Mark Rennella has given students and professionals helpful advice about writing throughout his career, most recently as a writing coach for MBA candidates at Harvard Business School. Mark earned a PhD in American history from Brandeis University and has taught literature and American history at Harvard University, the University of Miami, and the University of Tours (France). His publications include Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership, co-authored with Nitin Nohria, former dean of Harvard Business School. Mark’s books, articles, business case studies, and collaborative writing endeavors have garnered him critical praise from historians, academicians, and business leaders alike. His concept of the “One-Idea Rule” was included among HBR.org’s ten favorite management tips for 2022. He currently works as an editor for Harvard Business Publishing.
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Mike Resnick is the winner of four Hugo Awards, a Nebula and numerous other major awards in the USA, France, Japan, Spain, Croatia and Poland. He is the author of 45 science fiction novels, nine books of nonfiction, 12 collections, 175 short stories and two screenplays, and has edited more than 40 anthologies. His work has been translated into 22 languages.
Laura Resnick is the author of 20 original-fiction novels, including Disappearing Nightly and Doppelgangster. You can find her on the Web at www.LauraResnick.com.
David Rettinger is assistant professor of psychology at Yeshiva University in New York City. His research interests focus on the cognitive processes of decision-making and students’ academic integrity decisions. James Rettinger is a recovering attorney and New Yorker in San Diego. He likes to barbeque and loves the Mets. The brothers were raised on a steady diet of high and low culture growing up, and find “The Simpsons” the perfect TV show for them. If only you could eat it. They wish to thank their wives and AOL IM for supporting the writing of this chapter.
Penn Rhodeen became a lawyer after brief stints as a newspaper reporter and schoolteacher. His practice focuses on cases involving children and medical malpractice. He has also been heavily involved in political campaigns for a wide range of candidates, from local to presidential. Much of his writing has related to legal and political issues, including a op-ed pieces for The New York Times, Newsday, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and others.
Lani Diane Rich lives in upstate New York with her husband and two daughters. Most of her time is split between writing women’s fiction novels, singing songs from the “Buffy” musical episode with her kids and fighting with her husband. You can find out more about Lani at www.lanidianerich.com
Robert Burke Richardson hunts Snark in Edmonton, Alberta. He is the author of the elderly superhero saga Old School—“These aren’t your father’s superheroes … they’re your grandpa’s!”—from Arcana Studio, as well as stories, essays and pointless posts on his weblog, elf-help.blogspot.com.
Edward J. Rielly chairs the English department at Saint Joseph’s College of Maine. In addition to 10 volumes of his own poetry, he has published several nonfiction books. His recent publications include The 1960s (Greenwood), Baseball: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (ABC-Clio; recently released in paper by the University of Nebraska Press), Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond (a collection of essays from Haworth) and F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography (Greenwood). He is editing Baseball in the Classroom: Teaching America’s National Pastime, a collection of essays on baseball as pedagogy, for McFarland; and is writing Sitting Bull: A Biography (Greenwood) and Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (U of Nebraska Press). He also writes a newspaper column on baseball and has published many individual articles, book reviews, short stories and poems.
Jeffrey Rinek served 30 years with the FBI primarily investigating cases of missing and murdered children and is internationally renowned for obtaining a surprise confession from serial killer Cary Stayner to the brutal slayings of four women and girls known as the Yosemite Park Murders. In the Sacramento office of the FBI, he was responsible for assisting police and sheriff’s departments throughout Northern California in active and cold-case investigations involving missing children, child kidnappings, and the abuse, exploitation, and murder of children. He also served as a certified profiler for the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. In 2003 he was named Investigator of the Year by the California Sexual Assault Investigators Association and in 2006 received an Award for Excellence from the International Homicide Investigators Association. He was the Sacramento division case agent in 1993 overseeing the investigation that would come to be known as the Unabomber case. He has also worked for the FBI in the areas of white-collar crime, foreign counter-intelligence, and organized crime, served on the Bureau’s swat team, and as a co-pilot in its aviation force. He and his work have been featured on numerous TV documentary crime shows including A&E’s American Justice, TruTV’s Crime Stories, and Investigation Discovery’s Real Detective.
Rick Riordan is #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, and the author of the upcoming first installment in the 39 Clues series. For 15 years, Riordan taught English and history at public and private middle schools in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Texas. He lives in San Antonio with his wife and two sons.
