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Tonya Cherie Hegamin

Tonya Hegamin was born in Westchester, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Rochester, New York. After college, she was heavily involved in social justice work, and she also owned two small businesses for vintage clothes and vegan food. In 2003, she received her MFA in Writing for Children from the New School University. She put together a Multicultural Children's Literature conference, where she was introduced through friends to Andrea Davis Pinkney, who bought her first work.

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Rebecca Czochner

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Eliot Schrefer

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Evening Stars: A Blackberry Island Novel by Susan Mallery

Small-town nurse Nina Wentworth has made a career out of being a caretaker. More “Mom” than their mother ever was, she sacrificed medical school --- and her first love --- so her sister could break free. Which is why she isn’t exactly thrilled to see Averil back on Blackberry Island, especially when Nina’s life has suddenly become…complicated.

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Brianna Robinson

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Frederick Lloyd

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Secret Storms: A Mother and Daughter, Lost then Found
by Julie Mannix von Zerneck and Kathy Hatfield - Autobiography, Nonfiction

A pregnant, upper class nineteen-year-old Philadelphia Main Line debutante is confined, against her will, to a state mental hospital. On April 19, 1964, she gives birth to a child, whom she is forced to give up for adoption. This is the story of a mother and daughter. Of what it is to give up a child and what it is to be given up. Of what it is to belong, what it is to be a family and what it is to yearn deeply, and to never lose hope—because anything is possible.

Seth Fishman

Seth Fishman is a native of Midland, Texas (think Friday Night Lights), and a graduate of Princeton University and the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. He spends his days as a literary agent at The Gernert Company and his nights writing. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey. THE WELL'S END is his first novel.

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Rebecca Behrens

Growing up in Wisconsin, Rebecca Behrens dreamed of becoming the following: a marine zoologist, an Olympic swimmer or an author. One out of three isn't bad! Today she lives in New York City, where she works as a textbook editor. Some of her favorite things are: Central Park, bright shoes, running and doughnuts. Visit her at www.rebeccabehrens.com.

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February 2014

It’s been a long cold winter…and here in the New York area, more snow and ice is predicted for Thursday. Last Thursday night, after driving home from our office in the city, I noticed that the light was on to indicate that my car needed gas. On Monday morning, I turned on the car and the light was blinking again. Until that moment, I had not realized that I had not left the house for three days! I have been fighting a cold/cough and decided a quiet weekend was in order. I spent those 72 hours reading, knitting and watching Olympics coverage. There are so many commercials on the latter that one very easily can read whole chapters in between events. It was so relaxing.

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