Off The Chain

Dan Hollifield was born in November of 1957 at almost the same moment that Sputnik II was launched. However, the two events are not, in fact, related. His father was a machinist, graduating from the General Motors Institute in the mid 1950s. After fleeing the harsh Michigan winters for a return to the families ancestral home, Dan's father began working in Oak Ridge, TN making toys for the physicists to play with. Dan's mother is an artist specializing in oils, china painting, glass painting, and multimedia home-crafts. David Ulnar Slew Author and Editor Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Cheapjack Pulp Magazine Plank owner in the Illiterati Writer's Collective Flash Fiction Editor Emeritus of Aphelion-The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy Editor at Large of Aphelion-The Webzine of Science Fiction and Fantasy

Open Mic Night. Tonoght we were joined by Phyllis Cook who talked about the injustice her brother and father received at the hands of Harrison County Mississippi

Ann B. Keller has been writing novels and screenplays for over forty years.  In addition, Ms. Keller is a veteran of the stage, singing and starring in the lead role as the tomboyish Princess Winifred in Once Upon a Mattress, which gained her an invitation to audition for the Metropolitan Opera in New York.  She has received the National Thespian Award and has appeared in numerous additional theater productions in New York, Michigan and Maryland, including The Admirable Crichton, The Crucible and The Pajama Game. When she is not writing novels, Ms. Keller enjoys bringing the gift of music to all within the sound of her clear, bell-like soprano.  She lives in the western suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio with her three active sons.

Wanda published her first children's book, The Lilac Princess, in 2014. Next, came her wonderful tale of Tad, in A Turtles Magical Adventure published, March 2016. In August 2016, she debuted Little Birdie Grows Up which is her first picture book. Wanda Luthman has her Masters of Arts in both Mental Health Counseling and Guidance Counseling from Rollins College located in beautiful Winter Park, Florida. She worked at a local Community Mental Health Center for 10 years before transferring to the Public School System as a Guidance Counselor. She’s worked at a High School for the past 18 years. She has also been an Adjunct Professor at the local Community College and worked with teens who had lost a loved one through Hospice. She has always loved reading and writing and wrote many books and poems as a child growing up in Missouri. She presently resides in Brevard County Florida with her husband of 21 years and 2 dogs. Her daughter is away at college, like Little Birdie, she has left the nest. From the Author “I want to inspire young children to be the best people they can be. If I can capture children's imaginations and entertain them, then they the underlying positive character message will come through in each of my books.”   Website/blog   https://wandaluthman.wordpress.com Facebook fan page  https://www.facebook.com/wluthman/ Twitter  https://twitter.com/wandalu64

Since we have an off night- I decided to have some fun and play some music from som of my favorite  musial artists. SO join us learn things and have fun.

"She's your typical homeschooling mother of 6 who enjoys theology, politics, self-sufficiency, and other rabble-rousing merrymaking. She’s always up for a new adventure, whether it’s having another baby, learning how to make something that could easily be bought in the store just because she can, building a bookshelf…or a patio, or commenting on a controversial post. Life is her oyster and it’s teeming with pearls."

Haji is a writer/comedian out of the city of Chicago who currently resides in the city of angels. He has written on the small screen for Adult Swim, Comedy Central, CBS and NBC. He has also self-published a total of six books, all of which are available on amazon. Four of the books are non-fiction comedy memoirs under his pen name, John P. Kildemm. The other two books are dark comedy works of fiction. Haji has also been a working standup comedian, having been seen on Comedy Central and NBC.

If you are looking for a fun, high energy band that delivers every time, look no more! Brandi Reloaded is a five piece cover band with female and male vocals.  They bring you hits from the 70's to present that cover a broad range of music spanning from Rock, Classic Rock, Pop, and Country. Because we all know it’s about the journey, Brandi Reloaded invites you to experience a part of theirs every chance you get!

Roh Morgon discovered the magic in stories at an early age, both in books and the ones she made up in her head. As a child growing up in a remote Southern California canyon, she explored the wild hills barefoot with her brothers and rode her horse bareback at top speed. A wicked youth spent hitchhiking across the West and perched on Harleys eventually gave way to soccer mom duties and full-time college studies—at the same time.  In her spare moments, she learned how to herd cattle, swordfight, and plant an arrow or a knife in a target—not necessarily at the same time.Her renaissance faire and costuming experience help Roh clothe her characters, and a martial arts background breathes life into her action scenes. A fascination with moving machines shows up in her stories in the form of exotic cars and rumbling motorcycles.

Making my home in Ridgeland, Mississippi, since 1999, I'm, a native of Laurel, a graduate of University of Southern Mississippi with a BS in psychology, Belhaven University with a Master of Arts in Teaching, and gifted certification from Mississippi College. I'm an author, editor, and educator. My short pieces have appeared in Letters from the Soul, Brick Streets Press: 2010 Winners' Circle, Mississippi Profiles, The Magnolia Quarterly, and I've placed as a semifinalist or higher at the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Wisdom Competition, 2012-2016, with Broken finishing in the top twenty novels.   I am a member of   ♣Kappa Delta Epsilon ♣Red Dog Writers♣Mississippi Writers Guild♣Gulf Coast Writers Association♣TheNextBigWriter.com   As an educator, I am actively involved in promoting literacy and have participated in The Magic of Books in both the Jackson Mississippi Metro area and on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Inspiration comes through life experiences. I'm the proud mother of five, an avid reader of multiple genres, and love anything historical from antique cars to old cemeteries. ?