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Since 2010, author assistant Kate Tilton assisted authors in reaching readers and helped readers connect with authors (and each other). The publishing world is a community of those who love reading. Authors need readers like readers need authors and Kate has made it her mission to connect the two.

On the blog you will find access to Kate Tilton’s Book Bloggers which is a group of bloggers (authors & readers) who work together to promote reading while also developing connections with other readers.

On Twitter you will find the weekly #K8chat, the first chat designed for both authors and readers with weekly topics both groups can enjoy together. And now you can continue the conversation on the #k8chat forums, open 24/7.

Sally delights fans of paranormal and romance by blurring the lines between fact and fiction in a multiverse of multiple timelines, often including exciting elements of utopian science fiction and Buddhism.

Sally Ember, Ed.D., is a member of a large family and mother of an adult son. The author of sci-fi/ romance/ speculative fiction/ paranormal/ multiverse/ utopian ebooks for New Adult/adult/YA audiences, “The Spanners Series,” Sally is a practicing Buddhist meditator. She is also an almost-daily swimmer, a mediocre singer/pianist, avid feminist, dreamer, and devoted mother/ sister/ aunt/ daughter/ cousin/ friend. Her website includes a blog that touches on these topics as well as reviews, interviews, guest blog posts, and excerpts from Volume I and Volume II. Visit and comment, follow, “like,” and share! http://www.sallyember.com/

In her “other” professional life, Sally has worked as an educator and upper-level, nonprofit manager in colleges, universities and private nonprofits for over thirty-five years in New England (every state), New Mexico and the San Francisco Bay Area before returning to St. Louis, MO, where she was raised. Sally has a BA in Elementary Education, a Master’s (M.Ed.) and a doctorate in education (Ed.D.).

Vol I, “This Changes Everything,” is getting great reviews, and is now FREE everywhere with release of Vol II, “This Changes My Family and My Life Forever,” on 6/9/14. Vol III, “This Is/Is Not the Way I Want Things to Change,” is planned to release in late fall, 2014. “The Spanners Series” has ten volumes planned.

ASPYR Communications is the leading communication, branding, imaging, and public relations firm on the market. With ASPYR, Travis works with all clients on their positioning, language, imaging, and brand ownership.

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Our business, Nesckire Systems, LLC, is competing for the Mission Main Street Grant. We need 250 votes to be considered for the next round. Please support our small business. Visit our Agent-Morgan project site for more details and to vote. You'll be re-directed to the Mission Main Street site. If you want to bypass that, and simply vote, then go directly to Mission Main Street Grants. Search 68025 OR Neskcire Systems. Thank you for your help!

Ryan Attard had one thing that distinguished him from the rest of his fan-fiction writing circle of friends: No matter how hard he tried, he would always throw an original character and a unique plot twist that would drive his hardcore geeky friends up a wall.

It wasn’t long until Ryan found himself writing about the things he loved; magic, pissed off wizards, supernatural creatures, epic battles and all round badassery. Add to this a blend of satire, sarcasm, humour at the cost of the protagonist and a semi-original view point of the world of magic and mysticism in the 21th century and one can see the inner workings of this author’s mind at work.

Nowadays Ryan divides his time between attempting to live a normal student life, writing the second book of the Legacy series as well as for other projects and ruling over his imaginative worlds as a malicious god.

So far only Firstborn and Birthright, books 1 & 2 respectively are available.

Stalk Ryan on Twitter, Facebook, or by emailing him at [email protected].

Announcements:

Please help Neskcire Systems get 250 votes by 10//17/2014. We're competing for a $100K grant via Mission Main Street Grants. Winning the grant will help us to continue research & development of our mobile robotics.  Thank you!

Che Gilson is the author of several graphic novels including “Avigon: Gods and Demons” from Image Comics, and “Dark Moon Diary” from Tokyopop. Her short stories have been published online in Luna Station Quarterly issue 14 and Drops of Crimson.

Her most recent book, Carmine RojasL Dog Fight, was published by Black Opal Books in August.

