D.R. Berlin is an award-winning author, U.S. Army veteran, and General Surgeon with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Writing minor from MIT. A graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, her career in high-pressure environments fuels the pulse-pounding suspense and authentic detail in The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor. Berlin combines her scientific expertise and love of storytelling to deliver a gripping, intricate thriller that keeps readers on edge. Drafted as the unofficial photographer of her children’s sports team, she has been affectionally dubbed the “Mamarazzi.”
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With over three decades of experience, John O’Brien is a seasoned expert in guiding individuals through significant life transitions by offering practical and ac­tionable strategies to navigate change with ease. He is a licensed psychologist in private practice specializing in grief, trauma, and addiction. He has offered numerous trainings to professional associations and businesses throughout the United States.
In addition to professional speaking and psychotherapy, John has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine at Augusta since 2000. He provides coaching and consulting to individuals and groups, including executive assessment, leadership development and health and wellness promotion across a variety of professions, including business, healthcare, law, and financial services. Through his programs, John equips clients with tangible skills and concrete tools that empower them to swiftly reduce stress levels and enhance personal wellness leading to immediate positive transformation.
John is an ICF ACC Certified Coach and Certified Health and Wellness Coach through the National Board of Health and Wellness Coaches. He is a former president of the Maine Psychological Association and has served in numerous leadership positions with Divisions of the American Psychological Association.
John co-authored a book on the use of EMDR to treat addictions entitled, “Treating Addictions with EMDR and the Stages of Change.” His current book that is due for publication in Fall 2024 is, “Rudeness Rehab: Reclaiming Civility in the Workplace and Your Home Space.”
In his spare time, John enjoys motorcycling, skiing, biking and further developing his ability in German. He also serves as full time staff to his gifted cat, Shahdi.
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Hi. I’m Ana. I was five when my family emigrated from Cuba to the U.S. in 1967. Ever since, I’ve been striving to honor my family’s story and Cuban American culture through storytelling.
Currently, I’m at work on Radio Bemba, a full-length memoir about my family’s experience.
In the past, my commentary has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and more. I’ve also appeared on PBS’s Stories from The Stage and NPR’s All Things Considered.
 
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Pearl Riter and Shell Riter were in 5th and 8th grade when the book was published in Jan 2024 and have burst on the literary scene with their debut novel, “Kingdoms in the Shadows: A Tale of Mystery, War, and Betrayal.” Their aim is to kindle the imaginations of readers by weaving tales for kids, by kids. When they’re not writing stories and poetry, you can find them playing the piano, watercolor painting, and solving puzzles, especially sudokus.
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Hi, I’m Muffy Walker, an author with a passion for crafting compelling fiction that educates and inspires. Through my stories, I aim to shed light on important topics, sparking meaningful conversations and fostering greater understanding.
My journey to becoming an author has been shaped by a rich background in mental health advocacy. As the founder of the International Bipolar Foundation, I’ve dedicated much of my life to raising awareness and reducing stigma around mental health. I hold a Master of Science in Psychiatric Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA, and I’ve written extensively on mental health topics, contributing chapters, guides, and newspaper articles to the field.
Now, I’m channeling that experience into my fiction, weaving together my professional expertise and personal passions to create stories that entertain while offering insights into complex, real-world issues. My goal is to educate readers in a way that feels natural, engaging, and thought-provoking.
When I’m not writing, I love exploring exotic destinations, savoring decadent chocolate desserts, and spending time with my dogs. I’m also an avid pickleball player and enjoy the strategy and fun of Mah Jong.
Through my writing, I hope to connect with readers on a deeper level, offering not just stories but opportunities to learn, reflect, and grow. Thank you for joining me on this exciting new chapter of my journey!
















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I am an award-winning author born in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in Tampa, Florida. I attended Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa and was a voracious reader from the time I was little, graduating quickly from books like The Phantom Tollbooth to authors such as Stephen King. I began writing young, including poetry and short stories, some of which were published in my school’s literary magazines. I attended the University of Florida in 1995 but left school without my degree to become a full-time web developer. After working for start-up companies and freelancing on projects, I returned to school and received my B.S. in Economics from the University of Central Florida with honors in the major. My undergraduate thesis was published by German publisher VDM Verlag.
From there, I attended the University of Florida (again) and received my Juris Doctor, cum laude, in 2009. I also obtained an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University in 2012 and my MFA in Fiction from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 2018.
I currently live in Tampa, Florida with my boyfriend and dogs, where I am the managing partner of law firm LNK Law PLLC and special counsel at CEB Advising, LLC.
