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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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Lisa Mannettiis 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.
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