Authors Between the Covers: What It Takes to Write Your Heart Out

David Pendleton is an Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School and of Green Templeton College, Oxford. A Chartered Psychologist, he specializes in leadership, assessing and coaching senior executives and developing their abilities to lead change and create high performance cultures.

He co-directs the Oxford High Performance Leadership Program with Tim Morris, and has made a major contribution to the Oxford Adavanced Management and Leadership Program, including a session on leadership and personality and how—through psychometrics—to assess the potential helping and hindering personality characteristics for leadership. read more...

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“I don’t know how Adriana Trigiani goes into her family’s attic and emerges with these amazing stories, I’m just happy she does,” says bestselling author Kathryn Stockett of Trigiani’s newest release, “The Shoemaker’s Wife.” “If you are meeting her for the first time, get ready for a lifelong love affair.”

That endorsement from the author of “The Help” is typical of the buzz around Trigiani’s epic tale of Ciro Lazzari and Enza Ravanelli—the fictional characters who depict the real lives of her grandparents and their sweeping international love affair. read more...

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Kristine Carlson is the author of the moving memoir, Heartbroken Open.

Written after the loss six years ago of her husband and business partner, Richard Carlson — who is known for his bestselling Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff series — the couple had a romantic marriage, two beautiful daughters, and all the comforts of the American Dream.

But on Dec. 13, 2006, on a typical flight to New York, a pulmonary embolism took Richard’s life.

“It catapulted me into heartbreak and uncertainty,” Carlson writes. “It was the end of life as I knew it, and the beginning of a journey through the depths of grief and mourning.” read more...

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New York Times author Michael Levin has written, co-written, or ghostwritten more than 100 books, of which eight have hit the bestseller list.

He is an Amherst College graduate, a Columbia Law School-trained attorney, and a non-practicing member of the Massachusetts bar. He served for many years as a member of the Authors Guild Council, and as Treasurer of the Authors Guild Foundation.

And given his background, Levin has big insights into the publishing industry—including why publishers are loath to provide accurate sales figures. read more...

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JANUARY 7, 2013

Our radio show spotlight today is on: David Bruce Smith and Faye Moskowitz, creators of the George Washington University class, Jewish Literature Live

Our hot topic: What inspired Smith and Moskowitz to create a program for undergrads that brings famous Jewish authors to George Washington University’s campus? And what makes them, as authors, tick?

Your host: Hope Katz Gibbs, publisher of Be Inkandescent magazine, and founder & president of The Inkandescent Group

On this episode of the Inkandescent Radio Show, we sat down with GW English professor and author Faye Moskowitz (pictured below), and DC author David Bruce Smith (pictured above) at Smith’s office in DC. read more...

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