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D.R. Berlin is an award-winning author, U.S. Army veteran, and General Surgeon with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Writing minor from MIT. A graduate of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, her career in high-pressure environments fuels the pulse-pounding suspense and authentic detail in The Third Estate: Secrets of the Manor....
With over three decades of experience, John O’Brien is a seasoned expert in guiding individuals through significant life transitions by offering practical and actionable strategies to navigate change with ease. He is a licensed psychologist in private practice specializing in grief, trauma, and addiction. He has offered numerous trainings to professional associations and businesses throughout...
Hi. I’m Ana. I was five when my family emigrated from Cuba to the U.S. in 1967. Ever since, I’ve been striving to honor my family’s story and Cuban American culture through storytelling—on paper, on the stage, and on radio and TV. My first book comes out April 22, 2025. Property of the Revolution: From...
Pearl Riter and Shell Riter were in 5th and 8th grade when the book was published in Jan 2024 and have burst on the literary scene with their debut novel, “Kingdoms in the Shadows: A Tale of Mystery, War, and Betrayal.” Their aim is to kindle the imaginations of readers by weaving tales...
Hi, I’m Muffy Walker, an author with a passion for crafting compelling fiction that educates and inspires. Through my stories, I aim to shed light on important topics, sparking meaningful conversations and fostering greater understanding. My journey to becoming an author has been shaped by a rich background in mental health advocacy. As...
I am an award-winning author born in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in Tampa, Florida. I attended Berkeley Preparatory School in Tampa and was a voracious reader from the time I was little, graduating quickly from books like The Phantom Tollbooth to authors such as Stephen King. I began writing young, including poetry and...
Jack Canfield, the co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books, calls Léonie Rosenstiel a cultural whistleblower. Léonie started out as an award-winning classical musician. She graduated from Barnard College, then from the Ph.D. program at Columbia University. Later she also earned degrees in counselling ministry (The New Seminary), Oriental medicine (Tri-State College), and public health (Walden University). ...
Thomas “Jared” Hayes graduated from the University of Ottawa with an MA in History. He currently lives in the Ottawa Valley and works in the Records and Information Management field. Since publishing his first book, “From Mill to Museum” in 2021, Jared has been working on a second book about Anglican Bishop John Strachan...
Author, blogger, senior model, financial executive and initiator of Loveable Light Born in Bussum, the Netherlands, I began writing in my youth. During the summer holidays I wrote short stories with my sister, Marianne. I began writing in earnest at a later age. Concerned about the current situation in this world, I started to write...
Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, arts advocate, and internationally recognized leader in research design and arts-based research. She is widely considered the world’s most visible proponent of arts-based research as a means of making research publicly accessible. Moreover, she coined the terms “social fiction” and “fiction-based research” and has been pioneering...
In 2020, my life as I knew it changed forever. Prior to this year, I had been my parent’s caregiver for nine years and helped them draw their last breaths. In 2019, my father passed at 95. One year later, my 90-year-old mother died, one day short of my father’s death date. They had lived...
John Russell has been a professional psychic for 50 years. He is a Psychic/Psychic Reader, a Medium, a Certified T.A.R.O.T. Master, a Paranormal Investigator, and now a published Author. Internationally known, he has provided psychic readings for clients in over 40 countries. For over 15 years he has been a popular featured guest, heard...
Farial English lives in a small rural community with her husband and two dogs. Several years ago, they moved from their home in a Chicago suburb to an old farm in upstate New York. Surrounded by woods and fallow fields, their dogs run free and Farial spends most of her time outdoors, planting and tending...
R.G. de Rouen is a graduate of the Institute of Children’s Literature in Connecticut and writes fiction that inspires a love of reading with a pinch of humor along the way. Throughout his 25+ years as an elementary teacher throughout the world, he has also been an advocate of animal and nature protection which he...
Born in Bangkok, Somtow grew up in Europe and was educated at Eton and Cambridge. His first career was in music and in the 1970s he acquired a reputation as a revolutionary composer, the first to combine Thai and Western instruments in radical new sonorities. Conditions in the arts in the region at the...
Aurora Lothbrok was born and raised in Northern Minnesota. She began her lightsaber training at Michigan Tech, where she studied biology, and continued onward to the University of Iowa to study pharmacy. Her love of the outdoors and penchant for adventure took her north to Alaska, where she resides with her hubby, dog, and internet famous cats...
Bill DeBarba is a four-decade entrepreneur. He began the classic back- bedroom-office business, developing custom software for local companies. His company, BusinessWare Services, Inc. (BWSI), grew until he had a staff developing products and providing services to a base of loyal customers around the country. Over his 40 years of ownership and management, Bill DeBarba’s...
A graduate of The George Washington University, Marnie is an award-winning global marketing executive and author who writes about leadership, strategic planning, and empowerment. Marnie knew she wanted to be a writer at the age of thirteen. In Vote for You: Take Your Seat at the Table, the pandemic inspired her to chronicle her journey...
David is a poet, author, and literary scholar from Cleveland, Ohio. He was born 1992 in Norfolk, Virginia, but grew up in the suburb of Bedford. In 2014 he attended Cleveland State University and graduated with his bachelors in English. Grinnell specializes in Romanticism, the Gothic, and draws inspiration from vulnerability. He reflects and portrays...
Mark lives with his wife Loren and their dog Emily in Denver, Colorado. He practiced commercial bankruptcy law for almost forty years before moving on in 2019 to write, volunteer, travel, and play music. He is the author of the following books in his award-winning 3J Legal Thriller Series, all set in Kansas City,...
Marieke Lexmond is an award-winning writer of fantasy novels. She has always been fascinated by magic, and loves exploring mystical worlds in her writing. Her books have won numerous awards, and have been praised by critics and readers alike. If you love fantasy, you’ll love Marieke Lexmond’s books. She is a master of world-building, and...
Enjoy CW Johnson and the winning book So I Walk: Poems, Songs, Legends and Lore of the Camino de Santiago – part poetry, part history, travelogue, and memoir. VISIT THE WEBSITE
A.S. Norris is a bit of an adventurer himself. As a Navy veteran, he has deployed on three tours to Asia and the western Pacific Ocean and taken several personal trips to Europe and the Caribbean. Additionally, he has traveled over half of the United States and backpacked or camped in many of its...
Before becoming an award winning author, Nikki grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and went to college at one of the University of Wisconsin campuses. She moved to Florida for an internship where she worked at the “happiest place on earth” for a few years and also where she met her husband. ...
With his debut novel, “The Birth of a Spy Couple,” he introduced readers to the thrilling Rick and Katja series, blending adventure and intrigue to captivate audiences. The success of his first book was followed by the release of “33 or 9,” the second installment in the series. The third book, “Betrayal from Within,” takes the reader deeper into...
Mark Sabbas was born in Katonah, New York, and has always felt drawn to the transcendent, receiving his degree in philosophy from Bucknell University with an interest in metaphysics. Mark writes about the intersection of science and spirituality on his website, nothingtodoubt.org. He also mentors for the Aramis Creative Learning Center and has coauthored...
Gail Priest has a passion for women’s fiction. Her degrees and work in theatre and counseling psychology inspire her stories of healing from trauma and secrets within families. A dash of romance and her love of second chances are always in the mix. The settings of her novels are influenced by her time spent on...
Michael Morgan obtained his BS from Penn State University and his MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. Coupled with his educational background, he has over 15 years of work experience across companies such as Amazon, Walmart, J.P. Morgan Chase, and Chevron. His ability to build and maintain his network throughout his educational and career journey has...
Kathy is a semi-retired elementary school teacher, author, publisher, and speaker. She says – I’m writing to plant seeds through story. As a parent and former teacher, I understand the value of character education. My hope and prayer is that children and teens will enjoy my adventures and the growth of the characters while identifying...
Dr. Warrick is a distinguished Public Health Director and Assistant Professor of Biology at Juniata College. With a background in epidemiology and a passion for environmental and infectious disease public health, Dr. Warrick’s research focuses on understanding the impact of environmental factors on adverse health outcomes. She holds a Doctorate in Health Science...
Carl Cox is the CEO and founder of 40 Strategy. He is the author of Lost at CEO, An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Strategy, Host of the Measure Success Podcast, and the $4M Strategies™ mini-podcast. Carl has been an executive leader in seven organizations that have grown from 2x to 7x, with operations in four continents. Today,...
Dr. Garbelli is a specialist in acute internal medicine, a clinical director, and a Thriving Healthcare consultant. Having witnessed and experienced inefficiencies, frustrations, and struggles as a patient, a relative, and a provider, he uses these lessons as a powerful catalyst to provide medical thought leadership. By fostering successful collaboration between empowered physicians and healthcare stakeholders,...
MICHELLE LAYER RAHAL served as her church’s youth and family ministry director before devoting herself full time to writing for God’s kingdom purposes. She is passionate about spiritual formation and leads women, students, and the homeless in weekly Bible studies and annual retreats. The Indie-award-winning author of Straining Forward enjoys collecting “God-sighting” stories and publishes a monthly...
Stephen and Mary Weller live in Texas. They enjoy spending time in bookstores, participating in fan conventions, and attending concerts. They have three sons and one daughter. Stephen and Mary enjoy travel and volunteering with the community. In 2018, they traveled to Puerto Rico to help repair roofs damaged during Hurrican Maria. They still give...
