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Dr. Foster is Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as Pain Medicine. He is a best-selling multi-award-winning author. He is the author or co-author of several scientific articles. His books include  three best-selling books: The Stress Book: Forty-Plus  Ways to Manage Stress & Enjoy Your Life,  Foster’s Opioid Addiction Classification Status Guide, and  The Opioid Epidemic Consumers & HealthCare Guide. His fourth book, The Little Stress Book will be published in the Summer of  2022.
Dr. Foster is a Public Speaker, Stress & Pain Management consultant, and  Rehabilitation Medicine Consultant. He also previously hosted a radio show called  The Doctor Show and is a member of several medical associations.
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Rey is a Texas, native, is a dedicated special education teacher at a local middle school; as well as, a published author of two inspirational Christmas books involving hope, love, and perseverance. His published books feature his creation of “Northopolis”, a magical Christmas lawn display which was featured on the national television show, “The Great Christmas Light Fight” on ABC. In addition to his Christmas books, Rey’s love for his very own cat, Mr. Bean, inspired him to write his award-winning book titled, “Bean’s New Home”. Rey is also a co-founder of the nonprofit group, the “RGV Ghostbusters”, who spread cheer and happiness throughout the Rio Grande Valley at various charity and nonprofit events.
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Anita Dickason is a retired police officer with a total of twenty-seven years of law enforcement experience, twenty-two with Dallas PD. She served as a patrol officer, undercover narcotics officer, advanced accident investigator, tactical officer and first female sniper on the Dallas SWAT team.
Awards

Law Enforcement Professional Achievement Award—The Texas House of Representatives
Officer of the Year—Texas Women in Law Enforcement
Officer of the Year—International Association of Women in Police
Runner-up Officer of the Year—Dallas Police Department
Officer of the Month—Dallas Police Department
Multiple Police Commendations, Certificates of Merit and citizen/business commendations from the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas community.

Instructor Certifications

Texas Commission on Law Enforcement
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Defensive Tactics
Police Batons
Spontaneous Knife Defense
Field Sobriety Procedures
Drug Recognition Expert program
Advanced Accident Investigation

