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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Yvonne Blackwood is the author of four adult non-fiction books: Into Africa: A Personal Journey, Will That Be Cash or Cuffs? Into Africa: The Return, and College Life of a Retired Senior. She has also published three children’s picture books: Nosey Charlie Comes to Town, Nosey Charlie Goes to Court, and Nosey Charlie Chokes on a Wiener. She is an award-winning short-story writer and has contributed stories to several anthologies, including Human Kindness, Canadian Voices, and Wordscape. Blackwood has published articles in More of Our Canada, Adelaide, InTouch and Green Prints. She has written columns for Pride Newspaper, the Toronto Star, and The African Connection. The Ambition is her debut novel.
Cathy Smith is a Mohawk writer who lives on a Status Reservation on the Canadian Side of the Border on Turtle Island (North America).
U.S.A. Today and Amazon Best-Selling author K.C. Sivils is the creator of the scifi crime noir series of Inspector Thomas Sullivan novels as well as the southern noir series of stories centering around the private investigator James Benoit “Heat” Heatley.
A long time fan of crime noir and science fiction, director Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi classic Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep into the masterful Harrison Ford vehicle Bladerunner encouraged Sivils to consume as much of both genre’s as possible in his younger years.
A fan of past noir masters such as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, Sivils also enjoys the current generation of storytellers like Matt Abraham, Jeff Edwards, Renee Pawlish and Alex P. Berg. In addition to his aforementioned series, Sivils is also the creator of the Agent Nelson Paine Historical Mystery series set during WW II and the early years of the Cold War.
Sivils and his wife Lisa are the parents of three grown children and two four-legged furry children, Bella, a Golden Retriever princess and the grumpy Mr. Darcy, a miniature poodle.
Jack Gibbons is a 27-year-old sports lecturer with a passion for storytelling. I’m a lifelong fan of fantasy. I have just published my debut novel, A Shadow’s Whisper, now available on Amazon.
When not writing or teaching, I can be found devouring books by Brandon Sanderson, Robin Hobb, and Mark Lawrence—always chasing that perfect blend of epic worldbuilding, deep character arcs, and a touch of darkness.
Dr. Habib Khan is a board-certified neurologist and sleep specialist dedicated to improving patients’ quality of life. As the director of the Arizona Institute of Neurology and Polysomnography in Casa Grande, Arizona, he leads a team committed to patient-focused care. With expertise in treating neurological conditions such as chronic headaches, epilepsy, dementia, and neuromuscular disorders, he also specializes in sleep apnea, insomnia, and age management medicine. Dr. Khan trained at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and completed his sleep medicine fellowship at SUNY Stony Brook. He is a member of esteemed medical associations, including the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Passionate about preventive care, he designs personalized treatment plans to enhance overall wellness and longevity. For expert neurological and sleep care in a welcoming environment, visit Dr. Khan at the Arizona Institute of Neurology and Polysomnography.
I dedicate this book especially to my grandfather,
Pop, who was my consistent, shining light in the dark
ness when growing up. I wasn’t always the man I
could have been and certainly nowhere near the
man he was, and perhaps on the day this book goes
out to the world, I will be one step closer to the man
he raised me to be.
To my children: embrace truth, live a life of truth and
light, and follow your dreams a lot younger than I
was ever brave enough to do. You are the best thing
that has happened to your mummy and me. I like the
thought that one day, you will read this, and, who
knows, maybe this book helped change the working
world you will experience. Now there’s a thought…
Freddy Fri is a life champion. He is also an entrepreneur, author, speaker, voice-over talent, basketball coach, international underground hip-hop artist, and motivational lyricist. Freddy is a man who wears many hats, all of which fit under one umbrella—LIFE MINDSET TRANSFORMER!
Freddy is a master at transforming, reinventing, and changing not only his persona but the lives of others. For years, he’s been known by many throughout the world as Playya 1000 (which means a playya of this game of life with a thousand ways to make a positive impact on the world), a hip-hop artist extraordinaire. But he has since decided to reinvent himself and combine the power of story, spoken word, and hip-hop to become the triple-threat life transformer—Freddy Fri, your PushaMan, whose mission is to push you to achieve the greatness you have within.
Julie and Dana Cadman, authors and co-founders of Healing Complex Kids, have poured their personal experience and professional expertise into The Pathway to HOPE Resource Guide for Special Needs.
As parents who’ve navigated the challenges of raising children with complex needs, they bring firsthand experience, unwavering passion, and a deep commitment to helping others. Driven by the belief that healing transforms lives and legacies, they created this guide to offer families practical tools, hope, and a clear path forward.
After a thirty-two year career as an independent financial adviser and Certified Financial Planner™, Craig sold his practice and focuses his business interest, experiences, and efforts toward alerting savers of the large tax obligations that are built into their retirement accounts.
This has birthed two Amazon #1 Best Selling books, Paying the Piper, and Roth Conversion Secrets. The tax issues are very real and a very large concern for many savers.
Rothology™ combines the art and science of financial planning to transition American families toward the goal of a tax-free future without buying financial products or changing advisors.
On a personal note, Craig and his wife travel and live full-time in their motorcoach to experience the great places and people across America.
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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.