Reverend Deborah Galtere served as a missioner, pastor, educator, and chaplain during her years of ministry serving in the Caribbean, South Africa/Botswana, and Florida (USA). Highlights of ministry include travel by foot, horse, donkey cart, boat, airplane, truck, and car to reach the congregations in which she lived and served.

A lot of Rochelle’s time is up in the air. She flies planes for a living and if she can’t put skegs in the water, then she’s out surfing clouds from her home base in Denver. Firmly grounded while flying, but head in the clouds while grounded, Rochelle loves fantasy and science fiction.

Beca Salmon is an oncology nurse practitioner, a writer, a yoga teacher, and a world traveler living in Montreal. The pandemic placed her firmly in one place long enough to finish her first book, a memoir called The Third Option.

To those who say, ‘Now I’m retired, I have no spare time,’ it’s absolutely true! I bought my first horse at fourteen after saving hard during a couple of years of delivering groceries after school and on Saturday mornings, and I still own one more than fifty years later...more fool me. But I never thought I’d write about them, in any of their uses by mankind down the centuries, and I’ve spent my spare time over the last two decades doing just that.

E.A. Jones is based in the heart of Wiltshire, England. She is married to her biggest supporter and has three boys. She is a lover of the countryside, having grown up on a farm. She has a lot of dogs, a horse, and some bantams.

Melanie McClellan-Hartnett is an award-winning poet and visual artist in South Carolina. She won her first prize at seventeen from the Poetry Society of South Carolina for her poem Smoke Serpents.

I was born in rural China. From my first day of school, I was immersed in Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, and theories of the proletarian revolution. As a member of the Communist Youth League, I actively participated in various social and political movements. I fervently engaged in the Great Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) as a Red Guard, witnessing a decade-long catastrophe that devastated China’s socio-economic and political environment, eroded traditional Chinese culture, morality, and cherished values.

Now retired from her thirty-six-year career as a marketing communications professional, Suzanne Groves is a published author of three books, as well as an editor, amateur angler, kitchen wizard, genealogist, world traveler, animal lover, artist, and gardening fanatic. She is an off-the-charts extrovert who can (and will) talk to anyone and everyone about anything and everything.

Sarah Veall is an author, transformational coach, inner-child practitioner, and Reiki practitioner. Her work explores healing, self-trust, and the connection between emotional awareness and physical wellbeing.

Having served a rewarding corporate career, Chris has been enjoying retirement at the Jersey Shore with his wife, Susan, and their three sons. In retirement, his energy and enthusiasm are now directed toward giving back to people in ways that are near to his heart. As a prostate cancer survivor, Chris is dedicated to educating men about the disease and providing consolation, support, and advice through his writing. He also covers alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, and career success.