Diane Hawley Nagatomo
Diane Hawley Nagatomo was born in the UK and lived in Nebraska, Spain, Massachusetts, New Mexico, and California before coming to Japan in 1979. She is a semi-retired professor from Ochanomizu University and has written extensively on issues concerning gender, culture, and education. When not teaching or writing, she and her Japanese husband of more than 40 years spend time with their six grandchildren. The Butterfly Café, published in July 2023, was her first work of fiction. Her second work of fiction was "Finding Naomi," and her third, "The Making of Us" will be published in September 2025.
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Savannah Hendricks
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Jill Hannah Anderson
Jill writes about women determined to reclaim their lives. Stories of family, friendship, forgiveness, and fortitude. Jill lives on a lake in Minnesota where she and her husband love having their kids and grandkids come to visit. Jill's latest book, Closer to Home, debuted in March 2024, and her next book will be published in early 2026. She is also the author of A Life Unraveled, Crazy Little Town Called Love, and The To Hell and Back Club. Follow her on BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/jill-... and connect with Jill on her Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/jillhannah.a... and Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jillh.ander...
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R.F. Vincent
R. F. (Ron) Vincent is an award-winning author. His novel, Life at the Precipice, won the 2023 Best Indie Book Award for literary fiction and was long listed for the prestigious Leacock Medal for Humour. His new novel, The Girl with Autumn Eyes, is a heartwarming romantic comedy that breaks the mold. In addition to writing groundbreaking fiction, he is a professor of Physics and Space Science at the Royal Military College of Canada. He lives in Kingston, Ontario with his wife, JoAnne.
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Sherry Parnell
An avid reader since I was a child, I have always been drawn to a good story well told. I loved being able to explore other worlds and live other lives through these stories. So, I began writing as a means to give my imagination a home upon the page. For me, well-written fiction has the power to teach and transport, and that’s what I aspire to do every time I sit down to create a new character, setting or story.
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My novels Let the Willows Weep and Daughter of the Mountain examine the struggles, complexity, and resilience that define many lives in the rural American South. With a focus on female characters, I'm driven to share stories that reveal the strength women display when forced to rise above limited opportunities, economic injustice, a -
D.K. Wall
Many years ago, D.K. Wall regaled a group of co-workers with a colorful story. One lady wiped tears of laughter from her eyes. "I wish I had been there."
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"But you were."
"Yes, but you remember it better than I do."
That's the art of story telling. Begin with a nugget of truth. Highlight the interesting. Surround with imagery. Weave fact and fiction to create an engaging tale. Remember it better.
D.K. has lived his entire life in the Carolinas—the highest elevations of the Great Smoky Mountains, the industrial towns of Gastonia and Hickory, the financial center of Charlotte, and the coastal salt marsh of Murrells Inlet. He’s watched the textile and furniture industries wither and the banking and service industries explode, changing the face of t -
Margot Shepherd
Margot Shepherd is a British author who was born in Yorkshire where she spent her childhood. She now lives in rural Sussex with her husband and Springer Spaniel, Genni. When she’s not writing she works in medical research at the University of Surrey. She writes about family relationships with a particular emphasis on women and science from a female point of view.
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Ruth F. Stevens
Ruth F. Stevens likes to create stories that will make you laugh and cry, as she did with her debut novel, Stage Seven. She has a duology of funny-sad contemporary novels from Black Rose Writing: My Year of Casual Acquaintances (Sept. 2024) and The Unexpected Guests (Dec. 2024).
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Ruth says: “I find myself motivated to write about the topics that worry me the most. Since I worry about a great many things, there is never a shortage of material. I’m also a big believer in the power of laughter to ease our pain and anxiety. Humor is a component in anything I write, no matter how serious the subject matter.”
A former public relations professional, Ruth has been writing for her entire career—including hundreds of articles for magazines, newspapers, -
Ralph Ellis
Ralph Ellis is a veteran journalist who has written his first novel, "The Accident Report," and plans to publish sequels. He was born in Waynesville, NC, and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill. He has worked for newspapers across the Southeast as well as for CNN and WebMD. He now lives in Decatur, GA, with his wife, Susan Puckett, and their greyhound, Zena.
