Our Authors

Julie Williamson

Julie Williamson

Dr. Julie Williamson is a Vice President with ChangeLabs, where she is responsible for delivering on strategic engagements. She is a leading voice in how organizations link together communication, design, strategy, sales, marketing and service to deliver sustainable growth. She uses both traditional and forward looking resources in her strategy and transformation work, leveraging design thinking to help client arrive at solutions that are informed by data and inspired by creativity. Julie is particularly interested in working with clients on customer to brand and employee to brand connections and engagement, and building strategies focused on growth.

Connie Willis

Connie Willis has won six Nebula and six Hugo Awards (more than any other science fiction writer) and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for her first novel, Lincoln’s Dreams. Her novel Doomsday Book won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and her first short-story collection, Fire Watch, was a New York Times Notable Book. Connie was born on December 31, 1945, in Denver. She married physicist Courtney Willis in 1967 and has one daughter, Cordelia. They live in Greeley, Colo.

Maralys Wills

Maralys Wills’s fifteen published books span several genres and publishers. Her fiction works include four romance novels published by Harlequin and Silhouette and a techno-thriller Scatterpath about airplane sabotage. Among her ten nonfictions are two books on writing: Damn the Rejections, Full Speed Ahead won its category in Best Books (Stephens Press); a treatise on addiction (Hazelden); and four memoirs (Longstreet Press, Stephens Press). Three of Wills’s volumes have won national awards. For 30 years Wills has been teaching novel-writing and memoir-writing, and in 2000 was named Teacher of the Year. With her lawyer-husband, Rob, she raised six children, five boys and a girl.

Books by Maralys Wills

Leah Wilson

Leah Wilson

Leah Wilson graduated from Duke University with a degree in culture and modern fiction and is currently senior editor at BenBella Books in Dallas. Leah is the editor of Perfectly Plum: Unauthorized Essays on the Life, Loves, and Other Disasters of Stephanie Plum, Trenton Bounty Hunter and the co-editor on Coffee at Luke’s: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest and Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity.

Melissa G. Wilson

Melissa G. Wilson

Melissa G Wilson is a leading expert on the development of online networks as a means of accelerating brand growth, sales, and innovation inside and outside of organizations. For more than a decade, Wilson and her team at Networlding have provided exceptional relationship selling, marketing, and management programs.

Wilson has been a guest on the TODAY show, CNN, WGN, CNBC and FOX, and one of her books was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She has also won a Consummate Speaker of the Year Award. Wilson’s passion is helping young professionals get better starts in their lives.

Robert Charles Wilson

Robert Charles Wilson’s works include the Hugo Award nominees Darwinia and Blind Lake. His The Chronoliths received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and he has also won the Philip K. Dick Award and Canada’s Aurora Award; several of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books. His latest novel is Spin, in which the Earth itself is projected four billion years into the future.

Paul Wilson

Professor Paul Wilson is a criminologist and forensic psychologist at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia. He is the author or co-author of over thirty books dealing with crime, forensics, and justice issues. Paul gives evidence in court, works on miscarriages of justice cases, and recently was appointed on the expert witness list to the International Criminal Court based in The Hague. His recent writings focus on wrongful convictions and persons involved in genocide.

Doni Wilson

Dr. Doni Wilson is a naturopathic doctor, certified professional midwife, certified nutrition specialist, and author of Master Your Stress, Reset Your Health. For more than 22 years, she has helped thousands of patients overcome health challenges and achieve wellness by using specific strategies that address the whole body and ultimately resolve the underlying causes of distress. Dr. Doni suffered from migraines for over 20 years, and in the process of solving them, she developed her Stress Recovery Protocol. Dr. Doni brings awareness to the impact of stress on our health and how it is possible to recover from burnout and become resilient to stress in the media and at public and professional events. You can find her blog, podcast, called How Humans Heal, and her Self C.A.R.E.™ program at DoctorDoni.com.