The Readers & Writers

Went from being a judge on the New Jersey Superior Court to celebrity when he became senior judicial analyst for Fox News.

Served in the U.S. Navy for over 30 years and rose to the rank of three-star general, served as the Director of Defense on the National Security Council under President Clinton.

Owner of Haven for Heroes in Port Jervis, Emmet and Archie writer and artist Dan Parent, will address the recent proliferation of optioned comic characters for the big and small screens.

Dan is co- creator of the hit series, Die Kitty Die, which was a huge Kickstarter success and is currently published by Chapterhouse Comics.

Author of the New York Times bestseller “Dog Medicine, How My Dog Saved Me From Myself” a self-published book. 

Veteran publisher and entrepreneur JANE FRIEDMAN, was world-wide CEO of Harper/Collins publishers and co-founder of Open Road Integrated Media, the first major digital publisher of back-list books.

Publisher of She Writes Press. For eight years she was the Executive Editor at Seal Press, where she shepherded hundreds of books through the publication process.

Founded a NYC law firm specializing in intellectual property. He also has acted as a literary agent, and produced the film “That Championship Season,” with Robert Mitchum.

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author SUSAN FALUDI’s wrote the ground-breaking classic “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”. Her book, “In the Darkroom” is a memoir about her relationship with her transgender father and the nature of identity.

Susan Faludi will be interviewed by CAROL JENKINS an Emmy winning anchor and correspondent for NBC-TV in New York for 25 years and now hosts “Black America” a new series on CUNY TV.

The author of The Lumberjack’s Dove, selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series.

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A poet and Open Mic Host for Emerging Voices Open Mic Night, a community venue held in Milford, PA for poets and writers. Meet Me is her first published poetry chapbook. Veronica also serves on the Board of Directors for Milford’s Black Bear Film Festival,

She inspires change through her multi-genre writing, compassionate advocacy, educational work and filmmaking.

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A spoken word artist, poet, actor, singer, and an adjunct professor of English at Endicott College. For more information visit her website.

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A retired pathologist and laboratory director, her first novel The Quad Consortium and the Sword of Bale was published in 2015. 

MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and has serve twice as a juror for the Shirley Jackson Awards.  She has worked in book publishing and as a ghost writer,on. 

His short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award and has been anthologized in 2017’s Year’s Best SF, 34th ed. by Gardner Dozois.

A three-time Nebula Award finalist and a World Fantasy Award finalist.

Her stories have appeared in over 100 literary and speculative magazines and anthologies. 

She has published four novels including The Winner and Snowbound. She is honored to host a panel of romance writers this year.

A retired professor of philosophy and world religions, she has published three books, most recently Saints, Sinners, And Other Entities.

A librarian, poet and aspiring novelist, her poems have appeared in The Cafe Review, Hunger Mountain, Portland Review, Soundings East, Zone3, Pearl and Sierra Nevada Review.

She writes for children and teenagers. Jeanie Beane Meets Mavis the Camel,  set to be published this year. Eleanor’s first novel, Dream a Little Dream, was published in 2015.

Gayle C. Krause’s debut novel, RATGIRL: Song of the Viper was nominated for the Horn Book Award and the International Reading Award. A Master educator, she teaches hands-on workshops for children’s writers. 

Parenting Preteens with a Purpose (Search Institute), offers parents specific tips and strategies for building assets in their children.

With the release of his first book, “The Principal: Surviving and Thriving”, Andrew is expanding his impact on the education leadership community.

Michelle Darné is the founder of Simply Parent, a non-profit that is dedicated to forging a society where good parenting is protected in its diverse genesis, forms and colors.

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An intuitive and motivational speaker, she is also a radio host on Cox Radio Show called “Messages from Heaven.”

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NANCY ORLEN WEBER is a psychic who was instrumental in helping catch a serial killer. She has since worked with law enforcement on a wide variety of cases. She was profiled on the SyFy Channel’s “Paranormal Witness: Through the eyes of a Killer.” nancyorlenweber.com

Creator of The Buddy System and the critically acclaimed feature doc, Trial by Fire: Lives Re-forged. Megan is the award-winning editor of Wilton Magazine.

She is the Festival Director of the Ridgefield Independent Film Festival (RIFF) and the president and co-owner of Pyewackitt Productions, an independent production company.

Known as “The Skeptic Psychic”, is a medical intuitive, psychic and paranormal researcher. She has worked with the police, detectives, and victim’s families to help find lost or missing persons. 

As a break-out star on WGN’s hit series “Outsiders, ”actress/playwright/author/ director Tina Alexis Allen most recently starred as Shurn, a force to be reckoned with in the clash-of-cultures drama rooted in coal mining Kentucky.

Julie is the author of A Matter of Chance, published in 2018 (She Writes Press). She is the founder/director of “Women Reading Aloud”, a non-profit international organization devoted to promoting women writers.

A multi-career tour de force who balances a full-time social work gig with directing shows, writing books, speaking at conferences and colleges.

A multi-award winning Senior Editor and Writer at the Daily Beast, overseeing the site’s arts, culture, LGBT, style, and media coverage.

A reporter at The New York Times, who wrote a yearlong series that became the basis for New York Times Best Seller Happiness Is a Choice You Make.

A celebrated New York City painter’s rollicking and vividly immediate account of his life amid the city’s glamorous demimondes in their most vital era as an aspiring artist, roaring boy, dandy, cultural omnivore, and far-from-obscure object of desire.