My journey as a writer began at the early age of eight. I began writing short horror stories, and while most of my classmates brought in toys and crafts for show and tell, I brought in my stories and read them aloud to the class. Some thought I was crazy, but I managed to generate a few fans – in retrospect I’m surprised my parents never received a concerned phone call from the school.

In 2004 I wrote a short story titled, Sarah, and it earned me a spot in a new writing competition held by New Camp Horror. The competition was called, Dark Idol. My stories propelled me through the competition, where I became one of the top four finalists. Throughout the competition I honed my writing skills; this lead to my first official publication in May of 2005. The publication source was an online zine called, The Harrow, and the story was titled, Preparation.

Since then, my work has been featured in such magazines as Astounding Tales, Dark of Night, Thirteen, Night to Dawn, Wild Child, and Alien Skin. I also won first place in Insidious Reflection’s Grossout Competition and published my debut novel in 2008.

I write because I love to. It’s not just a passion, it’s an obsession. It’s a thrill ride and I want you in the back seat with me. I want to take you into my world, introduce you to the characters I’ve created. I want you to be excited to descend into the darkness with me, because to me it feels like home. Maybe that’s because it is.

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‘In my writing life, I’ve focused on sports-theme thrillers and sci-fi war stories, with a dash of humor and not-so-humorous relationship tales thrown in. I’ve been writing seriously for 25 years, but my education is far from complete. My top interest is always to put the reader RIGHT IN the story, to have them see those things and walk those shoes for a while. Up next are Destruction (Woman at War book 2) and The Darkened Divide.’

Home is Seattle with my wife, son and daughter, and a vocal cat. Outside of writing, I parent, I cook, I coach soccer, I design and enhance websites, I volunteer, I come to the rescue when I can…all that jazz.

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I am a full-time working mom of two teenage boys, one grown daughter, and wife of one seriously amazing husband. We live in a suburb about 25 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts with our two dogs, two cats and two birds. I often joke that all I need now is an Ark….

I have loved reading since I was a little girl, and fell in love with writing as a teenager. Hoping to share some of my wicked imagination with you, I decided to throw my hat in the ring and self-publish. It’s a scary thing and I truly hope you are able to escape reality for just a little bit with my stories.

 

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Writing is the perfect outlet for me. I am an introverted extrovert – loving my space and quiet time but also loving to connect and engage with people. I am interested in people from all walks of life – and I believe that everyone has a story to tell. My own story has many chapters so far and I’m hoping there are many more to come. I write about life through the eyes of a follower of Jesus. My first book “Hearing His Voice: Meeting Jesus in the Garden of Promise – a Devotional Journey of Encouragement” grew out of a season of massive challenge. My main way of dealing with this was to lean in close to Jesus and write the words of comfort and encouragement that He spoke to me. These words quite literally poured out onto the page. Every part of this book was given to me by Him – the words, the format, the cover – everything. Having accepted Jesus into my heart in 2010, I find the journey I am on with Him to be the most important and profound journey of my life. I love Him more and more each and every day and cannot begin to express the depth of gratitude I have that He saved someone like me. Before I accepted Him into my heart I lived a life that had a lot of pain and sadness in it, including an abusive marriage. Today my life is completely transformed from those dark days and I am so grateful for every moment that I am given. I owe this all to Jesus.

Besides my love for Jesus and my family (I have two beautiful daughters) and friends, I also love to cook! I am a “thrower” as in I love to take ingredients and throw them together, creating a taste sensation that is nourishing and comforting. I am aiming to get healthier as I get older and my favourite exercise is walking in nature. Reading is a big passion of mine and I read every day. Each month, I feature books on my Blog that I have read and found to be inspiring and encouraging. If you have a book that you think I might like to read, please reach out to me!

I am so excited at the prospect of journeying with you and getting to know you better. I love to receive your feedback and emails and will reply to you as quickly as possible. No question or concern is too big or small.

Live life with gratitude and with full awareness that each moment is precious and unique. You are precious and unique!

God bless you!

Love, Meredith

 

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21 Things You Should Know About This Author

 

What book have you gifted the most? Why?

I have gifted my book “Hearing His Voice – Meeting Jesus in the Garden of Promise” the most because I believe so strongly in its message of encouragement, hope and love.

What is the one productivity tool you use every day? Why?

Meditation on Jesus – because it clears my mind, helps me relax and I can focus on getting what is most important done.

What word do you misspell most often?

I am very particular when it comes to spelling so I don’t usually misspell words.

What three things do you do to be a successful writer?

Writing puts me in my happy place! Firstly – I write about what God puts on my heart; Secondly – I set a deadline to finish my book within and then I aim to write something every day; Thirdly – I have built a great support network of other writers so that we can encourage and help each other in our writing.

