As Senior Editorial Contributor for Publishers Weekly, Barbara Vey brings readers and writers together with her popular Beyond Her Book blog. From her entertaining “Drive By Videos” to reader feedback on books with WW Ladies Book Club, YA Saturday Book Read more…
Eva Augustin Rumpf is the author of the memoir Reclamation: Memories from a New Orleans Girlhood, the satiric novel Prot U and co-author of Til Divorce Do Us Part, a self-help book for women in troubled marriages. She has been Read more…
Dori Chaconas was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The second child in a family of seven, she fell into the role of storyteller, nursery rhyme singer, and general entertainer for her siblings. She claims she learned about story pacing early. If Read more…
Milwaukee’s Next Door Foundation will be at the Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books collecting new and gently used children’s books for their Books for Kids program. This program, founded in 1990, works through book drives like this one to increase literacy Read more…
Mary Lou Santovec is a writer and editor living in Jefferson, Wisconsin. She has published articles in newspapers, newsletters and magazines on a variety of topics including higher education, community banking, lifestyles, health and gardening. She is the co-author of Read more…
A graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Kelly Dwyer has written two novels, The Tracks of Angels and Self-Portrait with Ghosts, both published by Penguin Putnam Inc., and two children’s books, Sophie’s Magical Windmill and The Dream Read more…
Sharon Coyle is a storytime presenter/storyteller who loves seeing the excited faces of children when they are listening to a tale. She has been doing storytime programs since 2003 at coffee houses, libraries, day care centers, Toys-R-Us and Babies-R-Us and Read more…
Larry Watson is the author of Montana 1948, White Crosses, Orchard, Sundown, Yellow Moon, and others novels. He has published stories and poems in Gettysburg Review, New England Review, North American Review, and other journals and quarterlies. His essays and Read more…
Called the noir poet laureate in the Huffington Post and a hard-boiled poet by NPR’s Maureen Corrigan, Reed Farrel Coleman is the former executive vice president of Mystery Writers of America. He has published thirteen novels in three series and Read more…
Lisa Wheeler has written 17 books for children including Dino-Hockey, Sailor Moo: Cow at Sea, When Pigs Fly and Mammoths on the Move. Awards include the Michigan Library Association’s 2004 Mitten Award for Old Cricket, the 2005 Missouri Building Block Read more…