 
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Jack Canfield, the co-creator of the Chicken Soup  for the Soul books, calls Léonie Rosenstiel a cultural whistleblower. Léonie started out as an award-winning classical musician. She graduated from Barnard College, then from the Ph.D. program at Columbia University. Later she also earned degrees in counselling ministry (The New Seminary), Oriental medicine (Tri-State College), and public health (Walden University). 
The Rockefeller Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies awarded her grants. For six years, she produced a public access TV show.  Léonie wrote, translated, edited, and contributed chapters to more than a dozen books, in addition to writing numerous articles and short stories, many of which won awards. She has served as an officer and board member of educational, health-related, and arts-related organizations.
Her book Protecting Mama: Surviving the Legal Guardianship Swamp has now won more than 50 awards. Her book Legal Protection: Affordable Options for Individuals has won four.
 
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Thomas “Jared” Hayes graduated from the University of Ottawa with an MA in History. He currently lives in the Ottawa Valley and works in the Records and Information Management field. Since publishing his first book, “From Mill to Museum” in 2021, Jared has been working on a second book about Anglican Bishop John Strachan of Toronto and British-American relations in the years following the American War of Independence.
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Author, blogger, senior model, financial executive and initiator of Loveable Light
Born in Bussum, the Netherlands, I began writing in my youth. During the summer holidays I wrote short stories with my sister, Marianne.
I began writing in earnest at a later age. Concerned about the current situation in this world, I started to write a five-part fiction series (The Jessie Golden Earth Series) in which I reflect on what can happen if change doesn’t come. I find it very important to intertwine fiction with reality to share  my point of view on things that matter. It also led to the Loveable Light initiative
I have a long track-record in the international IT finance world, working as (international) manager for companies like Cisco, HP and Microsoft.
Sometimes I get a gig as senior model. Due to my everyday job combined with writing, my time is limited. However, I love to make time for a photo shoot to support my own activities.
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Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, arts advocate, and internationally recognized leader in research design and arts-based research.
She is widely considered the world’s most visible proponent of arts-based research as a means of making research publicly accessible. Moreover, she coined the terms “social fiction” and “fiction-based research” and has been pioneering the world-wide effort to legitimate fiction as a research practice. A prolific author, Dr. Leavy has published over 40 books.
She has earned critical and commercial success in both nonfiction and fiction, and her work has been translated into numerous languages. Dr. Leavy’s works have garnered a slew of book awards, over 100, including USA Best Book Awards, Independent Press Awards, International Impact Book Awards, National Indie Excellence Awards, Firebird Book Awards, International Book Awards, New York City Big Book Awards, and American Fiction Awards.
On the academic side, Dr. Leavy earned her Ph.D. in Sociology at Boston College in 2002. She was a tenured Associate Professor of Sociology at Stonehill College from 2002-2012 where she also served as Founding Director of the Gender Studies Program and the Chairperson of the Sociology & Criminology Department. Dr. Leavy previously taught at Boston College, Northeastern University, and Curry College. In 2012 Dr. Leavy left academia to focus her full-time efforts on her work as an author and public intellectual. Dr. Leavy recently served on the advisory board for the Arts and Humanities in Medicine Program at The University of Maine.
In addition to her own writing, Dr. Leavy is co-founder of Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal, and served as co-editor-in-chief for many years. She continues to serve on the editorial boards of numerous journals. Dr. Leavy is also widely recognized for her pioneering work creating innovative publishing opportunities for other scholars and artists, through the 10 book series for which she has served as creator and series editor over the course of her career for Oxford University Press, Guilford Press, and Brill/Sense. The Social Fictions series she created, for which she served as editor for 10 years, is the first and only academic book series to solely publish full-length literary works. The ground-breaking series received global attention, earned a national creativity award, and produced many award-winning and best-selling titles under Dr. Leavy’s tenure as editor and creative visionary. She also worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help authors retain more control over their work and better financial terms. In a move that had many publicly likening her to the Taylor Swift of book publishing, she used her considerable clout at Brill, a global publisher with a more than 300-year history, to secure substantially better terms for authors including but not limited to digital embargos, higher royalty rates, full royalty payments for previously unpaid bulk sales, and shared copyright ownership. She also negotiated a unique publishing agreement for herself, allowing her to license her work without giving up ownership. Her negotiations were game-changing in academic publishing and have influenced standard practices.
In 2021 she launched Paper Stars Press, her own publishing imprint, primarily to rerelease new versions of some of her most beloved books. Today, she spends most of her time as a novelist, publishing with She Writes Press.
Dr. Leavy has received numerous career awards. The New England Sociological Association named Dr. Leavy the 2010 New England Sociologist of the Year. Dr. Leavy received a 2014 Special Achievement Award from the American Creativity Association which honors creativity and innovation in every field. The Special Achievement award recognizes her ext...

