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Alden Globe Author Q&A
Author Spotlight: Alden Globe


Alden Globe grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Victoria College at the University of Toronto, a degree in Law from the University of New Hampshire, and attended executive education at Harvard Business School.


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Domenic A. Chairella author Q&A
Author Spotlight:  Tomato Paste Leadership by Domenic A. Chairella
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With degrees in computer engineering and a master’s in entrepreneurship, Domenic Chiarella built, scaled, and sold four multimillion-dollar businesses over forty years. But his greatest success? Moving beyond chasing business success to building a thriving life and company.

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Helen Birney author Q&A
Author Spotlight: Helen Birney

​Helen Birney is the CEO of Cultivate Health Coaching. She coaches women off the scale and into their lives by helping them deepen their understanding of the emotional and behavioral patterns that surround their health and well-being. She is known for her thoughtful leadership, and the empathy and intuition she brings to creating supportive 

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Tanya Simpson author Q&A
Author Spotlight: Tanya Simpson 

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Tanya Simpson is a best-selling author and dynamic speaker whose expertise is preparing and empowering high-potential professionals to become impactful leaders at the next level. Her debut book, Up from the Water, is already receiving praise from reviewers around the world.

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Melissa Pharr author Q&A
Author Spotlight: Melissa Pharr 

Melissa Pharr​ is a professional spiritual medium, mom, wife, and businesswoman. She didn’t pop out seeing dead people as a kid (at least not that she can remember) and never imagined running a business as a spiritual practitioner. She now sells out mediumship development circles, mediumship readings, and courses of all kinds, bringing peace and closure to those who sit with her and a down-to-earth and straightforward approach to mediumship for aspiring mediums. Mel has studied residentially at the Arthur Findlay College in Essex, UK, and continues her studies via tutors, mediumship development circles, and trainings with the Arthur Findlay College 


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Christina Nylese author spotlight
Author Spotlight: Christina Nylese

Christina Nylese is a Holistic Health and Recovery Coach who empowers others through her personal journey of transformation. After facing challenges such as homelessness, alcoholism, disordered eating, and codependency, Christina discovered a holistic path to healing—one that helped her reclaim her life, find purpose, and live with abundance. With raw honesty and deep insight, Christina shares how the mind and body hold the innate power to heal when given the chance. Her work is a compassionate guide for anyone ready to overcome personal struggles and embrace a life of balance, empowerment, and true well-being.

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Adriana Vaccaro author spotlight
Author Spotlight: Adriana Vaccaro

Adriana Vaccaro 
is the founder and CEO of Culture Redesigned, a data-driven culture and change management consulting company. With a deep expertise in people analytics, organizational behavior, and leadership development, Adriana helps businesses build high-performance cultures that drive engagement, innovation, and sustainable growth. She was born in Colombia and currently lives in Massachusetts with her husband and three sons.

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John JR Robinson author spotlight
Author Spotlight: John JR Robinson

Iowan native, Grammy winning drummer John JR Robinson, celebrates 50 years of music making. John JR’s world-renowned versatility and groove have made him one of the most prolific and sought-after drummers in the industry whose musicianship has helped define the pop, R&B, and jazz era for the last half century. No one will forget JR’s landmark fill which introduces the iconic smash hit, “Rock With You,” from Michael Jackson’s Off the Wall (an essential piece of pop music history) or his acrobatic,

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Author Spotlight Dr. Dawn Filos
Author Spotlight: Dr. Dawn Filos

Dr. Dawn Filos has always had a passion for animals, and with a lot of hard work and perseverance, she’s turned that passion into a career. Here, with emotional honesty, Dr. Dawn shares her colorful, memorable journey, from nervous novice to seasoned, self-assured doctor. This modern-day James Herriot, ultimately finds her niche as a house-call vet, where she creates a way to practice on her own with the privilege of unique,
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Author Spotlight: Kristina Lucia Pezza

