Contributor's Bios

Minnette Coleman
Minnette Coleman is an author, actress and singer born in Atlanta, GA. She has lived in New York City for almost 25 years. Having performed off-off Broadway she has toured her one woman show on the civil rights movement in the south, been a teacher actress for The Creative Arts Team at New York University and is a member of the esteemed Harlem Writer’s Guild, one of the oldest literary organizations in the country. Minnette has written about items in the news and African American history. She will continue to write about life in this economy, Current Events, and Creative Writing. To view Minnette’s posts, simply click on her Profile name.

William Elliott Hazelgrove – The View from Hemingway’s Attic
Bestselling author William Elliott Hazelgrove is the writer in residence for the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. His office is in the attic of the Hemingway birthplace. He is the author of four novels, Ripples, Tobacco Sticks, Mica Highways and Rocket Man. His books have won the American Library Association Editors Choice award and starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and have been chosen as Book of the Month Selections. His second novel Tobacco Sticks was a National Bestseller. His latest novel, Rocket Man was chosen as Best Book of the year for 2008 by the San Antonio Express and Book of the Year by Books and Authors.net. He writes a weekly blog The View From Hemingway’s Attic on culture and politics. He has written features and reviews for USA Today and a monthly column for Pageonelit. He lives west of Chicago with his wife and three children. More information can be found at billhazelgrove.com
His posts are usually about the Literary World, Culture, and Politics. To view William’s posts, simply click on his Profile name.

Alan Caruba – Caruba’s Professional Practice Website
Best known these days as a commentator on issues ranging from environmentalism to energy, immigration to Islam, Alan Caruba is the author of two recent books, “Right Answers: Separating Fact from Fantasy” and “Warning Signs”, both collections of his commentaries since 2000 and both published by Merril Press of Bellevue, Washington.

His commentaries are posted on many leading news and opinion websites, and frequently picked up and shared by blogs as well. Posted weekly on the Internet site of The National Anxiety Center they represent the Center’s purpose as a clearinghouse for information about “scare campaigns” designed to influence public opinion and policy.

In addition to the Center, Caruba, a longtime book reviewer, also posts a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction at Book Views. The site recommends around sixty books each month on topics that include history, biographies, health, business, parenting, books for children and younger readers, and new novels. Caruba is a founding member of the National Book Critics Circle.

Initially a fulltime journalist, Caruba is a veteran public relations counselor who is often asked by members of the news media to comment on news involving PR issues. A longtime member of the Society of Professional Journalists, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Association of Science Writers, Caruba maintains an Internet site for his professional practice at Caruba.com.

Caruba lives in the Gaslight Commons in South Orange, New Jersey. In his former career as a journalist, he was the editor of a weekly newspaper, the East Orange Record, and as a columnist and feature writer for the Morris County Daily Record. He has been a contributor to many consumer and trade magazines.

In addition to his websites, Caruba blogs at Facts Not Fantasy

This site will provide links to many of his writings on topics of current interest. Carefully documented by extensive research, Caruba brings his experience as a journalist to bear on issues of concern to his readers. Alan’s posts can be found in the following categories: Current Events, Foreign Relations, Governance among others. To view Alan’s posts, simply click on his name.

Tim Bryce – M. Bryce & Associates
Mr. Bryce is a writer and management consultant from the Tampa Bay area of Florida who has served the industry for over 30 years. His observations about life and management are intended to stimulate discussion.

“You might not agree with Tim always but he always makes you stop and think. And I mean universally. Even being from Finland, the topics are so related that it is a pleasure to ponder them.” – Timo Kettunen, Finland. Tim’s posts are usually about Politics, Social Aspects, and Economics. To view Tim’s posts, simply click on his name.

Bob Ellal
Bob Ellal is a four-time cancer survivor and practitioner of Eastern internal energy arts. He has worked as a writer/editor for a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. as well as a writer at Aetna Life & Casualty, Inc. Currently he’s working on an eBook about using ming/body techniques as complementary medicine in the fight against cancer. He’s also working with a consultant to develop his web writing techniques for freelancing. To view Bob’s posts, simply click on his Profile name.

Tim Roux
Tim Roux is a British writer, born in Hull in the North-East of England, a post-industrialised fishing town that is rapidly becoming quite a powerhouse of writing and music, much to everyone’s surprise. Tim worked in strategic marketing for a global corporation for 25 years before breaking his 30-year writer’s block in 2004 to publish “Blood & Marriage”, a series of short stories about a family in exile during a century of war, genocide and revolution. This was followed by “Little Fingers!”, a toe-curling novel exploring sexual morality, “Girl on a Bar Stool”, where a brand manager gets unwittingly ensnared in The Second Coming, “Shade+Shadows” about a charismatic healer with dubious but miraculous therapeutic techniques, “Fishing, for Christians”, which describes the world from a Gnostic Christian perspective, and “The Ghoul Who Once”, that recounts the tale of a twenty-something year old faced with a ghost who wants him to dig up her body. All six of these books interweave to constitute “The End of the World Sextet”. His seventh, and most popular book, “The Dance of the Pheasodile”, is the story of a London-based commercial architect who recovers from a hypnotic trance to find himself transformed into a penniless Hull gangster on the run from two local gangs, and with a ‘new’ wife who doesn’t like him much either. His current work-in-progress is “The Blue Food Revolution” about the travels and experiences of two people who are destined to become a couple in a seaside resort that worships a God-fish who visits the town annually.

Tim’s posts can be found in the following categories: Short Stories, Fiction, Poetry among others. To view Tim’s posts, simply click on his name.

Tina Collins Dozier – My Kentucky Books
A graduate of Pikeville College, Pikeville, KY, Tina Collins Dozier has published ten books: Down Mare Creek Road, Up Hurricane Road, My Little Children, Tales from the Coop, The Soup Bean War, When Angels Cry, What About Brian, The Melting Pot, I Wish I May, and Woman: The Glory of Man. Her poetry has been published in national and international anthologies, and HillTop Records of Hollywood, CA, recorded her song "The Sandman." Her short stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in Appalachian Heritage magazine and her technical articles have appeared in Mountain Promise. In 2002 her poem "Buddha" won third place for the Denny C. Plattner Award and her book The Soup Bean War was nominated for the Weatherford Award. She has written numerous other religious and educational articles and for five years she was host/director of "Writers Reading," a cable TV show on WPRG-5 of Harold, KY. Her books are available for purchase on her site. She resides in Conroe, TX with her husband, Robert. Together they have six children, two sons-in-law, two daughters-in-law, four and a half grandchildren. Tina’s posts are usually about the Spirituality, Parenting, grandparenting, Relationships, and Poetry. To view Tina’s posts, simply click on her Profile name.

