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Karen Dukess is the author of 2019's TheLast Book Party. She has been newspaper reporter in Florida, a magazine publisher in Russia, and a speechwriter on gender equality for the United Nations She lives outside of New York City and in Truro, where she interviews some of today's most acclaimed writers as host of the Castle Hill Author Talks for the Truro Center for the Arts.

Nicola Kraus has coauthored, with Emma McLaughlin, ten novels, including the international #1 bestseller The Nanny Diaries, Citizen Girl, Dedication, and The Real Real. Nicola has contributed to the New York Times, Redbook, Town & Country, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and Maxim, as well as two short collections to benefit the War Child fund: Big Night Out and Girls Night Out.