Our authors have won the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, National Book Critics Circle Award, Financial Times Book of the Year Award, and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, PEN/Hemingway, Pushcart Prize, Whiting Writer’s Award, Nobel Peace Prize, as well as the Tony, Grammy, Emmy, and Academy awards.
The Thief's Gamble
The Swordsman's Oath
The Gambler's Fortune
The Warrior's Bond
The Assassin's Edge
Southern Fire
Northern Storm
Western Shore
Eastern Tide
Irons in the Fire
Banners in the Wind
Blood in the Water
Turns and Chances
Dangerous Waters
Darkening Skies
Juliet McKenna started reading folk tales and Greek myths at the age of five, and written more over 15 books of epic fantasy. She has been a judge for the Arthur C. Clarke and World Fantasy Awards. A mother and Black Belt in Aikido, she lives in Oxford, England.
Simply LORAfied: Helpful Hacks, Low-lift Recipes, and Savvy Strategies for Less Anxiety and More Fun in Your Kitchen
Lora McLaughlin Peterson is creator of LORAfied, with over 770,000 followers on Instagram and over 307,000 followers on TikTok where she offers hacks for the home and easy, delicious recipes for quick weekday meals. Lora has been featured on sites for Newsweek, Good Morning America, The U.S. Sun, and The Sun U.K., Today, the Daily Mail, the Daily Meal, Tom’s Guide, The New York Post, and kitchn. She also demonstrated some of her hacks on the Today Show with Hoda and Jenna.
Kembrew McLeod is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa. He has published and produced several books and documentaries about music and popular culture, and his writing has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Slate, Salon, SPIN, MOJO and Rolling Stone. Kembrew’s documentary Copyright Criminals aired on PBS’s Emmy Award-winning Independent Lens series and his 2007 book Freedom Of Expression® received an American Library Association book award. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship to support the writing and research of his book The Downtown Pop Underground.
Pay It Forward
Jane McManus is the Executive Director of the Center for Sports Media at Seton Hall University. From 2018 until 2022 she was Director of the Center for Sports Communication at Marist College. In 2010 she was at ESPN covering the NFL’s New York Jets, and was one ofthe original five women hired for a new venture covering women’s sports called espnW. She was also an analyst on the first all-women’s episodes of First Take and The Sports Reporters,and one of the hosts on the first three-woman radio show on ESPN Radio, The Trifecta. Her byline has appeared in The New York Times, USA Today, The Journal News, Newsday and numerous other outlets. She has a regular Deadspin column and has also been a columnist for The New York Daily News, The Independent of London and ESPN. McManus lives with her husband and two daughters in Westchester County, NY.
The Last Great Dream
Dennis McNally received his Ph.D. in American History from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Desolate Angel, his thesis, became a biography of Jack Kerouac published by Random House in 1979. It brought him to the attention of Jerry Garcia, who tapped McNally to be the band’s official biographer in 1980. McNally assumed publicist duties in 1984 and worked for the organization until 2008. His most recent book, On Highway 61, was awarded an ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson award. He lives in San Francisco.
Joanne McNeil’s was the inaugural winner of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Award for an emerging writer. She has been a resident at Eyebeam, a Logan Nonfiction Program fellow, and an instructor at the School for Poetic Computation. Her first book Lurking: How a Person Became a User was published in 2020 and her debut novel Wrong Way as well as her next nonfiction book Too Early for the Future are both forthcoming from MCD/FSG.
Author of the award-winning book Taming Manhattan, McNeur is associate professor of environmental history and social history, Portland State University. She is finishing a book titled Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early American Science for Basic.
Eric J. McNulty is Director of Research at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative and an Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
J. David McSwane is an investigative reporter for ProPublica, based in Washington, D.C. His investigations and narrative stories have won numerous awards, including Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and a Peabody.
Tom McTague was born in Birmingham in 1984 and is the Political Editor of UnHerd. Prior to that, he was a Staff Writer at the Atlantic, Chief UK Correspondent at POLITICO, and Political Editor of the Independent on Sunday. He has been twice shortlisted at the British press awards, including, in 2019, for 'Political Commentator of the Year. In 2019 he was named ‘Journalist of the Year’ at the Drum Awards; the previous year, the National Council for the Training of Journalists included him on their list of the most respected journalists in the UK.
Nice is Not a Biscuit
In 1977 Peter Mead CBE co-founded Abbott Mead Vickers with David Abbott and Adrian Vickers and the company went on to be the most successful British advertising agency ever. Among his many board appointments, he has served as the Vice Chairman of the NSPCC Full Stop Appeal and Chairman of Millwall Football Club. He is currently Chairman of Omnicom Europe and Vice Chairman of Omnicom Group Inc. In 2013 he received a CBE for services to the creative industries.
