Mary Aalgaard
Mary Aalgaard is a playwright, musician and arts advocate in the heart of Minnesota. She writes theater reviews and supports the arts through her blog Play off the Page. She teaches piano, writing and theatre classes. Her youth theater workshops in the Brainerd Lakes area partner with the community arts center and the community college.
Mark Alpert
Mark Alpert is a contributing editor at Scientific American and the internationally bestselling author of ten novels. His first novel, FINAL THEORY, was published in 24 languages, optioned for film, and condensed for Reader's Digest.
Corrina Austin
Corrina Austin grew up in the 1960’s. She became a mother of four and an elementary school teacher, but always found time between work and family for writing. From childhood to the present, if she wasn’t reading a book, she was writing one. While honing her craft as a writer, Corrina strives to infuse the ordinary with beauty, whimsy, and connection.
Chelsea Marie Ballard
A student of all things, Chelsea has turned her passion for flowery prose, angsty television, and biology toward her writing. She enjoys rare vines, quirky people, and a good love/hate story. This gold-ranking gamer lives in Bucks County, PA with her family, anxious dog, and fat cat.
Louise MacBeath Barbour
Born in Nova Scotia and raised throughout eastern Canada, Louise is a writer and blogger who lives with her supportive husband in Colorado. She writes fiction and nonfiction. Her love of reading, photography, geology, and travel rounds out her enthusiastic embrace of life.
Erika Beebe
Writer, author, dreamer, she envisions the possibilities in life and writes to bring hope when sometimes the moment doesn’t always feel that way. Working in the field of public relations and communications for more than fifteen years, she has always been involved with writing, editing, and engaging others in public speaking. Her two young children help keep her creativity alive and the feeling of play in the forefront of her mind.
S. R. Betler
S. R. Betler was born and raised in New York and now lives in the middle of farm country, Kentucky. When she isn’t torturing her characters or inventing new worlds, she’s busy preventing her offspring and husband from destroying this one. She writes fantasy, mostly YA, and enjoys exploring life's moral and ethical dilemmas in her work.
Deniz Bevan
A firm believer in burning the candle at both ends, Deniz Bevan is generally writing a new novel while editing another and blogging about her reading and research adventures -- and sharing travel photos -- weekly on her blog, The Girdle of Melian. Other days, she tries to stay off the web altogether, as she delves into the history, mystery, and romance of her characters’ lives.
Angela Brown
Angela is a gladiator-in-business-casual battling giants in the world of IT by day and mom to a teen and a tiny fur baby 24/7. A devourer of books, chocolate, and Hot Tamales, Angela uses words to build bridges for readers to escape, to feel, to explore, and to know they are not alone.
Anstice Brown
Anstice Brown is a school administrator with a BA in Literature and Philosophy. She lives with her husband, daughter and mischievous cat on the East coast of England. A geek/hippie hybrid with a love of all things retro, Anstice enjoys doodling, gaming and raving about books on her blog, Dusting the Soul.
Carrie-Anne Brownian
Carrie-Anne Brownian, who also writes as Ursula Hartlein, is a proud native Pittsburgher who lives and breathes all things historical. She has a degree in history and Russian and East European Studies from UMass–Amherst, and aspires to a Ph.D. in Russian history. Her stories always feature characters who are outside the norm in some way, and lots of Sturm und Drang.
Linda Budzinski
Linda Budzinski writes sweet YA and adult romance. She lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and two rescue pups. In between creating meet cutes and happy endings, she works in non-profit communications and outreach.
Joylene Nowell Butler
Joylene is the author of two suspense thrillers and a steampunk collaboration. She lives with her husband and their two cats Marbles and Shasta on Cluculz Lake in central British Columbia in the log/stick house they designed and built. In her spare time Joylene teaches T’chi, goes paddling on the lake, and picks wild berries for her smoothie concoctions.
L.X. Cain
L.X. Cain lives a stone’s throw (if you throw it really hard) from the beautiful beaches and turquoise waters of the Red Sea. Despite the scenic delights, she’s an indoor gal *cough* couch potato *cough* and spends most of her time happily tapping away on her laptop, coming up with thrilling story ideas to entertain you!
Brian Carmody
The award-winning screenwriter and author of several books, Brian Carmody is a dreamer, a wisher, a hoper, a prayer, a pretender and a magic bean buyer, He’s had moondreams from Texas to Virginia, and now California, where he has plenty of other flax golden tales to spin by his fire.
