Chris Coppel
Chris Coppel was born in California. His family moved to Europe, living in Spain, France, Switzerland and mainly England. He has written numerous screenplays but Far From Burden Dell is his first novel. He taught advanced screenwriting at U.C.L.A.
Chris is also an accomplished drummer and guitarist. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Clare, and their very own scaredy-cat, Samantha.
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Once Upon a Dance
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I specialise in outdoor practice, nature connection and working with mind and body in harmony. I’m interested in how we do relationships with others, nature and ourselves, how we make meaning of our lives, the stories we tell, how we live in our bodies, and post-traumatic growth.
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It’s perhaps a cliché to say one person can make a huge difference in your life—except in the case of someone like Mrs. Lee, my sixth-grade homeroom and English teacher at Sagamore Hills Grammar School in Atlanta. She changed mine, profoundly, by making me the class playwright and short story writer. In my clumsy but passionate initial attempts at writing, I discovered my calling. Now that I’ve published my speculative fiction novel The Cloud (details at www.thecloudnovel.com) I hope I can find my beloved teacher. I’d like to hug and thank her with tears of gratitude in my eyes.
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Jonathan David Walter
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Shaune Lafferty Webb
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After obtaining a degree in geology from the University of Queensland, Shaune subsequently worked in geochemical laboratories, exploration companies, and, while living in the United States, at a multinational scientific institute involved in exploration beneath the ocean floors. A decade after returning to Australia, armed with a life-long addiction to SciFi and a broad scope of real-world research and editing experience, Shaune returned to her original passion, the writing of speculative fiction. Her short stories have appeared in AntipodeanSF, T -
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Hunt them down!
Heedless, headstrong, and headlong love. Who knew it would doom her country, too? Intelligent, stylish Iordana wasn’t interested in communist strategies while she enjoyed spectacular privilege–unimaginable to the 20 million souls living under the iron fist of a dictatorship ruled by a murderous family she chose to marry into.
But as a member of the elite Nomenclatura during Romania's cool 1960s, she had to have her Valentin. Just as she rose in the Ceausescu clan over her parents’ objections, so she fell when the murderous dictator and his criminal partner were taken down.
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A.R. Alexander
I’m an Italian-born writer now living in the south of England with my husband, our three kids, and a dog who thinks he’s the boss (and, honestly, he might be right).
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Colleen M. Story
Colleen M. Story is a novelist, freelance writer, and speaker who loves animals, music, and the great Pacific Northwest.
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"The Curse of King Midas," her newest novel, was recognized as a top-ten finalist for the Claymore Award prior to publication. Her previous novels include "The Beached Ones" and "Loreena’s Gift," which was a Foreword Reviews’ INDIES Book of the Year Awards winner.
Colleen has written three books to help writers succeed. "Your Writing Matters" was a bronze medal winner in the Reader Views Literary Awards (2022).
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Henry Roi
Henry Roi was born and raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and still finds his inspiration in its places and people.
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As a GED tutor and fitness instructor, working both face to face and online, he is an advocate of adult education in all its forms. His many campaigning and personal interests include tattoo art, prison reform and automotive mechanics.
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John M. Vermillion
"Blue Gunder" my newest, appears 16-19 September 25. After a career-ending injury sidelines NFL star Blue Gunder at just 23, he takes to the open highway in his Kenworth rig with only his Belgian Malinois, Thor, for company. His solitary journey takes an unexpected turn when he encounters the fiercely independent Marinda Jacobsen, whose harrowing tales of hitchhiking convince Blue to offer her a ride—with strict conditions. Their uneasy partnership fractures in Montana when Marinda violates Blue's trust during their stay at President Pack's cabin with Sheriff Mollison. As Blue becomes entangled in a dangerous drug cartel operation—one that claims a deputy's life, kidnaps Marinda, and blackmails baseball's greatest legend—he joins forces wit
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Lanysha T. Adams
Dr. LaNysha T. Adams is a mother of two young boys and a survivor of sudden cardiac arrest, a life-changing experience that strengthened her mission to help others activate their ME POWER. After nearly a decade in Washington, DC, she’s now based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she activates ME POWER in early-career professionals, helping them step into leadership and navigate career uncertainty. Through her award-winning bestseller, ME POWER, Dr. Adams offers actionable strategies to help individuals shape their futures.
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Allen (Pud) Deters
Born 8/22/1946 and raised on a working farm, a great way to grow up.
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Graduated from Spring Grove (MN) High School in spring, 1964. Happiest day of my life, to that point. School bored me silly--especially English class, particularly grammar. Nitpicking stuff! Let's get on with the real world! So I did.
'65 through '71: Partner in a logging business and Marine Corps Reserves, mostly.
1970: Married the prettiest girl I ever saw. We had a brief romance with just one formal date--she came and hauled me off to church one Sunday morning, thinking I needed it.
We bought our own farm in December, 1971 and the next 30 years were filled with good luck. We raised 3 great kids and had a good life until her luck ran out. We lost her in '01 and this world lo -
Andy Kutler
Andy Kutler is a writer and author living in Arlington, Virginia. A native of Madison, Wisconsin, Andy has served in the United States Senate, the United States Secret Service, and the national security community.