James BlueWolf – Anoli’s Circle
James BlueWolf has been a songwriter, poet, author and storyteller since the early 1970’s. An internationally published poet, BlueWolf was Poet Laureate of Lake County, CA from 2000 thru 2003. He is the author of three published books and his poems, stories, essays and radio productions have been featured across the U.S. and Canada. He was included in the 2006 edition of "Who’s Who of American Teachers" and was recently named the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storyteller’s Children’s Writer Of The Year (2006-2007) for his book "Speaking For Fire". He is a script / media editor for the Smithsonian National Museum of The Amercian Indian and is the author and co-producer of the well received Native Documentary – Hinthel Gaahnuula. He currently lives in Nice, CA, with his wife of 34 years, Bernie. His posts have been made in several areas, but usually are categorized in Children’s, Current Events, Native American, and Social Issues. To view James’ posts, simply click on his Profile name.

Tim Kellis – Happy Relationships
Renowned Wall Street analyst Tim Kellis takes on what could be considered society’s biggest problem today, divorce. The journey that led to him tackling such a significant issue was both personal and professional. After a successful career that eventually landed him on Wall Street, Tim met what he thought was the girl of his dreams, only to see that relationship end with bitterness and anger. The journey included work with a marital therapist, and after he discovered therapist wasn’t really helping he decided to tackle the issue himself.

Ambition and a strong aptitude for math helped lead Kellis to discover how to make relationships work. His math skills led directly to an engineering degree, nine years in the telecommunications industry, and MBA in finance, and finally on to Wall Street, where he became the very first semiconductor analyst to focus on the communications market.

After publishing a 300-page initiation piece entitled Initiating Coverage of the Semiconductor Industry: Riding the Bandwidth Wave, Kellis became a leading semiconductor analyst at one of the biggest firms on Wall Street. The experience he gained as a Wall Street analyst provided an excellent backdrop for becoming an expert on relationships, and resulted in his relationship book entitled "Equality: The Quest for the Happy Marriage". Tim’s posts are usually about Current Events, Communications, and Relationships. To view Tim’s’ posts, simply click on his Profile name.

Ann Musico – Three Dimensional Vitality
I am a freelance writer who is now concentrating on health and wellness. I’ve been published in many magazines and have a Christian children’s book, The King’s Daughter, published by PublishAmerica in 2001. I am a certified Biblical Health Coach. Although I have been coaching informally for many years now, I have begun a coaching business, which is linked to my biblical health website for people who want to get back to basics, the way God created it to be! You can visit Three Dimensional Vitality to learn more. My passion is to motivate and empower people to live vibrant lives of wholeness – what I call a “3-D life,” by communicating God’s principles of nutrition and health – spirit, soul and body.

Ann’s posts can be found in the following categories: Accountability, Attitude, Motivation among others. To view Ann’s posts, simply click on her name.

Jose Antonio Ponce – Jose Antonio Ponce’s Website
I am a musician and writer living in Albuquerque. I am also currently producing a short documentary film on music. Jose’s posts are on a variety of subjects including Poetry, Short Stories, Essays, Satire, Science Fiction and Humor. To view Jose’s posts, simply click on his name.

Jack Rochester – The Business Insider
Author, consultant, journalist and content development expert Jack B. Rochester heads his own firm, Joshua Tree Interactive, which has provided professional writing and media management services in consumer high technology and business information systems for over 25 years.

He has written eleven books, including the bestselling The Naked Computer (William Morrow), Pirates of the Digital Millennium (Financial Times/Prentice Hall) and four college textbooks.

He has also written over 400 articles analyzing the trends, ideas, and social impact of high technology on business and society. His work has appeared in Computerworld, The Boston Globe, Harvard Business Review, High Technology, Omni, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, Venture, and others.

Rochester is Managing Editor of The Business Insider blog and Business Editor at the Speak Without Interruption blog. He has worked extensively in content development and information/media management for both interactive and print media for such companies as Coopers & Lybrand, The Economist Intelligence Unit, International Data Corporation, McGraw-Hill Book Company, and others. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts. Jack’s posts can be found in the following categories: Business, Entertainment, The Media among others. To view Jack’s posts, simply click on his name.

George Polley
George Polley was born in Santa Barbara, California and raised in Seattle, Washington. He has lived in California (Berkeley and Stockton), Illinois (Cooks Mills and Villa Grove), Minnesota (Luverne, Marshal and Minneapolis), and from 1984 until early in 2008, in Seattle, when he and his wife moved to Sapporo, Japan so that she could fulfill her dream of returning to the land of her birth.

After high school, he completed his undergraduate work at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon (B.A., Sociology and Anthropology), and received a Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana campus. He has always had two parallel careers: mental health professional and writer and poet.

His work has appeared in the South Dakota Review, Crow’s Nest, Expanding Horizons, The Enchanted Self, Community Mental Health Journal, Maturing, The Lyon County (Minnesota) Review, Wine Rings, North Country Anvil, North American Mentor Magazine, McLean County (Illinois) Poetry Review, River Bottom, Tower Talks and Foundations.

He has also authored several booklets in the mental health field, two of them co-authored with Ana Dvoredsky, M.D. in 2007. George is also a blogger at Tostada Speaks, where he writes as Jorge Luis Tostada, aka “Toasty”. George’s posts can be found in the following categories: Creative Writing, Freelance Author, Journalism among others. To view George’s posts, simply click on his name.

Paul Perry- Paul Perry’s Website
Paul Perry is originally from Philadelphia and has been living in Buenos Aires since the early nineties. He make his living as an English teacher, writer, translator, actor. Paul has recently founded a baseball team called, The Shankees, which competes in La liga Metropolitana de Beisbol in Argentina. He is the father of three children and currently works as a school teacher in a bilingual school.

