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Since childhood, Denise Beck-Clark has had the parallel interests of psychology and writing/literature. After spending her twenties writing and earning a living with menial jobs, she spent the next 30-some years as a psychotherapist and social worker, finding time to write whenever possible. Now retired and devoted to writing full-time, Ms. Beck-Clark hopes her writing will have the same positive impact on readers as her work did for patients as a clinician.

Her writing career began with the publication of several nonfiction articles. In 1999, her creative non-fiction book, Concurrent Sentences: A True Story of Murder, Love and Redemption, was published by New Horizon Press. A screenplay adaptation is in process.

She's recently published flash fiction and essays online, along with a paperback poetry collection, The Zen of Forgetting. She wrote a blog for several years until 2015 and currently writes essays for Medium. Thirty Years Hence is her first published novel.

Beck-Clark started her career in psychotherapy as a social worker at Manhattan Psychiatric Center outpatient clinic, and as a psychotherapist at Flatlands Guidance Center in Brooklyn, in 1986. She had a private psychotherapy practice in Manhattan for 13 years while acting as a psychiatric social worker at Bronx Psychiatric Center inpatient wards until 1999. She then moved to the center’s outpatient clinic, from 1999 – 2011.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A story of two women in NYC in 1973: Michelle Cooper, age 23, is despairing and without direction, having barely survived the turbulent household of her parents, and her own adolescent foray into sixties' hippiedom. Forty-something Ida Birnbaum, a Queens, NY wife and mother, and survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp, 30 years later battles her own malaise during a serious and potentially damaging midlife crisis.

Like many folks during the so-called "Me Decade", both Michelle and Ida indulge in hedonistic and self-destructive activities and then must deal with the consequences. They each turn for support to their evolving friendship and to characters such as Theo, an idealistic young immigrant who lives in an Upper West Side SRO hotel and works for a telephone prayer service run by Charles, another Holocaust survivor, and self-fashioned spiritual guru.

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Elisa Di Napoli is the best-selling author of the book, online course, and podcast Dare to Be Seen which helps artists command the stage, magnify their presence, and defeat stage nerves so they can share their gifts with their audience and shine their light on the world.
She is an artist coach, hypnotherapist, and multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter. She also helps artists who need to find a way forward, get their project going, or figure out how to turn their creative, artistic, or performance skills into a new venture.

Under the moniker is Elyssa Vulpes she has produced 12 albums, with a focus on inner transformation through sometimes dark and atmospheric sometimes comedic storytelling.
She has been featured on radio, podcasts, blogs, and online magazines.

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Born an illegitimate child in the wake of WWII in Berlin, Nazi Germany to a single mother, Vivianne Knebel’s options were limited and her future looked bleak. She experienced poverty, cold, and hunger, and was even driven to the point of commiting suicide. To seek out a better life, Vivianne immigrated to Canada as a teenager, but her misfortunes did not end there. However, in response to a miraculous intervention, she decided to preserve her life and keep moving forward.

After this incident, Vivianne met a fellow German immigrant, Wiland, who eventually became her husband. But even more than that, he became a catalyst for change in her life. His belief in her is what helped her see the true, immeasurable value of her life. She went on to play a key role in Wiland’s business venture and together they built a better future for each other.
Since then, Vivianne has run a marathon, learned to pilot a plane, and even beat cancer. She’s found a greater sense of spirituality and wants to share her story with the world, to remind people that there is always a reason to keep moving forward.

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Paulino Mamiir Chol 
 
He was kidnapped as a child: separated from his family and taken to Northern Sudan by gunpoint.  He marched barefoot across three African countries on a quest for freedom.  He rose up and became a leader to the frightened and hungry band of boys who the world would come to know as The Sudanese Lost Boys. 
 
Paulino Chol tells the true story of his journey in his book, Leading The Lost Boys: The Untold Journey. He retells how, at the age of seven, he was kidnapped by the Sudanese militias called Murahalin and separated from his family. He tells of his escape from the militia with the help of a fellow captive and return to his mother and sisters. The homecoming was short-lived, as his village was invaded again, and he barely escaped as he fled with his uncle, barefoot into the desert and running for his life. 
 
Paulino was forced, along with 30,000 other Lost Boys, to survive in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. There, he refused to remain a victim and instead became a leader. Chol fights to this day for the people in Southern Sudan. 
 
Discover this true story of fortitude and survival: of strength in the face of unimaginable human rights abuses and a new mission in life in the United States.  

Paulino Chol is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in management and homeland security at Colorado Technical University. Mr. Chol has a master’s degree in law and policy from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Mr. Chol has a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice from the University of Colorado. Lastly, Mr. Chol has an associate of applied science degree in homeland security and emergency management. 

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Lynne currently resides in Camrose, Alberta. Her life work, spanning 40 years as a Social Worker and as a Transformational Life Coach, has been to empower individuals to believe in themselves and to give credence to the still, small voice of truth that is within all of us. Her children’s story “What If You Could?” was inspired by the work she does and shares a universal message.

One that she visions will be embraced by readers of all ages. Everyone, from children to teens to graduates to seniors, must navigate change. This book speaks to the power of listening deeply to our inner voice. The voice that is kind, loving and encourages us to believe in the best of who we are and our potential.

Lynne is the proud mother of three adult sons, and three grandchildren. She loves to travel and has enjoyed may adventures learning about other cultures and volunteering abroad. As a cancer survivor, Lynne is deeply grateful for her physical health and well-being and enjoys an active lifestyle in nature hiking, kayaking, cycling, skiing and snowshoeing.

