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Lauryn Dyan

Lauryn Dyan is a marketing professional by day, writer and journalist by night. Her first novel, the thriller Hollow Stars, was a semi-finalist in the Tucson Festival of Books’ literary awards in 2017 and was published by Solstice Publishing in 2019. It was her passion project after she had triplets and needed a creative outlet where she could swear and party vicariously through her characters. A companion short story to Hollow Stars was published in a Las Vegas Author’s Anthology in 2019, and she is an on-going journalist for Las Vegas's Smash Magazine, which provides an outlet for her love of rock music.

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Selina Stambi

Selina Stambi is an amateur actor, poet, playwright and creative artist who's passionate about many things. She lives in the suburbs of Toronto, where she spends her summers creating colour and art in her garden, and the rest of the year trying to write in the midst of daily distractions.

Check out Selina's Chronicles of Archie-Baldia (starring Uncle Archibald and Aunty Harriet) on Facebook and You-Tube and encounter comic poetry as never before ... dressed up, dramatized and seasoned with sass!

You can contact this author at selina.stambi@gmail.com

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Robert Paul Blumenstein

Robert Paul Blumenstein has published three novels, which comprise the Ascension Trilogy. The third novel, Blood in the Ground, was a finalist in the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Also, his book of poetry, Journey to the Clear Light, was released in 2019. Unwinding the Serpent is his fourth published novel. Other publishing credits include several short stories, poems, essays, and his plays have been produced for the stage. He makes his home in Richmond, Virginia, where he tends to his bonsai trees. To learn more about Robert, please visit his web site .

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Karen Nappa

Karen Nappa writes Seasoned BDSM Romance with HEA. Their growing library including TRAPPED (a D/s story), and CHERISHED (an age play story). Their latest release, BLINDED, is the fifth book in the Club Indigo series.

Immersed in the D/s lifestyle themselves, they write realistic albeit romantic stories. When not dominated by their cats or their Master (in that order - even if it earns them a spanking!), they love going to Club Indigo and other places to discover the stories that are waiting to be written.

When not texting, skyping, or writing together the American half likes to spin yarn and make quilts, while the Dutch "partner in crime" prefers to go for a run while listening to heavy metal.

April 11th, 2019 will be a date they will always remember. Not only was it the day their debut was released, it also was the day that the two halves of Karen Nappa met in person.-

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Jeffrey Hough

I'm a full time truck driver with a passion for fiction. When I'm not listening to books, I'm writing them. Driving affords me a lot of mental free time that I use to create worlds. Occasionally, I even remember what I thought up.

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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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Neboysha Saikovski

Neboysha Saikovski is the author of the Pink Panthers trilogy, including the first novel “The Greatest Thieves in the World”, which was published globally in June 2020. As a logistics specialist having worked for large international organizations and corporations such as the United Nations, Halliburton/KBR, or DynCorp, he was stationed for twenty years working in areas consumed by ferocious civil wars in Bosnia and Serbia or the occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq. He is an author who lived and worked on 4 continents and witnessed 4 wars, walking the paths of his characters, therefore being able to turn his extensive experience into inspirational and instructive fiction and non-fiction narratives. Saikovski's novels are telling stories about paradoxes of the modern world where evil reigns while chivalry yet survives and he writes only based-on-true-events stories which have it all, a powerful blend of real-life situations and crime thriller, shaking family experience, and gripping war and political drama.

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R.H. Webster

RH Webster grew up in rural Alabama, reading everything she could get her hands on. She started writing her first novel at the ripe old age of 13, and while that particular work remains incomplete, she never lost the dream to one day become a novelist.

She now lives in sunny El Paso, Texas, with her other half and two adorably demanding rescue terrier mix puppies, Charlie and Rosie. She released her first novel, Lucky, in 2018 and the sequel, Striking It Rich, in 2020. Both are available in paperback and ebook wherever books are sold, as well as audiobooks from Audible.

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Lisa Washington

Lisa Washington is an award-winning author of Christian Fiction/Romance novels. Born and raised in Detroit, MI, Lisa joined the U.S. Navy after high school and served 4-years. She returned home and graduated from Wayne State University in 2003.

