Eleanor Stern is a London-based writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work focuses on language, literature, and folklore in Britain and the American South. Stern has a newsletter, Wicked Tongue, and is a popular cultural commentator in the book space on TikTok.

Mike Shatzkin was born into a book publishing family and first worked in a bookstore when he was 15 in 1962. Since then, he has been ‘gainfully unemployed’ as a US-based consultant in the book business since 1979, specializing in digital change starting in about 1990.

Katherine Akey is a senior marketing manager at the Little, Brown Spark, and Voracious imprints of the Hachette Book Group. She has worked on New York Times bestsellers and award-winning books across fiction, nonfiction, and advice/how-to. Her authors include Luis Alberto Urrea, Andrew Sean Greer, and Sam Heughan. Prior to joining Little, Brown, she was in academic publishing at Oxford University Press and Thieme Medical Publishers.

J'Nae Phillips is a Senior Insights Editor at Canvas8. After an early career working in fashion and media, her passion for culture and journalism grew and she made the transition to writing and editing full-time. She specialises in fashion, trends, cultural shifts and all of the good stuff that gets people talking.