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Marc Acito has been called "the gay Dave Barry." Posted here every two weeks is the latest edition of his syndicated humor column, "The Gospel According to Marc." Marc's first book, HOW I PAID FOR COLLEGE: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater, is published in hardcover by Doubleday. Film rights have been optioned by Columbia Pictures. An excerpt can be found here.
The first book in Karen Azinger's new series,The Steel Queen, is available for viewing.
Jade Blackwater writes copy by day as the owner of the Brainripples creative consultancy. By night, Jade is a prolific poet and fiction writer who encourages others to pursue their own, unique voice. She can be found blogging at Arboreality, Brainripples, and AppleJade, where she writes about ecology and conservation, art and creativity, and sustainability and gardening, respectively. When Jade isn’t writing she can usually be found getting dirty in the garden or hiking the local forests.
Charles is a novelist, teacher, short story writer, and family historian. He's had several novels published, including KILLING CYNTHIA ANN, Texas Christian University Press, ISBN 0-87565-209-3, and Comeuppance at Kicking Horse Casino, and Other Stories. His stories and articles have appeared in numerous magazines.
Kevin James Breaux is a published artist and author. He is a member of the HWA and EAA. His first novel,Soul Born, will be released in the fall of 2010 by Dark Quest LLC. Check his web site for updates and links to published short stories.
The home page of writer Jo Brew and information about her novels, Preserving Cleo, Cleo's Slow Dance, and Finding Clarice.
Larry Brooks has launched a new website, which he calls a cross between a blog and an instructional resource. It's at www.storyfix.com, the URL for his old manuscript coaching service, which remains available through the revised site. Storyfix will deliver the same type of writing advice and coaching Brooks dispenses at his workshops, and the site will support the release of his new book, The Six Core Competencies of Successful Storytelling, which launches later this year. Subscription is free and ensures delivery of each new entry directly to your email or RRS feed.
Home page of Irene Bennett Brown, author of the Women of Paragon Springs series - historical fiction set in Oregon.
Home page of Bill Cameron, author of Lost Dog, his first mystery novel set in Portland, Oregon. It is available from Midnight Ink Books. He is currently at work on his second novel.
Robin is a playwright, short story writer, scriptwriter, poet, essayist, and author of many lists of things to do. She also designs websites, directs plays, teaches theater to children, brews beer, and has no desire to focus her talents any further.
T. L. Cooper's homepage includes books reviews, news and sample chapters from her novel, All She Ever Wanted, and work-in-progress, Red.
Gary's website features two of his main passions - creative writing and performing - as well as his assignment writing and consulting business. Writing samples include the first chapters of two novels, excerpts from several short stories, and links to published articles on beer - his third passion.
Kim Cook is an Army and Air Force veteran who coaches military personnel to write their stories. Kimberly is a writing educational consultant, trainer, and author. Her first book, Do Bar Fights Count? How to Write Your Military Stories, is available through www.booklocker.com.
Beren deMotier is a lipstick wearing Carol Brady in Levi's/Madonna in a mini van, tattooed lesbian mama obsessed with safety, doing the right thing, and the amount of dog hair on her wood floors. She's written for Green*light.com, Curve Magazine, And Baby Magazine, Proud Parenting Magazine, The Lesbian Review of Books and glbt newspapers across the country. Her screenplay, Chaos, won First Place in the Kay Snow Writing Contest in 2002.
Willamette Writers members who are working on historical novels may be interested in my Historical Novels website at www.HistoricalNovels.info. In addition to listing over 3000 historical novels organized by time and place, it also includes a page of tips and links for writers of historical novels.
Kate Dyer-Seeley is a freelance marketing specialist, having procured coverage for her varied clients in publications including: Vogue International, Entrepreneur, and Jane magazine. She is also a speaker and national advocate for Alzheimer's disease. She has just completed her first book and blogs regularly on her website http://www.katedyerseeley.com.
Michele is an attorney and the author of Salt in Our Blood, which recounts her life as the wife of a commercial fisherman. Set against the sudden loss at sea of Eder's oldest son, Ben, the book is a tale of indescribable sadness but also one of resilience and courage. Salt in Our Blood received the 2009 WILLA award for creative non-fiction.
