Authors in Focus

Step into a curated space where select authors come into clear view. Authors in Focus highlights writers whose stories draw steady attention across ReadVana. Their books move through the discovery flow with purpose, gathering interest and shaping conversations among readers.

Just as a beam of light breaks through the forest canopy, these authors stand out for their engaging storytelling, creative vision, and growing presence. Explore their work, follow their journeys, and discover books that stay with you long after the last page.

Larry Wasion

Larry Wasion is the author of the critically acclaimed five-book Jump Gate Series. He has been published in assorted magazines and featured in the recently published Amazing Robots!! Anthology. A life...

ann birdgenaw

Aurora Award nominee for Best Young Adult Novel - Ka'Azula, (2023) and retired librarian. Ann always wanted to write a book of her own. She was inspired to write this story by a strange beeping coming...

Kim Lee

Kim Lee, CEO of HealthcAIre, is a former Chief Marketing & Digital Officer, Executive Creative Director. A recipient of 30+ global marketing and advertising awards, she wrote her first book - a me...

Owen Clough

Leaving school at the age of fourteen, Owen travelled around New Zealand on a working holiday. Then, at the age of seventeen, he joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force, where he served for eleven year...

James Parker

Every now and then James has a vision. And, when he does, he see's people and places off in the misty distance. Sometimes these visions are futuristic and filled with danger. Most often they are mysti...

Kevin Frank

Kevin is a Chief People & Culture Officer with over 20 years of progressive, humanistic, and impactful leadership experience, bringing his own flavor of the Human Resources discipline (an outdated...

Alex Pearl

Alex is the author of four novels, two works of non-fiction, and has contributed to three anthologies. His first novel, Sleeping with the Blackbirds, a darkly humorous urban fantasy, written for ...

HAMID LEGHLID

Former electronics & computer scientist (from the 80s) whose career. is eventful (information system, electronic maintenance, network maintenance, trainer, psychopedagog ,etc.) and evolved by a mu...

doug oudin

Doug Oudin is a former Harbormaster on Catalina Island, California. Having lived on the Island for 32 years, he wrote 2 books, one his memoir from the Island, 'Between Two Harbors', the other a ...

Christopher Hudson

As on-and-off denizen of cubeville, I have written and produced many corporate videos and marketing projects. As an author, I have two published books, NORTHERN CROSS and HEADWIND, and a couple...

Jim DeFilippi

Jim DeFilippi (The Mules of Monte Cassino, Duck Alley, Blood Sugar) is a prolific and eccentric American author with forty-five books and over two and a half million words still in print. www.ji...

Oriano Galvanini

In the 1960s, I spent several years sailing on steamships as a radio officer. Later, due to other activities, I spent much of my life abroad. When I decided to permanently moor myself on shore, I reti...

Richard Hardie

Born in the UK Richard Hardie started writing books for Young Adults of all ages while flying on multiple trips to Asia on business. His best known books Leap of Faith, which was a finalist for the Pe...

John Bestul

John Bestul was born and raised in Wisconsin. After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville with a degree in Radio and Television Broadcasting, he began working as a news reporter in L...

Melissa Rovelli

I live and write in New York. My books include The Finder's Game, Faron's Secret, The Listener in the Shadows, The One You Left Behind, Finity: A Mafia Story, and a few others. I also write nonfiction...

Donald Young

Don Young was once living what many would call the American Dream. As a successful pharmaceutical marketing executive, he had achieved wealth, status, and professional achievement. But beneath the sur...

Pedro Pagan Cordova

"ELC is an author and the creator/host of the podcast "Two-Face", where he explores themes of spirituality and general life guidance. He publishes work inspired by a higher power to offer readers supp...

ROGER PEDERSEN

Roger E. PedersenPSIPublish.comRoger E. Pedersen is the creative force behind the Sci-Fi, dystopian SuperPower book series. A consummate storyteller, he weaves high-stakes drama with immersive world-b...

PJ Patrick Flynn

About the Author PJ Patrick Flynn is a retired public‑school administrator, teacher, and environmental consultant. She lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains, surrounded by animals and books, wri...

Bruce Conord

Bruce Conord has authored twelve published nonfiction works—three bestselling children’s/YA books and nine Latin America travel guides, two of which received national writing awards. He is also a ...