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Nathan Ingram
Growing up on a small, Tennessee hillside farm was all the inspiration author, Nathan Ingram, needed to write this nostalgic collection of short stories demonstrating how anyone can find God in common places.
"Christ at the Coffee shop" available on Amazon.

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Brian James Gage is a multi-award-winning horror author of historical fantasy based in Los Angeles and Miami. He is also an entrepreneur and aspiring classical pianist, studying with the French Conservatory of Music.

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Asian-American Eyz’d: An Immigrant Comedy Special– an  illuminating, heartfelt, and edgy show by a trio of stand-up comics – will  join the lineup on the Reel Women’s Network on April 12, 2022.

Directed by Felipe Figueroa (Medium), the special brings three Asian American immigrant comics together for a revealing one-night performance, each sharing their personal journey to America as immigrants. Ana Tuazon Parsons (Filipino) was smuggled from the Philippines by her biological Mom, becoming her hope for The American Dream. Nicky Endres (Korean, Trans) was adopted by a white family and sent here with a Korean cookbook; Aidan Park (Korean, Queer) learned English by watching the movie Sister Act.  He was diagnosed with HIV as a homeless teenager and fought his way to success.

 Ana Tuazon Parsons is an actress, comedian and writer/producer known for appearances in Adam Ruins Everything (TruTV) The Affair and Dexter (Showtime).  She’s worked with Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Labyrinth Theatre Company at New York’s Public Theatre and appeared at numerous theaters around the country performing both contemporary and classical works. Previously seen in Broadway houses on the international tour of Sherlock Holmes with David Arquette.  As a stand-up comic, writer and multi - hyphenate Ana has been a Main Stage regular and performer; stages include the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, Ice House Pasadena, and Gotham Comedy in New York. Her semi–autobiographical pilot, The Asian That Didn’t, a finalist for Sundance Episodic Lab, Showtime’s Tony Cox Award, and The Orchard Project.

Bringing a fresh perspective to the world of streaming, the Reel Women’s Network advances the unique voice of Women Filmmakers and Creators to Viewers Worldwide. Its team brings together years of production and content management experience, as well as thousands of viewers and subscribers.
 “Asian American Eyz’d: An Immigrant Comedy Special” will be available for rental and/or purchase.

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Helen Caldicott, a graduate of the University of Adelaide School of Medicine, was a faculty member of Harvard Medical School and in 1974 founded the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at Adelaide Children’s hospital. In 1971 she played a major role in Australia’s opposition to French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific.
While at Harvard in the early 1980s, she helped to reinvigorate, as its president, Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war. On trips abroad she helped start similar medical organizations in many other countries; their umbrella group, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She also founded the Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament (WAND) in the US in 1980.

The author or editor of eight books including Nuclear Madness, Missile Envy, and, most recently, Sleepwalking to Armageddon, she has been the recipient of many awards and honorary degrees, the subject of three award-winning documentary films, and was named one of the 20th Century’s most influential women by the Smithsonian Institution.

She makes her home nowadays in her native Australia.

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Richard began his writing journey as a freelance writer in 1984 and gained his first fiction credit serving as the lead writer for the first two issues of the Elite Comics sci-fi/fantasy series, Seadragon. In 2010, Richard retired as a sportswriter and returned to his fiction writing roots. Since then he has written several award-winning novels, two non-fiction sports books, and has appeared in several anthologies including eight of the 11-book Tuscany Bay Books’ Planetary Anthology Series and five Sherlock Holmes collections. He also writes a weekly Star Trek fan fiction series.

He has multiple novels planned for release this year including the upcoming novel, Galen’s Way, a space opera set in award-winning author John C. Wright’s Starquest Universe and it is due out in just a few weeks. Galen’s Way is the first of six planned novels connected to Starquest that Richard will be writing and releasing over the next two years. He also has three other standalone novels planned for release over the next year. He also occasionally fills in as a guest co-host here on The Writer’s Block whenever Jim Christina’s horse runs off and leaves him stranded in the middle of the desert.

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Stu's career in television and broadcasting dates back to the early 1970s when he began as an audience coordinator for game shows and sitcoms. In 1982, he received his performing break when he was given an opportunity to do the audience warm-up at the popular situation comedy, "Diff'rent Strokes". He did so well that he was assigned regular warm-up duties the following season on the Ricky Schroder sitcom, "Silver Spoons", a position he held for two years.

Stu has also done warm-ups for "The Jeffersons", "Mama's Family",
"Amen", and many others. Behind the scenes, he's been the owner/operator of Shokus Video, a company dedicated to the preservation of 1950s TV shows on DVD and video tape, since 1979. He was also the producer and director of "The Jack La Lanne Show Commemorative Special" home video, as well as Lucille Ball's personal film archivist for the last ten years of her life.

He produced, wrote, and directed a bonus featurette for Shout! Factory's "Leave it to Beaver - The Complete Series" DVD box set that starred the series' Ken Osmond and Frank Bank (Eddie and Lumpy), along with supplying a generous amount of vintage archival footage and several "Stu's Show" interviews for the release. He most recently hosted an on-camera bonus video and co-produced Shout! Factory's "Dennis the Menace Season One" DVD set. He also worked as a consultant on all three subsequent seasons of the series.
"Stu's Show" continues to attract new audiences each week with its impressive lineup of celebrities in the entertainment industry, both in front of and behind the cameras.

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