What are the titles of the last two books you have read?

“Memoirs of an Invisible Child” by Kelly Walk and “Winter Feelings and Flurries” by Yeve Kangara.

What is your favorite word?

Jesus!

What do you use more often – a dictionary or a thesaurus?

A dictionary.

What would you name the autobiography of your life?

A Work in Progress.

From his home outside Atlanta, Georgia, Doug finished his ninth novel, “The Traveler,” a return to the characters of the six book series,The Son. Born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, but raised a true southerner, Doug spent most of his high school years in South Georgia. Moving with family to the Atlanta area in 1964, he has spent his adult life there. Three years in the military the only interruption. Married to his wife for over 50 years, they live in a modest home where they raised their three children. They now enjoy watching two granddaughters grow and express themselves through their own individual talents.

Doug began writing after retiring from two simultaneously held careers, one as a regional representative for a major retailing firm, the other as a private contractor operating his own business. The first spanned over thirty-two years and his private business operated successfully for just over twenty-eight years.

His first book, “It Was Thursday,” is short by novel standards. Doug calls it “the unnerving tale of an event that should never happen.” But this story shows us how it could, if it ever did. A quick, page turning, thrill ride, as described by his readers. Buoyed by the reaction to his work, Doug began to unwind the tale of a new hero, The SON.

A loner who sought to right impossible wrongs. Acts perpetrated by a level of people protected from society through their positions and power. Cloaked in secrecy, the character seeks to remove these villains from our government. His strict rules, which protect that secrecy, work well but are hard to maintain. The works are fiction, but as the writer calls them, Plausible Fiction. Stories that the reader can believe “could happen” with gadgets you have to “look up” to prove they were “made up.”

Join the growing ranks of Silas fans. The first of the series is “The SON Silas Rising.”

The six book series The SON, from “Silas Rising” to “The Daedalus Directive,” is available in Kindle and paperback. If you enjoy exciting action and a character you can follow through continuous stories, Silas is your man. And now, The Traveler brings more action on every page as the team is reunited to solve a mysterious case, fast.

Also : Listen to Doug’s internet radio program, The Doug Dahlgren Show, on ArtistFirst Radio, Fridays at 11am Eastern time

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Patty Perrin

Our planet is full of mysteries that can’t yet be explained either by science or nature. How did these things, these creatures get here? Who made them, or how did they evolve? Are we the only inhabited planet in the vast universe? What if the Creator I believe in cannot be explained, and can’t be put into a box of limited reason? What if he’s populated other worlds? What if our own world contains populations we don’t acknowledge and try to discredit with our modern blinders?

Questions like these have plagued me since childhood, and it’s only recently that I’ve felt the nod from our Creator to explore them in writing.

I grew up as a military Brat, mostly in Europe, with no television and a huge imagination. Books were my entertainment and augmented my very good education in German, Italian and American schools. Books were my lifeline, my ties to worlds I’d never see and to people and characters who enriched my life through their stories.

My first book, Reflections of a Misfit, is just that: snippets of my own life in light of some of the scriptures I read daily. Our family is a rich resource for entertainment and bits of wisdom. If you’re as much a misfit as I am, you might enjoy it and possibly see a little of yourself there.

I wrote the TetraSphere series as pure entertainment, and as a way to answer some of the unanswerable questions about our amazing universe. What if there are inhabited planets interacting with Earth? What happened to Atlantis? What do the giant etchings of Nazca mean, and why can they only be seen from the sky? Do dragons exist? What if the fate of our planet were in the hands of four young people, each with special abilities, and each with his or her own struggles?

I’m Patty Perrin, writing as P.T.L. Perrin, and I’m writing books that I would have loved reading back when we didn’t have television. Pick up Terra’s Call and let me know if you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.

 

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21 Things You Should Know About This Author

What book have you gifted the most? Why?

I’ve gifted many copies of REFLECTIONS OF A MISFIT because we’re all misfits at some level, and I felt it might be helpful. Some people have told me they use it as a devotional. Others read it in one sitting. People are relating to it on a personal level.

What is the one productivity tool you use every day? Why?

I read Scriptures and portions of devotionals every day. It seems when I do that, I get a lot more done during the day than those times I skip.

What word do you misspell most often?

Foreword. I misspelled it twice in my first book and published it that way.

What three things do you do to be a successful writer?

I read a lot. I’m open to instruction, especially when it comes to marketing. I won’t publish until after my Beta readers and editors have gone through the books.

What are the titles of the last two books you have read?

Royalty by Laura Ranger and The Battle Is O’er: The Blue Bells Chronicles by Laura Vosika.

What is your favorite word?

Love

What do you use more often – a dictionary or a thesaurus?

Thesaurus

What would you name the autobiography of your life?

