Rothstein
Marilyn Simon Rothstein is the bestselling author of four novels: Who Loves You Best (September, 2024) Crazy to Leave You (May, 2022), Husbands and Other Sharp Objects (2018) and Lift and Separate 2016), winner of the Star Award presented by the Women’s Fiction Writers Association for Outstanding Debut. All are published by Lake Union, a […]
Gilbert-Collins
Susan Gilbert-Collins Happily settled in the Rochester, NY, area with her husband and two young sons, Susan Gilbert-Collins is always a little homesick for her home state of South Dakota. That’s probably why a lot of her fiction is set there, including her first novel, Starting from Scratch (Touchstone at Simon & Schuster, 2010). “I […]
Scheff
Sue Scheff Sue Scheff is a nationally-recognized speaker, parent advocate and internet safety expert. She is the founder of Parents’ Universal Resource Experts, Inc., an informational resource for parents struggling with challenging teenagers. She is also the author of the upcoming SHAME NATION: The Global Epidemic of Online Hate (coming Fall 2017 from Sourcebooks) which dives […]
Anselmo
Lisa Anselmo has spent most of her professional career in magazine publishing, working on such iconic brands as Allure, Mademoiselle, InStyle, and People. She’s been everything from a creative director to an opera singer, but ultimately she followed her passion to become a writer, with her memoir, My Part-Time Paris Life (Thomas Dunne Books/Macmillan, October […]
Hovitz
Helaina Hovitz Helaina Hovitz Regal is a native New Yorker who has always had the unreasonable notion that she can help change the world. Her greatest passion is writing inspiring stories about charities, social good, nonprofits, social issues, animal rescue, mental health, and recovery. Her first book, AFTER 9/11: One Girl’s Journey Through Darkness to a […]
Rien
Paige Rien Paige Rien is a designer and author best known for five seasons on HGTV’s Hidden Potential and for her appearances on Curb Appeal. Paige consults with families all over the world to make their homes more personal, reflecting how they truly live. After renovating and restoring many homes together with her husband, Francis, […]
Obergefell
Jim Obergefell Jim Obergefell is an American civil rights activist and was the lead plaintiff in the 2015 Supreme Court decision, Obergefell v. Hodges, which affirm the right for same-sex couples to marry. It was a long-awaited victory for much of the country, but Jim had a particularly personal relationship to it. Fighting for love […]
Cenziper
Debbie Cenziper Debbie Cenziper is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and nonfiction author who writes for The Washington Post. She is also the newly named Director of Investigative Reporting at the Medill School of Journalism, Media and Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University. Over 20 years, Cenziper’s stories have sent people to prison, changed local, […]
Boyd
Elizabeth Reid Boyd “Eliza Redgold” is a natural pen name in its origin. It is based upon the old, Gaelic meaning of her real name, Dr. Elizabeth Reid Boyd — according to English folklore, if you help a fairy, you will be rewarded with red gold. “Eliza Redgold” is also a natural pen name in […]
Madison
Juliet Madison is an Australian bestselling and award-nominated author of twenty-one books in both commercial fiction and self-help/mind-body-spirit, including , The Power of Crystals (Dover Publications 2020), The Secret Letters Project (Sourcebooks 2017) which sparked the worldwide ‘Dear Stranger’ kindness movement; the #secretlettersproject, in which thousands of people took part, and Color Your Dreams (Sourcebooks […]