Matthew Porricelli is a writer and author with a gift for grasping the ‘big picture’. Having over sixteen years of religious training, he is emphatically outspoken about his beliefs and convictions pertaining to the modern-day church and Christianity. Currently, Matt is working full-time on a Doctoral degree through Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. A proud husband to beautiful wife Deanna and Father of two sons, Christian and Jude, Matt resides in Lakeland, FL where he continues to write.

A talented writer with a flare for humor and depth, Dawn London makes writing appear easy. Dawn’s writing is as eclectic as her interests, and her novels may fit into any genre from western to humor to mystery thriller. The one thing that sets Dawn apart as a writer is not only her unique writing style and ability, but also her determination to write books without foul language or graphic scenes. Dawn writes the type of books she likes to read. Her background is rich, having held various titles and licenses such as nurse, paramedic, cosmetologist, aesthetician, reserve police officer, secretary, clerk, librarian, teacher, ambulance administrator, EMT,EMT/P, ACLS, PHTLS Instructor. Additionally, she was second runner up in the Mrs. Missouri Beauty Pageant, and has traveled extensively. Dawn's background and accolades have enabled her with a perspective that is both fresh and exciting. Currently, Dawn lives in Missouri with her husband where they are proud parents of four children and two grandchildren. They enjoy writing and playing music, hunting, and spending time on their farm where they raise a few quail.

Marc Griffith is a freelance writer that has always enjoyed and studied ancient civilizations and other cultures both at home and abroad. Marc is a financial manager for an organization in Colorado but really enjoys putting fictional stories together with historical fact to create something very entertaining for the reader. Also, he attends a local writer’s meeting group, both critiquing and having his work critiqued by other writer’s. Something else that he has always wanted to learn and is taking his first course soon is snowboarding. Good luck to him. 

Mark W. Turner was born in Poughkeepsie, New York (USA) and spent much of his early life in the town of Hyde Park, residing in New York State's picturesque Hudson River Valley. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from St. Bonaventure University in 1989 and a Master of Business Administration in 1995 from the State University of New York at Albany. Despite having a technically-focused education and spending more than twelve years in IT consultancy, Mark has a passion for poetry and published his first work titled "Across the Universe" in 2006.

Mark is also an avid traveler, having visited 49 of 50 U.S. states, and more than 35 countries across six continents. He has also resided in Plainsboro, New Jersey (USA); Melbourne, Australia; and Singapore, where he currently lives with his wife and daughter.

Mark's primary inspiration for his work come from real world experience and can best be summed up by his life philosophy: "Humanity is but an infinitesimal spark spewed from the embers of time. We must shed our light with passion and resolve".

Shaun Priest is an author, speaker, blogger, and successful sales executive.   He grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Providence College in Rhode Island.  Currently he is Vice President of Sales, with a web technology solutions company.  His hobbies include reading, blogging, recreational gaming and a multitude of sports including running, basketball, golf, and tennis.  He lives in Atlanta, GA with his wife and two kids.  Shaun is busy working on next his novel.  To learn more visit his sales blog at http://closerq.blogspot.com/ or e-mail him at shaunpriest@hotmail.com.  

An avid writer, Ed has compiled writings in horror, action drama, true stories, and his favorite, animation. He has written five screenplays, one young adult fantasy book, and three children’s books. Ed has a gift for painting vivid imagery in a way that can be enjoyed by readers of all ages.

Damien Moye was born in January of 1978 in Los Angeles, California. At five, he moved with his mother to the town of Kinston, NC, where he was raised. As a teenager, he wrote short stories in hopes to impress girls and keep the bullies away. In 1995, he became an Eagle Scout. In 1997, he graduated from Kinston High School and enrolled at High Point University in High Point, NC. There, he was an English: Media Studies major and got involved in campus newspapers and radio. He graduated from High Point with a B.A. in May 2001 and moved to Boston, Massachusetts. He currently lives in Boston and works for a computer service company. He is single with no children. He is a member of Greater Boston Vineyard Church and Single Volunteers Boston. His hobbies, besides writing, include traveling, wine and beer tastings, volunteering, and socializing with friends and total strangers wherever he can. 

John H. Menkes, MD, one of the world’s leading pediatric surgeons, is the author of Child Neurology, the leading textbook in pediatric neurology, soon to be published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins in its 8th edition. He is also the author or co-author of innumerable reviews and scientific papers in his field.

