T.J. Newman
T.J. NEWMAN is a former bookseller and flight attendant whose first novel, Falling, became a publishing sensation and debuted at number two on the New York Times bestseller list. Her second novel, Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421 was an instant New York Times bestseller. Both books made a number of best book of the year list, are published in thirty-five countries and will soon be major motion pictures after selling in two separate headline making seven-figure deals: Falling with Universal Pictures, and Drowning with Warner Brothers. T.J. lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Her new novel - WORST CASE SCENARIO - comes out August 13.
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Kimberly McCreight
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John McMahon
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Ruth Ware is an international number one bestseller. Her thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, The Death of Mrs Westaway, The Turn of the Key, One by One, The It Girl, Zero Days, One Perfect Couple and The Woman in Suite 11 have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the Sunday Times and New York Times, and have sold more than ten million copies.
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Upcoming in spring 2026 is Caller Unknown, a thriller about a woman whose teenage daughter is kidnapped, and she decides to pay the ransom, meet the kidnappers direct, and not tell the police.
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Dennis Smith
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James H. Fetzer
American philosopher, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota.
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Eric Lindner
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Joanna Kafarowski
Fellow of The Explorers Club, Fellow of The Royal Geographical Society and Director of the Society of Woman Geographers, Joanna Kafarowski is currently researching for her next book about women and exploration in Greenland. She is the author of "Antarctic Pioneer The Trailblazing Life of Jackie Ronne" published by Dundurn Press in May, 2022. This is the first biography of a female Antarctic explorer.
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Previously she wrote "The Polar Adventures of a Rich American Dame A Life of Louise Arner Boyd" published by Dundurn Press in 2017. This was the first comprehensive biography of a female Arctic explorer. The audiobooks version was published in 2021 by Blackstock Publishing. The Spanish language edition was published by Ediciones Casiopea in 201 -
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Caroline Cleveland is the founding partner of the law firm Cleveland & Conley, LLC, where she represents private and public employers, including law enforcement. A native South Carolinian, she inevitably writes from a Southern perspective. She gravitates -- both as a writer and a reader -- toward mystery and suspense, and she cannot resist a character with a dark secret.
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Desiree Nielsen
Desiree Nielsen RD spent what seems like her entire childhood in her grandmother's kitchen, stealing bites of sweet bread dough as it laid on the table rising. A love of good food was instilled in her long before she even thought about what was "good for her".
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As a dietitian, she's passionate about helping people find the joy in eating healthy plant-based dishes that energize mind and body.
The host of TV's The Urban Vegetarian, Desiree is a trusted expert on anti-inflammatory nutrition, gut health and plant-based diets.
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Tim Johnston is the author of the novels THE CURRENT and DESCENT, the story collection IRISH GIRL, and the YA novel NEVER SO GREEN. A New York Times, USA Today, and Indie national bestseller, Descent has been published internationally and optioned for film. The stories of Irish Girl won an O. Henry Prize, the New Letters Award for Writers, and the Gival Press Short Story Award, while the collection itself won the 2009 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. In 2005 the title story, “Irish Girl,” was included in the David Sedaris anthology of favorites, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. Tim’s stories have also appeared in New England Review, New Letters, The Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, Double Take, Best Life Magazine,
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Bob Van Laerhoven
Flemish author of more than 40 books. You'll find them on my website in three languages: Dutch-French-English. Currently published in The Netherlands, Belgium, USA, Canada, France, Italy, Russia, Brazil, Argentine, Germany, Sweden, Ethiopia. Winner of the Hercule Poirot Prize for the best crime novel of the year 2007 with "De Wraak van Baudelaire" (Baudelaire's Revenge). Baudelaire's Revenge is published in the US by Pegasus Books in hardcover in 2014. The paperback edition was published in 2015.
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"Baudelaire's Revenge" won the USA BEST BOOK AWARD 2014 in the category: Fiction:mystery/suspense.
