Dan has dozens of credits, including Criminal Minds, Gun Stories (now in season 14, Hollywood Weapons; Fact or Fiction (In season 6), and Booger Bottom USA. He has multiple awards for writing and producing, including 5 Telly Awards, Winner of Best Doc at LA Film Festival 2023 and Impact DOC Award Winner 2023 for Women in Aviation. He’s a producer of the Emmy Winning documentary: Palm Springs Air Museums 25th Silver Anniversary Celebration. As well as the recipient of multiple inner-network awards.

His latest endeavor is a fiction novel called Long Branch. The story of a down and out actor who returns to his hometown of Long Branch Georgia only to find himself in the midst of a conspiracy involving very influential people who will stop at nothing to keep the past buried.

Glendy Vanderah worked as an endangered bird specialist in Illinois before she became a writer. Originally from Chicago, she now lives in rural Florida with as many birds, butterflies, and wildflowers as she can lure to her land. Where the Forest Meets the Stars is her debut novel.

John Ray Grisham Jr. is an American novelist, lawyer, and former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, known for his best-selling legal thrillers.

Amy Tintera is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels for young adults. Her novels have been translated into 16 languages and sold into more than 20 territories. Listen for the Lie is her adult debut. She earned degrees in journalism and film and worked in Hollywood before becoming an author. Raised in Austin, Texas, she frequently sets her novels in the Lone Star state, but now lives in Los Angeles, where there's far less humidity but not nearly enough Tex-Mex.

Susan Ericksen isan American actress and audiobook narrator. Susan Ericksen. Born. Illinois, U.S.. Education, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN (BA)

A British-Greek Cypriot Author with an educational and occupational background in clinical psychology and teaching. Author of THE LIGHT THAT BLINDS US, a high-stakes, speculative romance, which masterfully weaves themes of mental health, psychosis, and found family.

Author of the John boulder action adventure thriller series and other titles.

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds.

John Boyne was born in Ireland in 1971. The winner of four Irish Book Awards, including Author of the Year, he is the author of fourteen novels for adults, six for younger readers and a collection of short stories.

Erik Larson is the author of six previous national bestsellers—The Splendid and the Vile, Dead Wake, In the Garden of Beasts, Thunderstruck, The Devil in the White City, and Isaac’s Storm—which have collectively sold more than twelve million copies. His books have been published in nearly forty countries.

Hernan Diaz is the Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Trust. Translated into more than thirty languages, Trust also received the Kirkus Prize, was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and was named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time magazine, and it was one of The New Yorker’s 12 Essential Reads of the Year and one of Barack Obama’s favorite books of the year.

James Lee Burke is a New York Times bestselling author, three-time winner of the Edgar Award as well as the Grand Master Award from Mystery Writers of America, winner of the CWA Diamond Dagger and Gold Dagger and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, and the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts in Fiction.

With over 80 million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times author of thirty five novels including WIN, THE BOY FROM THE WOODS, RUN AWAY, FOOL ME ONCE, TELL NO ONE and the renowned Myron Bolitar series. His books are published in 46 languages around the globe.

Nick Young is Northwest based artist with a deep love for storytelling and the natural world.

Artist's Statement: Nature inspires me to take things that seem ordinary and elevate them into character-driven visuals with back stories. Sometimes a single image creates enough energy to proliferate itself and further its own narrative. I just let it happen and in doing so, completely lose myself in their stories.

J.D. ROBB is the pseudonym for #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts. She is the author of over 200 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.