Iranian-American writer Elizabeth Eslami has published numerous short stories and a debut novel, Bone Worship (Pegasus Books). This rich and poignant novel examines the experiences of Iranian immigrants and their children. A young Iranian-American woman, Jasmine Fahroodhi, struggles to understand her enigmatic Iranian father after he decides to arrange her marriage. Jasmine is confused, furious, yet intrigued, and realizes she can only understand who she is when she begins to explore her heritage. Ultimately this process opens her eyes to the mysteries of familial and romantic love, as well as her father's strange and exotic past. For more information about her work and links to other writing, check out: www.elizabetheslami.com
Nationally-published writer Kim Cooper Findling grew up on the Oregon Coast and has lived in Central Oregon for fifteen years. Her work has appeared in many publications including Travel Oregon, Horizon Air, Oregon Quarterly, Sky West, Runner's World, Central Oregon Magazine, Seattle, The Best Places to Kiss NW and High Desert Journal. Kim's first book, Chance of Sun: A Perfectly Imperfect Oregon Upbringing, will be released this year. See www.kimcooperfindling.com.
Linda has three published humor books described on her website. Each book is a collection of her published essays on teenagers and/or goats. She has been making people laugh through her writings for 20 years.
Information about Shari S. Forbes' World War 1 era novel The Bottom Five, co-authored with her British partner John Benson under the pen name Benson S. Forbes.
Pairs of Poems published by Uncial Press: By pairing poems about similar themes written at different points in time, Pairs of Poems provides a variety of perspectives on topics as diverse as nature, love, history, and politics. A collection of forty-four poems, some never before published, written over a period of four years, Pairs of Poems examines various facets of our relationships with the world, and the people, around us.
Carol Frischmann, a member of the National Association of Science Writers, has authored three books and more than 400 articles about pets, nature, and the environment. A candidate for the MFA in Creative Writing from the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, Carol also writes poetry and fiction which have appeared in "The Los Angeles Review," "Soundings," "Salt: A Collection of Poetry on the Oregon Coast," and "Isle: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment," and "Quartet."
R.S. Gompertz recently gave birth to No Roads Lead to Rome after a 7-year gestation. He's considering getting a tattoo to hide the stretch marks and invites your suggestions on the notion. Purchase his quixotic tome of ancient Rome at www.noroadsleadtorome.com and he'll donate 20% of his profits to non-profit organizations supporting arts and literacy.
Official website for The Denim Diet: Sixteen Simple Habits to Get into Your Dream Pair of Jeans by Kami Gray (New World Library). Kami Gray is a Portland native who works as a TV /Film wardrobe stylist. In The Denim Diet, Kami takes the best of all the diets you've tried and turns them into a simple, yes-or-no approach you can actually follow. With hilarious real life stories, gourmet recipes, and an infectious positive attitude, Kami will help you lose weight, get energized, and stay healthy without yo-yo dieting, gimmicks, or starving yourself while simultaneously minimizing the impact we make on the planet's resources. How awesome would it be to develop sixteen simple habits and lose the excess weight, have more energy, look and feel great, and get into those dream pair of jeans!
Musebooks.com contains information about Barbara's books, My Muse Has Many Moods (poetry) and Find Romance in Later Life (non-fiction) plus her poetry chapbooks and writing samples, and a short biography. Each time the home page is brought up, a different poem appears at the bottom of the page.
Melissa Hart is the author of Long Way Home (Windstorm Creative, 2000). She is available to teach writing workshops on several subjects. Her essays and articles have appeared in Orion, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Advocate, Hemispheres, & High Country News.
Michael Henderson is a freelance journalist and the author of nine books, the latest being See You After the Duration and Forgiveness: Breaking the Chain of Hate. He has been a TV presenter, a broadcaster and for more than fifty years worked for peace and understanding in some 25 countries.
Featuring HER PHOENIX HEART, a contemporary story about renewal and finding the courage to love again. "It will take a special kind of man to heal Beth's emotional scars and set her phoenix heart free." Writing resources, Pizza Souffl & chocolate! Cindy is the instructor for Mt. Hood Community College's Professional Writing Workshop program.
Chanrithy Him is author of When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge, winner of the Oregon Book Award and the Literary Arts Fellowship for Non-Fiction.
Steven is a freelance software designer, manuscript editor, and author of two unpublished suspense novels: Double Fire (which won the 2007 Pacific Northwest Writers Association's Zola Award in the Mystery/Thriller category) and Linear Descent. He is currently working on his third novel tentatively entitled Snowbound.
This website won the 2006 Writer's Digest Best Writer's Website award, and in addition to the usual info, offers photos of settings mentioned in Morgan Hunt's mystery series, surveys, contests, and book-related crossword puzzles and cryptograms.
Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant is an award-winning humor writer whose name is too long to fit on her Social Security card. The author of ten humor and one self-help books, she won the 2003 Erma Bombeck Humor Writing Award. She also teaches comedy writing and provides comedy editing services, when not letting the dogs in and out.