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Amelia Earhart
American aviator Amelia Earhart, the first such woman, flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932 and from Hawaii to California in 1935. While attempting to fly around the world, she crashed in the Pacific Ocean in 1937 and presumably died, and people never found her.
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People note Amelia Mary Earhart, a pioneer and author. Earhart received the Distinguished Flying Cross, award. She set many other records and wrote best-selling books about her experiences; she instrumentally formed The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
During a circumnavigation of the globe, Earhart disappeared over the near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day. She went missing July 2, 1937, and people decl -
George Sullivan
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Dan Morse
Washington Post staff writer Dan Morse set off to be an engineer. But the tough classes at Vanderbilt, specifically Differential Equations, convinced him to try something else. Like sports-writing, for the college newspaper. It proved a better fit, and soon enough, Morse tried out for the football team so he could write a year’s worth of columns chronicling his exploits as skinny but slow wide receiver. After graduation, Morse combined his engineering degree with his interest in writing and, as if it had been planned all along, took a position at Civil Engineering magazine in New York. Who can forget his prescient 1989 piece on upcoming waste-water treatment disposal regulations: “Sludge in the Nineties.”
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Gary Craig
Gary Craig has been a reporter for Rochester, NY newspapers since 1990, covering City Hall, politics, and federal courts. He is currently a member of the Democrat and Chronicle Watchdog Team and has won state and national awards for investigative journalism.
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Kevin Cowherd
Kevin Cowherd has been a writer for the Baltimore Sun since 1987, is nationally syndicated by the Los Angeles Time - Washington Post news service, and is the author of Last Call at the 7-Eleven, a book of selected writings published by Bancroft Press.
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In 1990 he was honored by the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors for excellence in feature writing. He currently writes a sports column and blog for the Baltimore Sun.
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Joseph K. Loughlin
JOSEPH K. LOUGHLIN is a twenty-four-year veteran of the Portland (Maine) Police Department.
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June Gilbank
June Gilbank is an accomplished crochet pattern designer, writer, blogger, and multi-crafter. June taught herself to crochet when she moved from the United Kingdom to Canada in 2003, and she has since designed and published hundreds of unique nature-inspired crochet patterns online at PlanetJune (www.planetjune.com). Her specialties are cute and realistic animal, plant, and seasonal amigurumi designs as well as elegant accessories that showcase the beauty and variety of crochet.
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June studied science and math at university and has worked as a technical writer. She uses these skills on a daily basis to bring clarity and precision to her crochet patterns and tutorials.
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Francis J. Ripley
Fr. Francis J. Ripley was an English priest born in 1912 at Lancashire. He became a Jesuit novice in London after graduating from a local Catholic grammar school with honors. After being convinced that his vocation was not with this order, he was ordained in 1939 following his studies at the archdiocesan seminary of Upholland. There he earned first prize in dogmatic theology for three years in a row.
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Father Ripley is the author of Terrible as an Army, The Diary of a Small Town Priest, Souls at Stake, Letters to Muriel, and This Is the Faith, his most famous work which was composed of a series of twice-weekly talks he had been giving for non-Catholics. These talks lead to hundreds of conversions over a period of several years.
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Robert Young Pelton
Robert Young Pelton is an author, journalist, and documentary film director. He is known for his conflict reporting and interviews with military and political figures in war zones. He reported from the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Afghanistan, the Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) in Chechnya, the rebel siege to control Monrovia in Liberia, and the siege on Villa Somalia in Mogadishu. He spent time with the Taliban, the Northern Alliance (pre-9/11), the CIA during the hunt for Osama bin Laden and with both insurgents and Blackwater security contractors during the war in Iraq. He also hosted the Discovery Travel Channel series "Robert Young Pelton's The World's Most Dangerous Places" from 1998 to 2003.
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Karma Dolma Rinpoche
My name is karma, I am Tibetan- Canadian model who likes erotica and martial arts. That being said I do karate and taekwondo. I also like doing mountaineering and hiking. I want to write erotica stories and see what happens. I am sex positive buddhist- tibetan Buddhist. Let's see where my stories go......
