Our Authors

Robert Brian Taylor

Robert B. Taylor is a pop-culture writer living in Pittsburgh. He’s a Marvel Comics boy at heart but will argue passionately that “Batman Begins” is the best superhero film ever made. He contributed the essay “The Captain May Wear the Tight Pants, But It’s the Gals Who Make Serenity Soar” to the Smart Pop anthology Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds, and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly. His TV column runs weekly in The Herald, the newspaper of record for Rock Hill, S.C.

Valerie Taylor

Valerie Taylor is a mom and writer whose novels include The Mommy School and How to Marry the World’s Best Dad. Jane Finocharo is a fifth-grader and budding pop culture maven. They live in Cincinnati with their family and their TiVo.

John Temple

John Temple is an investigative journalist and the author of American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America’s Deadliest Drug Epidemic, which was named a New York Post “Favorite Book of 2015” and a 2016 Edgar Allan Poe Award nominee for Fact Crime. Temple wrote two previous nonfiction books: The Last Lawyer: The Fight to Save Death Row Inmates and Deadhouse: Life in a Coroner’s Office. The American Society of Legal Writers awarded The Last Lawyer the 2010 Scribes Book Award. Temple is a tenured journalism professor at West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media. Before academia, Temple worked as a newspaper reporter in Pittsburgh, North Carolina and Florida.

Books by John Temple

Matt Tenney

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Matt Tenney has been working to help organizations develop leaders who improve employee engagement and performance since 2012. His ideas have been featured in major media outlets and his clients include numerous national associations and Fortune 500 companies. He is often invited to deliver keynote speeches at conferences and leadership meetings, and is known for delivering valuable, actionable insights in a way that is memorable and deeply inspiring.

Books by Matt Tenney

Francine Terry

Francine Terry, M.D., M.P.H., is a lifelong science fiction reader, more recently a writer on topics bridging science fact and fiction and a speaker on hard science topics at many science fiction gatherings. In the “real world,” she works as an emergency physician in Cleveland, operates a small farm with her husband Steve Brownfield and is the founder and chief operating officer of an animal welfare nonprofit, AlterPet Inc. Her science writings have appeared in science fiction publications in both Ohio and Colorado and in national publications such as the Starfleet Communiqué and the UFPI Universal Translator. She and Dr. Howard Scrimgeour, DVM, comprise the “Paradox (pair of docs) Traveling Science Show,” frequently seen presenting biological topics to science fiction fans at Marcon and Toronto Trek. In her spare time, she reads scientific journals, seeking fact-out-of-fiction discoveries to share with fellow fans.

Nancy Tesler

Nancy Tesler was born in Worcester, Mass., and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. After a career as an actor and a hiatus to raise three children, she began writing for the stage, TV and the financial community. Her second career as a biofeedback clinician helped pay the bills when, single again, and inspired by the overwhelming urge to do someone in, she turned to writing murder mysteries. She is the author of five Carrie Carlin Other Deadly Things novels. She has just completed a standalone novel of romantic suspense and is currently working on the first of new mystery series. Ms. Tesler lives in Tenafly, N.J.

Laura Theodore

Laura Theodore

Laura Theodore is a television and radio host, vegan chef, sustainable lifestyle blogger, compassionate cookbook author, and award-winning jazz singer and actor. She is the proud creator of the “Jazzy Vegetarian.” Theodore is presently the on-camera host, writer, and co-producer of the Jazzy Vegetarian television show on Public Television, coming into its third season. She hosts the weekly podcast show, “Jazzy Vegetarian Radio,” a talk/music format that focuses on easy-to-prepare, plant-based recipes, eco-entertaining tips, and celebrity interviews. Theodore has made guest appearances on ABC, NBC, CBS and USA Network. She was recently featured on Insider, Entertainment Tonight online, News 4-NBC and CBS Radio. Laura has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, New York Daily News, New York Post, VegNews, Variety, Time magazine, and Family Circle, and on PBS Food, Vegetarian Times online, and JazzTimes, among others.

Books by Laura Theodore

Kim Thiboldeaux

Kim Thiboldeaux is an innovative, internationally recognized leader who has dedicated her career to improving the lives of cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers. As the Executive Chair of the Cancer Support Community (CSC), Thiboldeaux oversees a global non-profit network of 175 locations, including 47 CSC and Gilda’s Club centers, 10 hospital and clinic-based affiliates, and a multitude of satellite locations that deliver more than $50 million in free support services to patients and families. In addition, CSC administers a toll-free helpline and produces award-winning educational resources that reach more than one million people each year. The Cancer Support Community, formed in 2009 by the merger of The Wellness Community and Gilda’s Club, also conducts cutting-edge research on the emotional, psychological, and financial journey of cancer patients. In addition, CSC advocates in Washington, DC and at all levels of government for policies to help individuals whose lives have been disrupted by cancer. Thiboldeaux coauthored Reclaiming Your Life After Diagnosis and The Total Cancer Wellness Guide, and hosts the award-winning Frankly Speaking About Cancer radio show. She also serves on multiple advisory boards, speaks at leading conferences, and frequently appears in national media outlets. In June 2017, Vice President Joe Biden appointed Thiboldeaux to serve on the Biden Cancer Initiative’s Board of Directors.

David Thomas

David Thomas teaches courses on the history of digital media, critical video-game theory and human environments at the University of Colorado. For more information, see buzzcut.com.

Evany Thomas

Evany “I’m a Susan” Thomas writes the “Desperate Housewives” recaps for Television Without Pity. She’s also the author of The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple’s Guide to the Thirty-Nine Positions, the “Tyrolian Harvest” sausage basket catalog in McSweeney’s Issue 17, plus a variety of articles (covering everything from rare cars to soothsayers) for a variety of Web sites (including MSN, Webmonkey, Breakup Girl and The N). More about her writing, history and day-to-day activities can be found at Evany.com.