An artist, creator, and bestselling author, Kristina Lucia ignites the imaginations of children and their parents through her limited-edition animal-themed sensory storybooks. Kristina came from humble beginnings in a small farm town, where there was only one traffic light! Her childhood sparked creativity at a young age and her adopted home of New York City keeps her inspired every day. 
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Author Spotlight: Shooting Stars Above by Patricia Leavy 

Patricia Leavy, PhD is novelist, sociologist, and arts advocate (formerly Associate Professor of Sociology, Founding Director of Gender Studies and Chairperson of Sociology & Criminology at Stonehill College). She is widely considered the world's most visible proponent of arts-based research, which merges the arts and sciences. Patricia has published over 50 books, nonfiction and fiction, and her work has been translated into numerous languages. She has received over 100 book awards.
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Gene S. Jones author spotlight
Author Spotlight: Gene S. Jones

Serving in a great variety of roles as a game show host, producer, director, business executive, creativity coach and Associate Editor of the Guinness Book of World Records has enabled author Gene S. Jones to see life from multiple points of view, a vast array of experiences that helped him understand others while combining compassion and creativity with a great deal of business acumen. Fueled by decades of curiosity and an endless desire to learn the wisdom traditions of all world cultures, he now shares the 
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Bethany Jones Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Bethany Jones

Bethany May Jones began writing professionally in 2020. The Virtues of Love Collection is her debut series on the biblically based virtues of the fruits of the Spirit analogy, set in beautiful Billings, Montana. Shining a light on Billings, and the Christian themes of unconditional love throughout the lives of its characters, we hope you enjoy this series and look for more of the same heartwarming values within each of this series’ 

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Jill Amy Sager author spotlight
Author Spotlight: Jill Amy Sager

Hello and thanks for being here! I am a former professional percussionist turned writer, having discovered my passion for the craft while writing "Beginning Hand Drumming: A Guide to Recreation and Wellness." I began my study of the Tarot in the 1970s. Years later I heard a voice I couldn’t deny. I have been channeling this information from the Universe ever since. I was born with a physical disability and 
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Audrey Faust Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Audrey Faust

Audrey Faust is a financial business coach, mother, wife, and CEO of Audrey Faust Consulting. With over 25 years in the finance world, she founded her company to help women financially empower themselves and grow their businesses profitably. Audrey holds an accounting degree, an MBA, and is a certified NeuroCoach, bringing a wealth of knowledge and personal experience to her coaching practice. 
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Author Spotlight Marilyn Schlitz
Author Spotlight: Marilyn Schlitz

Dr. Schlitz is an acclaimed social scientist, award-winning author, and charismatic public speaker. She has conducted clinical, laboratory and field-based research into consciousness, human transformation, and healing. Her books include Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life; Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine; and Death Makes Life Possible
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Sara Vie author
Author Spotlight: Sarah Vie

For the past 10 years, Sarah Vie has been transforming women's lives- including her own. Sarah is a Master at helping amplify financial abundance, career success, love in relationships and health and wellness. She is an internationally sought out energy healer, meditation guide and manifesting mentor, helping women and men live abundant, happy, and peaceful lives. 
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author Khristin Wierman
Author Spotlight: Khristin Wierman 

Khristin Wierman was born and raised in a small East Texas town–which means she came into the world a Dallas Cowboys fan and ardently believes “y’all” is a legitimate pronoun. She spent twenty years rising through the marketing ranks of Fortune 500 companies, building a career that was lucrative, ego-boosting, and a little bit soul-crushing.​
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Andrea Liebross Author Spotlight
Author Spotlight: Andrea Liebross

Andrea Liebross, a certified business and life coach, specializes in empowering female entrepreneurs to infuse thinking with action so they can drop the drama and figure out how to think like a CEO, manage like a CEO and believe in themselves to achieve success in their business and at home. ​
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Auhor Spotlight Carol Look
Author Spotlight: Carol Look 

EFT Master, Carol Look is the leading success and abundance coach in the energy psychology field. Known for combining her traditional psychotherapy background with energy medicine, she is recognized and respected around the globe for inspiring people to attract abundance into their lives by using EFT and the Law of Attraction to 
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Author Spotlight: Philip Myles Dane

