Join me with authors and contributors Bette Lee Crosby, Robb Grindstaff, and Wilnona Marie.
Bette Lee Crosby, author of “Beyond Betrayal” – Bette Lee Crosby is the USA Today bestselling author of twenty-four novels and recipient of numerous literary awards. Often hailed as a masterful storyteller, her novel Baby Girl was named Best Chick Lit of 2016 by Huffington Post, and her 2019 release Emily, Gone won the International Book Award for Women’s Fiction. Her most recent release is The Fault Between Us, a historical novel based on a true story. Crosby, a lover of dogs and all things Southern, laughingly admits to being a night owl whose guilty pleasure is late-night chats with fans and friends on social media.
Robb Grindstaff, author of “Slade” – In addition to a career as a journalist, newspaper editor, publisher and media executive, Robb Grindstaff has written fiction most of his life. The newspaper biz has taken him and his family from Phoenix, Arizona, to small towns in North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, from seven years in Washington, DC, to five years in Asia. Born and raised a small-town kid, he’s as comfortable in Tokyo or Tuna, Texas. The variety of places he’s lived serve as settings for the characters who invade his head. He has four novels published with Evolved Publishing – Slade, Turning Trixie, Hannah’s Voice, and Carry Me Away. His novels are best classified as contemporary Southern lit. In 2022, Evolved also launched June Bug Gothic: Tales from the South, a collection of Robb’s short stories. Robb is also a sought-after fiction editor, with editing clients from around the world, including agented, traditionally published, and best-selling independent authors. His articles on the craft of writing fiction have appeared in various writer magazines and websites. He also has taught writing courses for the Romance Writers of America (even though he’s not a romance writer), and Romance Writers of Australia (even though he’s not Australian), and is an instructor at the Novel-in-Progress Book Camp. Robb now resides in the Ozarks of Missouri, where he writes and edits full-time.
Wilnona Marie, author of “A Thoughtful Collection” – Wilnona is an, are awarded poet and member of The And I Thought Ladies. The And I Thought Ladies also have novels in romance, women’s fiction, and noire mystery. She is a co-founder of 25 Hottest Authors Magazine & The And I Thought Literary Magazine, as well as the Thoughtful Book Festival. In early 2020 they served as judges on the scholastics writing and arts award. The pair have turned their writing career into a media empire. Ranging from the written word to starring a reality show about authors which aired on channel 18 in four markets, as well as Amazon. They are principals in the Documentary. Create, Aspire, and Inspire as well as How to Become a Lady? These shows share a place under the AITL umbrella alongside the four podcasts and the Inspirational Women in Literature Media and Journalism Awards.
M.A. Beasley, author of “The Warrior Angel” – Gracie and her eight-year-old son Lucas are out doing some last-minute Christmas shopping when a nasty car wreck interrupts their night. Lucas nearly dies when Gracie’s mother, Teresa, arrives at the hospital with a too-good-to-be-true suggestion. Say this prayer, and I promise your son will live. Her mother has always been very religious and quite superstitious about things. Gracie says the blessing is mainly to get her mom to drop it and be there for her and her son. The prayer works. It’s ten years later, and Gracie is haunted by something. She learns that the “prayer” she said wasn’t one at all. She had unknowingly made a bargain with a demon. In return for saving her son, Gracie now owes him a soul. Either she offers one, or he will take Lucas. The closer the deal’s anniversary, the scarier things get for Gracie and Lucas. Affiliations with this demon go back even further than she knew. Family secrets are coming out. She doesn’t know if she wants to know. This demon will stop at nothing to get what he is owed. How far will a mother go to save her son?
Janet Rudolph, author of “Desperately Seeking Persephone” – 
J.P. Quinn, author of “When The Fans Go Home” – 
M.M. De Voe, author of “A Flash of Darkness” – The dark, challenging stories of A Flash of Darkness represent some of M.M. De Voe’s best stories written from 2005 to the present. De Voe juggles literary fiction with fables, science fiction with horror, pagan satire with the fantastical. But what shines through is intelligence and daring. She leaves you wondering what is real and what is unreal. Dive into the haunted atmosphere of “Shutter,” lingering on the outskirts of horror past or horror-to-be. “Tastemakers” satirizes a modern obsession with life as performance art. “The Mayor of Flashback” is pure literary fiction that intertwines memories of 9/11 in Manhattan and the elastic bonds of marriage. “Cake” is a frightening peek into a domestic world; where keeping an eye on the children may not necessarily be for their safety. “A Rose” delivers a knockout punch of shifting fables and narrators that shows in a single story what this author’s imagination can accomplish. M.M. De Voe is the founder of the literary nonprofit Pen Parentis, a process described in her memoir/productivity guidebook for writers who are parents, Book & Baby.
