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Filmdirecter Jennifer Dawn with Forbidden Tears Productions is joinung us for some wonderful news and the release her her latest film. 

I am an award winning Film Producer and Director, nominated Best Woman Film Maker in Barcelona Planet Film Festival 2015, and Winner of Best Female Producer of the Year 2016 for my film Flowers in the Snow in the WIND International Film Festival. I am also an Author, Radio Broadcaster, VFX Creator and Designer.

I am a writer of my own screenplays and scripts, and I enjoy helping new Indie Artists to become successful in their own works. I also enjoy my work in VFX for film producers and directors, including the television series Drakul with Michael Merino (MCM Films) also an award winning Project.

Recording and Producing is a craft, where as Writing is an art...Film and Music are a passion...A Love for creating that which the viewer can become lost within.

Film, Radio, Visual Effects, and Writing... all are my Passions!

Live, Love, Laugh, Journey, and Experience Life!!

There is color, beauty, intrigue, and amazement all around us!

"Don't follow me into the madness of the world, just accompany Me within My own!" Jennifer Dawn Anderson>> 6/15/2011

Body on the Bayou, the second book in Ellen’s Cajun Country Mystery Series, recently won the Left Coast Crime Lefty Award for Best Humorous Mystery, and is nominated for an Agatha Award in the category of Best Contemporary Novel. Ellen's debut novel in the series, Plantation Shudders, was nominated for Agatha, Lefty, and Daphne awards, and made the USA Today Bestseller list. Book three, A Cajun Christmas Killing, launches October 10th. She’s written over 200 national magazine articles; published plays include the award-winning Graceland; TV credits include Wings, Just Shoot Me, Fairly OddParents, and pilots. Visit her at http://www.ellenbyron.com/

BETTY WEBB is the author of 15 books, including the nationally best-selling Lena Jones series (“Desert Vengeance,” “Desert Rage,” etc), the humorous Gunn Zoo mystery series (“The Puffin of Death,” “The Koala of Death,” etc.) and the family history, “The Webbs of Alabama: Survivors of Change.” Before beginning to write full time Betty worked as a journalist, interviewing everyone from U.S. presidents, astronauts who walked on the moon, Nobel Prize-winners, and polygamy runaways. She has taught creative writing classes at ASU, Phoenix College, and has been a nationally-syndicated book critic for 30 years. In addition to other organizations, Betty is a member of the National Federation of Press Women, Mystery Writers of America, and the Writers Guild. She has also served as a Writer-in-Residence for the Arizona State Library

 

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Award-winning and International bestselling author Ashley Fontainne enjoys stories that immerse the reader deep into the human psyche and the monsters lurking within each of us.

 

Her short thriller entitled Number Seventy-Five, touches upon the sometimes dangerous world of online dating. Number Seventy-Five took home the BRONZE medal in fiction/suspense at the 2013 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards contest and is currently in production for a feature film.

 

Her paranormal thriller entitled The Lie, won the GOLD medal in the 2013 Illumination Book Awards for fiction/suspense and is also in production for a feature film entitled Foreseen.

 

Ashley delved into the paranormal with a Southern Gothic horror/suspense novel entitled Growl,followed by the suspenseful Christian mystery Empty Shell.  She teamed up with Lillian Hansen (Ashley calls her mom!) to pen a three-part murder mystery/suspense trilogy entitled The Magnolia Series. The first book, Blood Ties, released the Summer of 2015.

 

Two other mystery/thriller works released in 2015: Whispered Pain and Night Court. In 2016, Ashley penned her first romantic suspense: Suicide Lake.

Ian Bush is a Michigan native and has been writing stories for thirteen years. His first self-published novella "This Story Has Soul" was released in 2010. Ian is the winner of the 2 Moon Press 2012 contest for his novella Wishes for the World Around You. Ian's work can be found in the anthologies Satan’s Holiday, Shadows & Light #1, #2, and #4, A Merry Scary Christmas, Spectral Hauntings II, Don't Look Back, Blessings from the Darkness, Devolution Z, and 47 - 16, a David Bowie tribute anthology.   Ian has also coauthored a novella, Guidelines for Immortality, with Ron Brown. Ian can be found at www.facebook.com/Ian.Bush.Author or on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Ian-Bush/e/B00I2KB2LQ. You can also email him at [email protected].

