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NonFiction Self Help, How-To

Sam Horn is the author of POP! Stand Out in Any Crowd, Tongue Fu!, What’s Holding You Back?, Conzentrate!, and Take The Bully By The Horns, which have been favorably reviewed in Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and Investors Business Daily.  The 2003-04 Outstanding Capital Speaker, she has been featured on Dr. Laura, NPR, and Jay Leno’s Tonight Show, and presented to Hewlett-Packard, the U.S. Navy, Fortune 500 Forum, and NASA.  Through her Stop Wishing, Start Writing retreats and consulting, she has helped hundreds of people get their books out of their head and into the world where they’ve made a positive difference for others and a profitable living for the authors. See Sam Horn's books »

NonFiction Body/Mind/Spirit \Anne LeClaire is the bestselling author of eight novels including the Entering Normal and, most recently, The Lavender Hour,  and has been published in twenty-four countries. She  has taught creative writing in numerous workshops in the United States as well as in Ireland, France, Jamaica, and to women in prison. Silence, her first work of non-fiction to be published in 2008 by HarperCollins, is a memoir based on fifteen years of practicing silence.  She is a distinguished Fellow of The Ragdale Foudation and is a member of the Fellows Council of The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives on Cape Cod with her husband, sixteen chickens and a black cat. See Anne LeClaire's books »

Narrative NonFiction

H. W. Brands, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his N.Y. Times bestseller Benjamin Franklin, The First American, has written twenty books, coauthored or edited five others, and published dozens of articles and scores of reviews.  His other bestselling books include Andrew Jackson, Lone Star Nation, The Age of Gold, The Strange Death of American Liberalism, The First American, TR, What America Owes the World, The Reckless Decade, and The Devil We Knew.  His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the International Herald Tribune, the Atlantic Monthly, the Smithsonian, the Journal of American History, the Political Science Quarterly, American History, and many other newspapers, magazines and journals.