Dawnbreaker
Bye Forever
When She Reigns
As She Ascends
Before She Ignites
Nightrender
The Black Knife (e-novella)
The Burning Hand (e-novella)
The Glowing Knight (e-novella)
The Hidden Prince (e-novella)
The Mirror King
The Orphan Queen
Phoenix Overture (e-novella)
Infinite
Asunder
My Lady Jane –TV series
My Plain Jane
My Calamity Jane
My Contrary Mary
My Imaginary Mary
My Salty Mary
Leading Lines to Nowhere
Jodi Meadows wants to be a ferret when she grows up and she has no self-control when it comes to yarn, ink, or outer space. Still, she manages to write books. She is the coauthor of New York Times bestsellers MY LADY JANE, MY PLAIN JANE, and other books in the Lady Janies series. She lives in rural Virginia. Her Substack can be found at https://jodimeadows.substack.com/
Elena Medel was born in Córdoba in 1985 and lives in Madrid. She is the author of three poetry collections and two works of non-fiction. At 19, she founded the poetry publishing house La Bella Varsovia, one of the most prestigious in the Spanish-speaking world. She is the recipient of the XXVI Loewe Prize for Young Poets, the Princess of Girona Foundation Arts and Literature Award 2016 for the whole of her work and the Francisco Umbral Prize for the Best Book Of The Year 2020 for her debut novel The Wonders, a bestseller in Spain that is also published in fifteen languages worldwide.
Dr. Sara C. Mednick is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Irvine,where she directs the Sleep and Cognition (SaC) lab. Her book Take a Nap! Change Your Life (Workman 2006) put forth the scientific basis for napping to improve productivity, cognition, mood, and health.
Jillian Medoff is the author of four novels, including This Could Hurt (HarperCollins, 2018), the national bestseller I Couldn’t Love You More (Grand Central), Good Girls Gone Bad (HarperCollins) and Hunger Point (HarperCollins). Hunger Point, her first novel, became the basis for an original Lifetime movie. In addition to writing fiction, Jillian has had a long career in management consulting and is currently a Senior Consultant at the Segal Group, where she advises clients on all aspects of the employee experience.
Carson Mell is an illustrator, an animator, a songwriter, a voice actor, and a writer and producer known for Silicon Valley (HBO), Eastbound and Down (HBO) and, of course, Tarantula (TBS). Oh, he also writes novels and novellas and short stories.
AGNI founder Askold Melnyczuk is the author of New York Times Notable Book What Is Told (Faber & Faber), Ambassador of the Dead (Counterpoint) and American Library Association Editor’s Choice The House of Widows (Graywolf). He has received a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Award in Fiction, the McGinnis Award in Fiction, and several grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Marisa Meltzer is a writer based in Brooklyn. She is a columnist for The New York Times Styles section, a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, New York Magazine, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and many other national publications. She is the author of Girl Power: Feminism, Music, and Marketing in the Nineties and How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time.
A Terrible Swift Sword
Zora Neale Hurston Significations Volume
Untitled Collection
Louis Menand is an award-winning essayist, critic, author, professor, and historian, best known for his Pulitzer-winning book The Metaphysical Club, an intellectual and cultural history of late 19th and early 20th century America. His other notable works include the National Book Award-nominated The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, American Studies, Discovering Modernism, and The Marketplace of Ideas. In 2016, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.
The Territory: Corruption, Reform, and America at the End of a Gilded Age
Joshua Mendelsohn is a veteran attorney, historian, law school professor, and author. His first book, The Cap: How Larry Fleisher and David Stern Built the Modern NBA (University of Nebraska Press, 2020), was praised as “a legal thriller” by the Wall Street Journal.
Anand Menon is Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College, London. Before coming to King’s, he was Professor of West European Politics, and founding Director of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham. Prior to that he was University Lecturer in European Politics and Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. He has held visiting positions at New York University, Columbia University and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, amongst others. He is an associate fellow of Chatham House and Senior Associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is co-editor of the journal West European Politics.
Maggie Mertens is a journalist with bylines in places like The Atlantic, espnW, NPR, Deadspin, VICE, Teen Vogue, Howler, The Guardian, Glamour, The Cut, Refinery29, and Fast Company, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from The New School, and was nominated for the 2021 Dan Jenkins Medal for Excellence in Sportswriting.
Aaron Meshon is an illustrator and award-winning children’s book writer, map maker, muralist and cartoonist. Aaron has had the honor of having his work published in print and licensed for products around the world. When not working on his next book or illustration assignments, Aaron enjoys teaching at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. Aaron and his wife and child and French Bulldog currently live in Great Barrington, MA. Aaron’s love of traveling to their second home in Japan continues to influence his work, and hopefully will lead to his dream of operating a repurposed sweet potato truck in rural Japan to sell products and T-Shirts.
