Chris Power is a British writer and literary critic for The Guardian. He was born in 1975 and grew up in Farnborough, Surrey. He studied English and American literature at Swansea University, graduating in 1998. He has worked as an advertising copywriter and creative director. He is the author of the short story collection Mothers, and the novel The Lonely Man.
Read MoreTess’s first medical thriller, Harvest, was released in hardcover in 1996, and it marked her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Her suspense novels since then have been: Life Support (1997), Bloodstream (1998), Gravity (1999), The Surgeon (2001), The Apprentice (2002), The Sinner (2003), Body Double (2004), Vanish (2005), The Mephisto Club (2006), The Bone Garden (2007), The Keepsake (2008; UK title: Keeping the Dead), Ice Cold (2010; UK title: The Killing Place), The Silent Girl (2011), Last To Die (2012), Die Again ( 2015), Playing With Fire ( 2015), I Know A Secret (2017) and The Shape Of Night (2019). Her books have been published in forty countries, and more than 30 million copies have been sold around the world.
Read MoreAnna Sale is the host and managing editor of Death, Sex & Money, WNYC's interview show about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Recently named New York Magazine's number one podcast, the show has also been featured by The New York Times, The Atlantic, Buzzfeed, The Guardian, Fast Company, and Real Simple.
Read MoreDavid Laskin is the author of a number of award-winning books of narrative nonfiction, including The Children's Blizzard, The Long Way Home, and The Family. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian, Seattle Met, the Seattle Times and American Ancestors. He and his wife, retired law professor Kate O'Neill, are the parents of three grown daughters. They live in Shoreline, WA.
Read MoreMartha Beck is a PhD, a Harvard-trained sociologist, world-renowned coach and New York Times bestselling author. She has published nine non-fiction books including Expecting Adam, Leaving the Saints, and Finding Your Own North Star, one novel, Diane, Herself, and more than 200 magazine articles. Her latest book is The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self.
Read MoreKami Garcia a #1 New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author and comic book writer. As an award-winning, Bram Stoker Award-nominated young adult author of 12 novels and graphic novels, she has been published in 51 countries and 38 languages and her books have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide.
Read MoreKristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, Winter Garden, Night Road, and Firefly Lane.
Read MorePatricia Cornwell has sold over 100 million books. She sold her first novel, Postmortem, while working as a computer analyst at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Richmond, Virginia. Postmortem, was the first bona fide forensic thriller. It paved the way for an explosion of entertainment featuring in all things forensic across film, television and literature.
Postmortem would go on to win the Edgar, Creasey, Anthony, and Macavity awards as well as the French Prix du Roman d’Aventure prize – the first book ever to claim all these distinctions in a single year. To date, Cornwell’s books have sold some 100 million copies in thirty-six languages in over 120 countries. She’s authored twenty-nine New York Times bestsellers.
Read MoreReza Farazmand lives and draws in Los Angeles. Best known for his comic series Poorly Drawn Lines, his work has been featured in and around such places as televisions, websites, magazines, and now the books Poorly Drawn Lines and, most recently, City Monster. When he’s not writing or drawing, Reza enjoys drinking coffee and looking at things on screens.
Read MoreLee Gutkind, recognized by Vanity Fair as “the Godfather behind creative nonfiction,” is the founder and editor of Creative Nonfiction, and editor of more than 25 books. He is Distinguished Writer-in-Residence in the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University and a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication.
Read MoreJason Reynolds is an American author of novels and poetry for young adult and middle-grade audiences, including Ghost, a National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature. His popular Track series follows a different protagonist in each novel, all of whom are members the Defenders, an elite track team.
Read MoreBruce Van Dusen directed his first commercial when he was twenty-three. He’s gone on to direct a thousand more. He also directed three movies and a feature documentary. Being a director is a weird gig. When you work, you give orders, and people and objects do what you tell them. When you’re not working, you still give orders, but nobody listens. Born in Detroit, Van Dusen lives in New York City. 60 Stories About 30 Seconds is his first book.
Read MoreBorn and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction as well as the 2014 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 awardee, and her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays are featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.
Read MoreAnnabel Abbs’s first novel, The Joyce Girl, was published in 2016 to great acclaim and has sold across the world. It tells the fictionalized story of Lucia Joyce, forgotten daughter of James Joyce, and is currently being adapted for the stage. Her second novel, Frieda, was published in 2018 and immediately became a Times Book of the Month and then a Times Book of the Year, as well as featuring on BBC Woman’s Hour, Tatler, Good Housekeeping, Red and all the national newspapers. It is currently being translated into several languages. The novel tells the dramatic story of Frieda von Richthofen, the woman who inspired D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley, and later became his wife. Her first work of non-fiction, The Age-Well Project, was published in 2019, and explores the latest science of longevity.
Read MoreMichael Elias was an actor with The Living Theater and the Judson Poets’ Theater. Moving to Hollywood, he worked as a screenwriter; his credits include The Jerk, The Frisco Kid, Young Doctors in Love, and Lush Life. With Rich Eustis, he created the sitcom Head of the Class, and his play The Catskills Sonata topped the list of LA Weekly’s Ten Best Plays of 2007. His novel The Last Conquistador was published in 2013. You Can Go Home Now is his second novel.
Read MoreSusie Moore is the author of Stop Checking Your Likes and What If It Does Work Out? which was named by Entrepreneur as one of the “8 Business Books Entrepreneurs Must Read to Dominate Their Industry.” A former Silicon Valley sales director turned life coach, she has been featured on The Today Show, as well as in O Magazine, Business Insider, Forbes, Time, and Marie Claire.
Read MoreLaura Munson is the New York Times and international bestselling author of the novel Willa’s Grove and the memoir This Is Not The Story You Think It Is. She has been published in nine countries and has been featured in Vanity Fair, Elle, Redbook, Time, Newsweek, Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly and published in the New York Times ‘Modern Love’ Column, the New York Times Magazine, O. Magazine, and many others.
Read MoreKira Jane Buxton's writing has appeared in The New York Times, NewYorker.com, McSweeney's, The Rumpus, Huffington Post, and more. She calls the tropical utopia of Seattle home and spends her time with three cats, a dog, two crows, a charm of hummingbirds, and a husband. HOLLOW KINGDOM is her debut novel.
Read MoreJennifer Longo’s debut novel, SIX FEET OVER IT (Random House Books 2014) received starred reviews from Kirkus and The Bulletin, was selected as a 2015 Washington State Book Award finalist, a VOYA Perfect Ten, and an Indies Introduce New Voices title. Jen's second novel, UP TO THIS POINTE (Random House Books 2016) was selected as an Indies Next title, 2017 Washington State Book Award finalist, shortlisted for the YALSA 2017 Best Fiction Young Adult list and received starred reviews from The Bulletin and Shelf Awareness. Her latest novel is WHAT I CARRY.
Read MoreWong's first novel, Homebase, published by Reed and Cannon (1979), won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the 15th Annual Governor's Writers Day Award of Washington. His second novel, American Knees, first published by Simon & Schuster in 1996, was adapted into an independent feature film entitled Americanese (2010), written and directed by Eric Byler and produced by Lisa Onodera. The book was re-issued in 2005 by University of Washington Press.
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