Tory Richards is an author who writes smut with a plot. She’s an Amazon bestselling author in erotic romance and romantic suspense categories. Born in Maine, she’s lived most of her life in Florida where she went to school, married, and raised her daughter. She’s retired from Disney and spends her time with family and friends, traveling, and writing.
Visit her website/blog here: http://www.toryrichards.com
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.
Gary Corbin is a writer, editor, and playwright in Camas, WA, a suburb of Portland, OR. Raised in a small town in New England, Gary has also lived in Louisiana (Geaux LSU Tigers!), Indiana (Go Hoosiers!), and Washington, DC before settling down in the beautiful Pacific Northwest.
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Gary’s nine novels comprise three hit series featuring page-turning plots, flawed but lovable protagonists, and bad guys you love to hate.
His most recent works, the Valorie Dawes Thrillers, feature Valorie Dawes, a rookie policewoman with a #metoo past pursuing perpetrators of crimes against women in Clayton, CT. Val’s intuition, courage, and relentless hunger for justice sometimes pushes her close to–if not over–the line. Books in that series include A Woman of Valor (2019), In Search of Valor (2020), A Better Part of Valor (2021) and Mother of Valor (2022) follow Val’s path in pursuit of rapists, kidnappers, torturers, and sex traffckers. The fifth novel in that series, Under the Banner of Valor, is expected to release in Winter 2023/24.
Gary’s Lying Injustice Thrillers, his first series, is also his most decorated. Lying in Judgment, features Peter Robertson, a man serving on the jury of a murder trial–the murder that he committed. An Amazon.com best-selling legal thriller, Lying in Judgment selected as Bookworks.com “Book of the Week” for July 11-18, 2016, and was the feature novel on Literary Lightbox’s “Indie Spotlight” in February 2017. The sequel, Lying in Vengeance, released in September, 2017, explores the aftermath when a fellow juror blackmails him in hopes of forcing him to kill again–or be exposed for his first heinous crime.
Gary’s second novel, The Mountain Man’s Dog, came out in June 2016, kicking off the Mountain Man Mysteries series. Forester Lehigh Carter fears only two things: dogs and women. But when he rescues an injured dog on the highway and brings it into his ex-fiancee’s vet clinic, his fears collide, leading to an unwelcome deep dive into the worlds of romance, politics, pet ownership. The sequel, The Mountain Man’s Bride, was released Feb. 8, 2017. The third book in the series, The Mountain Man’s Badge, was released in June, 2018.
All of these mysteries are available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats.
Gary’s plays have enjoyed critical acclaim and have enjoyed several productions in regional and community theaters. His writer’s reference, Write Better Right Now: A Dozen Mistakes Good Writers Make-And How to Fix Them, is available exclusively on Kindle.
Gary is a member of the Willamette Writers Group, Northwest Editors Guild, 9 Bridges Writers Group, PDX Playwrights, the Portland Area Theater Alliance, and the Bar Noir Writers Workshop, and participates in workshops and conferences in the Portland, Oregon area.
A homebrewer and coffee roaster, Gary loves to ski, cook, and watch his beloved Red Sox and Patriots. He hopes to someday train his dogs to obey. And when that doesn’t work, he escapes to the Oregon coast with his sweetheart.
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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.