A Place Both Wonderful and Strange: The Extraordinary Untold History of Twin Peaks
Scott Meslow is a Los Angeles Press Club-nominated film and television critic. He is a senior editor at The Week magazine, and writes for publications including GQ, New York, and The Atlantic.
Daniel Metcalfe graduated from Oxford University with a degree in Classics in 2002. Having lived and worked in Iran, and in countries across Central Asia, he now lives in Spain. Out of Steppe: The Lost Peoples of Central Asia was his first book and was published by Random House in 2009. It was shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award. His travels in Portuguese-speaking Africa and across the African continent gave rise to the highly acclaimed Blue Dahlia, Black Gold: A Journey into Angola (Random House, 2014). Daniel has written for the Economist, the Guardian, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy and the Literary Review.
Jonathan Van Meter is a contributing editor at Vogue magazine; contributing editor at New York magazine; creator and founding editor-in-chief of Vibe magazine, owned in partnership by Quincy Jones and Time Warner, from 1992-1994; executive producer of Let’s Get Frank (2003), a documentary about former U.S. Representative Barney Frank; and author of the acclaimed book The Last Good Time (Crown Publishing Group).
I’d Like Your Attention, Please!
Darcy Michael is a comedian and actor based in Canada. With over 5 million social media followers, he is best known for his stand-up comedy and viral videos.
Christopher Wong Michaelson is the Opus Distinguished Professor of Principled Leadership at the University of St. Thomas and also teaches in the Business and Society Program at NYU. As a management consultant, he has advised some of the world’s most well-known companies and government institutions on purpose and performance, and as a philosopher, he teaches students navigating the tension between meaning and money.
God’s Shadow: The Ottomans and the World (Liveright)
My Egypt Archive (Yale)
Alan Mikhail is professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale; he’s a specialist on the history of the Middle East and global history.
Joe Milan Jr. writes fiction and creative nonfiction, and wonderful places like The Rumpus, Broad Street, The Kyoto Journal, and others have published his work. He was the 2019-20 David T.K. Wong Creative Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia, England, and a Barrick Graduate and Black Mountain Institute Ph.D. fellow at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Director of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College, Dr. Miller is a leader in the field of spiritual psychology, which uses spirituality in psychotherapy. She is the author of the New York Times, USA TODAY, and Publishers Weekly bestseller The Spiritual Child: The New Science on Parenting for Health and Lifelong Thriving (St. Martin’s Press).
Paddy Miller is Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School (Barcelona) and the co-author of Innovation As Usual (Harvard Business Review Press).
Rhett Miller is a critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter known for fronting the popular alternative country band Old 97’s and as a solo artist who has released six albums. Miller has authored short stories, essays and articles that have appeared in a range of publications including Rolling Stone, Bookforum, Sports Illustrated, McSweeny’s, The Atlantic, and Salon. His first book, No More Poems!, was published by Little Brown Books for Young Readers.
Robert Tate Miller is a successful screenwriter for NBC, ABC Family, and the Hallmark Channel and author of numerous books, most recently Forever Christmas (Thomas Nelson).
Chris Miller is Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He also serves as Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a think tank in Philadelphia, and as a Director at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consultancy. His book Chip War was a global bestseller and has been translated into more than twenty languages. It also won the FT Business Book of the Year Award in 2022. He lives in Cambridge, MA.
Nathaniel Miller received his B.A. from Amherst College and his M.F.A. in Creative Writing and M.S. in Environmental Studies at the University of Montana. He has received Associated Press awards in Colorado and New Mexico, and his writing has appeared in such periodicals as the Santa Fe Reporter, the Durango Herald, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, the Missoula Independent and the Virginia Quarterly Review.
Michelle Miller is an Emmy, Gracie, Du Pont, and Murrow award-winning journalist who co-hosts CBS This Morning: Saturday. She first joined CBS News in 2004, and her work is also regularly featured on CBS This Morning, CBS Sunday Morning, and the CBS Evening News.
INTO THE FALL
Tamara L. Miller holds a Ph.D. in Canadian history and has worked in government policy. She is the President of Ottawa Independent Writers and lives with her family in Ottawa, Canada, but frequently escapes the city to explore the wilder places.
Sergeant Travis Mills is a Bronze Star winner and a wounded warrior who lost portions of both arms and legs to an IED while on active duty in Afghanistan. Travis is now a motivational speaker and head of the Travis Mills Foundation. He is also the author of Tough as They Come (Crown).
