Our Authors

Jules Wilkinson

Jules Wilkinson was raised by television in the wilds of suburbia in Melbourne, Australia. This explains a lot, particularly her ability to sing the alto harmony to every TV theme ever written. A part-time stand-up comic, Jules is part of the team behind the Supernatural Wiki site www.supernaturalwiki.com, which documents everything about Supernatural and its fandom.

Andrew Wilkinson

Andrew Wilkinson has been touted as the Warren Buffett of tech. He grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, started his first successful business while in high school, dropped out of college after only a single semester, and made his first billion dollars by age 35.

Wilkinson now runs Tiny, a long-term holding company for Internet businesses. Under Tiny’s umbrella, Wilkinson oversees more than 40 companies, cumulatively employing over 1,000 people and generates hundreds of millions of dollars in yearly revenue. He has acquired, started, or invested in over 70 companies. Along the way, he’s gathered a treasure trove of business and life lessons that he’s now eager to share with others. He lives in Victoria, Canada.

Books by Andrew Wilkinson

Jack Williamson

Jack Williamson was born in Arizona Territory in 1908. He moved to New Mexico by covered wagon in 1915, and still lives there. A retired professor of English at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, he still teaches a course there every spring semester. He has been publishing science fiction since 1929, with an output of 55 novels and many shorter works. His new novel, The Stonehenge Gate, is out this year. One section of it, “The Ultimate Earth,” won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He has published H. G. Wells: Critic of Progress, an academic study of Wells’ early science fiction.

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.

Books by Melissa G. Wilson