Joyce Maynard

Journalist & Best-Selling Author

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Amy Waldman

Journalist, Author, "The Submission"

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"

Lois Lowry

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

Alexandra Robbins

Journalist & Bestselling Author; Her Books Include "Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power"

J.A. Jance

NY Times Best-Selling Murder Mystery Author

Myla Goldberg

Acclaimed Author, Best Known for "Bee Season"

Laura Snyder

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

Cerina Vincent and Jodi Lipper

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

Anita Diamant

Fiction & Non-Fiction Author; Best Known for "The Red Tent" and "The Boston Girl"

Zack O'Malley Greenburg

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

Jayne Anne Phillips

Bestselling Novelist and Short Story Writer

Patricia Cornwell

Best-Selling Author

Craig Clevenger

Contemporary Fiction Author

Marge Piercy

Award-winning Novelist, Poet & Social Activist

Patricia Reilly Giff

Two-time Newbery Honor Winning Author of "Lily's Crossing" and "Pictures of Hollis Woods"

Tom Kizzia

Alaskan Writer and Journalist; "Pilgrim's Wilderness"

Soman Chainani

NY Times Best-Selling Author of "The School for Good & Evil" and "A World Without Princes"

Jodi Lipper

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

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