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Andy's newest book, THE FIGHT OF THEIR LIVES: A 21ST CENTURY PRIMER ON WORLD WAR II (Black Rose Writing) is a concise but comprehensive account of the most consequential era in world history. His past works include HONORABLE PROFESSION (Black Rose), a compelling, hopeful story of a cynical former Secret Service agent and his idealistic daughter as they follow a longshot candidate into the perilous arena of presidential politics; THE BATTER'S BOX (Warriors Publishing Group), a Gold Medal winner from the Military Writers Society of A -
J.N. de Bedout
J. N. de Bedout is a freelance fiction writer. His long career in software development, anchored by degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University, help him pay the bills and finance his passions, one of which is storytelling. A wife and dog complete his home in southeastern Texas.
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The Legend of Sithalkaan
by J. N. de Bedout
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Julian Shaw
Julian Shaw, PhD., is a British author whose work spans Speculative Fiction and Science Fiction. His writing brings together his passion for the vastness of nature, the dirty complexity of society's edges, and the beauty of everyday interpersonal relationships. Julian carries with him his experiences as a frontline firefighter, a university lecturer in Politics and Urban Geography, and a post-graduate researcher of extremist politics.
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Michael H. Rubin
Michael H. Rubin has conquered many worlds. Professional jazz musician in the New Orleans French Quarter, radio and television announcer, nationally known speaker and humorist, and, with his wife, authoring award-winning thrillers, The Cottoncrest Curse, Cashed Out, and A White Hot Plan.
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Awards
At the American Library Association's annual meeting in 2015 in San Francisco it was announced that The Cottoncrest Curse had won the IndieFab Book of the Year Gold Award as the top thriller and suspense novel published by a university or independent press in 2015.
What others are saying about The Cottoncrest Curse:
“Rubin’s gripping debut mystery depicts the bitter racial divides of post-Reconstruction South and its continuing legacy.”
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Tonja Drecker
After finishing her BA in International Studies at the University of Denver, Tonja Drecker spent many years in Europe devouring chocolate, cheese and wine while investigating the birth places of myths, legends and mysterious tales.
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Currently she runs a small farm somewhere in the Ozarks and tries to keep up with her prize winning review blog, Bookworm for Kids.
Her debut novel MUSIC BOXES (Dancing Lemur Press, 2019) was named by BNKids Blog as one of the '5 New Middle Grade Summer Reads for Campfire Chills'. -
Andrew J. Harvey
Andrew spent his high-school years in the school’s library lost in the worlds of Andre Norten, Robert Heinlein, and Isaac Asimov. His first commercially accepted series of novels (the Garden Adventures) was originally completed to read to his two sons at night. Now his children have left home he lives in Perth, Western Australia, with his wife, one dog, and sixty four gold fish.
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In addition to writing, Andrew is also the Principal of Hague Publishing. Established in 2011 as an independent publisher of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Hague Publishing is registered in Western Australia, and publishes original work by Australian and New Zealand authors.
Previously Principal for the Davies Literary Agency, Andrew was also editor and publisher of The -
Mark Richardson
Mark Richardson is the author of the novels Malibu Burns, The Sun Casts No Shadow, and Hunt for the Troll.
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His short stories have appeared in numerous crime and literary publications, including Hobart, Fugue, Segue, Crime Factory, Switchback, and Nth Position.
Born in the Chicago area, he graduated from the University of Iowa, and promptly escaped the midwestern winters for sunny California, first living in Los Angeles and then San Francisco. He spent thirty years working as a writer and marketer for tech companies in Silicon Valley.
Mark now lives in the East Bay with his wife, two children, and the world’s cutest dog. He spends his time writing fiction, obsessing about the Chicago Cubs, attending his daughter’s softball games, and reading st -
Russell Razzaque
Razzaque has been a practising psychiatrist in the UK for over sixteen years. He earned his medical degree from the University of London in 1996 and completed a diploma in psychotherapy two years later. He is a member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is on the Specialist Register of the UK General Medical Council.
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During his career he has worked in a number of settings including the NHS, the Ministry of Justice, The Home Office and the University of Cambridge. -
Stephen Steele
STEPHEN STEELE is the author of the adventure thriller series "The Trouble with Miracles". He is a graduate of the University of North Texas with degrees in English Literature and marketing, and lives in Montana with his ruthless editor Beverly.
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Alon Braun
Author of “The Entrepreneur's Journey: 8 Steps from Inspiration to Global Impact.” | Founder at Neurotech.com | Founder at Edition.co.uk
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Alon is also a master at decision making especially helping people make difficult decisions. One of the ways that he helps with this is that he is an expert in understanding cognitive hacks that allow you to maximize your cognitive load capacity such that people who have to make complex long-range decisions involving factors with which are difficult to measure, those decisions can be made optimally and simply using his technologies. -
David Armillei
While pursuing a successful career as a New York- and then Los Angeles-based lawyer, David Armillei began a second career as a producer of female-driven documentary films. After these independent films won multiple awards (including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival), David decided to follow his own muse and simultaneously pursue yet another path--writer.
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GROWING UP THE ANTICHRIST, his first book, is the result. This experimental, poetic memoir is a collection of 40 pieces that reflect his experience coming of age as a perennial outsider in Franklin, Tennessee, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Palo Alto, California. Driven by a complex, but enduring, hope and balancing a respect for and distaste of the past, the book goes beyo