“Twist, turn, and bend the truth. Now it’s fiction.” Fred Berri was born in the Bronx (Arthur Avenue), New York. After many years, his family moved to Yonkers, where he finished High School. After graduating, he relocated back to the Bronx with his mother and brother to Arthur Avenue, an area called Little Italy in...
Kathy is a semi-retired elementary school teacher, author, publisher, and speaker. She says – I’m writing to plant seeds through story. As a parent and former teacher, I understand the value of character education. My hope and prayer is that children and teens will enjoy my adventures and the growth of the characters, while...
Alfredo Botello is a screenwriter who has worked on projects ranging from the indie Sundance Global Short La Revolucion De Iguodala to the studio tent pole Fast and Furious 9. He is a Fulbright Fellow in architecture and a Nicholl Fellow in screenwriting. In addition to screenplays, he has written for The San Francisco Examiner Magazine, Metropolis, Diablo, Surface, The Utne...
Wytisha Williams-Merrill is a Mental Health Counselor/ LPC born in Louisiana. She is also a disabled United States Army Veteran and transformational speaker. She coined the word MindEmpowerment, inspired by the understanding that every challenge begins and ends with the mind. She created the character M.E. who is a white eagle with a crown and...
Gloria Mindock is the founding editor and Publisher of Červená Barva Press. She is the author of Grief Touched the Sky at Night (Forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press, 2023), ASH (Glass Lyre Press, 2021), I wish Francisco Franco Would Love Me (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), Whiteness of Bone (Glass Lyre Press, 2016), La Portile Raiului (Ars Longa Press, Romania, 2010) translated into the Romanian by...
Welcome to the Valuepreneurs community. I’m Steve Waddell, renowned thought leader, award-winning author of “Valuepreneurs,” and the architect behind the revolutionary Value-Driven Product Development process. This groundbreaking approach aims to boost entrepreneurs’ success in introducing new product ideas to the market, and I’m excited to share it with you. Fueled by my passion for...
Judy was raised in Michigan and currently lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia with her husband Gil and her senior cat Bailey. She also has two grown sons. She is a retired Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). After her retirement, Judy had the joyful job of working in a school children’s library. The award winning...
Born in southern rural Ontario, Pamela is an avid traveler and writer. Pamela also has a deep love for animals and enjoys helping rescue groups when she is able. She can often be found on the road to her next adventure with her dogs as co-pilots. With a passion for animals and weaving tails,...
Maria Imbalzano is an award-winning contemporary author who writes about strong, independent women and the men who fall in love with them. Instead of drafting motions, legal memoranda, and briefs, although fascinating, she now spends her days creating memorable characters and taking them on their emotional journeys through her contemporary romance novels. A...
Scott Newman is an award-winning author and podcaster. He was formerly an Associate Editor at Quillette and graduated from Princeton University in 2021 with a degree in History. He has lived in Sydney, New York, Paris, Buenos Aires, and London. He currently resides in New York. VISIT THE WEBSITE
Larry A. Freeland is a third-generation military veteran. His father was an officer in the Army Air Corps/United States Air Force whose career spanned thirty years from World War II through the early stages of the Vietnam War. His grandfather was a World War I doughboy, and his two younger brothers were war veterans...
John Russell has been a professional psychic for 50 years. He is a Psychic/Psychic Reader, a Medium, a Certified T.A.R.O.T. Master, a Paranormal Investigator, and now a published Author. Internationally known, he has provided psychic readings for clients in over 40 countries. For over 15 years he has been a popular featured guest, heard...
Dr. Corinne Auman is a recognized gerontologist with over 20 years of experience working directly with older adults and their families and the author of Keenagers: Telling a New Story about Aging She is a Nationally Certified Guardian, Certified Senior Advisor, and an Advanced Professional member of the Aging LifeCare Association. She received her Ph.D. from...
Monique de Maio is a trailblazing leader who has dedicated her life to helping women succeed in their personal and professional lives. The winning book is titled The 7 Secrets to Creating a Life You Love: A Practical Guide for Women in Leadership and is the culmination of her decades-long experience as a businesswoman, entrepreneur,...
I have worked with students for over 30 years and have realized the importance of fathers. I was inspired to write this book to distill the insights I have gained in my work with students and their families. I have written about 5 principles that will help men explore how to be a dad that...
Carl Cox is the CEO and founder of 40 Strategy. He is the author of Lost at CEO, An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Strategy, and Host of the Measure Success podcast. Carl has been an executive leader in seven different organizations that have grown from 2x to 7x, with operations in four continents. Today, Carl is...
KJ Fieler (Kat) is known for her exceptional storytelling and captivating narratives. Among her many awards are: * Literary Titan Gold * Firebird Award for Women’s Issues and Weird Genre * 2023 Historical Fiction Company, 5-star Reader’s Choice and Silver Award for Fantasy * The 20th Annual “Best Book” Awards, Finalist * Reader’s Favorite, 5-star...
Shelley Johnson and Kathy Tuccaro – Hosts of Women Road Warriors Shelley M. Johnson is a seasoned journalist, broadcaster, multimedia producer, writer, marketer, and advocate for the progress of women. Shelley has worn many hats and brings insightful dialog to Women Road Warriors with a quirky sense of humor and unique perspectives. She also interviews many...
With the benefit of thirty-five years’ service, active and reserve, as a US Navy SEAL officer — two hot wars, one cold; first deployment, Vietnam; last deployment, Afghanistan — Crossland has found projecting his grasp of naval intrigue one hundred years into the past an enjoyable challenge. Captain Crossland has written internationally on the subject...
John is a licensed CPA who graduated with high honors from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting. After graduation, John went on to become a licensed CPA. He worked 32 years in the Federal Government for the IRS, Customs, and Homeland Security. His roles and responsibilities...
My name is Shae’vada Pratcher, but I am known to many as Shae. I was born in Fairbanks, AK, but grew up in many states, being a military brat. I am co-founder and part-owner of Limitless Light Productions Studios LLC. I made a name for myself in relation to radio through my podcast segment,...
Miki Taylor is an award-winning travel advisor/agency owner (Taylor & Co. Travel) with over 14 years experience and has worked in the accounting industry for over 25 years and has always had that entrepreneurial spirit with a couple new businesses in the works. She has dreamed of writing children’s books and changing lives, but the...
Don Allen Holbrook, a distinguished economist and former certified economic developer, possesses an insightful perspective on how economic development can transform America and propel her to regain her global competitive edge. Holbrook’s authoritative voice on this subject has been showcased in numerous major magazines, where he shares his extensive knowledge and strategies for transforming economies....
Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, arts advocate, and internationally recognized leader in research design and arts-based research. She is widely considered the world’s most visible proponent of arts-based research as a means of making research publicly accessible. Moreover, she coined the terms “social fiction” and “fiction-based research” and has been pioneering the...
Betty enjoys traveling and has visited many places around the world. She especially loves the log cottage she bought in the remote woods of Finland, where she spent summers with her family and friends, telling fanciful stories of provincial trolls, shy moose, and impish fish. She lives half the year in Tucson, Arizona with her...
Amanda is the author of the historical action & adventure series A Country for Castoffs, which combines her family history with the larger historical context to educate and entertain a new generation of readers. She has been researching her family genealogy for decades and taught middle and high school history for over a dozen years. She...
Award-winning author M. C. Ryder has been composing stories, poems, and lyrics from the beginning of time when reading became a hobby. The sky is the limit, but she enjoys exploring off the beaten path both figuratively and literally. She resides in the Keystone State with a clowder of felines who rule the house....
I’ve been a college/high school English teacher, a technology CEO, and a real estate agent in the Dominican Republic selling beachfront property (even did a few HGTV shows), but now I’m following my lifelong dream of writing southern fiction novels. Join me (and my occasional blog about life and literature, “A Byrd’s-Eye View. VISIT THE...
Mark lives with his wife Loren and their dog Emily in Denver, Colorado. He schooled at Haverford College and Washburn University, and practiced commercial bankruptcy law for four decades before moving on in 2019 to write, photograph, volunteer, travel, and play music. He is the author of “And . . Just Like That – essays...
Scott is Life is Too Short Guy. He lives every day with intense zest, enthusiasm, and excitement. He exudes energy. He has an infectious personality he uses to Make the World Happier One Smile at a Time.When not writing or speaking about LITSG, Scott is the Chairman and CEO of Invesque, a public real estate...
Amy Turner: I was born in Bronxville, New York, and spent my childhood summers by the ocean in Wainscott (Town of East Hampton), New York. In 1981, my husband Ed and I moved to East Hampton on a one-year “sabbatical” from our New York City law jobs and fell in love with its relatively...
As a poet, D’Janee writes about various topics pertaining to life and the world we live in. As an author, she writes material ranging from children’s books to young adult fiction. Her published books include Jimmy and the Teddy Bear, The Blizzard’s Secrets, and On the Run, the first book in the young adult...
Shawna James is an award-winning author & writer. Her debut novel “Despite the Devil” was released in audio, paperback, and hardcover in Spring 2021 as part of her “They Loved Collection” book series. She has received 5-Star awarded book reviews, including Readers Favorite, and is a winner of the Canada Book Awards, as she...
