From left, Karen Villanueva with Maria Lucia, first-time author of "Liberation: Book One of The Andrusian Chronicles."

The ever-smiling and gracious James Lee Burke.

Lorene Mills of the widely acclaimed Report from Santa Fe with Pulitzer Prize winning author, Oscar De Hijuelos, and Karen Villanueva

The face of a magnificent spiritual teacher, Ronald Chapman

At NMBA's SWBD&P Awards 2016: (left) Susan Gardner Poetry Winner, Karen Villanueva NMBA President

L.A. Justice, author of several women's adventure/thriller novels and three nonfiction books: If You Want it You Can Get It, My Tell-All, and Slimming Simplified

A Dance in the Woods by multi award-winning author, Janet K.Brennan, recounts the author's terrible trauma of losing a daughter to severe asthma and then a fatal brain hemorrhage. It takes a lot of personal strength to absorb this and pick up the pieces and go on. Reluctantly Janet does this and along the way regains her faith and healing joy through her dance in the woods. Info at: casadesnapdragon.com

Hana Samek Norton is the author of historical/romantic fiction...The Sixth Surrender and The Serpent's Crown. An avid traveler and gifted historian, Hana loved exploring the ruins of castles and cloisters as a child in what is now the Czech Republic. More info at: [email protected]

Here are a few authors I have worked with in one capacity or another over my 20+ years in the business:

• scar De Hijuelos
• James Lee Burke
• Stephen Cannell
• Clive Cussler
• Jeane Houston
• Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Helen Fielding
• Elizabeth Buchan
• ​Hana Samek Norton

• Norman Zollinger
• John J. Nance
• Jodi Picoult
• Deepak Choprah
• Christopher Valen
• Neale Donald Walsch
• Marianne Williamson
• David Morrell
  

• Janet K. Brennan
  
• Donna Eden
• Jonathan Miller
• Ronald Chapman
• Diane Gabaldon
• Anthony Bourdain
• James Rollins
• And many more