Gillian McDunn is a well known children's author whose books frequently appear on "Best of the Year" lists: case in point, she is the recipient of the 2024 Southern Book Prize for When Sea Becomes Sky. Her new book is Trouble at the Tangerine, which Diane Capriola of Little Shop of Stories in Decatur, GA calls "A fun and engaging whodunit with lots of heart."

Omar Tyree is a New York Times bestselling author, NAACP Image Award-winner, recipient of the Phillis Wheatley Literary Award, journalist, speaker, entrepreneur, and filmmaker. A graduate of Howard University’s School of Communications, he has written more than twenty books with over two million copies in print. His new novel, Control, is a story of psychological suspense in the Atlanta music scene that calls to mind SA Cosby and Walter Mosley.

Molly Stillman is the host of the Can I Laugh on Your Shoulder? podcast and a sought-after speaker. The lifestyle blog she started in 2007, Still Being Molly, is a community for women who love ethical style, clean beauty, parenting, funny stories, and serving in their communities. Her memoir If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry, says novelist Kristin Hannah, "is uplifting and inspirational, with a happy ending that is both hard won and ferociously fought for."

Bill Adair is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, the Knight Professor for the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and the director of the Duke Reporters’ Lab. He is also the founder of the website PolitiFact, the go-to source for fact checking in a world awash with disinformation. His new book, Beyond the Big Lie takes a hard look at the culture of lying in American politics.