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Donald J. "DJ" Humphrey II

Donald J. “DJ” Humphrey II is the son of Lt. Col. Donald J. Humphrey, a United States Army Air Force B-29 bomber pilot in World War II. DJ enjoyed writing in college, which likely helped him graduate as valedictorian of his class with a bachelor’s degree in biblical studies. His education and experiences prepared him for this unique opportunity to write his father’s fascinating true story of survival, faith, and salvation.

Now retired after a 30-year career as a real estate broker, DJ had the time to write his father’s book. He hopes his father is looking down from heaven with a proud and pleased smile, knowing that his son finally wrote the book he had always wanted to be written and published.

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Thomas Holladay

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Thomas Holladay studied screenwriting at the American Film Institute. He has completed four novels, Treasure, Meadowlarks, Deliberate Justice and Pursuit, and more than a dozen feature length screenplays. Many of his original ideas and movie moments have appeared in major motion pictures such as The Village, Red Riding Hood, End of the Earth, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,and others, and on television’s L.A. Firefighter.

Thomas’s life has been filled with exciting adventures all over this planet. These include, but are not limited to, varsity football in high school, varsity water polo in college, U.S. Marine Corps, lifeguard on Miami Beach, professional firefighter, published architect, building contractor, sailing the Caribbean, mountain climbing, scuba diving, motor cycling, horseback riding, acting on stage, in film, and on television, international travel, guitar, folk singer, art, fashion model, teacher, coach and so much more. These experiences and those souls he has met along the way form the foundation for his story telling. He does extensive research in all genres prior to story and character development.

He now lives in Cebu, Philippines with his wife, Wilma, their daughter, Michelle Trixie, and their cat, Tiffany.

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W.D. Kilpack III

W.D. Kilpack III is an award-winning and critically acclaimed internationally published writer, with works appearing in print, online, radio and television, starting with his first publication credit at the age of nine, when he wrote an award-winning poem. As an adult, he received special recognition from L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest, was runner-up in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category of the 2020 OnlineBookClub Book of the Year and was named the April 2021 Author of the Month by the Sinister Soup podcast. He has been editor and/or publisher of nineteen news and literary publications, both online and in print, with circulations as high as 770,000. He is an accomplished cook and has two claims he thinks few can match: cooking nearly every type of food on a grill; and nearly being knocked flat when his grill exploded.

He received both his bachelor's and master's degrees from Westminster College of Salt Lake City. As an undergrad, he double-majored in communication and philosophy, while completing the Honors Program. As a graduate student, he earned a master of professional communication with a writing emphasis. He was also a high-performing athlete, qualifying for international competition in Greco-Roman wrestling.

He is a communication professor and a nationally recognized wrestling coach. He is happily married to his high-school sweetheart and is father to five children, as well as helping to raise five step-children. He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he continues to live, coach and teach.

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H.R. Kemp

I'm an Australian author and my debut novel, Deadly Secrets is available in both paperback and eBook format and will be available in hardback soon. It's currently long-listed for the 2021 Davitt Awards (Sisters In Crime Australia). Deadly Secrets is an Australian mystery thriller.

Several of my short stories have appeared in the Scarlet Leaf Review Magazine (Canada), the UK anthology ‘When Stars Will Shine’, the Australian anthology ‘Fledglings’, and the UK Writers’ and Readers’ Magazine.

I live in Adelaide, South Australia. Besides writing, traveling, and discovering new places, is my passion. I've visited many fabulous countries and cities around the world. I keep a daily travel journal and take copious photos and these inspire scenes for my stories e.g. Deadly Secrets begins in Paris and has scenes set in Normandy, Nice, and Barcelona before returning to Australia. I'm an avid theatre-goer and enjoy art exhibitions and galleries. Of course, I love to read and some of my favorites writers are Elliot Perlman, Anna Funder, John le Carré, Scott Turow, and Peter Temple.

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Karen S. Bell

The wonder of being alive never gets old for me. I am enraptured daily by the variety of living, breathing, crawling, and flying things. The look in my kitties' eyes as they wait impatiently for food. Their soul is reflected in their eyes as they look at me with trust and care. This past year was a test of endurance, of seeing my loved ones on a computer screen, staying home to feel safe. It's hard to come out of this unscathed, feeling secure. I hope normacy returns. Writing a book this year definitely helped my spirit to soar as my mind escaped out of my house.

