Tell us about yourself.: Fairren McLemore is a native of Saint Joseph, Michigan, and raised in Elkhart, Indiana. With a master’s degree in organizational leadership, Fairren brings a unique perspective to her writing, combining her academic background with a deep...
Tell us about yourself.: I’m a seasoned IT and cybersecurity professional with over 25 years of experience, including roles in the Department of Defense, government, biotech, and both public and private industries. As a military veteran and former Chief Information...
Tell us about yourself.: I have always enjoyed reading and I'm rarely seen without a book in my hand . My love of reading began when i was 18 months old, I progressed on to reading the newspaper at 5 year of age. I enjoy spending time with my family and my...
About Featured Book: Locust Hill: A Romantic Family Saga by Carl Parsons City girl falls in love with country boy in the family saga LOCUST HILL. Published serially by Spillwords Press, LOCUST HILL details the struggles of an independent, small acreage farm family in...
Deann Hampton was a full-time mother to twins, a part-time accounting specialist, and a vocalist in her dad’s band in her previous life. She has been married to “Travis” for 36 years, and they are now grandparents to a very special young man, the family’s pride and joy. After some harrowing experiences with various systems while dealing with almost half a century of “mystery illnesses,” Deann’s dream is to help create new paradigms to replace the old, outmoded ones that have never truly served the autism communities. She hopes to change the way people think about Autism Spectrum Disorder, as well as the root causes and triggers associated with it.
About Featured Book: Boss Daddy by K.C. Crowne I may be rich but none of that fu@king matters if I'm dead inside. Losing my wife broke me. Left a crater in my chest impossible to fill. Until her. Erin walked into my club like a goddamn storm. Sharp. Untouchable. The...
Kori McClurg hails from Colorado, where she lives with her fun-loving, supportive, and successful husband, Barry Sherman, and her furry kids, Maddie, Sabrina, and Nate. She is a pilot, avid runner, hiker, and generally up for anything outside. She has a BS in Math and an MBA. She is a veteran of the United States Air Force. Throughout her professional life, she has had successful careers as a flight test engineer, software development project manager, real estate developer, investment manager, and entrepreneur. She has certificates in personal training, plant-based nutrition, and Affective Liminal Phycology.
I am a visual artist spanning five decades. Influenced by travel to Iceland, Hawaii and life experiences; Malama Island is my first written endeavor creating a story born out of fantastical images of reality, both experienced and imagined.
My pieces are influenced by my education in both art and zoology and have evolved from my early days of creating illustrations and assigned pieces promoting licensed movie models, posters for the home market and working as a professional artist for Sea World to creating pieces that represent me and my connection with the natural world.
I’ve lived in California, Illinois, Oregon and Arkansas.
About Featured Book: Master Adulting by Paul Neumann Master Adulting is your roadmap to becoming the functional, fulfilled adult you aspire to be. Whether you’re struggling with the challenges of adulthood, eager to grow into a more capable and confident version of...
About Featured Book: Transforming Tiny Traumas by PJ Victor Discover the Profound Impact of Tiny Moments In a world where giant traumas often overshadow the subtle, profound experiences that shape us, Ripple Effects: Transforming Tiny Traumas invites you on a journey...
Gracie Owens is the pen name for two internationally bestselling authors from the American West who have teamed up to write steamy, sassy, and sweet contemporary romance novels. After years of discussing passion projects and brainstorming story ideas, they realized what fun they could have if they put their heads—and laptops—together. The rest is history!
These days, they spend hours on the phone figuring out how their characters can fall in love despite the odds. One author writes from her couch, focused on outlines, plots, and first drafts. The other writes outside with her dogs next to her, revising, editing, and adding steamy love scenes.
We hope our readers have as much fun with Gracie as we do! Please contact us at authorgracieowens@gmail.com.
Louise Wise, a proud Midlands lass, burst onto the literary scene with her debut sci-fi romance Eden—because why not combine intergalactic adventures with love? She followed it up with Hunted in 2013, where things got even more heated (and not just because of the spaceships).
She’s also the mastermind behind:
A Proper Charlie (a rom-com where love meets awkward hilarity)
Oh No, I’ve Fallen in Love! (because falling for someone shouldn’t always be smooth)
Wide Awake Asleep (time travel meets romance – because why settle for one century?)
Louise insists on squeezing comedy into all her books like it’s the last bit of toothpaste in the tube. She’s also written for Take a Break and Woman’s Own—because who doesn’t love a good short story with their cuppa?
