Sheena Billett
My roots are very firmly Cornish, and although I was born in Liskeard, I haven't lived there since I was six and we moved 'upcountry' to Devon. Since then I've been moving even more 'upcountry', to Bristol where I did my teacher training, to Forest Gate in Newham where I had my first teaching, and from there to Oxford, where I worked for BT for three years, and then Waltham Abbey. Finally to Norwich where my sons grew up and I taught music. Norwich is a wonderful place to live, but after twenty or so years, it was time to move again, this time to be with my partner, now my wife. I actually moved to 'The North' and now live in Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
Most of my working life has been spent teaching music, both in schools and giving private p
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Maria Frankland has a dubious internet search history and a very worried mother-in-law. However, neither of these things can stop her writing gripping psychological thrillers in which you’ll never find a happy-ever-after.
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Ellery Lloyd is the pseudonym for New York Times Bestselling husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos.
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Collette is a journalist and editor, the former content director of Elle (UK) and editorial director at Soho House. She has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, and the Sunday Times.
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Elizabeth Lee
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Jessica Huntley is an award-winning and best-selling psychological thriller author. She's an ex-British soldier and Personal Trainer and has been writing almost non-stop for the past four years.
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She is now the author of sixteen books, including two trilogies, six standalone thrillers, two anthologies, a co-written horror project and a novella. She is both self-published and traditionally published with Inkubator Books and Joffe Books.
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Ivy Bronson writes pulse-pounding thrillers that dive deep into secrets, survival, and the pasts that shape us. A lifelong lover of suspense and stories that keep you up past midnight, Ivy crafts tightly-wound plots with strong emotional undercurrents and characters you won’t forget.
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Jade Snow Wong was born in San Francisco and brought up in a family that maintained traditional Chinese customs. Due to the high importance her family placed on education and her own desire to learn, Wong graduated from Mills College in 1942 with a hard-earned Phi Beta Kappa key. She worked as a secretary during World War II, and discovered a talent for ceramics. When she began to sell her work in a shop in Chinatown, it quickly found popularity. Wong's pottery was later displayed in art museums across the United States. In 1950, Wong published the first of her two autobiographical volumes, Fifth Chinese Daughter. Her second volume, No Chinese Stranger, was published in 1975. Towards the end of her life, Wong ran a travel service in San Fra
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I am a Chicago native. As a child, I spent many of my “growing up” years working at Deno’s Jewelry Store. I went to college at Purdue University where I earned my Bachelor of Arts degree. After college, I began teaching in the Archdiocese of Chicago. I spent 10 years there. After that, I began teaching in the Chicago Public School system and am still currently teaching there today continuing to inspire the youth in my classroom.
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I have always had a love of reading and that fostered my interest in writing.
Currently, I am the author of three books.
My Hero, My Ding - a Memoir of a Girl and Her Grandfather
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Yvonne Korshak
Yvonne Korshak received her BA with honors from Harvard, and her MA in Classics and Classical Archaeology and PhD in Art History from the University of California, Berkeley.
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As a professor at Adelphi University, she has taught Art History and topics in the Humanities, served as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History, Director of the Honors Program in Liberal Studies, and Director of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. She has written and spoken widely on topics of Greek art and archaeology and on European painting, particularly on van Gogh, Courbet, and David. Her blog, “Let’s Talk Off-Broadway,” focuses on art and theater.
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Paula Fox
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and two memoirs. Her novel The Slave Dancer (1973) received the Newbery Medal in 1974; and in 1978, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal. More recently, A Portrait of Ivan won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2008.
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A teenage marriage produced a daughter, Linda, in 1944. Given the tumultuous relationship with her own biological parents, she gave the child up for adoption. Linda Carroll, the daughter Fox gave up for adoption, is the mother of musician Courtney Love.