A Misfit’s Tale

What is your ‘go to’ munchie or drink while writing?

Anything salty and water.

Is a picture worth a thousand words? Elaborate.

When I speak about my books, I tend to show pictures of some of the stranges...

DR AUDREY TANG – Since taking the stage to play a chicken at the age of 3, Audrey knew that drama gave her something special. Working at it meant she could develop the emotional agility to get everything she wanted. Combining her Equity membership with degrees in Psychology, Law, and Teaching followed by her PhD...

DR AUDREY TANG – Since taking the stage to play a chicken at the age of 3, Audrey knew that drama gave her something special. Working at it meant she could develop the emotional agility to get everything she wanted. Combining her Equity membership with degrees in Psychology, Law, and Teaching followed by her PhD focused on training customer-facing professionals, and number of management positions – she knows how important soft skills are. Plus, she can tell you how exactly to refine them.

She published some of that knowledge in her book BE A GREAT MANAGER NOW grabbing the top spot of “Business Book of the Month” in WH Smith Travel – now translated into Russian and Chinese. The rest she keeps for the talks and workshops…let’s not spoil the surprises! Audrey is a FIRO-B and NLP Practitioner, and has Chartership with the British Psychological Society. She is the resident psychologist on The Chrissy B Show (My Channel, Sky203)….and you might catch her and the CLICK Arts team occasionally revisiting their theatrical roots. [email protected]

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What book have you gifted the most? Why?

Mine! Actually, there is a bit of truth to this as there was a real novelty value…but now most of my friends and family have bought a copy. At one point I wanted to gift the book to a presenter interviewing me, but I’d run out of my own copies – I managed to buy one last minute from a friend (at slightly more than RRP – I insisted – as neither of us had change!)

Otherwise – I always recommend Oliver James’ “They f*** you up, your mum and dad” as it’s a wonderful read about parental scripts and how we can still choose our own path, even if there are obstacles to overcome first.

What is the one productivity tool you use every day? Why?

I’m quite “old school” – so it’s the “To Do” list. I like crossing things out. I also sometimes write them on post-it notes so that I don’t have to re-write when I turn a page in my diary. I also tend to keep post-its by my bed so that I can write thoughts down at night if I need to – just so I don’t have to keep focusing on them to remember them.

What word do you misspell most often?

If using spell-check – then “form” instead of “from”…but otherwise it’s “focused” – for some reason I keep wanting to add an extra “s”.

 What three things do you do to be a successful writer?

* WRITE!! It’s not about getting it spot on right away – but about getting it “on”. It’s much easier to edit or make changes later, or even look at it and try something completely different…but at least you know the first choice didn’t work. Also, I never delete old writing – I save it as I can often find a place to use it later on.

* READ – I read a lot. It’s great to see how others explain things, or to grasp their take on concepts. There’s so much information accessible to us now (although you have to be a little discerning!)

* TEACH – as a non-fiction writer with a huge focus on the practical, I will often have taught the sessions which form the basis of my chapters. That way I can tell if the theory makes sense and if the exercises are going to work.

 

What are the titles of the last two books you have read?

“Gateway to Perakanan Culture” by Catherine GS Lim – my grandparents were Baba-Nyonya (or “Perakanan”) and I never really spent the time learning about their history; and “Skin in the Game” by Taleb – I loved “Black Swan”.

What is your favorite word?

YES!

What do you use more often – a dictionary or a thesaurus?

I use a thesaurus. I’m generally good with meanings, but I like nuance in expression…plus I don’t like using the same keyword twice in a sentenc...

Nikki Broadwell Author Writing has become my life, and when I am not at my computer I feel like something is amiss! I’ve always been a writer, but only began seriously in 2002, when I decided to write about my parents’ life and my father’s time in POW camps during WW2. In between this very...

Nikki Broadwell Author

Writing has become my life, and when I am not at my computer I feel like something is amiss! I’ve always been a writer, but only began seriously in 2002, when I decided to write about my parents’ life and my father’s time in POW camps during WW2. In between this very emotional undertaking I began a fantasy–my ‘fun’ escape writing. Three books later put me on the fantasy train, lusting after all things magic and mystical! I am now up to seventeen novels and counting. And the one featuring my father’s diaries has finally been released, the story revolving around two made-up characters who bear no resemblance to my parents. Funny how that happens. You can find it on the ‘In the press’ page!

I write what the goddess (muse) tells me to write, my characters taking hold of the plot and running with it. At times I feel I am only here to tap the keys. If the story does not move forward freely I figure something is not quite right and have to either put it away for a bit or go back to the place where ‘I” took over. 

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When I’m not at my computer you can find me somewhere over the rainbow…or on a trail in the woods or desert, hiking with my dog and my husband of over thirty years. 

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