Our Authors

Chris Allen

Christopher Allen is the managing editor and founder for ComicBookGalaxy.com. He has also written for The Comics Journal, Kevin Smith’s MoviePoopShoot.com, Ain’t It Cool News and NinthArt.com, and is one of the 2006 judges for the comics industry’s prestigious Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards. He has two children and lives in San Diego.

Mark Allen

Mark Allen

Mark Allen, a resident of Santa Cruz, Calif., is known and admired by athletes around the world for his extraordinary six Ironman championships. Called The Greatest Triathlete of All Time by Triathlete Magazine, Mark has been on the cover of every major sports magazine and readers and the media will be hungry to know how he became “the fittest man alive.” Mark is not only presenting fitness guidelines for life, he is sharing the philosophy of physical and spiritual health he learned as a student of Brant Secunda that made the difference in his becoming a champion. This is the first time in print that he has ever told the real story of how he won the Ironman.

Books by Mark Allen

Michael W. Allen

Michael W. Allen has had a long and lauded career in elearning. From his work developing IBM’s Coursewriter III system in the 1960s to directing R&D of Control Data’s international groundbreaking PLATO system and developing its LMS to his creation of Authorware—one of the most successful authoring tools ever created—Michael has been recognized with the most prestigious career awards including ATD’s Career Contributions Award, Ellis Island’s Humanitarian Award, and the Learning Guild’s Guild Master. 

He earned a PhD in educational psychology from The Ohio State University, has authored nine books on effective elearning, including the industry’s go-to book, Michael Allen’s Guide to eLearning (two editions) and the ATD bestseller, Leaving ADDIE for SAM. He is currently chairman and CEO of Allen Interactions and Allen Learning Technologies.

Books by Michael W. Allen

Peg Aloi

Peg Aloi has been a practicing witch for a decade and a half. She often rants about film and TV for The Witches’ Voice Web site. She is also a film critic for The Boston Phoenix and a professor of film studies. Her favorite on-screen depiction of The Old Religion is the 1973 film “The Wicker Man.”

Brooke Alpert

Brooke Alpert, MS, RD, CDN, is a nationally recognized nutrition expert and author. She is the founder of B Nutritious, www.b-nutritious.com, a private nutrition counseling and consulting practice in New York City. Brooke’s expertise and nutrition knowledge has lead her to be featured on national television regularly including, The Doctor Oz Show, The Today Show, Access Hollywood and more. She was named one of the new up and coming stars in the beauty and health field in W Magazine and has been quoted and featured extensively in both national and international magazines including People, Shape, Glamour, Town & Country, Tatler, and more.

Brooke received her Masters of Science at New York University and completed her training at Mt. Sinai Hospital in affiliation with NYU. She is an active member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.  Brooke, a former equestrian, is also a triathlete and a lover of mud runs. She resides in New York City with her husband and their two daughters.

Books by Brooke Alpert

Jonathan Alter

Jonathan Alter is a columnist, historian, and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers about American presidents and covered the Trump felony trial for NYTimes Opinion, The Washington Monthly, and Old Goats, his Substack newsletter. He lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Books by Jonathan Alter

Zalina Alvi

Zalina Alvi is a contributing editor for a travel magazine in Toronto and moonlights as a pop culture aficionado. Visit her website at: www.zalinaalvi.com.

Matesic Alyssa

Alyssa Matesic is an independent developmental book editor and publishing consultant who has held editorial roles at Henry Holt & Company, The Book Group literary agency, and Ballantine Books. She built one of the leading YouTube channels for aspiring traditionally published authors (@AlyssaMatesic) and shares writing and publishing insights to help authors at all stages of their careers through her popular newsletter, Chapter Break.

Melissa Ambrosini

Melissa Ambrosini is the bestselling author of Mastering Your Mean Girl, Open Wide, and the Audible Original PurposeFULL. Described as a “Self-Help Guru” by Elle Magazine, she is a speaker, self love teacher and entrepreneur. She’s also the host of the top-rated podcast The Melissa Ambrosini Show, where she shares her wisdom and interviews world-class performers and experts from around the globe including Seth Godin, Wim Hof, Sir Ken Robinson, Bruce Lipton, John Gray, and Jack Canfield.

Melissa is uniquely positioned to blow the lid off the toxic disease of comparisonitis, having worked extensively in industries where comparison culture is not only rampant, but openly encouraged—including a decade treading the boards as a successful actor, model and dancer (including a year-long stint performing at the Moulin Rouge in Paris), before “accidentally” becoming a social media influencer with hundreds of thousands of followers. Melissa is married to a rockstar (literally), and currently lives in Australia with her husband Nick Broadhurst and bonus son.

Books by Melissa Ambrosini

Daniel Amen

Dr. Daniel Amen was named the most popular psychiatrist in America by The Washington Post and the web’s #1 most influential expert and advocate on mental health by Sharecare. Dr. Amen is a physician, board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist, 10 time New York Times bestselling author and international speaker. He is the founder of Amen Clinics in Costa Mesa, Encino, and San Francisco, California; Bellevue, Washington; Reston, Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; New York, New York, and Chicago, Illinois.

Dr. Amen is the author or coauthor of more than 70 professional articles, seven book chapters and more than 30 books, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Daniel Plan and Change Your Brain, Change Your Life, as well as Magnificent Mind at Any AgeChange Your Brain, Change Your BodyUse Your Brain to Change YourAgeHealing ADD and The Brain Warrior’s Way, The Brain Warrior’s Way Cookbook, Memory Rescue, and Feel Better Fast and Make It Last.