As a writer, he currently writes for an on-line magazines called: Landing Pad Buenos Aires In 2006, he published a poetry and prose book called: Buenos Aires Chronicles – Poetically Porteño. His other written works include: Poetically stoned, Philly Poems and Tales, Poemas desde el fondo de la pecera. As a journalist he has interviewed the famous artist and illustrator, Ciruelo Cabral. Paul Perry’s reputation as a writer has grown and he is one of Buenos Aires most famous living American writers. The Argentimes, a local Buenos aires newspaper, published the following article about Paul in 2007: Article As an actor he has appeared in the following films: The Golden Door by Emmanuel Crialese – produced by Scorsese; La Mano de Dios – The Maradona Story by Marco Risi; Negro Buenos Aires by Ramon Termens; Cine Negro by Gonzalo Peña (leading Role)

Paul is currently teaching sixth grade at an English school and writing a children’s book which will be published soon. Though Paul has accomplished a lot, he is currently broke and living off liver and onions. Paul’s posts can be found in the following categories: Creative Writing, Fiction, The Writer’s Corner among others. To view Paul’s posts, simply click on his name.

Scott "Q" Marcus – Two Words Magazine Blog
Scott “Q” Marcus refers to himself as a "THINspirational Speaker and Columnist" because he started speaking professionally after losing 70 pounds on 1994. Scott is the past president of the northern California chapter of the National Speakers Association, a syndicated newspaper columnist, author of three books, a tip booklet, and the publisher of the new motivational magazine, "Two Words." He is also a recovering perfectionist who learned that trying to be perfect is basically an excuse for not being better so he now helps others known via lively, playful presentations that been described as a cross between "attitude 101, group therapy, and a southern revival." To get the most out of his information, you’ll need to put your left-brain on hold, and engage your inner child. He also promises he will not watch what you eat if you do not watch what he eats — however he might be willing to speak or write for your organization if you treat him to a large enough order of french fries.

Scott’s posts can be found in the following categories: Habit Change, Health & Fitness, Lifestyle among others. To view Scott’s posts, simply click on his name.

C.F. Jackson – Website Makeover Workshop
C.F. Jackson is an author, website makeover trainer, and graduate of Georgia Southern University with a degree in criminal justice. Originally from St. Petersburg, FL, Jackson has resided in Atlanta for 13 years. Her book, "Won’t Be Denied", is a fictional, suspenseful work based on obsession and love.

It was during Atlanta’s June 2005 Success Summit where Jackson discovered there was much more about the internet and website development she needed to know, and her focus shifted to mastering the Web to better position herself for the success of her novel.

Today, Jackson’s mission is to help fellow writers to better understand the basic elements and principles of a successful website. She has appeared on numberous television and radio shows including The Sumter Television Show, Urban Literary Review, The Writer’s Life Chat, and Atlanta’s WVEE (V-103 FM). Visit her website to learn more about Jackson and sign up for her free Website Makeover Workshop eCourse and improve your online results at www.WebsiteMakeoverWorkshop.com. Jackson’s posts have been made in several areas including Book Marketing Online, Education, and Writing Essentials. To view Jackson’s posts, simply click on her Profile name.

David Leonhardt – The Happy Guy
David Leonhardt is biodegradable…however he has been taking several measures to avoid making use of this most useful skill. Among his so-called accomplishments are the publication of Climb Your Stairway to Heaven: the 9 habits of maximum happiness (published in several countries) and eBooks Sticky SEO, Get In The News, The Get Happy Workbook, and Don’t Get Banned by the Search Engines. Formerly one of Canada’s most quoted media spokespeople, David now does SEO and other online marketing. He blogs on these topics, as well as on personal growth and on writing…but his favorite form of writing is the humor column. David loves nature, the irony of which is not lost on this Internet-mole, and enjoys puzzles, fitness and his daughters. He makes his home in Chesterville, Ontario, which by total coincidence is also where his house happens to be located.

David’s posts can be found in the following categories: Writing Essentials, The Writer’s Corner. To view David’s posts, simply click on his name.

Richard Geldard –
Richard Geldard is a full-time writer and lecturer living in New York City and the Hudson Valley. He is married to the artist and writer Astrid Fitzgerald.

Before turning to writing he was an educator, teaching English and philosophy at both the secondary, undergraduate and graduate levels. His most recent appointment was at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpenteria, California, where he taught the Greek Mystery Religions. Prior to that he taught Greek Philosophy and The Science of Mind at Yeshiva College in New York, where he also supervised the General Studies program at the university’s boys’ and girls’ high schools.

He is a graduate of Bowdoin College, The Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College and Stanford University, where he earned his doctorate in Dramatic Literature and Classics in 1972. He has also studied at St. John’s College, Oxford.

Geldard is the author of nine books, including studies of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Greek philosophy and culture. He is also a frequent lecturer. In June, 2003, and September, 2003, he was a featured speaker at Faneuil Hall in Boston as part of the Emerson Bicentennial Celebrations. In June, 2005, he was the Keynote speaker at the re-instatement of the Delphic Games in Delphi, Greece.

A new book, Emerson and the Dream of America will be published by Larson Publications in Winter, 2010. Please visit RG Books. Richard’s posts can be found in the following categories: Advice, Inspiration & Motivation, General Topics among others. To view Richard’s posts, simply click on his name.

JD Seamus – JD Seamus Books
After a successful career as a venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager, and after a brief time out while on sabbatical in a gated community (those darn gray S.E.C. areas will do it every time), I started writing to regain my sanity. Its a work in progress. My first book (Last Call) is now out. I have five more waiting in the wings as well as lucking into a couple of films that oddly became cult classics (go figure). JD’s posts are usually about Current Events , Sports, short stories and Social Issues. To view JD Seamus’ posts, simply click on his Profile name.

Carol Denbow – Author’s Box
Carol Denbow is the author of six books, contributor to two others, and editor of more than ten Websites, including, A Book Inside and Author’s Box. She is also a regular contributor to numerous writers’ websites and newsletters and has been a featured guest on radio and television.