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Michael Hartnett
Michael Hartnett (Irish: Mícheál Ó hAirtnéide) was an Irish poet who wrote in both English and Irish. He was one of the most significant voices in late 20th-century Irish writing and has been called "Munster's de facto poet laureate".
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Marie W. Watts
An award-winning author, Marie W. Watts, is living her dream of being a writer. Her novel, Tough Trail Home, has received acclaim as a winner of the 2024 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award Summer Competition for Fiction - Women’s Genre; Winner in the 2024 Storytrade Book Awards “Regional Fiction ‐ USA Southwest” category; 2024 Speak Up Talk Radio International Firebird Book Award Winner, and The Outstanding Creator Award for Best Fiction Book of Summer 2024 (2nd place).
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Her novel has garnered reviews such as “inspiring,” “fantastic read,” “beautiful scenery, heart, and hope,” and “a wonderful story about resilience and resourcefulness.”
She and her husband live on a ranch in central Texas. In her spare time, she supports a historic house and hangs -
Leo Daughtry
Leo Daughtry is a life-long resident of North Carolina. He grew up among the tobacco fields of Sampson County which served as inspiration for his debut novel, “Talmadge Farm.” After graduating from Wake Forest University and its School of Law, he established a private law practice in Smithfield, N.C. He was a member of the N.C. House and Senate for 28 years, including serving as House Majority Leader and House Minority Leader. When not practicing law, Leo enjoys spending time in Atlantic Beach with his wife and daughters.
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Kemma MarShall
Author of the acclaimed Hymns of Blue Hollow series, an epic 1940s Southern historical romance, Kemma Marshall calls North Carolina home. With family roots in the Appalachian hills, the stories of her ancestors fuel her creative soul. Growing up poor as one of nine children, Kemma writes from an authentic heart, painting with words to bring her characters to life. She knows what it feels like to be a young girl who’s unseen. Inspired by the love of a good man and a lasting marriage, and shaped by her years as a mother, she has spent her life as an artist and researcher, with a deep passion for history and bygone eras.
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Eileen Goudge
I began writing at the age of eight and wrote my way through the lean years before I found success as New York Times' bestselling author with my first novel GARDEN OF LIES. To date I have published 19 novels and a cookbook. Every life experience I've weathered has found its way into my novels in one form or another: bad exes, births, deaths, divorces, romances, and even true crime. My heroines are like me: tough cookies who don't crumble.
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My latest novel, Book One of my Gold Creek series, ALL THEY NEED TO KNOW, is the story of a woman fleeing her abusive ex who finds refuge in a small California mountain town, where she's befriended by a group of women who call themselves The Tattooed Ladies and reinvents herself as a police sketch artist. -
Lea O'Harra
Lea O'Harra is the pen name adopted by Wendy Jones Nakanishi for the publication of her so-called Inspector Inoue mystery series including 'Imperfect Strangers' (2015), 'Progeny' (2016), and 'Lady First' (2017), all published by Endeavour Press (UK) and set in rural present-day Japan. Sharpe Boooks (UK) has recently reissued the series, along with a fourth thriller titled 'Dead Reckoning,' a standalone set in the American Midwest which was published in September 2022. Black Rose Writing (Texas) will publish her fifth crime fiction novel titled 'Sayonara, My Sweet' in May 2025. According to the author, an American by birth who has lived in Japan for forty years, her books are as much dissections of the dark underbelly of Japanese society as
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Argita Zalli
Argita Zalli is the coauthor of the inspiring memoir Good Morning, Hope.
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Born in Albania, twin sisters Argita and Detina Zalli were eleven years old when the government collapsed and civil war broke out. Two years later, after several failed attempts to flee the violence and poverty, they escaped with their parents to England.