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W. Michael Hewitt

W Michael Hewitt has degrees in chemical engineering and nuclear engineering. During his professional career he served as the president of several domestic and international corporations and served on the boards of corporations. Ultimately, he formed a company with his life partner, Kathy, that provided engineering and technology services to the federal government. That company performed research for the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and several other federal agencies. It also advised the federal government on the management of radioactive wastes.

Now retired and living in sunny Arizona, he plays golf, writes fiction, and travels extensively (pre-COVID) to fascinating places worldwide. The wealth of experience gained while working provides a treasure trove of information that he now weaves into thriller fiction novels. His goal is to enthrall readers with people, circumstances, and settings that most readers will never be exposed to but provide food for good reads that will hopefully capture their interests.

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Bob Seay

Bob Seay lives in Colorado where he teaches high school band, choir, and guitar classes. He has written two novels, "Dad" and "The Band Room." Bob ran for Congress in 2016. Two out of three voters voted for Bob to stay in the classroom. Despite losing the election, he continues to be very active in Colorado politics. His books reflect his interest in people and relationships and the social issues that affect those connections.

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Kristin Ward

Kristin Ward is an award-winning author from Connecticut. She embraces her inner nerd regularly, geeking out with SciFi flicks or quoting 80s movies while expecting those around her to chime in with appropriate rejoinders. As a nature freak, she can be found wandering the woods - she may be lost, so please stop and ask if you see her - or chilling in her yard with all manner of furry and feathered friends. Often referred to as a unicorn by colleagues, in reality, the horn was removed years ago, leaving only a mild imprint that can be seen if she tilts her head just right. A lifelong lover of books and writing, she dreamed of becoming an author for thirty years but lazed about and didn’t publish anything until 2018. Her debut novel, After the Green Withered, is the first of other stuff you should probably read.

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Jacob Paul Patchen

Jacob Graham, writing as Jacob Paul Patchen, is an award-winning Ohio author and poet who earns his inspiration through experience. A graduate from Muskingum University and former Marine combat veteran, Jacob is known for his attention to social issues and writing books with a purpose. Patchen is the author of several books in various genres. Some of his titles include: Sheltered: When a Boy Becomes a Legend, Words that Matter, At Daddy’s Hands: Courage Knows No Age, and Of Love and War.

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Ren Alexander

I'm Ren Alexander, author of the Wild Sparks Series, The Keys to Jericho, UNSCREWED, and Rebel Rook, which is part of K. Bromberg's KB Worlds Everyday Heroes Series. I'm from Detroit but recently moved to Kentucky.

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Kim Carter

Kim Carter is a multi-award-winning author and critically acclaimed writer of gripping suspense, chilling thrillers, and haunting historical mystery novels.

Kim is widely known for her vibrant characters in her Clara and Iris Mystery series, a couple of overly curious widows who turn private investigators. These funny women were inspired by Kim's mother and her mom's best friend. Book one of this series, Murder Among The Tombstones, was a finalist for the 2018 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award and a recipient of the 2017 TCK Publishers' Readers' Choice Award.

Carters' literary works include Sweet Dreams, Baby Belle, When Dawn Never Comes, Deadly Odds, No Second Chances, The Forecast Called For Rain, and her new release of Dark Secrets of the Bayou; her novels can be purchased online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, BAM, and Indie Bound.

Kim's writing career started after she suffered an illness that made her housebound for a couple of years. An avid reader of mystery novels herself, she embarked on writing as a means of filling her time. Her health struggles and successes have been chronicled on The Lifetime Television in early 2000, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution, Women's Day Magazine, and Guidepost.

With seven acclaimed mystery titles to her credit, Kim worked in many different capacities in county government. Still, it was ultimately her job as a correctional officer who provided her with opportunities to talk and interact with a diverse group of people. Her experiences ran the gamete of inspiring success stories to tragic endings, much like she writes within her mysteries.

Kim began networking and made connections with numerous homicide detectives, medical examiners, and prison officials. Her research has taken her to many places, including morgues, death row, and the occasional midnight visit to cemeteries, all places to gain material for her novels.