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Teretha Houston
Teretha Houston has followed other career paths but never strayed from writing. She had the pleasure of singing background for some of her favorite artists including Whitney Houston and Stevie Wonder on award shows, Good Morning America, Saturday Night Live, and a Super Bowl. Before the bright lights were cool, she was often working on a story.
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After receiving her master’s degree, she worked for the federal government while writing novels, plays, short stories, and screenplays with the help of a voice recorder during her three-hour commute. She is a film school graduate with directing and screenwriting credits.
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Erik Sabiston
Erik Sabiston grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia before winding up living off the grid in the redwoods of Northern California. Naturally restless, he moved from one job to another working as a door-to-door salesman, music teacher, and even a butcher, until he eventually found his calling as a Soldier. He led his helicopter crew during a series of miraculous rescues on one of the most dangerous operations in the history of the war in Afghanistan.
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Erik also speaks nationwide at conferences, schools, and events, inspiring audiences to harness the power of faith and teamwork to push themselves beyond their own limits, survive the unthinkable, and achieve the impossible.
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Leslie Linsley
Leslie Linsley has published more than 70 books on crafts and decorating. Her articles have appeared in Family Circle, where she was the contributing craft editor for 15 years, Woman’s Day, Victoria, Country Living, Redbook, House Beautiful, Elle Decor, Good Housekeeping, Martha Stewart Living, O, and HGTV online. Her newspaper column, “At Home With Leslie Linsley,” appears weekly in the Nantucket Inquirer & Mirror and The Key West Citizen.
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Sophie Cunningham
Sophie Cunningham is the author of six books including City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest (Text, 2020). She is also the editor of the collection Fire, Flood, Plague: Australian writers respond to 2020 (Vintage, 2020).
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Stephanie H. Hammond
Here's a little glimpse into the rollercoaster of my life – and if you know me, you’ll know I've worn quite a few hats along the way! I kicked things off as a teenage mother, which was like diving into the deep end of adulthood.
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Along the way, I channelled my inner entrepreneur as an Avon lady, bringing beauty products and smiles to doorsteps. Volunteering was another one of my early passions, still is, and it's amazing how giving back lightens my heart.
Life kept unfolding, and I ended up as a mum of seven. Yes, seven incredible souls who've filled my life with more love and chaos than I could have ever imagined! Life took some unexpected turns, and I became both a widow and a divorcee. That's life's way of making us stronger, I guess.
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Linda Wells
Linda Wells grew up in Florida and attended the University of South Florida in Tampa. After college, she went on to travel the world as a flight attendant. Like the heroine in her latest novel, Midnight Beach, Linda loves reading mysteries under a beach umbrella and swimming beyond the breakers. She also loves writing mysteries set in her treasured home state of Florida.
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Now living in the Midwest, her dreams to launch a writing career finally took flight. Wells is the author of four thrillers: Dead Love, Dead Promise, Cypress Lake, and Midnight Beach. She is hard at work on her fifth.
Linda belongs to several writers' organizations, including Romance Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. Find out more by visiting Linda at lindawellsbooks.c -
J. Hunter Holly
Joan Carol Holly was a science fiction author who wrote under the pseudonym J. Hunter Holly in the late 1950s until the mid-1970s. Joan Holly also contributed stories for Roger Elwood's series of books and sci-fi magazines, under both her real name(Joan C. Holly) and her pseudonym (Joan Hunter Holly).
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Amy Bizzarri
I'm Amy Bizzarri, a Chicago-based freelance writer. My stories have appeared in BBC Travel, Smithsonian, Lonely Planet, Somm Journal, Fodor's, Chicago Tribune, and more.
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*I specialize in writing travel content for various tourism websites, including Visit U.S.V.I, Travel Illinois, and Choose Chicago.
