Susan Anderson has devoted more than 30 years of clinical experience and research to helping people overcome abandonment trauma and its aftermath of self sabotaging patterns. Founder of the abandonment recovery movement, she reaches out through her websites, workshops, and media to share her methods of abandonment recovery with abandonment survivors from around the world. Anderson is author of four
Charlotte Vale-Allen was born in Toronto and lived in England from 1961 to 1964 where she worked as a television actress and singer. She returned to Toronto briefly, performing as a singer until she emigrated to the US in 1966. She sold her first novel Love Life in 1974. Prior to this book’s publication she contracted to do a series
Before embarking on her writing career, Cecelia Ahern completed a degree in journalism and media studies. Her first novel, PS, I Love You was one of the biggest-selling debut novels of 2004 and a number one bestseller. Her successive bestselling novels are Where Rainbows End, If You Could See Me Now, A Place Called Here, Thanks for the Memories, The
Jessica Verdi lives in Brooklyn, NY, and received her MFA in Writing for Children from The New School. She is the author of several books for young adults, including WHAT YOU LEFT BEHIND, THE SUMMER I WASN’T ME, MY LIFE AFTER NOW, and an as-yet-untitled novel which will be released by Scholastic in 2018. She loves seltzer, hot sauce, TV,
Lauren has been a special education teacher and a writer for over 25 years. In 2005, she received the Walk of Hearts Teaching Award, and she proudly served on the Board of the International Dyslexia Association’s Los Angeles Branch with several of her former students. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, when she was in
Courtney Summers lives and writes in Canada. She is the author of several novels for young adults including MysteryACKED UP TO BE, THIS IS NOT A TEST and ALL THE RAGE. Author Of : All the Rage Genre : Fiction Courtney Summers lives and writes in Canada. She is the author of several novels for young adults including MysteryACKED UP
C. Lee McKenzie has a background in Linguistics and Inter-Cultural Communication, but these days her greatest passion is writing for young readers. Some Very Messy Medieval Magick is the third book in the time-travel adventures of Pete and Weasel, with Alligators Overhead and The Great Timelock Disaster being the first two. Sign of the Green Dragon, another book for young
Marissa Moss has been telling stories and drawing pictures to go with them for as long as she can remember. She sent her first book to publishers when she was nine, but it wasn’t very good and it never got published. She didn’t try again until she was a grown-up, but since then she hasn’t stopped. Author Of : A
Ali Novak is a twenty-five-year-old Wisconsin native and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Mysteryeative writing program. She started writing her debut novel My Life with the Walter Boys when she was only fifteen, and since then, her work has received more than 130 million hits online. When she isn’t writing, Ali enjoys traveling and Netflix marathons with her
Jolene grew up in South-central Alaska. She’s lived in Anchorage, near the Alyeska ski resort, on a cabin on an island on a lake, and then in a boring old house. Author Of : All the Forever Things Genre : Fiction Jolene grew up in South-central Alaska. She’s lived in Anchorage, near the Alyeska ski resort, on a cabin on
Andrea Pyros is an experienced writer and former teen magazine editor. She’s also had jobs waiting tables (hard!), baking cookies (delicious!), steaming clothing (hot!) and interviewing celebs (terrifying!). But other than a brief period wanting to be a private detective like Nancy Drew or Trixie Belden, she’s dreamt of being a writer all her life. A native of New York
Once upon a time there was girl named Kelley. Kelley was terrified of the math centre in her grade school classroom, but man, that Mysteryeative writing centre made her smile. In her spare time she wrote stories – lots of stories – about rainbows and ghosts and horses named Frankie Hoof Powell. As she grew, she came to believe that