Kathy O’Shea has lived with migraines for 42 years and is a 33 year professor of English, who has combined these significant parts of her life into this literary anthology centered around five themes related to migraine. She is the winner the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and has two beloved golden retrievers...
In her home province of New Brunswick, Canada, Cheryl Gillespie, along with her cat Mattie, will often be found basking on the backyard deck beneath the warm sunshine, the very spot where many of the chapters for I Feel Your Stare were written. A childhood diagnosis of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and associated blindness, coupled with physical...
Hope Gibbs grew up in rural Scottsville, Kentucky. As the daughter of an English teacher, she was raised to value the importance of good storytelling from an early age. Today, she’s an avid reader of women’s fiction. Drawn to multi-generational family sagas, relationship issues, and the complexities of being a woman, she translates those themes...
Before becoming an award winning author, Nikki grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and went to college at one of the University of Wisconsin campuses. She moved to Florida for an internship where she worked at the “happiest place on earth” for a few years and also where she met her husband. ...
Vy Lien has always been interested in human behavior and received her bachelor’s degree in psychology at University of California, Riverside. She then obtained double graduate degrees and joined the medical field as a Physician Associate. Vy grew up as an only child to an exceptional single mother who set examples of how to face...
Nicole has been writing and telling stories since she was a young child. She divides her time between writing and working with TV, film, and commercials. Sometimes the projects mirror her current work in progress. She has worked closely with Candy Cain with Gemelli Films to create several of these stories and has worked as...
Ray Catania is a metaphysical teacher, master-certified life coach, and award-winning author. He believes that modern-day spirituality is best taught at the intersection of science and spirituality. He is passionate about helping others get unstuck, harness the power of their mind, and create their own reality. His first book, The Atheist and The Afterlife is...
Adam began his legal career as an associate at a law firm known for its work in the area of special education law, where he represented families whose children had a variety of special needs. Adam moved on from that position in 2009 to pursue his dream of establishing his own law practice, Law Offices...
Grace Sammon is an entrepreneur, educator, speaker, and author. She has started and managed two for-profit and two not-for-profit companies, and she has traveled to 35 states and eight foreign countries. Recognized in “Who’s Who in Education” and “Who’s Who in Literature,” Grace is utilizing skills built up over decades as she re-invents herself...
About The F.E.E.L Podcast and Host Melissa Crook The month that I turned 50 and was 2 weeks into our latest move to Lubbock, TX, I ended up in the ER twice over a 10 day period with various symptoms, including racing heart beat, sky high blood pressure, and a bladder control issue. After scores...
Dr. Gil Snider is a neurologist practicing in Chesapeake, Virginia. Trained at the University of Michigan and St. Vincent’s Hospital in New York City, he lives in Virginia Beach with his wife and has been recognized as one of the Top Docs in Hampton Roads every year since 2012. The Last, his second...
Donna lives in a small Iowa town with her husband, Marty, an ordained minister who does construction work and painting. A stage four cancer survivor, she started to write when, during treatments, she could do nothing else. After decades in management positions for large companies, she suddenly had nothing to manage and asked God to...
Cheri Strange proves God’s ability to transform a plain and ordinary wallflower into something completely unexpected. She did not set out to become a writer or a speaker, nor did she dream of getting a Ph.D. and becoming the mother to eight children. She fell in love with a God who met her where...
Nora D’Ecclesis is an American bestselling non-fiction author and Haiku poet. Her international #1 bestseller “The Retro Budget Prescription” held the top kindle book downloads in business/self help for over a year. Nora is a graduate of Kean University. She has a long history of presenting events, retreats and seminars focused on wellness and stress...
Marieke Lexmond reads tarot cards, loves food, photography, and travel. She has three sassy little dogs that she likes to take everywhere and have their own Instagram account @urbandogsquad. Her background in filmmaking enabled her to travel and live around the globe. Storytelling is in her blood, from saving her allowance from a very young age...
VALORIE M. ALLEN of Alberta, Canada, has spent the last 35 years working with environmental, population, and animal rights groups and was awarded the Canadian Volunteer Award for her efforts. She is a proud member of the Population Institute Canada. This experience and her many years in education revealed the dire need for her books...
June Gillam writes the Hillary Broome crime novel series, inspired by her obsession with what makes ordinary people mad enough to kill. A native of the Central Valley, June lives cradled between California’s Coastal Range and the Sierra Nevada mountains. She loves the company of writers and readers and was honored with a Jack London...
Before becoming an award winning author, Nikki grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and went to college at one of the University of Wisconsin campuses. She moved to Florida for an internship where she worked at the “happiest place on earth” for a few years and also where she met her husband. ...
Rebecca Dimyan is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher. Her work has been publishedin national and international publications including Vox, the CT Post, YahooHealth, 34thParallel, Glassworks Magazine, The Mighty and many others. Her debut novel Waiting for Beirut was a finalist for the Fairfield Book Prize and is forthcoming from Running Wild Press. Her health and wellness memoir Chronic will be published summer...
Jeanette Watts is a dance instructor, writer, seamstress, actress, and very, very poor housekeeper. She loves writing historic fiction, but when she needed to write a dance textbook, she had to go off and do that. Partway through revising her next historic fiction, she got an idea for a modern comedy, and had to stop...
Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, arts advocate, and internationally recognized leader in research design and arts-based research. She is widely considered the world’s most visible proponent of arts-based research as a means of making research publicly accessible. Moreover, she coined the terms “social fiction” and “fiction-based research” and has been pioneering the...
Angela Greenman: Angela Greenman is an internationally recognized communications professional. Her intense career has spanned the spectrum from community relations in Chicago to US and world governments’ public communications on nuclear power. She has worked in sixteen countries including Brazil, China, France, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, and South Africa. She has been an expert and lecturer...
E.T. Milligan is an accomplished speaker, author, and award-winning poet. A native of Leesville, Louisiana, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in News-Journalism from Northwestern State University in 1981 while being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Due to his outstanding performance as a cadet and a military officer, he was inducted into...
Rebecca is a multi-award-winning author of contemporary fiction with a purpose. She is a uniquely passionate person who lives to write compelling stories with urgent messages. Her characters are imperfect, relatable individuals who (usually) grow from their experiences—albeit sometimes slowly—however big or small their challenges may be. Her goal is to write believable characters with...
Peter Eliott melds his love of evocative writing with an intense interest in dark adventure stories. As a devotee of literary fiction, Peter renders exciting action stories in a highly vivid style. His earlier career in architecture and design informs his current novels, the Shadow Bidder Series, adding visual realism to the gritty urban setting....
Amy Rivers is an award-winning novelist, as well as the Director of Writing Heights Writers Association. She was named 2021 Indie Author of the Year by the Indie Author Project. Her psychological suspense novels incorporate important social issues with a focus on the complexities of human behavior. Her novel, STUMBLE & FALL, is the second...
Sherman Edward Ross is a retired biochemist. He has lived in Germany as well as numerous locations around the USA. He attended undergraduate and graduate universities in Colorado and Texas, receiving history, biology, and biochemistry degrees. He has been employed as a biochemist in both academia and the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to writing Code...
Over the last 28 years Kelly Hudson has used her talents and education to custom-design a career, working with performers to become the best versions of themselves. Losing, Learning and Loving, the title of her recent book, is based on her experiences while serving as the Head Athletic Trainer and Director of Sports Medicine...
Donna lives in a small, Iowa town with her husband Marty; an ordained minister, who also does construction work and painting. A stage four cancer survivor, she started to write when, during treatments, she could do nothing else. After decades in management positions for large companies, she suddenly had nothing to manage and asked God...
Stephen and Mary Weller were born in Texas and decided it was a good place to live. Mary prefers the summer heat. Stephen prefers the winter cold. One of them compromised. Stephen is the author of two award-winning books: The Progressive Machine: Before We Called It Lean and The Progressive Hospital: A Lean Hope. Mary...
Dr. Eisenberg’s professional memberships have included the American Society for Training & Development, Organization Development Network, Product Development and Management Association, the Strategic Leadership Forum, and the NeuroLeadership Institute. Dr. Eisenberg has a B.Sc. (Honors Psychology), M.Sc., (Psychology), and M.D., from McGill University, and was the recipient of various scholarships. He has also been a Faculty...
S.G. was born in a faraway land of castles, monarchies and fallen dictatorships, aka Hungary. Hollywood movies were forbidden under Soviet oppression during her childhood, but her dad smuggled them in anyway, risking his life so that his children could experience the magic and hope inherent in those stories. She watched rebellions unfold in...
George Hopkins is a former United States Marine Corps Sergeant who served on active duty during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was Chairperson of English at a high school designated as a national school of excellence, and has taught at St. John’s University, Middlesex College, Columbia Teachers College and in Puerto Rico. He was twice named “Teacher of the...
Valerie Taylor is retired from a forty year career in marketing and is living the author life in Shelton, CT. Financial services marketer, copywriter, editor, novelist, author are all words to describe Valerie. But being called Mimi by her granddaughter is what brings her the most joy these days. Born and raised in Stamford,...