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Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
Paul Sochaczewski's highly acclaimed nonfiction books of personal travel include the five-volume Curious Encounters of the Human Kind series,An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles, The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen, Soul of the Tiger (with Jeff McNeely), and Distant Greens. Gary Braver, bestselling author of Tunnel Vision, said Paul's work is "in the great tradition of Asian reporting. The humanity of Somerset Maugham, the adventure of Joseph Conrad, the perception of Paul Theroux, and a self-effacing voice uniquely his own." Paul's handbook for people who want to write their personal stories, Share Your Journey, is based on the creative writing workshops he runs in more than 20 countries. Redheads and EarthLove are his eco-thrillers set in the
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Christine W. Hartmann
Christine Hartmann grew up in Ohio and Delaware and loves traveling to exotic, romantic settings. After a college semester in Kathmandu, her first three “real” jobs were all in northern Japan, where she lived for almost 10 years. She currently splits her career between her daytime occupation (improving the quality of veterans’ nursing home care) and her nights/weekend avocation (writing both fiction and non-fiction books). She’s currently working on the Wild at Heart romantic suspense series, of which Wild Within, set on the Pacific Crest Trail, is book one. Her husband Ron Strickland is a well-known long-distance hiker and trail guide writer and the founder of the 1,200-mile Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail. Christine loves reading
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Barbara Donsky
Winner Silver Medal Readers' Favorite 2016
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Finalist Beverly Hills Book Awards 2016
Born in the South Bronx, two words long synonymous with urban decay, Barbara Donsky, the author of Veronica's Grave, went on to discover a passion for all things French. Go figure!
A Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude graduate of Hunter College, she earned an MS from C. W. Post, Long Island University and an EdD from Hofstra University.
Publications include a doctoral dissertation Trends in Written Composition in Elementary Schools in the United States, 1890 -1960. Articles in educational journals including "Writing as Praxis" and "Trends in Elementary Writing Instruction". And a short story--"The Trouble with Harry"--published in the Naples Review in Florida.
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Lillian Hellman
Lillian Florence "Lilly" Hellman (June 20, 1905 – June 30, 1984) was an American dramatist and screenwriter famously blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947–52.
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Hellman was praised for sacrificing her career by refusing to answer questions by HUAC; but her denial that she had ever belonged to the Communist Party was easily disproved, and her veracity was doubted by many, including war correspondent Martha Gellhorn and literary critic Mary McCarthy.
She adapted her semi-autobiographical play The Little Foxes into a screenplay which received an Academy Award nomination in 1942.
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Valerie Plame Wilson
Valerie Elise Plame Wilson, known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is a former United States CIA Operations Officer and the wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
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Anthony DiPaolo
Anthony is an author from New York whose own literary interests lie in the classic realms of Lovecraft and Poe, and the modern works of Preston & Child and Stephen King. A deep passion for Egyptology and archaeology, as well as the tales and legends that surround ancient cultures, led to the basis of his current tale: The Dragon Storm - Gates.
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Writing in the sphere of what some have termed "Archaeo-Horror" - Anthony melds together the real life locations and legends of the ancient world and his own brand of supernatural plot twists and turns - to bring us fast paced, cliffhanger chapters and a cast of enigmatic characters.
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Amy Asbury
Amy Asbury is the author of five books: Once Upon The Eighties, The Sunset Strip Diaries, Confetti Covered Quicksand, Valley Girl and Fuzzie Wuzzie. She is influenced by Truman Capote, J.D. Salinger, Mary McCarthy, John Cheever, and Judy Blume. She also draws inspiration from film (Martin Scorsese, Sophia Coppola, and P.T. Anderson are favorites), creative design, interesting photography, and beautiful animation.
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Amy is a collector of vintage books, retro toys, and eighties candy packages. She loves bookstores, libraries, old-time ice cream parlors and antique shops, and is most at home in the classic Hollywood restaurants or the beaches of her hometown in Los Angeles. She is married to an awesome New-Yorker and has one bookish son. -
Ava Gardner
Ava Lavinia Gardner was an American actress.
