Off The Chain

G. Wise has been a creative director in advertising most of his working life. In his youth he put forth effort as a bullrider, ironworker, laborer, welder, funeral home pickup person, bartender, truckdriver, postal worker, ice house worker, paving field engineer. A staid museum director called him raffish, which he enthusiastically embraced. Of course, he took up fiction and poetry. Novel, "Ruined Days," released Dec, 2015, and short story collection, "Resume Speed" released June, 2016, both with Black Opal Books. Winner, H. Palmer Hall Award for short story collection, "Night Train, Cold Beer," $1000 cash grant and publication of the book by Pecan Grove Press Poetry collection, "Scattered Cranes," publisher Pski's Porch, Feb. 2017, Finalist Book Excellence Awards, Finalist American Bookfest Awards

J. Traveler Pelton was born in West Virginia in the last century. She is the Nation’s Mother for her tribe, the Munsee Delaware: she is wife to Dan for 44 years, mother of six adults, a grandmother of 8, a Clinically Licensed Independent Social worker, an adjunct professor of social work at her local university and an incessant reader. She is a cancer survivor.  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…

S.P. Stevens          Born in London in 1972, Shaun spent his formative years in the shadows of the dreaming spires of Oxford, before moving to Nottingham where he graduated with a degree in English and Media. Preferring to follow a passion for music over writing, he worked as a dance music producer in the 1990s. In 2001 he founded an internet marketing company, finding a home for his writing in the form of technical SEO and copywriting services. Unable to resist more creative urges, in 2016 he finally decided to put fingers to keyboard, penning his debut Fantasy novel, Bindcrafter.  Shaun now lives in Brighton, on the south coast of England, where he splits his time between fiction, internet marketing, coaching kid’s soccer, and writing about himself in the third person.  Find out more at www.spstevens.com  Email: Email: Email: Email: [email protected] Facebook: Facebook: Facebook: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spstevenswriter/ Twitter: Twitter: Twitter: Twitter: https://twitter.com/spstevenswriter

Margaret Louis Ebey (born October 5, 1935), known professionally as Margie Singleton, is an American country music singer and songwriter. In the 1960s, she was a popular duet and solo recording artist, working with country stars George Jones and Faron Young. Singleton had her biggest hit with Young called "Keeping Up With The Joneses" in 1964. She managed a successful solo career in the 1960s, recording 9 Top 40 Billboard Country singles, including a Top 5 hit.   In addition to being a solo and duet star, she also sang as a back-up vocalist with The Jordanaires. Numerous performers recorded many of her songs, including Teresa Brewer, Tammy Wynette and Charley Pride. In 1964, Singleton teamed up with singer Faron Young. Together they recorded the song "Keeping Up With The Joneses". That year, the song reached the country top 5, and became Singleton's biggest hit.   Now, at the age of 82, Margie Singleton is back with a new single and video for her song, “Jesus Is My Pusher.”   https://www.facebook.com/margiesingleton35/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margie_Singleton

Matt Westin was born and raised in a blue collar family in a middle class suburb of Pittsburgh, PA. From a young age, he pursued various passions, including academics, sports, acting, and music. After years of searching, Matt found true fulfillment in the creative outlets of acting and singing, dedicating himself to his artistic pursuits, and walking away from a promising career in engineering. With the influences of many legendary artists, ranging from Johnny Cash to Garth Brooks, “all the way” to Frank Sinatra, Matt found his voice. The thrill of live performance fed his desires, as he honed his vocal ability in bars and clubs around Pittsburgh for over a decade. His obvious drive and talent quickly won over his family's initial disapproval of his walking away from an engineering career, and they became his biggest supporters. Tragically, after a bravely fought battle with Leukemia, Matt's father succumbed to complications of chemotherapy, in April 2016. As a true family man, Matt was utterly devastated and struggled day to day with the reality of his father's death. After months of depression, instead of self-destructing, Matt decided to honor his father's memory, by finally pursuing his music career, as his father had encouraged.Deciding to make a country record in his father's honor, and being introduced by a mutual friend, to world-class musician/songwriter/producer Bryan Cole, the stage was set. http://www.mattwestin.com https://www.facebook.com/MattWestinMusic/

