Laila Ibrahim
My education and experience in multiracial, developmental psychology and attachment theory provide ample fodder for my novels. My passion for early childhood education, child birth and religious education are reflected in my writing.
I was the founder and director of Woolsey Children's School where I had first hand experience loving children that were not my own. There are scenes in Yellow Crocus that were largely influenced interactions I had with children from Woolsey.
As a birth doula I had the privilege of witnessing the intensity and joy of childbirth. You can see that my birth experiences are reflected in my novels.
Spiritual themes that cross over multiple religious traditions come directly from working as the Director of Children and
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Jane Lotter
Jane Lotter was a Seattle-based writer and humorist whose work has appeared in national publications. Her hilarious column, Jane Explains, ran in the Seattle Sun, winning several awards, including one from the Society of Professional Journalists. Jane’s only novel, The Bette Davis Club, won first place in the Mainstream category in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest.
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Chaz Bono
Chaz Salvatore Bono was born Chastity Sun Bono, the only child from entertainer Cher's marriage to Sonny Bono.
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After over a decade of being publicly out as a lesbian, Chaz began transitioning in mid-2008 and continues his work as an LGBT advocate. -
Jerry Ellis
Jerry Ellis, Cherokee and Scottish, graduated from the University of Alabama. He was the first person in the modern world to walk the 900 mile route of the Cherokee Trail of Tears, where 4,000 of his ancestors died in 1838: Seven thousand armed US Soldiers marched them from their homes in the SE to present day Oklahoma in the heart of winter. Many of the Cherokee had no shoes. They were buried in shallow unmarked graves. Ellis' book about his trek, WALKING THE TRAIL, ONE MAN'S JOURNEY ALONG THE CHEROKEE TRAIL OF TEARS, was published by Random House and nominated by the publisher for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. The book was endorsed by Dee Brown, author of BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE. WALKING THE TRAIL was included in two a
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David Canford
Writing historical fiction, David Canford is able to combine his love of history and travel in novels that take readers on a rollercoaster journey through time and place with characters who face struggle and hardship but where resilience, love and forgiveness can overcome hatred and oppression.
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He has also written two novels about the future, and a travelogue.
David has three grown up daughters and lives on the south coast of England with his wife and their dog.
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Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt was an American socialite and mother of fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt.
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Marisa Sicilia
Nací en Madrid en la era analógica y, aunque en casa no sobraba para gastos, nunca nos faltaron los libros. De niña leía incluso mientras caminaba por la calle, me gustaba todo: la intriga, los cómics, los clásicos, las aventuras, las novelas de amor…
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Crecí y estudié Ciencias Económicas porque, entre otras muchas cosas, los libros me enseñaron a vivir con la cabeza en las nubes, pero sin dejar de tener los pies en el suelo. Me casé, tuve un hijo, incluso planté varios árboles, pero nunca me había planteado escribir. Hasta que un día probé y fue como morder la manzana. Una vez que caí en la tentación ya no pude parar. Escribo sobre lo que amo y sobre lo que me preocupa. Me atraen las épocas de cambio y reflejar diversos contextos históricos, -
Cristelle Comby
Cristelle Comby was born and raised in the French-speaking area of Switzerland, in Greater Geneva, where she still resides.
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She attributes to her origins her ever-peaceful nature and her undying love for chocolate. She has a passion for art, which also includes an interest in drawing and acting.
She is the author of the Neve & Egan Cases series, which features an unlikely duo of private detectives in London: Ashford Egan, a blind History professor, and Alexandra Neve, one of his students.
Currently, she is hard at work on her Urban Fantasy series Vale Investigation which chronicles the exploits of Death’s only envoy on Earth, PI Bellamy Vale, in the fictitious town of Cold City, USA. -
Francine Thomas Howard
One of four entrants in the international Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest to have original manuscripts published by AmazonEncore, Francine Thomas Howard has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of her life. She is the author of the historical novel, Page From a Tennessee Journal.
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After a career as a pediatric occupational therapist, Ms. Howard is delighted to find an audience for her debut novel." -
Linda Spalding
Linda Spalding, Kansas-born Canadian fiction and nonfiction writer, often explores world cultures and the clash between contemporary life and traditional beliefs. Born in Topeka, she lived in Mexico and Hawaii before moving to Toronto, Ontario in 1982.
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Spalding's work has been honoured numerous times. Her non-fiction work, The Follow, was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize and she has since received the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the Canadian literary community.
Her novel, The Purchase, won the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award.
She has two daughters and is currently married to novelist Michael Ondaatje. Linda, her daughter Esta, and Michael are also on the editorial -
John Yunker
UPDATE: John Yunker is co-author (with Midge Raymond) of the mystery DEVILS ISLAND, coming in September 2024 from Oceanview Publishing.
