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. Curiously Curated Creations of Kristina Lucia features a magical array of warm, cuddly, and comforting creatures along with storybooks that help parents and kids improve communication and deepen their relationships.
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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. Curiously Curated Creations of Kristina Lucia features a magical array of warm, cuddly, and comforting creatures along with storybooks that help parents and kids improve communication and deepen their relationships.
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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. READ MORE>> |
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 READ MORE>> |
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’ READ MORE>> |
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 READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
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 READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
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 READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
Author Spotlight: John McNellis
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 READ MORE>> |
Author Spotlight: Stacey Tucker
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. READ MORE>> |
Author Spotlight: Jeanne Blasberg
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. READ MORE>> |
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 READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
Author Spotlight: Libby Fischer Hellmann
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. READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
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 READ MORE>> |
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 READ MORE>> |
Author Spotlight: Lynne Spriggs O'Connor
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. READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
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). READ MORE>> |
Author Spotlight: Nanci E. LaGarenne
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. READ MORE>> |
Author Spotlight: Sarah P. Blanchard
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. READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
Author Spotlight: Linda Murphy Marshall
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. READ MORE>> |
Author Spotlight: Angela Terry
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. READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |
Author Spotlight: Leslie Johansen Nack
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 READ MORE>> |
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. READ MORE>> |