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She was signed to a contract by MGM Studios in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew attention with her performance in The Killers (1946). She became one of Hollywood's leading actresses, considered one of the most beautiful women of her day. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her work in Mogambo (1953).
She appeared in several high-profile films from the 1950s to 1970s, including The Hucksters (1947), Show Boat (1951), The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952), The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Bhowani Junction (1956), On the Beach (1959), Seven Days in May (1964), The Night of the Iguana (1964), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), Earthquake (1974), and The C -
Rosemary "Mamie" Adkins
Greetings!
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My name is Rosemary “Mamie” Adkins but I prefer to be called Mamie by my friends and those I care to know. I was born and spent most of my childhood in Houston, Texas. Later, I moved with my family to Las Vegas, Nevada, where I graduated from Bishop Gorman High School in 1965.
After graduation, my family moved to Redding, California, where we resided for about six months, until moving to Eugene, Oregon.
I/We (my husband, Douglas E. Adkins and I) had been in the candy making business for twenty six years and though we retired, we were eager to stay amongst the general public so we obtained an exclusive for the USA to Import/Distribute a fine design of Woollen goods from Aine Knitwear of Ireland. Retiring again, three years later so -
Stephanie A. Collins
I am a busy mother of 4, a loving wife, and an unsuspecting author of a true medical drama/unconventional love story called With Angel's Wings. With Angel's Wings is my story. I wrote therapeutically as I was introduced to/initiated into life as a special needs mother. Years later friends, therapists, and nurses convinced me to share my tale. All names were changed in the book, out of respect for those who would not appreciate being mentioned by name, but aside from names, the story is 100% true. If, after reading With Angel's Wings, you are left with questions, please do not hesitate to ask. On the book's website (www.withangelswings.net) there is an "Ask the Author Forum", and all questions and feedback are more than welcome. Also on the
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Gloria Swanson
Most famously known for her portrayal of faded silent film star Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's 1950 film SUNSET BOULEVARD, Swanson was enormously popular in silent films, especially in those under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille. She continued to work in films & television and on stage well into the 1970s. Her last screen appearance was in AIRPORT 1975 in which she played herself.
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Swanson died in New York City in New York Hospital from a heart ailment, aged 84 on April 4, 1983. Her death created worldwide headlines, with The New York Times echoing a line from Sunset Boulevard, calling her, "The greatest star of them all."
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Tom Davis
Tom Davis is an award-winning journalist and web producer who is editor of Best's Review. His book, "A Legacy of Madness: Recovering My Family from Generations of Mental Illness," is scheduled to be released by Hazelden Publishing on Oct. 3, 2011. The book is available at Barnes and Noble, Amazon, Wal-Mart and many independent retailers. The book was endorsed by former First Lady Rosalynn Carter.
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Davis was formerly New Jersey editor of Patch.com. Until 2010, he was a multi-media journalist with The Record of Bergen County, N.J., and also wrote articles that appeared in The Star-Ledger. He teaches journalism classes at Rutgers University, where he sits on the Digital Committee and is helping to develop more of a digital media presence in the -
Linda Ellerbee
Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith) is a journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington (DC) correspondent, and reporter and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight, which was recognized by the duPont Columbia Awards as "the best written and most intelligent news program ever."
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Ms. Ellerbee's production company, Lucky Ducky Productions, has earned a reputation as a supplier of outstanding children's programming for network, syndication, cable, and public television. Originally from Texas, Ms. Ellerbee now divides her time between New York City and western Massachusetts. -
Trina Robbins
Trina Robbins is an American comics artist and writer. She was an early and influential participant in the underground comix movement, and one of the few female artists in underground comix when she started. Her first comics were printed in the East Village Other. She later joined the staff of a feminist underground newspaper It Ain't Me, Babe, with whom she produced the first all-woman comic book titled It Ain't Me Babe. She became increasingly involved in creating outlets for and promoting female comics artists, through projects such as the comics anthology Wimmen's Comix. She was also the penciller on Wonder Woman for a time in the '80s.
