Michael G. Colburn
Michael G. Colburn has spent more than 45 years founding and running businesses based on creativity and design. In 2005 He and his wife Mary Esther Treat launched Ideas Well Done, a firm that focuses exclusively on inventing new products and bringing them to the marketplace. Since then Mike has created over 25 inventions that have generated millions of dollars in revenue and has patents issued in multiple countries. Mike and Mary Esther live in Vermont and enjoy being close to family, cross-country skiing in winter, and taking long distance walking vacations in warmer weather.
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Alex Woodard has toured nationally behind several critically acclaimed albums, earning a few prestigious industry nods while sharing the stage with some of his heroes. His first novel, published in late 2023, was an IPPY Gold medal winner and found an early supporter in Woody Harrelson, who said, “Ordinary Soil brings to haunting life the desperate realities of the American heartland, but also offers a glimpse into a better future . . . a call to action for all of us.”
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In a recent interview, the author said, “You might have noticed that romance and inspirational are my niche genres. I write romance because I find it to be an intriguing genre. Relationships are quite involved in real life. Therefore, I use romance to depict the intricacies of relationships. Ultimately, it evolves into an inspirational and thought-provoking tale.
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Dr. Thomas Davison has taught college coursework inside two State Prisons in Ohio for the past eight years. His observations and interactions with his incarcerated students have deeply moved him. This motivated him to create poems and short stories about their daily lives and experiences. Thomas has recently started a not-for-profit Entrepreneur Services for Felons (ESF). He has dedicated 100% of his writing earnings to providing free one-on-one support services for felons and ex-felons. Dr. Davison has created two Writing Clubs within the prisons. These incarcerated students are his beta readers to ensure he speaks in their voice and keeps it honest.
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Ellenmorris Tiegerman
Dr. Ellenmorris Tiegerman is the Executive Director of Tiegerman School and a Professor Emeritus at the Derner Institute for Advanced Psychology Studies at Adelphi University. As the founder of Tiegerman School, Dr. Tiegerman is responsible for the creation and the development of the preschool, school age and integrated programs within the School.
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In 1994, Dr. Tiegerman served on Governor Pataki’s Transition Team for Education. She was appointed in 1995 by means of an Assembly appointment to the 21st Century Schools Committee. In 1996, Dr. Tiegerman was appointed by means of a gubernatorial recommendation to the New York State Early Intervention Coordinating Council. Most recently, Dr. Tiegerman served as Chairperson of the Parent Involveme -
David Litwack
The urge to write first struck at age sixteen when working on a newsletter at a youth encampment in the woods of northern Maine. It may have been the wild night when lightning flashed at sunset followed by the northern lights rippling after dark. Or maybe it was the newsletter’s editor, a girl with eyes the color of the ocean. But he was inspired to write about the blurry line between reality and the fantastic.
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Using two fingers and lots of white-out, he religiously typed five pages a day throughout college and well into his twenties. Then life intervened. He paused to raise two sons and pursue a career, in the process — and without prior plan — becoming a well-known entrepreneur in the software industry, founding several successful companie -
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Nadine Bjursten
Nadine Bjursten’s first novel, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky, was a finalist for the Pen Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Raised north of New York City in Garrison, Nadine now lives in Lund, Sweden, with her husband and twin daughters. She is the former managing editor of Washington, DC-based journal Arms Control Today.
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Ricardo Rossello Nevares
Ricardo Rosselló is passionate about reform, the science of longevity, and statehood for Puerto Rico. He is a researcher, entrepreneur, tenure-tracked professor, former governor, and current congressional delegate for Puerto Rico. His experiences in the intersection of politics, policy, business, and science give him a unique perspective on a variety of critical issues. Facing fiscal, economic, natural, and social crises as governor, Rosselló embarked on significant structural reforms on healthcare, education, energy, labor, and government, among others. He spearheaded the reduction in the size of government by 20 percent, achieved the largest municipal bond restructuring in US history, and led two major emergency responses, recovery and re
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Shelley Kassian
SHELLEY KASSIAN has been writing timeless love stories filled with romance or dark fantasy (romantasy) for more than twenty years, novels that include her recent beach read, A Sea for Summer. A history enthusiast, she’s traveled far and wide to explore secret gardens and medieval castles, having an avid interest in the Tudor period. Her prose has been described as “near rhapsodic,” “pitch perfect,” and “stylishly straightforward, rarely relying on complex turns of phrase.” Reviewers have said her narrative conveys “imaginative fantasy,” “fascinating characters,” and “refreshing romance.”
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N.J. Lujan
N. J. Lujan was born in Washington, DC then raised in a small town of West Virginia prior to joining the military. She has traveled globally and lived in Europe before finally laying down roots in NC.