Carol’s Books Include: A Book Inside, How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Story (2008), Plain & Simple Books, LLC; How to Organize a Virtual Book Tour (2008), Plain & Simple Books, LLC; The Write In You (2008), Plain & Simple Books, LLC; Stress Relief for the Working Stiff (2008), Publish America; Are You Ready to Be Your Own Boss? (2006), Plain & Simple Books, LLC; And coming in 2009, 101 Ways to Market Your Book For Free (or really cheap).

“Writing can be addictive and frustrating as well as healthy and fulfilling. The good, the bad, and the book that can’t find a publisher, it’s all there when you’re an author. But seeing your book in print and knowing that someone somewhere has paid money to read what you have to say, gives you a real sense of accomplishment and a warm and fuzzy feeling unlike any other.”
Author & Publisher, Carol Denbow

Carol’s posts can be found in the following categories: Agents, Short Stories, Book Marketing Online among others. To view Carol’s posts, simply click on his name.

Femi Olawole
Femi Olawole’s ancestral homeland is Nigeria, Africa. Although trained as an accountant, writing has always been his first passion. Since the early 1980s, he has been contributing articles to newspapers, magazines and academic journals. In March, 2004, he was appointed to the Community Advisory Board of Delaware’s newspaper, The News Journal. He has also been privileged to speak at various occasions—social/religious gatherings, Kwanzaa celebrations and family re-unions on issues such as Sexuality education, Family values, Parental responsibilities, Self determination and African cultures, traditions and values.

Femi’s posts can be found in the following categories: Inspiraton & Motivation, Lifestyle, and Philosophical Genres. To view Femi’s posts, simply click on his name.

Jose Antonio De La Vega Torres – Veta Creativa
Mexican, born in 1963, single, studied the bachelor degree in Social Communication Sciences in Mexico, D.F.; is graduated for the Anáhuac University and he was titled in 1991 with the thesis: “Aesthetics and Communication: in search of an aesthetic attitude”, object of honorary mention in the VI National Competition of Thesis organized by the CONEICC (National Council for the Teaching and Investigation of the Sciences of the Communication). Now he acts as general director of VETA Creativa.

He has been editor of magazines, scriptwriter, speaker, actor; and he had worked in the areas of radio production and television like assistant and scene director at TELEVISA. As journalist, columnist, he has carried out documental investigation writing opinion articles, speeches, etc. He has also acted as reviewer passing judgment of books, and as proofreader. He has intruded in managerial consultant ship on Human Resources, Communication and Organizational Development, and Information Analysis.

He has also practiced Teaching and Training as professor and sinodal in bachelor degree and post grade imparting several subjects like: Media Languages, Lingüistics, Journalism Genres, Semiotic, Communication Theories and Models, Communication Sociology, Audit and Analysis of Communication Problems, Communication Planning, Consumer Analysis, Art like Communication Media, Radio broadcast production, Scriptwriting, Advanced writing, Theater, Oral and Written Expression, Sociocultural Anthropology, Information Resources, Research Methodology, in having connoted Mexican universities like Universidad del Valle de México, UNITEC Atizapan, ITESM CEM (Tecnológico de Monterrey), Anáhuac, Universidad Francomexicana, U. Iberoamericana, U. de la Comunicación, U. Interamericana para el Desarrollo, and some consultancies.

As author of several poetries, short stories, essays, script writings for radio and TV broadcasting, plays and novels, he has published not so much but now is working on some titles to revert that tendency. He defines his self seriously and joking as “slow, even as sure”; and, in consonance he has a personal and distinguishable phrase against de anxious modernity: “Which is the haste?”.

Antonio’s posts can be found in the following categories: Latino & Hispanic, Journalism, Writing Essentials among others. To view Antonio’s posts, simply click on his name.

Mexicano. Nacido el 4 de febrero de 1963. Soltero. Lic. en Ciencias de la Comunicación, egresado de la Universidad Anáhuac Nte. Titulado con la Tesis: Estética y Comunicación. En busca de una actitud estética, mención honorífica en el VI Concurso de tesis organizado por CONEICC (Consejo Nacional para la Enseñanza e Investigación de Ciencias de la Comunicación) efectuado en 1991, y con más de 15 años de experiencia laborando en varios campos, a saber: como editor de revistas, guionista y asistente de producción de radio y TV, corrector de estilo, copy writer, periodista, columnista, articulista, investigador documental; efectuando asesoría empresarial en Recursos Humanos, comunicación y desarrollo organizacionales; practicando docencia y capacitación; como revisor y dictaminador de libros; y desde 2005 editando y escribiendo la revista Indicios Magazín-e de su agencia virtual VETA Creativa.

Las citadas funciones las ha desempeñado en distintos momentos, ya sea dentro o para empresas tales como Televisa, Editorial Longman, Pearson Education, Lintas Publicidad, Outdoor, diario El Universal, Grupo Casa Autrey (hoy Casa Saba), TVAzteca, Especialistas en Medios, BAMSA-TASA (Fábrica y comercializadora de tornillos), Comunicometría Aplicada.

Tanto a nivel de educación media superior como universitario, ha impartido diversas materias como: Lenguajes de los Medios, Lingüística, Géneros periodísticos, Semiótica, Teorías y Modelos de Comunicación, Sociología de la Comunicación, Auditoría y Análisis de Problemas de Comunicación, Planeación de la Comunicación, Análisis del Consumidor, Arte como Medio de Comunicación, Producción de Radio, Guionismo, Redacción Avanzada, Teatro, Expresión Oral y Escrita, Antropología Social, Fuentes de Información, Metodología de la Investigación, en instituciones educativas tales como: Universidad del Valle de México, UNITEC Atizapan, ITESM CEM, Anáhuac, Universidad Francomexicana, U. Iberoamericana, U. de la Comunicación, U. Interamericana para el Desarrollo.

Autor de numerosas poesías, relatos cortos, ensayos, guiones de radio y televisión, obras de teatro, novelas, es poco lo que ha publicado, pero su interés se enfoca hoy fundamentalmente en revertir este hecho y tiene en preparación varios títulos. Se autodefine, un poco en broma, un poco en serio como “lento, pero seguro” y en consonancia una frase le distingue a despecho de la ansiosa corriente actual: “¿Cuál es la prisa?”