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Trina has worked on an adaptation of Sax Rohmer's Dope for Eclipse Comics and GoGirl with artist Anne -
Jill Kandel
Jill Kandel grew up in North Dakota. She has lived and worked in Zambia, Indonesia, England, and in her husband's native Netherlands.
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Her first memoir, "So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village," (Autumn House Press) won both the Autumn House Press Nonfiction Award and the Sarton Women's Literary Award.
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Maria Dahvana Headley
Maria Dahvana Headley is the New York Times-bestselling author of, most recently, THE MERE WIFE (out July 17, 2018 from MCD/FSG). Upcoming in 2019 is a new translation of BEOWULF, also from FSG. As well, she is the author of the young adult skyship novels MAGONIA and AERIE from HarperCollins, the dark fantasy/alt-history novel QUEEN OF KINGS, the internationally bestselling memoir THE YEAR OF YES, and THE END OF THE SENTENCE, a novella co-written with Kat Howard, from Subterranean. With Neil Gaiman, she is the New York Times-bestselling co-editor of the monster anthology UNNATURAL CREATURES, benefitting 826DC.
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Her Nebula,Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy award-nominated short fiction has appeared on Tor.com, and in The Toast, Clarkesworld, -
Amber Dawn
Amber Dawn is a writer, filmmaker and performance artist based in Vancouver. She is the author of the novel Sub Rosa (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010), editor of the Lambda Award-nominated Fist of the Spider Woman (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2008) and co-editor of With a Rough Tongue: Femmes Write Porn (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2005). Her award-winning, genderfuck docu-porn, "Girl on Girl," has been screened in eight countries and added to the gender studies curriculum at Concordia University. She has toured three times with the infamous Sex Workers' Art Show in the US. She was voted Xtra! West's Hero of the Year in 2008. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. Currently, she is the director of programming for the Vancouver
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Carmen Aguirre
Carmen Aguirre is a Vancouver-based theatre artist who has worked extensively in North and South America. She has written and co-written twenty-one plays, including Chile Con Carne, The Trigger, The Refugee Hotel, and Blue Box. Her first non-fiction book, Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, was published in 2011 by Douglas & McIntyre in Canada and Granta/Portobello in the United Kingdom and is now available in Finland and Holland, in translation. Something Fierce was nominated for British Columbia’s National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, the international Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, was a finalist for the 2012 BC Book Prize, was selected by the Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire, and the National Post as o
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Jane Wilson-Howarth
As a child Jane dreamed of intrepid adventures and encounters with exotic wildlife but it wasn’t until she was 22 and with a zoology degree to her credit that she started travelling: she organised a six-month expedition to catalogue the creatures living in Himalayan caves. To cut a very long story short, this trip lead to a parasitology then medical qualification, a husband and many more exotic trips. She experienced leeches, malaria mosquitoes, ticks and scorpions first hand and, realising how good information contributes to enjoyable travel, wrote her first travel health guide, "Bugs Bites & Bowels", which launched in a sixth edition in December 2023 as "Staying Healthy When You Travel". Her first book was a travel narrative, "Lemurs of t
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Jennifer Steil
Jennifer Steil is an award-winning novelist and memoirist who lives in many countries. She left the United States in 2006 to take a job as editor of a newspaper in Sana’a, Yemen, where she lived for four years. Her first book, The Woman Who Fell From the Sky, was inspired by her Yemeni reporters. She began writing her first novel, The Ambassador’s Wife, after she was kidnapped when pregnant with her daughter. That experience became the first scene of the novel. She and her infant daughter were evacuated from Yemen after her husband Tim Torlot, a British diplomat, was attacked by a suicide bomber. They lived in Amman, Jordan, until his posting ended and he could join them in London. In 2012, they moved to La Paz, Bolivia. Early in her time t
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Rossandra White
Rossandra White, a fourth generation South African, spent the first twenty-three years of her life in Zambia, where she had a baboon for a pet and learned to tell a log from a crocodile. She’s the author of the recently published novel, Monkey's Wedding, set in Zimbabwe, as well as the memoir, Loveyoubye: Holding Fast, Letting Go, And Then There's The Dog. She lives in Laguna Beach with her two Staffordshire Bull Terriers, with whom she fights for space in her bed. When she’s not writing, she's at the gym or hiking the hills behind her home in Laguna Beach.