Maureen McNeil, author of “Anna Magdalena” – 
Robb Grindstaff, author of “Turning Trixie” – 
Eric Friedmann, author of “It’s Forever Strictly Personal: A Final Nostalgic Movie Memoir of 1992-1999” – 
J.D. Ruffin, author of “Heir of Magic”– 
Paul Joseph, author of “Precious Cargo” – At the end of the 19th century, Mark Twain, wife, Livy, and Clara, one of his daughters, traveled around the world for a year. Twain was on a lecture tour, and his experiences were later captured in 
Robert Loewen, author of “The Lioness of Leiden” – 
nicolette elsie, author of “seasons to bloom” – 
Stephen Reger, author of “Storm Front: Book One of The Stormstrong Trilogy” – 
Brian Vukadinovich, author of “Rogues in Black Robes” – In Rogues in Black Robes Brian Vukadinovich exposes the severity of corruption within the highest levels of the federal judiciary in how a federal court of appeals judge from the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, Michael S. Kanne, used his influence to have a decision fixed regarding an appeal that Brian Vukadinovich had filed against rogue police in Valparaiso, Indiana, who had tormented him for years. In Rogues in Black Robes, you will read how a former judge of the United States Court of Appeals in Chicago, Richard A. Posner, after retiring from the federal bench, decided to come clean and disclose how he allowed himself to be manipulated by Judge Michael S. Kanne into throwing the decision of the appeal of the police case, as a favor to Judge Kanne, even though he, Judge Posner, knew that the appellate decision should have gone in favor of Brian Vukadinovich and against the Valparaiso police. In Rogues in Black Robes, you will read how the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Diane S. Sykes, and other members of that court, covered up the case-fixing activities, and you will also read how the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, Chief Justice John Roberts, and Attorney General Merrick Garland, turned a blind eye to the case fixing activities and swept the judges’ nefarious acts under the rug in order that the public would not know about the degree of judicial corruption that has permeated the federal judiciary. In Rogues in Black Robes, you will read about mechanisms that are put in place to protect corrupt judges from accountability when they breach their sworn oaths of office and even violate the laws of the United States.
Emma Dhesi, author of “More Than Enough” – 
Grace Sammon, author of “The Eves” – Grace Sammon is an author, radio host, entrepreneur, and educator. Recognized in “Who’s Who in Education” and “Who’s Who in Literature,” Grace utilized skills built up over decades to re-invent herself with her award-winning fourth book and debut novel – The Eves. Always committed to creative collaborations, Grace is the founder of Author Talk Network; a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers’ Association (WFWA) and the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA); and she is the Director of Membership for one of the fastest growing reader/writer on-line communities “Bookish Road Trip.” She currently lives on Florida’s west coast with her husband and a small herd of imaginary llamas. 
Mary Helen Sheriff, author of “Boop and Eve’s Road Trip” – Mary Helen Sheriff is the author of the award-winning southern women’s fiction, Boop and Eve’s Road Trip. She serves as an Author Marketing Coach, host of Growing Up Bookish, and the CEO of 
Susanne Dunlap, author of “The Courtesan’s Daughter” – 
Stacy Juba, author of 
Meredith Stoddard, author of “The River Maiden: Once & Future Book 1“ – Meredith R. Stoddard writes folklore-inspired fiction from her writing shed in Virginia. She studied literature and folklore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before working as a corporate trainer and instructional designer. Her love of storytelling is inspired by years spent listening to stories at her grandmother’s kitchen table. She also helps authors create repeatable processes for productive writing.
Carol Van Den Hende, author of “Orchid Blooming” – 
Janyre Tromp, author of “Shadows in the Mind’s Eye” – Janyre Tromp is an in-house book editor by day and writer of historical novels with a healthy dose of lyrical intrigue at night. She’s the best-selling author of Shadows in the Mind’s Eye and co-author of both O Little Town and It’s a Wonderful Christmas. And that all happens from her unfinished basement when she’s not hanging out with her family, two troublesome cats, and slightly eccentric Shetland Sheepdog.
William J. Rostron, author of “The Other Side of the Wind” – In 1968 she went in search of America … America didn’t want to be found. After personal disaster ends all her hopes and dreams in New York, Maria Romano sets out alone in search of a new life. Her quest for meaning takes her through numerous adventures and misadventures that create a lifetime of both beautiful and haunting memories. It is a journey that takes her from the blues clubs and political turmoil of 1968 Chicago to the music scene of San Francisco, and the madness of Las Vegas. Now in her later years, she must reconcile what it all meant in order to move on. Her past has finally caught up with her…with a vengeance. By the best-selling author of the Band in the Wind trilogy. (