She then moved her family to Virginia where she earned a graduate degree from Averett University. In 2007, Lisa and her son moved to Indiana where she spent several years working in government and earning a second graduate degree from Butler University in 2016.

Lisa published her first novel 'When You Least Expect It' in 2018 which received a best Christian Fiction Award from the African-American Literary Award Show. Her third novel 'Love lifted Me' received a 2020 Author Elite Award for best Clean Fiction. She is currently working on her newest series, My Sister's Keeper.

A strong proponent of education and community service, Lisa spends many hours volunteering with community and non-profit organizations in Georgia where she currently resides with her family.

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Bobbie Suzanne Fitz

Golf and kids is catching on! Follow Reid Kookas around the world playing golf, meeting new friends and learning the rules of golf. I love playing golf and love writing about my adventures traveling the world with my husband, thru the eyes of my son Reid. I am an avid runner as well. I have written 4 books about Reid Kookas and friends playing golf with many more to follow!

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J. L. Greger

Does the COVID-19 pandemic make you want to learn a bit more about science, but you don't want to read a dry text? As a scientist with more than twenty years of teaching and research experience in the biological sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I think science can be interesting to everyone (including women and minorities) if the topics are relevant to real problems and the instructor is lively.

Thus I explored modern scientific controversies (e.g. weight loss, cancer immunotherapy, food safety, water conservation) in the novels of my Science Traveler Series. My protagonist is Sara Almquist—an epidemiologist who tired of academia and now applies her skills to solve medical and criminal mysteries in New Mexico and worldwide. Like me, Sara lives in New Mexico and loves to travel to exotic places (i.e. the Middle East, Bolivia, India, Cuba).

You'll also meet the perfect gentleman in my books, Sara's Japanese Chin dog—Bug. The character Bug is based on my own dog who served a pet therapy dog for twelve years at a VA Center and the pediatric wards in a university hospital. As you read the books, you may think Sara has better taste in dogs than in men.

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Annette Bower

Contemporary, 2020 RAVEN award winner for Ponytails and Promises. Contemporary, 2017 RAVEN Award winner and RONE First Runner UP for Fearless Destiny. Author, Annette Bower writes stories about women, it is called romance, and it is called women's fiction. Sometimes the stories are short and sometimes they are novel length.

Her stories have been described as "powerful," "journey of self-discovery," "sweet," "humorous," and more.

Annette Bower believes there is a love story for everyone. She travels extensively, but always returns home to Regina, Saskatchewan. Her experiences as a wife, mom, nurse, administrator, town councillor, teachers' assistant, and student inform her stories and reflect many readers' experiences.

Annette walks, bicycles, or ice skates in communities gathering inspiration for her stories about women and men in love, searching for love, or lost without love. Be forewarned, your t shirt, or your particular way of sitting, or talking, or touching may appear in one of her stories.

She likes to hear stories about couples meeting and observes what keeps them together.

Her stories are read around the world and have been shortlisted on many national and international stages.

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M.F. McDowell

M.F. McDowell received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and a BFA in Film and Television from UCLA. He wrote and co-directed the underground cult feature film, Sheila and the Brainstem and spends his time between British Columbia and Los Angeles. To hear more stories from M.F. check out his YouTube series, 52 at 52.

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Peter Rush

Peter S. Rush is a graduate of Brown University and University of Florida. He was a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, Peace Corps volunteer and a police office. He is the author of the awarding winning novel Wild World. Visit

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Mark Rutherford

Mark Rutherford is an Australian who has lived extensively in the USA. He has traveled the world, including thousands of sea miles in large and small vessels. He became a business specialist in energy efficiency and has seen countless opportunities to curb greenhouse gases lost to inaction and ideological divide. He has witnessed firsthand the pollution in our oceans and the decline and loss of species.

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Gerald Everett Jones

Gerald Everett Jones is a freelance writer who lives in Santa Monica, California. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Dramatists Guild, Women’s National Book Association, and Film Independent (FIND), as well as a director of the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC). He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, where he studied under novelists Peter Boynton (Stone Island), F.D. Reeve (The Red Machines), and Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird, Being There).