Kim is a college graduate of Saint Leo University with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. She is an avid reader, has raised three grown successful children; she currently resides outside Atlanta, Georgia.

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Andrew Neves

Thank you for checking out this book.

Hi, I’m Andrew Neves, and this is Microgreens World.

Come with me on a journey as we experiment and taste and learn together about the latest on microgreens.

Nutrition | Science | Trends | Business

📷Our family dinners start with vegetables, grain, and whatever meat you want. Every meal must have something “green” on it, and it’s not Jell-O, LOL!

In 2019 a friend introduced my wife and me to microgreens. They were flavorful and tasty on our evening meal. Then we started hanging out at some of the better restaurants in the city. Everyone, it seemed, was talking about these microgreens.

Read more here: https://microgreensworld.com/about/.

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Maryann Miller

Maryann Miller is an award-winning author of numerous books, screenplays, and stage plays. She started her professional career as a journalist, writing columns, feature stories, and short fiction for regional and national publications. Her novels are primarily mysteries, with an occasional romance, or short story collection, or mainstream novel thrown into the mix.

Among the awards Miller has received for her writing are the Page Edwards Short Story Award; the New York Library Best Books for Teens Award; first place in the short story and screenwriting competition at the Houston Writer's Conference; placing as a semi-finalist at Sundance; and placing as a semi-finalist in the Chesterfield Screenwriting Competition.

When not writing, Miller loves to play on stage and play in her garden. Not at the same time, of course, but both bring her great joy. Other interests include working jigsaw puzzles, making quilts for family and friends, and coloring.

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Gail Meath

Award-winning author Gail Meath writes historical romance novels that will whisk you away to another time and place in history where you will meet fascinating characters, both fictional and real, who will capture your heart and soul. Meath loves writing about little or unknown people, places and events in history, rather than relying on the typical stories and settings.

The subgenres of her books vary from action-packed westerns, plot twisting murder mysteries and biographies of powerful women who defied the strict rules of society fighting for the freedom of their countries. Her romances may exclude steamy sexual scenes, yet the intensity between heroine and hero will satisfy your deepest fantasies.

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Roxy Matthews

Roxy Matthews, a member of the Silverleaf Writers Guild, is a self-published author of full length novels in the Romantic/Suspense and Fantasy genres. In 2018 she was named one of Canada's Best Writers of the Year by Polar Expressions Publishing.

Her work has been featured in several anthologies, including ‘The Way Through’ by Polar Expressions Publishing, The Charmed Writers Flash Fiction Anthology 2019, and Naughty Night's Press' Sweeter Than Chocolate: Valentine's Day Anthology.

Roxy's dark, twisted side can be read under her alternate pen name R.M.Sackville, where she tests the boundaries of taboo with Dark Fantasy, Sci/Fi, and Thriller pieces that include novellas, novelettes, and short story collections that delve into the dark and twisted. Her work has been featured in Suspense Magazine and LitFest Magazine.

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Roger Stark

I would describe myself as a reluctant writer. But when a story comes along that demands to be told, you pick up your pen.

Six years ago, I heard the story of a friend’s father in World War II. I was so moved by his telling of the story that I asked if he would allow me to write it. The result is the soon-to-be-published “They Called Him Marvin.” My life has been touched in so many ways by being part of documenting this profound story.

My career as an addiction counselor (CDP) lead me to write “The Waterfall Concept; A Blueprint for Addiction Recovery" and co-author "Reclaiming Your Addicted Brain."
After my counseling retirement, I decided I wanted to learn more about the craft of writing and started attending classes at Portland, Oregon’s Attic Institute.

I learned that there is an amazing number of great writers in my area and were willing to help others improve their skills. My next project is already underway, a memoir of growing in SW Washington called “Life on a Sorta Farm.”

My wife of 49 years, Susan, and I still live in the southwest Washington area. We raised seven children and have eleven grandchildren. We love to travel and see the sites and cultures of the world. I still get on my bicycle whenever I can.

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Andra Palmer

Award-winning Author Alexi Venice writes legal and crime thrillers with LGBTQ leads and wlw romance. Her bestselling legal thriller, "STANDBY COUNSEL, A Monica Spade Novel," received a 2020 LesFic Bard Award. Venice is a member of International Thriller Writers and a patron member of The Lesbian Review.