Lucky At Bat is about a young boy named Jack, and his two rescue rats- Lucky and Gus-Gus. He discovers, through taking Lucky to Little League practice, that Lucky has a talent for baseball, and the little rat becomes the team’s mascot and secret batting coach. This book follows the relationship between the two rat brothers,...
Deb Radcliff is the first investigative journalist to make cybercrime a beat. Since 1996, she has been embedded in the hacker and law enforcement communities learning their techniques, lifestyles, and philosophies that make them unique. Deb has won two Neal Awards for investigative reporting, and feels one of her crowning career moments was addressing engineering...
Larry Freeland was born in Canton, Ohio. Since his father was an officer with the United States Air Force he grew up on many Air Force bases across this country. After graduating from High School at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico, he attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He graduated in...
Blogger and author Cheryl L. Eriksen has a master’s degree in social work (MSW) and is a former equine assisted therapy facilitator. She also authored two training manuals for Eagala model equine assisted therapy facilitators. While earning her MSW from Western Michigan University, Cheryl took a special interest in the effects of trauma on...
A native of São Paulo and mother to three children, Cristiana Pinciroli began her sports career as a high-performance professional water polo player. She captained the Brazilian team for 15 years, playing professionally for four years in Italy, her side winning the European Interclub Champions Cup for the first time. In her final appearance...
Matt Jardine is a fiction and non-fiction author, podcaster, entrepreneur and teacher. He is a Londoner born and bred, but now travels the world writing and public speaking. He says that different countries, cultures and points of view help him get a better grasp of the things that drive and inspire humanity. They also inspire...
Who is Mark Victor Hansen? Mitzi Perdue spoke with many of the important people who inspired Mark Victor Hansen along the way and to those with whom he made a true difference in their lives. It’s hard to imagine one man able to conquer so many mountains. He did it by never letting any obstacle...
Karen is a multi-published author of Native American historical romances. She has been praised by reviewers and fans alike for bringing the historic American Indian culture to life, and she has been nominated for several different awards. Karen’s great-grandmother was Choctaw Indian, and because of this, she is honored to be able to write stories...
“OK Boomer” has become a dismissive act of ignoring a comment a Boomer says. Instead of feeling upset or put off by eye rolls, we are here to gently remind Millennials and Boomers we are all OK! Let’s laugh and lean in together. Best Family Hosts Relationships 1st Place Slice of Life-Humor 1st Place...
LGBTQ+ 1st Place Health and Wellness (General) 2nd Place Self Help 2nd Place Cosmos (cos/they), aka Meenakshi, is an award-winning podcaster, medical doctor, a trauma-informed love, sex, relationship and empowerment coach and an author bringing more than two decades of experience to these conversations. Sublime Soul Surrender (SSS) is about breaking norms. We talk about...
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Mark lives with his wife Loren and their dog Emily in Denver, Colorado. He schooled at Haverford College and Washburn University, and practiced commercial bankruptcy law for four decades before moving on in 2019 to write, photograph, volunteer, travel, and play music. He is the author of “And . . Just Like That – essays...
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Bibiana Krall, award-winning co-author of Wicked Mist (#3) and The Haunted Series, she is honored to be part of a creative collaboration that began during the pandemic and continues to flourish and grow. She’s a former international travel expert and luxury insider. Bibiana has lived the adventurous life she writes about in her novels,...
Helen Starbuck is a third generation Colorado native who has spent her career working as a nurse in the main ORs of several suburban hospitals and a major children’s hospital in the Denver area. She translated her experience and knowledge of OR nursing into a job as a clinical editor for an OR nursing journal. As...
My first published book was an account of my cancer journey, and a walk through my coming to faith titled ‘When All Else Fails’. I had always been told to write what I know, and at that time, this was all I knew. When that offering was well received I continued, but gravitated to Christian...
Mark Piggott, a native of Phillipsburg, N.J., enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1982, beginning a 23-year career. He served on four aircraft carriers and various duty stations as a Navy Journalist before he attained the rank of Chief Petty Officer. He retired from active duty in 2006. His first novel, Forever Avalon, was published in...
Donna Welser retired from business and information technology management, after an amazing, thirty-two year long career working for UnitedHealth Group, Optum. She then pursued a master’s in labor and employment relations at Rutgers University, NJ. while also writing her first book. Donna considers herself an adventurer, apocaloptomist (hopes for the best, prepares for the worst),...
Wilma was born in Pennsylvania in 1964 and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She began writing at the age of 10 to relieve the pain of her mother’s unrelenting abuse. When she began to receive help for the abuse, she searched for a book on mother-daughter sexual abuse from a daughter’s perspective. There were none available....
Dana Storino is an emerging neurodiverse writer, has been published in Wrytimes and has been a guest blogger for ADDitude.com. She also has a short story being featured in the upcoming July issue of Her View From Home. She has two short stories published in separate issues of Gliterary Literary and a poem in an upcoming issue of Poet’s Choice. Dana received her...
Susan Rex Ryan is the award-winning author of Defend Your Life about the awesome health benefits of vitamin D including the potential prevention of chronic medical conditions including autism, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and multiple sclerosis. Her health articles have been published on Hormones Matter (TM), the Lucine Health Sciences website, and in Choices Magazine. Sue has also been...
Texas author M.K. (Katie) Lever is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin Moody College of Communication, studying NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) discourse. Having served as a former Division 1 runner – she ran track and cross country for Western Kentucky University – she now is a freelance writer for LRT...
Karen Gruber is an International #1 best-selling, award-winning author, inspirational speaker, and Leadership Development Coach for purpose-driven women entrepreneurs. Karen has helped hundreds of women get crystal clear on how to structure their soul-aligned business so they can magnetize their dream clients and earn explosive, consistent income. Karen’s clients create successful, authentic businesses that are...
Violet Lemay was a stage designer, a university art professor, and an editorial illustrator before arriving at her dream job: writing and illustrating books for kids. Violet has illustrated forty-four books, six of which she also wrote. Clients include HarperCollins, Penguin Random House, Scholastic, duopress, ‘Magination Press, and Highlights. A native of St. Louis, Missouri,...
Sparky Of Bunker Hill And The Cold Kid Case, a Firebird Book Award 1st Place Cozy Mystery winner, Author Academy Top Ten Best Mystery Finalist, and a Critters Readers’ Poll top finisher, is my latest novel, a humorous noir mystery that’s fun for middle-grade, YA, and adult readers. Dozens of my short stories have appeared...
Tryn Rose Seley supports the lives of young children, those with special needs, and people living with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. All her projects and offerings are designed to empower caregivers and the one they care for, including her book, “15 Minutes of Fame: One Photo Does Wonders to Bring You Both Back...
Pastor Phil Dvorak is the founder and president of Recovery Church Movement. He has served as a pastor, church planter, and as a ministry executive. However, his passion for those impacted by addiction is palpable. He coauthored a 30-Day recovery guide with Dr. Paul Meier (founder of Meier Clinics) and Dr. Jared Pingleton (Vice President...
ALSO $500 GRAND PRIZE WINNER Nicholas L. Chiarkas was the Director of Wisconsin’s State Public Defender Agency for 22-years. Under his leadership, the agency received several awards for excellence. He was the founder of Justice Without Borders, was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, and a visiting lecturer...
Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is a best-selling, award-winning author, publisher, arts advocate, and internationally recognized leader in research design and arts-based research. She is widely considered the world’s most visible proponent of arts-based research as a means of making research publicly accessible. Moreover, she coined the terms “social fiction” and “fiction-based research” and has been pioneering...
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I am an International Speaker, Author, Consultant, and Facilitator with a focus on emotional intelligence, communication, and leadership development. I am an expert in enhancing personal effectiveness, understanding behaviour styles, developing inspirational leadership, and strengthening communication for maximum impact and influence. I am a Master Practitioner of Genos International Emotional Intelligence Programs and certified in...
John Layne is an International Multi-Award Winning Author, screenwriter, and actor. He is also a retired police detective. He holds multiple college degrees, including a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Psychology, and a Masters’s Degree in Management. His professional writing career began in the sports industry, where he wrote articles for national magazines and online...
Winona Howe grew up in Oakdale, California where she listened to her grandmother’s stories of pre-1900 ranch life in Nevada, played in the barn and climbed trees. These activities were far preferable to practicing the piano and cleaning her room, duties she tried to avoid. Like many writers, Winona was an avid reader as...
Award-winning author Lukman Clark lives with his wife, Dr. Linda Strahan, and two cats in Riverside, California. He works as a fulltime writer and gardener in his own backyard. Long ago, Lukman earned his BA in Communications/English Lit and an MBA in International Marketing. From there he went on to executive positions in banking, finance...
De’Vannon Hubert is the author of Sex, Drugs and Jesus, a memoir about his struggles with drug addiction, drug dealing, homelessness, serving in the Armed Forces, contracting HIV and HEP B, and rejection from his church for his sexuality. De’Vannon is also the host of the Sex, Drugs and Jesus Podcast and is the...
Beth SKMorris is the author of three poetry books: IN FLORIDA (2010), NOWHERE TO BE FOUND (2014) and the recently released IN THE AFTERMATH- 9/11 THROUGH A VOLUNTEER’S EYES commemorating the 20th anniversary in September 2021; a Pinnacle award winner, Firebird Book Award winner, and Eric Hoffer finalist. IN THE AFTERMATH is now included in...
