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Nora D’Ecclesis is an American bestselling non-fiction author and Haiku poet. Her international #1 bestseller “The Retro Budget Prescription” held the top kindle book downloads in business/self help for over a year. Nora is a graduate of Kean University.  She has a long history of presenting events, retreats and seminars focused on wellness and stress...

Marieke Lexmond reads tarot cards, loves food, photography, and travel. She has three sassy little dogs that she likes to take everywhere and have their own Instagram account @urbandogsquad. Her background in filmmaking enabled her to travel and live around the globe. Storytelling is in her blood, from saving her allowance from a very young age...

VALORIE M. ALLEN of Alberta, Canada, has spent the last 35 years working with environmental, population, and animal rights groups and was awarded the Canadian Volunteer Award for her efforts. She is a proud member of the Population Institute Canada. This experience and her many years in education revealed the dire need for her books...

June Gillam writes the Hillary Broome crime novel series, inspired by her obsession with what makes ordinary people mad enough to kill. A native of the Central Valley, June lives cradled between California’s Coastal Range and the Sierra Nevada mountains. She loves the company of writers and readers and was honored with a Jack London...

  Before becoming an award winning author, Nikki grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and went to college at one of the University of Wisconsin campuses.  She moved to Florida for an internship where she worked at the “happiest place on earth” for a few years and also where she met her husband. ...

Rebecca Dimyan is an award-winning writer, editor, and teacher. Her work has been publishedin national and international publications including Vox, the CT Post, YahooHealth, 34thParallel, Glassworks Magazine, The Mighty and many others. Her debut novel Waiting for Beirut was a finalist for the Fairfield Book Prize and is forthcoming from Running Wild Press. Her health and wellness memoir Chronic will be published summer...

Jeanette Watts is a dance instructor, writer, seamstress, actress, and very, very poor housekeeper. She loves writing historic fiction, but when she needed to write a dance textbook, she had to go off and do that. Partway through revising her next historic fiction, she got an idea for a modern comedy, and had to stop...

Patricia Leavy, Ph.D., is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, arts advocate, and internationally recognized leader in research design and arts-based research. She is widely considered the world’s most visible proponent of arts-based research as a means of making research publicly accessible. Moreover, she coined the terms “social fiction” and “fiction-based research” and has been pioneering the...

Angela Greenman: Angela Greenman is an internationally recognized communications professional. Her intense career has spanned the spectrum from community relations in Chicago to US and world governments’ public communications on nuclear power. She has worked in sixteen countries including Brazil, China, France, Japan, Pakistan, Russia, and South Africa. She has been an expert and lecturer...

E.T. Milligan is an accomplished speaker, author, and award-winning poet. A native of Leesville, Louisiana, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in News-Journalism from Northwestern State University in 1981 while being commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.  Due to his outstanding performance as a cadet and a military officer, he was inducted into...

Rebecca is a multi-award-winning author of contemporary fiction with a purpose. She is a uniquely passionate person who lives to write compelling stories with urgent messages. Her characters are imperfect, relatable individuals who (usually) grow from their experiences—albeit sometimes slowly—however big or small their challenges may be. Her goal is to write believable characters with...

Peter Eliott melds his love of evocative writing with an intense interest in dark adventure stories. As a devotee of literary fiction, Peter renders exciting action stories in a highly vivid style. His earlier career in architecture and design informs his current novels, the Shadow Bidder Series, adding visual realism to the gritty urban setting....

Amy Rivers is an award-winning novelist, as well as the Director of Writing Heights Writers Association. She was named 2021 Indie Author of the Year by the Indie Author Project. Her psychological suspense novels incorporate important social issues with a focus on the complexities of human behavior. Her novel, STUMBLE & FALL, is the second...

Sherman Edward Ross is a retired biochemist. He has lived in Germany as well as numerous locations around the USA. He attended undergraduate and graduate universities in Colorado and Texas, receiving history, biology, and biochemistry degrees. He has been employed as a biochemist in both academia and the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to writing Code...

  Over the last 28 years Kelly Hudson has used her talents and education to custom-design a career, working with performers to become the best versions of themselves. Losing, Learning and Loving, the title of her recent book, is based on her experiences while serving as the Head Athletic Trainer and Director of Sports Medicine...

Donna lives in a small, Iowa town with her husband Marty; an ordained minister, who also does construction work and painting. A stage four cancer survivor, she started to write when, during treatments, she could do nothing else.  After decades in management  positions for large companies, she suddenly had nothing to manage and asked God...

Stephen and Mary Weller were born in Texas and decided it was a good place to live. Mary prefers the summer heat. Stephen prefers the winter cold. One of them compromised. Stephen is the author of two award-winning books: The Progressive Machine: Before We Called It Lean and The Progressive Hospital: A Lean Hope. Mary...

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  Howard Eisenberg, M.Sc. (Psych), M.D., is a Medical Doctor with postgraduate training in both Psychology and Psychiatry. He has been a Lecturer at the University of Toronto and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont. He is also the CEO of the international consultancy – Syntrek® Inc. On a more personal level,...

  S.G. was born in a faraway land of castles, monarchies and fallen dictatorships, aka Hungary. Hollywood movies were forbidden under Soviet oppression during her childhood, but her dad smuggled them in anyway, risking his life so that his children could experience the magic and hope inherent in those stories. She watched rebellions unfold in...