Sarah C. Johns – Author of The Sirens of Soleil City
ABOUT THE FEATURED AUTHOR: From the author's website Sarah is the author of The Sirens of Soleil City, a novel inspired by the lives of her mother's two mothers - the mother who was married six times and in and out of her life, and her stepmother, who acted as the...
When the World Fell Silent by Donna Jones Alward
ABOUT: 1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Nora Crowell wants more than her sister’s life as a wife and mother. As WWI rages across the Atlantic, she becomes a lieutenant in the Canadian Army Nursing Corps. But trouble is looming and it won’t be long before the truth comes...
Susan Zurenda – Award–Winning Author
ABOUT THE FEATURED AUTHOR: From the author's website After teaching literature, composition, and creative writing to thousands of high school and college students for 33 years, Susan Beckham Zurenda turned her attention to putting a novel in her heart on paper, the...
Not Yours to Keep by Zelly Ruskin
ABOUT: When a newborn goes missing lives collide, uncovering secrets that may define or destroy a family... Billie Campbell, a Massachusetts adoption specialist grappling with fertility issues, dreams of adopting a baby, but not just any baby—her pregnant client’s...
Kaira Rouda – Award–Winning USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling Author
ABOUT THE FEATURED AUTHOR: From the author's website Kaira Rouda is an award–winning, USA Today and Amazon Charts bestselling author of contemporary fiction that explores what goes on beneath the surface of seemingly perfect lives. Her novels of domestic...
One Wrong Word by Hank Phillippi Ryan
ABOUT: A heart-racing new cat-and-mouse thriller from USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan. One wrong word can ruin your life. And no one knows that better than savvy crisis management expert Arden Ward. Problem is—she’s now...
Jeffrey Blount – Award-Winning Author
ABOUT THE FEATURED AUTHOR: From the author's website Jeffrey is the award-winning author off four novels — Almost Snow White, winner of the 2013 USA Best Book Awards. Hating Heidi Foster, winner of the 2013 Readers Favorite Book Award for young adult literature. The...
The Cherry Harvest by Lucy Sanna
ABOUT: The Cherry Harvest reveals a hidden side of the World War II home front, when German POWs are put to work in a Wisconsin farm community . . . with dark and unexpected consequences. It's the summer of 1944 in Door County, Wisconsin, where even the lush cherry...
Jennifer Steil – Award-Winning Author
ABOUT THE FEATURED AUTHOR: From the author's website Jennifer Steil is an award-winning author and journalist who lives in many countries (currently Uzbekistan). Her third book, the novel Exile Music, was released by Viking in May 2020. It follows the lives of a...
1666 by Lora Chilton
ABOUT: A Fictional Recounting of the Survival Story of Patawomeck Tribe of Virginia The story has been remembered within the Patawomeck tribe for generations, but is largely unknown outside of the tribe until now. Author Lora Chilton, a tribal member through the...
Michelle Moran – Internationally Bestselling Author
ABOUT THE FEATURED AUTHOR: From the author's website Michelle Moran is the internationally bestselling author of eight historical novels. A native of southern California, she attended Pomona College, then earned a Masters Degree from the Claremont Graduate University....
Mike Veny – Transforming Stigma
From the author's website “Emotional wellness is the foundation of emotional intelligence, psychological safety and a core component of human-centric skills.”– Mike Veny Mike Veny is fiercely committed to empowering employees to discover the gift of emotional...
Amy Meyerson – Internationally Bestselling Author
ABOUT THE FEATURED AUTHOR: From the author's website Amy Meyerson is the internationally bestselling author of The Bookshop of Yesterdays, The Imperfects, and The Love Scribe. Her books have been translated into eleven languages, and her short fiction has been...
Marie Bostwick – Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly
from the author's website When not curled up with a good book, Marie Bostwick can usually be found in her office, trying to write one. A New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nineteen uplifting works of historical and contemporary fiction,...
Jamie Beck – Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author
Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author Jamie Beck’s realistic and heartwarming stories have sold millions of copies and been translated into several languages. She is a Booksellers’ Best Award and Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR award finalist,...
Kimberly Brock – The Fabled Earth
from the author's website Kimberly Brock is the bestselling author of The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Townsend Prize for Fiction, and The River Witch, recipient of the Georgia Author of the Year Award. She is the...
Karen White – New York Times Bestselling Author
from author's website Karen White is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 34 books, including the Tradd Street series, The Last Night in London, Dreams of Falling, The Night the Lights Went Out, Flight Patterns, The Sound of Glass, and A Long Time...
Fran Hawthorne – I Meant To Tell You
from author's website Fran Hawthorne spent three-plus decades writing award-winning nonfiction, including eight books, mainly about consumer activism, the financial industry, and Big Pharma and the healthcare world. For instance, Ethical Chic: The Inside Story of the...
Jennifer Rosner – National Jewish Book Award Finalist
from author's website Jennifer Rosner is the author of the novels Once We Were Home and The Yellow Bird Sings, both finalists for the National Jewish Book Award. She is also author of the memoir If a Tree Falls: A Family's Quest to Hear and Be Heard, and the...
Some Stories, Like Wine, Need Time to Mature
My personal essay, "Willy: One in Ten," published in Hippocampus Magazine, was inspired by a profound interaction I had in high school with a monkey during my summer job at a zoo. In the years that followed, I didn’t share what had happened with anyone. Not even my...