Writing Class

Erin Branscom has read everything she can get her hands on for as long as she can remember. To this day, her favorite place is still the library. In 2021, after a decade of writing novels just for fun, she finally decided to finish a book series and has found writing novels to be her greatest escape

Dave is an avid book marketer. His work in both publishing and book marketing has been featured in Forbes, Entrepreneur, ALLi, Huffington Post, and even Market Watch.
He has been blessed to have worked with many New York Times bestselling authors in multiple genres and topics like Ted Dekker, Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and more. He has also been a paid consultant to major publishing companies helping with digital sales, advertisement methods and sales page optimizations.

Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, NPR.org, theatlantic.com, The Millions, and a variety of other publications including The Asian Wall Street Journal and the International Herald Tribune. Her novel, Acceptance, was made into a television movie starring the hilarious Joan Cusack.
Susan is the president of the PEN/Faulkner foundation

LAURA co-authored the successful Collage and Montage series for McGraw-Hill. Later in her career, she directed the Graduate Teacher Program, working across all disciplines to improve instruction at the university level. She also published in graduate education and professional development. Currently, she devotes her time to writing and gardening at her home in Colorado.

She has been an educator, Communications Adjunct Professor at Belhaven College, administrator, and Public Relations Director of the Mississippi Department of Education and Millsaps College, a liberal arts college in Jackson, MS. She was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers’ only market in a historic neighborhood in Jackson, and even shadowed Martha Stewart.

As the Executive Director of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi (300 artisans from 19 states) which operates the Mississippi Craft Center, she wrote their stories to introduce them to the public.

Best-selling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble’s novels have won or finaled in awards ranging from the Best Books of Indiana, the ACFW Carol Award, the Romance Writers of America RITA, the Holt Medallion, the Daphne du Maurier, National Readers’ Choice, and the Booksellers Best. She has over 4 million books in print and her books have been on the USAToday bestseller list, the ECPA, CBA, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon bestseller lists. She writes romantic mysteries because she loves to see justice prevail. Colleen is CEO of American Christian Fiction Writers. She lives with her husband Dave in Indiana

Mekdela is here to talk about this problem, and so much more! She’s a plus-size, Black/African, second-generation refugee woman with a lot to say about body image - and your followers will want to join this conversation!

We’d love for you to collaborate with Mekdela on an interview or guest speaking spot. You can find one of her recent guest posts here, to get an idea of her thoughtful and innovative writing style.

Betsy Randolph Women Writing the West 2021-2022 President, Betsy Randolph writes primarily fiction but dabbles in historical fiction, memoir, and non-fiction. Her Cat Carlyle Mysteries and Noah Pool Adventure Series are set in Guthrie, Oklahoma, where she lives with her husband, George.

Anish Chandy is the founder of Labyrinth Literary Agency, it is a full service agency based out of New Delhi. Anish was a Senior Commissioning Editor at Penguin Random House where he commissioned for non-fiction and commercial fiction.

Camielle wrote Forever is the Worst Long Time, it was an RT Reviews Top Pick and an Amazon, InStyle, and Real Simple best book of the month. Booklist called her fourth book, Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties, “fun and engaging,” while Bookreporter said it was “filled with life’s wisdoms.” In 2019, Camielle's fifth novel, I’m Fine and Neither Are You, was an Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller. Library Journal describes the latest novel, This Won’t End Well, as “witty and delightful” in a starred review. The seventh novel, Don’t Make Me Turn This Life Around—the follow-up to Life and Other Near-Death Experiences—is out now, and Camielle just wrapped up Everything Must Go, which will be out spring 2022.