Madelyn Victoria’s debut single release, “He Only Loves Me on the Dance Floor” reached #1 on the national country AM/FM chart, New Music Weekly, making it one of the biggest debut singles of 2016. The self-penned song won an Akademia Award for Best Country Song in April 2016, earning her numerous other award nominations and a spot on the CMT.com Top 50 Most Popular Artists chart. The video for “He Only Loves Me” reached the Yallwire.com Top 5 Most Watched Videos chart, while her youtube cover of George Strait’s “Amarillo By Morning” received over 100,000 views in just 2 days, after being featured on Country Rebel’s website.  Her cover of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” matched that number, after being featured on the same site.  But, for the young Texas native, nothing can compare to walking in the footsteps of her legendary idols.  Her latest video release, the original “I Can Be Your Senorita” has already received over 10,000 views.  www.madelyn-victoria.com   www.facebook.com/madelynvictoria www.twitter.com/madelynvictoria

Award-winning Christian artist Rahn Anthoni took the international press and airwaves by storm with 2017’s most inspirational track, “I’ll Trust You.” The song earned him a Radio Music Award and an Indie Music Channel Award, and numerous other accolades, including the Man-Up Award, for his charity work.  Rahn’s history with inspirational music has helped him develop a positive relationship with God and the world of song. Despite the heartbreaking circumstances surrounding the death of his special needs son, Aaron Hatcher, Rahn has been able to turn tragedy to triumph, delivering a message of hope and love to the masses.Encouraged by the support the country music world showed his r&b-flavored music, Rahn has returned with an ambitious new “country soul” tune, that’s reminiscent of Darius Rucker, Charley Pride and other soulful country artists. “Highway” was written by Rahn, and it tells of his journey from tragedy to triumph, looking back on the story of his life. It will be released on MTS Records in January 2018.  Watch the video for “Highway” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlfkgjnU0ms.Rahn Anthoni hails from a small town in Florida, now living in Atlanta.. Growing up, he got his first break singing back-up for “The Song Bird Of The South” Dottie Peoples

Paul spent most of his childhood growing up on a dairy farm a few miles north of Cassville, MO. When the chores were done and playtime came, because his siblings were much older than himself, he found that his imagination was his greatest ally, allowing him to create cities and characters in his mind.  The first story he wrote was about one of the cats on the farm, making the cat into a human being, and when he got a typewriter for Christmas, more stories followed.  That was just beginning a lifelong career as a writer.   After he graduated from Cassville R-4 high school attended Crowder College and majored in business and automotive technology.  After leaving college he then went back to his first love writing, starting with several articles in various automotive magazines.   This lead to his first book Chevelle SS Restoration Guide that was published by Motorbooks International, nine other titles would follow with this publisher, before he would venture into the publishing field himself and start his own company- PAH Publishing.  With his own company he would author, under many different pen-names, more twenty other titles.    In 2015 that call back to creating stories would call him back and under the pen name Thomas S. Mulvaugh he would author and publish his first novel- Blood Necklace- a murder mystery set in his hometown of Cassville, MO.  That centers on former Kansas City Homicide Detective Rick Ryder whose high school sweetheart is murdered at Roaring River State Park, and he returns to Cassville to solve but what he finds is a twisting tale of lies that will change his life forever.

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.

Julia Press Simmons is the CEO of QMB Publishing and Amerime Media. She's the author of three novel series; Strawberry Mansion, Fornication, and Sassy. She's penned several nonfiction and children's books. She is an award winning Spoken Word Artist, and Playwright. Her play "Down There" was selected  by The Shades of Black Festival Emerging Playwright’s Series in Nashville, Tenn. “Down There” also received a staged reading by the African American Playwriting Exchange in New York City. She lives in Pennsylvania with her family. Julia is currently working on her next series, "The Coven" a dark fantasy written with her fiance and business partner Braheim Gibbs.