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Gita Audhya
My Book, All Those Tears We Can't See, 3rd edition is selling in all major International airports (Hudson Booksellers) including JFK and EWR. When you feel bored that will entertain and fill you with joy, thought, and the ups and downs of assimilating into another culture.
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Dustin Grinnell
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His true passion, however, lies in exploring the intersection of ethics and science in a subgenre of speculative fiction he’s dubbed “sci-fi with heart.” Most of his fiction writing—including his most recent novel, The Empathy Academy, and his short story collection, The Healing Book—falls into this subgenre, blending the imaginative worlds of science fiction with deep, emotional storytelling that emphasizes the human impact of science and technology. Inspired by modern media, he also reviews sci-fi movies th -
Russell Pike
For those of you who’d like to know a little more about me, I’m flattered. Truly. A child of the eighties, I grew up on a steady diet of Ghost Busters, Thunder Cats and Ninja Turtles. For any who are wondering, the best turtle is Michelangelo (just my opinion, even if it happens to be correct.)
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When I was twelve my mother gave me a copy of Robert Jordan’s “Eye of the World”, introducing me to the world of epic fantasy. I was hooked. Since then, I’ve also read Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher, Steven Erikson, Frank Herbert, David Farland, and more. There’s nothing quite so sublime as spending a quiet evening sojourning in a world other than your own, and maybe learning something important about yourself along the w -
D.C. Mallery
D C Mallery's novel ARTEMESIA was the Gold Award Winner in the Thriller Classics category in the 2023 Reader Views Reviewer's Choice Awards.
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SARA SARQUE & THE DEMON EXECUTIONER: and Other Stories of Mystery, Terror, Heartbreak, Hope and Humor was the Gold Award Winner as Best Horror Book in the in the 2023 Reader Views Reviewer's Choice Awards
CASSIA won the SILVER MEDAL in the 2022 Readers' Favorite Awards for Medical Thriller and was also short-listed for the 2022 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize.
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TRESSIA and OTHER STORIES has received praise from Readers' Favorite Reviews and Reader Views Reviews and many others.
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Michael Walker
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Brian Hackett
Brian Hackett grew up in the small town of Horseheads in upstate New York. After graduating from Binghamton University, he spent six years in the Navy, which included an eight-month deployment during the Gulf War as the food service officer onboard a naval hospital ship. Later in the 1990s, he moved to Naples, Italy, to work as a civilian manager for the Navy, and experienced the distinct culture and chaotic environment that has provided Naples its legendary reputation. At the same time, he fell in love with the city’s vivacity and the incredible beauty of the region. It is from that rich experience that Brian drew inspiration for his debut novel, Leaving Naples.
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J.W. Jarvis
J.W. Jarvis lives in sunny California but is originally from the suburbs of the Windy City. When he’s not thinking of ways to create inspiring characters for adventurous minds, you can find him reading, golfing, traveling, or just sipping a hot vanilla latte.
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Kenny Loui
Kenny Loui is a doctor (of philosophy), college professor, and life-long otaku. His hobbies include writing, doodling, stargazing, and binge-watching anime on Crunchyroll. He is the author of Life Lessons from a UFO Catcher: An Autobiographical Manga, a webtoon/graphic novel series based on his experiences "rescuing" cute and cuddly plushies trapped inside arcade claw machines in South Korea, while capturing important life lessons along the way.
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Gita Audhya
My Book, All Those Tears We Can't See, 3rd edition is selling in all major International airports (Hudson Booksellers) including JFK and EWR. When you feel bored that will entertain and fill you with joy, thought, and the ups and downs of assimilating into another culture.
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A.W. Baldwin
A.W. Baldwin has written six novels featuring “Relic,” a moonshining hermit living deep in the remote canyons of Utah. The Antidote features a botany student, a couple of "old-timers," and genetically modified seeds that could provide the antidote for climate change. Against the Wind features a teenage pilot with a stolen airplane and a physicist who has developed a breakthrough in quantum computing.
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His first novel, Desert Guardian (2017), received a five-star Readers’ Favorite rating. His second novel, Raptor Canyon (2018), received the Grand Master Adventure Writers’ Finalist Award and was a finalist in the 2019-2020 Screencraft Cinematic Book Contest. His third novel, Wings Over Ghost Creek (2019), received the Grand Master Adventure Wr -
Ian Domowitz
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Evette Davis
Evette Davis is a science fiction and fantasy writer. She is most recently the author of 48 States, which Kirkus named one of the Best Indie Books of 2022. The book was also a quarter-finalist for the BookLife Prize 2023 and longlisted in the 2023 Indie Book Awards.