Venice’s 32-year legal career informs her legal, medical and crime fiction. She is legal counsel under a different name at an international healthcare system, specializing in preparing nurses and physicians to testify in court in both civil and criminal trials. Venice’s heart, imagination and life experience inform her romantic drama.

When she isn’t writing, Venice can be found on the lake boating with her family.
Venice is married and lives in Wisconsin.

Stay connected with Venice at:
Twitter: @VeniceAlexi
Website: www.alexivenice.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/alexivenicenovels
Instagram: www.instagram.com/alexivenice
Blog: www.alexiveniceblog.com

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Seralynn Lewis

I was born and raised in a small historical town in northern Ohio. After having lived in various parts of the United States and for a short time in Germany, my husband and I have found our forever home in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina.

I have two grown daughters, two lovely grandchildren, and a husband who supports everything I do no matter what it is.

When I'm not writing, thinking about writing, or plotting my next novel, I'm busy preparing a telephone Bible Study that’s I've been doing for years.

A long-time lover of romance novels, I would like nothing more than to sit on a deserted beach somewhere sipping iced tea and reading to my heart’s content. My husband and I travel to visit family and friends in my hometown where I browse and delight in my favorite library.

Writing Awards:

2020 Serious Writer, Writer of the Year Finalist
2020 NaNoWriMo Winner
2019 Tarheel Award for Contemporary Romance
2019 NaNoWriMo Winner.

Visit my website at www.seralynnlewis.com

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Samantha Arthurs

I have been telling stories fory m entire life. No, really. In kindergarten I won the best story teller award, and one can only imagine what those tall tales were like. Ask me sometime about The Magic Pencil, one of the first stories I ever put down on paper and that I still likes to pull out for a laugh now and then. It’s unintentionally hilarious, truly.

While pursuing my degree in Administration of Justice I finished her first full length novel, Endless Numbered Days, which was published by Martin Sister’s Publishing in 2014. I have since published the Rust series, comprised of four young adult fiction novels. I'm currently set to release my sixth novel, a dystopian pancdemic novel called Transmission in September of 2021.

Besides writing I'm an avid reader and book reviewer, a National Parks enthusiast, and frequent traveler. I have three fur babies that take up 90% of my time: a 100+ pound German Shepherd lovingly named Ronan Lynch after ym favorite literary character, a beagle named Lord Vader (a girl) after my all time favorite baddie, and a cat named Kitty Russell after the iconic Gunsmoke saloon owner. I love music, going to the movies, D&D, and anything involving horror.

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Michelle Dalton

G’day, howzit, sanibonani, goeie dag.
My readers know me as Michelle Dalton, and my friends, as the call-a-spade-a-spade-South-African.

Originally from Pretoria, South Africa, Michelle Dalton and her family fled the rising violence taking over her beloved country and now lives near Brisbane, Australia with her husband and triplet sons.

While juggling a nursing career and teenage sons, she loves to escape into her fictional world. Michelle has a deep love of horses and enjoys weaving them into dramatic stories with honourable men and strong women.

Her other hobbies are gardening (usually trying to save her precious herbs and bulbs from an overactive miniature Jack Russell), painting, and reading. She’s also a huge Star Trek and Marvel Comics fan, and as of recently a wee fan of DC too.

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Dave Matthes

Dave Matthes was born and raised in Swedesboro, New Jersey. He has attended various colleges for computer engineering, automotive science and criminal justice-like degrees, though he is mostly self-educated in the subjects of World History, Philosophy, Political Science and Spirituality. During the day, he works as a service technician and system installer for the restaurant industry. He is a writer of prose and story-driven poetry and is the author of autobiographical books "The Slut Always Rides Shotgun", its sequel "The Passive Aggressors", his post-apocalyptic western series: The Two Revolvers Saga, and The Mire Man Trilogy. Dave presently lives in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania with his wife Sarah and their cat Hank.

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Scott Coon

Scott Coon is an award-winning short story writer and former U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst.

He served six years, rising to the rank of Sergeant. His service included a tour in Kuwait where he received a First Army Combat Patch and the Joint Service Achievement Award. Now a software developer for a major bank, Scott brings his computer and military experience into his work, along with a sense of spectacle.