Dane  is a student of science and culture. He travels and works with people from around the world. ALL THE DARK VOICES is the debut novel and the first sci-fi/speculative thriller in a three book collection. Other unrelated thrillers are in queue for readers in the years ahead. ​
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 Author Spotlight: John McNellis
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A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and Hastings College of The Law, John practiced law until he co-founded McNellis Partners, a Northern California shopping center development firm, in 1982. John is a decades’ long member of the Urban Land Institute
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author Stacey Tucker
Author Spotlight: Stacey Tucker
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A desire to build a bridge between today’s science and the magic of a time forgotten has landed Stacey Tucker 
 in the world of fiction writing. Ocean's Fire was the first of three books asking readers to open their minds to the possibilities hidden behind the veils our society forces upon us. ​

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author Jeanne Blasberg
Author Spotlight: Jeanne Blasberg
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Jeanne Blasberg​ 
is an award-winning and bestselling author and essayist. Her most recent book, The Nine (She Writes Press 2019) was honored with the 2019 Foreword Indies Gold Award in Thriller & Suspense, and the Gold Medal and Juror’s Choice in the in the 2019 National Indie Excellence Awards, among others. 

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Lisa A. Traugott Q&A
Author Spotlight: Lisa A. Traugott

Lisa A. Traugott is a Mom’s Choice Award-winning author, award-winning public speaker, and original cast member on John Cena’s reality-TV show "American Grit" (she lasted 5 episodes). Books include her memoir, "She's Losing It!", diet/exercise book "The S.L.I. Method," and kids' book "Mind Your Manners Minnie Monster" which she also 
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Author Spotlight: Ursula Werner

Ursula Werner is a writer and attorney currently living in Washington, D.C., with her family. Throughout her legal career, Ms. Werner has pursued creative writing, publishing two books of poetry, In the Silence of the Woodruff (2006) and Rapunzel Revisited (2010). The Good at Heart (2017) is her first novel.
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Author Lou Diamond
Author Spotlight: Lou Diamond

Lou Diamond is a highly sough-after speaker, sales and marketing consultant, leadership and performance mentor and podcaster. Author of Master the Art of Connecting and CEO of Thrive, Lou has made it his life’s work to help businesses, leaders and brands thrive through the power of connecting.
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Libby Fischer Hellmann Q&A
 Author Spotlight: Libby Fischer Hellmann
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Libby Fischer Hellmann left a career in broadcast news in Washington, DC and moved to Chicago a long time ago, where she, naturally, began to write gritty crime fiction. She soon began writing historical fiction as well. Seventeen novels and twenty-five short stories later, she claims they’ll take her out of the Windy City feet first.​
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Author Elisabeth Haggblade
Author Spotlight: Elisabeth Haggblade

Born in 1942 in Munich, Germany, I am a naturalized U.S. citizen.
My academic credentials consist of a B.A. in German, a B.A. in Russian, a Master’s in Linguistics from the California State University, Fresno, and a PhD in English Philology from the Freie Universität Berlin.

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Author Spotlight Kerrina Kuhns
Author Spotlight: Kerrina Kuhns

Finally, a dream come true. I have always wanted to publish a book. A fiction story I have worked on over the years taking my treasured moments from visits at the beach along with a few life experiences. I grew up in Long Island, NY and currently live in Colorado surrounded by family and friends. I enjoy watercolor painting. A Pair of Oars 
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Author Spotlight Francesca Miracola
Author Spotlight: Francesca Miracola

Francesca Miracola is an Italian American from Queens, NY, currently living on Long Island, but in her mind she’s a free-spirited wanderer. She wants to travel the world, but she’s afraid to fly, although a glass of wine gets her through most flights. Francesca’s mostly an introvert who greatly prefers deep, meaningful conversations to surface 
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 Author Spotlight: Lynne Spriggs O'Connor
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Before moving to the rural West at age forty-two, Lynne Spriggs O’Connor curated exhibitions of folk and self-taught art at the High Museum in Atlanta. She spent ten summers on northern Montana’s Blackfeet Indian Reservation while pursuing fieldwork for her PhD ​in Native American Art History at Columbia University. 
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Author Patricia Leavy
Author Spotlight: Patricia Leavy