Alex J. Cavanaugh
Alex J. Cavanaugh has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and works in web design, graphics, and technical editing. A fan of all things science fiction, his interests range from books and movies to music and games. Online he is the Ninja Captain and founder of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group. The author lives in the Carolinas with his wife.
Jay Chalk
Jay Chalk is a twenty-year veteran high school teacher of government, U.S. history and English. He's the author of several novels, two of which are speculative fiction, and he's currently working on a third, hoping to tie them into a possible trilogy. He lives in East Texas and when not teaching or writing, he's flying or playing the guitar.
Jen Chandler
Jen Chandler is a Southern author with a taste for dark and stormy nights. When not writing, she can be found hunting for ghosts in attics or nursing a cup of good, strong tea.
Renee Cheung
Renee uses her years of experience as a developer to write about the what-ifs of magic and technology. When she is not suspiciously peering at her computer in between her writing, she can be found roaming the streets with her family or gaming with her similar-minded friends.
Myles Christensen
Myles Christensen writes exciting adventures in a variety of genres. His characters rarely avoid falling in love (or at least crushing on each other). For each new story, he makes a music playlist to match—and inspire—his writing. His mild-mannered alter ego is a product development engineer, university professor, and game inventor. He lives in Utah with his wife and children.
Roland Clarke
After diverse careers, Roland Clarke was an equestrian journalist and green activist when chronic illness hastened retirement. But he hasn’t stopped exploring rabbit holes and writing - mainly mystery novels and varied shorts. Roland and his wife – both avid gamers - now live in Idaho (USA) with their four fur-babies, although their hearts are in North Wales (UK).
Christine Clemetson
Christine writes psychological thrillers and suspense. She earned her degree in Literature/Language and went on to pen stories that send you running for the covers. Her work has been published in several anthologies.
Dave Cole
Dave is from St. Louis and has a degree in Computer Science. When he is not designing data center management software, he is usually reading, writing, or coaching elementary school math teams. He loves writing and his wife loves that he has found a hobby that doesn't cost money!
Crystal Collier
Crystal Collier is a self-proclaimed cheese addict, author, home schooling mom, and composer who may or may not own a pet zombie. And a broken teleportation device. She writes historical and urban fantasy while watching Floridian sunsets with her creative husband and four littles. Secretly, she dreams of world domination and a bottomless supply of cheese.
Scott Coon
Scott Coon has enjoyed success as a science fiction short story writer, winning accolades and publishing over a dozen works in various magazines. Formally a U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst and currently a software developer, Scott brings his technical experience into his work, along with a sense of spectacle.
Denise Covey
Australian born, Denise is a writer, author, blogger, and traveler. She writes contemporary and paranormal fiction, where her stories are inspired by her travels, especially through the olde world cultures of France, Italy and Spain.
Sandra Cox
Sandra writes YA Fantasy, Romance, and Metaphysical Nonfiction. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, a brood of critters and an occasional foster cat. Although shopping is high on the list, her greatest pleasure is sitting on her porch listening to the birds, sipping a latte, and enjoying a good book. She's a vegetarian and a Muay Thai enthusiast.
William Michael Davidson
William Michael Davidson lives in Long Beach, California, with his wife and two daughters. A believer that "good living produces good writing," Davidson writes early in the morning so he can get outside, exercise, spend time with people, and experience as much as possible. A writer of speculative fiction, he enjoys stories that deal with humanity's inherent need for redemption.
Bish Denham
Bish Denham is from the U.S. Virgin Islands, where her family has lived for over a hundred years. The author of two middle grade novels and a collection of retold Jamaican Anansi stories, she says, “Growing up in the islands was like living inside a history book.”
Michael Di Gesu
Michael Di Gesu believes CREATIVITY is a terrible thing to waste. As a Renaissance man, creativity is his life; it starts and ends his day: art, music, and literature are his past, present, and future. With a talent to weave atmospheric and descriptive prose into his writing, he helps other authors do the same.
Rebecca M. Douglass
Rebecca M. Douglass is a writer of children’s fiction, cozy mysteries, and fantasy. When not writing, she likes to spend her time hiking, biking, and traveling with her husband. She works at the local library, where she hopes to learn the secrets of the Ninja Librarian.
Tonja Drecker
Tonja Drecker is a writer, blogger, children’s book reviewer and freelance translator. After spending years in Germany exploring forgotten castles, she currently resides in the Ozarks with her family of six. When she’s not tending her chickens and cows, she’s discovering new adventures, nibbling chocolate and sipping a cup of tea.
