The Story Blender

Raymond Khoury is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels have been translated into more than forty languages. His book The Last Templar was adapted into a comic book and an NBC television miniseries. An acclaimed screenwriter and producer for both television and film, he has also penned several scripts for BBC series such as Spooks (known in the US as MI:5) and Waking the Dead.

From the Story Vault: Tony Marr is an award-winning speaker and storyteller who has spent years captivating audiences with his larger-than-life tales. From unbelievable adventures that will leave you wondering how he’s still alive to the untold stories of American past and scripture, Tony immerses his audiences in an imaginative world you will never want to leave.

Adam Hamdy is a British author and screenwriter who works with studios and production companies on both sides of the Atlantic. Prior to beginning his writing career, he worked as a strategy consultant advising global businesses, and is now the author of the Pendulum Trilogy, an epic series of conspiracy thriller novels. Publishers Weekly calls the first book, Pendulum, a “fast-paced, cinematic thriller.” Adam holds degrees in law and philosophy from the University of Oxford and University of London, respectively.

Jeff Buick writes fast moving fiction across numerous genres, including mystery, suspense, thrillers and crime. Over the last twenty years, he’s written twenty-one books. For Jeff, it’s all about the story. A tight plot with well-crafted characters means a psychological thriller geared for readers who love an adventure, and creating the characters who populate his books is second only to the plot line. Jeff lives in Calgary, Canada, which he says is wonderful in the summer. Not so much in the winter.

From the Story Vault: Michelle Medlock Adams is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author who specializes in children’s books. Her latest book, I Love You the Mostest, recently won the prestigious Maxwell medal. When not working on her own assignments, she ghostwrites books for celebrities, politicians, and ministers, and teaches at writers’ conferences and universities across the nation.

Jamie Freveletti is an award-winning and internationally bestselling author of seven novels and four short stories. In addition to her own novels, she also wrote The Janus Reprisal and The Geneva Strategy for Robert Ludlum’s Covert One series. Her works have won an International Thriller Writers Best First Novel award and a Barry award and have been published into four languages. Apart from writing, Jamie has also practiced law in Chicago and is an avid distance runner and a black belt in aikido.

From the Story Vault: AJ Hartley is the New York Times and international bestselling author of young adult and adult fantasy, mystery/thriller, and historical fiction novels. He was born and raised in England, is a professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and has had a number of death-defying encounters with local wildlife while traveling around the globe. AJ is also a great practitioner of the arts including the performing arts, painting, and metalworking.

Francine Rivers graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Journalism from the University of Nevada, Reno. From 1976 to 1985, she had a successful writing career in the general market and her books were awarded or nominated for numerous awards and prizes. Shortly after becoming a Christian in 1986, Francine wrote Redeeming Love, which has held a spot on the Christian bestseller list for nearly a decade. Her novels appear in more than 30 languages.

From the Story Vault: Steve Laube is a literary agent with nearly 40 years of experience in a variety of fields. He has worked as a bookstore manger, an award-winning editor with Bethany House Publishers, and is the president and founder of The Steve Laube Agency, which has represented nearly 2,000 new books in genres ranging from romance to fantasy to theology. Steve is also the owner and President of Enclave Publishing, one of the premier publishers of Christian fantasy and science fiction.

Randy Ingermanson is a novelist and conference speaker who holds a PhD from UC Berkley in theoretical physics. He has written six novels and won three Christy Awards for Excellence in Christian Fiction. Library Journal calls him “one of the best authors of biblical fiction today.” Randy has developed an approach to writing novels called “The Snowflake Method,” making him “The Snowflake Guy,” otherwise known as “America’s Mad Professor of Fiction Writing.”