Kathleen Yap had just arrived at Katmai National Park, Alaska when a grizzly bear appeared from across the campground. It began to make its way toward Yap and her group of backpackers, causing them to backtrack.

Guillaume Sutre can still see traces of the impact that World War I left on his native Douai, France.

Deborah Reed started writing in 2011 under the pen name Audrey Braun to avoid the genre writer label.
The UCLA Extension professor felt authors that wrote thrillers or science fiction novels, like her, were stigmatized as lesser kinds of writers than those that wrote literary fiction.