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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

Send us Fan Mail SARA LIPPMANN is the author of the novels Hidden River and Lech and the story collections Doll Palace and Jerks. Her fiction has won the Lilith Fiction Prize and has been honored by the New York Foundation for the Arts, and her nonfiction has appeared in The Millions, The Washington Post, The Chicago Review of Books, The Lit Hub and elsewhere. With Seth Rogoff, she co-edited the anthology Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible (SUNY Press). She received a BA from Brown and an MFA from The New School, and has been teaching creative writing for over 20 years to people of all ages. She is a founding member of the Writing Co-Lab, an artist-run online teaching cooperative, and the editor-in-chief of Epiphany magazine. You can visit her online at saralippmann.com.

Send us Fan Mail Hilary Plattner is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Her debut memoir, The Momma Puzzle, was shortlisted for the Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards, and named a finalist for the Wandering Aengus and Trail to Table Book Awards. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University and has taught writing at The New School. Previously, she founded and directed Brooklyn Writers, a community-based writing program. Her writing has been published in numerous literary journals, including Allegro, Cider Press Review, Fence, GSU Review, Gulf Coast, Synkroniciti and The Ledge.

Send us Fan Mail Susan Wiggs is the author of more than fifty novels, including the beloved Lakeshore Chronicles series and the recent New York Times bestsellers The Lost and Found Bookshop, The Oysterville Sewing Circle, and Family Tree. Her books celebrate the power of love, the timeless bonds of family and the fascinating nuances of human nature. She is an international bestselling, award-winning author, with millions of copies of her books in print in numerous countries and languages. According to Publishers Weekly, Wiggs writes with “refreshingly honest emotion,” and the Salem Statesman Journal adds that she is “one of our best observers of stories of the heart [who] knows how to capture emotion on virtually every page of every book.” Booklist characterizes her books as “real and true and unforgettable.” Wiggs lives with her husband on an island in Washington State’s Puget Sound

Send us Fan Mail Originally hailing from Leeds, Tom Hindle lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and daughter. He is the author of A Fatal Crossing, The Murder Game, Murder on Lake Garda, Death in the Arctic, and A Killer in Paradise—all of which were inspired by masters of the crime genre such as Agatha Christie and Anthony Horowitz. Tom is hard at work on his next murder mystery.

Send us Fan Mail Liz Lazarus is an engineer by education, a consultant and business owner from experience, and an author given her passion to tell stories. Dawn Before Darkness is her fourth novel, following Free of Malice, Plea for Justice, and Shades of Silence. Learn more at www.lizlazarus.com.