Dr. Carol Remz holds a BS and master's in teaching from Cornell University and a PhD in Educational Technology from Catholic University of Washington, DC. Throughout her distinguished 40-year career, she designed and developed training programs for Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, private businesses, and non-profits. Now, Dr. Remz dedicates her efforts to emploering post-menopausal women through her writing and advocacy.

Peter Gribble is a writer and a lifelong student of history whose work explores the intersections of knowledge, power, and the human condition. His fantasy series, "The City of Magicians," is set in a civilization that rejects traditional warfare. The series examines how intellect, psychological strategy, and telepathic abilities can be both a society's greatest strength and its most dangerous vulnerability. Influenced by his childhood in postwar France- where silence about the war was as pervasive as its lingering shadows-Gribble crafts stories that explore the dangers of complacency and the consequences of pacifism and brutality colliding.

James Jennings, a fifth generation native Oklahoman who writes Western Fiction ad whose latest book has been compared to Harper Lee's, explores how far a man will go for justice and the nature of truth in his new novel, Blue WIld Indigo.

Chad Boudreaux was born and raised in Corpus Christi, and now lives in Hampton Roads, Virginia, with his wife and four children. Boudreaux leverages his unique, high-level experience in global security matters and his extensive legal expertise to craft breathtaking, insider stories of mystery and intrigue that are ripped from today's headlines and sire to shock his readers.

Brian Rudolph, as a newly published author, drew inspiration from his late mother, a gifted singer, whose legacy profoundly impacted his life. Following her sudden passing, Brian utilized songwriting as a coping mechanism after receiving her personal wind chimes a a gift. A devoted husband and father of three sons, Brian resides in Venice, Florida.

Gwydhar Gebien is a writer, artist, and award-winning filmmaker; originally from Chicago now transplanted in Los Angeles in pursuit of a career in film production. She is still pretty sure her subversive sense of humor would de well in a television writer's room.

Nikhil Prabala's debut queer romantasy, The Duchess of Kokora, was released August of 2024 and his audiobook, narrated by Bridgerton's Adjoa Andoh, was released early this year. (Check out his feature with Shondaland!)

Nikhil drew from his experience as a Dungeon Master in Dungeons and Dragons to create an immersive fantasy world, with a unique magic system and refreshing take on marriage games, and he has been praised for his realistically flawed characters.

Fatima Alabi was not much of a reader growing up, but that was until she came across te trilogy by E.L. James titled "Fifty Shades of Grey," at a time when she needed an escape from reality. At the time she was 19 years old and homeless, secretely squatting at the office building where she interned. She became completely wrapped up in the love story between the characeres, reading all three novels from the series in under a week. After that experience, a new ambition grew inside her and that was the desire to write a novel just as capticating that would turn a non-reader like she once was into the page-turner that she became, and to also help anyone going through a difficult phase in life escaspe from their reality by imersing themselves in her stories.