Iris Ruth Pastor
Iris Ruth Pastor is 5’2”—the truth. She weights 115 lbs.—a lie. She’s a baby boomer, author, speaker and story teller. For the past twenty-eight years, she’s written a slice-of-life column entitled “Incidentally, Iris.” In between the unremitting rigors of raising five sons, she hosted a radio program, co-wrote a book with her mother—Slices, Bites and Other Facts of Life—and became the editor of the American Israelite.
Iris entered the social media age kicking and bitching and screaming in order to foster connection and offer tidbits of authenticity to uplift and inspire herself as well as others. She did this as a Huffington Post “Must-Read Blogger of 2015.” She is terrifyingly dipping into the vlogging arena (a combination of video and blo
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Susan E. Sage is an American novelist and poet. Three of her books are published with a fourth to be released in December 2024. She has received has received the Literary Titan Book Award for her novel, DANCING IN THE RING. It was also a 2024 finalist in the Global Book Awards, and a 2023 finalist in the American Writing Awards.
Susan received an English degree from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. During her college years, she began publishing her poetry, and was a recipient of WSU’s Tompkins Award in Creative Writing.
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Brenda Gayle
Life is messy and I try to reflect that in my stories while still leaving readers with a feeling of hope. I want them to see themselves and people they know in my characters.
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Lynn-Steven Johanson
Lynn-Steven Johanson is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced on four continents. He began writing novels when his wife suggested adapting one of his screenplays into a novel. The result was Rose's Thorn, which became the first in his Joe Erickson Mystery series. It was published in 2020 by Level Best Books. Additional books in the series include Havana Brown (2021), Corrupted Souls (2022), One of Ours (2023), Sins Revealed (2024), and Reprisal Road (2025).
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Andrew Cheffings
Andrew Cheffings was born on a small working farm on the Lincolnshire Marsh. The local culture he was born into was coming to an end. His Grandfather still spoke N. Lincolnshire dialect and had a store of stories, aurally transmitted through the generations. Evenings with him were often spent sharing these stories. Life on the farm had its difficulties. And in recent memory there had been a time when every winter was spent digging long trenches by hand, right across wide, heavy clay fields, back and forth, right through the day, in order to drain the water-logged earth. Andrew's stories reflect the experiences of growing up in a challenging local culture which was coming to its end, but was also rich in stories and traditions. And into thes
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Patricia McCain
Patricia McCain, has two wonderful daughters, four grandchildren , and one great grandchild. She has been a widow for over 20 years but has filled her life with activities in several organizations and her local church. Family, and her love for God keeps her going and facing each day as it comes filled with love. Patricia currently resides in Texas, on the Gulf coast. This is her first novel.
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John Williams
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John Towner Williams is an American composer and conductor. In a career that has spanned seven decades, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinema history. He has a very distinct sound that mixes romanticism, impressionism, and atonal music with complex orchestration. He is best known for his collaborations with Steven Spielberg and George Lucas and has received numerous accolades including 26 Grammy Awards, five Academy Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. With 54 Academy Award nominations, he is the second-most nomi -
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. At the time of his death, Melville was no longer well known to the public, but the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival. Moby-Dick eventually would be considered one of the great American novels.
Melville was born in New York City, the third child of a prosperous merchant whose death in 1832 left the family in dire financial straits. He took to sea in 1839 as a common sailor on a mer -
Mary Gribbin
Mary Gribbin works in education in East Sussex and writes books about science for children. She won The TES Junior Information Book Award for her book Time and the Universe, and has written a series of books for Ladybird. She has also worked with John Gribbin on Being Human, Ice Age, and major biographies of Richard Feynman and Robert FitzRoy, as well as the "in 90 minutes" series of mini-biographies of Galileo, Newton, Halley, Faraday, Darwin, Mendel, Curie, and Einstein.
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She has written for a wide range of newspapers and magazines including She, Cosmopolitan, and the Guardian, has a degree in psychology and has worked for twenty years with children of all ages from 4 to 16. In an earlier incarnation, she was at one time the youngest County -
Stella Atrium
Stella Atrium is a cynical septuagenarian. She has spent a lifetime exploring female characters for real world reactions to obstacles. Often pushed into submissive and non-verbal roles, women really live in a world of networking among aunties, cousins, wives of husbands, convenient friends and neighbors. This rich world is largely unexplored.
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“I grew up with all brothers, so I knew about women from stories and from school. What I found at school wasn’t anything like in the stories, so I set out to learn why.” -
Cary J. Griffith
Award-winning author Cary J. Griffith grew up among the woods, fields, and emerald waters of eastern Iowa. His childhood fostered a lifelong love of wild places.
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He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota.
Griffith’s books explore the natural world. In nonfiction, he covers the borderlands between civilization and wild places. In fiction, he focuses on the ways some people use flora and fauna to commit crimes, while others with more reverence and understanding of the natural world leverage their knowledge to bring criminals to justice.