In 2020, my life as I knew it changed forever. Prior to this year, I had been my parent’s caregiver for nine years and helped them draw their last breaths. In 2019, my father passed at 95. One year later, my 90-year-old mother died, one day short of my father’s death date. They had lived beautiful and fruitful lives and were rejoined in death. They had been married for 72 years.
I had put my life on hold for nine years while taking care of my parents. Now, it was my time to live and thrive again. The time taking care of my parents had sucked my life energy from me, and now I could recuperate. I was married, and our kids were grown, but now I could focus on myself and my husband as these two aspects were put on the back burner. However, my seemingly vivacious, gregarious, and loving husband (nicknamed Bono) died three weeks later after my mother. I was taken to my knees in suffocating grief and had lost the three main pillars in my life. I wanted to die and join them; I didn’t want to live.
My husband and I experienced a love that many will never know. He was my third husband, and we met when I was 39. We were so deeply in love and devoted to each other. Our friends remarked on the love we had and how blessed and lucky we were. We both spoiled each other and now, my “rock” was gone.
I have always been a spiritual/metaphysical person and have seen psychics/mediums all my life. I also have those abilities. When Bono died, my spirituality was cracked wide open. I could now see him as an apparition/ghost, and he came to me and gave me messages through various means. He would appear to me, put thoughts in my head, visit me in my dreams, send me songs, speak to me, and more. I asked him, “Why did you die?” “Why did you leave me?” and was told, “For your growth,” which made me angry. This was our time together! I could grow with him! Little did I know how correct he was. In addition, my mother, father, aunt, uncle, and grandmother let their presence be known and also visited me in various ways. My friends’ deceased husbands have also used me as a conduit to give their grieving wives messages. One friend’s murdered daughter uses me to comfort her father.
I shared my story with my over 2000 friends on Facebook and started journaling. The journaling became a book. I was “told” it would be published and help many people; I would present a beacon of hope. With the pain, angst, and grief I was experiencing, I wanted to help as many people as I could. I found new friendships with grieving widows, and this slobbering mess of a human being rose from the ashes and recreated herself. I truly don’t recognize the person I have become; my core humanness is still there, but my expansion, compassion, psychic abilities, etc., increased tenfold. I founded a widow’s group in my area, and we all have grown through our sisterhood. People continually seek me out for guidance and comfort in dealing with death and impending loss. I have been thanked for sharing my story and vulnerability, and I have also afforded others the opportunity to feel safe in sharing their experiences with others. We are all in this together.
Since 2020, I wanted to die. Now, all I want to do is live; my mission is to help as many people as I can that experience deep grief. My book offers hope to people who have suffered a deep, significant loss and need messages, hope, and advice to help them emerge from the bondage of angst and grief. My book offers hopeful survival strategies to guide readers down the turbulent trail of grief and help them emerge into the sunshine.
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John Russell has been a professional psychic for 50 years.
He is a Psychic/Psychic Reader, a Medium, a Certified T.A.R.O.T. Master, a Paranormal Investigator, and now a published Author. Internationally known, he has provided psychic readings for clients in over 40 countries.
For over 15 years he has been a popular featured guest, heard worldwide, on many radio shows and podcasts, including: Coast to Coast AM with George Noory; The Unexplained with Howard Hughes (UK); Beyond Reality with JV Johnson; The Leak Project with Rex Bear; FATE Magazine Radio with Kat Hobson; Beyond the Darkness with David Schrader of TV’s The Holzer Files; The Singularity Lab with Michael Mataluni; and many more.
John also filmed a TV pilot for The History Channel in which he psychically explored the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Thanks to a visit from a ghost John became aware of his psychic abilities when he was about 6 years old. By around age 12 he was conducting his own paranormal investigations and research. He began to give readings to friends and family in his early teens, and by the age of 18 he was reading professionally.
In September of 2020 John released his first book, “Riding with Ghosts, Angels, and the Spirits of the Dead,” which has become a multi-award-winning multicategory best seller.
In February of 2021 John released his second book, “A Knock in the Attic,” which has also become a multi-award-winning multicategory best seller.
John’s book, “20 Ways to Increase Your Psychic Ability,” was published in 2023, and became an instant best seller.
His current and fourth book, “The Crying Tree and the Magic Rock,” is now available for purchase.
John continues to provide psychic readings for his worldwide clientele, conducts paranormal research and investigations, and is heard worldwide as a featured guest on podcasts and radio.
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Farial English lives in a small rural community with her husband and two dogs. Several years ago, they moved from their home in a Chicago suburb to an old farm in upstate New York. Surrounded by woods and fallow fields, their dogs run free and Farial spends most of her time outdoors, planting and tending flowers, growing vegetables, and caring for colonies of honeybees. Over the years, Farial jotted down story ideas and stashed them away thinking that someday she would write and publish a book of her own. The birth of her grandson inspired her to dust oN those ideas and write her first picture book for young children, Charlie and Sophie’s Great Escape.
