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Send us Fan Mail Jessica Goecke is a writer, illustrator, and graphic designer. She is a 2023 PB Rising Stars mentee and recipient of SCBWI's Don Freeman grant. She lives just outside Seattle with her husband, two kids, and miniature snauzer, Duke. Billy and the Hole is her debut picture book.

Send us Fan Mail Kate Hash is the author of Gracie Harris Is Under Construction and the writer behind the Substack newsletter It’s Been a Week. Born and raised in the Philadelphia suburbs, she spent most of her twenties bouncing around the world, including a stint in Florence, Italy. She currently lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with her husband and two children. The Mother-in-Law Book Club is her second novel.

Send us Fan Mail Gary Goldstein is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. His previous novels include the romantic comedy "The Last Birthday Party," which won an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence in Fiction; the family drama "The Mother I Never Had"; and the coming-of-age dramedy "Please Come to Boston." His latest novel, the dogs-and-divorce comedy "Canine Custody," was published Sept. 2026 by Koehler Books. Gary is also an award-winning writer for film, TV, and the theater, with more than thirty screen and stage credits (including more than fifteen telefilms and several theatrical features). A New York native, Boston University graduate, and lifelong dog lover, he resides in Los Angeles. Gary has also been a contributing entertainment writer and film reviewer for the LA Times since

Send us Fan Mail David Galef has published over a dozen books, including the novel Flesh, the short story collection My Date with Neanderthal Woman, the children's book Tracks, Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom, and Brevity: A Flash Fiction Handbook. Day job: English professor and creative writing program director at Montclair State University. He's also the editor of Vestal Review, the longest-running flash fiction magazine on the planet. Find him at davidgalef.com.  Beth Weinhouse has been an editor at many mainstream magazines, including Self, Parenting, Prevention, Redbook, and Reader's Digest. She' s written feature articles and book reviews for New York Newsday, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, Travel & Leisure, Town & Country, Columbia Magazine, and more. Her first book was The Healthy Traveler, about maintaining health away from home. Her second book, co-written with Leslie Laurence, was Outrageous Practices, about how gender bias can threaten women' s health. More at BethWeinhouse.com

Send us Fan Mail James M. Scott is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Black Snow, Rampage, Target Tokyo, The War Below, and The Attack on the Liberty, and coauthor with Jack Carr of Targeted: Beirut. He lives in Charleston, South Carolina.

Send us Fan Mail Kathleen Fox is a wanderer, happiest when her van is packed, her dogs are snoring in the passenger seat, and the road ahead promises at least three good stories and one questionable decision. An explorer of back roads, small towns, and the wonderfully weird corners of the world, Kathleen grounds her fictional work in underrepresented rural voices and unexpected moments that only “van life” brings. When she’s not chasing horizons or trading puns with her husband, Kathleen calls the coast of South Carolina home. She is the author of two children’s books, and this is her first novel.

Send us Fan Mail Molly Guptill Manning is a historian, curator, and professor at New York Law School. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller, When Books Went to War, as well as The Myth of Ephraim Tutt, and The War of Words. She frequently gives talks about the centrality of books in democracy, and curates museum exhibits that showcase the essential role that books and information played in World War II.

Send us Fan Mail Kerry Rae Connolly is a writer, speaker, and advocate for care partners. She has spent over 30 years working with mission-driven, community-based organizations and is passionate about service. She remains deeply involved in the Parkinson’s community in honor of her late husband, Harry. For the past decade, she has contributed to the World Parkinson Congress, serving on planning committees and coordinating volunteers for congresses in Portland, Kyoto, Barcelona, and Phoenix. Locally, she volunteers with Parkinson’s Resources of Oregon and co-founded Movers & Shakers PDX, a walking team that raises awareness of Parkinson’s. In addition to monthly walks, the team participates in the iconic Portland to Coast relay every August. Kerry Rae lives in Portland (the one on the west coast), with Harry’s retired service dog, Ras. She loves outdoor adventures and finds great joy sleeping in her tent. She loves experiencing new cultures and exploring the world with curiosity and heart, and she loves towing her little trailer down long dusty roads. She is grieving and growing. This is her first book. Visit www.kerryraeconnolly.com for caregiver resources, photos, stories, and more.

Send us Fan Mail Sgt. Rasul T. Freelain (Ret.) served twenty years with the Oak Park Police Department in Illinois. He is certified by CIT (Crisis Intervention Team) International as a coordinator and teaches for the Illinois CIT Training Unit. Currently he is working to bring increased awareness to the problem of child-to-parent violence and abuse (CPVA).

Send us Fan Mail Marie Hoy-Kenny’s work has been published in several literary publications, including Shadow Lab, trampset, Okay Donkey, and FlashBack Fiction. Marie’s debut young adult novel, The Girls from Hush Cabin, was published by Blackstone Publishing in 2023, and her debut picture book, This Plant is Not Boring, was published in April 2025 by Orca Book Publishers. Something like Desire is Marie’s debut adult title.

Send us Fan Mail LINDA KASS began her career as a magazine journalist and correspondent for regional and national publications. Along with her forthcoming novel, World News from Waverley High (September 2026), she is the author of three previous works of historical fiction: Tasa’s Song (2016), A Ritchie Boy (2020), and Bessie (2023). A longtime civic leader, she is the founder and owner of Gramercy Books, an independent bookstore in Central Ohio. Linda lives in Columbus, Ohio with her husband, Frank; they have four children, six grandchildren, and a labradoodle named Wally. Find her online at  lindakass.com, @lindakass, LindaKassAuthor and The heart of the story | Ohio State Alumni Magazine

Send us Fan Mail Sarah Braunstein's novel, Bad Animals, was published by W. W. Norton in March 2024 and described by Claire Luchette in the New York Times Book Review as  "...a red-hot poker that skewers the limits of the white imagination…[A] sharp-witted, ravishing novel.” Sarah is also the author of The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (W. W. Norton), winner of the 2012 Maine Literary Award for Fiction. The novel was a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction and was an Oprah Magazine Top Ten Pick of the Month. Bitch magazine said it's a novel "akin to the film Magnolia (if Saul Bellow had written the novelization)." Her short stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Playboy, The Harvard Review, The Cincinnati Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, The Sun, Nylon Magazine, The Nervous Breakdown, and in other publications. She co-wrote a play, String Theory: Three Greek Myths Woven Together, with Michael Barakiva and Amy Boyce Holtcamp.    Sarah has been the recipient of a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation and a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. For several years she served on the National Selection Panel of the National YoungArts Foundation. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work. She is associate professor of English and creative writing at Colby College.

Send us Fan Mail Caroline Hallemann is the Digital Director of Town & Country magazine, where she writes about culture, society, entertainment, and the world of the rich and powerful. Her work has often focused on the British monarchy, and the closest thing America has to a royal family: the Kennedys. She lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee.

Send us Fan Mail Jill Rosenberg is the author of NOW I'M PHOTOGENIC AND OTHER STORIES I TELL MYSELF (May 5, 2026; Black Lawrence Press), which is the winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award. She a graduate of Vassar College and the MFA Program at the University of Montana, and her fiction has been published by the Kenyon Review, Swamp Pink, Black Warrior Review, and other journals. She currently lives and writes in Montclair, New Jersey, where she also works with rescued cats, practices practicing Buddhism and teaches creative writing at Montclair State University. You can visit her online at jillrosenberg.me.

Send us Fan Mail Claire Boyles is a former sustainable farmer and a 2022 Whiting Award winner in fiction. Her debut novel, Appraisals, about a family of small-scale farmers during the 2008 Great Recession, is forthcoming in August 2026. She lives in northern Colorado