Camille Di Maio
Camille recently left an award-winning real estate career in San Antonio to become a full-time writer. Along with her husband of 27 years, she home schooled their four children - most of whom are now grown. She has a bucket list that is never-ending, and uses her adventures to inspire her writing. She's lived in Texas, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and California, and spends enough time in Hawai'i to feel like a local. She's traveled to four continents (so far), and met Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II. She just about fainted when she had a chance to meet her musical idol, Paul McCartney, too. Camille studied political science in college, but found working on actual campaigns much more fun. She overdoses on goodies at farmers markets
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Hello, I'm Richard Roth, I'm a writer and a pilot.
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I'm British born, but now reside in the United States, emigrating here after serving 14 years with the Royal Air Force.
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Julie earned an editing certificate from the University of Chicago Graham School and has a master's degree in education, a bachelor of fine arts in fashion, and certification in wilderness first aid. She enjoys books, the study of wine, hikes on the Appalachian Trail, and travel. Julie married her college sweetheart, and they live in Virginia with their four children and two English labradors.
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As a writer, Kay used writing to help her navigate a tumultuous childhood, followed by a decade of abuse as an adult. After working her way through the hard years, Kay emerged a survivor and a pursuer of peace--and finally found the courage to share her stories. She is the author of more than a dozen full length books, with ten of those published by Lake Union Publishing. Kay writes women's fiction and historical fiction, and her books have fueled many exciting book club discussions. Her works have been translated into German, Korean, Chinese, Czechoslovakian, and Estonian.
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Jenn Bouchard
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Kathryn has written over 150 books, many of which have appeared on various bestseller lists. Her works are popular among fans of historical romance and medieval fiction. Kathryn's achievements as both a self-published and traditionally published author have demonstrated her ability to connect with readers and build a loyal fan base, showcasing her talent and business acumen.
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Tammy L. Grace is a USA Today bestselling and award winning author who writes women's fiction, mysteries, and sweet Christmas stories. She also writes about the bond we have with dogs using her pen name, Casey Wilson. Tammy is known for creating perfect escapes, unforgettable characters, and binge-worthy series.
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Amanda Prowse
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Kirsten Mickelwait
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Elinor Lipman is the author of 14 humorous novels about contemporary American society; essay and short story collections. Born and raised in Lowell, MA, she divides her time between Manhattan and the Hudson Valley of New York. She received the New England Book award for fiction in 2001. Her first novel, "Then She Found Me," was adapted for the screen, starring Helen Hunt, Bette Midler, Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick. Her fourth novel, "The Inn at Lake Devine" was adapted for the off-off Broadway stage by Tongue in Cheek Theater. In 2011-2012, she held the Elizabeth Drew chair in creative writing at Smith College. Her novel, -
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Savannah Hendricks
READING IS BETTER WITH A DOG
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Terrie Todd
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Peter Wyden
Peter H. Wyden, born Peter Weidenreich, in Berlin to a Jewish family, was an American journalist and writer.
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He left Nazi Germany and went to the United States in 1937. After studying at City University of New York, he served with the U.S. Army's Psychological Warfare Division in Europe during World War II. After the war, he began a career in journalism, during which he worked as a reporter for The Wichita Eagle, a feature writer for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington correspondent for Newsweek magazine, a contributing editor for The Saturday Evening Post in Chicago and San Francisco, articles editor for McCall's, and executive editor for Ladies' Home Journal. He authored or coauthored nine books, and numerous articles that appeared in -
Amy Sue Nathan
Writer of novels, lover of cats, morning coffee, dark chocolate, and bold lipstick. Former vegetarian, occasional crafter, adequate cook, loyal friend, proud mom to two awesome adults.
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Natashia Deón
Natashia Deón is a 2017 NAACP Image Award Nominee and author of the critically-acclaimed novel, Grace (Counterpoint Press), which was awarded the 2017 First Novel Prize by the American Library Association's Black Caucus (BCALA), was named Kirkus Review Best Book of 2016, a New York Times Top Book 2016, a Book Riot Favorite Book of 2016, The Root Best Book of 2016, and an Entropy Magazine Best Book of 2016.
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In 2017, she served as a U.S. delegate to Armenia in partnership with the University of Iowa's International Writing Workshop (IWP) and the U.S. State Department for Between the Lines, a program bringing international writers together.
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Laurie Graham
Laurie Graham was first published at the advanced age of 40. Gentle comedy is her style. She is the author of seventeen novels, including the best-selling The Future Homemakers of America and its sequel, The Early Birds
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Karen E. Osborne
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to write or wasn't writing.