Anita is a Past President of Texas Women in Law Enforcement, and Past Treasurer for the International Association of Women in Police. She served as an adjunct instructor for Texas A&M University and Sam Houston University.
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Mark Canniff has always had a deep fascination with the paranormal. Having been the witness to strange and supernatural events since the tender age of six, he has dedicated his writing to exploring these odd occurrences and sharing his experiences. After suffering through harrowing sexual abuse at a young age, Mark uses his stories as a therapeutic outlet to share his passion for the supernatural while healing from his past.
Mark hopes to inspire and entertain his readers, offering them a profound glimpse into the unseen world of ghosts and spirits, beginning with his book, Dream, Recurring. He channels his past trauma as a unique way to express himself, practice forgiveness, grow, and let go of the pain.
When not writing, Mark enjoys spending time as an amateur photographer, practicing Reiki, and working in his job in the Aviation Industry. He also hopes to turn his novel into a screenplay. Mark was born in Seattle, Washington, where he spent most of his childhood. His teenage years and young adult life were in England. He resides in Washington State with the love of his life, Lisa, and their fur pups. Their son lives less than an hour away.
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I directed botanical gardens in Tucson and San Diego and spent many years as a nonprofit staff member, board member and consultant. I now delight in using the right side of my brain to write fiction and poetry. DEATH IN A DESERT GARDEN is my first novel.  I’ve published several poems and prose pieces, and I’ve provided links to these.
 I divide my time between the small mountain town of Silver City, NM, and Tucson, Arizona, hiking and enjoying the flora and fauna of both habitats. I live with my husband, Phil Hastings, and a dog, and I spend as much time as possible with my children and grandchildren.
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I am Daughter of the Most High King. Cherished and loved by My Heavenly Father. Protected and adored by My Heavenly Husband. Yeshua.
Best-Seller on Amazon Published Author/Certified Inspirational/Motivational Speaker/Women's Group Leader/Ministry Healing Broken Women
A mother of two amazing adult children, gramma of 6 beautiful grandchildren. A survivor of, and with a brain tumor, 4 year survivor of Breast Cancer.
Love to attend Street Rod/Hot Rod shows. Love NASCAR and drag races. My favorite thing to do is to be outdoors in my yard working and caring for the beautiful home God has given me to use to help others.
The book “Prayers To A Heavenly Father”, came about during the journey that God has taken me on. Doing work through a recovery program after a divorce, I began writing prayers out through the 12 step program created by Dr. Doug Weiss. Thus, it led to writing them out into a book. My newest book “Honoring My Heavenly Father” God gave me the title before I even finished writing the first book. I love how the Holy Spirit works if we will just listen to Him. This book is now printed and that has been because God brought Daniel Gomez of Gomez Enterprises into my life through His leading.
Tonni Lea is a writer at heart. Always loved following my Grandma Gladys footsteps. When I was young I would always write poems. When my youngest granddaughter had heart surgery, I wrote a story about her journey, The Miracle Girl.
I give all Praise and Honor to my Heavenly Father. He takes all the broken pieces and He puts them back to together His way. He has given me a heart to encourage and help broken women. As God puts them back together, He will lead them to others so they can encourage them. It is how Our Father’s does His greatest work, through our Brokenness.
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I never intended to be a writer.
 Very early on, I was going to be a ballerina and a doctor, and no doubt, a mommy, simultaneously. No one told us we couldn’t have it all. There were a few things that did not bode well for the ballerina/doctor career track: I didn’t know my right foot from my left and I was a poor math student. In high school, I failed chemistry and had to go to summer school in order to graduate with my class.
And yet, through my childhood and adolescence I wrote: exhortations (“Plez, plez, plez by us a pupy I promis I wil wok it + fed it + tak car of it”); diaries; bad poetry; a neighborhood newspaper (handwritten in pencil, so it had a circulation of one…well, two if you count both my parents).
In college, back in the 60’s, I was a drama major with my sights on Broadway, but an elective in playwriting resulted in a one-act that not only was performed at my university, but won second prize in a national collegiate playwriting contest. On a recent rereading, I questioned the sanity of the judges, as well as my own. It was so cringeworthy, so racially insensitive, I shredded it so my children wouldn’t find it some day and do a complete re-evaluation of their mother.
I fell into a post-collegiate writing career after a year of cattle calls for off, off-off- and off-off-off- Broadway productions. I got one of those: it was one night only, performed in someone’s East Village crash pad. It was not reviewed in The New York Times, or anywhere else. Was it an experimental theater production of Chekov? One of the new playwrights like Sam Shepard or Lanford Wilson? Or just the post-acid trip scribblings of the guy who needed to make rent? It remains a mystery. Desperate for a job, any kind of job that would put me in close proximity to the smell of  the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd, I started working at a newspaper that published casting calls for actors. My first job there was to making dunning phone calls to advertisers who hadn’t paid their bills. I held the phone button down and pretended to talk.  Soon, I graduated to writing restaurant reviews. Since this was a perk for the eateries that paid to advertise in the paper, all  reviews had to be at least positive, if not glowing.  For one Polynesian place that kept a chatty—uncaged– parrot chained to a perch at the front desk, I waxed poetic about the bird’s vocabulary and noted: “You may want to try the Puupuu Platter.”
After about a year of writing these ersatz reviews, as well as advice articles for actors seeking work, I finally quit the paper when the sleazy publisher invited me into his office and pulled me onto his lap. For years, I scanned The New York Times for his obituary. It took 20 years for it to finally appear and I could stop reading the death notices. #MeToo.
Break of about six years: got married, had two kids, moved to the country, and wrote grocery lists and absence notes (“Please excuse Jonathan from school this morning. He has a dentist appointment.”). I was bored and we needed the money, so when I saw an ad for a reporter position at the local weekly newspaper, I applied. I think it paid $120 a week.
Over the next decade, as my children inexplicably evolved from primary school pupils to teenagers, I evolved as a journalist. I covered town meetings; slept with the police scanner next to my bed, so I could be on the scene to photograph the midnight barn fires that plagued our town until the arsonist was caught; and got invited to every 50th anniversary celebration, retirement party, and opening of deer season—people loved to see their pictures and read their stories in the paper. The dead deer? Not so much.
At 40, I decided to get my MSW and embark as a free-lance writer at the same time. Among other assignments, I wrote a section of a Fodor’s travel guide—these were the days before Trip Advisor and Yelp– and ran out of adjectives to describe “quaint” and “charming” country ...

Geraldine Brown Giomblanco is the best-selling, multi-award-winning author and a captivating, inspirational speaker. A former Vice President and thirty-year veteran as a strategic planner and marketing professional. She was born and raised in Westchester County, NY. Geraldine and her husband now make their home in Montauk, NY, and Naples, FL. ‘The Compass Rose’ screenplay, written by DGA director Ante Novakovic is based on her Memoir ‘Geraldina & the Compass Rose.’

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At age eight, Deborah S. Greenhut announced her ambition to become an author. Her mother replied, “Become a teacher instead to make a living.” Crestfallen, ten-year-old Deborah perfected her skill with a spangled baton to twirl solo as her school’s mascot. A one-time concert-pianist-in-training, Deborah longed to trade up for a conductor’s baton, but that career path seemed closed to women in the 1960s. After earning her B.A. in English from Middlebury College then a PhD from Rutgers University, she pursued her original dream by becoming a writer, a teacher, and, later, a dean. Her poems and cultural reviews have appeared in print and online at www.oobr.com , medium.com , and Red Booth Review. Her way-off Broadway production of Difficult Subjects, was selected for the Best Plays of the Strawberry Festival, Volume 2. A multi-genre work, How I Live. With Terror, developed as an artist-in-residence at 92 Street Y/Makor, appeared in www.Zeek.net. In 2017, she received the Princemere Poetry Prize. The Hoarder’s Wife is her first novel. Deborah now lives in a clean house in New Jersey where she can focus on making art in a room of her own.
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