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Nancy Quinn was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, but has lived in many areas of the country. She is an internationally known wildlife artist whose work is noted for its detail and accuracy, and she is the recipient of two World Wildlife Art Championship awards.

Nancy has always had a love of animals and nature. After college, she worked as a conservation law enforcement duty officer for the state of Florida. She volunteered her spare time at wildlife rehabilitation centers, bringing their birds and reptiles into the schools to educate children of all ages. Over the years she has handled many domestic and exotic species, including cougars, leopards, and tigers, and always had interesting stories to tell about her encounters with wild animals. Upon leaving a suburban lifestyle in the metro Washington, DC area, to live in rural Montana, she discovered a new world of exciting and unusual adventures. Encouraged by friends and family alike, she wrote her first book, "Go West, Young Woman!"

She now happily resides on a mountainside in Montana with her husband, daughters, dogs, and horses, where she continues to paint and write about her experiences living in the still wild west.

Smoke From All The Friction, based in Raleigh, NC, blends traditional and underground cultures to create a moody, electronic pop vibe with industrial undertones. Their sound grabs listeners with both a sense of familiarity and a striking curiosity. Inspired by the ideas of tension and friction, they explore what happens when we venture outside ourselves, past the abstract social constructs that create barriers between us. Instead of simply creating a musical performance for mere entertainment, they inspire a deeper, thought-provoking appreciation between the audience and the music itself. This cutting-edge act draws influence from top artists like Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, Chainsmokers, 30 Seconds to Mars, and Owl City. They offer captivating vocals and a unique variety of musical styles that will leave you always wanting more. For those thirsting for the latest sounds in music, the merging of these artists’ talents in all their glory will not disappoint.

Howard Levine is the author of one previously published novel, Leaving This Life

Behind.  He is a retired teacher of special education and English as a second language. Before his first public school teaching position—at a high school in the Bronx, NY—he taught Transcendental Meditation, which he still practices regularly.  Howard now lives in suburban Washington DC, where he hikes, bikes, and writes.  He and his wife volunteer at a soup kitchen and a senior citizens center.

After being a corporate trainer for fifteen years, our next guest went into shock when she got remarried and was trying to blend 2 households, 4 kids, 2 dogs and several guinea pigs. Luckily, she saw the humor in it all and wrote The Amy Binegar-Kimmes-Lyle Book Of Failures. The funny memoir opens with "I've been married for twenty years, not to the same people, but twenty years nonetheless." The book has been a best seller on Amazon for over a year, sitting next to some of her heroes like Trevor Noah, David Sedaris, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Jenny Lawson. 

 

Amy enjoys being public speaking on the topic, "Why I Shared My Most Mortifying Moments and Why You Should Too," which has a message of seeing the humor in our failures and being more authentic in a very filtered world.  She's a regular on Atlanta's popular morning show, Atlanta and Company, and is a frequent guest on radio and podcasts. She just starred in her first movie short, The Interviewers. The film was written and directed by Atlanta filmmaker Sam Juergens. Amy's own film, #FakeMom, which is a Bridesmaids meets Bad Moms female-centric comedy is in development with Executive Producer Suzanne Jurva.

 

Book link https://www.amazon.com/Am y-Binegar-Kimmes-Lyle-Book-Fai lures-inadequacies-ebook/dp/ B072J3327X/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_ 0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=152348416 0&sr=8-2

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J. Traveler Pelton was born in West Virginia in the last century. She was the Nation's Mother for her tribe, the Munsee Delaware: she is wife to Dan for 47+ years, mother of six adults, a grandmother of 8, a Clinically Licensed Independent Social worker, a retired professor of social work at her local university and an avid reader. Being a cancer survivor, she knows the feeling of needing to make her life count and is thankful for every day on this earth. She avidly studies science and technology, fascinated by the inventiveness of people. She is quick to draw parallels in different fields and weave stories around them. Traveler is a fabric artist and her most enjoyable time is spent spinning yarn while spinning yarns for the grandkids...

Being a fiber artist and shepherd as well, she loves to spin, make quilts and raises alpacas on her mini farm. JTraveler is also a lay leader in her home church. She loves to cook big meals for people and find ways to help folks having life struggles. Her farm, Springhaven Croft is home to alpacas, dogs, Siamese cats, canaries, an eclectic group of chickens and an irascible Amazon Parrot named Gizmo Buddy. Her webpage is travelerpelton.com; she also has a FB page called Traveler Pelton. Come visit real soon!