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Claire Bidwell Smith
Claire Bidwell Smith lives in Los Angeles. She is the author of the books The Rules of Inheritance (Penguin 2012), and After This (Penguin, 2015). Claire works in private practice as a therapist specializing in grief.
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The Rules of Inheritance, a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick and a Books for a Better Life nominee, has been published in 17 countries and is currently being turned into a film.
Claire received a BA in creative writing from The New School and a MA in clinical psychology from Antioch University. She has written for many publications including The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Slate, BlackBook Magazine and Chicago Public Radio. Her background includes travel and food writing, working for nonprofits like Dave Eggers’ literacy center 826L -
Riverbend
Riverbend is the pseudonymous author of the blog Baghdad Burning, launched August 17, 2003. Riverbend's identity is carefully hidden, but the weblog entries suggest that Riverbend is a young Iraqi woman from a mixed Shia and Sunni family, living with her parents and brother in Baghdad. Before the United States occupation of Iraq she was a computer programmer. She writes in an idiomatic English with, as James Ridgeway notes in the introduction to the Feminist Press edition of her work, "a slight American inflection." The blog combines political statements with a large dose of Iraqi cultural information, such as the celebration of Ramadhan and examples of Iraqi cuisine. In March 2006, her website received the Bloggie award for Best Middle Eas
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Lauren Alexander
Lauren Alexander, the author of CHOICES 86,400 a day and THE CHINABERRY TREE, graduated magna cum laude from the University of Illinois with High Distinction in the English Honors Program before earning a law degree at the University of Mississippi School of Law. Following law practice and a federal court clerkship, she returned to her literary roots. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi with her husband and memories of a legendary dog named Noether and a cat named Cat.
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Carmen Bin Ladin
Carmen bin Ladin, born Carmen Dufour, in Geneva, Switzerland, is a member of the bin Laden family. She was raised in Lausanne by her mother only in Switzerland with three little sisters (Salomé, Béatrice, and Magnolia). Her father is Swiss (Dufour) and her mother Persian (Mirdoht-Sheybani).
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Carmen (56 years old) was married to one of Osama bin Laden's older brothers, Yeslam bin Ladin, until 1988. They were married in 1974 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She has three daughters, Wafah Dufour (born 1975), Najia (born 1978), and Noor (born 1987). -
Camille Marino
Camille Marino is a native New Yorker living with her two rescued dogs in Florida. She put herself through school at night, graduating from Pace University before enrolling in the Fordham University School of Law. As a controversial social justice activist, she founded two Animal Liberation groups with a dedicated global following. Her high-profile actions earned her repeated arrests and prosecutions for civil disobedience and free speech "crimes" as well as hateful campaigns of slander, defamation, cyber bullying, and stalking that tested her limits. Despite concerted efforts to secure her silence, she exposed and ultimately shut down a university program that collected millions of taxpayer dollars to perform cruel and useless experiments
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Martha Manning
Martha Manning (b. 1952) is an American writer, clinical psychologist and former professor of psychology at George Mason University.
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Alexis Marie Chute
Alexis Marie Chute is an award-winning artist, author, photographer, art curator, and filmmaker. She has received over 40 noteworthy distinctions for her visual and literary work.