Jodee Bock – Bocks Office
Jodee Bock is principal and founder of Bock’s Office Transformational Consulting where she provides coaching, speaking, facilitation, development and delivery of customized workshops and seminars that support individuals and teams in succeeding at whatever they are committed to accomplishing. Jodee facilitates master mind groups in the Fargo-Moorhead and Detroit Lakes where people study and apply higher awareness and personal accountability into their work and home lives.

Jodee is a certified master trainer and innovation coach for SolutionPeople in Chicago, and also holds several professional certifications including TWI’s Job Relations Training, Bob Proctor’s Life Success Consulting and Life Purpose and Career Coaching. She is one of the founders of the Women’s Business Exchange, a Fargo-based networking and mentorship organization for businesswomen. She sings with an award-winning barbershop chorus in Minneapolis, and is a statistician for Concordia and NDSU basketball teams.

She is author of the book The 100% Factor: Living Your Capacity and a blog called You Already Know This Stuff and a co-author of the book Don’t Miss Your Boat: Living Your Life With Purpose in the Real World. Jodee’s posts can be found in the following categories: Accountability, Energy, Business among others. To view Jodee’s posts, simply click on her name.

Rob Clinton – 180 Career Coaching
Rob Clinton is the founder of 180 Career Coaching. He is a motivated visionary that specializes in guiding people who have a desire or need to re-enter the workforce. He has a deep heart for inspiring people to fully live their lives. He’s all about the self discovery and helping people to draw forth that inner self, or at least set them on a path for finding their own unique calling and purpose.

He believes that everyone has some sort of desire and purpose that is driven by an all pervading Source, and knows this Source on a very personal and passionate relationship to be God.

Rob’s ultimate dream is to make a great contribution to the harmonic unity of eventually peace on earth, and feels that his entry point for making this happen is by connecting with his own intentions; which is a sincere love and compassion for connecting others with their own unique God given gifts and talents.

Rob is endorsed by Dan Miller – author of 48 Days to the Work You Love – and believes whole heartedly in the 48 days process. Along with Rob’s message for finding purposeful work he also incorporates the 48 days teachings with his message.

Rob is also a member of the Free Agent Academy and 212 Connection coaching network, and is involved with the 48 Days circle of highly motivated entrepreneurs who are seeking the better life! Rob’s posts can be found in several categories. To view Rob’s posts, simply click on his name.

Apple Rosales – SchreiberApfel
A National Security writer, Ms Apple Rosales used to write for the Office of the Secretary, Department of National Defense, Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City, Philippines. She prepared write-ups regarding national security as required by the Secretary of National Defense. She wrote the Philippine Campaign Against Terrorism, the paper presented by the previous Secretary, General Angelo T. Reyes, together with Her Excellency, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, to President George Bush of the United States. This paper subsequently led to military assistance by the United States to the Philippines, and the exercise which is now known as BALIKATAN.

She was also part of the team which prepared the Defense White Paper presented by every member country to the United Nations every year. She also wrote for her Excellency, the President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo at the Office of the Presidential Staff, Malacanang Palace, during the 2004 campaign period for the national elections.

She wrote programs, project proposals, feasibility studies, program schedules, and benefits for the Welfare Program for Civilian and Military Employees, and was assigned to the House of Representatives to give updates on bills processed by the Congress regarding the Armed Forces and Veterans’ affairs.

Internationally, Ms Rosales was contracted by Defence India to participate in the conceptualization of the Defence Outlook Magazine — India’s most comprehensive magazine on security issues — and also contributed military write-ups. In addition, she prepared documentary write-ups for Al Rodrigues & Associates, LLC, Hawaii, for a project based in the Philippines and presented to government and private institutions in Hawaii.

The last international military event coverage by Ms Rosales was in Saipan, Northern Marianas Islands, USA. She was contracted by the Arizona Memorial Museum Association last June 11 to 18, 2004 to cover a national event, the 60th Anniversary Commemoration of the World War II Battles of Saipan and Tinian. This stint had opened doors for this Filipina writer to venture into the world of international journalism, and she may soon be writing for international newspapers, prospectively in Saipan and Guam.

Ms Rosales had also been a freelance writer for iDiwa Online, an e-learning portal. She also prepared web content and speech write-ups, along with other services. Her clients in the past included ADB, Diwa Publishing, ABS-CBN Publishing, The Korean Network, Wolf Publishing, Al Rodrigues & Associates, LLC, and RoyBarry & Associates, Australia.

She had been an English instructor to Koreans for two years, teaching the principles of writing, and had been a guest lecturer in Korean schools in the Philippines. She was a Consultant to a Korean Pastor based in the country in 2003, and to a German national who worked for an anti-insurgency project for Mindanao in 2004.

Ms Rosales has pursued her love for words, and is now an international scientific copy editor for a publisher based in China. The scientific journals she copy edits are being distributed widely in Asia. She has been a scientific copy editor for the last four years.

She is currently a member of the Philippine News Exchange, Brady Magazine, Sane Society, Writers’ Digest, The Copywriter’s Coach, Travelwriters.com, Writers.net, and Webcoolie.

For her achievements in writing, Ms Rosales has been recognized by the previous Secretary of National Defense General Angelo T. Reyes as a “rare jewel in the industry, the only lady national security writer paving her way to international defense, military and investigative journalism”.

Ms Rosales’ interests include National Security, Terrorism, Public Health, Hospital Administration, Health Project Proposals, Documentaries, and Scientific Papers. Apple’s posts can be found in several categories. To view Apple’s posts, simply click on her name.

Kingsley Kobo – Kingsley Kobo’s Website
Kingsley Kobo is son of Nigerian novelist and playwright, Alfred Vhovhen. He started his career as a scriptwriter while still an undergraduate. He presented his first full-length film script to a major studio at age 19. He later studied Hard New journalism and Creative Writing. He has worked as a reporter, researcher and translator. He speaks and writes both in English and French.

His articles, travel guides and short stories have been published in South Africa, Holland, England, USA and the Ivory Coast. He also writes verses and inspiring quotes. More than 100 of his quotes have been cited by speechmakers, newspapers and researchers. He tackles several social concerns such as poverty, immigration, wildlife problems, tourism hassles, HIV-AIDS, suicides, women in jeopardy, abortion, child-soldiering, etc. His first novel titled Bitter Kiss will be published in the U.S. by June, 2009. Kingsley’s posts can be found in the following categories: Creative Writing, Fiction, The Writer’s Corner among others. To view Kingsley’s posts, simply click on his name.

