La Literati

Briana Morgan is a YA and NA writer, editor, and blogger who loves dark, suspenseful reads, angst-ridden relationships, and complicated characters. Her interest in Jay Gatsby scares her friends and family. You can find her in way too many places online, eating too much popcorn, reading in the corner, or crying about long-dead literary heroes.

Jennifer Locklear has previously joined her husband, Morgan, on our show to talk about the book they wrote together, titled "Exposure". Jennifer joins us this time to talk about her own upcoming contemporary romance, titled "Constellation". It is the first book in a trilogy. She is currently writing the second book, and she hopes to begin writing the third book late in 2017.

Erika Robuck is the bestselling author of Hemingway's Girl, Call Me Zelda, Fallen Beauty, The House of Hawthorne, and Receive Me Falling. She is also a contributor to the anthology Grand Central: Postwar Stories of Love and Reunion, the forthcoming essay collection Author in Progress: A No-Holds-Barred Guide to What it Really Takes to Get Published, and the fiction blog, Writer Unboxed. She is a member of the Hawthorne, Historical Novel, Hemingway, and Millay Societies. In 2014, Robuck was named Annapolis' Author of the Year, and she resides there with her husband and three sons.

Another birthday for Niles approaches. Tosha, Niles, and a friends use this occasion to gather around the table and talk for your entertainment.

David Bedrick, JD, Dipl. PW, is an author, speaker, counselor, attorney, and teacher. He spent eight years on the faculty at the University of Phoenix, and has taught for the US Navy, 3M, psychological associations, and small groups. He has received notable awards for teaching, employee development, and legal service to the community. David is the author of the acclaimed "Talking Back To Dr. Phil: Alternatives to Mainstream Psychology", and the forthcoming book "Revisioning Activism: Bringing Depth, Dialogue, and Diversity to Individual and Social Change" (Belly Song Press, 2016). He teaches and speaks on the topics of shame, night time dreams, weight loss, and body image, diversity and social injustice, and alternative psychological paradigms. David is a blogger for Psychology Today and the Huffington Post, and counsels people internationally. For more about David, visit www.davidbedrick.com.

J.D. Estrada is an indie author who was born and raised in Puerto Rico. He has published five books including one novel, three poetry collections, and one YA short story collection. A bodyboarder, singer/songwriter, and lover of words, he finds his greatest joy through creating and connecting, so here's to doing plenty of that. Peace, love, and maki rolls.

Todd is the author of three books, poet, screenwriter, playwright, and independent filmmaker. He has a fondness for children, animals, veterans, and the homeless. Todd is a former US Marine, freethinker, philosopher, and lover of freedom, classic films, and literature.

For most of her life, Ellynore Seybold-Smith was a wife and mother. It was not long after her children married and moved away that her husband died way too young. As grief therapy, she wrote her first book, THE WOODEN MISTRESS. It was published by a small press in Baltimore. It was not until she had a miraculous recovery from cancer that she started writing seriously. In the past three years, she has had another 4 books published with another one pending, and several more still in production. Now she is 75 and work harder than ever.

Mark Kingwell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine in New York. He is the author or co-author of seventeen books of political, cultural, and aesthetic theory. In his latest book, "Measure Yourself Against The Earth", he focuses his intelligence and enthusiasm on a wide range of subjects including aesthetics, politics, leisure, literature, and more.

Although award winning author and retired fiction professor, Elizabeth Harris, is a bona fide expert on story craft, her new novel exposes some feminine history in an entertaining way. Winning of the 2014 Gival Press Fiction Award, Elizabeth's second novel is a literary mystery set in 1936 Texas about a stock farming couple who end up on trial for assaulting a neighbor. Harris' first book won the University of Iowa Press Short Fiction Award. You can find out more about Elizabeth on her website: www.elizabethharriswriter.com