Having been diagnosed with cancer twice, with the second time being a terminal diagnosis in 2016, I promised myself that if I lived 5 years, I would write a book and share how I outlived my diagnosis. According to the statistics on my cancer type, salivary duct carcinoma, I had a 20 percent chance of...
Donna lives in a small, Iowa town with her husband Marty; an ordained minister, who also does construction work and painting. A stage four cancer survivor, she started to write when, during treatments, she could do nothing else. After decades in management positions for large companies, she suddenly had nothing to manage and asked...
Martha Thompson, an ordained Prophetess, has been walking with the Lord all her life. Prophetess is a two-time winner for her first book called Behind The Prophetess’ Mask. As God raises her as a Bold Soldier, God uses her mightily as an Intercessor for the Kingdom of God. Her story gives you the hope desperately...
I’m Roger Wilson-Crane and whilst I was born in Harpenden I was raised in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, so hopefully, I would be described as an honorary Yorkshireman. My passion for writing has always been with me, stemming from writing and directing a school play at the tender age of 14. This enthusiasm resurfaced in...
Freelance Writer • Blogger • Wife • Mother • Friend • Wayfinder • Personal Note Writer • Virginian • Birder • Alto • Guitar Player • Christian/Episcopalian • Bank Board Chairman • Community Activist • W4EHC • Connector • Encourager Rooted in the land and the countryside Born and raised on a cattle farm,...
Michael R. Schultheiss is a lifelong daydreamer. He has been escaping into other worlds since he was a boy. His early influences include Tolkien, Terry Brooks, and David Eddings on the fantasy side of things, and Ray Bradbury and H.G. Wells for science fiction. Over time, he graduated to George R. R. Martin, Brandon...
Marcie’s debut novel, Em’s Awful Good Fortune, is based on her experiences living overseas as a tagalong wife. Her play Girls Together Always—a collection of coming-of-age stories about “growing up girl”—won the ENCORE! Producer’s Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Maxfield lives in Los Angeles where she volunteers for WriteGirl, a non-profit organization that...
Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is a best-selling, award-winning author, publisher, arts advocate, and internationally recognized leader in research design and arts-based research. She is widely considered the world’s most visible proponent of arts-based research as a means of making research publicly accessible. Moreover, she coined the terms “social fiction” and “fiction-based research” and has been...
Kyomi O’Connor moved to the States from Japan in February 1990 to work as a post-doctoral researcher at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland. Soon, she fell in love with her husband-to-be, Patrick. Their journey together led them to change their careers, move to San Diego, and practice Buddhism. They grew spiritually together, and became leaders...
As a graduate from the U.S.A.F. Academy class of 1993, Sebastian went on to serve a tour of active duty, followed by tours in the Air National Guard and Reserve service. He retired in 2016. Throughout his military career, he integrated his imaginative inspirations, exploiting his creativity to find innovative solutions to the challenges in...
I was raised in Unicoi County, surrounded by the traditions and dialect of the area. I embraced the regional stories, mountain views, culture-except sweet tea and unannounced visits-and sought to correct the misconceptions about the local people and the town stories that turned into rumors. I reside in Erwin, Tennessee, with my children and...
Carmen María Navarro has worked in marketing and brand story telling in top 500 companies since graduating with her MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 2004. She serves on the Board of Center for Human Services, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting youth and eliminating youth homelessness. Carmen María is a stepmom...
I started writing poetry in college as a way to deal with troubling emotions and traumatic memories from my childhood. In graduate school, I was more courageous, and I wrote scenes from memory, trying to recapture the mood of much of my life with a mentally ill parent. During the day, I taught high schoolers...
Since establishing his company, TALENT, in 1986, Tony has written hundreds of television and radio commercials and collateral pieces as part of multimedia advertising campaigns, conducted national media relations programs, conceived and developed successful promotional events, and won several awards at many levels, including the prestigious International Newspaper Marketing Association Award in 2005 for direct-response...
Rebecca Johnston graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors in English and Modern European History in 2015, and in 2017 she graduated with her Masters in English from the University of Texas at Tyler. Currently Rebecca is pursuing a doctoral degree from the University of Exeter while also serving as the Vice President of the...
After studying journalism at Texas A&M University, Jody was a television news reporter and anchor in Bryan-College Station Texas; Charleston South Carolina; and San Antonio Texas. In addition to writing, her other passion is advocating for people with special needs. She met her son, Marius, while reporting on Romania’s orphanages post-communism and saw firsthand the...
Mikael Carlson is an award-winning political fiction author, including a silver medal from Readers’ Favorite and National Indie Excellence, American Fiction, Lyra, and Global E-book Awards. He was named one of the ‘50 Great Writers You Should Be Reading’ by The Authors Show in 2018. Mikael is a former U.S. Army Paratrooper and retired Army...
Pete grew up in Green Bay, Wisconsin, before joining the Army out of high school. After a couple enlisted years, he switched gears and decided to go the officer route. He graduated from West Point four years later and subsequently spent five years as an Army Transportation Officer. He eventually moved back to Green...
My goal as an author is to encourage and entertain my readers. In 2011, I began writing nonfiction, but my fictional writing started in 2016 while facilitating a novel-writing class with my students. The voices wouldn’t stop talking! Vivid characters and their dialogue exploded, and writing their stories was my only relief. My psychiatrist friend...
Larry Freeland was born in Canton, Ohio. Since his father was an officer with the United States Air Force he grew up on many Air Force bases across this country. After graduating from High School at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico, he attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. He graduated in 1968 with...
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne is a multi-award winning children’s author of eight books : My Life at Sweetbrier–A Life Changed by Horses, Charlie the Horse, Charlene the Star, Charlene the Star and Hattie’s Heroes, Charlene the Star and Bentley Bulldog, A Tractor Named Wilbur and Un Tractor Llamado Wilbur and Wilbur’s new Home. Many of her fictional books are beautifully...
Melanie grew up in North Providence, RI, and she loves her New England Patriots. She earned her Bachelor of Science Degree from Bryant University, and she has over twenty years of experience in business. Melanie has always been passionate about dogs, animals and animal rescue. Love Snaggs is her first novel. Melanie is a 10-year breast...
Daniel Meier graduated from UNCW (University of North Carolina, Wilmington) with a major in History. He served in the United States Navy and later studied American Literature at The University of Maryland Graduate School for one year and began writing. Meanwhile, he taught English and History at a private high school for a couple of years, worked as...
Dr. Arlene McCain is a board-certified family physician who is committed to partnering with individuals as they discern personal motivations for healthy change and passionately supports their inspired progress towards a thriving life. She has a whole health perspective that honors body, mind, and spirit. Arlene earned a Bachelor of Science in biology and...
Dr. Foster is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as Pain Medicine. He is a best-selling multi-award-winning author. He is the author or co-author of several scientific articles. His books include three best-selling books: The Stress Book: Forty-Plus Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life, Foster’s Opioid Addiction Classification Status Guide,...
Rey is a Texas, native, is a dedicated special education teacher at a local middle school; as well as, a published author of two inspirational Christmas books involving hope, love, and perseverance. His published books feature his creation of “Northopolis”, a magical Christmas lawn display which was featured on the national television show, “The Great...
Anita Dickason is a retired police officer with a total of twenty-seven years of law enforcement experience, twenty-two with Dallas PD. She served as a patrol officer, undercover narcotics officer, advanced accident investigator, tactical officer and first female sniper on the Dallas SWAT team. Awards Law Enforcement Professional Achievement Award—The Texas House of Representatives Officer...
Mark Canniff has always had a deep fascination with the paranormal. Having been the witness to strange and supernatural events since the tender age of six, he has dedicated his writing to exploring these odd occurrences and sharing his experiences. After suffering through harrowing sexual abuse at a young age, Mark uses his stories as...
I am Daughter of the Most High King. Cherished and loved by My Heavenly Father. Protected and adored by My Heavenly Husband. Yeshua. Best-Seller on Amazon Published Author/Certified Inspirational/Motivational Speaker/Women’s Group Leader/Ministry Healing Broken Women A mother of two amazing adult children, gramma of 6 beautiful grandchildren. A survivor of, and with a brain tumor,...
Geraldine Brown Giomblanco is the best-selling, multi-award-winning author and a captivating, inspirational speaker. A former Vice President and thirty-year veteran as a strategic planner and marketing professional. She was born and raised in Westchester County, NY. Geraldine and her husband now make their home in Montauk, NY, and Naples, FL. ‘The Compass Rose’ screenplay, written...
At age eight, Deborah S. Greenhut announced her ambition to become an author. Her mother replied, “Become a teacher instead to make a living.” Crestfallen, ten-year-old Deborah perfected her skill with a spangled baton to twirl solo as her school’s mascot. A one-time concert-pianist-in-training, Deborah longed to trade up for a conductor’s baton, but that career path...
Eli left Austin and moved to Albuquerque with hopes to join the Art Therapy Program at the University of New Mexico (UNM) but much to her disappointment learned the program was to be discontinued. Instead, she pursued a MS in Health Education Health Promotion Program and blended her interest in the arts with health. Eli...
