Meet our Authors

Sunday
19Apr2009

Mike McGrath

Author, You Bet Your Tomatoes!

Mike McGrath is the Host of the weekly syndicated radio show You Bet Your Garden.

He's a widely published columnist, with a base of fans who appreciate both his humor and knowledge. Previously the editor of Organic Gardening magazine, Mike was also the garden expert for the Saturday edition of The Today Show from 1993 through 1997.

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Sunday
19Apr2009

Jeanne Muchnick

Jeanne Muchnick

Author, Dinner for Busy Moms

Muchnick has been a contributing writer to local and national publications for more than 20 years. A graduate of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, she started her career as an editorial assistant at Seventeen Magazine and from there went on to Good Housekeeping, Woman’s World, BaBY Magazine, and Woman’s Day Special Interest Publications, with additional stints in the housewares and travel trade press.

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Sunday
19Apr2009

Beth Feldman

Beth Feldman

Author, See Mom Run

Beth Feldman is the founder of RoleMommy.com, an online community and events company dedicated to inspiring, entertaining, and empowering today’s busy moms to pursue their passion while raising a family.

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Sunday
19Apr2009

Kerrie Paige

Kerrie and her boys

Author, Soccer for Moms

Kerrie Paige, of Bellingham, WA, has been a Soccer Mom for more than 15 years. With three boys, she's parented the full range of youth soccer--from local recrational teams, to high school, to state- and regional-champion elite club teams. She's also played, coached, and cheered on her own mom in the local over-60 league. When she's not at the field, she's a mathematician who runs an international consulting company

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Sunday
19Apr2009

Samara Klein

Author, Lite'n Up: Laugh Yourself Skinny

Samara Q. Klein once lost forty pounds and never found them again!

By day, Samara works as a publishing professional.She also moonlights as a humorist- winning the first New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest and writing humor for The Boston Globe.Her short stories have been published in the literary journals PIF and Release.A sense of humor runs in her family; she's also the daughter of best-selling author Daniel Klein (co-author of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar), Inc.

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Sunday
19Apr2009

Galia Gichon

Galia GichonAuthor, My Money Matters

For more than thirteen years, Galia Gichon has been helping consumers and professionals understand the world of finance and make wise personal money management decisions. Ms. Gichon launched her company, Down-to-Earth Finance, to focus exclusively on teaching everyday investors how to take control of their money. As an independent educator, Ms. Gichon does not manage money or sell investment products of any kind, so she is a truly objective and unbiased source for financial learning.

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Sunday
19Apr2009

Jane Marla Robbins

jane marla robbinsJane Marla RobbinsAuthor, Perform at Your Best

Jane Marla Robbins has been an actress for thirty five years, and years ago, she realized that the acting techniques that made her look and feel self confident, secure, and even shining on stage, were also techniques she could use in "real-life," where she sometimes felt uncomfortable, nervous, or even dull.

Perform at Your Best-Acting techniques for Business, Personal & Social Success cards are based on Jane's book, Acting Techniques for Everyday Life: Look and Feel Self Confident in Difficult, Real-Life Situations.

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Sunday
19Apr2009

Julie Trelstad

Julie TrelstadFounder/Publisher

Julie Trelstad founded Plain White Press in 2006 after a 15-year publishing career where she edited and acquired non-fiction books for Taunton Press, Sterling Publishing, John Wiley & Sons, and Reader's Digest. During her career, Julie acquired and published more than 50 titles, including the best-selling Not-So-Big House by Sarah Susanka.

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