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R.G. de Rouen is a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature in Connecticut and writes fiction that inspires a love of reading with a pinch of humor along the way. Throughout his 25+ years as an elementary teacher throughout the world, he has also been an advocate of animal and nature protection which he brings into his nonfiction stories.Books For Benjamin, his first picture book, has been widely recognized and received several awards, including the Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal. Like his fictional character Benjamin, R.G. de Rouen can’t live without books! Mother To Elephants, a non-fiction picture book biography, portrays the life of Dame Daphne Sheldrick. Her dedication in rescuing baby orphan elephants in Kenya, serves as a great inspiration to children and adults alike. 
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Born in Bangkok, Somtow grew up in Europe and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. His first career was in music and in the 1970s he acquired a reputation as a revolutionary composer, the first to combine Thai and Western instruments in radical new sonorities.
Conditions in the arts in the region at the time proved so traumatic for the young composer that he suffered a major burnout, emigrated to the United States, and reinvented himself as a novelist. His earliest novels were in the science fiction field but he soon began to cross into other genres. In his 1984 novel Vampire Junction, he injected a new literary inventiveness into the horror genre.
After becoming a Buddhist monk for a period in 2001, Somtow decided to refocus his attention on the country of his birth, founding Bangkok’s first international opera company and returning to music, where he again reinvented himself, this time as a neo-Asian neo-Romantic composer.
According to London’s Opera magazine, “in just five years, Somtow has made Bangkok into the operatic hub of Southeast Asia.”  Somtow’s current project, the Siam Synphonietta is a youth orchestra he founded five years ago, using a new educational method he pioneered and which is now among the most acclaimed youth orchestras world-wide.
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Aurora Lothbrok was born and raised in Northern Minnesota. She began her lightsaber training at Michigan Tech, where she studied biology, and continued onward to the University of Iowa to study pharmacy. Her love of the outdoors and penchant for adventure took her north to Alaska, where she resides with her hubby, dog, and internet famous cats Nebula and Gamora (as seen in Newsweek and The Dodo). Her favorite hobby is roller derby.
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Bill DeBarba is a four-decade entrepreneur. He began the classic back- bedroom-office business, developing custom software for local companies. His company, BusinessWare Services, Inc. (BWSI), grew until he had a staff developing products and providing services to a base of loyal customers around the country.
Over his 40 years of ownership and management, Bill DeBarba’s unique approach to customer relations has been a key factor in his success. Notably, he has never had a customer resort to legal action to resolve issues. His ability to empathize with customers and engage them in The Process of problem-solving has not only resolved issues but also retained their loyalty.
Bill is an accomplished public speaker with years of experience. His knowledge of business and other types of organizations offers the benefit of being able to focus on your objectives. If you would like to learn more, please get in touch with him at bill@theprocessofliving.com
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A graduate of The George Washington University, Marnie is an award-winning global marketing executive and author who writes about leadership, strategic planning, and empowerment.
Marnie knew she wanted to be a writer at the age of thirteen. In Vote for You: Take Your Seat at the Table, the pandemic inspired her to chronicle her journey as a woman and first-generation immigrant child from the suburbs of Los Angeles to the boardrooms in Austin, Santa Monica, and London and all the places in between in search of her seat at the table. Outside of office hours, Marnie enjoys traveling the globe and uncovering new ways to connect with people over incredible meals. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her son and puppy, Rocky.
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David is a poet, author, and literary scholar from Cleveland, Ohio. He was born 1992 in Norfolk, Virginia, but grew up in the suburb of Bedford. In 2014 he attended Cleveland State University and graduated with his bachelors in English. Grinnell specializes in Romanticism, the Gothic, and draws inspiration from vulnerability. He reflects and portrays love alongside hope, melancholy, and even occasional despair. Currently, he is a funeral director apprentice at St. John Funeral Home.
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 Mark lives with his wife Loren and their dog Emily in Denver, Colorado. He practiced commercial bankruptcy law for almost forty years before moving on in 2019 to write, volunteer, travel, and play music. He is the author of the following books in his award-winning 3J Legal Thriller Series, all set in Kansas City, with a backdrop of Jazz, BBQ and history: “Cram Down” (2023); “Unfair Discrimination” (2022); “Automatic Stay” (2022); and “Fresh Start” (2021). He is also the author of “And . . Just Like That – essays on a life before, during, and after the law” (a memoir of a not famous lawyer- 2020). And today we are sharing his newest work titled – It’s What Makes Me . . . Me: A Retired Attorney’s Relationship With Life and Times.
 
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