Off The Chain

In the new paradigm of existence, people need to understand they matter regardless of their opinion and as humans we need to take the time to tell people that in every opportunity” Alison Donaghey   Alison Donaghey is a Radio Host of Think Opposite, Author of an international best-selling book Think Opposite: Using the Domino Effect to Change Your Business, Change the World, Speaker, and a Cause and Effect Strategist that will expand your mind in ways you didn’t think possible.  Through the lens of her own innate curiosity, she ignites and challenges people to reflect on the opposite view. From a very early age, Alison had a natural gift in being able to hold space for both sides of the conversation without bias, judgment or personal opinion. She takes that natural gift to now challenge people to think about the mental constructs they have built and don’t question. Given Alison’s personal experience with life, she is the depiction of resilience and sees the humour in life’s challenges. Today she empowers people to make the most factual decision possible by considering all perspectives and weighing the consequences. She is of the belief that it’s not about following status quo in which our mind expands rather it is in the questioning of our own thoughts that allows people a space to be themselves.

Jenny Youngberg Dew is happily married to Larry for forty-four years. They are the parents of five children and have eight grandchildren. She is a Parent Leader in the Parent Advocacy Council of Utah for parents raising Reactive Attachment Disordered children. After meeting a legislative advocate during one of her council meetings she helped to create a house bill for Utah in the legislative session of 2016, to help the parents in her group, and it passed unanimously to become Utah Code.    Jenny has served children in many ways throughout her life in the public school systems and in her church groups. She advocates for other parents who are experiencing their children's reactive behaviors to help find services for them. She has been involved with retreats to help the mothers in her group and has joined online support groups to learn about the supports needed. She also runs the online support group for the Parent Advocacy Council for RAD. She has studied Reactive Attachment Disorder for the last sixteen years after finding out two of her adopted children were affected by the trauma related brain injuries. Jenny and Larry serve at their local men's prison in Utah twice each month and have met many they believe have trauma related disorders.   Jenny is the President of Hope Shining Brightly, LLC and Dew Crew Books. She is the author of two children's books: The Grump on the Stump, and Kyree Sue our Bug A Boo. She has twelve other children's books ready to be published. Jenny is also the author of Hope Shining Brightly; My Experience with Legal Risk Adoption and Holding The Hope; My Daughter's Journey Through Reactive Attachment

Best Selling author, Certified Relationship, Love & Life Coach for Singles and Couples, Certified Clinical Trauma & Addictions Professional and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Riana Milne (“The Life & Love Transformation Expert”), focuses on increasing a Client’s personal growth and self-esteem while improving their holistic health for mind, body, and spirit. She specializes in helping women and men of all ages through the impact of Childhood, Dating or Relationship Trauma and difficult transitions leading to overall Life Transformation and Successful relationships for individuals, couples and families in private practice for over 18 years in Egg Harbor Township, NJ and in Delray Beach, Florida. She takes an active Coaching role with her Client as they explore together the many avenues to their optimum emotional and over-all health and wellness, both individually and in relationships. She helps Singles attract Emotionally Healthy, Evolved and Conscious Love and guides Couples to transform their relationships from Toxic to Terrific. Riana’s Holistic Coaching approach to Holistic personal growth and change for mind and spirit is core to all her endeavors. Riana believes every human being is unique and deserves an individual, fresh perspective on their overall health to reach their personal and relationship goals, divine purpose, and ultimate sense of happiness.  n

Chris Goslow is a multi-faceted artist with a unique background and a broad musical reach. Hailing from Northern California, Chris is an active performer, songwriter and composer who has delighted and inspired audiences for years with his creativity, versatility, and showmanship.    Chris’s latest album, “The Cherry Rainbow Piano Experience,” is a lyrical collection of musical delights brought to life by piano and flute. Other released works include his eclectic collection of love songs, “I Love You,” and “Waterfall: Original Piano Music,” a collection of piano music meant to soothe and inspire.

Joanne Fisher was born in Canada and lived there until she was 20, at which time she moved to Italy with her parents. She married and had three children. When her father died, she, along with her sister, their respective families and mother, returned to Canada. Her husband didn’t fit well in Canada, they divorced, and he returned to Italy. She met the love of her life, Dan and now lives in Florida with her husband and her two Dachshunds, Wally and Ozzie. Her books With All of Me, Her Spanish Doll, & Good Things Always Happen in Springtime available at most online Ebook retailers

