Rinnah Shaw is an illustrator and storyteller, as well as the Operations and Resource Coordinator at the Chicago Poetry Center. As a Columbus, Ohio native and a Chicago transplant, she has a deep love for the Midwest and for being involved with her local community through the arts, youth programs, and transformative justice. Rinnah strongly believes that telling our stories through art can be... learn more
Dr. Rebecca Siegel is a board certified Adult, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. She recently joined the Amen Clinics after more than 13 years in group and private practice settings. Dr. Siegel graduated from Albert Einstein Medical School where her father also attended and specialized in Neurology. She completed her Psychiatry residency and Child & Adolescent fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York... learn more
Tom Sileo is an author, award-winning journalist and contributing senior editor at The Stream who spent more than eight years working in local and national newsrooms.
Tom became a WordServe Literary client in 2020 while writing BE BOLD: How a Marine Corps Hero Broke Barriers for Women at War. Tom's first solo effort, which tells the inspiring true story of fallen U.S. Marine Maj. Megan McClung,... learn more
John W. Spencer currently serves as the chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, codirector of the Urban Warfare Project, and host of the Urban Warfare Project podcast. He served over twenty-five years in the Army as an infantry soldier having held ranks from private to sergeant first class and second lieutenant to major. His assignments as... learn more
Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE, is best known by her moniker "The Productivity Pro®." Stack is an award-winning keynote speaker, bestselling author, and noted authority on sales, leadership, and team productivity. She is the President & CEO of The Productivity Pro, Inc., a boutique consulting firm helping leaders increase workplace performance in high-stress environments. She is also the Founder & CEO of Johnny's... learn more
Curt Steinhorst is on a mission to rescue us from our distracted selves. Having spent years studying the impact of tech on human behavior, Curt founded Focuswise, a consultancy that equips organizations to overcome the distinct challenges of the constantly-connected workplace. He is also a certified speaker at the Center for Generational Kinetics, the premier organization for generational research in North America.
Diagnosed with... learn more
John Strege is the author of seven books, two of them New York Times bestsellers -- "Tiger: A Biography of Tiger Woods" and "18 Holes with Bing: Golf, Life, and Lessons with Dad," co-authored with Bing Crosby's son Nathaniel. Another book, "When War Played Through: Golf During World War II," won the United States Golf Association's Herbert Warren Wind Book Award in 2005.... learn more
Jamie Sumner is the author of the forthcoming, middle-grade novel, Roll with It. Her book, Tune It Out for middle-grade readers came out in 2020, and her third book with Atheneum Books for Young Readers will come out in 2021. She is also the author of the non-fiction books on motherhood, Unbound, and Eat, Sleep, Save the World, for parents of children with... learn more
Kris Tarantino writes picture books for children. Her debut book, Be My ValenSLIME, illustrated by New York Times bestselling illustrator Cori Doerrfeld, is forthcoming from WaterBrook in December 2023.
Kris has a deep appreciation for a child’s inquisitive nature and their fantastical imaginations, and her stories draw on her own experiences, sprinkled with humor, playfulness, and whimsy. She is a member of SCBWI and... learn more
Marv Truhe is the author of Against all Tides: The Untold Story of the USS Kitty Hawk Race Riot. It will be published in hardcover by Lawrence Hill Books in October, 2022, on the 50th anniversary of the incident which is the subject of the book. Marv was a Navy JAG defense lawyer and defended several of the sailors at their Special Courts-Martial... learn more
Authors of General Market Books
Authors of General Market Books
Rinnah Shaw is an illustrator and storyteller, as well as the Operations and Resource Coordinator at the Chicago Poetry Center. As a Columbus, Ohio native and a Chicago transplant, she has a deep love for the Midwest and for being involved with her local community through the arts, youth programs, and transformative justice. Rinnah strongly believes that telling our stories through art can be... learn more
Dr. Rebecca Siegel is a board certified Adult, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist. She recently joined the Amen Clinics after more than 13 years in group and private practice settings. Dr. Siegel graduated from Albert Einstein Medical School where her father also attended and specialized in Neurology. She completed her Psychiatry residency and Child & Adolescent fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York... learn more
Tom Sileo is an author, award-winning journalist and contributing senior editor at The Stream who spent more than eight years working in local and national newsrooms. Tom became a WordServe Literary client in 2020 while writing BE BOLD: How a Marine Corps Hero Broke Barriers for Women at War. Tom's first solo effort, which tells the inspiring true story of fallen U.S. Marine Maj. Megan McClung,... learn more
John W. Spencer currently serves as the chair of urban warfare studies at the Modern War Institute at West Point, codirector of the Urban Warfare Project, and host of the Urban Warfare Project podcast. He served over twenty-five years in the Army as an infantry soldier having held ranks from private to sergeant first class and second lieutenant to major. His assignments as... learn more
Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE, is best known by her moniker "The Productivity Pro®." Stack is an award-winning keynote speaker, bestselling author, and noted authority on sales, leadership, and team productivity. She is the President & CEO of The Productivity Pro, Inc., a boutique consulting firm helping leaders increase workplace performance in high-stress environments. She is also the Founder & CEO of Johnny's... learn more
Curt Steinhorst is on a mission to rescue us from our distracted selves. Having spent years studying the impact of tech on human behavior, Curt founded Focuswise, a consultancy that equips organizations to overcome the distinct challenges of the constantly-connected workplace. He is also a certified speaker at the Center for Generational Kinetics, the premier organization for generational research in North America. Diagnosed with... learn more
John Strege is the author of seven books, two of them New York Times bestsellers -- "Tiger: A Biography of Tiger Woods" and "18 Holes with Bing: Golf, Life, and Lessons with Dad," co-authored with Bing Crosby's son Nathaniel. Another book, "When War Played Through: Golf During World War II," won the United States Golf Association's Herbert Warren Wind Book Award in 2005.... learn more
Jamie Sumner is the author of the forthcoming, middle-grade novel, Roll with It. Her book, Tune It Out for middle-grade readers came out in 2020, and her third book with Atheneum Books for Young Readers will come out in 2021. She is also the author of the non-fiction books on motherhood, Unbound, and Eat, Sleep, Save the World, for parents of children with... learn more
Kris Tarantino writes picture books for children. Her debut book, Be My ValenSLIME, illustrated by New York Times bestselling illustrator Cori Doerrfeld, is forthcoming from WaterBrook in December 2023. Kris has a deep appreciation for a child’s inquisitive nature and their fantastical imaginations, and her stories draw on her own experiences, sprinkled with humor, playfulness, and whimsy. She is a member of SCBWI and... learn more
Marv Truhe is the author of Against all Tides: The Untold Story of the USS Kitty Hawk Race Riot. It will be published in hardcover by Lawrence Hill Books in October, 2022, on the 50th anniversary of the incident which is the subject of the book. Marv was a Navy JAG defense lawyer and defended several of the sailors at their Special Courts-Martial... learn more