Co-president and chief creative officer of the Entertainment Group of Guggenheim Media, Min is in charge of Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter. She was formerly the Editor-in-Chief of US Weekly and a writer for People and In Style.
Born and raised in Aurora, Illinois, Wendell Minor has created over sixty award-winning children’s books. He is also the cover artist and designer for books by David McCullough and Pat Conroy. Among the many authors he has collaborated with are Jean Craighead George, Charlotte Zolotow, Robert Burleigh, Mary Higgins Clark, astronaut Buzz Aldrin, and his wife Florence Minor.
Wendell has twice spoken and signed his books at the National Book Festival in Washington, DC. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the country in various venues including the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut, Art Institute of Chicago, New Britain Museum of American Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport, Boston Public Library, and Chautauqua Institution’s Center for the Visual Arts. He has received Honorary Doctorates of Humane Letters from the University of Connecticut and Aurora University in Illinois. Wendell lives and works with his wife Florence, and their cat Cinder, in Washington, Connecticut.
Jenny Minton is a writer, editor, and literary event curator. Prior to writing full time, Minton was a book editor at several Random House imprints: Delacorte/Dell Publishing, Knopf, Broadway Books, and Vintage/Anchor Books. She is the author of a memoir, The Early Birds (Knopf, 2007), and the daughter of Walter Minton, the storied former President and Publisher of G.P. Putnam’s Sons, who first dared to publish Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov in the U.S. in 1958. Minton lives in West Hartford, CT.
Munira Mirza is Chief Executive of Civic Future, and was previously Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 2019 until her resignation in 2022. She has also served as Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture of London, Development Director for the think-tank Policy Exchange and judge of the Samuel Johnson Prize.
Malcolm Mitchell is a star rookie for Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots and founder of "Malcolm Reads"—a charitable organization focuses on building readers in disadvantaged homes.
Prose To The People
Katie Mitchell is a bookstore owner and podcast host based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Catching Kindness
Kara Mitchell is a debut children’s author/illustrator based in Oklahoma.
Fashion designer and culture icon, Mizrahi is the recipient of multiple CFDA awards and has designed clothes for film, theater, dance, and opera. He was the subject of the documentary film Unzipped, and currently stars as a judge on Project Runway: All-Stars. Beyond the fashion world, he performed in an off-Broadway cabaret show called Les MiZrahi and directed a recent production of "Peter and the Wolf" at the Guggenheim Museum. He is a regular host on E! and QVC, for which he launched a lifestyle collection in 2012.
The East Wing
Azadeh Moaveni is a journalist, writer and associate professor at New YorkUniversity, where she directs the Global Journalism Program. She is the author of Lipstick Jihad and Honeymoon in Tehran, and co-author, with Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, of Iran Awakening. Her latest book, Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Rathbones Folio prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. Guest House for Young Widows emerged out of a front-page story for the Times that was a finalistfor a group Pulitzer. She writes for the London Review of Books and the New York Times, among other publications.
John Moe is the creator and host of the award-winning podcast The Hilarious World of Depression on American Public Media. Moe has enjoyed a long career in public radio serving as host of national public radio broadcast such as Weekend America,Marketplace Tech Report and from 2010- 2015, Wits. His reporting and commentary has been heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition., Marketplace, Day to Day, and numerous other public radio programs. His writing has appeared in many humor anthologies as well as in The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Seattle Times, MSN and many other publications. He’s the author of three books and a much in-demand public speaker.
Flash Facts
Sounds Like Joy
Bronx native, Afro-Latina, and illustrator on Monique Fields’ debut picture book Honeysmoke: A Story About Finding Your Color, Yesenia is a freelance toy designer and illustrator. Her work has been featured on various media outlets such as SyFy and NBC News. Her author-illustrator debut, Stella’s Stellar Hair, is set to release in January 2021.
Tony’s War: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Greece
Molho, who is Global Emeritus Distinguished Professor, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, NYU, grew up in a Jewish family in Thessaloniki during World War II. As the Germans tightened their grip on Northern Greece and the city’s large Jewish population, his parents through luck, spunk, and the kindness of strangers spirited young Tony to a monastery in Athens. His travels saved his life and left searing questions of identity behind. He’s writing a memoir called Tony’s War: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Greece.
With over 5 million fans spread across her social media platforms, New York Times best-selling author Joanne Molinaro, a.k.a The Korean Vegan, has appeared on The Food Network, CBS Saturday Morning, ABC's Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Today Show, PBS, and The Rich Roll Podcast. She's been featured in the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, and CNN; and her debut cookbook was selected as one of “The Best Cookbooks of 2021” by The New York Times and The New Yorker among others.