*My Great, Great Grandparents met the night the Great Chicago Fire hit our city (1871): Walter Daker, a volunteer firefighter, caught a glimpse of Catherine's long, flowing red hair and, believing it was on fire, swooped her up in his arms to "save" her… the rest is history! I'm the author of four Chicago history-focused books: Discovering Vintage Chicago, Chicago's Iconic Dishes, Drinks, and Desserts, 111 Places Chicago, and 111 Places Chicago -
Jack Cady
Winner of Nebula, Phillip K. Dick, World Fantasy and Bram Stoker awards.
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James Stewart Thayer
James Thayer is the son of a wheat farmer, and he was raised in Spokane and the farm country in eastern Washington. He graduated from Washington State University and the University of Chicago Law School, and now teaches novel writing at the University of Washington extension school where in 2015 he received the Excellence in Teaching Award in the Arts, Writing and Humanities. The New York Times Book Review says his "writing is smooth and clear. Deceptively simple, it wastes no words, and it has a rhythm that only confident stylists achieve.” His The Essential Guide to Writing a Novel is a leading manual for fiction writers. Thayer is a member of the Washington State Bar Association and the International Thriller Writers. He and his family l
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Steve Irwin
Australian tv-personality nicknamed "Crocodile hunter" for his crocodile handling.
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Irwin died in 2006 when a stingray's tail perforated his heart while filming in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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Simon Cowell
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
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Simon Cowell is an English artist-and-repertoire ("A&R") executive and television personality/producer, best known as a judge on such TV shows as Pop Idol, The X Factor, American Idol, America's Got Talent, and Britain's Got Talent. He is also the owner of the television production and music publishing house Syco.
Cowell is notorious for his unsparingly blunt and often controversial criticisms, insults, and wisecracks about contestants and their singing abilities, or lack thereof. He is often parodied in pop culture. He is known for combining activities in the television and music industries, having promoted singles and records for various artists, including -
Kassi Underwood
Kassi Underwood is a writer and a lecturer who grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. Her work has been published in the New York Times, The Atlantic, the New York Daily News, The Rumpus, Al Jazeera, and Guernica. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, where she taught on the faculty of the Undergraduate Writing Program. She has been a guest on MSNBC and HuffPost Live, featured on Upworthy, and profiled in the New York Magazine cover story, “My Abortion.” Kassi lectures nationwide about personal transformation and the spirituality of abortion. She is a student at Harvard Divinity School and co-host of the forthcoming podcast, Spiritually Blonde.
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C.E. Hoffman
C.E. Hoffman is a grant winner, Elgin Award nominee, Silver Honourable Mention in the Writers of the Future Award, Honourable Mention in the Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, and winner of the 2022 Defunct May Day Chapbook contest.
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Current releases include SLUTS AND WHORES (Thurston Howl Publications, 2021), GHOSTS, TROLLS, AND OTHER THINGS ON THE INTERNET (Bottlecap Press, 2022), NO ACTUAL SIN (May Day Press/Defunct Magazine, 2023), LOSERS AND FREAKS (Querencia Press, 2024), and BLOOD, BOOZE, AND OTHER THINGS IN NATURE (extended edition, Bottlecap Press, 2025.) SKELETONS AND OTHER THINGS IN MY CLOSET is forthcoming from Anxiety Press. A 5th Anniversary edition of SLUTS AND WHORES is forthcoming from Querencia Press. Find more weirdness at ceho -
Gerard Colby
Gerard Colby is an author and past president of the US National Writers Union, where he previously held various chair positions. From 1997 to 2001 he served as chair of the Vermont section.
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He is notable for authoring Du Pont: Behind The Nylon Curtain. The 1974 publication was put under contract by Prentice-Hall in anticipation of a significant quantity of books sold to Book of the Month. The book painted a portrait of DuPont enterprises and the DuPont family that was characterized as "sober but unflattering" by some but as presenting a Marxist interpretation of the company by others. In response to pressure from DuPont, Book-of-the-Month cancelled its preorder. In anticipation of lower sales, Prentice-Hall reduced its print run and scaled b -
David Miller
Author of Brother of Dragons and Our OK Angels, David Miller is a full time Physician Assistant specializing in Emergency Medicine. He has written a memoir of his family's adventure during snowmagedon 2021 and a Christian's guide to dealing with pain, suffering, and loss. Please feel free to reach out with any questions and look for more works to come in 2024.
