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Tyler Schwanke is a writer and a filmmaker. He holds an MFA from Hamline University, and his short stories have been widely published. He is also a graduate of the New York Film Academy and Minnesota State University Moorhead, where he was awarded a Minnesota Film and TV Grant. Several of his award-winning short films have played at festivals across the country. Tyler lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife and their dog. Breaking In is his debut novel.

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Goosebumps books

Author John Grisham

Jurassic Park Michael Crichton

The Shining Stephen King

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson

The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins

Breaking In Tyler Schwanke

Working Girl (1988)

Author Diana Gabaldon, The Outlander Series

Author Julia Quinn, The Bridgerton Series

Me Too Movement The phrase originally used on social media starting in 2006

Midsommar (2019)

The Marvels (2023)

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

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Alpha Bette is Jennifer’s first novel. She put much of her personal and professional life experience into writing it, having been a family therapist, divorce mediator, Broadway and Off-Broadway producer, musical book writer, screenwriter & producer and screenwriting teacher. She co-wrote and produced the films Family Blues and Boundary Waters (in production) as well as wrote the book of two musicals that are streaming online: Marry Harry, a full-length musical, and Cockroaches & Cologne, a short musical. She is a proud board member of New York Stage and Film, The Peace Studio, and 18by Vote. She is married with five children and many grandchildren—great source material!

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Alpha Bette Jennifer Manocherian

Suffs, Broadway Musical book, music and lyrics by Shaina Taub. Still running

Don’t Call Me Pig: A Javelina Story, Conrad J Storad, Illustrated by Beth Neely

The Peace Studio

18by Vote

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Karen Moran is an artist and healer who uses art for healing. 

Born into a family of artists, she became a painter and poet and also developed a career as a psychologist. For 30 years, Karen helped people find images and words to express unconscious feelings and memories, and then work with these images to heal their wounds and build their lives. 

Since retiring, Karen has published Forever Tourmaline and completed a decades-long project of archiving the artwork of her family.

A mother and grandmother, she lives with her husband and their dogs and cats in the mountains where she grew up.

Karen L Moran’s Website, Forever Tourmaline website

Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California

Archetypal Psychology

Writing for Your Life: Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds, Deena Metzger

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I’m so passionate about stories that I created the Story-Power podcast, Patreon Community, and Apple subscription so I’d have an excuse to talk story with other story lovers. Patreon is $5 a month for content not found on the Story-Power podcast, or on my Sage Woman Blog. They have recently instituted a free tier so you can try it out before you buy. Apple subscription is $3 a month, again with content not found on the Story-Power podcast. If you’re passionate about stories, and want to talk about what you’ve learned from your favorites, come join me at patreon.com/StoryPower. Or, you can add the subscription on Apple podcast where Story-Power is published. Let’s share what we’ve learned from the stories we love.

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Jay Watson and Kyle Wiltshire met in college and soon watched every single Highlander movie together on VHS. They have been the closest of friends for over twenty-five years and still talk nearly every day. They have committed their adult lives to cultivating stories and caring for people.

Jay Watson bio

Jay is passionate about speaking and writing. He has built a disc golf course, saw Garth Brooks in 1993, and takes pictures with fish. His hair started going gray at twenty, and he still loves Will Smith.

Kyle Wiltshire

Kyle has seen U2 in concert eleven times. He tries to paint like Bob Ross and enjoys talking about Star Wars. He loves pop culture and prides himself on being able to name the year any movie from the 1980s or ’90s was released.

Book Overview

What if famous rock stars from the past, those who died young, in sudden and tragic ways, actually faked their deaths to become secret agents? Welcome to the world of The Dead Rock Stars, the heroes we never knew we had. The Dead Rock Stars is a tale about Cole Denton, a young tech genius who discovers the secret world of rock star secret agents. He is tasked with saving the world from an unknown threat—one that’s closer to home than either Elvis Presley or the team can imagine. But can they beat the clock before it strikes midnight on December 31, 1999? In a twisting and nostalgic story, The Dead Rock Stars is an alternate history, placed squarely in the realm of real-world events, that happened without anyone knowing. Brimming with pop culture references for music lovers of every generation, the novel’s fast and hilarious plot will keep readers guessing at every turn.

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The National Enquirer

Morgan James Publishing

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Freeman Linde Story-Power episode 103, 6/19/24, “Working for the Customer”

Will Smith, actor, producer, movie, Bright

Back to the Future

Short Circuit

The Last Star Fighter

Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi

Forest Gump

Highlander

Borat

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Lincoln

Star Wars prequels

The Clone Wars

Bad Batch

If We Were Villains, M.L. Rio

Game of Thrones

Dune

Harry Potter

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I entered the Army in 1994 and spent 20 years in the military.  During the 20 years I spent 68 months in deployment/combat tours. 9 months was in Bosnia and the rest was in Iraq and Afghanistan.  After the Military I opened up my own company in the trucking industry.  I closed it shortly after covid. Since than I have started a podcast called Spirits and Stories with Donald Dunn to highlight the struggles and the success of our veteran community and I am building a nonprofit called Heroes Voices Media Foundation to help Veterans reach their dreams while getting therapy doing it. 

