Palm Beach Book Festival Founder & Creative Director
Lois Cahall is an international best-selling author who began her career as a newspaper journalist in Boston, Massachusetts.
Ms. Cahall’s first novel Plan C: Just in Case, published January of 2012, by Bloomsbury, shot to #1 on the fiction chart on Amazon UK. It remained in the top three for the year. It has since sold to foreign translation markets in hardcover.It made its American debut in paperback in July of 2012. In July of 2014 it hit #1 in America on the Nook “Daily Deal.” The novel is edited by Simon Beaufoy, The Full Monty screenwriter who won both the Oscar & Golden Globe for his runaway script Slumdog Millionaire. Ms. Cahall’s second novel THE COURT OF THE MYRTLES (released May of 2013, Bloomsbury) is hailed as “Tuesdays with Morrie on estrogen,” by Ladies Home Journal.
This is Ms. Cahall’s twentieth year as “The Screen Queen” (www.screenqueen.com), a syndicated radio personality covering the movie beat with an eye toward educating the “Bus Stop Mom” about age-appropriate family viewing of the latest Hollywood releases. Her broadcasts over the Saga Communications network reach more than 1 million listeners every week.
Stepping outside of her persona of “The Screen Queen” Ms. Cahall writes about women’s empowerment issues for women’s magazines – including Redbook, Seventeen, SELF, Marie Claire, Ladies Home Journal, Reader’s Digest, Men’s Journal, and Bon Appetit. In the UK she’s written for RED, GQ and Psychologies magazines…and for the London Times.
In 2010 Ms. Cahall pursued her mission of addressing issues in women’s daily lives as a host of TV’s ABC News’ Top Priority and occasional host of Good Morning America Now.
Ms. Cahall has taught writing courses at University of Massachusetts (from 2000-2003) and at the Writer’s Conference of America. Most recently Cahall has lectured on memoir/non-fiction writing at the prestigious Four Arts Society of Palm Beach, Florida, and various yacht and country clubs. Cahall is a member of the Authors Guild. She is represented by PFD in the UK, and by Inkwell Management in New York. She divides her life between New York City, London, and Palm Beach. www.loiscahall.com