Essays by Willamette Writers' office manager Bill Johnson that explore principles of storytelling through reviews of popular novels, plays and movies.
Author, speaker, and writing instructor Christina Katz is currently working on The Art of Making Time for Yourself. Her last book, Rhapsody in Writing was an eclectic collection of her former students' writing. She teaches an e-mail class and publishes a monthly newsletter. She's webmaster of Writers on the Rise.
From his years of experience in Corporate Espionage, Klausman taps into a case file, and delivers a tale of intrigue that is chilling in its plausibility in his first published book, The Amacon Cover.
Portland attorney and writer, available to provide legal and agent services for writers.
Author, Editor & Seminar Instructor, Claire Krulikowski has been a presenter at several Willamette Writer Conferences. This website promotes her editing services, downloadable classes for writers, and information about her three books (Memoir, Moonlight on the Ganga; Inspirational Living, A Radical Peace: Creating Life Anew; and Rapture: Love of the Heart, an inspirational poetry collection).
Derek Ladd has been making up and telling stories ever since he was a child. He wrote his first novella at thirteen and completed his first novel at sixteen. Derek is the co-founder of a non-profit, educational program called "http://www.AlmerrianTales.org". He currently resides in Portland, where he is working on a screenplay adaptation of his sci-fi novella, LIFE REAPER.
Margie Lee's memoir, Kinfolk: Tracing the Footsteps of my Scandinavian and German Ancestors from Minnesota to Washington, is now available from Two Totem Press.
The website of southern Oregon writer and police chief Kenneth R. Lewis, author of the police suspense thriller Little Blue Whales, a novel of love, mystery, and murder on the Oregon Coast published by iUniverse, Inc.
Mack Lewis specializes in turning historical events and classic short stories into classroom plays and picture book manuscripts. He's published more than a dozen plays in Scholastic's Storyworks magazine, and he is currently working on his third book title for Scholastic Professional Books. His work has appeared in Scholastic News, Instructor, and Plays. Mack also writes literary fiction. When he's not writing or teaching, he likes to pester kids, snowboard, and escape with his wife to secluded fire lookouts in the Oregon wilderness.
Long-time newspaper reporter/editor turned freelance writer, Sue has published three books on Portuguese Americans and articles on just about everything. In addition to juggling several nonfiction and fiction projects, she recently earned her MFA in creative writing and is teaching writing classes both online and at Oregon Coast Community College.
For twenty years, freelance editor Elizabeth Lyon has worked with hundreds of writers. Passionate about teaching writing, Lyon is the author of six books on the craft, revision, and marketing of fiction and nonfiction. Manuscript Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writers Can Afford to Ignore is her final and most comprehensive book for writers. Her articles have appeared in The Writer, Writer's Digest, in anthologies, and in the 2008 Guide to Literary Agents. Manuscript. Contact: www.4-edit.com (Editing International), www.elizabethlyon.com (author), and www.manuscriptmakeover.com.
This site includes the books written by Dick Lutz as well as the other books published by DIMI PRESS. Also, guidelines for submitting book proposals to DIMI PRESS and details about the book production services offered.
Laura Marshall created this website to be an open exchange to help aspiring and seasoned writers exchange information and create community. The greatest asset we posses as writers are ourselves and we should be sharing our knowledge with others to further our craft. The website features writing exercises, tips, book reviews, recipes and more.
Skip McRobert writes graphic novels and short stories. The fiction on his website revolves around a con man, David. Scavenger or predator--which kind of con man is David? Skip is working on a David the Con Man graphic novel with an artist, Jerry Werner.
Chris Mulligan's website, Afterlifebooks.com, highlights her first book, Afterlife Agreements: A Gift From Beyond. This book is a mother's journey through grief that describes in detail the connection that continues beyond death through documented conversations and signs. Visitors meet Chris, her son, Zac, learn their story, ask questions and share your experiences. Blog at Afterlife Books at Blogger.com
Debra is a Kay Snow award winner, novelist, online film reviewer, blogger, and contributing editor of Godspy.com. Her first novel, The Mystery of Things, was published in December 2004 by Idylls Press.
Carolyn J. Rose grew up in New York's Catskill Mountains, graduated from the University of Arizona, logged two years in Arkansas with Volunteers in Service to America, and spent 25 years as a television news researcher, writer, producer, and assignment editor in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. Her hobbies are reading, gardening, and not cooking.
Mike Nettleton grew up in Bandon and Grants Pass, Oregon. A stint at a college station in Ashland led to a multi-state radio odyssey with on-air gigs in Oregon, California, and New Mexico under the air name Mike Phillips. He's been with KEX in Portland since 1994. His hobbies are golf, pool, Texas held-em poker, and book collecting.
