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Bill welcomes bestselling acclaimed biographer Miranda Seymour to the show. Miranda is a British biographer whose acclaimed books include biographies of Jean Rhys, Lord Byron’s wife and daughter, Annabella Milbanke and Ada Lovelace; Mary Shelley; and Ottoline Morrell. She lives in Nottinghamshire, England.

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Bill welcomes debut novelist Holly James to the show. Holly holds a PhD in psychology and has worked in both academia and the tech industry. She loves telling stories with big hearts and a touch of magic. Nothing But the Truth is her first novel. She currently lives in Southern California with her husband and dog.

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Bill welcomes author and teacher, and storyteller Matthew Dicks to the show. Matthew is the author of Someday Is Today and nine other books. A bestselling novelist, nationally recognized storyteller, and award-winning elementary schoolteacher, he teaches storytelling and communications at universities, corporate workplaces, and community organizations. Dicks has won multiple Moth GrandSLAM story competitions and, together with his wife, created the organization Speak Up to help others share their stories. They also cohost the Speak Up Storytelling podcast.

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Bill welcomes debut novelist Kate Brook to the show.Kate lives and works in London. She has a PhD in French Literature and Visual Art from King’s College London, and a master's in European Literature and Culture from the University of Cambridge. Her short-form writing has been published in The Fiction Pool and The Real Story. Not Exactly What I Had in Mind is her debut novel.

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Bill welcomes novelist, screenwriter, playwright and journalist Gary Goldstein to the show. Gary has written more than 15 produced telefilms plus the indie features “If You Only Knew,” “Politics of Love” and “Mr. 365.” Gary has also sold or optioned many original screenplays, has a string of episodic TV credits and has sold half-hour pilots to NBC and Warner Bros TV. He was represented on the Los Angeles stage in 2017 with the World Premiere of his acclaimed three-sisters dramedy "April, May & June," produced by Theatre 40 of Beverly Hills. It won five Broadway World award nominations including Best Local Production. Other L.A. stage credits include the comedies "Just Men," "Parental Discretion" and "Three Grooms and a Bride," which all enjoyed long, well-reviewed runs. Gary’s family drama "Curtain Call" premiered at Carmel, CA's Pacific Repertory Theatre, while "Dinner at the Harbor Reef," a drama "based on fact, rumor and Hollywood," debuted in a staged reading in 2019 at Beverly Hills' Theatre 40.Gary has also been a contributing film reviewer and feature writer for the Los Angeles Times since 2007. His debut novel, “The Last Birthday Party,” was published August 2021 by Hadleigh House. His second novel, the family drama “The Mother I Never Had,” is coming out October 2022.

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Bill welcomes film producer and debut memoirist David Winkler to the show. David comes from Hollywood royalty. A successful film producer of such titles as Creed, Rocky Balboa, The Mechanic, and The Gambler, and the son of renowned producer, Irwin Winkler (They Shoot Horses Don’t They, Rocky, Goodfellas, etc), The Arrangement, a love story, is his first book. David lives in Bel Air, California, but likes to consider himself anything but the typical Hollywood type. He spends most of his free time dragging his two children to movie theaters, surfing, and golfing.

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Bill welcomes bestselling author and actress Jennie Mollen to the show. Jenny is a writer, actor, Instagram personality and New York Times bestselling author of the essay collections I Like You Just the Way I Am and Live Fast Die Hot. Heralded by The Huffington Post as one of the funniest women on both Twitter and Instagram and named one of “Five to Follow” by T Magazine, Jenny wrote a regular column for Parents magazine and has contributed to Cosmopolitan, Glamour, New York, Elle.com, “Wake-Up Call with Katie Couric,” and Playboy online. Her debut novel City of Likes just published, and Dictator Lunches, a cookbook inspired by her Instagram account @dictatorlunches, is set to publish September 2022. With her Instagram handles @jennymollen and @dictatorlunches, Jenny has more than half a million followers.

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Bill welcomes novelist and memoirist Susan Cushman to the show. Susan is the author of five books and editor of three: the memoirs Pilgrim Interrupted and Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimer’s, the novels John and Mary Margaret, and Cherry Bomb, the short story collection Friends of the Library, and the anthologies The Pulpwood Queens Celebrate 20 Years!, Southern Writers on Writing, and A Second Blooming: Becoming the Women We Are Meant to Be. She has also published essays in four anthologies and numerous journals and magazines. A frequent speaker and panelist at literary festivals and conferences, she also taught numerous writing workshops. Her writing embraces her Southern roots, her spiritual journey from the Presbyterian faith of her childhood to her conversion to Orthodox Christianity, and her struggles with various mental health issues.

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Bill welcomes authors Tyron Greer and Beth Weir to the show, who were two of seven contributors to the essay and poetry collection Writing While Masked, a book born from the challenges of lockdown. Tyson Greer is an award-winning writer who, for twenty years, ran her own media company, Tyson Greer….Writes, writing on topics from art to virtual reality for national, regional, and local magazines. She also wrote and directed corporate television and documentaries, which aired on local cable and KCTS-9, and taught screenwriting for the University of Washington. Tyson authored a book for the Microsoft Press Strategic Technology series that was published in eight languages and has contributed to, ghost-written, or edited other non-fiction books. She is also an accomplished visual artist whose works are in U.S. private collections. Beth Weir is a former elementary teacher and college professor in education with an interest in literacy acquisition.  She has had a life-long interest in oral storytelling and is the author of Introducing Children to Folk Tales. She has published articles in airline and gardening magazines and blogged on behalf of Dunn Gardens when she worked as the director for five years.

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Bill welcomes author and teacher Nancy Slonim Aronie to the show. Nancy is the author of Writing from the Heart. She has been a regular contributor to National Public Radio's All Things Considered. She was recognized for excellence in teaching all three years she taught at Harvard University for Robert Coles. She has joined with physicians and writers from Columbia University's program in narrative medicine to lead workshops using her Writing from the Heart. Her latest book is Memoir as Medicine: The Healing Power of Writing Your messy, Imperfect, Unruly (but Gorgeously Yours) Life Story.