William Rice
William Rice (1939-2016) was for many years the food and wine columnist for the Chicago Tribune, and previously Editor in Chief of Food & Wine Magazine. The author of the Steak Lover’s Cookbook, Rice edited three editions of Where to Eat in America, a national restaurant guide, and wrote Feasts of Wine and Food, a wine guide with accompanying recipes. He contributed to Travel and Leisure, GQ, Gourmet, Elle, and Connoisseur and has been the chairman of the Restaurant Awards committee for the James Beard Foundation.
Arianne Richmonde
Arianne Richmonde is a USA TODAY bestselling author of suspense and romance. Her Pearl series has sold more than half a million copies worldwide. Her stories are always character-driven and full of unexpected twists and turns.
When not writing about the passions and fragilities of human nature, she loves to spend time with her husband and their animals, including a femme fatale Husky with one blue eye and one golden eye. Arianne’s a chocaholic and sometimes sneaks off to sunny, exotic locations, all in the name of research.
Kathleen Rockwell Lawrence
Kathleen Rockwell Lawrence is the author of two novels as well as a collection of essays. A former HERS columnist for The New York Times, she's also contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The Op Ed Page, and the Travel Section. Her articles and essays have appeared in Vogue, Ms., Glamour, Newsday, 7Days, Village Voice, The Chicago Tribune, The North American Review, Irish America, and The Antioch Review. Grants and fellowships include The MacDowell Colony, Jerome Foundation, Yaddo, Bread Loaf, Ragdale, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and Oxford University/The English-Speaking Union. A member of PEN American Center, The Writers Room, and Irish-American Writers and Artists, she teaches at City University of New York.
Renee Roszel
Renee Roszel has been writing for Harlequin and Silhouette since 1983. With over 40 published novels to her credit, she been recognized as Oklahoma Writer of the Year (Presented by the University of Oklahoma Short Course for Professional Writers). In addition, Renee has been a repeated finalist for Romance Writers of America's prestigious National RITA award, as well as multiple nominations for Best Short Contemporary Novel by Romantic Times. Renee's books have been published in foreign languages in countries ranging from Poland to New Zealand, Germany to Turkey, Japan to Brazil. She is the past president of both Tulsa Tuesday Writers and Wichita Area Romance Authors.
