Laurent Grenier
Laurent Grenier: philosopher born in Paris, France, on January 5, 1957, to Quebec parents. His family returned to Canada a few months after his birth.
Over the last 40 years, he has dedicated himself to meditation, study and writing, in an effort to develop an art of living and a vision of things that make the world understandable and habitable. His latest essay, "Life Revisited," marks the culmination of this effort.
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Demetrius Koubourlis
The author, a Greek native, is an American citizen. He is the embodiment of a self-made man. He achieved the highest academic degree after overcoming hunger, homelessness, and hopelessness. He has known failure and success, rags and riches. Dr. Koubourlis completed his graduate and post-graduate education in the United States; he was a professor at several major US universities and rapidly rose to tenured full professor. He has spent considerable time in several countries and is fluent in several languages. His exposure to different languages and cultures is reflected in his writing. Although he has been writing all his life, only recently has the author started publishing non-scholarly works.
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Brian Van Norman
Author of of five novels: The Betrayal Path (Amazon), Immortal Water (Guernica Editions), Against the Machine: Luddites (Guernica Editions), Against the Machine: Manifesto (Guernica Editions) and Against the Machine: Evolution (Guernica Editions).
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Once a teacher, theatre director and adjudicator, Brian Van Norman left those worlds to travel with his wife, Susan, and take up writing as a full time pursuit. He has journeyed to every continent and sailed nearly every sea on the planet. His base is Waterloo, Ontario, Canada though he is seldom found there. -
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Ralph Pezzullo is a New York Times bestselling author, and award-winning playwright and screenwriter.
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Born in New York City, he grew up in Mexico, Vietnam, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay and Nicaragua. After receiving a Master's Degree in international affairs he worked on Capitol Hill and later as a correspondent for Associated Press covering assignments in Latin America.
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Glenn Dyer
Long captivated by the events of World War II, Glenn Dyer couples this fascination with his passion for historical thrillers with the publication of “The Torch Betrayal”, the first in the Conor Thorn Series. "The Ultra Betrayal" and "The Unquiet Genius" are books 2 & 3 in the series. He resides in Park City, Utah with his wife Chris. They have three children, all of whom live too far away.
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Misty R. Phillips
Misty R Phillips is a woman of action. She tackles each day—head on—with a blanket and a cup of coffee. Armed with her wit, far too many cats, and a curious faced dog, she battles the wonders of family life. She takes all of her flaws, insecurities, and failings, wraps them in little bits of paper, gives them personality and names, and shoves them into her books. She may be graphic, vulgar and a wee bit asinine on paper, but all of her friends and family know her to be sweet, kind and loyal.
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Patty Lesser
After living around the world, Patty Lesser returned to Hamilton area, Ontario where she grew up. She has been writing all her life, starting with poems as a child. A few years ago, she began writing novels. She now has several titles to her credit, including the new Coma Kids YA/MG Sci-fi Series.
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Deepak Gupta
Deepak Gupta is a retired senior executive with fifty years global experience; thirty of them with the Procter & Gamble Company. He has lived and worked in India, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Philippines, and Thailand. This unparalleled exposure to different cultures and traditions has given him excellent insights into people psyche.
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Ross Leondiou
Hi, I'm [Ross Leondiou] — a storyteller with one foot in the past and the other firmly planted in a fish shop. I write about the grit, humour, and heart of growing up in Australia, where steel factories and deep fryers were as much a part of life as family and friendship.
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Wog in a Fish Shop – a true-to-life, nostalgic, and often funny look at my childhood in a family-run fish and chip shop during the 1960s. Framed around some of the era’s biggest world events — from the Cuban Missile Crisis and the moon landing to the demise of the Ford motor car and the wild chaos of cracker night — it's a story for anyone who's balanced two cultures while history unfolded around them. One of the standout characters is Ross Leondiou, nickname Buy books on Amazon -
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Ka Hancock
Ka was born and raised in Utah in the shadow of the most spectacular mountains on earth. She's spent her career and expertise in the field of mental health. Between raising her family, going to school, working and getting the laundry done, she managed to become a writer. Her work takes an unvarnished look at imperfect people living the randomness of life in flawed circumstances. Her underlying faith in the resiliency of the human spirit shines through in everything she creates.
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Lucille Guarino
A bestselling and award-winning author for fiction-drama, Lucille Guarino has enjoyed writing since her youth. Her novel, Elizabeth’s Mountain, has received praise and recognition from Kirkus Reviews, BookViral, The Book Commentary, BookFest and others, and was a 2024 Finalist for the Hawthorne Prize from the American Writing Awards and Kindle Book Award. Also, the recipient of the 2024 Millennium Book Award and the 2025 Independent Press Award. Her novels have garnered reviews such as “compelling,” “captivating,” “enchanting,” and “effortlessly transporting.” Her newest, evocative novel, Lunch Tales: Suellen, embraces powerful issues that snag the lives of contemporary women by addressing Suellen's world of work, love, and a life-changing
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Costi Gurgu
Speculative fiction writer with five books and over forty short stories published in USA, Canada, England, Denmark, Romania, Poland, and Hungary.
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Twenty-seven times awarded for his fiction, including the prestigious "Alexandru Odobescu" award for debut book, two times the "Vladimir Colin" award for novel and short story collection, and the "Romanian National Convention Award" for Best Story of the Year.
