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Barbara talks to us about coming to terms with how your life turned out, teen-age rock idols, and how to judge the quality of a mattress.

Barbara's articles and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Consumers Digest, Parents Magazine, American Baby, Westchester Magazine, and Writer's Digest, and online at BrainChildMag.com, GrownandFlown.com, WorkingMother.com, NextAvenue.com, TheManifestStation.net, and Road2College.com. She also teaches novel writing at Sarah Lawrence College. Barbara and her husband have three children as well as a lovable shih-poo, and live in Westchester County, N.Y. Her latest releases center around Lake Summers, a community in upstate New York - The Lilac House and The Bluebell Girls.

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Julie, now a NYT's best-selling author for The Last Flight, talked to us right after the debut of her first novel about Pitch Wars, writing at 3:45 a.m. in the morning., and how she finds balance in her life.

Born and raised in Santa Monica, California, Julie grew up reading books on the beach while everyone else surfed. After attending college at University of the Pacific, and a brief stint working in the athletic department at University of California, Berkeley, she returned home to Santa Monica to teach. She now lives there with her two young sons and a golden doodle with poor impulse control.

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Anna Quinn is a writer, teacher, and the owner of The Writers' Workshoppe and Imprint Bookstore in Port Townsend, WA. She has thirty years of experience teaching and leading writing workshops across the country. Her writing has appeared in Writer's Digest, Psychology Today, Literature Circles and Response, Practical Aspects of Authentic Assessment, Instructor, Manifest-Station, Lit Fest Anthology 2016, and Washington 129 Anthology. The Night Child is her debut novel.

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A native New Yorker and captivating storyteller with a flair for embellishment, Jennifer Irwin currently resides in Los Angeles with two cats, a dog, and her boyfriend. After earning her BA in Cinema from Denison University, she worked in advertising and marketing, raised three boys, and ultimately became a certified Pilates instructor. While she has written screenplays and short stories since her college days, A Dress the Color of the Sky is her first novel.

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Hear how Lori's debut novel was inspired by her mother's life. It is a LGBTQ-themed historical novel set in the 1930s and 40s about a young woman who struggles to define herself in a world where she does not seem to fit. It was a Foreword INDIES 2017 Book of the Year Awards Winner, and a finalist in the following contests: Self Publishers Review 2017, Golden Crown Literary Society in two categories (Debut and Historical), Women's Fiction Writers Association (Debut category), and is a B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree.

Lori worked as a social worker and licensed family therapist in San Francisco before turning to writing. She now lives in Oregon, in the foothills of the Siskiyou Mountains, surrounded by forest where hiking trails that weave through the trees follow and cross a creek with crashing waterfalls. Finding solace in nature and in the company of Ponderosa Pines over 100 feet tall, pushing toward old-growth status, she writes stories, putters in her garden and hikes with her rescue dogs.

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Sweta talks about her debut novel, a story of a grieving daughter and abuse survivor who must summon the courage to run a feminist conference, trust a man she meets over the internet, and escape a catfishing stalker to find her power.

Born in India, Sweta writes about women, multiculturalism, wellness, and identity. Sweta, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, amongst other publications, across nine countries on three continents, is an award-winning writer and graduate of Columbia University. She lives in New York City with her husband and in her spare time, teaches yoga to female survivors of rape and domestic violence.

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