Jodé Millman iis the author of the award-winning thriller novel, The Midnight Call. She has been an attorney for more than 40 years with practical experience in Intellectual Property Law. She is a contributing editor of The Kaminstein Legislative History Project: A Compendium and Analytical Index of Materials Leading to the Copyright Act of 1976, holds a MA in English Literature specializing in Law and Literature, the author of the best-selling Broadway guidebook “Seats: New York,” a producer/host of a popular podcast, and a book reviewer for Booktrib.com. Jodé's newest thriller in the Queen City Crime Series, THE EMPTY KAYAK was published in May 2023.

Laura Mazer is a literary agent at Wendy Sherman Associates and longtime publishing advocate, drawing from her background as an accomplished acquisitions and developmental editor with 20 years of experience crafting bestselling, diverse, prize-winning, and culturally relevant nonfiction books for Big Five and indie publishers. Before joining Wendy Sherman Associates, Laura was executive editor of Seal Press, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group, where she edited bold voices in adult nonfiction. Her New York Times bestselling books include So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo and From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars by Virginia Grohl.

Allison Gilbert is an Emmy award-winning journalist and co-author of Listen, World!, the first biography of American writer Elsie Robinson, a newspaper columnist who came from nothing and became the most-read woman in the country and highest-paid woman writer in the William Randolph Hearst media empire. The New York Times raves “One does not tire of spending time with Elsie Robinson” and the Wall Street Journal proclaims the book “an important contribution to women’s history.” She has published four other books and writes regularly for the New York Times and other publications.

Ellyn Gaydos is the author of Pig Years (2022), her memoir of a farmer’s life in Upstate New York and Vermont. She shares her precarious world, conjuring with simplicity the lifeblood of the farm: its livestock and stark full moons, the sharp cold days lives near to the land where joy and tragedy are frequent bedfellows. Her debut book was praised by Anthony Doerr, best-selling author of All the Light We Cannot See, as a “startling testimony to the glories and sorrows of raising and harvesting plants and animals.” Gaydos received an M.F.A. in nonfiction from Columbia University and lives in New Lebanon, New York.