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  • Panio Gianopoulos

    Author of A Familiar Beast (novella) and How to Get Into Our House and Where We Keep the Money (stories). Editorial director of the Next Big Idea Club. I write about books, publishing, and the writing life at Author Insider.

  • Lucinda Literary

    A New York City-based literary agency specializing in big ideas and stories that change lives. Offering workshops and courses to help transform your pitch.

  • Cate Hall

    searching for the hidden doors in the walls of life

  • Darby Saxbe

    Professor at the University of Southern California. I study the neurobiology of parenthood & wrote the book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives.

  • Stacy S. Kim

    Author. Researcher. Untangler.

  • Natalie Nixon

    Creativity Strategist and CEO of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC. I'm a global keynote speaker, award-winning author and lifelong dancer, swimmer & doodler. I live in Philadelphia with my husband, John.

  • Elizabeth Svoboda

    I'm a science writer and essayist for the Boston Globe's Ideas section, Scientific American, and other outlets. My upcoming book The Art of Pacing is about how to find a sustaining pace in a speed-obsessed world.

  • Daisy Dixon

    Sculptor based in Herefordshire, UK. MA by Research Student at Oxford Brookes University.

  • Marisa Solis

    Marisa Solis is a book coach, developmental editor, and coauthor of The Complete Expert-to-Author Guide: Plan, Write, and Publish Your Nonfiction Book. She's been in publishing since 1999 and is based in Los Angeles.

  • Elizabeth Dougherty

    Elizabeth Dougherty, a book coach and developmental editor since 1988, coauthored The Complete Expert-to-Author Guide: Plan, Write, and Publish Your Nonfiction Book with Marisa Solis. Their company, Book Structure Pros, helps experts become authors.

  • Cassandra Vieten

    Cassandra Vieten is Clinical Professor at UC San Diego where she is Director of Research at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination, and Director of the Center for Mindfulness.

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