Mary Poffenroth, Ph.D.
Dr. Mary Poffenroth, a biopsychologist, fear/courage researcher, and first-generation college student, began her career in the astrobiology unit at NASA Ames Moffett Field, supporting payload experiments for STS-107, the 28th flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. Backed by one of the world’s largest publishers, Mary’s first mass-market book, Brave New You: Strategies, Tools, and Neurohacks to Live More Courageously Every Day (Hachette, 2024), offers readers an innovative solution for moving past stifling everyday fear and into a life filled with brave choices that result in transformational outcomes. Mary holds a doctorate in psychology and three master's degrees (biology, psychology, and science communication) and has taught nearly 20,000 univ
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Elizabeth Gilbert is an award-winning writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her short story collection Pilgrims was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway award, and her novel Stern Men was a New York Times notable book. Her 2002 book The Last American Man was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critic’s Circle Award.
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Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and thought-provoking observers of happiness and human nature.
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He is a former co-host of Emmy-winning “The Doctors” TV show, and a medical contributor to “The Rachael Ray Show."
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With more than 2 million books in print in fifteen different languages, Karen White is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 34 novels, including the popular Charleston-set Tradd Street mystery series.
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Raised in a house full of brothers, Karen’s love of books and strong female characters first began in the third grade when the local librarian issued her a library card and placed The Secret of the Old Clock, a Nancy Drew Mystery, in her hands.
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Nate Silver
Nathaniel Read “Nate” Silver (born January 13, 1978) is an American statistician and writer who analyzes baseball and elections. He is currently the editor-in-chief of ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight blog and a Special Correspondent for ABC News. Silver first gained public recognition for developing PECOTA, a system for forecasting the performance and career development of Major League Baseball players, which he sold to and then managed for Baseball Prospectus from 2003 to 2009.
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In 2007, writing under the pseudonym “Poblano”, Silver began to publish analyses and predictions related to the 2008 United States presidential election. At first this work appeared on the political blog Daily Kos, but in March 2008 Silver established his own website, FiveThi -
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Gina Tang
Gina Tang is an up and coming author based in Los Angeles. She was born in Taiwan and raised in the US; she speaks both English and Mandarin. Her career is in real estate and her passion is in writing. She graduated with an MBA from Pepperdine University and learned to craft stories through creative writing courses at UCLA. She enjoys writing, watching movies, cooking, hiding in bookstores with a good cup of tea and traveling throughout the world. Best #hashtags to describe her are #taurusgirl #independentwoman #yolo #girlpower #pioneer
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A.M. Sardar
Hi, I’m AM Sardar, author of historical and contemporary fiction books, working in an Anglo-Asian fusion style.
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I was born in the Punjab in Pakistan, emigrated to the UK as a small child and both cultures have influenced my writing.
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Malay A. Upadhyay
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Karel Jan Kosman
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Farnaz Calafi
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D.N. Moore
D.N. Moore was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and now lives in Florida with her family. Formerly a teacher, it is her passion to cultivate a love of reading in children – in her students, her own children, and now her readers.
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“I greatly admire the vivid imagination that most children have, and I believe that books are the key to unlocking that,” says Moore. “Some of my fondest memories are of teaching a child to read and watching them fall in love with a good story, so much that they forget that they are even in a classroom. I hope to create the same effect with my own books.” Moore writes for Young Adults.
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Some thirty years ago, disenchanted with life's endless stop signs, he penned Kaleidoscopic Shades: Within Black Eternity and, if not for a chance meeting with a man of poetry, this multi-award winning book would have remained a secreted passion. After a two-year trek beyond the thin patina of reality, Neuman has finally released the sequel, The Penny Arcade: Mother's Care Orphanage, with the help of a small and highly dedicated team, admitting: Writing is like stumbling about the wilder -
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Though it sounds like a scene pulled from fiction, the idea for The Heir of Olympus came to Zachary in a dream. He awoke at five a.m. that morning, with a name and a story—Gordie Leonhart was brought to life. The Heir of Olympus and the Forest Realm is the first installment of Gordie’s journey.
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Rosanna Moss
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Timothy Dorr
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I've always escaped reality and found true healing through reading and writing, especially during the teen years. At seventeen, I attended Katherine State High School in Australia's Northern Territory. Living and working in one of the most rural and remote regions of Australia, I was fully immersed in the Original Peoples' culture. Combined with my father's storytelling narrations, I began to understand the importance of symbolic stories and images to pass on important knowledge traditions.
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Robert Strzalko
Hi. I’m the author of A Bullet For Two, The Color Of Dreams, and The Sun Loves Every Planet. A Bullet For Two won a NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in the Western category fall 2011. The Sun Loves Every Planet also won a NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award in the Poetry Category fall 2011. I’m currently working on several novels. One is based on my experiences in Alaska. The other one is about a painter that becomes famous in the late 1960’s in Chicago.
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Andrew D. Thompson
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She lives in Derbyshire with her husband, three youngest daughters, and two lively dogs named Harry and Benji. Her house is full of books, magazines, dog toys and all sorts of artwork from the girls (empty cereal boxes are often taken from the recycle bin to reinvent something wonderful like a spy camera or a telescope).
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L.G. Cunningham
LG Cunningham loves to write scary, spine-chilling, monster filled, ‘my-child-is-not-able-to-sleep’ stories. This term of endearment could be as a result of growing up in an Irish town filled with ghosts, being able to communicate with (and actually see) the dead or more than likely because his family used to rent him horror movies (pre-Netflix and pre-DVDs) when he was very little which had the affect of twisting his brain to the extent that he was - and still is - afraid of his own shadow.
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LG Cunningham is the author of the spooky middle grade anthology series 'JITTERS'.
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Karel Jan Kosman
Karel Jan Kosman was born free-spirited in Prague at the center of the ancient Celtic Boii homeland—that is, Bo-hemia. The Czech and Slovak Republics are now free, loved by their citizens and visitors alike, but after WWII, former Czechoslovakia enjoyed that freedom only for three short years. Freshly liberated from a terror plaguing its western neighbor, the country fell under the same from the east. As an antidote to social engineering, Karel turned to independent thinkers like Jonathan Swift, Franz Kafka, Karel Čapek, Stanisław Lem. Those giants of social science fiction wrote to put their societies before a mirror, to open the minds of their contemporaries.
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Ray Catania
Ray Catania:
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Metaphysical Theorist, Master Certified Life Coach & Award-Winning Author.
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In addition to being an author, Ray Catania is a naturally gifted intuitive and a developing medium, who also teaches spirituality and metaphysics with clients in his private practice. He is an NDE survivor, an ordained minister, with master certifications in life coaching, Usui Reiki, and meditation, and is working towards his doctorate degree in Metaphysical Parapsychology. In addition to his formal training experiences, Ray has also had the privilege of studying under, and training with, some of the greatest forward-thinking minds in the world, including Intuitives, Mediums, Shaman, and Energy Healers. -
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TS Alan is an American author of suspense thrillers, who frequently incorporates elements of horror, fantasy, the supernatural, science fiction, mystery, and satire. Alan has published six novels and seven short stories, as of February 2023.
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Alan is an author of contemporary horror/fantasy. He is most known for his zombie stories. His first published novel was The Romero Strain (2014), which was published by Books of the Dead Press. The novel was re-released in 2018 in an author's edition, which has been revised and expanded with an unpublished chapter. His sequel The Romero Strain: The Dead, the Damned, and the Darkness was originally released in November 2017 and a second edition was published in 2021.
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