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As a little girl growing up in the Bronx, I told my friends stories I made up, but pretended were true (imagined reality was better received by the audience). I wrote my first short story when I was twelve. In middle school, I'd submit book reports about my own stories with fake author names. Never caught and always received an A. Under my graduation picture in the Evander Childs High School yearbook next to "ambition," it said writer. Marriage, children, and career sidelined my true passion, but didn't squelch it.
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Karen Essex
I'm the author of RUN, DARLING, KLEOPATRA, PHARAOH, LEONARDO'S SWANS, STEALING ATHENA, DRACULA IN LOVE, AND BETTIE PAGE: LIFE OF A PINUP LEGEND--All featuring iconic women—powerful women that seduced the world. I am an active screenwriter and an award-winning journalist, dividing my time between Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Europe, where I soak in the atmosphere while writing historical fiction.
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Jane Lotter
Jane Lotter was a Seattle-based writer and humorist whose work has appeared in national publications. Her hilarious column, Jane Explains, ran in the Seattle Sun, winning several awards, including one from the Society of Professional Journalists. Jane’s only novel, The Bette Davis Club, won first place in the Mainstream category in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest.
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Theresa Howes
Theresa Howes grew up in Shropshire and has a background as an actor. Her historical fiction has been long-listed for the Mslexia Novel Award, The Bath Novel Award, The Caledonia Novel Award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize.
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She lives in London with her husband and Claude, a larger than average cat. When she isn’t writing or reading, she enjoys seeing how many more plants she can cram into her tiny London garden, walking, and putting the world to rights over a gin and tonic.
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John Winn Miller
John Winn Miller is an award-winning investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, editor, newspaper publisher, screenwriter, movie producer, and novelist.
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Katherine A. Sherbrooke
Katherine Sherbrooke is the award-winning author of Leaving Coy's Hill (May, 2021) , a New York Times notable book which was short-listed for the MA Book Awards, Fill the Sky, a finalist for the Mary Sarton Award and the winner of an Indies book of the year award, and a family memoir, Finding Home (2011). An alumna of Dartmouth College and Stanford Business School, she wanted to be an author from the time she opened her first book, and lived on books like food and water for a long time. Somewhere along the line, though, she caught the start-up bug and co-founded a Boston based company called Circles. After that wonderful 15 year+ entrepreneurial adventure, she "remembered" her original dream and finally sat down to write. She lives outside
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Lucy H. Hedrick
Lucy H. Hedrick is the author of five works of nonfiction. Six Weeks in Reno is her first novel. Born in Chicago, Lucy attended Goucher College in Maryland, where she majored in music history and sang in the glee club. She has roamed the Eastern Seaboard ever since. Marriage brought Lucy to Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Shortly thereafter Lucy gave birth to her son, Tod. Today, Lucy lives in Sarasota, Florida, where she devotes herself to writing women’s fiction. She is a member of the National League of American Pen Women, Sisters in Crime―Florida Gulf Coast Chapter, and Sarasota Fiction Writers. For more information, visit www.lucyhedrick.com.
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Heather Poole
HEATHER POOLE has worked for a major U.S. carrier for more than fifteen years. Her work has been published in The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010, and her column, “Galley Gossip: Confessions from the Jumpseat with Heather Poole,” can be found on AOL’s award winning website, Gadling.com. She has been mentioned in or on People Magazine, Good Morning America, 20/20, Fox and Friends, The Weather Channel, Ricky Lake, New York Times, NBC New York, CNN, National Geographic Traveler, MSNBC, USA Today, The Times online, The New York Post, Entrepreneur Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine, Woman's Day, Cosmopolitan, Martha Stewart Weddings, CondeNast.com Frommers.com, and more
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Kathryn Schleich
Kathryn Schleich has been a writer for thirty years. Her most recent publications include the short story “Reckless Acts,” featured in After Effects: A Zimbell House Anthology, and her story “Grand Slam,” published in The Acentos Review in May 2017. She is the author of two editions of the book Hollywood and Catholic Women: Virgins, Whores, Mothers, and Other Images, which evolved from her master’s thesis. Her guest posts have been featured on the Women On Writing blog, The Muffin, and she writes for the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation’s volunteer newsletter. When she’s not writing, Schleich is likely volunteering in the education and arts communities in the Twin Cities, where she lives. Friends, family, good food, wine, and traveling are impo
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Roxanne Veletzos
Roxanne Veletzos was born in Bucharest, Romania. As a young teen, she moved to California where she began writing short stories about her native Eastern Europe, at first as a cathartic experience transitioning to a new culture. Building on her love of the written language, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in journalism and has worked as an editor, content writer and marketing manager for a number of Fortune 500 companies. Roxanne lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, their two sons, and one very spirited Boarder Collie. Her debut novel THE GIRL THEY LEFT BEHIND is an international bestseller and was published in ten countries. WHEN THE SUMMER WAS OURS is her second novel.
