Author Insider
Panio Gianopoulos, Chris Duffy, Irena Smith, Jennifer Reid, MD, Maya Shankar, Ashely Alker MDInside the business of being a writer.
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Writer and book editor. Editorial director of The Next Big Idea Club. I share book recommendations, interview authors and publishing insiders at Author Insider, and occasionally publish my own stories and essays.
My book, HUMOR ME: How Laughing More Can Make You Present, Creative, Connected and Happy, is out now!
Essayist, college admissions veteran, devotee of breathless run-ons and parenthetical asides.
Dr. Jennifer Reid is a psychiatrist, award-winning educator, and creator & host of A Mind of Her Own. She is also the author of Guilt Free: Reclaiming Your Life from Unreasonable Expectations, with Penguin Life, available now.
Maya Shankar is the host of A Slight Change of Plans and a cognitive scientist who founded the White House Behavioral Science Team under President Obama and served as the first Behavioral Science Advisor to the UN.
Ashley Alker is an emergency medicine physician improving public health | Consultant & medical screenwriter for 20+ shows on Netflix, HBO, and Disney | Author of 99 Ways to Die and How to Avoid Them (Macmillan, Jan 2026)
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