Rosanna Fay Malcolm worked for over 25 years in high tech marketing, co-founding a successful mobile and entertainment marketing firm and serving as COO. After more than a decade of balancing this role with the care of her elderly parents, she shifted gears to become an aging in place specialist, helping families create and implement

Ron MacLean is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. His latest book is Headlong (October 2013, Last Light Studio), and his short stories have appeared in Narrative and Fiction International. He lives in Boston, where he teaches at Grub Street — the nation’s leading independent writing center. His work with BookSavvy led to articles

Peggy Payne is the critically acclaimed author of the novels Cobalt Blue (Roundfire Books, 2013), Sister India (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year) and Revelation — all of which bring to light the intersection of sex and spirituality. Her articles and essays have appeared in The Washington Post, Family Circle, Cosmo, and

By day, Michelle Toth is senior vice president and head of human capital at D.E. Shaw & Co. During the rest of the week she is a literary entrepreneur. Author of the novel Annie Begins (SixOneSeven Books, 2011), Michelle is also founder and co-publisher of the micropress SixOneSeven Books and sits on the board of

Martha Randolph Carr is the author of 6 books including those in the Wallis Jones political thriller series: The List (2013), The Keeper (2014) and The Circle (2015). A professional copywriter and editor, she has written a weekly, nationally-syndicated column on politics and life that has run on such political hotspots as The Moderate Voice.com

Lisa Borders is the award-winning author of The Fifty-First State (Engine Books, 2013) and Cloud Cuckoo Land (River City Publishing, 2002) chosen by Pat Conroy as the winner of River City Publishing’s Fred Bonnie Award. Cloud Cuckoo Land also received fiction honors in the 2003 Massachusetts Book Awards, and was a finalist for the ForeWord