Our Authors

Cheryl Sawyer is an historical novelist, author of La Créole and Rebel (Bantam, Australia). Her U.S. début, published in Signet Eclipse (NAL) in January 2005, was Siren, the love story of real-life pirate Jean Laffite and his passionate rival, privateer Léonore Roncival. The Chase, a novel of the Napoleonic Wars featuring a beautiful English noblewoman who falls in love with a renegade French soldier, followed in June 2005. Cheryl has two master’s degrees with honors in English and French literature and her career has included teaching and publishing. Cheryl’s home is Australia, but during work on her current novel she is based in Costa Rica.

Danielle Schaaf is a public relations consultant and lives in Houston with her husband and three children. She attended Catholic school in south Florida for eight years where, early on, nuns told Danielle she was a cheeky girl. She still is.

Peter J. Schakel has taught at Hope College since 1969 and for the past 20 years has been the Peater C. and Emajean Cook Professor of English. He has written or edited five books on C.S. Lewis, as well as three on British literature of the 18th century and three textbooks. His most recent books are Approaching Literature in the 21st Century: Fiction, Poetry, Drama (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2005), co-authored with Jack Ridl, and The Way into Narnia: A Reader’s Guide (Eerdmans, 2005).

Jeffrey A. Schaler, Ph.D., a psychologist, is assistant professor of justice, law and society at American University’s School of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Addiction Is a Choice (2000) and editor of Szasz Under Fire: The Psychiatric Abolitionist Faces His Critics (2004), both published by Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago.

James V. Schall, S.J., is a professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. His books include, among others, The Unseriousness of Human Affairs, At the Limits of Political Philosophy, The Sum Total of Human Happiness and Another Sort of Learning. He writes a monthly column, “Sense and Nonsense,” in Crisis Magazine and “Schall on Chesterton” in Gilbert Magazine.

Barbara Ann Schapiro, Ph.D., is a professor of English at Rhode Island College with a specialty in psychoanalysis and literature. She is the author of The Romantic Mother: Narcissistic Patterns in Romantic Poetry (Johns Hopkins, 1983), Literature and the Relational Self (NYU, 1994) and D. H. Lawrence and the Paradoxes of Psychic Life (SUNY, 1999). She is also co-editor with Lynne Layton of Narcissism and the Text: Studies in Literature and the Psychology of Self (NYU, 1986). Barbara remains a “Survivor” fan and is no longer embarrassed by it. She has even convinced her husband, after some initial resistance, to watch with her. He now shares her addiction.

Debra Schepp is the author of 19 books, including How to Find a Job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+, eBay PowerSeller Secrets, and How to Make Money with YouTube. The Washington Post named her YouTube book among the top 10 business books of the year.

She has been interviewed many times by national media, including LIFE Magazine, Forbes, and Entrepreneur magazine. She has also appeared on many radio shows and her work has been featured in publications such as Newsweek, The Chicago Tribune, and Parade.

As a former editor for McGraw-Hill and Gartner Group, she has been writing about living and working online since the 1980s.