Tina Schwartz is an author, public speaker, and literary agent, and founder of The Purcell Agency. She has a B.A. in Marketing Communications with an Advertising Emphasis from Columbia College Chicago. Her big dream was to write Super Bowl ads for television. When that dream didn't come to fruition, she became a media buyer, and then a sales rep for over 500 radio stations, selling airtime to advertisers. After several years, she made a career pivot to stay home and raise her three children a...
Oct 27
23 min
Seth Fleisher is an American author whose work has appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Pearl, the Journal of Anthropological Research, and elsewhere. Based in Berkeley, California, he has worked with the World Bank Group and other NGOs in South Africa, India, and more than 40 other countries, and co-founded a U.S.-based democracy initiative to counter the rising tide of authoritarianism. A former Fulbright scholar in Sri Lanka, Seth did Ph.D. work at Harvard in Buddhist social history, ...
Oct 22
22 min
Kathleen Fox is a former teacher, school librarian, and corporate trainer. She developed games, children’s books, and music for the school library market, and founded a local art school in her community. She also helped co-founder a digital platform to help children elevate their innovative thinking. When she isn’t writing, Fox can usually be found cruising around the country in her Sprinter van with her husband and two dogs. She’s navigated her van “Grey” through most of the continental US, ...
Oct 14
21 min
Jonathan Edward Durham (@thisone0verhere) was born in Eastern Pennsylvania where he read voraciously through his youth and beyond. He studied literature at William and Mary while pursuing a degree in neuroscience, and now writes to bridge the wonder of his favorite childhood books with the pop sensibilities of the classic thrillers he grew up with. He still lives in the Lehigh Valley with his husband and a house full of animals. His debut novel is Winterset Hollow. Learn more at jonatha...
Oct 2
21 min
Sara Z. Carson is a public relations professional who lives with her family in Brooklyn. Dark Messiah is her first book. Learn more at sarahzcarsonauthor.com Intro reel, Writing Table Podcast 2024 Outro Recording Follow the Writing Table: @writingtablepodcast Email questions or tell us who you'd like us to invite to the Writing Table: [email protected].
Sep 22
19 min
Laleh Khadivi is the author of The Kurdish Trilogy. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in Oakland, California with her family and teaches fiction at the University of San Francisco. Her latest novel is FEMALE LIFE ON PLANET EARTH. Learn more at LalehKhadivi.com Thank you, NetGalley for an early copy of Female Life on Planet Earth. Intro reel, ...
Sep 17
25 min
Charlotte Lillie Balogh is an author, a screenwriter, and a comic book writer born and raised outside Boston. She self-published her first book at sixteen years old and later graduated as a Remembrance Scholar from Syracuse University. CLB is a lifelong superhero fanatic, and she launched into the television and film industry by working at DC Entertainment on projects including Wonder Woman 1984 and the CW’s Stargirl. When she’s not writing, CLB mentors young women through RowLA and WriteGirl...
Sep 9
30 min
USA Today bestselling author HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN is the author of 17 thrillers, including her newest, the instant USA today bestseller ALL THIS COULD BE YOURS, which just won the coveted 2026 Mary Higgins Clark Award and has been nominated for the Anthony Award for Best Novel of the Year. • Her books have won every major mystery award in the industry and have been translated into multiple languages throughout the world. • Her fiction is inspired by a lifetime of investigating true crime durin...
Sep 1
30 min
Rebecca Stafford is a YA author, poet, and writing teacher. Her debut novel, Rabbit and Juliet, was named a Best YA Book of 2024 by both Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal. Her second novel, The Ending You Deserve, is forthcoming from Quill Tree Books/HarperCollins in September 2026. She is also the author of four poetry collections — Fair Copy, Vow, Gloss, and Generic Husband — and a two-time Pushcart Prize winner whose poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, The New Yorker, and Best ...
Aug 31
18 min
J.T. Ellison is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than 25 novels, and the EMMY® award winning co-host of the literary TV show A WORD ON WORDS. She also writes urban fantasy under the pen name Joss Walker. With millions of books in print, her work has won critical acclaim, prestigious awards, been optioned for television, and has been published in 28 countries. J.T. lives in Nashville with her husband and twin kittens, where she is hard at work on her next novel. Her ...
Aug 20
28 min
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