His debut novel LOST HELIX, a sci-fi adventure/mystery, is available now. Scott's first published story, “Firewall,” appeared in Nth Degree Magazine in 2006. His short "Enduring Winter" was a finalist in the Writers of the Future Awards, won Second Place in the New England SciFi Writers Assn Contest 2016, and was published in Bewildering Stories, Issue 849, March 2020.

Scott Coon shares his knowledge of writing with others and helps other creatives do the same. He hosts the Writers of Sherman Oaks Critique Group meetings and National Novel Writing Month write-in events. His YouTube channel and websites provide insights into his work and give advice to writers. His Little Creative Interview series helps to foster learning in the creative community. See his websites for more information.

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Carlos Alvarado

TUJUNGA is my second novel, Cry Watercolors was the first book I wrote. Presently, I am finishing up on my third novel, La Macha. Happily retired and living with my life partner in South Florida, I plan to continue writing eclectic works that are brushed with a romantic perspective to the trials and tribulations life challenges us with.

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Dania Voss

Award winning author Dania Voss writes compelling, sexy romance with personality, heat, and heart. She loves anything pink and is a huge fan of 80's hair bands. Born in Rome, Italy and raised in Chicagoland, she creates stories with authentic, engaging characters.

Her award winning series Windy City Nights has received 5-star reviews from Readers’ Favorite ®. "Hannah's Bliss" received a 5-star review from The TBR Pile and was voted April 2019’s Book Of The Month. All three novels in the series were determined as Recommended Reads in the 2019 Author Shout Reader Ready Awards, and “Hannah’s Bliss” earned an award in the Oklahoma Romance Writers of America’s 2020 International Digital Awards contest and has recently finaled in the National Excellence in Romance Fiction Awards..

Dania’s work has been highlighted on NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX, and she has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Southern Writers Magazine, Chicago Entrepreneurs Magazine (selected as the #8 Top Chicago Author in 2021), the Artist First Radio Network, and has been a guest speaker for the Red Hat Society. The Windy City Nights series is going to the moon in late 2021, as part of the Writers on the Moon project.

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JD Penley

I'm an author of fantasy and other genres to come. I self publish under my own company, and I do my own marketing/editing as well. I love cars, computers, and video games. I currently live in NC with my wife and our children, with plans to hopefully relocate by the end of the year.

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Zsa Zsa Tudos

Life is an extraordinary journey. It is full of challenges and unsolved tasks that are put in front of us on the constantly moving and changing road towards Nirvana, the place that today we refer to as Happiness.

My life hasn’t been different. Due to family upheavals, I have been in charge of my choices since the age of 14. I put myself through high ranking academic education and left my homeland for a strange country on a one-way road. When the old door firmly closed behind me, it opened up many new ones. I travelled the world, lived in different countries on different continents, learned new languages, new behaviours, new traditions, new religions and went through new relationships. I struggled, enjoyed, laughed, cried, loved and hated on the roller-coaster that I managed to hang onto with the help of the rock-hard faith in myself.

I understand that life only gives us challenges we are able to handle, cleverly pushing us out of the comfort zone to taste the fresh air and new experiences around. I established that regardless of the background, upbringing, religion, colour and education, under those layers we all are very similar and have the same goal. The approach might be different but the aim is Happiness.

On my journey, I learned about the interrelated micro- and macrocosm. I became a REIKI Master-Healer, an Initiated Witch, an Orixa Shamanic Master, and a Phoenix Initiated Educator. With all these lessons, healing the mind and body became a natural addition to my capabilities.

Today, I have an established philosophy - I call AKIA - that searches for the interaction between earthlings and nature, also Earth and the universe. I have eleven books published and many faithful students. I am an Intimacy & Family coach and help people to find their purpose. The joy of seeing them succeed gives me the strength to find new adventures and learn from new experiences.

I consider myself an anthropologist of the unseen soul and cosmic knowledge, constantly searching for the matrix.

I believe that learning is the only way to understand life and us within, and this unique knowledge makes us or breaks us at the end. It is naïve to assume that all that we do here comes instinctively. Yes to the what to do however, the how to do needs deeper comprehension, courage and confidence. I also understand that being in a relationship is rather a tool than a necessity towards finding the yellow brick road that leads to the fulfilment and ultimately to Happiness. Hang on there!

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