Stepp, Lin: - Dr. Lin Stepp is a New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Best-selling international author. A native Tennessean, she has also worked as both a businesswoman and an educator. Although not actively teaching now, she is still on adjunct faculty at Tusculum College, where she taught research and a variety of psychology and counseling courses for almost twenty years. Her business background includes over twenty-five years in marketing, sales, production art, and regional publishing.