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O Persaud

I am a father of five and graduate of The University of Maryland, College Park. Shitolian win the Elite Book Awards in Poetry and was a finalist in the Readers Favorite Book Awards.

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Shilah Ferr

I grew up in Morristown, New Jersey with my brother and sister. We share treasured memories of high school, the Jersey shore and skiing with cousins in Mt. Snow, Vermont. All of which became part of April's Heart. I went to college in Washington, DC and became a teacher. I live in Virginia Beach, Virginia with my husband of thirty years. Our two boys are in their twenties making their own way in the world. I enjoy cooking (I've done some catering), my daily power walks (my preferred method of exercise), and hanging out on the beach.

Although truly fiction, April's Heart is dear to my heart as it is very personal, basically following the outline of my life. I grew up in a dysfunctional family. My mother was a difficult person, and our relationship tenuous. In April’s Heart readers relive the night I was “rescued” the very night my father left my mother, as well as heartwarming traditions of childhood and growing up in the 80’s.

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Sadiyyah

I'm from Century Fl and I'm a mother of two beautiful girls. I have a degree in social work and I am the author of my biography. Integrity, faith and respect are principles I live by. To be kind to others and maintain a good work ethic is the basis of my every day living

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Sam B Miller II

Sam B. Miller II holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance, from the University of Tennessee. He has five children and lives with his wife, Susan, and their many dogs, in Northeast Tennessee. After writing a successful Science Fiction 3-book series, Miller turned his attention upon the mystery of the supernatural. SMITH was his fourth novel. He has now returned to his favorite genre, Science Fiction, for his fifth novel, U-10.

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Brent Seheult

Brent Seheult is my pen name I write under. I was born November 7,1960 in Roanoke,VA. I have no professional writing experience except for academia. I possess an MBA in Accounting and Finance from Regis University in Denver,CO. I started writing about my childhood memories a year ago and Silent Cries, A Memoir is the product of those writings. I also write travel advice blogs on Facbook Vocal as well.

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Irial O'Farrell

My name is Irial, I grew up in Ireland and, having travelled a decent chunk of the world, I moved back to Ireland. I have a natural tendency to need to make sense of things and the thing I spend most of my time trying to make sense of is business and how to match the needs of the individual with the needs of the business. This interest has led me on a very interesting career trajectory, that has mostly emerged from my curiosity.

I also love to write. While one day, I'd love to write a novel, for the moment, I'm keeping to writing about the sense I have made about business. Yes, you got it, I write management books.

Other than that, I'm married with three beautiful children and two cats. Well, a cat and a half. One cat definitely lives with us. The other deigns to visit on occasion and I strongly suspect, we also own the bit that requires vetinary fees!

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James Mace

James Mace is a life-long historian and the author of twenty-five books, including eight Ancient History best-sellers, and five South African History best-sellers. He penned the initial draft of his first novel, 'Soldier of Rome: The Legionary', as a cathartic means of escapism while serving in Iraq from 2004 to 2005. His works span numerous eras, from Ancient Rome to the British Empire.

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Alex Craigie

Alex Craigie is the pen name of Trish Power. She wrote short stories for magazines when her children were tiny and, when they started school, she returned to her teaching job where she discovered that the commitment to education and child-rearing left no time to read novels, let alone write them.

Years passed and she became aware of increasing numbers of her mother’s generation shoe-horned into small rooms in care homes. Her visits to these places left her frustrated, sad, and once so angry she didn’t know what to do with herself.

She wrote out her fears, grief and rage in a book called Someone Close to Home. As an Indie author she hadn’t appreciated the difficulty of raising the profile of her book high enough for it to be visible. Fortunately, enough people did find it and wrote reviews that made the experience a worthwhile and rewarding one.

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Gail Meath

An award-winning author, Gail Meath writes historical romance fiction with characters who come to life and captivate you, then stay with you long after you've finished reading. She loves to write about little or unknown people, places and events in history, rather than relying on the typical stories and settings.

Her subgenres include westerns, murder mysteries and biographies. And her meticulously researched historical facts are sifted throughout each book, educating readers along the way without them even knowing it.