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Her award-winning fantasy series The 8th Island Trilogy includes, Above the Star, Below the Moon, and Inside the Sun. The series has been described as “A WRINKLE IN TIME meets THE PRINCESS BRIDE” by The Perpetual You magazine, and “Fast and bizarre… never a dull moment” by Forward Reviews. The 8th Island Trilogy “weaves STAR WARS-like characters with a WONDER-like message to form an enrapturing read for blooklovers of all ages” – US Review of Books.
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Sayo Masuda
Masuda was born in 1925, near the town of Shiojiri in Nagano Prefecture. During her later teen years, into her early twenties, she was an onsen geisha at a hot-spring resort in Japan. After this, she became a prostitute, vigorously protesting the passage of anti-prostitution laws. She eventually got a job making soap for a Korean worker, which she held for several months. When the soap business failed, she began drinking heavily, which led to her near death from liver failure and a suicide attempt. She survived and quit drinking, and when she had sufficiently recovered, she began to look after children, eventually becoming a full-time caretaker for several years. Eventually, she was able to open her own restaurant, and ran it for several de
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Elizabeth Fournier
Elizabeth Fournier is the owner and operator of Cornerstone Funeral Services in Boring, Oregon, the first green funeral home in the Portland metropolitan area. She works as a green mortician and eco-educator, and is affectionately known as the Green Reaper because of her passion of home funerals and natural burials. Elizabeth has sat on the International Board of Directors for North America Natural Burial for the past five years. She is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Green Burial Council, the environmental certification organization setting the standard for green burial in North America.
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Leymah Gbowee
Leymah Roberta Gbowee is a Liberian peace activist responsible for leading a women's peace movement that brought an end to the Second Liberian Civil War in 2003.
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The peace movement began when Gbowee reportedly had a dream where God told her, "Gather the women and pray for peace!" That was the beginning of the peace movement that united Christian and Muslim women against President Charles Taylor and the war.
This led to the election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Liberia, and Gbowee, along with Sirleaf and Tawakkul Karman, were awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize "for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work." -
Sumangali Morhall
Sumangali Morhall studied meditation with Indian spiritual Master, Sri Chinmoy, from 1997 until his passing in 2007, and is still an active member of the worldwide Sri Chinmoy Centre. English-born, she currently lives in York, UK.
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The name Sumangali (Shoo-mon-go-lee) was given to her by Sri Chinmoy, and means auspicious good fortune. Her spiritual memoir, Auspicious Good Fortune , is the story of finding and following her spiritual path. -
Jessica Pan
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Half-Chinese American living in London. Graduate of Brown University. Big fan of dogs, coconut smoothies and traveling.
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My second book, SORRY I'M LATE, I DIDN'T WANT TO COME came out in May 2019 and has sold 100,000+ copies to date.
It's about the year I spent: talking to strangers, performing stand-up comedy, travelling solo, trying out improv, going on friend dates and doing a bunch of extrovert-y things. I interview brilliant people throughout the book who guide me through these nightmares.
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Jeannine Ouellette
Jeannine Ouellette’s debut memoir, The Part That Burns, was a Kirkus Top 100 Indie Book of 2021 and a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award in Women's Literature and has been praised by Dorothy Allison, Joyce Carol Oates, Marion Winik, Melissa Febos, Gina Frangello, Sue William Silverman, and many others. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Narrative, LA Review of Books, North American Review, Masters Review, Penn Review, and more, as well as in many anthologies, including Ms. Aligned: Women Writing About Men; Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives; and Passed On: Daughters Write About Father Loss, Lack, and Legacy. A fellow of Millay Colony for the Arts and Brush Creek Foundation, Jeannine teaches creative writing thr
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Fauziya Kassindja
Fauziya Kassindja was born in 1977 in Kpalimé, Togo, Africa. She is the author of Do They Hear You When You Cry? an autobiographical story of her refusal to submit to kakia, the Togo ritual of female genital mutilation, and a forced marriage. Fauziya fled Togo and traveled first to Germany, where she obtained a fake passport, and then to the United States where she immediately informed immigration officials that her documents were false and requested asylum. She was detained by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and imprisoned. Fauziya's family hired a law student, Layli Miller Bashir, to advocate for her asylum, who in turn enlisted the help of Karen Musalo, an expert in refugee law and then acting director of the American Unive
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J.F. Kirwan
J. F. Kirwan is the author of the Nadia Laksheva thriller series for HarperCollins. Having worked in accident investigation and prevention in nuclear, offshore oil and gas and aviation sectors, he uses his experience of how accidents initially build slowly, then race towards a climax, to plot his novels.