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-"Chronicles from the End of the Earth" - short story collection, Millennium Books, 2011
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Mallory M. O'Connor
Mallory O’Connor is a writer, an art historian, and a musician. She is the author of two non-fiction books, Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast and Florida’s American Heritage River, both published by the University Press of Florida. American River :Tributaries, Book One of the American River Trilogy, is her debut novel.
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Rosalie Rayburn
Rosalie Rayburn is a journalist and author who has lived in many countries including the USA, UK, Ireland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Australia and Portugal. She earned a bachelors’s degree in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin and started her newspaper career freelancing for the Irish Times and Irish Independent. Travels took her to Norway where she was news editor for the English language Saga Weekly and contributed to the trade magazine Norwegian Oil Review. Returning to the US, she spent 18 years as a staff writer for the Albuquerque Journal; during which she covered business, local government, energy and telecommunications.
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Rod Lewin
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ROD LEWIN was born in Brisbane, Australia. His acclaimed autobiography “Steel Spine, Iron Will”, wherein he narrates his recovery from paralysis after a near-fatal plane crash, has been in constant demand for over two decades. Rod has spent the last thirty-five years as a professional aviator. He has experienced all manner of adventure as a true ‘knight of the air’, from operating seaplanes on the Great Barrier Reef, the far outback of Western Australia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Greece, to airline flying in DC-3s, 727s and 737s in the U.S. The thrilling tale of high drama in his new novel, 'The Escalante Enigma', is drawn from some of his own astonishing exploits. -
Joyce Yarrow
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Joyce is the award-winning author of the Zahara Series and, according to Library Journal, her literary novels of suspense “appeal to readers who enjoy unusual mysteries with an international setting.”
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Kamla K. Kapur
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Ralph Pezzullo
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Born in New York City, he grew up in Mexico, Vietnam, Bolivia, Colombia, Guatemala, Uruguay and Nicaragua. After receiving a Master's Degree in international affairs he worked on Capitol Hill and later as a correspondent for Associated Press covering assignments in Latin America.
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Ka Hancock
Ka was born and raised in Utah in the shadow of the most spectacular mountains on earth. She's spent her career and expertise in the field of mental health. Between raising her family, going to school, working and getting the laundry done, she managed to become a writer. Her work takes an unvarnished look at imperfect people living the randomness of life in flawed circumstances. Her underlying faith in the resiliency of the human spirit shines through in everything she creates.
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Darcy Flynn
Darcy Flynn is known for her heartwarming, sweet contemporary romances. Her refreshing storylines, irritatingly handsome heroes and feisty heroines will delight and entertain you from the first page to the last. Miss Flynn’s heroes and heroines have a tangible chemistry that is entertaining, humorous and competitive.
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Darcy lives with her husband and a menagerie of other living creatures on her horse farm in Franklin, Tennessee. She stargazes on warm summer nights and indulges daily in afternoon tea. -
Mallory M. O'Connor
Mallory O’Connor is a writer, an art historian, and a musician. She is the author of two non-fiction books, Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast and Florida’s American Heritage River, both published by the University Press of Florida. American River :Tributaries, Book One of the American River Trilogy, is her debut novel.
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Joyce Yarrow
A New York City transplant now living in Seattle, Joyce Yarrow began her writing life scribbling poems on the subway and observing human behavior from every walk of life.
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Joyce is the award-winning author of the Zahara Series and, according to Library Journal, her literary novels of suspense “appeal to readers who enjoy unusual mysteries with an international setting.”
ZAHARA AND THE LOST BOOKS OF LIGHT (Book 1 in the Zahara Series), was awarded 5 Stars by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and chosen as a Best Book in the Historical Fiction category by the PenCraft Awards (Spring of 2024). It has also been translated into Spanish and Portuguese. The second book in the series, STOLEN LIVES earned the 2024 Firebird Award for International Suspense -
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Mario Messina-Azekri
Mario A. Messina-Azekri was born in Argentina and brings a rich, multidisciplinary background to his writing. He is currently authoring a science fiction-fantasy trilogy that reimagines the myth of Atlantis and explores the cosmic forces that shape civilization. A lifelong poet, Mario began writing at the age of fifteen and went on to develop a career as a criminal investigator for the Oregon Board of Parole and the Department of Corrections, where he authored detailed reports on complex cases for over 25 years. His storytelling extends beyond the page—he has written training manuals for soccer coaches, created personalized comic books for children, and hand-crafted intricate wooden castles and pirate ships. His work blends imaginative visi
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Rod Lewin
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ROD LEWIN was born in Brisbane, Australia. His acclaimed autobiography “Steel Spine, Iron Will”, wherein he narrates his recovery from paralysis after a near-fatal plane crash, has been in constant demand for over two decades. Rod has spent the last thirty-five years as a professional aviator. He has experienced all manner of adventure as a true ‘knight of the air’, from operating seaplanes on the Great Barrier Reef, the far outback of Western Australia, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Greece, to airline flying in DC-3s, 727s and 737s in the U.S. The thrilling tale of high drama in his new novel, 'The Escalante Enigma', is drawn from some of his own astonishing exploits. -
Nati del Paso
Nati del Paso is a writer, counselor, and student of Indigenous Psychology and Shamanism. She was raised in Mexico by a Mexican mother and an American father and now is a lead counselor in the Office of Minority Affairs and Diversity at the University of Washington.
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Del Paso weaves psychology, mysticism, and magic realism into suspenseful tales surrounding the immigrant experience, women, environmental and social justice issues. She recently finished her first novel. She lives in Snoqualmie, Washington with her husband.