Carolyn and Mike have authored a number of mysteries as a team and individually. The Big Grabowski is the most recent to be published. Surf to www.deadlyduomysteries.com for more information.
Evan Nichols writes plays, short stories, screenplays, and the content of two web sites: www.evannichols.com - featuring atypical movie reviews and a web log of his six-month odyssey of working in Alaska (which has lasted almost a year); and www.AskDrEldritch.com - Have you ever wondered what what sort of advice columnist the protagonist in in an adventure or horror movie would write to for help? Look no further than this site, a humorous and satirical take on the problems faced by the heroes of fiction, and the advice to keep them alive for another day.
Lisa Nichols is a freelance writer and editor. She has been published in regional, national and e-media magazines and recently contributed an essay about the late 80's hardcore punk scene to a book. She is also the author of the syndicated rose city journal blog, which appears on a variety of newspaper websites, including the Chicago Sun-Times. She blogs frequently about the sometimes poignant, often funny and almost always moving life of a Midwestern transplant and thirtysomething single.
Michael Niemann writes about the global cocoa and chocolate economy and its impact on the lives of ordinary people.
Ellen Notbohm is the author of Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew. The book received Parenting Media's Greatest Products of 2005 Award. She is also the author of Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew.
Jennifer offers book design and production services to independent/self-publishers. She also distributes free, twice-monthly book and marketing tips. You can sign up on her web site.
Dave is author of the novel Mithras Court, published by Wizards of the Coast. David resides in the Pacific Northwest, where he is inspired by the ocean, the mountains and the friends and family he has found there.
David Poulshock's unique perspective as a writer/director brings a powerful focus on content for red door's commercial clients. He has also won national recognition for his entertainment projects, including Wee Sing children's videos, the short film Shadow, and his award-winning screenplays.
Nel Rand is the author of Mississippi Flyway, which combines the vibrant flavor of Southern Literature with the complexity of a daughter's love for an abusive father. It is the story of a woman's struggle to search for peace in the midst of personal tragedy.
Anna Richenda is a writer, preacher, and historian with a fascination for monastic history. Her historical fiction book The Saint and the Fasting Girl (http://www.annarichenda.com) will be available summer 2009. She maintains the website historyfish.net (http://www.historyfish.net) and the Saltwater Scrolls blog (http://www.historyfish.net/bloghf), and has published two photographic history books on the pioneer histories of Washougal and Fishers Landing, both early communities on the Columbia River. She lives in the Pacific Northwest within sight of three volcanoes: Mt. Hood, Mt. Jefferson, and Mt. St. Helens. These behemoths are constant reminders that life is ferocious, fragile, and magnificent.
Learn how you can change the world. Writer Fred Jenning Rogers is the author of two self-help books, Petals on the Path: Third Millennium World Teachings and World Peace Seeds: Planting and Growing Personal Destiny. The secret behind 'The Secret' is revealed, as the Great Masters of the Ageless Wisdom share the teachings with the world of today. Be sure to view the video clips, that lightly touch the contents of the books.
Carolyn J. Rose is the author of a number of mysteries, including Hemlock Lake, a tale of arson and murder set in the Catskill Mountains, and released by Five Star-Gale-Cengage in July of 2010.
She and her husband, Mike Nettleton, also write as a team and have two mysteries set in the quirky town of Devil's Harbor on the Oregon Coast. The Big Grabowski centers on the murder of an unscrupulous developer, and Sometimes a Great Commotion deals with the chaos created by an image scorched into a breaded crab cake.
Robert Rubinstein has authored four books, stories in anthologies, and articles . He is a teacher with 32 years experience, and travels nationally to perform and give workshops. For 24 years, he directed the nationally-known Troupe of Tellers from Roosevelt Middle School in Eugene, and, for the past 15 years, has produced and directed Eugene's Multi-Cultural Storytelling Festival.
L.J. Sellers is an award-winning journalist and editor and the author of the popular mystery/thriller The Sex Club. She offers fiction editing services for writers needing to polish their work for submission. The website also contains information about her other novels and links to mystery websites.
Lizzy Shannon, author of Time Twist, is a literary consultant, editor, and 'lapsed' agent! She offers writing tips and appearance information on her web site. She is the Awards Coordinator on the board of Willamette Writers, and a featured speaker at many science fiction and fantasy conventions, including Orycon.