Born in the mining and industrial area of North Wales, I was a product of the Welsh love of the arts and the pragmatism of industry.
I was a story teller long before I ever thought of becoming a writer. In my third school year, I was an eight year old with an overactive imagination, telling stories I made up, to my classmates during rainy recesses.
I excelled in Art and had a modicum of success in English, English Literature and the Arts but pragmatism won; so I did what any good Welsh son would do and went to technical college: thus embarking on a love hate relationship with things mechanical, which eventually brought me to Vancouver.
I have always been able to see stories in my head, which sometimes caused my mind to wander. I used to put it down to attention span deficit or some form of digestive disturbance. Nevertheless I have continued to write, sometimes sporadically, over the years. Sometimes just to get the idea out of my head.
I enjoy science fiction because it allows one to expound on a story or a theory without the constraints of known things and known places and to amplify an idea. I like a good story, and that is what I attempt to write, a simple tale of one possibility along the path we follow.

Click Here for John's website

Danish born author Else Byskov M.A. and B.A has worked as teacher, translator and interpreter for more than two decades in both Denmark and Spain. In 1995
she came across the work of the Danish philosopher and mystic Martinus
and has since made the study of his extensive work her preferred activity. Her introductory book to Martinus’ worldview titled ”Death Is an Illusion” (ISBN 1557788138) was published in the USA in November 2002 by Paragon House Publishers. Her second book “The Undiscovered Country” is under publication and her third book “The Art of Attraction” is now available. Else Byskov is fluent in four languages and lives in southern Spain.

Carol Sumilas Boshears, a Scranton, PA native is a  graduate of Keystone (Junior) College, LaPlume, PA with an AA in lib arts and Kent State University, Kent OH with a BA in psychology.  She is a free spirit jill of all trades.  Starting as a caseworler, then vocational counselor and finally working for professors at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, she has always written. She helped co-author with her husband, Jim, a guide book on Gonder Ceramic Arts.
The couple bred and showed prize winning Russian Blues for sixteen years in CFA (Car Fanciers Assn).
Then in 1992 they changed to antiques collecting and selling of American art pottery, cookie jars, ceramic banks, baseball memorabilia and art. This led to Carol’s shop in Rochester, NY, “Crazy Couple Collectables”.
Carol has written a Greyhound children’s story for “Celebrating Greyhounds” magazine and has written articles, including lead ones, for papers such as Antique Trader. She wrote plays since third grade!
She loves reading, animals, art, science fiction and naturally, chocolate She does volunteer counseling and educates people about depression.
She is an appraiser of personal property and “collects” animals too!
She lives with Jim, her husband of almost 38 years, Missy Kitty, Tosca, their retired Greyhound racer and of course, Blitzen, the “black terror”.

Sidney Beaver is an extraordinarily gifted teller of tales who delivers a literary page turner without resorting to tricks or artifice. He is blessed with the gift of the true artist, imparting life into the characters he creates. Sidney lived his formative years in the part of central Florida portrayed in his novel, the northeastern quadrant of Pasco County, the novelʼs Bankston County.  Since then he has been an infantry platoon leader and company commander, a journalist, a lawyer, again a journalist, a business executive and a schoolteacher.  He lives with his wife Juliette Brelle in the woods northwest of Houston near the small town of Magnolia, Texas.  He is presently working on the second novel in the Bankston County trilogy.  Chronologically, The Catalyst is the second of the three books. His e-mail address is sgbeaver@swbell.net   

Tad grew up believing that aliens abducted shiploads of men from the Bermuda Triangle and that Bigfoot liked to steal picnic baskets from hikers in the Rockies. Today, he and his family live in the quiet foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains where his reality includes new mysteries such as how to discretely change diapers at high school sporting events.
He started writing Jerry McAllister shortly after his 40th birthday and finished it because his sons demanded it. Between his childhood dreams of poltergeists and the Loch Ness Monster, and a more current desire to maintain a conscious contact with his God, Tad brings a unique blend of wonder and common sense to his writings. And he has yet to see a Bigfoot in real-life. But, there's always tomorrow.