Marty Roppelt was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He was brought up with Grimm's Fairy Tales at bedtime. Marty later ran across horror novels that his mother borrowed from the local library, by contemporary masters of the horror genre—Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub.   Small wonder. Marty's parents emigrated from Transylvania.   Marty's original profession was acting. He lived in New York for a while and appeared in a few shows Off-Off-Broadway at the Spectrum Theater, and as an "extra" on the soap opera, Guiding Light. After returning to Cleveland, he continued acting on stage, in local commercials and training films, and in feature and cable films.   Marty also worked a wide variety of day and night jobs. He has cleaned swimming pools, delivered newspapers, been a security guard, waited tables, and tended bar. Today, when he's not writing a new short story or novel, he works as a Starbucks barista. He enjoys finding ways to use his diverse life experience to enhance his story-telling.   A pet project involves St. Herman's House, a men's homeless shelter in Cleveland. Always a bit controversial, the home ran into bad press, through no fault of the men living there. Nevertheless, donations dwindled dangerously in 2011. Marty saw a financial need he could not fill. So, over four years, he wrote short Christmas stories which he published and sold online to raise money for St. Herman's. He continues to look for ways to help the home.   Marty lives in northern Illinois with his wife, Becky, and their eccentric cat, Fritz. Mortal Foe is his first novel.

Gary Starta is a former journalist who studied English and Journalism at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His love for science fiction compelled him to write his first novel What Are You Made Of? published in 2006. Inspired by Isaac Asimov, the science fiction novel focuses on intelligent artificial life and whether sentient androids should possess the same rights as humans. The androids in Starta's novel are created as hybrids - part machine, part human - further blurring the line between human and machine. Starta foresees a near future where humans will be forced to decide if intelligent machinery is indeed a life form. Possibly, in this near future, some humans will possess computer enhancements to overcome disabilities becoming hybrids themselves. The line between biological life form and mechanical life form continues to be examined in 2010's Gods of the Machines. 9 Incarnate, along with its preceding Caitlin Diggs (series) novels, Demon Inhibitions, Extreme Liquidation and Blood Web are reminiscent of the The X-files television/movie series. Contemporary authors Laurell K. Hamilton, Rachel Caine, Jim Butcher and Kelly Armstrong also fuel his aspiration to create paranormal suspense. Watch for Diggs and Shay books soon. Starta's crime novella ' Murder By Association' blends mystery with forensic investigation. It is a departure from previous books because it contains no science fiction or paranormal elements. Its follow up is 2012's Kindred Killers. Additionally, Starta foresees his 2008 novella ' Alzabreah's Garden ' - a fantasy romance - as another out-of-the-box effort.  Coalescence begins a trilogy including forthcoming Time Wanderer and Obsolescence. If you like zombies, check out Dead Market, as a vice cop battles the evil machinations of Big Pharma.

Chad lives in Battle Creek, MI. with his wife, children.  For over two decades, he has been a contributor to several different outlets in the independent music and film scene, offering articles, reviews, and artwork. He has written for Famous Monsters of Filmland, Rue Morgue, Cemetery Dance, and Scream magazine. His fiction can be found in a few dozen magazines and anthologies including his own 18-story collection NIGHT AS A CATALYST. Lutzke is known for his heartfelt dark fiction and deep character portrayals.  In the summer of 2016 he released his dark coming-of-age novella OF FOSTER HOMES AND FLIES which has been praised by authors Jack Ketchum, James Newman, and many others.  Later in 2016 Lutzke released his contribution to bestselling author J. Thorn's AMERICAN DEMON HUNTERS series, and 2017 saw the release of his novellaWALLFLOWER. His latest, STIRRING THE SHEETS, was published by Bloodshot Books in spring 2018.

John Isaac Jones is a retired journalist currently living at Merritt Island, Florida. For more than thirty years, "John I.," as he prefers to be called, was a reporter for media outlets throughout the world. These included local newspapers in his native Alabama, The National Enquirer, News of the World in London, the Sydney Morning Herald, and NBC television. He is the author of five novels, a short story collection and three novellas.

Sasha Lauren, a writer of flash fiction, screenplays, poetry, and articles on health currently lives in California where she works passionately as a patient safety activist. As founder of Epiphany Scripts, she was as a script doctor in Hollywood where she did page one rewrites for individuals and studios. Several of her stories written in her signature whimsical prose won contests, and poems, articles, and stories have been published. She looking for an agent for The Paris Predicament her first full-length literary fiction about Camille, a gamine twenty-seven year old American ex-pat who chalked portraitures on the sidewalk in front of the Louvre and led an enchanting life until she committed an unintentional crime and headed out for a life on the run.  She has three creative pages -- for poetry, flash fiction / short stories, and art. https://www.facebook.com/PoetryIsMyPrayer/ https://www.facebook.com/SashaLaurenFlashFiction/  https://www.instagram.com/sasha_lauren_artist/