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John Yunker is a writer of plays, short stories and novels focused on human/animal relationships.
He is co-founder of Ashland Creek Press, a vegan-owned publisher devoted to environmental and animal rights literature. He is author of the novel The Tourist Trail and the sequel Where Oceans Hide Their Dead.
His full-length play Meat the Parents was a finalist at the Centre Stage New Play Festival (South Carolina) and semi-finalist in the AACT new play contest. Species of Least Concern was a finalist in the Mountain Playhouse Comedy Festival. His short play, Little Red House, was published in the literary j -
Anita Higman
Best-selling and award-winning author, Anita Higman, has over forty books published. She’s been a Barnes & Noble “Author of the Month” for Houston and has a BA in the combined fields of speech communication, psychology, and art.
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A few of Anita’s favorite things are good movies, fairytales, traveling, gardening, exotic teas, and brunch with her friends.
Feel free to drop by Anita’s website at anitahigman.com or connect with her on her Facebook Reader Page at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorAnitaH.... She would love to hear from you! -
Edward C. Patterson
Edward C. Patterson has been writing novels, short fiction, poetry and drama his entire life, always seeking the emotional core of any story he tells. With his eighth novel, The Jade Owl, he combines an imaginative touch with his life long devotion to China and its history. He has earned an MA in Chinese History from Brooklyn College with further post graduate work at Columbia University. A native of Brooklyn, NY, he has spent four decades as a soldier in the corporate world gaining insight into the human condition. He won the 1999 New Jersey Minority Achievement Award for his work in corporate diversity. Blending world travel experiences with a passion for story telling, his adventures continue as he works to permeate his reader's souls fr
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Deborah Epperson
Born and raised in the Deep South, Deborah Epperson received a BS degree in biology and English in Texas, and pursued post graduate work in chemistry at Georgia Tech. After working in the scientific field for twenty years, she turned her talents to writing fiction and nonfiction. Her award winning nonfiction and poetry have been published in newspapers and magazines locally and nationally.
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Deborah enjoys writing stories and characters steeped in the lyrical traditions and mystical surroundings of the Deep South where she grew up.
When not working on her next novel or article, she enjoys doing pet therapy work with her golden retriever, and volunteering in animal rescue. -
Ana Atanasković
- Završila Filološki fakultet u Beogradu 1997. odsek Engleski jezik i književnost
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- Zbirka priča Beogradske majske priče 2006., Književna omladina Srbije
- roman Duet duša 2007., Magnet
- roman Jelena Anžujska 2008., Feniks Libris
- drugo izdanje Jelena Anžujska 2009., Kordun (SAD) i Art Natron
- deo romana Jelena Anžujska uvršten u knjigu "Manastir Sopoćan" u izdanju Svetigore
- predavanje Tesla i žene na Tesla Energy Independence Celebration, 2010., Filadelfija
- članci u časopisu ELLE, jul, avgust, oktobar 2009.
- stalni saradnik i novinar u časopisu VipTripDiplomatic za sve vreme izlaženja časopisa, intervjui sa ambasadorima i članci o putovanjima pisaca
- stalni novinar saradnik u časopisu "Vodič za život" i "Sensa" nekoliko godina
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Sarah Wise
You can hear me speak about each of my books by going to the following site, and clicking the links sarahwise.co.uk/tvradio.html
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You can follow me on twitter @MissSarahWise
Extra stories, pictures and further exploration of the subjects of each of my three books are available to read at www.sarahwise.co.uk
My Psychology Today blog on 19th-century mental health is here
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As for me: I live in central London and as well as writing my non-fiction books, I am currently working on a screenplay of Inconvenient People.
I did a Master's degree in Victorian Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London – jumping ship from EngLit to History. A chance discovery while writing my dissertation led to the writing of Th -
Dwan Abrams
Dwan Abrams is the award-winning author of Divorcing the Devil, Only True Love Waits (winner of the 2007 Pen of the Writer POWER Award), The Scream Within and Favor (short story appearing in The Midnight Clear anthology). Her fourth novel, Married Strangers, will be released in December 2008.
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She's the founder, publisher and executive director of Nevaeh Publishing, a small press independent publishing house.
Dwan hosts a radio talk show every Saturday from 12:30-1:30 p.m. on AM 1260 WTJH. The show has 500,000 weekly listeners in 17 metro Atlanta counties.
Recently, she joined the Divas of Literature Tour and will travel with them to five cities this summer. She'll also be a contestant on the upcoming reality show, The Ultimate Author! " -
Angela Benson
Though Angela Benson began writing fiction in Miss Milizo's fifth grade English class, her first book was not published until 1994, more than thirty years later! Since then, Angela has published twelve novels, two novellas, and a nonfiction writing book. Her books have appeared on national, regional and local bestseller lists, and she has won several writing awards, including Best Multicultural Romance from Romantic Times magazine, and Best Contemporary Ethnic Romance from Affaire de Coeur magazine. She was a finalist for the 2000 Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award in Multicultural Romance.
