This month, we're excited that we'll be reading A Woman Is No Man inside our book club and hosting the author, Etaf Rum, for an Ask Me Anything on September 22nd, at 9 am ET.

Kristina Naydonova is a thirteen-year-old bestselling thriller author of The Black Sisterhood Files, regular podcast speaker, and mental health advocate.

Tara Mohr — an expert on leadership and wellbeing, as well as an author and coach — offers us some valuable practical advice on how to get ourselves unhooked from praise and criticism, how to deal with our inner critic, and how to take bolder action.  

Tara Sophia Mohr is an expert on women’s leadership and well-being, and an author, educator, and coach. Tara is the author of Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create, and Lead, published by Penguin Random House, and named a Best Book of the year by Apple’s iBooks.

Contemplating happiness, how to cultivate healthier habits, and build better relationships? You might find Gretchen Rubin's unconventional wisdom on these subjects refreshing.

Gretchen Rubin is one of today’s most influential and pathbreaking observers of happiness and human nature. She’s the author of many books, including the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers Outer Order, Inner Calm, The Four Tendencies, Better Than Before, and The Happiness Project. She has an enormous readership, both in print and online, and her books have sold over 3.5 million copies worldwide, in more than thirty languages.

Last week, we hosted the award-winning American writer Lois Lowry for an AMA during which we asked her about the book that made her fall in love with reading, the qualities that all protagonists share in her stories, her opinion of all the new and emerging tech that's reshaping the way we take in books, how to get kids involved in reading, and much more.

The NYT best-selling author William Kent Krueger joined us for an AMA last week. Our conversation explored his love for Minnesota, the spiritual struggles & conflicts at the heart of his stories, how he thinks the readership of mystery novels is evolving, the upcoming prequel to his popular Cork O'Connor series, as well as several other interesting topics.

Last week, Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author Kamal Ravikant joined us for an Ask Me Anything inside the WSIRN community. There was much discussion about his journey to self-love, but we also dove into other interesting subjects, such as how he decides which companies to invest in, things that warm his heart and ignite his passion, his daily exercise & meditation routine, how to break free from the anxiety of failure, and his plans for an upcoming podcast. Here is the unabridged transcript of the event.

Lois Lowry is an award-winning American writer credited with more than thirty children's and young adult books. The two time Newbery Medal Winner will be taking questions inside the WSIRN Community on July 23rd at 5 pm PST (8 pm EST).