For her steamier work, she dons her alter ego, T.E. Kessler, to bring you Jelvia: Not Human—where sci-fi romance gets hotter than the surface of the sun, all while exploring Fly’s alien ancestors from Itor (Eden).
Connect with her on socials: @louise_wise. She promises not to talk too much about aliens… maybe.
Annie Mayfield is a 6x author, 4x Amazon best-seller, corporate executive, and host of the Made to Shine podcast – with listeners spanning 62 different countries. Her mission is to remind the younger generation that God gave them a unique light to shine in all areas of their life – at home, school, work, or hanging out with family and friends.
She’ll be the first to say that at the root of everything, Jesus Christ is her Lord and Savior. Life can be hard, and she recognized at a young age that following Jesus didn’t take away the hard but gave her a steady hand to hold as she walked through it. She fears so many young people have walked away from faith because of broken promises that God never made. With all her work, she aims to remind young adults they have a God that knows, loves, and fights for them. No matter how hard life gets, when you’re made in the image of a God that is love itself, you can never lose love. Annie’s next devotional, Single: Not Incomplete, comes out this fall.
Charles S. Isaacs has been a schoolteacher, a college professor, a community organizer, a Congressional consultant, a social activist, a gambler and an occasional journalist. He has written opinion columns and feature stories for numerous newspapers and magazines. During recent decades, he has been a consultant to dozens of non-profit organizations operating in the social justice arena. His published work includes fiction, poetry and award-winning non-fiction.
ReGina Welling and Erin Lynn are a mother-daughter writing team. Together, they have penned four series, The Fate Weaver series, the Ponderosa Pines Cozy Mysteries, the Mag & Clara Balefire Mysteries, and the Haunted Everly After Mysteries. ReGina is also the author of the Psychic Seasons books and Earthbound series. They live in rural Maine.
Kathryn wrote her debut novel, The Shores of Our Souls, in response to 9/11’s Ground Zero, because she wanted to center and align people and shift societal prejudices and labels. As a young adult, she devoured novels by writers who cared about social justice: Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Eudora Welty (a frequent visitor to her university campus), Barbara Kingsolver, and Anne Lamott. Her favorite novel is John Steinbeck’s East of Eden.
As a quirky, weird child, Kathryn wanted to shift the world through words and stories. Every summer she sat on a wooden porch swing, listening to friends and relatives weave stories of the day, the weather, local politics, and news from all around. Yet she wanted to leave and live far beyond that porch.
MANY VOICES
As she began to travel, Kathryn still felt a longing to tell stories, carrying family love and Southern lore with her. She felt a pull to see the world, so she became a journalist, publishing in newspapers, magazines and literary journals, working full-time for the National Geographic Society. She felt a longing to support that world, so she joined the International Red Cross and Red Crescent. She wanted to connect the world and its stories, to link people needing help to those who could help them, so she became an entrepreneur, a speaker, and a coach.
ONE WORLD
Through her journey, and other people’s stories, she’s come to see the world as One. Decades from that porch swing, she continues to share stories, connecting neighbors from one continent to the next. She’s given a voice to the homeless, people with AIDS, patients searching for a blood or bone marrow donor, neighborhoods ravaged by disaster, refugees fleeing poverty and civil strife, and victims of war.
INFINITE POSSIBILITIES
Kathryn always returns to the WORD. She’s used words to:
• win the Hollins University Fiction Award for her novel Moments On The Edge,
• write award-winning nonfiction,
• direct an international publications department,
• own a cause-related marketing business,
• create her umbrella company, Ground One, to search for solutions that will result in social change,
• receive literary and cause-related marketing awards,
• sing as a mezzo soprano,
• shake the hands of Jimmy Carter, Princess Diana, and Nelson Mandela,
• break bread with Kinky Friedman and Marita Golden,
• meet people on almost every continent,
• teach and speak to people searching for inner peace, their own grounding, in a world that sometimes seems all chaos.
Kathryn graduated Phi Beta Kappa in English from Hollins University in Virginia, and earned her graduate degree in Publications Management from George Washington University. She’s lived and worked in Europe and Africa, traveling throughout the Middle East. Her most recent short story, “A Green Rose,” was published by and received an award of excellence from the journal Willow Review, and The Shores of Our Souls was a semi-finalist in the Faulkner-Wisdom Literary Competition. All of her writing focuses on the search for peace and the connections we all share.
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