Prentiss Gray – Prentiss Gray’s Website
Prentiss Gray is a writer/columnist/blogger from New Jersey. After 27 years as a Information Systems consultant and the death of his wife of 21 years, he returned to his roots as a writer, creating the national column Adventures of the Lone Dad/ Daddy chronicles. He now Blogs for Gannet on domestic technology, and writes feature pieces and stories for general publication. Any minute now he may even sell his first book.

Prentiss’ posts can be found in the following categories: Creative Writing, Fiction, Management Theory among others. To view Prentiss’ posts, simply click on his name.

Tom Brown – Thomas Brown Books
Tom was born and raised in Leavenworth, Kansas, and graduated from The University of Kansas in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He also holds a Master of Science degree from Emporia State University. In 1992 Tom’s first wife, Barbara was diagnosed with breast cancer. After fighting the disease for nearly two years, Barbara died after a long and courageous struggle. In 1994 Tom met a wonderful woman in Carlisle, PA who also had just lost her spouse to death. Tom and Connie were married on September 30th 1995 and began a new life. Tom and Connie’s extended family include three married sons and five grandchildren. Tom retired in the grade of Colonel from the United States Army in 1996. After retirement from the service, he and his wife Connie remained in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Tom began work on Men Bleed Too as a journal capturing the events that took place during Barbara’s battle with cancer. With Connie’s encouragement he decided to turn the journal into a book. Men Bleed Too is a heart touching story that will affect many lives. In addition to Men Bleed Too, Tom is the author of numerous articles published by the U.S. Army. Tom published his second book titled She Taught Me to Laugh Again, in January 2007. In this book Tom relates the story of how he and Connie met, helped each other through the grieving process and moved forward with their lives. Tom and Connie recently retired to The Villages, Florida. His hobbies include woodworking and golf. Tom’s posts can be found in the following categories: Medical, Cancer, and The Writer’s Corner. To view Tom’s posts, simply click on his name.

Mariel Wong – Mariel’s Facebook
Mariel Wong is a budding photo enthusiast and the editor for the Singaporean version of T3 (Tomorrow’s Technology Today) Magazine. That was before she embarked on a life-long journey of passion to seek out Kangaroos in the land Down-Under and attain certain life-goals. Evolution Holmes. She is also an avid Facebook voyeur and also compulsively updates mini-news of her every move via twitter @MarielWong.

Mariel’s posts can be found in the following categories: Technology. To view Mariel’s posts, simply click on her name.

Mary Ellen Popkin – Mentor With Mary Ellen
Mary Ellen has a BA from Marymount College. She also did some graduate course work at MCP Hahnemann University in Art & Dance Therapy. She was diagnosed with debilitating anxiety disorder when her Dad was dying in 1984. She overcame this condition in 1985 and went on to become a competitive ice skating coach for nearly 10 years. Later she became a District Manager for a Fortune 50 Company.

After a series of life events, she found herself experiencing chronic anxiety attacks again in 2001. First in a series of stressful events her Mom was nearly killed by a train accident. She ended up in a coma for over 2 years before passing away. Next Mary Ellen had a miscarriage followed by thyroid cancer. After success surgeries and treatment, she was ready to start a family again only to learn her next pregnancy was non-viable on November 4, 2000. Yvonne Marie was still born November 5, 2000 and her husband was recently promoted and relocated to NYC. She remained in PA until their apartment was ready in March of 2001 but 2 weeks later her husband had to stay in GA for additional training forh12 weeks. During that period of time, she found herself having chronic panic attacks. It was also time for her to have a full body scan to make sure her thyroid cancer was in remission.

Instead of spending this time filled with anxiety, she chose to start an online anxiety support chat and started teaching classes online for free. That is how her first book Anxiety Disorder Workbook actualized. Today this happily married, stay at home Mom, has a daughter Charlyne was born April 30, 2003 and a son Jacob born October 31, 2005. When Jacob was approximately 6 months old she started a home based business and successfully grew her team to over 250 people, putting her in the top 10 percent of the company. She would motivate her teammates and other industry leaders via phone conferences. Which brings us to her current project 7 Secrets to Creating Your Destiny.

Mary Ellen also created a MLM training and motivational website: Mentor With Mary Ellen. She also does a series of motivational goal setting videos. Just recently she started hosting a blogTalkRadio Show. Mary Ellen’s posts can be found in the following categories: Attitude, Goal Setting, Spirtuality among others. To view Mary Ellen’s posts, simply click on her name.

Brandon Marcus – The Count
Brandon Marcus wouldn’t call himself a pop culture enthusiast but perhaps a pop culture analyst. He watches the world of celebrities and entertainment from afar, studying it like a scientist studies rats in a maze. He is a writer for Thecount.com, a website devoted to all things celebrity gossip. He is also a contributing blogger to the web’s best movie news website, CHUD.com and created his own website, Badmusicvideosblog.com. When not reporting on gossip or the cultural zeitgeist, Brandon spends his time writing short fiction, watching political talk shows and having long discussions about anything. You can read all of Brandon’s writings at BrandonMarcus.com.

Brandon’s posts on SWI can be found in several categories.

Astrid Fitzgerald –
Astrid Fitzgerald is a fine artist, a writer, and a passionate student of the Perennial Wisdom Tradition and Advaita Philosophy who has applied its principles to her life and art for over forty years. She is the author of An Artist’s Book of Inspiration: A Collection of Thoughts on Art, Artists, and Creativity (Lindisfarne Books, 1996); Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker’s Guide (Lindisfarne Books, 2001); Winter Break: A Luminous Journey into Wisdom and Love (A.R.K. Books, 2008). Fitzgerald’s writing is based on a fusion of Western and Eastern thought and practice of self-development, self-inquiry and reflection.

Astrid’s posts can be found in the following categories: Women’s Perspective, Non-Fiction, Self Help among others. To view Astrid’s posts, simply click on her name.

