Tif Marcelo is a veteran US Army nurse and holds a BS in Nursing and a Master’s in public administration. She believes and writes about the strength of families, the endurance of friendship, heartfelt romances, and is inspired daily by her own military hero husband and four children. She hosts The Stories to Love Podcast, and is the USA Today bestselling author of In a Book Club Far Away, Once Upon a Sunset, The Key to Happily Ever After, which was a Target Diverse Book Club pick, The Holiday Switch, and the Heart Resort and Journey to the Heart series. She and her books have been featured in The Today Show, Shondaland, Real Simple Magazine, The Asian Journal and more!

Farena Bajwa is a talented poet, storyteller, actor, filmmaker, and voice-over artist. Even though she studied Marketing Management, her creativity comes from her heart. Whether it’s filmmaking, voice-over, or acting, she owes it to her life philosophy: ‘’learning by doing’’. ‘’Flowers Grow on Broken Walls’’ is Farena’s first written collection of poetry that speaks about the journey to self-healing after experiencing the loss of someone, but mostly, the loss of yourself. She wants to inspire her readers using her power of words to make them feel less alone and to let them know that no matter what they go through, healing is just around the corner, cheering for you

Kristine Raymond penned hidden springs series and contemporary romance series. She also writes tempted and seasons of love a collection of four seasonal programs.

Sue Campbell plunged headlong into the study of story structure. They formed an editing group and were soon joined by Rachelle Ramirez. Anne and Rachelle found Story Types so crucial to their own writing process that they both trained to become developmental editors.

Sue then took her content marketing and copywriting background and trained under Tim Grahl of BookLaunch.com to become a Certified Book Launch Coach.

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R. S. Twells, author of the novel The Field Agent, the first book in The Agent Bennet Saga, currently living and writing in British Columbia, Canada.

Rick Lupert has been involved in the Los Angeles poetry community since 1990. He is the recipient of the 2014 Beyond Baroque Distinguished Service Award for service to the Los Angeles poetry community. He served for two years as a co-director of the Valley Contemporary Poets, a non-profit literary organization, established in 1980, which produces readings and publications out of the San Fernando Valley.

His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and literary journals, including The Los Angeles Times, Rattle, Chiron Review, American Mustard, Radius Lit, Red Fez, The Bicycle Review, Silver Birch Press, The Nervous Breakdown, Indiefeed, Voicemail Poems, Muddy River Poetry Review, Yay!LA, FreezeRay Poetry, Stirring, The Blue Jew Yorker, PoeticDiversity.org, MoonGarlic E-Zine, Jewels of Elul, Zuzu’s Petals, Caffeine Magazine, Blue Satellite and others

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Francine Rodriguez, and is an author, but she wasn’t always an author. She grew up in and around downtown Los Angeles. Later, she worked as a Civil Rights and Equal Employment Opportunity Investigator in the Federal sector. Altogether, before becoming Francine Rodriquez, Author, she worked in the fields of law and psychology for over thirty years. It is her experience as a professional in those fields that informs her writing.

George Weinstein is the author of numerous novels in diverse genres, including the sassy Southern mystery Aftermath, his suspense thriller Watch What You Say, modern relationship novel The Caretaker, novel of forgotten US history The Five Destinies of Carlos Moreno, and the Southern Gothic historical novel Hardscrabble Road, a favorite with book clubs.

George speaks often at book clubs, conferences, workshops, and other events. He has been an active participant and leader within the Atlanta Writers Club since 2001 and directs the AWC’s twice-yearly Atlanta Writers Conference,

Kathleen M. Rodgers is a novelist whose work has appeared in Family Circle Magazine, Military Times, and in several anthologies. A professional writer for more than forty-five years, her novels have garnered many awards and favorable reviews. She’s been featured in USA Today, The Associated Press