Caleb Christian. Urban Drama: A Beautiful Struggle is an urban action drama about the difficulties a bright, talented African American male faces as he attempts to break free from criminal life and the dangers, demands and self-destructive pressures of street culture.

Cheryl Cranick. Emerging Women’s Fiction: Becoming tells the story of Claire Kelly’s struggle, through her undergraduate and graduate years, to cope with an initially misdiagnosed bi-polar disorder and the damage the wrong medications do to her body, and self-image, through uncontrolled weight gain. After a disastrous job interview at a prestigious New York ad agency, Claire enrolls in graduate school, but will the extra time and study be enough to fix her problems and place her on a better trajectory toward her dreams?

Lisa Smith. Memoir: Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Lisa Smith’s story of alcoholism and drug addiction that started early in life, but did not keep her off the fast track. Lisa became a successful young lawyer at a top New York City law firm. Like many professionals, she had the means and income to support her habits. She became so good at hiding her spiraling addiction that her close friends and family had no way of knowing the depth of her illness. One morning, fearing that she might die, Lisa decided to stage her own intervention. She inadvertently ended up in a seedy New York City psychiatric hospital, where she realized what her life had become. But could she change it?