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Mark Rosendorf

By day, Mark Rosendorf is a mild mannered high school guidance counselor for special needs students. He has also moonlighted as a magician. Today, he teaches magic to his students.

By night, Mark is the author of The Witches of Vegas series, a young adult fantasy series which shares the adventures of Isis, Zack, and The Witches of Vegas with the entire world. He has also published such works as The Rasner Effect through The Wild Rose Press.

The Witches of Vegas is his first young adult novel. The story placed second in the 2020 International Digital awards, it was rated one of the 2020 Notable Indy books by Shelf Unbound and it recieved a prestigious Crowned Heart from InDtale Magazine. The sequel, titled "Journey to New Salem" is scheduled to come out in early 2021.

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N. L. Holmes

N.L. Holmes is the pen name of a professional archaeologist who received her doctorate from Bryn Mawr College. She has excavated in Greece and in Israel, and taught ancient history and humanities at the university level for many years. She has always had a passion for books, and in childhood, she and her cousin (also a writer today) used to write stories for fun.

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Kevin G. Chapman

Kevin G. Chapman is an attorney specializing in labor and employment law and an independent author. His current project is the Mike Stoneman Thriller series. Righteous Assassin (Mike Stoneman Thriller #1), was named one of the top 20 Mystery/Thrillers of 2019 by the Kindle Book Review and a finalist for the Chanticleer Book Review CLUE award. Deadly Enterprise (Mike Stoneman Thriller #2) was also named a top-20 Mystery/Thriller of 2020 by the Kindle Book Review and is on the Short-List for the 2020 CLUE Award. Book #3, Lethal Voyage, was published in November of 2020 and is already Shortlisted for the Chanticleer CLUE award. Book #4 in the series, Fatal Infraction, will be published in the summer of 2021. Kevin has also written a serious political drama, A Legacy of One, originally published in 2016, which was short-listed for the Chanticleer Somerset Award for literary fiction. A Legacy of One will be re-published in a newly re-edited and revised edition in 2021. Kevin is a resident of Central New Jersey and is a graduate of Columbia College and Boston University School of Law. Readers can contact Kevin via his website at www.KevinGChapman.com.

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Mark Snyder Jr

Mark Snyder Jr is an author, teacher, actor and animal-rights activist currently living in the Pacific Northwest. 

Mark enjoys teaching all things writing and literature, and he has taught middle grade and high school English classes as well as Composition and Literature courses on the university level since 2008.

Musical Theatre and Television have been a very important part of Mark's life as he has performed in dozens of professional stage productions as well as in television and internet commercials.

The Legacy, is Mark's first novel of fiction and he hopes that you enjoy reading his work. This story and its' characters have been a part of his life for many years, and he is excited to share them all with you!

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Terry Lloyd Vinson

A former Air Force veteran, I've authored over twenty novels in the past two decades. As a writer, I was greatly influenced by the works of Stephen King, Robert R. McCammon, Dean Koontz, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Harris and Robert Bloch.

Rod Serling's 'TWILIGHT ZONE' and 'NIGHT GALLERY' programs helped shape my imagination for the fantastic at an early age. Additionally, I cannot ignore the influence of such horror film classics as John Carpenter's 1982 remake of 'THE THING', as well as George A. Romero's 'DEAD' films.

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Brooke Skipstone

Brooke Skipstone is a multi-award winning author who lives in Alaska where she watches the mountains change colors with the seasons from her balcony. Where she feels the constant rush toward winter as the sunlight wanes for six months of the year, seven minutes each day, bringing crushing cold that lingers even as the sun climbs again. Where the burst of life during summer is urgent under twenty-four-hour daylight, lush and decadent. Where fish swim hundreds of miles up rivers past bear claws and nets and wheels and lines of rubber-clad combat fishers, arriving humped and ragged, dying as they spawn. Where danger from the land and its animals exhilarates the senses, forcing her to appreciate the difference between life and death. Where the edge between is sometimes too alluring.

Crystal’s House of Queers is her third novel.

Visit her website at www.brookeskipstone.com for information about her first two novels, Some Laneys Died and Someone To Kiss My Scars.