambridge (2016), The Lost Art of Letter Writing (2017) & The Patron Saint of Lost Souls (2018). Her fantasy trilogy, The Sisters Grimm, was published (2020-24) by Transworld (UK) HarperVoyager (US). She's just published her first series of cozy crime novels: The Biscuit Tin Murders. The final book in the series is
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Beth Harbison
Beth Harbison grew up in Potomac, Maryland, in the shadow of Washington, D.C. Apart from the occasional irritation at being held up in traffic by a presidential motorcade, she has remained fairly uninvolved in the politics that define her home town. Her latest book is CONFESSIONS OF THE OTHER SISTER, William Morrow 10/11/22
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Sue Halpern
Sue Halpern lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont where she writes books and articles, consorts with her husband, the writer and activist Bill McKibben, looks forward to visits from their wonderful daughter Sophie, plays with their remarkably enthusiastic dog, and introduces Middlebury College students to digital audio storytelling. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and Rhodes Scholar with a doctorate from Oxford, the author of a book that was made an Emmy-nominated film as well as six others that weren’t, one-half of a therapy dog team, a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College, and a major supporter of the ice cream industry.
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Denise Swanson
Denise Swanson lives in rural Illinois with her husband, classical composer David Stybr.
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After 22 years as a practicing school psychologist, she's happiest sitting in her scree porch reading. However, when the weather turns too cold, she's willing to leave the Midwest to cruise the sunny Caribbean.
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Leah Stewart
I'm the author of five novels: BODY OF A GIRL, THE MYTH OF YOU AND ME, HUSBAND AND WIFE, THE HISTORY OF US, and THE NEW NEIGHBOR. I teach in the creative writing program at the University of Cincinnati.
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Susan Wiggs
Susan Wiggs's life is all about family, friends...and fiction. She lives at the water's edge on an island in Puget Sound, and she commutes to her writers' group in a 17-foot motorboat. She serves as author liaison for Field's End, a literary community on Bainbridge Island, Washington, bringing inspiration and instruction from the world's top authors to her seaside community. (See www.fieldsend.org) She's been featured in the national media, including NPR's "Talk of the Nation," and is a popular speaker locally and nationally.
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Brenda Novak
It was a shocking experience that jump-started Brenda Novak’s bestselling author career.
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“I caught my day-care provider drugging my children with cough syrup and Tylenol to get them to sleep while I was away,” Brenda says. “It was then that I decided that I needed to do something from home.”
However, writing was the last profession she expected to undertake. In fact, Brenda swears she didn’t have a creative bone in her body. In school, math and science were her best subjects, and when it came time to pick a major in college, she chose business.
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Amy Hill Hearth
"I'm a risk taker with my writing," Amy Hill Hearth (pronounced HARTH) says about her work. "I like to try new genres because I love to be challenged. Following my instincts without thinking of sales potential usually works out for me, anyway." Indeed, Amy's first book, which shocked the publishing world with its completely unexpected success, was the international bestselling oral history, HAVING OUR SAY: THE DELANY SISTERS' FIRST 100 YEARS, a N.Y. Times bestseller for more than two years which was adapted for Broadway and film. That book is still going strong, with new audiobook and ebook editions published Jan. 3, 2023. Since the 1993 publication of HAVING OUR SAY, Amy has written ten more books and won many national awards, with genres
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Susan Mallery
#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery writes heartwarming and humorous novels about the relationships that define women's lives—family, friendship, romance. She's best known for putting nuanced characters into emotionally complex, real-life situations with twists that surprise readers to laughter. Because Susan is passionate about animal welfare, pets play a big role in her books. Beloved by millions of readers worldwide, her books have been translated into 28 languages.
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Critics have dubbed Mallery "the new queen of romantic fiction." (Walmart) Booklist says, "Romance novels don't get much better than Mallery's expert blend of emotional nuance, humor, and superb storytelling," and RT Book Reviews puts her "in a class by herself! -
Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd was raised in the small town of Sylvester, Georgia, a place that deeply influenced the writing of her first novel The Secret Life of Bees. She graduated from Texas Christian University in 1970 and later took creative writing courses at Emory University and Anderson College, as well as studying at Sewanee, Bread Loaf, and other writers’ conferences. In 2016, TCU conferred on her an honorary doctor of letters degree. She was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in 2011 and into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2022.
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Julia Fierro
Julia Fierro is the author of the novels The Gypsy Moth Summer(St. Martin’s Press, 2017) and Cutting Teeth (St. Martin’s Press, 2014).
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A graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, where she was awarded a Teaching-Writing Fellowship, Julia founded The Sackett Street Writers’ Workshop in 2002, and it has since become a creative home to over 3,500 writers in NYC, Los Angeles and Online. Sackett Street was named a “Best NYC Writing Workshop” by The Village Voice, Time Out NY, and Brooklyn Magazine, and a “Best MFA-Alternative” by Poets & Writers and the L Magazine.
Julia’s work has been published, or is forthcoming, in The Millions, Poets & Writers, Flavorwire, Glamour, Psychology Today, and other publications, and she has been profiled in the L Mag