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Regina Buttner
Regina is a registered nurse-turned-writer who was raised in beautiful upstate New York, where she spent many happy hours exploring the back roads and small towns of the Adirondack mountain region. She recently traded the cold, snowy winters for the endless summer of sunny southwest Florida, where she enjoys strolling the sandy beaches, paddling among the mangroves, and teaching tricks to her crafty little corgi, Pekoe. Her new domestic suspense novel THE REVENGE PARADOX is set in her hometown of Syracuse, New York.
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Barbara Linn Probst
Barbara Linn Probst is an award-winning author of contemporary women’s fiction living on an historic dirt road in New York’s Hudson Valley. Her acclaimed novels QUEEN OF THE OWLS (2020) and TTHE SOUND BETWEEN THE NOTES (2021) were medalists for prestigious national awards, and THE SOUND BETWEEN THE NOTES was selected by Kirkus Reviews as one of the Best Indie Books of 2021. Barbara has also published over fifty essays on the craft of writing for sites such as Jane Friedman and Writer Unboxed, along with two nonfiction books. Her third novel THE COLOR OF ICE will be released in October 2022.
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Martin Turnbull
Martin Turnbull has worked as a private tour guide showing both locals and out-of-towners the movie studios, Beverly Hills mansions, Hollywood hills vistas and where all the bodies are buried. For nine years, he has also volunteered as an historical walking tour docent with the Los Angeles Conservancy. He worked for a summer as a guide at the Warner Bros. movie studios in Burbank showing movie fans through the sound stages where Bogie and Bacall, Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, and James Cagney created some of Hollywood’s classic motion pictures.
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From an early age, Martin was enchanted with old movies from Hollywood’s golden era–from the dawn of the talkies in the late 1920s to the dusk of the studio system in the late 1950s–and has spent many, ma -
Haley Hill
#1 Bestselling author Amazon US and UK, published by HarperCollins.
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Haley was born in London in 1977, with a big heart, big feet and big ideals.
In 2005 she set up what turned out to be the UK’s biggest matchmaking agency. She wrote her debut novel, IT'S GOT TO BE PERECT, inspired by all she learnt about love and relationships.
The novel became an Amazon bestseller in UK and US and was offered a 3 book deal with HarperCollins. Her latest release, LOVE IS... a journey of discovery into how to make love last, is out now.
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Amanda DuBois
Amanda DuBois worked as a labor and delivery nurse before becoming a lawyer. She has practiced in the areas of medical malpractice and family law. She founded the DuBois Levias Law Group in Seattle, Washington, where she is actively engaged in litigation, and Civil Survival Project, an organization that teaches advocacy skills to formerly incarcerated individuals. Amanda serves on several boards that support social justice and women’s issues. Her most recent passion is funding her Full Circle Scholarship, which provides tuition assistance at her alma mater, Seattle University School of Law. This scholarship is specifically granted to students whose lives have been impacted by the criminal legal system.
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Lorna Hollifield
Lorna Hollifield was born in Asheville, North Carolina, but now enjoys the Lowcountry life outside of Charleston, South Carolina with her family.
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She’s been an author from the time she could speak, always spinning yarns for anyone who would listen. She began her professional writing journey as a tourism and travel blogger, and has since been published in literary anthologies and magazines, even boasting her own book column. She finally realized her dream of publishing fiction in 2017 when Tobacco Sun was released. In October of 2020, her second novel, The Ocean At Night hit the shelves. Bright Little Girls was released in 2025.
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Lisa Montanaro
Lisa Montanaro is part no-nonsense Italian American New Yorker and part sunny Californian. She has a unique background as a performer, teacher of the Deaf, lawyer, coach, speaker, and author. Lisa writes book club fiction featuring complex characters breaking barriers and fighting to truly be themselves despite obstacles in their way—including the time they live in and societal stigmas.