Molinaro is a Korean American woman, born in Chicago, Illinois. Her parents were both born in what is now known as North Korea. Molinaro started her blog, The Korean Vegan, in 2016, after adopting a plant-based diet. In July 2020, she started her TikTok (@thekoreanvegan), mostly as a coping mechanism for the isolation caused by the global pandemic. She began posting content related to politics and life as a lawyer during quarantine. However, after a single post of her making Korean braised potatoes for dinner (while her husband taught a piano lesson in the background) went viral, Molinaro shifted her attention to producing 60 second recipe videos, while telling stories about her family—immigrants from what is now known as North Korea.
Untitled Novel
Serena Molloy is a secondary school teacher living in Galway, West Ireland. She takes inspiration for her writing from her colourful classroom experience and her own children, who educate her daily. Serena particularly enjoys writing for young adults.
Earl “The Pearl” Monroe is a National Basketball Association legend whose unorthodox, “playground” style of play and high-flying feats on the court have had an enduring impact on the sport. Monroe was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990 and named to the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players list in 1996. He is also the author, with Quincy Troupe, of Earl the Pearl: My Story (Rodale).
BEGINNINGS: How the Evolution of Pregnancy Made Us Human
UC Regent’s Fellow and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Western Washington University, Tesla A. Monson, PhD, is an internationally recognized, award-winning scholar whose research and teaching focus on the evolution of reproduction and the growth of the skeletal system in living and fossil primates. She teaches courses on biological anthropology, human evolution, and the human skeleton at Western Washington University and her writing on these topics has been viewed and shared by millions of people worldwide. She earned a BA from Princeton University, a MA from San Francisco State University, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.
A former writer and producer at NBC News and The Today Show, Montalbano is the author of the middle-grade novel Breakaway. She is a longtime soccer player and coach, and her writing has been featured on the New York Times’s Motherlode blog and elsewhere
Monkey Business
Heather L. Montgomery writes for kids who are wild about animals. The weirder, the wackier, the better. An award-winning science educator, Heather uses yuck appeal to engage young minds. During presentations, petrified animal parts and tree guts inspire reluctant readers and motivate reticent writers.
Heather has a BS in biology and an MS in environmental education, she lives on the border of Alabama and Tennessee, and she has published seventeen nonfiction books.
Roadkill changed her life.
Zewlan Moor is an author, doctor, and bibliotherapist who writes playful books for today’s savvy kids. Now living on the land of the Yugambeh people at the Gold Coast, Australia, with her husband and two children, Zewlan loves to read, practice medicine and combine the two through her private practice, Byron Bibliotherapy. Her books are sometimes multi-layered, with a quirky sense of humor and light touch that belies their serious intent. Other times they're just fun. In her reading and writing, Zewlan is preoccupied with themes of identity, language, power and social justice. Which sounds very dry but isn't. Especially when wrapped in a picture book/cozy mystery/dark academia/romcom package.
Internationally renowned action sports star Colten Moore’s memoir Catching the Sky (37 Ink), written with acclaimed journalist Keith O’Brien, is the true story of two brothers from a remote corner of Texas who grew up to become world-class athletes and ATV and snowmobile pioneers. In the wake of his brother Caleb’s tragic death, Colten persevered and won a gold medal in his brother’s honor at the 2014 Winter X Games. Colten repeated this accomplishment at the 2015 Winter X Games in Aspen.
Intimacies
Thomas Moore is the author of the phenomenal bestseller Care of the Soul (HarperCollins), as well as twenty-five other books on deepening spirituality and cultivating soul in every aspect of life. His most recent book re-imagines aging—Ageless Soul (St. Martin’s Press).
Oscar-winning actress, Moore won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild award for her portrayal of Sarah Palin in the HBO film Game Change. Her Freckleface Strawberry books are the basis for an Off Broadway show that opened in 2010. Her book Freckleface Strawberry and the Dodgeball Bully was a New York Times Bestseller.
Tracy Moore is a Jezebel writer living in Los Angeles, and the author of the humorous guide to unexpected pregnancy, Oops! How to Rock the Mother of All Surprises (Adams Media).
There and Back Again
Sam Moore is a culture writer in the UK who has written about film, music, and TV for the likes of the BBC, The Guardian, Financial Times, The Independent, GQ, NME, Radio Times, and Evening Standard. He has written oral histories of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring," "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," "Luther," "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels," and "Crooklyn," and has interviewed a wide variety of stars including Michelle Yeoh, Ron Perlman, Stephen Graham, Steve McQueen, Stevie Van Zandt, Charlie Hunnam, and Julianne Moore – plus many, many more.
Allison Moorer is a singer-songwriter, producer and author has released ten critically acclaimed albums. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the New School and lives in Nashville. You can learn more about her on her website: www.AllisonMoorer.com.
