Mackenzie Flohr

Mackenzie Flohr is the multi-award-winning author of the popular young adult fantasy series The Rite of Wands. A storyteller at heart, she loves to inspire the imagination. Her previously published works include The Rite of Wands, The Rite of Abnegation, The Binge Watcher’s Guide to Doctor Who: A History Of Doctor Who And The First Female Doctor, and her short stories appear in the anthology collections The Whispered Tales of Graves Grove and Unknown Realms. Through her Rite of Wands series, she helps people who are slaves to their own past, clarify who they are, acknowledge their feelings, and learn how to believe in themselves, so they can become Spellbinding Warriors and discover their full potential.

Danielle Bernock

Danielle Bernock is an international best-selling award-winning independent author, speaker, and coach. She helps people embrace their value, heal their soul, and reclaim their life through the power of the love of God so they can become wholehearted thrivers who are living a good and satisfying life, making a difference in the world. She’s written Emerging With Wings, A Bird Named Payn, Love’s Manifesto and Because You Matter. In addition to her books, she’s written for numerous online publications and her stories have been published in two book anthologies. Danielle enjoys life with her husband Michael, in Michigan, near their adult children and grandchildren. For more information https://www.daniellebernock.com/

Dr. Mary Welsh

Dr. Mary Welsh is an author, national speaker, coach, and grief session facilitator. As a grieving parent, she took the tragic loss of her daughter Susie McBride-Welsh to document her grief journey as an avenue to aid other grieving individuals and families adapt to their "new normal". She is a strong advocate of the Power of Positivity and follows her principles: The Four Aspects of Positive Reflection (remember, reflect, recreate, and relate). Additionally, she founded Susie Q'sKids, a 501c3 nonprofit, to honor her daughter, to heal, and to brighten and inspire the lives of children and young adults by distributing comfort bags to children and young adults in hospitals, shelters, foster care, and those grieving.

Alicia Marsland

Born in Venezuela to an American journalist and Canadian writer, William and Amy Marsland, who jointly wrote "Venezuela through its History" still used in college classrooms today (also several later works, including two murder mysteries). Alicia Geromel traveled with them for the first five years of her life until they settled in Greene, N.Y. an idyllic upstate town. A voracious reader, she graduated from Cornell University and later received her Master's in teaching from Saginaw Valley State University. She owned and operated her own small school for children needing more individual attention for twenty years while raising four children and one foster child with her husband, Fr. Gene Geromel, also an author. She had her first book, "The Wizard's Daughter" written for children, published in 1978. In the past five years, she has returned to writing and if she lives, as she plans, into the 90's, you can expect many sci-fi, fantasy and other works to be found under her maiden name, Alicia Marsland. Currently, she is working on the third volume of her series, "The Tale of the Eighth Herald", which will be titled "Lie" and should be released in 2020, God willin' an' the crick don' rise. Fr. Gene's books include "Mystery Telling" a small book of spiritual exercises and sound advice, available on Amazon and Kindle.