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Her debut novel, Everything We Thought Was True, released January 2025 by Red Adept Publishing. It won first place for LGBTQ Fiction in the 2024 International Firebird Book Awards, honorable mention for General Fiction in the 2025 Los Angeles Book Festival, and finalist for LGBTQ Fiction in the National Indie Excellence Awards. Her chapter, “The Brand Called -
Nora Carroll
Nora Carroll is a pseudonym for #1 New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Letts.
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As Nora Carroll, she writes multilayered novels filled with the things she loves most-- rambling houses, old letters and manuscripts, and most importantly, the mysteries of love, women, and family. -
Maggie Le Page
Hi there. I live in Christchurch, New Zealand (aka QuakeZone) with my partner, two children, and a snooty cat who thinks we're all her slaves. My days are spent running around after kids or doing one of my 'real' jobs, so my writing generally happens in the dead of night. (Morning? Ha! I'm a third-generation night owl. Enough said.)
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I love chocolate, hate being cold, and am ever fascinated by the possibility of time travel. Obviously, my ideal experience would be to wake up on a tropical island eighty years into the future, with an endless supply of chocolate on hand.
There's nothing I love more than a good chat (except perhaps a good chat and chocolate--see the theme here?). So don't be shy--get in touch!
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Jennifer Ammoscato
By day, Jennifer Ammoscato is an intrepid writer/editor. By night, she fights crime (not so much), the urge to organize closets and to stuff herself with salted chocolate caramels.
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Despite her exhaustive to-do list, she's written the following novels:
Dear Internet: It's Me, Avery (Book 1)
The Internet Made Me Do It (Book 2)
The Internet Never Lies (Book 3)
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Tom McAllister
Tom McAllister is the author of the novels "How to Be Safe" and "The Young Widower's Handbook," as well as the memoir "Bury Me in My Jersey." He is the non-fiction editor of Barrelhouse magazine and the co-host of the weekly Book Fight! podcast. His shorter work has appeared in a number of places, including Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Collagist, Hobart, The Rumpus, and The Millions. He lives in New Jersey and is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Temple University.
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Jane Little Botkin
AWARDS
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2025 Downing Journalism Finalist Award
2025 Foreword Indies Awards Honorable Mention in Pop Culture
2022 Barbara Sudler Award for Best Book about the American West by a Woman
2022 Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Best Book on Colorado or Western American History
2022 Colorado Humanities Book Award Finalist, Biography
2022 Foreword Indies Awards in Women's Studies, Bronze Medal
2022 Sarton Book Award Women Studies Finalist
2022 Willa Literary Award Scholarly Nonfiction Finalist
2018 Caroline Bancroft History Prize, Best Book on Colorado or Western American History
2018 High Plains Book Award Nonfiction Finalist
2018 Independent Publisher Book Award Bronze Medal
2018 Oklahoma Nonfiction Book Award Finalist
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Samantha Quamma
Samantha Quamma lives in Seattle, Washington. When she's not writing about women making their place in the world, she's working in the technology industry and chipping away at her yearly reading goal. A Future of Her Own is her first novel.
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Rachel Del Grosso
Rachel Celeste (also writing under Rachel Del Grosso) was born in Ontario, Canada. She began writing at a young age, but has since learned to write in complete sentences. She writes fiction about imperfect marriages, messy friendships, and complicated families. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband and son.
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Rachel Stone
Rachel Stone writes stories of hope and redemption, often set against vibrant Canadian backdrops. Her writing placed first in the 2022 OBOA Writing Contest and has appeared in international literary and visual arts magazines, journals and blogs.
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Rachel holds degrees in psychology and industrial relations, and once worked seven summers at a flower market. She lives near Toronto with her family, and on weekends you’ll find her along the south shore of Georgian Bay, belting nineties pop rock from her paddleboard. The Blue Iris is her first novel. -
Stephen Bright
Stephen B. Bright is an American lawyer known for representing people facing the death penalty, advocating for the right to counsel for poor people accused of crimes, and challenging inhumane practices and conditions in prisons and jails.
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Olivia Sparrow
Award-winning author Olivia Sparrow grew up in a small Indiana town, where a lifelong love of storytelling was sparked by an early passion for reading. After relocating to New York City, she encountered both challenges and triumphs that ultimately inspired her debut novel, Secret of the Sassafras—a heartfelt tribute to courageous women and the city that helped her discover her own resilience.
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A seasoned portrait photographer with over fifteen years of experience, Sparrow's transition from capturing images behind the lens to weaving stories on the page marks a bold new chapter in her creative journey. Her writing uncovers long-buried secrets and the deeper truths hidden beneath seemingly flawless facades.
When not writing, Sparrow, a self-pro