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Brenda Gayle
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Cynthia Ulmer
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Award medal recipient and acclaimed writer Cynthia Ulmer was born in Newport News, Virginia, and raised in Leland, North Carolina. Her wholesome 'Southern Family Fictional' book series, The Cedar Cove Chronicles, is an award-winning series of books.
It is a Christian-themed realistic drama series that follows the Jansan family and their friends and neighbors in the fictional community of Cedar Cove, North Carolina, during the 1940s and 1950s. Books one and four of "The Cedar Cove Chronicles" have won medals from the 'Wishing Shelf Indie Book Awards' and several have received several 5-star book reviews from Readers Favorite.
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Ian Crouch
I am a doctor, living and working in Adelaide, South Australia. This has always been my home, apart from a wonderful year working in London in the early days. Since my teenage years, Greek and Roman history has been my favourite reading. “A Pyrrhic Victory” is an extension of my love of, and delight in, Greco-Roman history and literature. It was a great honour to have the book published, and even more so when it received the two literary awards: 2011 IPPY Awards. Gold Medal, Historical Fiction (Category 12 B, Military / War). Winner, Historical Fiction. NABE Pinnacle Book Awards, Summer 2012.
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Lynn-Steven Johanson
Lynn-Steven Johanson is an award-winning playwright whose plays have been produced on four continents. He began writing novels when his wife suggested adapting one of his screenplays into a novel. The result was Rose's Thorn, which became the first in his Joe Erickson Mystery series. It was published in 2020 by Level Best Books. Additional books in the series include Havana Brown (2021), Corrupted Souls (2022), One of Ours (2023), Sins Revealed (2024), and Reprisal Road (2025).
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Susan E. Sage
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Andrew Cheffings
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Patricia McCain
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Ellen J. Lewinberg
Ellen Lewinberg has a master's degree in social work and is a trained child and adult psychoanalyst. She worked as a psychoanalyst for many years until a health issue introduced her to energy healing. She was so excited by the potential of energy healing that she trained and currently works as an energy healer.
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Jack Meyer
Jack became intrigued by thrillers when Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October was published in 1984. For the next 16 years he was content to read as much as he could and didn’t give writing much thought. That changed, however, during the 2000 Presidential election as he watched TV coverage of the Florida recount and the “hanging chads” controversy. It gave him the idea that an election conspiracy would be a great basis for a thriller. Unfortunately his career, which included management positions in corporate America and small business ownership as well as a brief stint in ministry, kept Jack too busy to write until he retired in 2020. That’s when he began his life as an author.
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Rellim Aglo
I have always loved traveling.
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Over the years, I have wandered through many countries, cities, and winding roads — each one leaving a quiet light within me.
Recently, I felt a new kind of calling: not just to explore the world around me, but the worlds within.
That's when I began writing.
Like with real journeys, I don't want to walk only one road.
I write across genres, exploring different directions, voices, and horizons.
I believe that every story is a discovery — a glimpse into another part of the world, and another part of ourselves.
Yes, in America specialization is valued — "Pick your niche and master it."
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Jack Meyer
Jack became intrigued by thrillers when Tom Clancy's The Hunt for Red October was published in 1984. For the next 16 years he was content to read as much as he could and didn’t give writing much thought. That changed, however, during the 2000 Presidential election as he watched TV coverage of the Florida recount and the “hanging chads” controversy. It gave him the idea that an election conspiracy would be a great basis for a thriller. Unfortunately his career, which included management positions in corporate America and small business ownership as well as a brief stint in ministry, kept Jack too busy to write until he retired in 2020. That’s when he began his life as an author.
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Rellim Aglo
I have always loved traveling.
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Over the years, I have wandered through many countries, cities, and winding roads — each one leaving a quiet light within me.
Recently, I felt a new kind of calling: not just to explore the world around me, but the worlds within.
That's when I began writing.
Like with real journeys, I don't want to walk only one road.
I write across genres, exploring different directions, voices, and horizons.
I believe that every story is a discovery — a glimpse into another part of the world, and another part of ourselves.
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G.S. Gerry
Some books you read. G. S. Gerry’s books pull you in and refuse to let go.
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An Amazon best-selling, award-winning author, G. S. Gerry doesn’t just write stories—he creates experiences. His books defy genres, break conventions, and challenge expectations at every turn. With a blend of dark humor, crime, satire, thrillers, and faith-driven narratives, each book delivers something unpredictable. Something you feel.
Gerry’s storytelling is anything but traditional. His approach? No formulas. No comfort zones. Just books that entertain, challenge, and keep you hooked until the last page.
A Navy veteran, cybersecurity expert, tattoo enthusiast, and father of six, Gerry pulls from real-life chaos to craft stories that are bold, thought-provoking, and