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Max Austin
Max Austin is the pseudonym of writer Steve Brewer. He lives in Duke City (Albuquerque), New Mexico.
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Jennifer A. Jones
Jennifer loves animals, rainy days, and the fun of living a frugal lifestyle. She is married with two grown children and spends time at her Texas home cuddling dogs, reading, and pinching pennies because every cent leads to a dollar.
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Susanne Fröhlich
Susanne Fröhlich ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin und Journalistin, die hauptberuflich für den Hessischen Rundfunk arbeitet.
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Susanne Fröhlich machte 1982 ihr Abitur an der Schillerschule Frankfurt. Nach abgebrochenem Jura-Studium (4 Semester) und Volontariat debütierte Fröhlich 1984 beim Hessischen Rundfunk (Hörfunk). Von 1988 bis Sommer 2007 moderierte sie das „Ausgehspiel“ in hr3. Im Fernsehen moderierte sie „Allein oder Fröhlich“, „Vorsicht Fröhlich“ oder „Wir vier“. Sie war regelmäßig Gast bei Blond am Freitag sowie in der HR-Quizshow strassen stars.
Mittlerweile hat Fröhlich mehrere Bücher veröffentlicht. „Frisch gepresst“ handelt von einer Frau namens Andrea Schnidt, die gerade Mutter wird. „Frisch gepresst“ ist der erste Roman/Hörbuc -
William Campbell Gault
William Campbell Gault (1910–1995) was a critically acclaimed pulp novelist. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he took seven years to graduate from high school. Though he was part of a juvenile gang, he wrote poetry in his spare time, signing it with a girl’s name lest one of his friends find it. He sold his first story in 1936, and built a great career writing for pulps like Paris Nights, Scarlet Adventures, and the infamous Black Mask. In 1939, Gault quit his job and started writing fulltime.
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When the success of his pulps began to fade in the 1950s, Gault turned to longer fiction, winning an Edgar Award for his first mystery, Don’t Cry for Me (1952), which he wrote in twenty-eight days. He created private detectives Brock Callahan and Joe Puma -
Jane A.G. Kise
Jane Kise is a writer, education consultant, and corporate trainer. She has written over 25 books, including Educator Bandwidth, Doable Differentiation, Differentiated Coaching, and Intentional Leadership. She is a past president of the Association for Psychological Type International, an organization dedicated to constructive use of differences.
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Eleanor A. Fostars
Starry melanson i# my stage and model name, my legal name is Elena Melanson, I find shamanic and pagan beliefs systems, which are nature bass by the way, are a lot easier on the human brain. Then organize religions. I am more of a throat Singer than anything else. I have been here to try to be a rapper or whatever but this is what I am able to do without losing my marbles. My legal name is Elena Melanson and my interests are astronomy, stargazing, as well as reading and writing, as well as crystals and throat singing. Of course that’s what I like to do.
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I found my sound after a year of losing my mother and then I also found my spiritual style after I lost my grandmother. Both to cancer. And I found that shamaness I’m in finding my actual so -
Disa Dawn
Disa Dawn writes cozy supernatural adventures, hopepunk, and paranormal cozies featuring daring heroines, mystical capers, and sweet romance. She’s known for her slick, snappy prose, diverse worlds, quirky plots, and happily ever afters. She's the author of the Tennessee England series and the genre-bending saga The Seekin Trilogy.
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Studying poetics and creative writing at Naropa University inspired Disa to write books she wanted to read—sassy stories offering a warm escape from the cold world of reality, starring courageous heroines who also happen to be nice.
Disa’s a Golden Rose Finalist and a National Indie Excellence® Cross-Genre Finalist.
A native of Guam and the Mariana Islands, Disa now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family, a