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After publishing seven contemporary romance novels and one novella with Kensington and Harlequin, Angela made a faith move to Christian fiction in -
Jennifer H. Lau
Jennifer H. Lau was born in Cambodia in 1970, the third of seven children. She was only five when the Khmer Rouge forcibly relocated her family, friends and neighbors to live and work in one giant concentration camp. She endured four long years of living in perpetual fear, under constant threat of execution, disease, and starvation. Her daily survival often depended on finding the next drop of water, the next grain of rice.
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Finally arriving in America at age twelve, illiterate and traumatized, Jennifer forged on – neither willing to accept these setbacks nor to let her former oppressors dictate her future. In addition to working full-time alongside her family to contribute to a fragile new beginning, she also pursued her education with great -
Kate Juffs
I started writing novels in 2012. I developed a lifelong love of reading books and writing into creating fictional people and their world. My first two novels were historical fiction with a touch of romance. These were published under the name Kate Juffs.
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After a lengthy break I came back to writing in 2023 and created the Barcarolle cozy mystery series which are being published under the name Kathryn Rose. Amelia, the first in the series, was published in early 2024 and the second, Elsie, will be published later in the year. -
Stephanie Haddad
Stephanie Haddad’s earliest works featured unicorns and talking pumpkins who overcame adversity, evil, and the threat of being baked into pies. With age, her writing has evolved to more grown-up topics, like love and the complicated relationships between people. As a life-long lover of cheerful fiction, she strives to tackle real-world issues with wit, hope, and lots of humor. Her short stories have spanned many genres, but her full-length novels stay firmly planted in happy endings, via both romance and women’s fiction.
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Stephanie joined the Romance Writers of America in 2009 to celebrate her addiction to perfect plot resolutions with other writers just like her. Combining a passion for the human condition with a penchant for the romantic, -
Frank Yerby
Born in Augusta, Georgia to Rufus Garvin Yerby, an African American, and Wilhelmina Smythe, who was caucasian. He graduated from Haines Normal Institute in Augusta and graduated from Paine College in 1937. Thereafter, Yerby enrolled in Fisk University where he received his Master's degree in 1938. In 1939, Yerby entered the University of Chicago to work toward his doctorate but later left the university. Yerby taught briefly at Florida A&M University and at Southern University in Baton Rouge.
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Frank Yerby rose to fame as a writer of popular fiction tinged with a distinctive southern flavor. In 1946 he became the first African-American to publish a best-seller with The Foxes of Harrow. That same year he also became the first African-American t -
Kendra Norman-Bellamy
With multi-book deals with the highly esteemed publishers of Harlequin's Kimani Press (New Spirit imprint), Moody Publishing (Lift Every Voice imprint) and Urban Books (Urban Christian imprint), Kendra has risen to become one of the most acclaimed voices in Christian fiction.
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Among other honors, Kendra has been named a bestselling author on the Black Expressions Bestsellers List, the Walmart Bestsellers List and the Essence Bestsellers List, where her novel, "Crossing Jhordan's River" peaked at #1 for paperback fiction. Most recently, Kendra was presented (by the African American Literary Awards Show) with the 2008 awards for Best Christian Fiction of the Year (for "Battle of Jericho") and Best Anthology of the year (for "This Far By Faith") -
Michelle Muriel
MICHELLE MURIEL is the award-winning, bestselling author of the #1 historical fiction bestseller ESSIE’S ROSES, WESTLAND (Essie’s Roses 2), and WATER LILY DANCE. Michelle holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts, magna cum laude, and worked as a professional actress, a member of Actors' Equity and The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for twenty years, doing theater, voice-over, and commercial work. Michelle transferred her skills in complex character development and historical research into writing heartbreaking, heart-mending historical, literary fiction. Her novels poetically explore the secret sides of life, stories told from multiple points of view by strong female characters in history harboring secrets and breaking norms fight
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Seb Kirby
I'm the author of the James Blake Thriller series (TAKE NO MORE, REGRET NO MORE and FORGIVE NO MORE) and the psychological thrillers EACH DAY I WAKE and SUGAR FOR SUGAR. A third psychological thriller HERE THE TRUTH LIES is now available. I'm also the author of the the sci fi thrillers DOUBLE BIND and, my latest, JESSICA 8.
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An avid reader from an early age - my grandfather ran a mobile lending library in Birmingham - I was hooked from the first moment I discovered the treasure trove of books left to my parents. I was a university academic for many years, latterly at University of Liverpool. Now, as a full-time writer, my goal is to add to the magic of the wonderful words and stories I discovered back then. I live in the Wirral, UK.
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