Joyce Maynard

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

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Laura Snyder

Professor; Science Historian; Philosopher; Author of "The Philosophical Breakfast Club"

Lois Lowry

Newbery Medal-Winning Author of "Number the Stars" and "The Giver"

Sahar Delijani

Iranian Author Best Known for "Children of the Jacaranda Tree"

Anjanette Delgado

Award-Winning Novelist, Speaker & Journalist

Bill Dedman

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Investigative Reporter for NBC News; Co-Author, "Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune"

Patricia Cornwell

Best-Selling Author

Marge Piercy

Award-winning Novelist, Poet & Social Activist

Cerina Vincent and Jodi Lipper

Lifestyle Experts; Authors of the "Hot Chick" Book Series

Larry Kane

Emmy Award-winning News Anchor, Journalist & Author

Benjamín Alire Sáenz

Novelist, Poet & Children's Book Author Known for "Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe"

Myla Goldberg

Acclaimed Author, Best Known for "Bee Season"

Allen Eskens

Crime Novelist & Best-selling Author of "The Life We Bury" and "The Guise of Another"; Former Criminal Defense Attorney

Jodi Lipper

Writer, Editor, Ghostwriter and Publishing Consultant; Has worked with Jodi Picoult and Dan Brown

Zack O'Malley Greenburg

Forbes Senior Editor & Author of the Jay-Z Biography "Empire State of Mind"

Jeffery Deaver

Former Journalist, Folksinger, Attorney & International No. 1 Bestselling Author

Jennie Marshall

Jennie blogs for her famous website, nuckingfutsmama, and is a stay at home mom to boy/girl twins in the suburbs of Chicago. Before she was became a 24/7 taxi driver, short order cook and launderer to her short people, she was a junior high English teache

Craig Clevenger

Contemporary Fiction Author

Leah Scheier, MD

Novelist & Pediatrician

J.A. Jance

NY Times Best-Selling Murder Mystery Author