Sheila Roberts is a USA Today bestselling author, who has written more than 50 fiction and non-fiction books under different names and has more than 20 women’s fiction novels to her credit. Before launching her writing career in 1989, Sheila owned a singing telegram company and played in a band. Although her band days are over, she still enjoys writing songs. Her novel, On Strike for Christmas was a Lifetime Network movie, and her novel The Nine Lives of Christmas was made into a movie for the Hallmark Channel. When she’s not speaking to women’s groups or at conferences, she can be found writing about family, friends, and chocolate. She and her husband live in the Seattle area and in sunny California.

Victoria Connelly is the bestselling author of the Austen Addicts series about fans of Jane Austin. Her books have been translated into many languages including three magical romances published in Germany. The first, Flights of Angels, was made into a film. Victoria and her husband flew out to Berlin to see it being filmed and got to be extras in the movie. She is also the author of several romantic comedies including The Runaway Actress which was nominated for the Romantic Novelist’s Association’s Best Romantic Comedy of the Year. After eleven years in London, she moved to rural Suffolk where she lives in a Georgian cottage with her artist husband, a Springer spaniel and her ex-battery hens.

William Kenower is the author of Fearless Writing: How to Create Boldly and Write With Confidence, and Write Within Yourself: An Author’s Companion, and the Editor-in-Chief of Author Magazine. In addition to his books, he’s been published in The New York Times, Writer’s Digest, Edible Seattle, Parent Map, and has been a featured blogger for the Huffington Post. He also hosts the popular podcast Author2Author. His new book, Everyone Has What It Takes: A Writer’s Guide to the End of Self-Doubt, will be published by Penguin in May 2021.

Born in the US and raised in a rural Italian village, T. Siena’s perspective could best be described as a refined mixture of Old World and New. As the oldest child of an arms dealer and a religious zealot, she grew up in an extremely polarized home and uses her difficult upbringing to tackle subject matter that is personally meaningful. A multi-awarded screenwriter, Siena is one of the International Screenwriters Association Top 25 screenwriters to watch in 2020 and concentrates mostly on writing TV pilots as well as novels.

Wendy is a mystery writer finishing her first Cozy Mystery series Kat Out of the Bag. Her love of writing and reading shows in her "Recommended Reads" column, syndicated through the Seattle Times. She is also a Chanticleer Organization Book Reviewer, a freelance blogger, editor, and speaker. Catch her exciting mystery author interviews about books and the writing craft on her Podcast - Kendall & Cooper Talk Mysteries on YouTube, iTunes, and KBFG radio 107.3 FM.

Terry Persun is a former airborne navigation equipment specialist and electronics engineer presently freelancing for science and technology magazines. He has won several science fiction awards, the latest being the Book Excellence Award for his novel BIOMASS: Rewind. Terry is a multi-genre writer of intelligent, tech-forward fiction with clearly drawn characters and thought-provoking themes.

Young Author's Day Speaker, Wendy Wahman, is a former Seattle P-I newspaper artist, who now writes and illustrates children’s books. Her debut picture book, Don’t Lick the Dog, was selected as a 2010 Bank Street Best Children’s Book of the Year, starred for Outstanding Merit and accepted to the Society of Illustrators Original Art show. Other books are A Cat Like That, Rabbit Stew, Pony in the City, and Nanny Paws, and coming Fall 2021, Old Pearl. Wendy’s editorial illustrations have appeared in major publications including Harper’s Magazine, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, and The LA Times.