I have just released my first book called Echoes of War.

My podcast:  http://www.spiritsandstoriespodcast.com

My nonprofit: http://www.heroesvoicemediafoundation.org

Podcast program for veterans: http://www.militaryunitedpodcaststreams.org

Radio Station Program for Veterans http://www.gunroomradio.com

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Hello, I’m Karen. When I was old enough to climb the stairs into the attic of the colonial house I grew up in, I’d sit in front of the fanlight window and compose poems about the mysteries of the night—the moon, stars, and unseen planets. I still love all things mystical, magical, and provocative. My most inspired moments are still those spent in pondering and sharing ways to help individuals embrace and live their authentic selves regardless of their age or past history.

My love of language, coupled with my identity as an androgenous gay woman manifested an aspiration to delve into academic studies that married my innate passions. I’m a published author and hold a Ph.D. in comparative literature, within the context of women’s meditations regarding gender identity, sexuality, and the gendered body. (I also write queer erotica under Author Annie Moon and I have 800+ followers.)

When I’m not gazing at the night sky, writing or reading, I can be found meditating, cooking Italian specialties, or walking Rachel and Jasper, my two lab-mixed breed companions.

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Karen’s Books

  Paradise

  The Yellow Braid

Books under Karen’s pen name Annie Moon

  Late in Love

  Daddy in Love

  Saving Luca

  Healing Luca

  Touch

  Halloween Matchmaking for Daddy

  The Proposal coming out, September 20, 2024

  Christmas Wedding, coming out, December 20, 2024

Poet Alex Murdock on Story-Power, Episode 96 aired on 3/13/24

Little Women Louisa May Alcott 

The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

Author, Anais Nin

Lilith Nikki Marmery

Hoopla and Libby library e-book apps

Damsel (2024) available on Netflix

Poet Elizabeth Bishop, The Complete Poems 1927 – 1979

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Morgan McCarver was born and raised in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Her work is inspired by her female mentors of past and present, as well as her connection to Victorian corsetry through her scoliosis journey. She received an art degree with a ceramics concentration and a double minor in art history and business in 2019 from Anderson University in Anderson, SC. McCarver had the honor of receiving the 2019 Outstanding Art Major Ceramics Award her senior year. As a 2020 701 Center for Contemporary Art prize finalist, she had the honor of being the youngest artist to ever make it that far. She is a multi-award-winning artist who recently received an Artist Support Grant to attend a national ceramics conference. She has had the honor of displaying her work in 2 solo exhibitions, “FemininiTEA” 2020 and “The Strength of a Wildflower” 2022. She recently completed a residency at Edgewood Cottage in Blowing Rock Summer 2023 and participated 2022 as well. McCarver has studios in Asheville, NC and Spartanburg, SC. Her art can be found in various galleries around the Carolinas and Tennessee. Her first book, “God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery,” was released with Morgan James Publishing January 9, 2024.

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Morgan’s Book: God the Artist: Revealing God’s Creative Side Through Pottery

Lilith, Nikki Marmery 

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“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories. ~ Roger C. Shank, Cognitive Scientist

Bio: Cheryl King is a dyslexia therapist and author of teen historical fiction Sitting on Top of the World, a 2022 Eric Hoffer YA winner, First Horizon winner, and Grand Prize finalist. The sequel is Under the Paw Paw Trees. She also is enjoying various flash fiction contests. Readers can learn more at https://CherylKingWritesThings.com. Be sure to sign up for Cheryl’s monthly newsletter.

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Cheryl’s books: Sitting on Top of the World, Under the Paw Paw Trees

October in the Earth, Olivia Hawker

Chasing Eleanor, Kerry Chaput

1000 Word Flash Fiction Contests

Bud Not Buddy, Christopher Paul Curtis

Authors in Grocery Stores

The Paris Library, Janet Skeslien Charles

The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides

The Project, Courtney Summers

Priestess of Ishana, Sorcery in Alpara, Of Kings and Griffins, Flights of Treason, Judith Starkston

The Lost Apothecary, Sarah Penner

The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams

Eric Hoffer Book Award, First Horizon Award

HFC (Historical Fiction Company) Book Awards

Reese’s Book Club

Cheryl’s TikTok campaign, Dear Reese

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Eve is a coach, catalyst & connector, she offers group support for anyone who believes it’s #Never2Late for a mid or late-life do-over! She facilitates her courses online from her home in Ireland, or the U.S. when she goes home for a visit. See the websites below. Or connect with her on one of her social media outlets.

Website (Mighty Network), Main Website, X, Facebook, LinkedIn

Amy Vasterling, Story-Power Ep. 31 9/15/21

The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron Also: It’s Never Too Late to Start Again, Walking in This World: The Practical Art of Creativity, The Prosperous Heart: Creating a Life of Enough, Write for Life

C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia

Flannery O’Connor quote: “I don’t know what I think until I write it.”

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Erma Bombeck, Humorist writer

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