Maria Ingrande Mora is the Content Director at Big Sea, a web design and digital marketing firm based in St. Petersburg, Florida, and was previously the Parenting Editor at the digital media company SheKnows, where she contributed over 300 articles on topics covering feminism and health. As a queer woman and the parent of a neurodiverse child, she’s passionate about representation and inclusivity in kidlit. Maria is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.
Broken: A Story of Family, Snake Pits, and the Politics of Our Nation’s Mental Healthcare Mess
Daniel Morain is a regular contributor to the Washington Post’s opinion page. The former editorial page director of the Sacramento Bee and a former reporter with the Los Angeles Times, he has covered California politics and policy since 1991.
My first words came in Spanish. My first books were fairy tales. Born in Puerto Rico, I learned to love the mountains, the birds, coffee and pasteles and the greatest treasure: its people. My writing is full of nature and journeys. I’ve yet to write about pasteles.
Still in elementary school, I moved to New York where I learned English, the difficult task of being an immigrant, the greatness of family and friends. I studied in the University of Puerto Rico; first to become a teacher; years later to obtain a Master’s in Guidance and Counseling. I’m a writer and poet. I love the mountains and the sea, the country and the city, Spanish and English, New York and Puerto Rico, the picture book and the novel. I’m working to share beautiful worlds in w
ONE HUNDRED QUESTIONS
Heidi Moreno is a Mexican American author, illustrator, designer, and community cat advocate living in Los Angeles, California. Her work has been featured in galleries across the United States, and she frequently participates in group shows at Gallery Nucleus in Portland, Oregon. She has collaborated with Facebook, Papyrus, the OC Fair, and several cat rescues such as Kitten Rescue LA.
Heidi is constantly chasing the feeling that Halloween brought her as a child, when she ran through streets with only the warm, dim streetlamps guiding her way to the next orange-lit home with a jack-o-lantern calling. Her textures and use of watercolors, gouache, and colored pencils are inspired by her favorite childhood tools. She loves to create eccentric characters, and to imagine what their quirks and days might be like. Her debut illustrated book, Working from Home with a Cat (Chronicle Books), started out as a zine she printed at home. Luna Oscura (Lil’ Libros) is her first bilingual children’s book. On most days you can find her hanging out with her husband Danny and their neighborhood's community cats.
The Light Keeper
The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away: A Death That Brought the Gift of Life
Cole Moreton is a writer and broadcaster. His Radio 4 series ‘The Boy Who Gave His Heart Away’ won Audio Moment of the Year at the Arias and Best Writing at the World’s Best Radio awards in New York and was published by HarperCollins in 2017. Cole has made seven highly acclaimed documentaries or series for BBC Radio 4 and was nominated for Best Speech Presenter at the Audio Production Awards in 2018, winning bronze. He appears on ‘Pause For Thought’ with Zoe Ball on the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show. He was named Interviewer of the Year for his work in print with the Mail on Sunday and is the author of five highly acclaimed books.
Dr. Nick Morgan is one of America’s top communication theorists and coaches; he helps speakers find clarity in their thinking and ideas – and then deliver them with panache. His books include Give Your Speech, Change The World; Trust Me; and Power Cues.
Joan Morgan is an author and cultural critic who coined the phrase “hip-hop feminism”. Morgan has been a widely sought-after lecturer and commentator on hip-hop and feminism. An award-winning journalist, a provocative cultural critic, she began her professional writing career freelancing for The Village Voice and has been published by Vibe, Interview, Ms., More, Spin, and numerous others. Formerly the executive editor of Essence, she’s currently a PhD candidate in American Studies at New York University and is based in New York City. Morgan is at work on a book about Lauryn Hill’s iconic album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, forthcoming from Atria Books.
Ann Morgan is a freelance writer and editor, formerly working for the Guardian. She blogs for Huffington Post and has written for Australian, the New Internationalist, BBC Music Magazine, the South London Press and the Literary Review. Her debut project The World Between Two Covers: Reading the Globe, which chronicles Ann’s worldwide reading journey as she samples one book from as many of the world’s 196 independent countries as she can, was published by Harvill Secker in the UK and Liveright/Norton in the US.
Angie Morgan is a professional speaker and trainer, executive coach and curriculum designer who works for leading companies and organizations around the globe, including Facebook, ESPN, DTE Energy, Boston Scientific, and Best Buy. She is the bestselling co-author of Leading from the Front (McGraw-Hill) and the author, with Courtney Lynch and Sean Lynch, of Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). She is a founding partner of the leadership consulting firm Lead Star and serves as Director for the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.