Overcoming the formidable challenges of being refugees, both young women went on to become highly accomplished PhD research scientists and lecturers. Influenced by Barack Obama and eager to help others, they founded We Speak Science, a nonprofit organization that supports disadvantaged students throughout the world, particularly immigrants, whose circumstances hinder their ability to learn at school.
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Mark Grady
Mark Grady is an author, screenwriter and filmmaker. He lives on a 65-acre lake in southeastern North Carolina where he still writes first drafts on his trusty Smith Corona typewriter. He is frequently summoned out of his Little Writing Cabin on the Lake by ducks who demand he feed them the finest cracked corn money can buy.
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Niamh McAnally
Niamh McAnally, known as The Writer On The Water, is an Irish-born Award-Winning author, keynote & corporate speaker and former TV director. An avid explorer with a penchant for volunteerism, many of her stories are inspired by her world travels on land and at sea.
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Her first book Flares Up: A Story Bigger Than The Atlantic, foreword written by Jeremy Irons, was nominated for The Sunday Times Vikki Orvice Award and is a favorite among book clubs. It tells the inspiring story of why two middle-aged men rowed a 20ft wooden boat 3,000 nautical miles across The Atlantic Ocean, how it affected their families and how the experience changed them as human beings.
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Troy Hollan
Hollan's first novel CLUCKED, is an action-packed sailing adventure, with revenge, romance, some tongue-in-cheek humor and a few jabs at the state of the modern food industry.
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Joanne Kukanza Easley
Joanne Kukanza Easley's debut novel, SWEET JANE was named the 2020 Adult Fiction Winner at the Texas Author Project. Sweet Jane was also a finalist in the Sarton Awards and Eric Hoffer Awards.
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Her second novel JUST ONE LOOK was a May 2022 Pulpwood Queen Book Club Pick.
I'LL BE SEEING YOU, based on a character in SWEET JANE, was released in September 2022.
HIGHER LOVE is a sequel to I'LL BE SEEING YOU
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Joanne has adopted Texas as her home. She lives in the Texas Hill Country with her husband and three rescue terriers. Retired from a career in nursing—with dual specialties in the cold, clinical operating room, and the intense, emotional world of psychiatric nursing, she devotes her time to writing fiction. -
Cleo Lampos
I was born in Colorado, but raised on farms in Iowa and Wisconsin. My father died when I was three years old, leaving my mother with my five year old sister and seventeen year old brother. Within a year, my brother joined the Navy, and a few years later, my mother remarried. When I went to Fort Atkinson High School in Wisconsin, it was my eighth school.( New students in my classrooms always got special attention from me.)
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After graduating from University of Wisconsin-Whitewater with a major in elementary education and a minor in library science, I taught in a Chicago suburb for two years. There I met and married Vernon Lampos and taught one more year before settling down to raise three children. When my son entered first grade, I attended S -
Richard Skorupski
After a 21-year career in the U.S. Navy, Richard returned home to his native state of New Jersey. He followed his passion for the open waters and started a second career in the marine parts business.
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However, the dense population of New Jersey and its high cost of living compelled Richard and his wife, Cheryl, to find a more peaceful and friendly environment for his second retirement. The couple now happily reside in Spink County, South Dakota.
Richard's love for South Dakota and his appreciation for its people are brought to life in his third career as the author of his eight books centered on the fictional town of Helen, South Dakota.
Featured at the South Dakota State Fair and in prestigious publications, Richard tells the story of Rural -
Matt Tracy
When I’m not hiking in the hills with my wife and dogs, I like to read. I usually read a couple of books a week, in all genres. A good novel with great characters is my favorite choice, but I love non-fiction, science fiction, romance, detective stories, biographies, and of course, self-help books.
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I have to admit (full disclosure) that I have read all of the Louis L’Amour books, oh, maybe three or four times each, and there are over 150 of them. There’s something soothing about them. They’re manly but for a thinking man. And they do have a lot of wisdom in them. If you read Happy Here and Now you’ll see that Louis is quoted there.
