Alycia Vreeland is a writer, artist/illustrator, Elementary School Art Teacher, residing in Santa Barbara. Vreeland’s art has been featured in several documentaries such as the soon to be released, Are You Hearing Me?, The Cure, & Guns, Bombs, War A Love Story. Her art and writing has been featured in journals such as Tuck Magazine, Rebelle Society, Painted Cave, The Montecito Journal. The artist is the creator of Didi Rock’s Greeting Cards with illustrations created in the spirit of empowering women. Often Vreeland’s inspiration comes from being the proud mother of her son, an exceptionally gifted musician composer, and also her two lovely bonus daughters. In addition Vreeland often collaborated on various writing and illustration projects with her late husband, writer Jon Vreeland, Author of The Taste of Cigarettes: a Memoir of a Heroin Addict.
Her memoir and Jon's poetry collection will both be published in 2024.
Liz Alterman is the author of a domestic suspense novel, The Perfect Neighborhood, a young adult thriller, He’ll Be Waiting, and a memoir, Sad Sacked. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, and other outlets. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, three sons, and two cats, and spends most days microwaving the same cup of coffee and looking up synonyms. When she isn’t writing, she’s reading.
Her memoir, Sad Sacked, will be published in June 2024.
Laura Katz Olson is AGF Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Lehigh University. To date, she has published nine nonfiction books on the U.S. health system and long-term care politics and policy. Elder Care Journey, which relates her personal experiences as a caregiver for her mother, won a Gold Medal in the 2017 Living Now Book award competition. Olson has served on the American Political Science Council and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Critical Political Science. In 2009, she received the Charles A. McCoy Lifetime Achievement Award. Wrinkled Rebels is her second novel.
Her novel, Wrinkled Rebels, will be published in July 2024.
Born in East London, South Africa, Luke Beling left home at 19 on a tennis scholarship. In 2007, Luke graduated from Campbellsville University with a Bachelor's degree in English Literature. He lived in China, Minnesota, and Saipan before settling with his wife and four daughters in Hawaii. Through athletic competition and world travel Luke gained insight into the human experience without ever losing heart for the human spirit. Luke has had several short stories published in journals and magazines, including: Quiet Shorts (2012), Eyelands Flash Fiction (2019), Academy of the Heart and Mind (2021), New Reader Magazine (2021), The Salt Weekly Magazine (2022), and Impspired Magazine (2022). Luke works as a director of tennis for a private club on the Big Island of Hawaii. Luke is also an indie-folk singer-songwriter.
His novel, The Field of Plenty, will be published in late 2024.
Ariel Peckel is a Canadian-Colombian philosopher (Ph.D. University of Toronto), whose doctoral dissertation is collecting dust in the Ivory Tower until its sheer inertia amounts to a refutation of it. To avoid total literary obscurity, he became a satirist of the contemporary human condition. A lampooner of prudence, lambaster of bastions, lamprey of preciousness, toppling culture’s cherubs one pudgy flying baby at a time. He also writes humor for nobler purposes, like making people laugh.
His essay collection, Bertram's Emporium of Things People Say, will be published in late 2024.
Marc Rosenberg is a screenwriter, film producer and resident lecturer in screenwriting at Bond University. He’s had seven feature films produced, won two Australian Writers’ Guild Awards and the NSW Premier’s Literary Award. Rosenberg grew up in Texas, worked as an estate agent in London, was a year on an Israeli kibbutz, and has spent more than half his adult life in Australia. Rosenberg has written The Screenplay Tree, a "how-to" book on film structure, which is available on Amazon and contributes to the periodical, Film International. Kyd's Game is his first novel.
His thriller, Kyd's Game, will be published in late 2024.
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