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Davis is also the author of The Others and The Gift, the first two installments of The Council Trilogy, which Spark Press will publish beginning in September 2024.
Davis is a member of the Board of Directors for Litquake, San Francisco’s annual literary festival. In 2023 and 2017, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library honored Davis as a Library Laureate. Her work has also been published in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Dr. Eichin Chang-Lim is a semiretired optometrist, a multi-award-winning author, a wife, and a mother to 2 children. She and her husband had a private optometry practice in Los Angeles. They live in Orange County, California.
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In a recent interview, the author said, “You might have noticed that romance and inspirational are my niche genres. I write romance because I find it to be an intriguing genre. Relationships are quite involved in real life. Therefore, I use romance to depict the intricacies of relationships. Ultimately, it evolves into an inspirational and thought-provoking tale.
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Niki Danforth
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Rich Leder
Rich Leder has been a working writer for more than three decades. His screen credits include 19 produced television films for CBS, Lifetime, and Hallmark, feature films for Lionsgate, Paramount Pictures, Tri-Star Pictures, Longridge Productions, and Left Bank Films. He has published eight novels through Laugh Riot Press.
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He has been the lead singer in a Detroit rock band, a restaurateur, a Little League coach, an indie film director, a literacy tutor, a magazine editor, a screenwriting coach, a wedding guru, a PTA board member, a commercial real estate agent, and a visiting artist for the University of North Carolina Wilmington Film Studies Department, among other things, all of which, it turns out, was grist for the mill. -
N.J. Lujan
N. J. Lujan was born in Washington, DC then raised in a small town of West Virginia prior to joining the military. She has traveled globally and lived in Europe before finally laying down roots in NC.
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Jeffrey M. Feingold
Jeffrey M. Feingold’s stories, published widely in literary journals, have been nominated for the PEN America Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers, the Pushcart Prize, and the Best American Short Stories. His first short story collection, The Black Hole Pastrami, won multiple book awards, including the National Indie Excellence Award. This was followed in the same year with his second collection, There Is No Death in Finding Nemo, which received numerous awards. His third collection, A Fine Madness, will be published in late 2024. Jeffrey resides with family in Boston, Massachusetts.
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C.V. Vobh
C.V. Vobh lives with his wife and children as far from his city job as he can manage. He grew up reading J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Jordan, Raymond E. Feist, and R.A. Salvatore, and some of his favorite fantasy authors today are Joe Abercrombie, Matt Dinniman, and Sebastien de Castell. When he's not working, writing or reading, he's running.
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Nadine Bjursten
Nadine Bjursten’s first novel, Half a Cup of Sand and Sky, was a finalist for the Pen Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. Raised north of New York City in Garrison, Nadine now lives in Lund, Sweden, with her husband and twin daughters. She is the former managing editor of Washington, DC-based journal Arms Control Today.
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Thomas Davison
Dr. Thomas Davison has taught college coursework inside two State Prisons in Ohio for the past eight years. His observations and interactions with his incarcerated students have deeply moved him. This motivated him to create poems and short stories about their daily lives and experiences. Thomas has recently started a not-for-profit Entrepreneur Services for Felons (ESF). He has dedicated 100% of his writing earnings to providing free one-on-one support services for felons and ex-felons. Dr. Davison has created two Writing Clubs within the prisons. These incarcerated students are his beta readers to ensure he speaks in their voice and keeps it honest.
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Russell Pike
For those of you who’d like to know a little more about me, I’m flattered. Truly. A child of the eighties, I grew up on a steady diet of Ghost Busters, Thunder Cats and Ninja Turtles. For any who are wondering, the best turtle is Michelangelo (just my opinion, even if it happens to be correct.)
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When I was twelve my mother gave me a copy of Robert Jordan’s “Eye of the World”, introducing me to the world of epic fantasy. I was hooked. Since then, I’ve also read Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, Brandon Sanderson, Jim Butcher, Steven Erikson, Frank Herbert, David Farland, and more. There’s nothing quite so sublime as spending a quiet evening sojourning in a world other than your own, and maybe learning something important about yourself along the w -
Opëshum
So happy to announce that November 7th will see the official launch of Book 1 of gods on Trial: The Series - Beyond the Father!! It's been an incredible journey to bring the first book in this series to the world.
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Opëshum has been writing since she was a child, and believes that authors are selected by their characters to bring their stories to the world. Incredibly shy and introverted, Opëshum does not make public appearances. She prefers to remain behind the scenes as the characters in her books take center stage. Her current work, the 8-Book SciFi Epic gods on Trial: The Series™ kicks off with Book 1, BEYOND THE FATHER.
