Andrew Kessler wrote Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days with the Phoenix Mars Mission (Pegasus, 2011) after spending three months in mission control with 130 top scientists and engineers as they explored Mars. His national tour for the paperback version launches this summer.
	Cathryn Prince is the author of A Professor, A President, and a Meteor: The Birth of American Science (Prometheus Books, 2010). Her latest book, Death in the Baltic: The Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.
	Seymour Smidt is an internationally-recognized expert in corporate finance, capital markets, and microstructure. He is most renowned as co-author of The Capital Budgeting Decision, which is in its ninth edition and has been translated into nine different languages. His current book project addresses the causes of and remedies for the Great Recession.
	Kirsten Wasson is the poet behind the collection Almost Everything Takes Forever (Antrim, 2011). She teaches Multicultural American Literature at Ithaca College, and is currently working on her memoir  about growing up in the Midwest and being the child of divorce.
	Elaine Mansfield writes about healthcare, nutrition, love and loss. Her articles have been published on hospicare.org and gratefulness.org. She is working on her memoir about bereavement and rebuilding a life from the rubble.
	Robin Botie is a designer, educator, artist and foodie whose daughter Marika kicked leukemia but died of complications at the age of 20. Robin created Silk Oak, a hand silkscreen printing and design company in Ithaca, sold the company to raise two children, taught special education students and worked as the art teacher at the Elizabeth Ann Clune Montessori School in Ithaca, NY. Robin writes her memoir from her home by a pond on the western hill of Cayuga Lake.
	Betsy Krieg Salm is the author of Women’s Painted Furniture, 1790-1830: American Schoolgirl Art (University Press of New England, 2010). She is a juried member of the Historical Society for Early American Decoration and has been featured in numerous magazines.

	Lincoln's Gift from Homer, New York (McFarland, 2011) by Martin A. Sweeney
	Dear Friend Amelia: The Civil War Letters of Private John Tidd (Six Mile Creek Press, 2011) by Mary Jordan and Joyce Hatch
	The Poet's Daughter (Larson, 2011) by Parvaneh Bahar with Joan Aghevli