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From Minneapolis, Minnesota, author John R. Kess writes thrillers and young adult novels. He calls himself “a writer with an engineering problem,” having graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering. Probably can’t tell he’s got an engineering problem, though, from the two books he’s [...]
After earning an M.A. in Film Theory from the University of British Columbia and all the career opportunities that began presenting themselves, Deborah Peraya had a reality check. “Working at Starbucks was not what I had in mind,” she quickly realized. So, she began teaching in various film programs, and eventually managed to segue to [...]
Award-winning book designer Joel Friedlander has helped launch the careers of self-publishers since 1994 and writes the popular blog, The Book Designer. Drawing from some of the most useful and informative of his blog posts, Joel published A Self-Publisher’s Companion, Expert Advice for Authors Who Want to Publish, which has been very well-received and highly regarded [...]
Brad Whittington is a Texan, born in Fort Worth “on James Taylor’s eighth birthday and Jack Kerouac’s thirty-fourth,” making Brad “old enough to know better.” Now an Austin resident, he’s lived in Hawaii, Ohio, South Carolina, Arizona and Colorado, doing an even longer list of jobs: janitor, math teacher, field hand, computer programmer, brickyard worker, editor, [...]
With a Masters Degree in Journalism from Boston University, Jackie Pilossoph is a freelance newspaper reporter and weekly columnist for Pioneer Press. She’s also busy freelancing for online magazines and corporations, and writing novels — she’s the author of the rom-coms Free Gift With Purchase, Jackpot!, and Hook, Line and Sink Him — and screenplays. She [...]
Native New Yorker Lara Reznik was ambidextrous at birth, and largely preferred doing stuff with her right-brain creative side. Her left-brain skills, however, made it easier to make a living, so in 1985 she pursued a career in IT. But she also wrote and finished her first novel then. Despite what looked like possible interest [...]
Abigail Keam is an award-winning beekeeper, with sixteen Kentucky State Fair honey awards. She also got the Barbara Horn Award, given to beekeepers at the fair who rate a perfect 100 in a honey competition. A metal house by the Kentucky River is what she calls home, where she lives with her husband and “various [...]
Karen Luellen — author of the YA Sci-Fi/Fantasy Winter’s Saga series — grew up the middle child, the only girl between two brothers, each with distinctly different personalities. Although she was able to adjust to each brother’s interests and preferences if she wanted a playmate, she still had more than enough time left over by [...]
Born and raised in Cajun country, Lee Stephen literally spent his youth “catching bullfrogs to eat and playing alligators in the bathtub.” Every little boy’s dream, in other words. But he does have a point when he says that it probably is “not the place most people expect to find sci-fi writers.” Yup, Crocodile Dundee, [...]
Novelist David Bishop was born in Washington, D.C., his father a Navy man posted there, and he supposes his early years probably didn’t differ much from many of his own readers’ lives. “We moved around. I got some education. Played some sports, and got some more education,” he says. He was even a financial analyst, [...]
When she was a child growing up in Chicago, Michelle Muto’s favorite stories had monsters and things that lurked in the dark. And she loved storytelling. So she frightened her classmates with stories of monsters and things that lurked in the dark. Which, of course, got her into a lot of trouble with her teachers. [...]
Tara West — best-selling author of the YA paranormal Whispers Series: Sophie’s Secret, Don’t Tell Mother, Krysta’s Curse and Visions of the Witch – is a former high school teacher in Texas who also coached the school’s writing team and ran its publications. She took a break to raise her baby girl, but doing well as [...]
From his nineteen years of experience in the security industry, Australian Luke Romyn must have some really interesting real-life stories to tell. He has, after all, worked in “Australia’s roughest pubs and clubs to protecting Mickey Mouse and the Disney crew from the overzealous jaws of tenacious toddlers.” He’s worked in the field internationally as [...]
After graduating from California State University Hayward with a BA in Philosophy, international bestselling author Susan Hatler found herself going through several “real” jobs in the legal and insurance fields. Then she figured out that her “real” job is “the job she makes real” (and why, she wonders, didn’t anyone tell her before). So now [...]
Part-time author Steven Konkoly, who gave us the Black Flagged series and The Jakarta Pandemic, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in English Literature from the U.S. Naval Academy. “I studied Shakespeare and Electrical Engineering during the same semester,” he recalls, “which should be illegal in the United States.” After graduation, he spent the next [...]
A Morristown, New Jersey, resident who “teaches creative writing to enthusiastic teens and adults, and expository writing to reluctant college freshmen,” S.W. Hubbard (Susan) is the author and self-publisher of the mystery, Another Man’s Treasure. She is also the author of three other traditionally published mass market paperback mysteries, all set in the Adirondacks, where her [...]
A pediatric nurse, for many years Julie Anne Grasso was literally wrapping one child after another in cotton wool, and witnessed the “great courage and resilience from the tiny people” under her care. A lover of science fiction, all those strong little children inspired Julie to write stories about Caramel, a little girl elf just [...]
Martin Crosbie was born in the Scotland Highlands and now calls Cloverdale, British Columbia, on Canada’s west coast, his home. His debut novel, My Temporary Life, is an Amazon bestseller and has been downloaded over a hundred thousand times. Deluged with reader requests for more on one of his book’s characters, Hardly, he released My Name [...]
The author of over fifteen novels, Brett Battles is best recognized as the man behind the popular Jonathan Quinn series of thrillers featuring “a man whose job it is to make bodies disappear.” Jonathan Quinn book #2 — The Deceived — even picked up the Barry Award for Best Thriller. Southern California born and raised, Brett [...]
