The Plotpoint

Sara DiVello is a true crime writer and creator and host of Mystery and Thriller Mavens, a popular author interview series and online community. Her novel Broadway Butterfly: A Thriller was a CBS New York Book Club pick, an Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Book, featured in Vanity Fair, and received starred reviews from Booklist and Library Journal.

DiVello serves as co-chair of the Nantucket Book Festival and sits on the boards of the Nantucket Book Foundation and Friends of the South End Library, where she curates an author speaker series. Through her weekly live events, she has interviewed more than 400 authors, from bestselling writers to breakout debut voices.

Leslie Zemeckis is a best-selling author, award-winning actress, and acclaimed documentary filmmaker known for spotlighting overlooked stories of women in entertainment history. Her films include Behind the Burly Q, Bound by Flesh, Mabel, Mabel, Tiger Trainer, and Grandes Horizontales. She is co-host of The Plotpoint Podcast and co-founder of the Santa Barbara Literary Festival. Her bestselling books include the award-winning Behind the Burly Q, Goddess of Love Incarnate: The Life of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr, and Feuding Fan Dancers, chronicling the golden age of the showgirl. Zemeckis writes a monthly column for the Montecito Journal and founded the “Stories Matter” program with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. In 2023, she received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for preserving and elevating stories of marginalized women.