Sarah Adler, a USA Today best-selling author, writes romantic comedies about lovable weirdos finding their happily ever afters. She lives in Frederick, Md., with her husband, daughter and a very mischievous cat named Noodle. When not writing or reading, you… Continue Reading

In the words of The New York Times, Louis Bayard “reinvigorates historical fiction,” rendering the past “as if he’d witnessed it firsthand.” His acclaimed novels include “The Wildes: A Novel in Five Acts;” “The Pale Blue Eye,” adapted into the global… Continue Reading

Zeeva Bukai was born in Israel and raised in New York City. Her honors include a Fellowship at the New York Center for Fiction and residencies at Hedgebrook, and Byrdcliffe AIR program. Her stories are forthcoming in “Smashing the Tablets:… Continue Reading

Andie Burke specializes in big-hearted, queer romcoms that kick-off with meet-disasters rather than meet-cutes. When not writing, she works as a pediatric radiology nurse. She lives with two small, but hilarious, humans in a Maryland home filled with an alarming… Continue Reading

Gary Burr is one of Nashville’s most accomplished songwriters with 14 number ones songs. His songs have been recorded by Garth Brooks, Christina Aguilera, Kenny Rogers, Faith Hill, Lynyrd Skynyrd and many others. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriter’s… Continue Reading

Michael Causey has written about music in Washingtonian, Bethesda Magazine and the Washington Independent Review of Books. He hosts the radio show, “A Good Hour,” on WOWD 94.3 fm Takoma Park, Md., and frequently interviews musicians including David Crosby, Marshall… Continue Reading

Essie Chambers is an award-winning author and producer. Her debut novel, “Swift River”—a Today Show “Read with Jenna” Book Club pick—won the 2024 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize and was named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, NPR, The Boston Globe, Elle, and… Continue Reading

Jinwoo Chong is the author of the novel “Flux,” a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and VCU Cabell First Novel awards, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and named a best book of the year by Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan. His short… Continue Reading

Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. Djèlí Clark (he/him) spent the formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. He is the author of the novel, “A Master of Djinn,”… Continue Reading

Susan Coll’s eighth novel, “The Literati,” is forthcoming in September. Her previous works include the USA Today best-selling “Real Life and Other Fictions,” “Bookish People” and “The Stager,” a New York Times and Chicago Tribune Editor’s Choice. Her novel “Acceptance”… Continue Reading

Sara Goodman Confino is the best-selling author of “Behind Every Good Man,” “Don’t Forget to Write,” “She’s Up to No Good” and “For the Love of Friends.” After spending many years teaching high school English and journalism in Montgomery County,… Continue Reading

Jeanine Cummins is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of “American Dirt,” which was an Oprah’s Book Club and a Barnes & Noble Book Club selection, as well as a #1 Indie Next pick. The novel has been translated… Continue Reading

Keith Donohue is the author of five novels, including The New York Times best-seller, “The Stolen Child.” His work has been translated into two dozen languages. He also reviews books, interviews other writers, and wrote speeches for the chairman of… Continue Reading

Rosa Kwon Easton is a Korean American lawyer, library trustee and author of the debut novel, “White Mulberry,” an Amazon First Reads Editor’s Pick and a #1 Best Seller in Historical Fiction. It has been named a “Best Book” by… Continue Reading

Erin Crosby Eckstine is an author of speculative historical fiction and personal essays. Born in Montgomery, Ala., Erin grew up between the South and Los Angeles before moving to New York City, where she taught high school English for six… Continue Reading

Lauren Francis-Sharma is the author of “Book of the Little Axe,” a finalist for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the critically acclaimed novel “’Til the Well Runs Dry.” She was a MacDowell fellow and is the Assistant Director of Bread… Continue Reading

Matt Goldman is a New York Times best-selling author and Emmy Award winning TV writer. He has been nominated for the Shamus Award, the Nero Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and was named to the Texas Lariat Reading… Continue Reading

Christine Gunderson grew up on a fourth-generation family farm in rural North Dakota where she read Laura Ingalls Wilder books in her very own little house on the prairie. She’s a former television anchor and reporter, and former Capitol Hill… Continue Reading

Lindsay Hameroff is a writer, humorist and former English teacher raised in Baltimore, Md., and based in Harrisburg, Pa. Her writing has been featured in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Belladonna, Weekly Humorist, and fan letters to Harry Styles. She is… Continue Reading

Donna Hemans is the author of three novels: “River Woman,” “Tea by the Sea” and “The House of Plain Truth.” She received an M.F.A. from American University and her undergraduate degree from Fordham University. She serves on the PEN/Faulkner Foundation… Continue Reading

Linda Holmes is a novelist, a pop culture correspondent for NPR, and one of the hosts of the popular podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour, which has held sold-out live shows in New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. She… Continue Reading

John Kenney is the author of three novels, including the forthcoming “I See You’ve Called in Dead,” and four books of poetry. His first novel, “Truth In Advertising,” won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He is also the author… Continue Reading

Jeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs, Ga., best known as the home of Roosevelt’s Little White House. He calls the nation’s capital home now and has for over three decades. He is a senior advisor at the Library of… Continue Reading

Madeline Martin is a New York Times, USA Today, Publisher’s Weekly and international best-selling author of historical fiction with books that have been translated into over 25 different languages. She lives in sunny Florida with her husband (known as Mr.… Continue Reading

Laura Morelli holds a Ph.D. from Yale University, where she held a Mellon Fellowship in art history and a Bass Fellowship for writing in the humanities. She is a USA Today and Publishers Weekly best-selling historical novelist, with book club… Continue Reading

Elaine Neil Orr is an award-winning writer of fiction and memoir. “Dancing Woman” is her sixth book. Earlier books include the memoir, “Gods of Noonday: A White Girl’s African Life,” and the novels, “A Different Sun” and “Swimming Between Worlds,”… Continue Reading

Frances Park is a local Korean American author of novels, memoirs and children’s books. At age 10, she typed a 200-page story on an Underwood typewriter – blue ink, onionskin paper, reading aloud to anyone who would listen. Since then,… Continue Reading

Sarah Pekkanen is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of 15 solo and co-authored novels. Her books are sold in 36 countries, with several optioned for TV and film. Sarah also co-wrote the screenplay for “The Wife Between Us”… Continue Reading

Eric Puchner is the author of the forthcoming novel “Dream State.” His previous books include the novel, “Model Home,” a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award; and two collections of stories, “Last Day on Earth” and “Music Through the Floor,” a… Continue Reading

Anna Rasche is an author, gemologist and historian who previously worked in the jewelry collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her debut novel, “The Stone Witch of Florence,” was an October 2024 Indie Next pick, and was recommended by… Continue Reading

Tara Karr Roberts is a freelance writer, science writer and newspaper columnist. She is a lifelong Idahoan who grew up along the Pend Oreille River and now lives in Moscow, Idaho, with her family. “Wild and Distant Seas” is her… Continue Reading