Kim Elliot
Kim enjoys living vicariously through her characters as they fall in love and save the world, or just their little corner of it. Some of her favorite things include bargain hunting, eating chocolate-covered pretzels, and watching singing competition shows on TV. Originally from Indiana, she now lives in British Columbia with her husband, two young children, and a sleepy little dog named Marley.
Sherry Ellis
Award-winning author, Sherry Ellis, is a professional musician who plays and teaches violin, viola, and piano. When she's not writing or engaged in musical activities, she can be found taking care of household chores, hiking, or exploring the world. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Jessica Ferguson
Jessica Ferguson is a staff writer for Southern Writers Magazine and the author of several novels and novellas—both published and unpublished. She fantasizes that one day she’ll wake up and all those manuscripts on her hard drive will be, miraculously, revised and edited. In her spare time, Jess enjoys Bible Studies, bean bag baseball, breakfast/brainstorming with friends and playing with her recently retired husband.
Chrys Fey
Chrys Fey is an author and an editor for Dancing Lemur Press. She started her blog, Write with Fey, to offer aspiring writers inspiration, advice, and hope. At the age of twelve, she started writing her first novel, and since then she has been a dedicated citizen in the writing world.
Sarah Foster
Sarah Foster is a writer and blogger living in Massachusetts with her husband and cat. She writes whatever her characters tell her to, whether it’s literary fiction, fantasy, or even poetry. She is currently working on her debut novel.
Jemi Fraser
Jemi Fraser lives in beautiful Northern Ontario where she works hard and plays harder with both her family and her students. Holding an ever-present mug of Chai tea, she spends her free time baking cookies and writing Happy Ever Afters. The world can always use more of both.
C.D. Gallant-King
C.D. wrote his first story when he was five years old, and he made his baby-sitter look up how to spell “extra-terrestrial” in the dictionary. He now writes stories about un-heroic people doing generally hilarious things in horrifying worlds. A loving husband and proud father of two wonderful little kids, C.D. was born and raised in Newfoundland and currently resides in Ottawa, Ontario.
Gwen Gardner
Gwen Gardner writes sweet, cozy mysteries with a few ghosts thrown in to stir things up. Since ghosts feature prominently in her stories, she has a secret desire to meet one face to face—but will run screaming for the hills if she ever does. Gwen adores adventure, travel and anything chocolate.
Katharina Gerlach
A studied forester and mother of three, bilingual Katharina Gerlach has been making up tales like forever. Since practice makes perfect-ish, she’s now writing daily, mostly fantasy and historical stories in English and German. In December, she runs the annual online Indie Authors’ Advent Calendar with daily flash fiction stories.
Olga Godim
Olga Godim is a writer and journalist from Vancouver, Canada. Her short stories have appeared in multiple internet and print magazines. Her publications also include two traditional fantasy novels and a collection of urban fantasy short stories.
Tamara Hart Heiner
Tamara Hart Heiner lives in Arkansas with her husband, four children, a cat, a rabbit, and several fish. She graduated with a degree in English and an editing emphasis from Brigham Young University. She's the author of several young adult suspense novels and has one series out for younger readers in addition to her nonfiction about the Joplin tornado.
Annie Highwater
Writer, speaker, podcast host and family advocate. She is a life-long researcher of Behavioral Science with particular interests in family pathology and concepts of dysfunction, addiction, alcoholism and conflict. Annie resides in Columbus, Ohio and enjoys writing, long distance running, hiking, the great outdoors and visiting her son in Southern California as often as possible.
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Ellen Jacobson
Ellen Jacobson writes cozy mysteries and sci-fi/fantasy stories. She lives on a sailboat with her husband, exploring the world from the water. When she isn't working on boat projects or seeking out deserted islands, she blogs about their adventures.
Hart Johnson
Hart Johnson writes books from her bathtub and blogs from her basement. She is author of a cozy mystery series under the name Alyse Carlson and has written a flu apocalypse thriller proven to cause nightmares in the squeamish. When not writing, she is power walking or playing fan girl to various nerdy causes.
L.G. Keltner
L.G. Keltner has been attempting to write novels since she was six. None of those early attempts were any good, but her passion for writing remained strong. She graduated from Drake University in 2008, and she lives in Iowa with her husband and children. L.G. writes mostly science fiction, though she also enjoys writing humorous young adult stories.
Katie Klein
Katie Klein is a novelist and screenwriter and the author of a variety of coming-of-age novels (urban fantasy, romance, suspense, etc.) for adult and teen readers. She earned a BA degree in English Communication and a master's in Liberal Studies with a concentration in English and has taught post-secondary writing, research, and literature courses for more than a decade.
