Chester (Chet) L. Richards, retired aerospace engineer, and inventor (19 patents), views life as a series of adventures. After narrowly escaping serious injury from The Great Potato, on a lark, he co-authored a spec script for Star Trek with friend Judy Burns when they were college students. The story, "The Tholian Web," became one of the series’ most popular episodes. Veteran writer Bob Duncan advised the young man, “You should write….Write your passions.” But I have nothing to say, Chet thought. He decided the real message was to fill his life with adventures. And he did — adventures in surfing, learning and performing music, travel to exotic places for river rafting, the work as a rocket scientist. Along the way, he’s always met fascinating characters. He did write — essays (over 50 have been published so far). But it was the loss of Sarah, the love of his life, that caused Chet to write his first book of stories. At the house in Thousand Oaks they once shared, the hair-raising adventures Sarah loved continue to occur, though as the author says, he no longer has much hair....

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Neale Donald Walsch is the author of over 40 books on contemporary spirituality including his latest book Letters to a Young Seeker: Departing Thoughts from an Elder. Neale is best known as the NY Times bestselling author of the internationally acclaimed Conversations with God series, translated into 37 languages.

His wife Em Claire is an award-winning poet and the author of Silent Sacred Holy Deepening Heart and Home Remembers Me.

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Bill Hulseman is a ritual designer and wedding officiant. Previously a teacher, campus minister, program director, and middle school principal in independent schools, he holds a BA in religious studies from Fairfield University, an MTS in the comparative study of religion from Harvard Divinity School, and an EdM in education leadership from the Klingenstein Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. He lives in Seattle with his husband, Jonathon. Six to carry the casket and one to say the mass is his first book.

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Award-winning memoirist Sue Silverman explores the tender chaos of love, longing, and identity in her newest essay collection. She’s a fantastic guest for deep, authentic talks about storytelling, healing, and how truth transforms pain into power. Award-winning author 7 books and 2 poetry collections.

In addition to the AWP Award, Sue has won several Foreword Review INDIE Book of the Year Awards, an IPPY Award, and the Clara Johnson Award for Women’s Literature.

Be on the lookout for Sue's forthcoming book of flash essays, "Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader," in September 2025 with the University of Nebraska Press.

As a professional speaker, Sue has appeared on such television programs as The View, Anderson Cooper-360, CNN-Headline News, and PBS-Books. She is co-chair of the low-residency MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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From Global Finance to a building a school in India — Dr. Abraham George’s Story Redefines Service and Success

Dr. Abraham George’s remarkable journey spans continents and careers. After achieving extraordinary success in international business, he returned to India to devote his life to helping the most vulnerable. In Mountains to Cross: Finding Life’s Purpose in Service, he reflects on the experiences that shaped him—from narrowly surviving a military accident at 18, to building Shanti Bhavan, a world-renowned residential school for children born into extreme poverty.

Through gripping personal stories and a clear moral philosophy, Dr. George’s memoir delivers a deeply human message: You don’t need to be born into hardship to care about others. His work in education, environmental reform, and healthcare shows how one individual—armed with compassion and commitment—can create generational change. Mountains to Cross is a rare call to action for professionals, philanthropists, and aspiring changemakers alike.

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Since retiring as a general surgeon, ALLEN SAXON, MD, has had time to pursue two of his passions—creative writing and medical education. A graduate of Tulane Medical School, he has experienced the value of safety net hospitals to society first-hand, both to indigent populations and to those learning the art of medicine. He currently teaches at two medical schools—Northwestern University and Rosalind Franklin University—and lives in the Chicago area.

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Mark Murphy is a native of Savannah, Georgia. He’s worked as a fast-food worker, marine biologist, orderly, ordained minister, and renowned gastroenterologist, his current “day job.” When he’s not healing the sick, he writes anything he can—newspaper columns, short stories, magazine articles, and textbook chapters. Rose Dhu is his third novel.

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David Weill is the former director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center. He is currently the principal of the Weill Consulting Group, which focuses on improving the delivery of pulmonary, ICU, and transplant care. Dr. Weill’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Salon, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, STAT, the Washington Post, Tablet, The Hill, and the Los Angeles Times. He is also the author of the memoir Exhale: Hope, Healing, and A Life in Transplant and the novel All That Really Matters. He lives in New Orleans.

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