After having successfully trudged through 18 years of snowdrifts in her Waukesha homestead’s driveway, Jessi ventured west to Los Angeles where she studied screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University. She eventually traded LA’s smog – and smug – for the oxygen-deprived Front Range of Denver, Colorado and went back to school Read more…
Isabel Sharpe was not born pen in hand like so many of her fellow authors. After she quit work to stay home with her first-born son and nearly went out of her mind, she started writing. Yes she was the clichéd bored housewife writing romance, but it was either that Read more…
A. Manette Ansay grew up in Wisconsin among 67 cousins and over 200 second cousins. She is the author of six novels, including Good Things I Wish You (July, 2009) and Vinegar Hill, an Oprah Book Club selection, and Midnight Champagne, a finalist the the National Book Critics Circle award. In Read more…
Todd Sattersten is the co-author of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time (Portfolio, 2009). He developed this project while working at 800-CEO-READ, where he was most recently President of the Milwaukee-based business book retailer. This capped five years of innovative projects including the book giveaway site InBubbleWrap, the annual 800-CEO-READ Business Read more…
Luisa Buehler writes the Grace Marsden Mystery Series. Reviewers have called her series “a cold-case-sizzle”. The stories follow the cold trail of bygone crimes using a blending of a traditional whodunit with a hint of romance and a touch of the supernatural. The series won The Readers Choice Award for Read more…
Libby Fischer Hellmann’s 6th novel, DOUBLEBACK, a thriller, was released in October, 2009, by Bleak House Books. In it PI Georgia Davis is paired with video producer and single mother Ellie Foreman, the protagonist of Libby’s other 4-book series. Libby also writes short stories and edited the acclaimed CHICAGO BLUES. Read more…
Philip Martin is a Milwaukee-based and award-winning book author, editor, and indie-press publisher. Previously acquisitions editor for The Writer Books (connected with The Writer magazine), he now directs Great Lake Literary, offering support services for up-and-coming authors. His session at the Festival will focus on one of his areas of Read more…
SARA RATH is a versatile, award-winning author with over a dozen books in a variety of genres, including four volumes of poetry, seven nonfiction books (including three biographies) and is currently writing her third novel. Critics have said she has a “wicked sense of humor,” and her work is sometimes “laugh Read more…
Philip Chard is President & CEO of NEAS, Inc., a global EAP, Work/Life and behavioral solutions firm serving over 300 companies representing 1.9 million lives. He writes an award-winning weekly column in the MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL titled “Out Of My Mind,” and is author of The Healing Earth, which won Read more…
Wisconsin author Deb Baker has written two mystery series. The Dolls To Die For series features a Phoenix, Arizona doll collecting club and member Gretchen Birch, who solves murders with her new age Aunt Nina while sharing a doll restoration business with her mother. Deb also wrote the humorous Yooper/backwoods mysteries, Read more…