SARAH McCOY is author of the novel, The Time It Snowed in Puerto Rico. She has taught English writing at Old Dominion University and at the University of Texas at El Paso. The daughter of an Army officer, her family was stationed in Germany during her childhood. She calls Virginia home but presently lives with her husband and dog, Gilbert, in El Paso, Texas. 

The Baker’s Daughter is Sarah's second novel. She is currently working on her next.

Delia Ephron is a bestselling author, screenwriter, and playwright.

 Her movies include The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, You’ve Got Mail, Hanging Up (based on her novel), and Michael. She has written novels for adults and teenagers, books of humor, including How to Eat Like a Child, and essays. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Vogue, MORE, and The Huffington Post. Recently, she collaborated with her sister Nora Ephron on a play, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which ran for over two years off Broadway and was performed in cities across the US, as well as in cities around the world.

 Her most recent novel, The Lion Is In, has just been published by by Blue Rider Press.

 She lives with her husband and a fluffy white dog with six names: Honey, Pansy, Cornflower, Bernice, Mambo, and Kass.

M.J. Rose, is the international bestselling author of 11 novels;Lip Service, In Fidelity The Memorist and The Hypnotist are just a few.

Lip Service became the first e-book and the first self-published novel chosen by the LiteraryGuild/Doubleday Book Club as well as being the first e-book to go on to be published by a mainstream New York publishing house.

M.J. is also the co-author with Angela Adair Hoy of How to Publish and Promote Online, and with Doug Clegg she wrote Buzz Your Book.

Rose has been profiled in Time magazine, Forbes, The New York Times, Business, Working Woman, Newsweek and New York Magazine.

Her new book is a novel, called The Book of Lost Fragrances.

 We’ve had many hilarious and talented guests on Hash Hags but Ali Wentworth is the first whose mother is actually named “Muffie.” She’s the first who rode around on Henry Kissinger’s back as a five year old at a Washington D.C. pool party. And she’s the first whose jacket blurbs reference lady parts and drugs: According to Kathy Griffin, “Ali in Wonderland is like chicken soup for the Vagina,”  and Alec Baldwin says that “Ali Wentworth is funny and warm and crazy all at once. Like Barbara Eden.  But on something. Like crystal meth.”

Ali started out on the comedy series “In Living Color,” but her permanent place in the cultural history of television was sealed when she played Jerry Seinfeld’s girlfriend “Shmoopie” in the unforgettable “Soup Nazi” episode. She’s appeared many times on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, was a correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show, created/wrote/and executive-produced Head Case, and her film credits include Jerry Maguire, Office Space, The Love Bug, and It’s Complicated.  She’s also contributed to Vogue, Self, Allure, and had a column in Marie Claire magazine.

Caroline Leavitt is the author of nine novels: Living Other Lives, Girls in Trouble, and Meeting Rozzy Halfway are just a few. Her latest novel, the critically acclaimed Pictures of You is a New York Times bestseller, and was one of Book Page’s top 20 books of 2011.

Her essays, stories and articles have appeared in Salon, Psychology Today, New York Magazine, Parenting,The Chicago Tribune, The Boston Globe and numerous anthologies. She is also the recipient of a 1990 New York Foundation of the Arts Award for Fiction, and is a  2003 Nickelodeon Screenwriting Fellow Finalist.

A senior official in the Clinton Administration, Betsy Myers was the President's senior adviser on women's issues. As Deputy Assistant to the President, she launched and was the first Director of the White House Office for  Women’s Initiatives and Outreach. She played a critical role in Clinton's re-election effort in 1996 and figured prominently in shaping the Administration's legislative agenda on issues such as domestic violence,  reproductive choice, breast cancer, and women in business.

Betsy served as a senior adviser to Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign.  

 Her new book is Take the Lead: Motivate, Inspire, and Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Everyone Around You.

Eleanor Brown is the New York Times and national-bestselling author of The Weird Sisters, hailed by People magazine as “a delightful debut” and “creative and original” by Library Journal. 

Eleanor's writing has appeared in anthologies, journals, magazines, and newspapers. The Weird Sisters, her first novel, hit the New York Times,Publishers Weekly, and national Indie best seller lists, and is available now fromAmy Einhorn Books in the US, and from multiple international publishers.

Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area, Eleanor has lived in St. Paul, San Francisco, Philadelphia, South Florida, and Oxford, London, and Brighton, England.  She lives in Colorado with her partner, writer and transmedia superstar, J.C. Hutchins.

Henry Alford is the author of three acclaimed works of investigative humor. He won the Thurber Prize for humor for his book Big Kiss: One Actor's Desperate Attempt to Claw His Way to the Top. He has been a regular contributor to the New York Times and Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and is frequently heard on NPR. 

His latest book, Would it Kill You to Stop Doing That? Is a funny and wonderfully informative guide to modern gracious living.