Robert Owens –
Robert Owens currently teaches History, Political Science, Religion, and Leadership for Southside Virginia Community College. He is the author of numerous books including The Azusa Street Revival and America Won the Vietnam War! He also writes a weekly opinion column which appears in numerous print and online sources. He is married to Dr. Rosalie Owens. They have one son and two grandchildren.

Robert’s posts can be found in several categories. To view Robert’s posts, simply click on his name.

Gregory Urbach –
Gregory Urbach graduated from California State University, Northridge, with a degree in Urban Studies and worked for many years on the retail end of the film industry. Twenty-five years ago, while taking a playwriting class at Los Angeles Valley Jr. College, he wrote a play called Tranquility’s End that evolved into a science fiction series about a young man having grown up on the moon with computers as his only companions. The first book is called Tranquility’s Child and there are currently eight novels in the series. In the process of writing the books, he was finally able to utilize his urban studies degree, creating a moonbase and a world sixty years in the future that is different than ours but also very much the same. He has recently completed his first fantasy novel, Magistrate of the Dark Land. Most of Greg’s novels are available for downloading at the iTunes app store and in paperback from Amazon.com. Several of his short stories can be viewed at IPulpFiction.

Gregory’s posts can be found in several categories. To view Gregory’s posts, simply click on his name.

Lloyd Scott – Mr Lloyd

Lloyd E. Scott was educated from West Los Angeles College (AA Degree), Santa Monica College, UC Irvine, Assoc. Bd. of the Royal Schools of Music; he is an author of 11 published fiction books, you can read excerpts of his books at XLibris – Llyod E Scott; he has written over 30 books maybe more, he has lost count, he just recently finished his long awaited science fiction trilogy entitled SECTORS; he is also a solo pianist, he has written/composed/arranged/produced and performed over 100 songs, you may see some of his videos at Lloyd E Scott Music – MySpace , you can also listen to his music at Lloyd E Scott Music – MyPodcast, his personal generic website is Mr Lloyd He currently lives in Los Angeles, CA and is in a relationship.

Lloyd’s posts can be found in the following categories: Creative Writing, among others. To view Lloyd’s posts, simply click on his name.

Peggy Klaus – Klaus & Associates
You may have seen Peggy Klaus on Nightline, the Today Show, and 20/20 or read her advice in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Newsweek, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, and O magazine. You may know her as the “brag lady” or—as one newspaper called her—a “bragologist” because of her popular book, BRAG! The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn Without Blowing It (Hachette Books Group, Hardcover 2003, Paperback 2004). Or you may know Klaus for the soft skills savvy she promotes in her second tome, The Hard Truth About Soft Skills: Workplace Lessons Smart People Wish They’d Learned Sooner (Collins, January 2008).

For more than a decade Klaus has provided communication and leadership training programs, keynotes, and executive coaching at leading corporations and organizations worldwide. Her client list reads like a who’s who of Fortune 500 companies, including firms such as JP Morgan Chase, MasterCard, Computer Associates, Chevron Corporation, Deloitte, General Mills, Goldman Sachs, The National Football League, Pacific Gas & Electric Company, American Express, Mattel, Booz Allen Hamilton, Kaiser Permanente, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, among others. She also has served as a lecturer at Harvard University; the University of California, Berkeley; and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

With advanced degrees in drama, speech, and theatre from London’s Royal Academy of Music and the Drama Studio, Klaus began her career as an actor and classical singer. She then moved to Hollywood to become a producer, director, and coach who worked with actors, comedians, musicians, and broadcast news talent for productions at Paramount Studios, Warner Brothers, ABC, CBS, and NBC TV, among others.

When she is not coaching, training, lecturing, making television appearances, or giving keynotes in the US, Europe, and Asia, Klaus can be found in Berkeley, California, where she lives with her husband. Peggy’s posts can be found in the following categories: Advice, Business, Current Events among others. To view Peggy’s posts, simply click on her name.

D. Alexander Holiday –
D. Alexander Holiday was born in New York City, raised in various foster homes and stricken with Gillian Barré Syndrome (or Ascending Paralysis, aka GBS) at the age of ten. He attended Bernard M.Baruch College and The State University of New York at Albany, receiving both a Bachelor and a Master of Arts degree from Albany University. He is the recipient of an achievement award from Baruch College and the Spellman Award from Albany University. He has published in various publications, among them The Amherst Society, A & U Magazine and more recently Arabesque Review (an international anthology and website). He has four chap books of poetry, Notes to Porshé, Tales From This Black Heart, The Voices in My Head which is a collaboration with fifteen area poets and I Use To Fall Down. He has published essays on ERIC,the research database. He has read on radio, for Crystal Brown’s “Reading for the Blind” program, has been on radio for Kym Fleming’s RPI program, and has done a television appearance for Public Television. He is the author of Letters to Osama: Old and New Musings on Foreign and Domestic Terrorism…and Other Matters, I Use To Fall Down: 50 + 25 + 25 Selected Poems and All The Killers Gathered: poems for my daughters. He is finishing work on a memoir chronicling his years in foster care and his bout with and recovery from a paralysis. His work can also be found at a variety of websites such as Helium.com, Albany Poets
and he has recently been invited to write at the Speak Without Interruption website, Speak Without Interruption.

More on the author and purchasing his and other writer’s books can be found at Writers.net, Amazon.com, and at the Xlibris webpage. He also moderates a creative writing workshop, focusing on poetry and literature, at an upstate New York correctional facility. The author works as a New York State employee and resides in the Albany region. Alex’s posts can be found in the following categories: Creative Writing, African American, Justice among others. To view Alex’s posts, simply click on his name.

Muhammad Cohen – Writing Camp
Totally globalized Muhammad Cohen was born in New York City, served as a US diplomat in East Africa, masqueraded as a city planner in Queens, and wrote about baseball in the Bronx, Washington and Baltimore before moving to Hong Kong more than a decade ago.

Cohen got his big break in TV news when he called CNN for a job the day bullets began flying in Gulf War I. In 1995, Cohen came to Hong Kong for six months to assist the startup of CNBC Asia; he stayed and became a Hong Kong permanent resident in 2004. In Hong Kong, Cohen has also worked as an editor at Bloomberg News, The Hong Kong Standard and South China Morning Post, as well as Asia regional communications manager for a US multinational.

