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Our 2019 Authors!

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Festival MC and Special Guest Speaker!  Steve Piacente  (Rockville, MD)   Website

Special Guest Speaker!   Bob Levey   (Bethesda, MD)       Website  |  Facebook

Special Guest Speaker!  Melanie S. Hatter   Website

Special Guest Speaker!  Joram Piatigorsky  Website

Special Guest Speaker!  Elise Bean   Amazon

Special Guest Speaker!  Paul Dickson  (Garrett Park, MD)   Website

Paul K. Schwartz  (Brookeville, MD)   Website

Edward Faine   (Takoma Park, MD)   Website  |  Twitter  |  Jazz Blog

Jonathan Riffe  (Owings, MD)     Website   |   Amazon   |   Facebook

Nick Newlin  (Brandywine, MD)    Website  |  Facebook  |  Twitter 

Philip Padgett  (Kensington, MD)    Website

Roger Bradbury  (Gaithersburg, MD)  Facebook   |  Amazon   |   Outskirts Press 

Louise Gorday  (Dunkirk, MD)    Amazon  |  Facebook  |  Twitter

Matthew Hanson  (Columbia, MD)      Website  |  Facebook  |  Instagram

Maria Olsen  (Bethesda, MD)    Website  |  Facebook  |  Twitter

Anthony Dobranski  (Washington, DC)  Website  |  Website  |  Facebook

Emmanuel Gratzimi    (Gaithersburg, MD) Website  |  Facebook  |  Amazon

Dr. Sheila Fram     Amazon  |  Twitter

Valarie Austin ( Silver Spring, MD)   Amazon  |  Goodreads  |  Website  |  Website

Maurice W. Dorsey, PhD  (Washington, DC)     Website   |   Amazon

Dennis McKay    (Chevy Chase, MD)        Facebook

Stephen Michael Berberich  (Waldorf, MD)    Website  |  Amazon

Karen Batshaw  (Washington, DC)  Facebook

Cory Schulman   (Germantown, MD)   Website

Cathy Knepper  (Kensington, MD)  Website |   Amazon

William Wade & Susan Elnicki Wade (Washington, DC)  Website |  Facebook  | Website

Tamar Anolic

Tamar Anolic   (Arlingon, VA)   Website  |  Amazon

Nancy Palker  (N. Potomac, MD)  Website  |  Facebook

Jim “The Houseboat Poet” McDonald  (Port Tabacco, MD) Website| Facebook|Amazon

J.A. Rollins   (Midlothian, VA)     Website  |  Facebook | Website

Cerphe Colwell  (Leesburg, VA)    Website | Facebook | Twitter

Chuck Sullivan   (Bethesda, MD)     Website  |   Facebook   |   Buy

Q.R. Quasar    (Silver Spring, MD)  Website

James Rada, Jr    (Gettysburg, PA)   Website   |  Facebook   |  Goodreads

Jenny Masur  (Washington, DC)   Arcadia Publishing  |  Amazon

Rachel Cooper (Gaithersburg, MD)    Website  |  Facebook  |  Menasha Ridge Press

Joseph Baldi Acosta   (Rockville, MD)    authorhouse

 

Sharon Clarkson   (Cheltenham, MD)   Website  |  Facebook  |  Linkedin

Jairo E. Lopez  (Beltsville, MD)   Facebook  |  Amazon

Deliah Lawrence  (Columbia, MD)   Website  |  Facebook  |  Instagram

Tracy Causley  (Chantilly, VA)  Website  |  Facebook  |  Twitter

Belinda Osorio Polgar  (Springfield, VA)    Amazon   |   Facebook

Tom Crowley  (Kensington, MD)   Website   |   Facebook   |   Amazon

Jean Correll  (Silver Spring, MD)    Amazon

Annalise Grey   (Chespeake Beach, MD)   Facebook  |  Instagram  |  Website

Betty Hafner   (Rockville, MD)     Website   |  Facebook   |   Amazon

Lewis & Karen McIntyre (La Plata, MD)  Amazon | Amazon | Amazon

Tom Glenn poses for a photo at his home with an ARC (advance review copy) of his latest novel “Last of the Annamese” in Ellicott City, MD on Friday, February 10, 2017. Tom Glenn’s novel will be published in March.

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F.J. Talley  (Lexington Park, MD)   Twitter  |  Website  |  Facebook

Patricia Tanumihardja  (Springfield, VA)    Facebook   |   Instagram   |   Amazon

Clark Thomas Riley  (Baltimore, MD)    Website   |   Amazon   |   Website

Lonnie Spry  (Clinton, MD)

Erin Miller  (Silver Spring, MD)    Website   |   Facebook   |   Twitter

Michael Eric Siegel, PhD   (Rockville, MD)      Amazon

Carlo Parcelli  (Hyattsville, MD)   Website   |   Website   |   Website

Bill Lewers  (McLean, VA)    Amazon

Raima Larter  (Arlington, VA)  Website   |   Facebook   |   Twitter