Month: June 2020

Caroline Leavitt is the New York Times bestselling author of 12 novels. Pictures of You and Is This Tomorrow were both New York Times bestsellers. Pictures of You was also a Costco “Pennie’s Pick,” A San Francisco Chronicle Editor’s Choice “Lit Pick,” and was one of the top 20 books published so far in 2011, as named by BookPage. It was also on the Best Books of 2011 lists from The San Francisco Chronicle, The Providence Journal, Bookmarks Magazine and Kirkus Reviews.

Is This Tomorrow was also a San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick/Editor’s Choice, a Jewish Book Council Bookclub Pick, a WNBA National Great Group Reads, a May Indie Next Pick, A Best Book of 2013 from January magazine, on the longlist for the Maine Readers’ Choice Award, and the winner of an Audiofile Earphones Award.

Dr. Daniel Lee: I am a historian of the Second World War and a specialist in the history of Jews in France and North Africa during the Holocaust. My first book, Pétain’s Jewish Children: French Jewish Youth and the Vichy Regime, 1940–42 (OUP, 2014) explored the coexistence between young French Jews and the Vichy regime. My second book, The SS Officer’s Armchair (Jonathan Cape, 2020), examines the life of a low-ranking SS officer from Stuttgart whose personal documents were recently discovered sewn into the cushion of an armchair. I am concurrently working on a history of the Jews of Tunisia during the Second World War, and am also the Principal Investigator on a British Academy GCRF Sustainable Development Programme project entitled, “Traces of Jewish Memory in Contemporary Tunisia”.

Highly sensitive, a natural empath, healer, teacher and scribe, Darlene Green has followed her heart’s direction in discovery of the sacred in life. After many years of spiritual practice and study, Darlene experienced an invitation by the Masters of the Council of Light to sit with them as scribe, daily, for one year and one day. The result is the extensive body of work that is In Service to Love, relayed through three books: In Service to Love Book 1: Love Remembered, In Service to Love Book 2: Love Elevated and In Service to Love Book 3: Love Now.

Ann L. Tucker is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Georgia. As a historian, her areas of expertise include the US South, Civil War, and nationalism and transnational history. Dr. Tucker has long been interested in issues of southern identity, and became interested in the creation of the Italian nation while studying abroad in Venice. She combines these interests to research and write on southern nationalism in the Civil War Era through a transnational approach. Her work demonstrates the influence of European nationalist movements, such as the Revolutions of 1848 and Italian Risorgimento, on the development of the Confederacy.

John Bishop MD is the author of Act of Murder and Act of Deception. Dr. Bishop has practiced orthopedic surgery in Houston, Texas, for 30 years. His Doc Brady medical thriller series is set in the changing environment of medicine in the 1990s. Drawing on his years of experience as a practicing surgeon, Bishop entertains readers using his unique insights into the medical world with all its challenges, intricacies, and complexities, while at the same time revealing the compassion and dedication of health care professionals. Dr. Bishop and his wife, Joan, reside in the Texas Hill Country.

Brittany J. Thurman is the author of FLY (Fall 2021, Atheneum/Simon and Schuster). FLY follows Africa, who wants to compete in an upcoming double Dutch competition. Problem is, Africa does not know how to double Dutch. While her friends teach her some winning moves, Africa realizes she’s always known she can reach for her dreams.

Brittany is a former children children’s specialist at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. During her time working with children across Pittsburgh, she read hundreds of stories to thousands of babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. Her focus has always been on representation and early literacy. Brittany is dedicated to ensuring children’s literature truthfully reflects the world in which we live. She’s spoken and presented at numerous conferences including: The Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multicultural Children’s Literature, Western PA’s SCBWI Conference, and the 13th Annual IBBY Regional Conference. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and Kingston University (London, England) she currently manages educational programming at The Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.

Amanda Golden is associate professor of English at New York Institute of Technology. She is the author of Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (Routledge, 2020) and editor of This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton (UPF, 2016). With Anita Helle and Maeve O’Brien she is currently editing The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath. Golden has published in Modernism/Modernity, Woolf Studies Annual, and The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945.

Lisa Braxton is an essayist, short story writer, and novelist. Her debut novel, The Talking Drum, was published in June 2020 by Inanna Publications.

She is also the former president of the Boston Chapters of the Women’s National Book Association. She is a “debutante,” one of five debut novelists chosen for the Debutante Ball, a group blog for authors making their debut in the literary world. Her stories and essays have appeared in Vermont Literary Review, Black Lives Have Always Mattered, Chicken Soup for the Soul and The Book of Hope. She received Honorable Mention in Writer’s Digest magazine’s 84th and 86th annual writing contests in the inspirational essay category.

Robert McCaw is the author of Fire and Vengeance, Off the Grid, and Death of a Messenger. McCaw grew up in a military family, traveling the world. He is a graduate of Georgetown University, served as a U.S. Army lieutenant, and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia. He was a partner in a major international law firm in Washington, D.C. and New York City, representing major Wall Street clients in complex civil and criminal cases. Having lived on the Big Island of Hawaii, McCaw imbues his writing of the Islands with his more than 2-year love affair with this Pacific paradise. He now lives in New York City with his wife, Calli.