John Sheirer (pronounced “shy-er”) lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with his wonderful wife, Betsy, and happy dog, Libby. He has taught writing and communications for 29 years at Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield, Connecticut, where he also serves as editor and faculty advisor for Freshwater Literary Journal . He writes a monthly column on current events for his hometown...
In 2021, the second year of the global pandemic, Tom Tracy, like so many of us, found a new passion – writing children’s stories. Inspired by his now 5-year-old daughter’s curiosity for the world around her, Tom embarked on his story-telling journey. His first book, Scoochie & Skiddles in Fun at Gramma’s, is a beautiful...
GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF 2022’s First Quarter Book Awards To get a free chapter of the book – visit THE WEBSITE Valeria is an award-winning Hispanic market and mindset thought leader, keynote speaker, and author. She is the creator of a bilingual mindset transformation platform for Hispanic and other professionals and entrepreneurs of color, who...
JULIE SCOLNIK is a concert flutist and the founding artistic director of Mistral Music, a chamber music series which since 1997 has been known for its virtuosic artists, imaginative programming, and the personal rapport she establishes with her audiences. Since her treatment and recovery from breast cancer in 2005, Scolnik has found ways to play and organize...
Born and raised in Oakland, CA Natasha learned the importance of resilience at a young age. As a teen, she struggled with homelessness, addiction and a suicide attempt. By her early 20’s she was determined to turn her life around. With faith, hard work and a radical shift in mindset she created the life of...
Jacqueline Shortell-McSweeney is a proud member of Sisters in Crime, Women’s National Book Association and Honorary Member of Women Make Movies and Suffolk Bar Association. Jacqueline Shortell-McSweeney writes only when inspired, or when her Muse, Noreen, stands over her with a metaphorical rolling pin. At other times, she has worked as a producer for Women...
Allergic to the modern world, trapped in a bubble and now illegally alive; Summer asks the question “Do our lives not matter?” in her new book “Canary in a Bubble.” Unexplained throat swelling, pain, and nausea mark only the start of Summer’s decade-long search for answers that spanned numerous hospitals and state lines. Her illness,...
Steve is a multi-award winning and international selling author. He is the creator of the Polish Dragon P. I. series and was born in the Slavic Village area of Cleveland, Ohio where many of his stories take place. He is a member of the Private Eye Writers of America. He has wanted to be an...
Wendy Sanford grew up in an upper-middle-class white suburban family in Princeton, New Jersey. During the socially turbulent time of the 1970s, she became a feminist, a lesbian, and a Quaker. A founding member of the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, Wendy co authored and edited many versions of Our Bodies, Ourselves, the women’s health...
Meg Nocero, a magical manifester, is a former federal prosecutor, a TEDx inspirational speaker, a transformational coach, and the award-winning author of The Magical Guide to Bliss: Daily Keys to Unlock Your Dreams, Spirit & Inner Bliss and Sparkle & Shine: 108 M.A.N.T.R.A.s to Brighten Your Day and Lighten Your Way. After she was brought...
ALSO $500 GRAND PRIZE WINNER Nicholas L. Chiarkas was the Director of Wisconsin’s State Public Defender Agency for 22-years. Under his leadership, the agency received several awards for excellence. He was the founder of Justice Without Borders, was an adjunct professor of law at the University of Wisconsin Law School, and a visiting lecturer in...
Mary Lou Wells is an award-winning author of poetry, non-fiction, and a semi-fiction dark fantasy epic series. In 2021 she won a Firebird Book Award in the Series category for the second installment of the Annals of Aeternum series with Spear of Destiny: Finding Bucephalus, the sequel to Spear of Chaos: Legend of the Undead,...
Robert Gainey is a born and raised Floridian, despite his best efforts. While enrolled at Florida State University and studying English (a language spoken in several small countries), Robert began volunteering for the campus medical response team, opening up a great new passion in his life. Following graduation, he pursued further training through paramedic and...
S.G. was born in a faraway land of castles, monarchies and fallen dictatorships, aka Hungary. Hollywood movies were forbidden under Soviet oppression during her childhood, but her dad smuggled them in anyway, risking his life so that his children could experience the magic and hope inherent in those stories. She watched rebellions unfold in real...
Gary Corcoran – The product of an Irish/Italian family, Gary was transplanted as a boy from the clapboard New England of his youth to the cookie cutter, stucco subdivisions that began to litter the disappearing ranches and orange groves south of Los Angeles in the 1960s. True to his rebellious nature and the folk music/coffee...
Joni Iraci is a retired Registered Nurse who, after raising three children, returned to college to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. She earned a BFA in liberal studies with a concentration in literature and creative writing. She then earned an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University in her 60’s and published “Reinventing...
Prior to Gary Lee Miller beginning his writing career, he was a successful businessman and entrepreneur. Miller’s writing is rooted in life experiences and people who have crossed his paths in his life’s journey. He draws on his ability to translate his observations into very relatable stories by readers. Gary lives in “the Scenic City...
Jim Bostwick is a member of the California and Hawaii Bars. He practices in many other states and has collected over 500 million for his clients. He specializes in birth and other catastrophic injuries, general negligence and legal malpractice. He was named to the National LawDragon Hall of Fame, and was recently awarded the San...
With an advanced degree in clinical psychology and recognized as a national expert and catalyst for change, Lora is also known as a powerful storyteller. Lora is a respected professional – and has experienced trauma that once lay in a dark inner world wrapped in shame, confusion and a ravaged nervous system. Lora is a...
Kiel Barnekov forged his career as an information technology executive pioneering innovative airline and airport technology projects for over 30 years. Mr. Barnekov chaired the Airport Council International – North America Information Technology Committee. Channeling his grandmother (and fellow author), Fleur Conkling, Sheperds of Destiny is the first novel in his reality bending series. VISIT...
Deborah Wynne began writing as a young girl, filling dog-eared spiral notebooks with whimsical stories and terrible poetry. A University of Colorado alumna, Ms. Wynne entered the workforce listening to the advice of her parents who said, “Get a good government job.” She subsequently had two distinctly different careers in municipal government before becoming a...
Carolyn drew upon her thirty years as a social science researcher and ten years as a relationship workshop assistant to create the dating project in Fifty First Dates after Fifty. A native Californian from Los Angeles with a New England education, Carolyn found her true home in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she prepared...
Caitlin Billings lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has a thriving therapy practice specializing in complex trauma. She is working on her second book. VISIT THE WEBSITE You are listening to a short radio spot LISTEN TO CAITLIN’S INTERVIEW
When Eleanor was 21, just out of college, and on her way to her first job—teaching English in Japan—she learned that she had an aunt who had married a man from China and lived in China 40 years. At the time China was closed to the West, so no one knew if her aunt was...
Diane Wald’s novel Gillyflower was published in April 2019 by She Writes Press, and won first place in the novella category from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, first place in the novella category from American Book Fest, first place in Fiction: Novella from International Book Awards, and a bronze medal from Reader’s Favorite. You can read...
Donna lives in a small, Iowa town with her husband Marty; an ordained minister, who also does construction work and painting. A stage four cancer survivor, she started to write when, during treatments, she could do nothing else. After decades in management positions for large companies, she suddenly had nothing to manage and asked God...
F. Coe Sherrard Jr, a former United States Navy aviator and longtime businessperson retired and living in Edinburg, Virginia. Born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, Coe grew up in the farming community of Rising Sun, Maryland, and graduated from Western Maryland College (now called McDaniel College) in 1971. During college, he adopted the pen name,...
Bob Zeidman created the field of software forensics and founded Software Analysis and Forensic Engineering Corporation to develop and sell software forensics tools. He is the founder of Zeidman Consulting, an engineering consulting company that has worked on over 245 major litigations involving billions of dollars of disputed intellectual property. His cases have included ConnectU...
Like life, my writing is a work in progress. With many incomplete stories, chapter books and novels outlined and partial completed, A.G. Sullivan has recently finished his first young adult novel, The Katzenstein Kids and the Eye of Horus. Read all about them under “My Work” Since the age of 8, A.G. Sullivan has been...
Adam is a motivational keynote speaker on topics ranging from foster care, child welfare, youth homelessness, and trauma-informed care. As a product of the foster care system who broke the cycle, he empowers audiences to uplift at-promise youth by tapping into community resources to convert the potential in our youth toward positive outcomes. He serves...
Amy Schisler is a novelist, poet, children’s book author, spiritual writer, blogger, reader, and avid traveler with years of professional experience in all manner of writing-related endeavors. Whether she’s writing novels filled with faith and inspiration, books that children will love, or her weekly blog devoted to family life and faith, she loves connecting and...
Ames Sheldon is the lead author and associate editor of the monumental reference work Women’s History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States, which taught her to love writing about the history of women in America. She is the author of two award-winning historical novels with strong female protagonists. Eleanor’s...
Chandra Moyer is a speaker, author, life coach, and decorated former Army officer. For three decades, she has empowered women through coaching, conferences, healing retreats, and workshops. She is the recipient of the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award for her child trafficking prevention work. Chandra is the author of the novel I Met Her Before and...