Lark Griffing likes to bring her sense of adventure to her writing. Her first two novels are young adult; The Last Time I Checked, I Was Still Here, a coming of age story and The Starfish Talisman, an old-fashioned ghost story. Dog on the Doorstep is Lark’s collection of short stories and flash fiction for the holiday season about hope and the love of pets. She is also a contributor to the short story anthology Twelve Tales A-Telling: a Modern Twist on a Holiday Classic. Teardrops and Rest Stops is the second novel is the first novel of her new romantic comedy series, A Gone To the Dogs Camper Romance. Teardrops and Rest Stops is the second in the series. Lark collects hobbies like some people collect friends. When not writing and teaching, she is hiking, kayaking, SCUBA diving, camping, and enjoying life to the fullest with her family. She is married to a wonderful man and has two sons. She also shares her home with a precocious golden doodle, Maggie and a tabby cat, Dickens.

Few can claim the varied background of Stephanie Osborn, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery.

Veteran of more than 20 years in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs, she worked on numerous space shuttle flights and the International Space Station, and counts the training of astronauts on her resumé. Her space experience also includes Spacelab and ISS operations, variable star astrophysics, Martian aeolian geophysics, radiation physics, and nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons effects.

Stephanie holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in four sciences: astronomy, physics, chemistry and mathematics, and she is "fluent" in several more, including geology and anatomy.

In addition she possesses a license of ministry, has been a duly sworn, certified police officer, and is a National Weather Service certified storm spotter.

Her travels have taken her to the top of Pikes Peak, across the world’s highest suspension bridge, down gold mines, in the footsteps of dinosaurs, through groves of giant Sequoias, and even to the volcanoes of the Cascade Range in the Pacific Northwest, where she was present for several phreatic eruptions of Mount St. Helens.

Now retired from space work, Stephanie has trained her sights on writing. She has authored, co-authored, or contributed to almost 30 books, including the celebrated science-fiction mystery, Burnout: The mystery of Space Shuttle STS-281. She is the co-author of the Cresperian Saga book series, and currently writes the critically acclaimed Displaced Detective Series, described as "Sherlock Holmes meets The X-Files," and its pulp-bestselling prequel series, Gentleman Aegis. She released the paranormal/horror novella El Vengador, based on a true story, in 2013 as an ebook.

Melinda Kucsera writes fantastic short stories, novels, and books when not being kidnapped by dragons or chased by armies of fictional creatures. (We do, on occasion, rescue her.) She leaves the running of her newsletter to a cast of lovable characters who hog her inbox. Enough about her, it’s us you’re really interested in, her cast of characters. Join us every week for a new story: http://www.mkucsera.com/welcomecharacters

Life teaches us all many lessons; some more than others. Since losing their only child, Roni and her husband, John, have learned what it takes to forge ahead and find new purpose in life; helping others to improve their lives by enhancing their focus on what is actually significant; their children and the other people in their lives.

 

Their beautiful son, Dalton, was with them for 15 years and left for Heaven just after Christmas 2013 due to injuries from an ATV accident. Dalton lived his short life creating smiles, laughter, and happiness by sharing his kind spirit and helping others through tough times. They continue his legacy by counting their blessings for the short time they had him and practicing random acts of kindness in his memory each and every day. Roni and John have been married since 1995 and live in Castle Rock, Colorado. Roni spends most of her time working with real estate clients, yet she's now added speaking to parenting groups, book clubs, and schools, as well as several podcast, radio, and tv programs about the importance of small moments and simple lessons for creating a meaningful life. Any free time is spent with their families in Colorado and Texas, riding ATVs, and camping in sand dunes across the U.S.

 

Roni's books, Parenting At Your Best, A Parent's Guide for Journaling to Their Child, and A Parent's Journal For Their Child are a tribute to Dalton, with anticipation that the stories and advice they offer will inspire others to excellence in their parenting.

Isobel Blackthorn is the author of five novels, including The Legacy of Old Gran Parks (2018) and The Cabin Sessions (2017), both released by HellBound Books and Asylum (2015), The Drago Tree (2015, Spanish edition 2017) and A Perfect Square (2016) all released by Odyssey Books. She writes across a range of genres. Her non-fiction and short stories have appeared in journals and anthologies around the world. she lives with my little white cat on the southern coast of Victoria, Australia.