Charles Kowalski
Charles Kowalski is the author of the Japan-themed SIMON GREY middle-grade historical fantasy series (Tokyo: Excalibur Books). His thrillers for adults have won the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' Colorado Gold Award and been nominated for the Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award and the Adventure Writers Grandmaster Award. He has lived in Japan for over 20 years.
Jennifer Lane
Psychologist/author (psycho author) Jennifer Lane invites you to her world of romance, sports, and suspense! By day she’s a therapist, and by night she’s a writer—she can’t decide which is more fun. Jen lives in Ohio and parlays her college swimming and volleyball experience into earnest characters striving for more in love and life.
Damien Larkin
Damien Larkin is a part-time Planning Analyst and a full-time stay-at-home father of two young children. He enjoys turning terrifying nightmares into novels and currently resides in Dublin, Ireland.
Kim Mannix
Kim Mannix is a fiction writer, poet and journalist currently residing on Treaty 6 territory in Sherwood Park, Alberta. She has been published in several journals and anthologies in Canada and the U.S. and is a contributing editor of Watch Your Head, a climate crisis anthology.
Tyrean Martinson
Daydreamer, writer, teacher, believer - Tyrean Martinson lives near the Puget Sound with her husband and daughters. With her B.A. in Ed. and English, she teaches writing classes to home-school teens and she writes speculative, contemporary, poetry, experimental hint fiction, and writing books.
Melissa Maygrove
Native Texan Melissa Maygrove is a mother, nurse, freelance editor, and romance writer. When she's not busy caring for her tiny nursery patients, she's hunched over her laptop, complicating the lives of her imaginary friends and playing matchmaker. Melissa loves books with unpretentious characters and unforgettable romance, and she strives to create those same kinds of stories for her readers.
Beverly Stowe McClure
Most of the time, you'll find Beverly at her computer, typing stories young voices whisper in her ears. To relax, she enjoys playing thepiano. Her cats don't appreciate good music and hide when she tickles the ivories. Beverly's a member of the SCBWI. She has fourteen books published for children and teens. Several have won awards. She's writing more.
Sean McLachlan
Sean McLachlan is the author of numerous novels, including three series: post-apocalyptic science fiction, Civil War horror, and an action series set in World War One.
C. Lee McKenzie
C. Lee McKenzie has a background in Linguistics and Inter-Cultural Communication, but these days her greatest passion is writing for young readers. When she’s not writing she’s hiking or traveling or practicing yoga or asking a lot questions about things she still doesn’t understand.
Templeton Moss
Templeton Moss began writing in high school as part of a hopelessly misguided attempt to get girls to like him. Since then, he has written stories, poems, novels, plays and angry social media rants. He grew up in Southern California, currently lives and (when he has to) works in Louisville, KY, but considers his hometown to be Disneyland.
Elizabeth Mueller
Award-winning author Elizabeth Mueller lives in Texas with her husband, five lively children, five indoor kitties, a few outdoor kitties, seventeen chickens, and a horse named Hazel. While she enjoys homeschooling her kidlets, she thrives as a full-time writer of any genre that captures her heart.
L. Nahay
L. Nahay writes real-world plots and themes within the vastness that is fantasy, preferring the limitlessness of possibilities and the ability to challenge the boundaries of imagination and creativity. She is currently working on the sequel to her first novel.
Tamara Narayan
From doling out movie popcorn to flinging smelt to penguins, Tamara Narayan’s career took the “road less traveled”. It veered off into a land of integrals and other strange things while she taught college level math, but these days she’s cruising the fiction highway. In addition to Parallels’ Scrying The Plane, she’s published a suspenseful short story collection.
Sylvia Ney
Sylvia Ney is a freelance writer and teacher currently serving as an Adjunct Professor for the University of Texas at Austin and as a high school English teacher. She has also served as a Board Member of both the Texas Gulf Coast Writers and Bayou Writers Group in Louisiana. She has published newspaper and magazine articles, photography, poetry, and short stories.
Cherie Reich
Cherie Reich owns more books than she can ever read and thinks up more ideas than she can ever write, but that doesn’t stop this bookworm from attempting to complete her goals, even if it means curbing her TV addiction. A library assistant living in Virginia, she writes speculative fiction.
Yolanda Renée
Yolanda Renée is an adventurer who loves logic and a writer who loves a challenge. A vivid imagination interspersed with life experiences fill her stories, but family owns her heart. Pennsylvania is currently her home, but Alaska still beckons.
