Based in Rochdale in Northwest England, I have been writing for about twenty years with my main interest being poetry. In the last few years, I left my last job as a teacher in a school for young people with behavioural and social issues to concentrate on my creative work as a self-employed (and perhaps semi-retired) writer and artist. I still love working with young people and am the part-time art and writing specialist in a small charity in Rochdale supporting young people through creativity to build their resilience and skills.
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Matthew is a life-long learner, has worked in construction, education, banking, hospitality, and is a yoga teacher. He is amazed at how much he can learn and fit into his brain. Matthew found yoga to be very rewarding. He attributes looking and feeling young to practicing yoga (unless it is all the food with preservatives he ate when he was younger). Teaching took Matthew on a learning journey to five different countries, and therefore he likes to write adventure novels based on his experiences. Matthew currently lives in Sài Gòn with his wife and cats. His children are in different parts of the world. Matthew likes to spend time with his wife and family, jog, ride, swim, travel, be adventurous, enter the occasional triathlon, and learn.
Kevin Kuhens is the author of the award-winning Amazon #1 Bestselling Terror’s Sword, the first of his thrillers involving elite counterterrorism operative Kyle McEwan. His book has garnered significant recognition, including the 2023 Winner of the Mystery/Thriller Gold Medal from the prestigious Military Writers Society of America, among others.
Julie Brown is an author, essayist, and playwright. A California girl from the San Fernando Valley, she's spent most of her adult life in Palos Verdes (near the port of Los Angeles) where she and her husband raised two sons, rescued many dogs, hosted countless backyard BBQs, and chased away hundreds of wild peacocks. When not writing, she's doing laundry, gardening, baking, caring for dogs, and giving her grown-up sons advice (some welcome, some not).
USA Today bestselling author and award-winning writer Samantha Cole is a retired policewoman and former paramedic. Using her life experiences and training, she strives to find the perfect mix of suspense and romance for her readers to enjoy.
David Ellrod is a writer of science fiction, horror, and history, previously published in Aurealis Magazine, The Alethea, and Philologia, in addition to research content released on U.S. National Park Service platforms and Listverse.com. As a lifelong aficionado of both history and fiction, he remains most interested in how the former informs the latter. He lives in Maryland with his wife, four children, and two very excitable dogs. He can be reached online at https://ourfamilycanvas.wordpress.com.
I have been a writer my whole life. Early in my life, it was academic and short story writing. These days, it varies. Sometimes my work is of the professional sort, other times political, sometimes well researched, other times opinion or experience, but always in a voice uniquely my own. My articles and letters have appeared in legal industry magazines and newspapers, publications local to St. Louis, and in blog posts going back to the beginnings of blogs. Most of it is nonfiction.
Kaitlin Harvey is an experienced writer who works with words on the clock and off. Her first finished manuscript, The HAWKE Archives, will be undergoing a professional critique in the coming months, after which she'll dive into the querying trenches to find the right advocate for her work.
Patricia Ranee is a writer from Brooklyn, New York, whose love for wordplay and writing began at the age of six. A quiet, shy child raised in a poor Caribbean household, she found reading and writing to be her place of solace; the oasis where she felt understood. Deciding to switch careers at the peak of adulthood, Patricia Ranee now focuses on a life of authenticity and creativity, aiming to inspire others with her words. The Duty Doodie Wife is her first completed feature film.
Lucien Telford is a British-born Canadian writer who burst onto the science-fiction thriller scene with his multiple-award-winning debut novel, The Sequence, in 2021. The book showcases Telford's talented prose with a fast-paced style that keeps the reader turning the page. The Sequence, the first novel in a planned quadrilogy, explores emergent genetic technology using themes of morality, global power, and how these emerging technologies affect the human condition.