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Kathleen McFall
I live, write and play in the Pacific Northwest, not far from vampire country. I love genre fiction, and with Clark, I've written twelve books.
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Our first book, published two decades ago, was about a cowboy and vampire falling in love. This sexy, authentically Western, laugh-out-loud series also has a serious metaphysical edge and has now moved into cult-classic status. We wrote four books in the Cowboy and Vampire Collection and then branched out into science fiction, alt-history, and romance. As you can tell by our moving from genre to genre, our interests are eclectic. We like to explore and shake up tropes.
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Caroline Davis
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Kristin Louise Duncombe
Kristin Louise Duncombe is an American therapist, life coach, and writer who has lived in Europe since 2001. She has based her career on working with international and expatriate families following her own experience of growing up overseas as the child of a US diplomat, and having lived internationally most of her adult life.
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Her first book Trailing: A Memoir, chronicles her experiences becoming a “trailing spouse” and following her Médecins Sans Frontières husband to the frontlines of disaster and disease in East Africa. Her second book, Five Flights Up: Sex, Love, and Family (from Paris to Lyon) provides a compelling glimpse into love, family, and sex in France, and a modern family grappling with the inevitable downs - and ups - of buildin -
W. Royce Adams
I'm an Emeritus Professor of English, Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, California, where I taught for twenty-three years. Before that I taught for seven years at South High School, Torrance, California. Before that I spent three years, five months, and five days in the navy.
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I earned degrees from Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and California State University, Long Beach. During my thirty-year teaching career, I published twenty-two college textbooks, primarily in the areas of developmental reading, writing and study skills.
I've published several adult short stories, several of which appear in my short story collection, Teacher, Teacher, I Declare! Several of my young adult novels have won awards. See http://www.rairaru -
David Thomas Kay
DAVID THOMAS KAY. Author of the metaphysical progressive historical fiction series Circles of Time.
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Book One, THE SWORD OF SAINT ISIDORES, won the prestigious IRDA for Best Fantasy of 2022.
Awarded the READERS FAVORITE BRONZE MEDAL for Historical Fiction, Christianity 2022.
Won a GLOBAL BOOK AWARD for Historical Fiction Fantasy 2022.
Book Two, THE RING OF MANN, was awarded the READERS FAVORITE SILVER MEDAL for Y/A Fantasy 2021.
Book Three, THE SECRET CHILD was released on Amazon in November 2022.
David’s strong characterisation is the vehicle that drives belief and make his stories real. He was encouraged to write by his love of history. When genealogy revealed a Scandinavian heritage he began a study of world cultures, including religious bel -
Tessa King
Tessa King is an emerging author whose debut novel, My Wingman, explores themes of courage, and the journey of rediscovering happiness after grief. With a professional background in laboratory science, Tessa brings a unique perspective to her storytelling and enjoys analyzing rich, emotional narratives.
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When she isn't writing, you can find her supporting her husband at the dragstrip, indulging in her passion for coffee and books, or enjoying quality time with her beloved German Shepherd, Preacher. Residing in the Midwest, she admits to having a terrible green thumb and is still mastering the art of knitting. However, she shines in the art of sarcasm and delights in baking sweet treats. A devoted Detroit Lions fan, Tessa embraces life with hu -
Robert S. Phillips
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American poet, author and editor, usually publishes under the name Robert Phillips.
Robert S. Phillips was born 1938 in Milford, Delaware and is the author or editor of some 30 volumes of poetry, fiction, criticism, and belles lettres and publishes in numerous journals. A graduate of Syracuse University's creative writing program, he is currently (May 2007) a professor of English at the University of Houston; he was also director of the Creative Writing Program there from 1991 to 1996. His honors include a 1996 Enron Teaching Excellence Award, a Pushcart Prize, an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, a New York State Counci -
Mark Ukra
When he was 6, co-author Mark Ukra and his 5-year-old sister Tara huddled at the back of a tiny hallway closet and created a make-believe world based on the love they shared with their amazing grandmother, dog, and stuffed animal friends. In those endless hours in that closet, the siblings' adventures and dreams came to life and their fears disappeared. Now, decades later, the HarperCollins author, together with his sister Tara Mesalik MacMahon, a James Hearst Poetry Prize winning poet, again brings to life the "Closet of Dreams," this time on the page and shared with young readers.
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Loretta Miles Tollefson
Loretta Miles Tollefson writes historical fiction set in New Mexico prior to statehood in 1912, with a special emphasis on the 1800s. She grew up in the American West and lives in the shadows of New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains. Her novels and short stories are deeply researched and richly imagined.
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