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C. Hope Clark (Hope) founded and serves as editor of www.FundsforWriters.com , a well-known writer's reference that reaches 23,000 readers weekly with grants, markets and motivational editorials that generate stacks of thank-you notes from readers. Writer's Digest voted FundsforWriters one of its 101 Best Web Sites for Writers for the past nine years.

Hope's dozen ebooks are rapid sellers ranging from Grants for the Serious Writer to Short & Sweet; Markets for Fillers. Hope has published in magazines like Writer's Digest, The Writer Magazine, ByLine Magazine, Next Step Magazine, College Bound Teen, TURF Magazine, and Landscape Management. The Shy Writer is a nonfiction paperback she penned to aid writers like her who have difficulty appearing in public. Published in 2004, it continues to readily sell and was rereleased as a second edition in Fall 2007.

After 25 years as a manager with the federal sector, she requested an early retirement in her forties to write full time and manage FundsforWriters, marrying her knowledge of grants and her love of writing.

She lives in Chapin, South Carolina on the banks of Lake Murray and has completed a novel, the first of an agricultural mystery series, which she is currently distributing to assorted agents. She is married to a recently retired federal agent who inspires her love of mystery writing.

http://www.fundsforwriters.com

 

 

D.B. Pacini, a California songwriter/vocalist, is the author of two novels, numerous short stories, and poetry.

Her youth/YA fantasy novel, THE LOOSE END OF THE RAINBOW, the first novel in her Universal Knights Trilogy, was published by Singing Moon Press in March, 2009.  Her contemporary/mainstream novel, EMMA'S LOVE LETTERS, is seeking publication. She is currently writing her third novel, the second in her Universal Knights Trilogy.  She is a volunteer writing mentor to teen and young adult writers.   

Website:   http://www.astarrynightproductions.com

 

Christine Duncan is an Arvada Colorado mystery writer. She got her start in writing for the Christian market and Sunday School magazines.  Her credits include Accent Books and Regular Baptist Press.

Her Colorado-based Kaye Berreano mystery series debuted in 2002 with the book, Safe Beginnings, which dealt with arson in a battered women's shelter.  Safe House, the second book in the series is due out this spring.

Although the Kaye Berreano mystery series is set in a battered women's shelter, Ms. Duncan's husband wants the world to know it's not because of anything he did!

Come visit Christine at http://www.ChristineDuncan.com

Or at her blog http://www.globalwrite.wordpress.com

Safe Beginnings, A fire, a murder, a battered woman's nightmare

Safe House, Life--and death--in a battered women's shelter.

 

Kim McDougall is a writer and photographer with a BA in English literature from Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. She was born in Montreal and has lived in Nice, France, Toronto, Long Island, New York and now beautiful Pennsylvania.

She is also a fiber artist and photographer and writes fiction for children under her pen name, Kim Chatel. For more information on all these, check out her other site at www.kimchatel.com.

Though fantasy is Kim's first love, she writes anything from children's picture books to horror fiction. She believes that genres are crippling literature. A story takes on what ever form it needs. She does not set out to write a fantasy or a romance. Rather, she writes the story as it demands to be written and then tries to fit it into a category only for the sake of convenience. Needless to say, some of her stories fall through the genre cracks. So she has created her own genre: Between the Cracks Fiction.

Kim gets excited about stories that push the boundaries of current labels, fiction that creates new labels. Her favorite authors accomplish this feat. Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage, is the best fantasy novel that she has ever read, but don't look for it in the fantasy section of your book store. Likewise, Guy Gavriel Kay's fantasy novel Tigana has little magic, no elves, space ships or anything otherworldly. Still, it is a rip-roaring epic that delights in thwarting the readers' expectations.

These are the qualities that Kim strives to emulate in her writing. She believes there are others out there who crave fantasy fiction that is both meaningful and fun. So she invites you to browse the pages and experience a new genre of literature: Between the Cracks Fiction. The only common thread among these stories is that they needed to be written.

Between the Cracks  Fiction at www.kimmcdougall.com
Children's and YA Fiction at www.kimchatel.com
Blazing Trailers Book Previews www.blazingtrailers.com
Romance Fiction at www.elizacrowe.com

 

Alma Alexander is a Pacific Northwest novelist who writes for both grown-up audiences ("The Hidden Queen", "Changer of Days", "The Secrets of Jin Shei") and YA audiences (the Worldweavers trilogy, "Gift of the Unmage", "Spellspam" and "Cybermage").

Her work has been translated into fourteen languages worldwide, including Hebrew, Turkish, and Catalan. She is currently at work on a new series of alternate history novels with roots in Eastern Europe.

She lives in Bellingham, WA, with her husband, two cats, and assorted visiting wildlife. Visit her website at www.AlmaAlexander.com, or her LiveJournal blog at http://anghara.livejournal.com


www.WorldWeaversWeb.com

 

 

Lisa Mannetti is a former magazine editor and adjunct college English instructor who discovered she preferred writing full time to real work when she volunteered to be the family member who cared for her ailing mother. 

Her debut novel, The Gentling Box, (DarkHart Press October, 2008) was named as one of four Editors’ Picks on Fearzone’s Best Novels of 2008; and, along with works by such luminaries as F. Paul Wilson, was chosen as one of the Top Ten novels of 2008 on Creature Feature. The Gentling Box has been nominated for a Bram Stoker Award.

She recently served as guest editor for the Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry anthology and two of her most recently published stories appear in Traps! (DarkHart Press, November 2008) and Lovestrology (Ravenous Romance, December 2008); a third, “Everybody Wins,” was translated into a short indie film by director Paul Leyden. (November, 2008) and is making the rounds on the film festival circuit. 51 Fiendish Ways to Leave Your Lover, a macabre gag book illustrated by Glenn Chadbourne, is currently being shopped around by her agent. At present she is working on a supernatural novel tentatively titled, The Everest Hauntings. 

Lisa lives with her mischievous twin black kittens, Harry and Theodora Houdini, in the spooky circa 1918 house she grew up in and returned to five years ago. She is still afraid of going up to the attic. 

Visit Lisa on the web at: 

www.lisamannetti.com

www.myspace.com/lisamannetti

www.thechanceryhouse.com

 

 

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