Maria Santomasso-Hyde
Formerly a newspaper reporter, Maria Santomasso-Hyde is excited about the March 2017 release of her first book, He Gave Me Barn Cats. Maria also owns Alta Vista Fine Art Gallery. She lives in Valle Crucis, North Carolina, with her husband, Lee, and The Queen of the Universe (Roma, their Black Cat)… and other Black Cats who decide to move in.
Beth Anderson Schuck
Beth Anderson Schuck is a retired librarian who believe reading can take you anywhere. She writes historical fiction featuring willful female characters. Being in nature whether hiking, birdwatching or gardening makes her whole.
Melanie Schulz
Melanie Schulz writes psychological tales spun from her many years as a psychiatric nurse and her experience in this thing called life.
Elizabeth Seckman
Elizabeth is a multi-published writer of women's fiction and romance and the mother of four awesome, sometimes rotten boys.
Deborah Solice
On a post-children-at-home teaching adventure, Deborah Solice moved to the Middle East and most recently Russia where she teaches middle schoolers. Deborah writes both adult romantic suspense and YA/NA speculative fiction. She has had work published in anthologies and two full-length novels, as well.
Sammi Spizziri
Sammi Spizziri writes YA contemporary from a small town in Illinois. When she’s not lost in writing (or reading) a new book, she's a stay-at-home mom who may enjoy library story time more than her kids. Love stories, rec league volleyball, and chai lattes are a few of her favorite things.
Charles Suddeth
Charles Suddeth loves to tell stories of all sizes and shapes and flavors. He has published picture books, middle readers’ books, young adult thrillers, and adult mysteries. He draws inspiration from hiking Tom Sawyer State Park and teaches in Louisville, Kentucky.
Denise Sutton
Denise Sutton, mother of one, lives in eastern North Carolina. She currently works as a psychiatric nurse. She has written three poetry books, one nonfiction book, and has been the chief editor and writer for two collective literary works. She has written and co-produced several CD's.
Tara Tyler
Tara Tyler is a math teacher who writes to share her passion for reading with others. She loves dogs, coffee, and is the lazy housewife, living in a world of boys with a yellow lab, three sons, and a coach husband. Join her for an adventure!
Yvonne Ventresca
In addition to contributing short stories to anthologies, Yvonne Ventresca is the author of two young adult novels and two nonfiction books for teens. Her debut novel won a Crystal Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Yvonne blogs regularly about creativity and writing-related resources.
Stephanie Espinoza Villamor
Stephanie is a librarian writer mom who lives with her husband and young son just outside Las Vegas. She's loved stories since she was four years old, writing her own books on dot matrix printer paper. She now uses more modern technology to craft diverse stories for middle grade and young adult readers.
L.T. Ward
LT hails from the Land of Corn, otherwise known as Central Illinois, where weather inspires her literary works. When not writing speculative fiction shorts and novels, she spends her days raising a brood of plague monsters (a.k.a. her children) as well as satisfying her never-ending thirst for knowledge through reading, meeting people, and first-hand life experiences.
Beverly Weeks
Beverly Weeks is an energetic, Jesus-loving “girl-next-door.” Her inspiring, transparent messages are seasoned with a little laughter, candid real life struggles, and filled with Biblical truths. An evangelist at heart, she has a love for her audience that is fully evident both on and off stage. She lives in North Carolina with her husband and two children.
S.E. White
S.E. White is a romance author, bookstagram addict, and blogger, offering hope and humor on the long road to publishing. She writes from the wild west part of Nevada, USA. Two of her romance novellas have been published under a pen name, one self-published as S.E. White, and her first full-length romance book will take flight in 2022.
L. Diane Wolfe
Known as “Spunk On A Stick,” Wolfe is a member of the National Speakers Association. She conducts seminars on book publishing, promoting, leadership, and goal-setting and is the author of seven books. She travels extensively for media interviews and speaking engagements, maintains numerous websites & blogs, and manages several businesses.
Steph Wolmarans
Steph Wolmarans is an educator, mother, wife, gardener, beekeeper, and speculative fiction author. Steph has been creating galaxies since she visited Arrakis as a child. Now she envisions worlds, discovers new beings, and spends a lot of time exploring planet Earth with her husband and two small children.
Roland Yeomans
Roland Yeomans believes myths are secrets of the heart made manifest in prose. Born in Detroit, Michigan, now of Lake Charles, Louisiana, he has been a teacher, counselor, book store owner, but always a writer.
Lynda R Young
A Christian first, Lynda writes devotionals, articles, and speculative short stories. In her spare time she is also an editor, game developer, artist, and dabbles in photography and all things creative. She lives in Australia with her sweetheart of a husband.