Shelby Wagner – MA, BMus and BA Author of Award-Winning, “Learning to Dance in the Rain II – Surviving Grief, Internet Dating and Romance Scams. Careers include: Elementary music teacher, church organist, choir director, entrepreneur and published, award-winning author. Shelby always thought she would write a book ‘someday’. Her writing career began in 4th grade...
Bella Rayne was born in a small town in Idaho. She loves mysteries, suspense, the supernatural and metaphysical, and hanging out with the fairies in her fairy garden. Bella’s fascination with mysteries and suspense inspired her own writing. Bella also enjoys cooking and spending time with her children. Her love of cooking comes from Saturday...
BERNARD LEO REMAKUS, M.D. is a native of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He received his B.S. degree from King’s College in 1970, M.Ed. degree from East Stroudsburg State College in 1972, and M.D. degree from the Temple University School of Medicine in 1978. He completed a three-year residency in internal medicine at Abington Memorial Hospital, which led...
As a result of a life altering medical diagnosis and self-healing journey, I changed my career and became an author and certified surgery coach assisting individuals navigate surgery using mind-body techniques. I also partner with individuals creating a unique path to wholeness as a personal coach in my private practice and mind-body-spirit retreats in the...
Christina is the Grand Prize Winner of the James Alan McPherson Award for her novel Beauty, which was selected as a Kirkus Best Books of 2020, the gold-place winner of the Human Relations Indie Book Awards, and a winner of the 2021 Firebird Book Awards. She is also author of Troublemaker and Other Saints, published by...
Dani Hoots is a science fiction, fantasy, romance, and young adult author who loves anything with a story. She has a B.S. in Anthropology, a Masters of Urban and Environmental Planning, a Certificate in Novel Writing from Arizona State University, and a BS in Herbal Science from Bastyr University. Currently she is working on...
Donna lives in a small, Iowa town with her husband Marty; an ordained minister, who also does construction work and painting. A stage four cancer survivor, she started to write when, during treatments, she could do nothing else. After decades in management positions for large companies, she suddenly had nothing to manage and asked God...
I am a mother who has had to bear the unbearable after my teenage daughter died from cancer. I am a parent to a surviving daughter torn apart by the loss of her sister. I am a woman who stumbled, collapsed, and stood up again. I have recently completed a memoir, Hope Is A Bright...
Gramps Jeffrey has 4 kids and 6 grandchildren and looks at how the kids are growing up as a baby boomer trying to understand how the world has evolved since he was 3 years old. As the author of the acclaimed business book “The Secrets of Retailing…How to Beat Walmart” and a contributor to The Huffington Post of...
I’m a woman who has lived two lives in one lifetime. The first part was a life of childhood abuse and trauma which grew into the full-blown disease of alcoholism. My life was out of control and I was circling the drain. The second part is life today and how I urgently worked through my...
Josie is a new Southern author who lives outside Charleston, South Carolina. Prior to commencing her writing life, Josie was an attorney and social worker who spent her career addressing child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Her call to service was spurred by early life experiences growing up in poverty in the...
Kim Lincoln is an award winning author and the founder of the Terrain of Essence Teachings, a spiritual school of embodied consciousness and mystical wisdom. She has entailed over 50 years of in-depth therapies, trainings, and her own personal work to reconnect with trusting the truth and living her passion. She was partnered to the co-developer...
Even before his long career in software development, he has been a lifelong, avid fan of mythology, science fiction and fantasy works. As a child, he immersed himself in the Golden Picture Book Encyclopedia and Edith Hamilton’s “Mythology,” reading them probably hundreds of times. He also enjoyed C. S. Lewis’ “Narnia” series numerous times...
Author N. Daniel is a mental health and disability advocate from Minneapolis, MN. His debut novel, Corners Untouched by Madness, has won recognition in competitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York and Paris. Corners details his fall from grace due to severe mental illness and segues into Burn This City to the Ground, a...
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The Night before the Morning After is a rock and roll diary of Newman’s wild life and times. Beginning in Antibes, the story brings readers to New York, New Jersey, D.C., Paris, and Jordan. Between outrageous travel stories, improbable encounters, and scandalous romantic entanglements, Newman offers a behind-the-scenes expose and critique of life at an...
SUE GANZ-SCHMITT is a children’s book author, proud mom, musical theater producer, and philanthropist. She holds an MFA degree from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and a Bachelor of Science degree from San Diego State University in Business Marketing. She has traveled to China to help medically challenged orphans and set up a birthing clinic...
Tanya Hackney graduated with a B.A. from Middlebury College in 1997, with a major in English and double minor in French and Education. She taught kindergarten in Atlanta, Georgia, then she homeschooled her five children while living full time aboard the sailboat, Take Two. She learned to sail in 2007 and did the coursework for...
Teresa Schultz is a Christian author who lives in Huntsville, Texas with her husband and children. Teresa’s unique approach to writing comes from her past experiences with abandonment and abuse, as well as her struggles with addiction. The process of trying to overcome those struggles led her to write her book, Help Me Lord, I’m Drowning. She...
Valerie Taylor is retired from a forty year career in marketing and is living the author life in Shelton, CT. Financial services marketer, copywriter, editor, novelist, author are all words to describe Valerie. But being called Mimi by her granddaughter is what brings her the most joy these days. Born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut,...
Mackenzie Finklea is a Texan, born-and-raised. She currently lives and works out of her home office in Galveston; helping other authors achieve their dreams of being published. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology: with a special interest in human cultures and archaeology. When she’s not researching and observing displays of human culture, she enjoying...
A native southerner, I have over twenty years of experience in marketing and communications, including my own business, Norton Carro Communications. I have edited textbooks and been a non-fiction ghostwriter, as well as a regular copyeditor for Gannett Publishing. I received my Bachelor of Arts, with Honors, from Vanderbilt University, where I currently (and proudly)...
Gary Corcoran – The product of an Irish/Italian family, Gary was transplanted as a boy from the clapboard New England of his youth to the cookie cutter, stucco subdivisions that began to litter the disappearing ranches and orange groves south of Los Angeles in the 1960s. True to his rebellious nature and the folk music/coffee...
Bibiana is a small-town girl from the Midwest who left home and traveled the world. She resides with her family in a historic village on the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia. She made a nest, created a family and built a career with a passion for culture, travel and private aviation. She earned an M.A. in...
A lifelong reader and lover of the written word, Cynthia Hamilton turned to writing in 2000 as a means of coping with a debilitating illness. Since then, she has written 13 books, 11 of which are available on Amazon. In addition to THE MADELINE DAWKINS MYSTERY SERIES, she writes general fiction and some memoir (FINDING...
Stephen D’Angelo is a business executive with more than 30 years of experience in the software technology industry leading high-performing global organizations. Through his extensive business success, he has a keen awareness of the critical success principles everyone should follow to live a happy, healthy, and successful life. Stephen is a proponent of what he...
Italian-born, Adriana Girolami is an accomplished portrait artist and an award-winning writer of historical fiction, seduces readers with her visual style—both on the covers of her books and all the pages in-between. She immigrated with her family to the United States after her father’s untimely death, attended the Art Students League in New York...
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Deanie Humphrys-Dunne is a multi-award winning children’s author of eight books : My Life at Sweetbrier–A Life Changed by Horses, Charlie the Horse, Charlene the Star, Charlene the Star and Hattie’s Heroes, Charlene the Star and Bentley Bulldog, A Tractor Named Wilbur and Un Tractor Llamado Wilbur and Tails of Sweetbrier. All of her fictional books are beautifully...
Deborah Wynne began writing as a young girl, filling dog-eared spiral notebooks with whimsical stories and terrible poetry. A University of Colorado alumna, Ms. Wynne entered the workforce listening to the advice of her parents who said, “Get a good government job.” She subsequently had two distinctly different careers in municipal government before becoming...
James A. Ross has at various times been a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Congo, a Congressional Staffer and a Wall Street Lawyer. His debut novel, HUNTING TEDDY ROOSEVELT, won the Independent Press Distinguished Favorite award for historical fiction, was a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award for historical fiction and was shortlisted for...
John Layne is an internatonal award-winning author of two Western Fiction novels. He is a veteran of law enforcement whose career began with the Houston Texas Police Department in 1981. After bringing his badge to a couple of additional agencies, he retired in 2012 but never left the profession. He is currently a Senior...
When Karin Matey was a child, she helped on the family farm and dreamed that someday she would become an accomplished dressage rider. Her dream came true when Karin and her family moved to a farm in northern New Hampshire, where she began to raise and train her own horses. Born in West Germany,...
Kenny G. Down is the author of Darko: The Sacred Heart of One Johanee Darko, Awakened Giant Sleeping Spirit, The Care and Keeping of a Shan and the newly released The Mirror, the Widow, and the Wall. Kenny is a gratefully humble and awakened spiritual seeker. His past difficulties and current situations are reflected...
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Leith C. MacArthur was born in Boston, and grew up in the suburbs of Wayland, and Waltham Massachusetts. As a young boy he became fascinated with the craft of writing after reading Edgar Alan Poe’s The Raven. Inspired, he sought out other depicters of darkness, despair, and redemption, allowing himself to be drawn into...