Jackie Shannon Hollis's writing has been described as natural and graceful, with an unassuming approach to character. She studied writing for three years with Pinewood Table Writing teachers, Joanna Rose and Stevan Allred. Her fiction and essays have appeared in numerous literary journals, including: The Rambler, Rosebud, South Dakota Review, Inkwell, Flashquake, High Desert Journal, and Oregon Literary Review. Her work has been recognized for several awards. She has completed a novel, At the Wheat Line, and is seeking representation.
Jean Sheldon is the author of The Woman in the Wing, a novel that features Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and Rosie the Riveters in a fictional suspense thriller set in a WWII defense plant. A WASP trainee hoping to fly for her country has her career threatened when an army major removes her from training for refusing his proposition to do something other than fly. The dedicated pilot never gives up hope of earning her silver wings, even as she makes a perilous flight with a Nazi demolitions expert holding a gun to her head. ISBN: 978-0-9723541-6-5
Cornelia Becker Seigneur is a West Linn writer, editor, instructor, speaker, photographer, and author of Images of America: WEST LINN published by Arcadia. Cornelia has been a regular contributor to The Oregonian newspaper since 1996, where she has specialized in faith and family and community features. Her work has also appeared in Travel Oregon, Twins magazine, and Portland magazine at the University of Portland, among other publications. Her website is www.corneliaseigneur.com and she can be reached at corneliaseigneur@comcast.net
This site contains information on low self-esteem (LSE) and on Dr. Sorensen's program of Recovery from LSE. It also has for sale, Dr. Sorensen's 5 books on self-esteem and her Self-Esteem Recovery Tookit. Dr. Marilyn Sorensen is a licensed clinical psychologist in Portland, OR. where she has been in practice for over 27 years, specializing in recovery from LSE and relationship issues. She conducts therapy with clients in Portland as well as by phone with individuals across the U.S. and around the world.
Jillian Starr writes for and co-produces the monthly "Time Out Comedy Show". Her screenplays have placed in Nicholl and Austin competitions, and her articles have appeared in Mamapreneurs and The Portland Upside. Videos of her sold-out performances can be viewed on her website.
Lori Stephens is an experienced editor who specializes in humanities and communications. She enjoys working with writers of any level who are seeking guidance, editorial critique, and copyediting. Ms. Stephens has also published two books: a nonfiction title on roommate relationships (House Mates) and a speculative novel (Deep Structure).
D'Norgia began, as a serious writer, 40 years ago. Although her favorite authors include Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut and Octavia Butler, Taylors preferred genre is science fiction/fantasy. The film, Portrait of Jenny, which she saw as a child, gave her a taste of science fiction/time travel that grew into a passion. She combined her talent and love of writing into the debut of her first novel String Beans and Candy Canes.
Kathryn Rose Taylor produces an award-winning syndicated humor column www.kathrynrosetaylor.com, is an accomplished face reader (physiognomist) and has written and published Face Reading Secrets Revealed with a sequel in the works www.kathrynrosetaylor.com/inyourface. She is the Vice President of the Oregon Scholastic Chess Federation and frequently writes about children and chess www.oscf.org. Kathryn also teaches chess in the classroom K-12 in schools throughout Oregon and Washington and college level physiognomy at www.lcc.ctc.edu
Information and book order form for the book, Don't Call Me Rosie, the Women who Welded the LSTs and the Men who Sailed on Them. During WWII women went to the shipyards and built the Landing Ship, Tanks. The book is a collection of stories, remembered 60 years later, of the women welders who built the LSTs and the men who sailed on them during the war. The book is also available at Amazon.com and Borders.com
Todd Yunker's web site lists the many services he offers for writers and non-profit organizations.
Eleanor Van Natta, a publicist with over 15 years of experience in sales and marketing, accepts a limited number of clients for book promotion. She is available on a freelance basis to both publishers and individual authors. She loves a good book, and she loves promoting one even more. Please visit her website at www.eleanorvannatta.com.
Books. Uncovered. Writers. Discovered. And no dream left behind.
Samantha's web site has information about her published stories and her thoughts on writing. Currently she has stories in many anthologies including a number of volumes of the Chicken Soup for the Soul and A Cup of Comfort series. She has also been published in The Christian Science Monitor and The Rambler.
Cynthia Whitcomb's web site offers information about her workshops, scripts she's sold, information about her two books, and her articles on writing screenplays.
Naked in the Rain is the award-winning debut novel from Eowyn Wood. In addition to her work as an author, she performs editing for Crooked Hills Publishing and works at a non-profit AIDS organization. She has lived in many areas of the United States. After five years in Los Angeles - where much of Naked in the Rain takes place - Wood relocated to Portland, Oregon, where she has now resided happily with her cats for more than a decade. The first chapter of Naked in the Rain is available on the web site, as well as photos, reviews, and much more!