Patricia Leavy, PhD is novelist, sociologist, and arts advocate (formerly Associate Professor of Sociology, Founding Director of Gender Studies and Chairperson of Sociology & Criminology at Stonehill College). She is widely considered the world's most visible proponent of arts-based research, which merges the arts and sciences. 
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author Dian Greenwood
Author Spotlight: Dian Greenwood 

Though Dian Greenwood  started her life in the Dakotas, she has been a West Coaster since adolescence. She studied both writing and counseling psychology in San Francisco. An early focus on poetry led her to fiction. She has published personal essays in The Big Smoke, a weekly online magazine.  

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author Carolyn Clarke
Author Spotlight: Carolyn Clarke

Carolyn Clarke is the founder and curator of HenLit Central, a blog focused on ‘life and lit’ for women over 40. And Now There's Zelda is her second book after her multi-award winning and bestselling book, And Then There’s Margaret (women's fiction - comedy drama). 

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author Nanci Lagarenne
Author Spotlight: Nanci E. LaGarenne 
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Nanci E. LaGarenne ​was born in Brooklyn and lives on the East End of Long Island. She is a former teaching assistant in the Autistic Unit at P. S.236 in Brooklyn, a child care coordinator at The Retreat, a domestic violence shelter on Long Island, and freelance journalist for Dan's Papers and contributing writer to The Montauk Sun. 

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author Sarah P. Blanchard
Author Spotlight: Sarah P. Blanchard
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In her fiction, Sarah P. Blanchard
writes about conflicted people making difficult decisions in impossible situations, sometimes with good outcomes. She's especially drawn to flawed, compassionate characters who believe they must battle their demons alone, and complex antagonists who feel they have nothing to lose.

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author Jessica Rosenberg
Author Spotlight: Jessica Rosenberg

Jessica Rosenberg s an emerging author of Paranormal Women's Fiction and Cozy Fantasy. Her delicious debut series, Baking Up a Magical Midlife, is the story of a middle-aged newly single mom who discovers she's a witch when she inherits a magical bakery. ​

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author Linda Murphy Marshall
Author Spotlight: Linda Murphy Marshall
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Linda Murphy Marshall is a multi-linguist and writer with a Ph.D. in Hispanic Languages and Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing. Her memoir, Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery received a starred review from Kirkus. 


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author Angela Terry
Author Spotlight: Angela Terry 
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Angela Terry is an attorney who formerly practiced intellectual property law at large firms in Chicago and San Francisco. She is also a Chicago Marathon legacy runner and races to raise money for PAWS Chicago—the Midwest's largest no-kill shelter. 

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author Marianne C. Bohr
Author Spotlight: Marianne C. Bohr

Marianne C. Bohr​, freelance writer and travel blogger, married her high school sweetheart and travel partner. Four of her travel essays received Solas Awards by travel publisher, Travelers’ Tales, honoring excellence in travel writing.  
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author Céline Keating
Author Spotlight: Céline Keating

Céline Keating 
is an award-winning writer and author of Layla (2011), a Huffington Post featured title, and Play for Me (2015), a finalist in the International Book Awards, the Indie Excellence Awards, and the USA Book Awards.
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author Leslie Johansen Nack
Author Spotlight: Leslie Johansen Nack
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Leslie Johansen Nack’s 
debut novel, The Blue Butterfly, A Novel of Marion Davies has won two awards including 2022 CIBA Finalist for Goethe Late Historical Fiction. Her debut memoir, Fourteen, A Daughter’s Memoir, received five indie awards, including the 2016 
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author Valerie Nifora
Author Spotlight: Valerie Nifora

Valerie Nifora​ 
 is a best-selling and award-winning author, who was born and raised in New York to Greek immigrant parents. She credits her Greek heritage for her love of words and storytelling. Her first romance novel, The Fairmounts, debuted as a #1 New Release. 
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