Paul Morgan-Bentley is Head of Investigations at The Times in London, specialising in undercover work and in-depth reporting. He has won several awards, including ‘Scoop of the Year’ at the British Journalism Awards, ‘Investigation of the Year’ and the Cudlipp Award for campaigning journalism at the UK Press Awards, and two Future of Media Awards. His 2023 book, The Equal Parent, advocates for men properly sharing responsibility for caring for their children.
Paul lives in Buckinghamshire with his husband and their son.
Jennifer K. Morita is a former reporter for The Sacramento Bee and is now a writer for University Communications at Sacramento State. She is an active member of Mystery Writers of America and current president of her local chapter of Sisters in Crime. THE GHOST OF WAIKIKI is her first novel.
Guy Morpuss QC is a barrister who works in house at a large commercial law firm. He has argued in some of the UK's largest legal cases around copyright and sports. He lives in Surrey with his wife and children.
Mandy Morris is a highly sought-out manifesting and self-love expert and is the creator of Authentic Living, which reaches over 17 million people a month on social media and has an email list of over one million subscribers. Mandy has been featured in such media outlets as Shape, Mind Body Green, The Chalkboard, BuzzFeed, Well + Good, and Thrive Global, as well as on notable podcasts including The Jenny McCarthy Show, Your Own Magic, and Hungry for Happiness.
All Her Little Secrets
Anywhere You Run
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Wanda M. Morris is a corporate attorney for a Fortune 100 company in Atlanta, Georgia. All Her Little Secrets is her first novel.
Kevin Morris’s debut collection of stories White Man’s Problems was praised by Tom Perrotta who called it a “revelatory collection that marks the arrival of a striking new voice in American fiction.” His critically acclaimed first novel, All Joe Knight, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and heralded by USA Today as “[A] two-fisted debut novel . . . Joe is John Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom revised for the Trump era.” The co-producer of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical The Book of Mormon and the producer of the classic documentary film Hands on a Hard Body, Morris has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and Filmaker.
Jim Morris is managing editor for environment and workers' rights at the Center for Public Integrity. A journalist since 1978, Morris has won more than 80 awards for his work, including the George Polk award, the Sidney Hillman award, three National Association of Science Writers awards, two Edward R. Murrow awards and five Texas Headliners awards.
Amelia Morris is the author of the memoir Bon Appétempt and co-creator of the podcast, Mom Rage. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, McSweeney’s, The Millions, and USA Today. Her debut novel Wildcat is forthcoming from Flatiron Books.
Elizabeth Morris is the creator of Crib Notes, a monthly newsletter featuring succinct book reviews for new and busy mothers, along with thoughts on how to juggle reading with caring for young children. Before her eldest son was born in 2018, Morris worked as a book publicist, literary event manager and bookseller. Now, she looks after her two little boys full-time, and reads and writes in the margins of motherhood.
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A longtime articles editor for The New Yorker, Morrison was the Editor-in-Chief of The New York Observer and a founding editor of Spy. She is the president of the Century Association.
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Simon Morrison is a musicologist and cultural historian specializing in Russia, a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Music at Princeton University and a Visiting Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Southern California. Author of, most recently, Bolshoi Confidential (Liveright/Norton) and a biography of Lina Prokofiev (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), Simon has written for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, the TLS, and Time.
As the lead singer and lyricist for the Doors, Jim Morrison is one of the most legendary and influential figures in rock and roll history. A countercultural icon with a distinctive voice and gift for poetry and prose, he was posthumously honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, in both cases as a member of the Doors.
'The Hardest, Longest Race’: Ford, Shawmut, and the Contest That Shaped America
Eric covered transportation for the Boston Globe for many years. He is writing a book called ‘The Hardest, Longest Race’: Ford, Shawmut, and the Contest That Shaped America for St. Martins.
Just Your Local Bisexual Disaster (Feiwel & Friends, 2022)
Revenge of the Final Girls
Andrea Mosqueda is a Chicana writer, born and raised in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley.
Adam Moss spent 15 years at New York magazine and New York Media as editor-in-chief. During his tenure, New York won 41 National Magazine Awards, including Magazine of the Year. Prior to New York, Moss was the editor of The New York Times Magazine from 1998 to 2004, and later oversaw the Magazine, Book Review and Culture and Style sections. He was elected to the Magazine Editors’ Hall of Fame in 2019.
Makedde Vanderwall series
Tara Moss is an internationally bestselling author, human rights activist, documentary and podcast host, and model. Her crime novels have been published in nineteen countries and thirteen languages, and her memoir, The Fictional Woman, was a #1 international bestseller. Her most recent novel The Ghosts of Paris follows the The War Widow, an international bestseller and the first book in the Billie Walker series. Tara is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and has received the Edna Ryan Award for significant contributions to feminist debate and for speaking out on behalf of women and children. In 2017, Tara Moss was recognized as one of the Global Top 50 Diversity Figures in Public Life. Moss lives in Victoria with her family.