She draws copious amounts of Pokémon fan art which can be found with her original work at http://spiderliing666.deviantart.com

Prose work:

“The Last of Artie”, published in the March, 2006 edition of the on-line magazine, Crime and Suspense.

“Birthday Girl”, Second Place winner in the 1st Annual Clued-In Press Award for short mystery fiction. April, 2006.

“Perfect Angels”, also in Crime and Suspense

“Got Milk2 + Homework = Magic”, Drops of Crimson

“Fight and Flight”, Luna Atation Quarterly Issue 14

Illustration:

La Vie en Rose issue 1

La Vie en Rose issue 2

Announcements:

Caine Dorr launches his new podcast, Adventure Frequency, on iTunes today. Subscribe and help him get the word out! 

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Gregory S. Lamb Recently retired from his first profession, now he is a writer with credibility. Basking in the anonymity of his age. Greg is a collector of stories. Many of them are garnered from the people he meets while adventuring near and far.

Greg’s fictional characters are true to life and shape the plots for the novel ideas that burn in his mind. He is an author who must write in order to maintain a happy lifestyle.

The Lamb’s home is Portland, Oregon. Greg and his wife Cindy enjoy spending time with their bulldog, who is being raised by a geriatric Siamese feline. When he isn’t writing, Greg can be found on the sands of northern Oregon’s beaches, where he plays Blue Grass fiddle tunes on his banjo while  his dog chases seagulls.

The Lambs have three grown sons. To learn about upcoming releases of Greg’s novels, visit AEC Stellar Publishing, Inc on the web at AECStellar.com.

Be sure to also visit Gregory S. Lamb on Amazon’s Author Central and read what he’s been up to his author blog.

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Sonia Keffer has been developing and facilitating employee-training workshops for seventeen years. A main focus of Sonia’s work is the internal motivation that is necessary for all of us to be truly successful. Being passionate about her work she enjoys bringing new ideas to all levels of employees and seeing the spark ignite in someone when they understand how to incorporate a new concept into their own personal or professional life. Her training sessions are high energy and interactive which allow for maximum participation and learning. Sonia has been fortunate enough to work across the United States with such organizations as The county of Orange, California, the City and county of San Francisco, Stearns-Benton Workforce Center and On With Life. Here in Omaha, Sonia has worked with such terrific organizations as Fashion Cleaners, Omaha Public Schools, Omaha Tri-county Workforce Development, Henningsen Foods, Inc., SOCAP, PVPL, the Nebraska Art Council, the Nebraska Shakespeare Festival and NAM. Among Sonia’s other passions are her involvement in community theatre including being involved all four years of the Great Plains Theatre Conference sponsored by Metropolitan Community College. This summer she both directed and acted in new works first presented at the conference at Omaha’s Shelterbelt Theater.

SHe is the author of Rule of Thumb: A small business guide to developing mission, vision, and value statements available on Amazon.

Christine has been writing science fiction and fantasy for as long as she can remember. She loves to write and it is her dream that others will be inspired by this love and by her stories. Speculative fiction is fun, magical, and imaginative but great speculative fiction is about real people defining themselves through extraordinary situations. Christine writes primarily about people and it is in this way that she strives to make science fiction and fantasy meaningful for everyone.

In addition to writing, Christine teaches workshops on writing at Savvy Authors. She also does some freelance editing work.

Margaret Lukas is an instructor at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She teaches creative writing in the Writer’s Workshop Program. She received her BFA from UNO’s Writer’s Workshop in 2004. In 2007 Margaret received her MFA from Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma, Washington.

She is a recipient of a 2009 Nebraska Art Council Individual Artist Fellowship.

She is a contributor to NEBRASKAland magazine and an editor for the quarterly literary journal, Fine Lines. Her writing also appears online and in the 2012 anthology, On Becoming, published by the University of Nebraska Press.

Her award-winning short story, “The Yellow Bird,” was made into The Yellow Bird, a short film and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.

Farthest House is her first novel.