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Judy Hudson
JUDY HUDSON draws from her background as a Clinical Social Worker to write stories that explore the grit and heroism of ordinary women as they face adversity. She features Dana Jordan, a professional counselor, who faces her own regrets while guiding her clients. Overcomers like Hannah, in TETHERED TO SHADOWS, escapes addiction only to be entangled with a dangerous narcissist. Genie, in TETHERED TO SHAME, hides her fragile spirit behind belligerence. In UNTETHERED HEART, Liz seeks redemption after hiding her identity for nearly a lifetime.
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Her latest release, MULE SPRINGS SAGA, is the first of three historical novels about courageous women who settle in the rugged Owyhee Mountains of Idaho in the first part of the 1900s. -
Donna Norman-Carbone
Donna Norman-Carbone has a passion for writing women’s fiction that tugs at the heartstrings. After having taught as a university adjunct and adult educator, Donna currently teaches writing, film and British literature to high school students. She lives in a small Connecticut suburb where she and her husband have raised three wonderful and creative children, two Labrador Retrievers and a Siamese cat.
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Donna holds a master’s degree in English from Southern CT State University and is a member of the Women’s Fiction Writers Association. She's the program director for Bookish Road Trip and co-host of the Authors Talking Bookish podcast.
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Nancy Stancill
Grew up in Radford Virginia. Graduated from University of North Carolina School of Journalism.
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MFA from University of Tampa.
Worked as journalist for 38 years in Virginia, California, Texas and North Carolina.
My favorite newspaper job was investigative reporting for the Houston Chronicle and Charlotte Observer. Some of those experiences gave me ideas for my first book, Saving Texas. I wrote it living in London from 2009-2012. I wasn't working, so I had the time to write. I discoveered I loved crafting suspense novels and have written three, plus a memoir.
Deadly Secrets, which comes out in December 2024, is my first book set in North Carolina. Since much of it involves the mountain area, I'm donating half its proceeds to a hurricane Helene -
Julia Shraybman
Julia Shraybman is a psychological thriller writer who believes the most gripping stories are born at the intersection of heritage and imagination.
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Born in Belarus and raised in Chicago, she grew up bilingual—and book-obsessed. From a young age, she found comfort and excitement in stories, often disappearing into pages where danger loomed, secrets unraveled, and tension never let up.
Her debut novel, Lucky Number 6, releases this September. It’s a twisty, high-stakes thriller that pulls readers into a world where nothing—and no one—is as it seems.
“I’ve always been drawn to questions of identity, risk, and reinvention,” Julia says. “This book came from a place of wondering how far someone might go when the odds are stacked against them—and wha -
Alfred Nicols
ALFRED NICOLS received undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Mississippi. Following military service, he had a career as a lawyer, a state trial judge, and a federal judge.
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He and his wife Mary live on rural acreage in Mississippi, where their two sons have second homes. "Lost Love's Return" and its 18 point reader guide were written to leave his children and grandchildren, maybe others, insight into issues in life and the value of family ties, even to imperfect people. -
E.C. Quinn
E.C. Quinn is a lifelong animal lover, avid reader, and author of multiple stories for both kids and adults, with 25 stories published in Guide magazine and two stories in Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Premonition: The Gift, Quinn’s debut novel, is book one in her middle-grade adventure series. Stay tuned for the second book in the Premonition series as well as her upcoming debut adult novel, a psychological thriller.
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A Wisconsin native, Quinn lives in a tiny town near Madison, and when not writing or working with writers, she enjoys reading, running, traveling to Michigan and Iowa to spend time with her kids, and hanging out with her furry friends: one energetic rescue dog and three cats (two sweet as pie, one naughty as can be!) Throug -
Claire Duende
Claire Duende was born in Ghana, West Africa of an English father and Spanish mother. After a few years living in Beirut and Spain, she grew up primarily in the Oxfordshire countryside where she would avoid doing her homework on Sunday afternoons by watching old Hollywood movies. Among her favourites were films with Sabu.