Leslie A. Rasmussen is the author of After Happily Ever After: A Novel. She graduated with a bachelor’s in communications from UCLA and went on to write television comedies and is a member of Writers’ Guild of America, West. She wrote for Gerald McRaney, Burt Reynolds, Roseanne Barr, Norm McDonald, Drew Carey, and Ralph...
Lisa Jacovsky currently is a Doctoral Level student at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She is excited for the possibilities having her Doctoral degree will bring her. Lisa began writing short stories when she was seven years old. Writing is a passion for her and one of the many things she enjoys. She...
In her book, Martha speaks about her life growing up with Deaf parents in a hearing world. While growing up, she encounters many oppositions such as: the spirit of rejection; physical and mental abuse; sexual abuse; depression and Cancer. These obstacles in her life kept her under an ugly mask and in bondage for...
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Retta Flagg lives in Virginia Beach with her partner, Crystal Doll and a reincarnating plant, which we think is a Dieffenbachia. Her spiritual adventures started early in life growing up in Maine where she enjoyed talking to trees and lakes. She discovered existentialism in college and after surviving her first existential crisis, she converted...
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Sylvie Beljanski, a French lawyer by trade, is a health advocate for holistic medicine, public speaker, internationally known author and entrepreneur. She is the Founder and Vice President of The Beljanski Foundation, whose mission is to research natural approaches to cancer. She is also the CEO of Maison Beljanski, an international dietary supplement company....
Tamika M. Murray, better known as Mika, was born in the urban, seaside town of Atlantic City, New Jersey. Mika is a certified social worker, owner of Celestial Publishing LLC, freelance writer, and an award-winning author. She graduated from Stockton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Literature and a Bachelor of Science in...
Dr. Stephenson’s career as a counselor to persons diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, as well as those struggling with complicated grief was successful because of his commitment to the whole person which included the development and equipping of a care-team of people committed to the welfare of his clients. Most of the 400 clients...
Author Cynthia Hamilton’s ten published works include fiction, mystery and memoir. Her latest release is Houses of Deception, book 6 in the Madeline Dawkins Mystery Series. Finding Ruth was inspired by a photograph of her mother taken in 1949 while moving her into an Alzheimer’s facility. It was written as a means to discover who...
Award-Winning Author Anita Dickason is a twenty-two-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department. She served as a patrol officer, undercover narcotics detective, advanced accident investigator, tactical officer and the first female sniper on the Dallas SWAT team. Her fictional works are suspense/thrillers, and her plots are drawn from her extensive law enforcement knowledge and experience. ...
Rubix and I met and adopted each other while I was working one of my seasonal jobs in West Yellowstone, Montana. He was 3 years old, and I have determined him to be 100% pure rescue breed. I became inspired to write Rubix Ruckus Reubenstein Takes Himself On A Hike, on our “get to...
When Karin Matey was a child, she helped on the family farm and dreamed that someday she would become an accomplished dressage rider. Her dream came true when Karin and her family moved to a farm in northern New Hampshire, where she began to raise and train her own horses. Born in West Germany, Karin...
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Vanessa Fortenberry is an award winning inspirational speaker and author of the children’s book series, Families Growing in Faith with the books: Mama, I Want to See God, Daddy, I Want to Know God, and soon to be released, Grandma, Granddad, We Want to Praise God. Vanessa writes to communicate inspirational messages to children and...
Terry obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology and her Ed. D. in special education. She taught in public schools and was a school psychologist and a professor before retiring in 2016. Her university experiences included teaching at Longwood University in Virginia, the University of Texas-Brownsville, The University of Texas-Pan American, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley,...
Stephanie Harper is the author of Wesley Yorstead Goes Outside (Propertius Press, 2020), as well as the poetry collection Sermon Series (Finishing Line Press, 2017). Her narrative nonfiction work can be found in a number of publications, including HelloGiggles, HuffPost, Living Lutheran, Grok Nation, Aleteia, Healthline, The Daily Dot, Folks Magazine and more. She often writes about chronic illness...
Author/Illustrator Info: Ann Downer has never lived very far from the ocean. When she was little, her uncle took her to a beach to see horseshoe crabs, and she has been interested in sea creatures ever since. She spent part of her childhood in and around the Pacific Ocean, living first in the Philippine Islands and...
Author, filmmaker and modern-day yoga master, Rich Tola, has been creating mindful and motivational content across all media platforms since 2006. A SAG-AFTRA member since 2009, Rich has also taught his fitness style of Tola Yoga to more than 3,000 classes in 11 cities throughout the United States. His motivational book, How to Drink from the Fountain of Youth:...
Raymond Bolton lives near Portland, Oregon with his wife, Toni, and their cats, Max and Arthur. He has written award-winning poetry and has published five novels. His crossover epic fantasy/sci-fi quartet, The Ydron Saga, which consists of Awakening and it prequel trilogy, Thought Gazer, Foretellers and Triad, are published by WordFire Press, publisher of many...
I live in the Mile-High City with my wife and dog, where the Rocky Mountain High isn’t always achieved with an herbal substance. When not glued to the computer for work and writing, I relax by enjoying the outdoors; doing yard work, and traveling with my wife in our motorhome wherever the wind takes us....
Rafael Amadeus Hines is a native New Yorker with Panamanian, Jamaican, and Irish roots, who was born and raised on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Dipping into his early Alphabet City memories, he loosely based many of the characters in his first novel, Bishop’s War, on the people he grew up with, and adapted many of his own...
Paul DeBlassie III, Ph.D. is a depth psychologist and multi-award-winning writer living in his native New Mexico. He specializes in treating individuals in emotional and spiritual crisis. His novels, visionary thrillers, delve deep into archetypal realities as they play out dramatically in the lives of everyday people. Metaphysical dramas set in the mythopoeic realm of Aztlan...
Dr. Patti “Doc” Novotny Taylor is the three-time recipient of the Stephen Shank Teaching Award, recipient of the Excellence Award: Courage to Change, Enrichment, Leadership, & Mentoring LLC, 2017, and is acknowledged in several Who’s Who editions. She was honored with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement award in 2018 and again in 2022. The 2022...
Kenny G. Down is the bestselling author of Darko: The Sacred Heart of One Johanee Darko, Awakened Giant Sleeping Spirit and The Care and Keeping of a Shan. Kenny is a gratefully humble and awakened spiritual seeker. His past difficulties and current situations are reflected in his body of literary work. He is an Awakened...
Ken Farmer didn’t write his first full novel until he was sixty-nine years of age. He often wonders what the hell took him so long. At age seventy-five…he’s currently working on novel number twenty-one. Ken spent thirty years raising cattle and quarter horses in Texas and forty-five years as a professional actor (after a stint...
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Judi Miller started her career as a Certified Public Accountant and went on to excel in the world of corporate finance for some of the largest companies in the world. As a graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Leadership Program, she has been dedicated to personal development and helping others excel in a constantly...
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Helen is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, University of Chicago, and the University of Tulsa College of Law. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and five children. VISIT THE WEBSITE You are listening to a 60 second radio spot LISTEN TO A SHORT INTERVIEW WITH HELEN
Cheryl has a BA from UC-Berkeley and is a health coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Cheryl is an award-winning author, international bestseller, health coach, speaker, local tv host and guest podcaster. Her book, “It Feels Good to Feel Good, Learn to Eliminate Toxins, Reduce Inflammation and Feel Great Again” has won 14...
Carey Gillam is an American investigative journalist and author with more than 30 years of experience covering food and agricultural policies and practices, including 17 years as a senior correspondent for Reuters international news service. She has specialty knowledge regarding the rise of biotech crop technology and the associated rise in pervasive pesticide use in our...
Audrey is a Chartered Psychologist (CPsychol), and award-winning author – “The Leader’s Guide to Resilience” 2021 (prev. The Leader’s Guide to Mindfulness” (Pearson & FT, 2018) and “Be A Great Manager – Now” (Pearson, 2016 and Book of the Month in WH Smith Travel Stores)) with a focus on practical self improvement. She is the resident psychologist...
Amy Impellizzeri is a reformed corporate litigator, former start-up executive, and award-winning author of fiction and non-fiction. Amy’s latest novel, I KNOW HOW THIS ENDS, is a time-bending follow up to her bestselling debut, LEMONGRASS HOPE. Foreword Reviews says “its density evokes Dickens” while BookTrib calls it “Perfect for fans of THIS IS US.” Amy...
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Gretchen lives and works in Chester County, Pennsylvania, an area rich in Revolutionary War and Colonial American history. Her enduring interest in 18th Century America began at a young age, inspired by tales of adventure, romance, and local lore. After working as an editor for a publishing company, she decided to write a story of...
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D.R. Meyers / C.A. Staff began her writing career in 2014 when she self-published September’s Child. After multiple literary agents refused her book, D.R. Meyers taught herself how to become an independent author. In 2014, independent authors were a relatively new thing. There was Create Space, and that is where D.R. Meyers taught herself.D.R. Meyers...
Allyna Robinson Hughley. Allyna is family oriented and the 11th of 13 children. During her childhood she became engulfed in reading books and began motivating people with her writing. Allyna has been married for 28 years and has 2 sons. In 1992, she received a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Norfolk State...