Katherine Blakeman is the England-based author of The Silent Chapter (a sweeping straight historical fiction novel set in twentieth-century Bedfordshire) and The Summer We’ve Had (a sunny lesbian romance set in modern-day Cornwall). She loves to tackle difficult topics, from…
Whitney Ward is a public speaker and writer who seeks to encourage her audiences to overcome their circumstances. As someone who has a disability, it is her wish to give hope to others with illnesses so they will persevere and…
Hi, my name is Julie and I’ve been writing for the whole of my life. I didn’t publish until my mum passed as I’d always been too afraid but then I wrote this book to help me through such a…
Carolyn Greeley is the award-winning author of Emerald Obsession and Treasure Bound (the first two books of The Treasure Quest Series). Equal parts city slicker and beach bum, she concocts adventure-mysteries, combining contemporary action and historic exploits in an engaging…
Steve Burford lives close to Worcester but rarely risks walking its streets. He has loaded conveyor belts in a factory, disassembled aeroplane seats, picked fruit on farms and taught drama to teenagers but now spend his time writing in a…
Timothy O. Davis has a Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Boise State University. Although born in Alabama, he grew up in North Carolina. In 2001, after serving honorably in the Army, he moved to Idaho with his family.…
Michelle Diaz lives in the Pacific Northwest and has been writing stories since she first picked up a pencil to try her hand at it. Thankfully, that particular manuscript will not be manifesting anytime in the near future. Her stories…
Mark Reps has been a writer and storyteller his whole life. Born in rural Minnesota, he trained as a mathematician, acupuncturist and chiropractor but never lost his love of telling or writing a good story. As an avid desert wilderness…
Kylee Greenleaf holds a BA in English from SUNY New Paltz. She’s been honing her craft in Brooklyn where she finds inspiration all around her, convinced that the city itself is alive and whispering her stories. The False Wife is…
Marcia Kosar’s enthusiasm for travel and outdoor adventures began at a very young age. Born in Hamtramck, Michigan–at that time was a modest Polish enclave surrounded by City of Detroit–she grew up in the ‘Motor City’ suburbs of Birmingham and…
Alice lives in Washington State. She has two sons and two grandchildren. She was married to John for thirty-three years. She loves movies, reading, music and a great glass of wine.
Like many first-timers, I tried writing during lockdown in Perth, Australia, in 2020 when my clients decided that I wasn’t needed in their offices to do the accounts anymore. My focus moved from numbers to words, and I shifted from…
I consider myself lucky because I was raised in a family that valued learning. By the time I entered kindergarten, I knew how to read, print, and write in cursive. Bedtime stories were a mainstay, and trips to the local…
Sandra McKay is the author of A Place For Me, An Orphan’s Journey Home, a historical novel based on her grandmother’s story, who rode the Orphan Train. Sandra spent two years conducting research in preparation to write A Place For…
I’m a proud New Orleans native and former dancer with Houston Ballet. Beyond my dance career, I’ve ventured into storytelling as a screenwriter and novelist. I’ve self-published three fiction novels, and my contributions extend to education with the Garage Ballet™…
C.S. (Carol) Kjar is an award-winning, self-published author who lives out west where the antelope, deer, and bison play. Her humorous, wholesome books are about small-town people (mostly people past mid-life) who face big decisions they wish they didn’t have…
In addition to having been a teacher’s husband, Steven Earl Kladstrup is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Syracuse University, with Honors degrees in both Geography and Anthropology. He also holds a Master’s degree with Honors in International Management from…
Oliver Sheppard is a Texas writer and poet whose Thirteen Nocturnes collection of Gothic verse was a finalist for the 2020 Elgin Award for Best Full-Length Poetry Collection.
A born and bred Southern Belle, KAY ELAM took a circuitous route to writing novels but is almost there with her debut book, CALL OF THE CRICKETS, which was a finalist for the Claymore and Page Turner Awards in the…
Twice-shortlisted Poet of the Year, Perito Prize and Pushcart Prize shortlistee, and winner of the Best Creative Writing Portfolio Prize from Lancaster University, Elizabeth (she/they) is a chronic reader and writer of the Weird. Her debut poetry collection, salmacis: becoming…