Krissie Katrese Williams is a native of New Haven, Connecticut.  Currently, she lives in Cape Cod, Massachusetts where she teaches Social Studies at a local high school.  She earned her B. A. from Providence College in 1996.
She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She is embracing her singledom. In her spare time she enjoys serious shoe shopping with her mom, sister, and girlfriends, or a movie night with her dad. She also likes to design jewelry and clothing. During the summer, she travels extensively and soaks up the sun on Cape Cod beaches. She strives to maintain close ties with her family, friends, and her adopted fat cat Weesie. She dedicates her first novel, Adventures in Martyrdom, to the memory of Lance Christopher Williams, a beloved family friend. She is currently writing her next novel, Breath.

I am a 52-year-old grandfather, happily divorced. I was in the British army for seven years, I was married for seven years and I was a heroin addict for seven years.  I was born into a working class family in Bradford in Yorkshire. My mother was a cleaner my dad was a semi-skilled machine operator and alcoholic who used to beat my mother and me. I had no formal education and left school at 15 years old and went to work in a local factory. This is my first venture into the literary world.

Kennedy Lynne Brazier was inspired to write by her loving parents.  A native of Chicago, IL , Michigan  remained home for many years until she found residence through her work in her lifetime travels, making everywhere from Florida to Hawaii her home. Her colorful past, in a family with 14 brothers and sisters, mastering collegiate studies in Liberal Arts and Communications, a fitness model and personal trainer, and an honored and decorated soldier, led writing to become a magnificent tool of expression for her.  She has written various magazine articles, and correspondence for numerous newspapers and she also received awards on her writing during her time in the service.

Growing up in tiny Effingham, Illinois, Jim Rodgers dreamed of someday becoming a professional football player.  A Division III All-American defensive tackle at Eureka College and a member of Eureka’s Athletic Hall of Fame, Rodgers has always prided himself on overcoming obstacles in his life.  However, he counts as his greatest achievement raising his two children on his own after his first marriage ended abruptly.  Rodgers has been a high school English teacher for 23 years and lives in the Chicago suburbs with his wife, three children, his Bullmastiff Conan and an obese cat named Achilles. 

Martin Burke is an Irish poet/playwright living in Belgium whose poems & plays have been published in leading journals worldwide To date his books, nine in all,  have been published in the USA, UK, Algeria & Ireland.
Plays have been performed in Belgium & the USA

Raymond Ricardo Andreo is the youngest of four children, born in February
1954 raised in Enfield town just north of London England, he is an accomplished musician, having travelled widely across America and Europe in the seventies with various rock bands, Supported the 'Eagles' in Las Vegas, and Bruce Springsteen in Los Angeles ( to name but a few). This 'A' level music graduate, turned from his career as a professional drummer\ percussionist, to pursue his love of writing, he has an impressive portfolio of past work, although this is his first published book. A family man with three daughters and a beautiful wife, "I couldn't have done any of it without her!" He openly admits "Lesley is my inspiration and true soul mate, I love her completely!"
He single handedly built a two bedroom house on the Welsh border, and openly admits that life is a series of challenges, with the right faith attitude and health most things can and should be accomplished. "When I write I completely lose myself, I actually escape into the world I am creating and become the characters within that world. For me, It is the only way to do it!"

Gaston Delesdandroux is a pseudonym for a well-known author and award-winning investigative journalist whose use of this pseudonym gives the author more freedom in expressing himself with candor and honesty on sensitive personal issues and on matters of national security. The desire to keep a writing career separate from a 'normal life' is a common one. In this instance, it affords the author the opportunity to expose a decade of contentious personal issues without embarrassing innocent family members, former associates or current business or personal relationships.

Dr. Bruce Vaughan (Chiropractor) 73 years old, has lived and practiced in Hong Kong since 1966.
Born in the UK, spent some time in Brazil working in cattle ranching and then in Malaysia planting rubber. An injury resulted in a career change to Chiropractic in 1963.
Two self published biographical works for limited audience Rabid Dogs in the East (Professional audience) Brazilian Saddle Sores (personal bio of time spent in Brazil as a cowboy in the late fifties). Long time member of the Planetary Society, hence interest in space travel.
Represented Asia on the Council of the World Federation of Chiropractic (President 2000-2002)

Dominic Ward lives in Brisbane with his partner and two children.

Dr. David Shifrin's career stretched over a span of thirty-five years. During that time, obstetrics and gynecology was transformed from a field that required a large measure of judgment and art to an accurate, high-tech discipline with multiple sub-specialties. Along the way there were thousands of patients and just as many stories. A select few are portrayed in "Ob-Gyn Confessions: Intimate Stories from a Woman's Doctor.