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Admired and best-selling authors offer advice and discuss their latest books.
Spring into Summer
Lian Dolan, Abigail and Alexa Save the Wedding
Sarah Penner, The Amalfi Curse
Ally Walker, The Light Runner
Hosted by Ilana Levine, actress and podcaster, Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine
Lian Dolan is a writer and podcaster. She is the author of four best-selling novels, Lost and Found in Paris, The Sweeney Sisters, Helen of Pasadena and Elizabeth the First Wife. She has written regular columns for Pasadena Magazine, O Magazine and Working Mother Magazine. She is the creator, producer and host of Satellite Sisters, the award-winning podcast she created with her four real sisters. In 2017, Lian was given the Podcast Pioneer Award by Women in Podcasting. Lian graduated from Pomona College. She lives in Pasadena, California with her husband, Berick Treidler. She has two adult sons and a senior German shepherd.
Sarah Penner is the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Lost Apothecary and The London Séance Society. Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and her debut, The Lost Apothecary, has sold over one million copies worldwide. A graduate of the University of Kansas, Sarah spent thirteen years in corporate finance and now writes full-time. In her free time, Sarah enjoys hiking, yoga, and cooking. She also sits on the Board of Directors at her local animal shelter, Friends of Strays. Sarah and her husband, Marc, live in Florida.
Ally Walker was a budding biochemist with a BA in biology from UCSC when she stumbled into show business. Spotted by a producer in an LA eatery, she was cast in a small film and continued to make her name as an actress for the next thirty years, starring in Profiler, Universal Soldier, While You Were Sleeping, and Sons of Anarchy, to name a few. She produced and directed an award-winning documentary on LA County’s foster care system, then penned and directed the film, Far More, which won Best Screenplay at the Milan International Film Festival. She lives in LA with her husband, three boys, and two unruly bulldogs. The Light Runner is her first novel.
As an actress, Ilana Levine has performed on stage and screen to critical acclaim. On Broadway, Ilana is best known to musical theater fans for her comedic turn as "Lucy Van Pelt" in the Broadway revival of, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown. Ilana also starred in the Broadway productions of Jake's Women, Wrong Mountain and The Last Night Of Ballyhoo. She has performed on the Tony Awards. Her ability to portray characters with raw honesty, humor, and pathos, has sustained her career as an actress for over 25 years. She first appeared on the scene in the HBO series Tanner ’88 directed by Robert Altman and quickly was plucked by Vanity Fair journalist James Wolcott as an “up and comer to watch.” Seinfeld fans recognize her from the infamous episode "The Contest." She has appeared in many television shows and films including Divorce, Law and Order, Tanner on Tanner, Damages, The Job, Cashmere Mafia, Confessions of a Shopaholic, Kissing Jessica Stein, Gigantic, Ira and Abby, Failure to Launch, The Nanny Diaries, Friends With Kids and Five Flights Up. As a voice over artist she has done commercials and audio books. For the past three years Ilana has been cited as a “Twitter Influencer To Follow”. She resides in Brooklyn, New York with her husband, actor Dominic Fumusa, her two children, and their dog, Lola.