Profiles of participating authors in the Festival of Books.
Lesley Kagen is a former actress, voiceover talent and restaurateur. The author of WHISTLING IN THE DARK, LAND OF A HUNDRED WONDERS, TOMORROW RIVER, and GOOD GRACES, she has two grown children and lives with her husband near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Visit her at lesleykagen.com
D.C. Brod is the author of the Quint McCauley detective series; Heartstone, a contemporary Arthurian thriller; and most recently Getting Sassy, a caper. Her next book, Getting Lucky, is due out in November from Tyrus Books. She lives in St. Charles, IL.
Amanda Barnett has been in the publishing industry in one guise or another for over a decade. The various hats she’s worn have been book reviewer, columnist, editor, public relations, published author and senior editor. She has been on the executive board for The Wild Rose Press since July of 2008 and Read more…
Susan Elbe is the author of Eden in the Rearview Mirror (Word Press), which won Honorable Mention for the 2007 Council for Wisconsin Writers Posner Poetry Book Award, and a chapbook, Light Made from Nothing (Parallel Press). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in many journals and anthologies, including Blackbird, Read more…
Deborah Elizabeth Posca and Zachary Addison Posca started writing Tales from the Kingdome when Deborah was 15 and Zachary was 13. They love reading, writing, and engaging in almost any type of creative activity, and like many of their projects, this book started out as just something fun to do. Read more…
Deborah Elizabeth Posca and Zachary Addison Posca started writing Tales from the Kingdome when Deborah was 15 and Zachary was 13. They love reading, writing, and engaging in almost any type of creative activity, and like many of their projects, this book started out as just something fun to do. Read more…
Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope is the story of the improbable friendship between Lisa Paul, an American college student, strong in her Catholic faith, and Inna Kitrosskaya Meiman, a Soviet-Jewish dissident, which takes place in the repressive 1980s Moscow, just Read more…
Wisconsin native Stacey Joy Netzel fell in love with books at a young age, so for her the graduation to writing them was natural. A member of Romance Writers of America (RWA) and Wisconsin Romance Writers (WisRWA), she credits her parents for encouraging her dreams of becoming a published author, Read more…