Kate Mossman is a journalist and author whose career in music journalism began when she travelled to America for one night to see Glen Campbell and Jimmy Webb in concert and realised there might be paid work to be had in following musical obsessions. She joined the staff of Word Magazine in 2008 and her writing appears regularly in The Guardian, Observer and The Times. She is a former judge for the Mercury Music Prize.
In 2012 she became arts editor of the New Statesman, having worked for some years as their pop critic, and became known for her long-read rock profiles of acts like Kiss, Ray Davies and Jon Bon Jovi. She progressed through features editor and is now their main profile writer, working across the arts and politics.
Her broadcast career includes regular appearances on Radios 4 and 2, and in countless music documentaries for Sky Arts and the BBC. In 2015 she presented ‘When Pop Ruled My Life’, an hour-long BBC Four doc on the power of fandom. Her exploration of the experience of women rock stars, ‘Girl in a Band’, followed in 2016.
Kate Mossman’s first book will be published by Bonnier’s Nine Eight imprint in 2024.
Doug Most, Deputy Assistant Managing Editor of The Boston Globe, is the author of The Race Underground (St. Martin’s), a book about the dramatic competition between New York and Boston to build the first American subway, named a Best Book of 2014 by Amazon and Kirkus Reviews. It has been optioned by PBS’s prestigious American Experience.
PAST MISTAKES: How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters
David Mountain is a freelance writer who can’t resist pointing out the flaws and contradictions in how we think we understand the world. His first book, Past Mistakes, takes a fresh look at the study of the past. He currently lives in Edinburgh.
Tarek El Moussa is the co-star of the hit HGTV show Flip or Flop, currently in its eighth season, with 22 million viewers and ranked the 1 cable show in its time slot, with Season Nine on the way. He also stars in his own solo series on HGTV, Flipping 101 with Tarek El Moussa, and he hosts a digital series, Tarek’s Flip Side. In addition to successfully flipping more than 500 properties over the years, Tarek is a successful entrepreneur, real estate expert, and investor, with a portfolio of over 100 properties, a wholesale real estate company, and a production company. A two-time cancer survivor, today cancer-free, Tarek now donates his time and energy to a number of cancer-focused charities, bringing awareness and aid to those in need. Tarek’s number-one priority is being a hands-on dad and spending time with his wife, Heather Rae, his daughter, Taylor, and his son, Brayden.
Maura Moynihan, the author of Yoga Hotel, and her mother, Elizabeth, oversee the estate of her father, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait In Letters was chosen by the New York Times as one of the top 20 nonfiction books of 2010 and was a Washington Post bestseller.
Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu was born and raised in Nairobi and moved to the United States to attend college in 1998. She has an MA in Journalism from Columbia University and has worked as a journalist in New York City, Washington D.C. and Boston. She later received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town, graduating with distinction. Her fictional work has been published in Yale Review and Adda, and she has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She currently lives in Cape Town, South Africa. Lucky Girl is her debut novel.
Luma Mufleh, immigrant, Muslim, gay, entrepreneur, mother, introvert, leader, and speaker, is best known as "Coach" by the students and families for whom she founded the first network of middle and high schools for refugee kids in the United States. She writes from her own experiences of both struggle and privilege, with a combination of humor, humility, and inspiration.
Hack Your Home: Cleaning Tips, Tricks and Inspiration to Create a Space You Love
Tanya Mukendi is the UK’s leading cleaning and home organisation influencer, with millions of followers across her social media platforms (Instagram, TikTok and Facebook).
Whether it’s saving you money on cleaning products, showing you how to create more space in a house that feels smaller and smaller as your family grows, helping you organise your home office or indeed packing a suitcase for that long-awaited holiday, Tanya has got you covered. Her first book will be published in autumn 2024.
When Science Meets Power
Geoff Mulgan is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College, London (UCL). Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation, between 2011 and the end of 2019. From 1997 to 2004 he held several roles in the UK government, including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. From 2004 to 2011 he was the first Chief Executive of The Young Foundation. He was the founding director of the think-tank Demos, and has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio.
Liza Mundy, former Washington Post reporter and a Bernard Schwartz Fellow and Director of the Work and Family Program at the New American Foundation, is the author of the award-winning Everything Conceivable: How the Science of Assisted Reproduction is Changing Our World (Knopf), the internationally bestselling biography of Michelle Obama, Michelle (Simon & Schuster), The Richer Sex (Simon & Schuster), and Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II (Hachette Books).