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Claire has spent most of her life working as a designer and now lives in an old cottage in Cornwall, England with her husband and four dogs. Their son and daughter have now flown the nest but leave their city lives from time to time to bring light and laughter into the family home.
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Yvonne deSousa
Yvonne deSousa has worked as a street sweeper, a shell seller, a babysitter, a candy peddler, and a guest house manager, all before the age of sixteen. Later on she worked as a waitress, sales clerk, library assistant, victim’s advocate, and at the front desk of a doctor’s
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office.
Two years before Yvonne’s diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, a relative volunteered her to write an article for a local newspaper. Little did she know it was the beginning of a writing career. When MS threatened to turn her into a lunatic, she started writing more frequently and quickly discovered that writing about the insanity that is MS was helping to keep her sane.
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Debra Payne
I always lived in small towns. I was born in Bolivar, New York, but have lived in Kalkaska County, Michigan, most of my life. I was once a reporter and editor of the weekly newspaper and spent most of my work life at the local school district. Since retirement, I have worked part-time at the public library. I find joy and inspiration in nature, reading, writing, painting, birding, and spending time with loved ones. The Burden of Sparrows is my first novel.
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Mary Kendall
Mary Kendall lived in old (and haunted) houses growing up which sparked a life-long interest in history and story-telling. She earned degrees in history related fields and worked as an historian for many years. Her fiction writing is heavily influenced by the past which she believes is never really dead and buried.
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Fueled by black coffee and a possible sprinkling of Celtic fairy dust, she tends to find inspiration in odd places and sometimes while kneading bread dough.
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Paul Jantzen
Paul Jantzen grew up in what would be described as typical Americana, and from an early age, he was fascinated with the art of storytelling. Paul loves captivating his audiences with his imagination and sense of humor. He took up filmmaking in college and his first short film, The Leopard Frog, debuted on the USA network in 1991. He then took up writing, a more budget favorable medium. Though he enjoys a good novel here and there, he was never big on reading so he wrote a book instead. Sour Apples is his award winning, debut novel. He has two more in this series of novels for those who hate to read soon to come. Paul finds himself at peace when he has delved his mind into his made-up world. He currently lives in Frederick, MD with his wife
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Amanda M. Cetas
Amanda M. Cetas is the author of the historical action adventure series, A Country for Castoffs. Thrown to the Wind is the first book in the series. The story is taken from her family history, which she has spent over two decades researching. She recently retired from fourteen years of teaching American, European and World history to middle and high school students, to write full time.
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Amanda lives in Tucson, Arizona for most of the year with her husband and two little Yorkie mixes. She escapes to the beach at Rocky Point, Mexico over every break in the school year and to the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon each summer. She has three grown children and two beautiful grandchildren.
Amanda is currently working on the fourth book in the ser -
C.A. Hocking
I am a Bestselling Independent Author and have been writing since I was six years old. It's what I do and how I define myself. My works range from powerful family sagas and dark dramatic fiction to light hearted romance, children's fiction, short stories and poetry, with an occasional foray into screenwriting. My books sell all over the world, with three translated into Mandarin and now selling in China.
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I was born in South Australia and have lived both rural and city lifestyles in many parts of Australia, which is reflected in the various settings of my work. I've had some good times, some bad times, made some wrong turns and some right turns, had some awful jobs in order to keep the money coming in whilst writing in my spare time, raised a -
James LePore
I write what I like to read: novels and short stories with compelling, fast moving plots, in exotic venues, populated by flawed characters who, finding themselves caught up in situations of extraordinary stress and danger, are forced to face their own demons in order to prevail. The world is full of extremes: terrorism and the courage to fight it, love and hate, lust and tenderness, corruption and redemption, honor and revenge. You will find them all in my work.
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I also like to take pictures and to write very short fiction and an occasional poem. All three are combined in my book of flash fiction: Blood, Light and Time: Project 52/2015. -
Lisa Groen
Lisa Groen loved getting to know Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt in her first historical novel THE CASSATT SISTERS, coming in October 2025. She is author of THE MOTHER'S BOOK OF WELL-BEING, a book of essays for new moms. Lisa's writing also appears in the textbook THE FOURTH GENRE: Contemporary Writers of Creative Nonfiction.
