Candi S. Cross has co-developed approximately 200 books with exceptional people and brands worldwide including a #2 Wall Street Journal bestselling business book, a #88 of top 150 USA Today bestsellers, Next Big Idea Club 2022 nominee, featured book on Forbes Women, #1 “memoir of hope” in Marie Claire, #1 recovery memoir on Amazon lists, and #1 local politics book on Amazon lists, among many others. Authors have testified in Congressional hearings, hold U.S. and Chinese patents, and have been featured on Good Morning America, CNN, Bloomberg Business, Oxford Women’s Leadership Training, MSNBC News, “The Circus” on Showtime, and Amy Goodman’s “Democracy Now!”

Since serving as a private writer is always an intimate, honorable affair, Candi is praised for both her Southern warmth and compassion and Northern no-nonsense punctuality and execution. She actively maintains offices in Atlanta and Manhattan. Candi is a member of the storied Strategic Forum, Women’s Media Group, Doubles Club, and Out Professionals in New York City, along with Out Georgia Business Alliance.

In the earlier years of her career, Candi’s most notable coverage as a reporter includes women’s roles in war, featuring Benazir Bhutto (d. 2007), former Prime Minister of Pakistan, the illicit trade of sex trafficking featuring Zana Briski, Academy Award-winning filmmaker for “Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids,” the South’s 25-year history of civil rights featuring Congressman John Lewis (D-Ga.), and Brazil’s rise as a dominant renewable energy provider.

Claudia Cataldi is a journalist, author, and international correspondent whose voice has echoed through some of the most influential media platforms in Latin America. With a career involving government, media and education, Claudia believes that communication is a bridge, and her mission is to make it human, strategic and transformative. She possesses BAs in Journalism and Advertising, an MS degree in Political Science and International Relations, and an MBA in Marketing. She was a UN fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an alumna of Brazil’s Superior War College. She is currently doing a Ph.D. in Strategic Communications.

With over 30 years of experience in television, Claudia has worked as a reporter, producer, and editor. One of her books was publicly endorsed by the President of Brazil, earning her lifetime seats in literary academies in Brazil, the United States, and Europe. Having lived in Cuba, Mexico, the United States, and across Europe, Claudia speaks fluent English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, and is currently an international correspondent across seven countries. At You Talk I Write, Claudia helps clients elevate their platforms by promoting their books around the globe.

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Liza Andrews has lived in South America, Europe, and the United States, which gifted her with a rich multicultural background and a unique voice. A prolific writer and photographer, she has created content across the spectrum of books, magazines, newspapers and screenplays, in English and Portuguese, earning her honorary lifetime seats in academies of arts and letters in Brazil and Portugal. She is the host of The Liza Andrews TV Show, at MNN Network, in New York and a weekly columnist for The Brazilian Times, covering personal and professional development for immigrants living abroad.

Over the past decade, Andrews wrote multiple novels and short stories, which are now being published. Her debut publication was Lunch Break: A Pandemic Era Romantic Suspense. She co-authored the suspense, Facelift, and her novels, The Stranger Behind the Mask and Love Me Before You Die, will soon be available in English. Her genres are suspense, drama and romance, which depict the unexpected, dark sides of regular people. She is currently writing a psychological thriller involving immigration and mental illness.

In 2024, Liza became the director and screenplay curator of the Brazilian Cellphone Film Festival in New York, in partnership with a film director and professor from NYU. Her screenplay, “Mothers in the Field,” won Best Movie in the above category, in Cannes, in 2025. At You Talk I Write, Liza facilitates story development, manuscript analysis, and ghostwrites novels and screenplays in English and Portuguese.

Lene Barbosa is a creative consultant who has collaborated on multiple literary and audiovisual works in South America. Novels include: Virtue (Scortecci Publishers), Labyrinth and Memories of a Former Class (Makina Cultural Publishers). Movies, shorts, animations and TV pilots include: “Storm” (2025), “Survival” (2024), “Isolation” (2021), “Hemingway” (2019), “Error 011101” and “Eight Words” (2018), “Rio Expedition” and “Rocinha Slums” (2017), “Wild Routine” and “Rio in Flames” (2014), “More Doctors: A Cuban Comedy” (2013), “Political Translator” (2013), and "Memories of Bygones” (2012).

These productions were selected in film festivals throughout Central America and South America, and their demos on YouTube amassed 38 million views. At You Talk I Write, Lene is a member of the creative team, and consults on novel and screenplay writing and development.