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An instructor in both scuba diving and martial arts, he travels extensively all over the world, and loves to set his novels in exotic locations. He is also an insomniac who writes in the dead of night. His favourite authors include Lee Child, David Baldacci and Andy McNab. -
Patricia D'Arcy Laughlin
Patricia D’Arcy Laughlin was born in Trinidad of British and French ancestry, educated there, the U.K. and the U.S.A.
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A world traveler and award-winning artist, renowned for developing her 'Unique Stainings On Wood' in 1965, she has exhibited internationally successfully, winning ‘The Prize of Excellence’ at Tonneins Museum in France, out of 52 countries competing. Although she has composed songs and poetry, "Sacrifices For Kingdoms" is her first novel.
Despite being profoundly involved in the lives of her husband (they were married in their teens), their three children, and five grandchildren, the second book in the Trilogy, "Sacrifices And Beyond," will soon be launched. The final book, "Sacrifices And Triumphs," to follow.
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Derek Robinson
Hey there. I'm Derek Robinson. I live north of Boston with my wife Kathryn, and when I'm not writing stories, I work in software as a technical learning content developer. You can probably find me cheering on my hometown Boston teams in my free time.
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My journey with Forever After began in 2021, and after numerous brainstorming sessions and creative hiatuses, the story finally came to fruition in 2025. For me, storytelling has always been a passion, and I can't wait to see what future stories entail. -
Ivy Bronson
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Ivy Bronson writes pulse-pounding thrillers that dive deep into secrets, survival, and the pasts that shape us. A lifelong lover of suspense and stories that keep you up past midnight, Ivy crafts tightly-wound plots with strong emotional undercurrents and characters you won’t forget.
Her debut novel, Outrun , launches readers into a fast-paced world where trust is a luxury and the truth comes at a cost. When Ivy's not writing, you can find her reading, researching, or planning a trip.
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Denise Chong
Denise Chong is an award-winning author whose work portrays the lives of ordinary people caught in the eye of history. Best known for her family memoir, The Concubine’s Children; The Girl in the Picture about the napalm girl of the Vietnam War; and Egg on Mao, a story of love and defiance in China of 1989, she lives in Ottawa.
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Lana Wood
Lana Wood was born Svetlana Lisa Gurdin to Russian immigrant parents.
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Younger sister of Natalie Wood, Lana was also an actress.
After appearing in the horror film Satan's Mistress (1982), she retired from acting, concentrating on her career as a producer, but since 2008 she has returned to acting in a number of low-budget films.
Wood wrote a memoir, Natalie, A Memoir by Her Sister (1984), and another, Little Sister (2021)
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Hope Worthington
In the vibrant coastal city of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, Hope Worthington weaves her dual life as an attorney by day and a captivating storyteller by night. Hope shares her home with her husband, three dynamic sons, and a trio of rescued pups that add both chaos and joy to their household. She enjoys running and yoga and many of her ideas come to her while on a daily jog.
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From an early age, Hope has been a literary adventurer. The spark of her love for reading ignited at the tender age of seven when she cracked open her first Judy Blume book, Blubber, setting the stage for a lifelong affair with the magic of books.
Now, as a seasoned reader turned author, Hope's creative spirit shines through her preferred genres of fantasy and paranormal roma