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Lisa holds an MFA in writing from The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing. She lives in Utah and shares city and mountain homes with her husband and their dog, George Harrison. They have a blended family of five adult children and one grandchild.
⭐️ Early Reviews for THE CASSATT SISTERS:
"The Cassatt Sisters is hard to put down, intensely revealing, and a work of art itself.”
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Laura Kemp
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Laura is a teacher who loves to write about her home state of Michigan. She has a B.A. in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University where she studied under Stuart Dybek, and has had her short fiction and poetry published in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Word Riot, Tonopalah Review, SaLit and SLAB: Sound and Literary Art Book. “The Pursuit of Happiness,” – a short story she wrote while at WMU, was chosen as a finalist in the Trial Balloon Fiction Contest.
When not writing, Laura enjoys musical theatre, hiking, swimming, reading and performing with her Celtic band- Si Bhaeg Si Mohr. She also enjoys spending time with her husband and children as well as her dog, two hamsters, two gerbils, ten chickens, two horses and eight (and counting) c -
Lauryn Jay
Lauryn Jay is a novelist, poet, and lover of wine and good food.
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She is the author of the upcoming novel, You, Always: The Years of Us. Set to release August 21, 2025.
Lauryn’s married to a guy who has been with her through it all, and a mom to two beautiful daughters who inspire her to chase her dreams daily.
When she’s not writing, you can find her spending time with family, and traveling the world to meet new people and cultures. -
Bill Friedrich
Thank you for visiting my Goodreads page. Begin your journey with The Landman, the first novel in the Jeff Koehler Mystery Series, where a wildlife photographer stumbles into small-town secrets and wilderness danger that could change everything—and put him in the crosshairs.
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I’m Bill Friedrich, a Michigan-born author who blends a lifelong passion for the outdoors with gripping storytelling. Raised in West Bloomfield and deeply connected to Northern Michigan traditions, I draw on decades of hunting, fishing, and wilderness exploration to bring authenticity and atmosphere to my writing.
My first three books share real stories from my family’s third-generation hunting camp in Michigan’s north woods. Today, I channel that same love of the land in -
Pat McDermott Michener
Have you ever heard of something and thought: "Wow! What a story!" or, "Wouldn't this make a good story?"
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In “Emma Madison, Master Meddler", I've stitched together many such stories from a long and interesting life. Fame and fortune are not the reason I wrote this novel. It was because, after bits, pieces and then large chunks of it assembled in my mind, the two main characters - Emma Madison and her niece, Jasmine Holmes - nagged me endlessly to do it! So, it was not so much a project as an itch that needed scratching, with the result being a book.
My background is journalism. You'll laugh when you hear the name of my first employer once I graduated from university! It was a nation-wide newspaper for teenagers called "Canadian High News". Af -
Gail Priest
Gail Priest's new novel, Soul Dancing, is women's fiction with a paranormal twist. It takes place in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware and the Philadelphia area. It was released by Red Adept Publishing on May 7, 2024.
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Gail 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 the coast of New Jersey and the Eastern Shore of Maryland.
Gail lives in New Jersey with her husband and their Havanese dog, Annie. When she's not writing, Gail can be found reading or looking for birds and sea glass along the beaches and -
Ann Colbert
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Ann Colbert MD grew up in Michigan where her father was a warden and the family lived on the prison grounds. She graduated from the Univ. of Notre Dame and went on to Michigan State Univ. at a branch of the medical school located in the Upper Peninsula. Dr. Colbert completed her family practice residency in Rochester, New York and finally settled in Morehead, Kentucky. After twenty years of practicing family medicine including delivering nearly 1000 babies, she saw the need for palliative care in the community so became board certified in Palliative Care and Hospice after studying in Wales, UK. and provided end of life care for another long spell.
Venturing out of the country in 2016, she volunteered at Hillside Health Care in Punta Gorda,