Janis Hennessey
JANIS HENNESSEY loves to write books for children of all ages. The stories are inspired by her own family adventures, friends, and pets. Janis hopes the stories she imagines will ignite the joy of reading in each child, and this joy will encourage the young reader to reach for another and another book.
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Barbara J. Meredith
Barbara J. Meredith was co-owner of Kids Express Learning Center & Daycare, LLC until her retirement in 2013. She was also the director and head teacher for 14 years. Portions of the proceeds of this book will be donated to Kitty of Angels of Coventry, Connecticut, and to Bandits Place, Inc. of Connecticut. Her first book in the series was Daisy and Friends: How to Stay Healthy. “The animals in the Daisy and Friends books are my actual pets. The inspiration for the books came from over 20 years as a pre-school teacher observing children’s behaviors.”
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Sonya Blackburn
Sonya Blackburn is a new author based out of Atlanta, GA. Her book, “Uniquely Me”, was inspired by thoughts of families, just like her family, that have braved the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process. She is mindful that this process brings a range of stories of families that were successful on their first try to those that are still trying. Her book “Uniquely Me” is a family story about Mya, a 4 year old preschooler, that reflects with her parents on what are the qualities that make her unique. She discovers that what made her unique is not only her interesting characteristics but is also in how she was born into this world through IVF procedure. This story gently explains the IVF process from a child’s point of view along with beautiful
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Tasneem Dairywala
Tasneem Dairywala is a children’s book author-illustrator who likes to craft stories that touch hearts, bridge gaps, and inspire change. She thinks art is a great way to connect with others and make the world a better place, which is why she founded Art Ignite, a non-profit organization that brings art to the masses (or at least to some parts of Toronto).
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Tasneem has a degree in Drawing and Painting and a minor in English from OCAD University, but she learned most of what she knows from reading children’s books with her daughter.
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Paul Edward Turner
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Paul Edward Turner hails from Alabama. His passion for acting has been a lifelong journey, driven by a love for creating and becoming original characters. A key milestone in his career was being cast in his first community theatre production.
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Paul is the author of "Journey to the Sky," the first book in the Jedidiah Davenport Steampunk Adventure Series. While he is still awaiting his most notable film role, the creation of his YouTube and TikTok channels are standout moments in his career. Paul also won a Hardy Boys fan fiction writing contest years ago. His educational background includes high school, but he did not pursue college.
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Jill Kuczmarski
A long, long time ago Jill Kuczmarski left her hometown in the Northwoods of Wisconsin to attend the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. After graduating, Jill went on to design, write, and art direct for big-city marketing agencies across the upper Midwest. And then she came home. Jill now works for a small, family-owned, award-winning publisher from the Northwoods of Wisconsin and enjoys exploring the near and traveling afar with her husband and daughter.
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There are many different depictions of hodags in Jill's hometown of Rhinelander, WI (it’s the official mascot) and when she was growing up all of these hodags were shown to be mean and scary. Jill decided to add a new kind of hodag to the landscape and in 2006 created Happy the Hodag t -
Kelley Armstrong
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Today, she continues to spin tales of ghosts and demons and werewolves, while safely locked away in her basement writing dungeon. She's the author of the NYT-bestselling "Women of the Otherworld" paranormal suspense series and "Darkest Powers" young adult urban fantasy trilogy, as well as the Nadia Stafford crime series. Armstrong lives in southwestern Ontario with her husband, kids and far too many pets. -
Danielle Steel
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Barbara J. Meredith
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Carlene O’Connor is the USA Today Bestselling author of The Irish Village Mystery Series, The Home to Ireland Series and the County Kerry Mystery series. The first in the County Kerry Series, NO STRANGERS HERE received a starred review from Kirkus and was the Mystery Pick of the Month at Barnes and Noble in September of 2023. Of all the places across the pond she’s wandered, she fell most in love with a walled town in County Limerick and was inspired to create the town of Kilbane, County Cork. She currently lives in New Mexico.
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Andrew Golden
I grew up on a small farm in East Tennessee with my three older brothers. Our father was a preacher and our mother was a teacher. Now I know it sounds like something out of a song, but that was life. Every Wednesday night and all day Sunday I was at church listening to Dad preach. I was taught from a young age the importance of faith and trust in Christ. Dad always made it clear that it was the most important thing in life. We were not rich and may have not always had what we wanted, but we always had food in our bellies and clothes on our backs.
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Aishah Hight
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A. Rae Dunlap
A. Rae Dunlap studied film and Victorian literature at Northwestern University and spends her days as a trailer editor at Disney, bringing to life the magic of the world’s most influential storytellers for audiences everywhere. She lives with her husband in a small mountain town in California and can be found online at ARaeDunlap.com.
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Tsvi Jolles lives with his wife and son in a cozy suburb just an hour north of Atlanta, where the cicadas provide the perfect summer soundtrack.
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When he’s not writing, Tsvi finds inspiration in travel, nature, meditation, swimming, or getting lost in audiobooks (because after a day of rewriting a new chapter, it’s nice to just gaze at the horizon). He enjoys listening to his Audible library in multiple languages—Italian, Spanish, German, French, and of course, English.
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Ron Jenkins
I am an author not a reader here at Goodreads. I am back to writing the second book in this series. Please, please if you have entered a giveaway and won, read the book, and give it your honest review.
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I would much rather only fifty people entered a giveaway and gave it a review than hundreds or even thousands who would just stick it on their trophy shelf and never read it.
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While trying to become a ballerina, she waited tables, then worked at countless offices to make a living, learning valuable lessons from mistakes along the way.
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Ben St. James
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At the heart of every project he undertakes is a story, reflecting his commitment to narrative and creativity in all his work.
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Latoya's passion for living a Christ-centered life is evident in her insightful writings, captivating workshops, and Spirit-filled one-on-one sessions. With a heart committed to revealing the love of the Lord, she guides others towards the victorious life they were created to live in Christ Jesus.
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I was an elementary school teacher in California for 27 years and retired to Panama. As teacher I ran an after school chess program for my mostly Latino student population. We went to over 200 chess tournaments and 14 national championships and I watched as children used chess to become first generation college graduates.
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Andrew Golden
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Sarah McLean
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Rebecca Marklund
Rebecca Marklund is a truth seeker, mother of four, and nurse. She lives with her four children on the West Coast, where she bravely engages in living out her own process of metamorphosis. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, reading, hiking, swimming in the ocean, investing in her local community and building healthy relationships.
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Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick has self-published three picture books, one grammar book, and three books that help authors on their self-publishing journey. He is an award-wining screenwriter and worked for 20 years as a software developer. He helped create over fifty commercially released games and educational titles: including the best-selling Cabela’s Big Game Hunter Series. He lives in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
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Sohrab Rezvan
Sohrab Rezvan started his professional career in the field of emergency management after completing a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from George Mason University in Virginia. After several years, and completion of his master's degree in Information Systems, he changed careers into the field of data analytics, where he still works full-time today.
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In 2019, Sohrab started writing children’s stories in his free time to entertain his two young children. He wrote off and on for about a year and a half before getting serious about writing in mid-2021 with the founding of his company, Flat Mountain Publishing. Sohrab has self-published the following books:
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Sharon Mathers
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Michael Gooding
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