Ronnie Allen is a New York City native transplanted to rural Central Florida nine years ago. A licensed NYS school psychologist, and teacher in New York City for 33 years, she's also a board certified holistic health practitioner. Miss Allen uses her education, expertise, alternative therapies in her novels in the plots and characters development. Her two thrillers, Gemini and Aries, in The Sign Behind the Crime series are published by Black Opal Books. Scorpio is coming in September and she is currently working on Libra.

Martha Carr is the author of nine books, including the Wallis Jones series, a six part thriller series that starts with The List Conspiracy. The entire series is available on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited.

Martha has written a weekly, nationally-syndicated column on world affairs and life that has run on such political hotspots as The Moderate Voice.com and Politicus.com. Her work has run regularly in such venerable publications as The Washington Post, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune and Newsweek.

Award winning author L. C. Hayden is the creator of the popular Harry Bronson and Aimee Brent mystery series and the standalone, Secrets of the Tunnels. Hayden is known in the mystery field for her edge of the seat suspense and her surprise endings. Her mysteries have hit the Kindle, the B&N, and the Pennsylvania Top Seller Lists. The books have been finalist for the Agatha and LCC Awards.

Her nonfiction angel/miracle series consists of spiritually uplifting books that leave the reader wanting more.

Hayden’s other works include children’s picture books and a paranormal mystery that promises all the punch of a first-class horror story and the sensitivity of a romance. Help! I Want to Write offers practical advice to inspiring authors. Bell Shaped Flowers is a young adult inspirational novelette along the lines of Hallmark Hall of Fame.  

Besides being an accomplished author, Hayden is a popular speaker who is often in demand. She has done workshop and school presentations, has spoken to clubs and organizations, and was hired by several major cruise lines to speak while cruising all over the world. From October 2006 to October 2007, Hayden hosted Mystery Writers of America’s only talk show, Murder Must Air.

She is active on Facebook and enjoys talking to her readers. Hayden also enjoys traveling, reading, scuba diving, art, and spending time with her five grandchildren. Hayden, a Texas resident, lives with her husband of 47 years and their dog, a basenji named Honey.

You can find her books at tinyurl.com/LCHayden and more information about Hayden at her website: lchayden.com

Royce Shook-Royce Shook has been an accomplished guitarist since the age of 16 when he formed the infamous Evolution rock band. His solo work has included venues from Atlanta to Salt Lake City and his interest and passion for music is a continuing journey. On March 2010 he released the album Cold November Rain and in January 2013 his second album Mysterium was released. Eight music videos created by bestselling Amazon author Yvonne Mason for songs from these albums are currently posted on Youtube under Royce Shook.

Vernon Minton- A County Western Musican during the 1980-1990's His music is timeless. Check him out on youtube

Teskey Brothers-

Formed in 2008, The Teskey Brothers are a band that makes you feel more at home than the hot drifting smell of rosemary Bolognese, or collecting your own eggs from the hatch down the hill. Why? Because they are family, and once you are in the audience, so are you. And I’m not just saying that because I’m wearing overalls and own a chicken.

The band came to be from seeking blues and roots of the greats from an early age when exposed to musicians such as Peter Green, Otis Redding and Ray Charles. The boys would watch closely in awe as their teacher, Sam Linton Smith, performed at St. Andrews pub on a Sunday, the very same St. Andrews in which Josh and Sam Teskey set up to busk as boys. Thus began the musical convergence of Warrandyte Blues-Soul and everything in between. And when brought to Melbourne CBD, people actually move to live music – a phenomenon that’s camera worthy.

Apart from being an author, Shayna Brazier has had many unique jobs including: picking up trash at the county landfill, cleaning bathrooms, teaching high school music and art, writing parking tickets, mowing lawns, calling insurance companies to see why they didn't pay, glueing stones into charms, selling utilities to new movers, and paying bills. Given her wide array of skills she has decided to pursue anxiety full-time. When she is not working, Shayna enjoys massages, facials, and napping in a hammock on the beach. The other 364 days of the year she endures chasing her kids around and trying to keep up with the house.