A graduate of Yale and Stanford’s Creative Writing program, Cohen’s work on business, politics, media and culture in Hong Kong and Asia has appeared in Time, Columbia Journalism Review, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Slate and Salon. His fiction has been published in Asia Literary Review, the Hong Kong Writers Circle’s Love and Lust collection, and Bristol Journal. Cohen also edited The Poker Face of Wall Street (John Wiley & Sons, 2006) for author Aaron Brown. Cohen is currently special correspondent for Macau Business magazine, columnist for Asia Times and The Guardian, and an author for Lonely Planet, including the inaugural Lonely Planet Guide to Borneo, and the ninth Lonely Planet Guide to Indonesia. He also blogs at MuhammadCohen.Wordpress.

Hong Kong On Air, a tale of the 1997 handover, television news, betrayal, high finance and cheap lingerie published by Blacksmith Books, is Cohen’s first published novel. One reviewer calls “the great American Hong Kong handover novel.” He has given readings in Hong Kong, New York, at the Kuala Lumpur International Literary Festival, and the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, where he blogged about his experience for LonelyPlanet.com.

Since the late 1980s Cohen has taught writing academically and to working professionals. Combining his experience in the classroom and corporate communications with his multicultural perspective, he developed Writing Camp, interactive seminars that help writers at every skill level communicate more effectively.

Born Jewish and married to a Muslim princess, Cohen addresses religious and civic groups on “Muhammad Cohen’s Jewish Identity” and is a global advisor to New Foundations for Peace, building bridges between Muhammads and Cohens. Muhammad’s posts can be found in the following categories: Congress, Current Events, Democrat among others. To view Muhammad’s posts, simply click on his name.

Tantra – Lucid Play
Tantra Bensko, MFA, offers online classes in Experimental Fiction Writing which begins in April. One is through UCLA Extension, in which students will write post-modernist, avant-garde, or whatever innovative style of stories they envision. She also maintains a Writer’s Digest group in Experimental Fiction Writing. She is a well published artist as well, and makes a very wide range movies, and music in the Ruby Fire Household Orchestra. Lucidity is her special interest, and these articles here could be described as Lucid Choices. She is the innovator of the genre, Lucid Fiction, which is also the name of her writing website, Lucid Fiction and she has had over 100 creative writing publications as well as an even more substantial number of articles. She offers her services as a writing teacher.

Her company is called LucidPlay, which is a concept she devised not only with personal implications as a production company and the name of her services which specialize in client participation, such as LucidPlay healing and hypnotherapy, but as a generalized style of relating to the world.

Tantric Metaportals is her book which utilizes her art and text as a new way of taking readers into deeper awareness while learning Tantra Yoga exercises and staring at the images and contemplating the concepts. LucidPlay is, in the most basic description, a method of staying in naturally altered states of consciousness gained through non-sexual Tantra Yoga and maintaining that while in action, and with other people, thus going into theta brain-waves, developing new abilities and insights, accessing the whole self, and seeing that self in others. LucidPlay Productions also has also created the DVD set, Interpersonal Dynamics of the Aura, and, in conjunction with VLM, a set of 3 Tantra training videos called Tantric Lucidity. Tantra lives in rural north east Alabama mountain country, having moved with her fiance from San Francisco to help out her aging father.

Tantra’s posts can be found in the following categories: Diet, Health & Fitness, Sugar among others. To view Tantra’s posts, simply click on her name.

Lauren Harrison –
Lauren Harrison is an aspiring writer and college student. She was born in Hamilton, Ontario but currently lives in northern California. She is planning on becoming a physical anthropology major with a minor in design. Her greatest wish is to get published and she finished her first novel Princess Wrath in 2008 at the age of 18. She has started the sequel to while away the time between query letters. One of her short stories The Invitation (Summer 2004) won first place in a youth writing contest held by a local writers group and two of her other pieces have been published by the youth magazine Teen Ink.

When not struggling through her math homework, she dabbles in other fine arts besides writing which include painting and photography. Her written works focus mainly on juvenile fiction and fantasy. Most of her other work is posted on DeviantArt.com Though young, she will not give an inch when it comes to achieving her goals, but is quickly learning what it feels like to be a starving college student. Lauren’s posts can be found in the following categories: Communications, Computers, Education among others. To view Lauren’s posts, simply click on her name.

Christopher Musico – Living With Common Cents
Christopher Musico is a recent college graduate from Seton Hall University. After a short stint at a media relations agency in New York City, he went back to his true love — writing — by joining the staff at CRM magazine, a Manhattan-based business trade publication focusing on customer relationship management strategies and philosophies. Now an assistant editor at the magazine, he focuses on contact center technology and customer service strategies.
Before working at CRM, he had prior experience in newspaper, television, media relations, and corporate communications. He has always had a great passion for personal finance, ever since receiving lessons on how to save, budget, and stay in the black from his parents. With the recent economic conditions forcing twentysomethings like himself to juggle pay cuts, furloughs, student loans, and everyday bills — all the while trying to enjoy life and save for upcoming life events — he recently launched Living With Common Cents. The blog will share the latest news in personal finance and budgeting, along with a blow-by-blow account of his own personal financial journey. Really, he wants to bring sanity to the masses one ledger item at a time.

Christopher’s posts can be found in the following categories: Advice, Economic Crisis, Finance among others. To view Christopher’s posts, simply click on his name or check out his spot on the blogroll to view all of his content.

Pearl Robinson – God Inspired Writing
Pearl Robinson is a God inspired Poet/writer. She wrote her first poem at age sixteen. She believes that writing for God’s Kingdom is His will for her. Her writing began to blossom in 2003 while serving as a Children Ministry Leader at Everlasting Word Baptist Church. God inspired her to write the Easter poems for the kids that year. For the next year and a half she began to study God’s word, with a desire to be approved by God and to be able to rightly divide His word of truth. In December 2004 God inspired her to write the Christmas program for the kids. During that time God gave her a vision to write books for His kingdom. Her first book “A Collection of Christmas and Easter Poems and Skits” was published in 2005. During that year, God spoke to her again and told her to write another book. He told her to take her poetry to another level. He wanted her to help save and heal His people through poems, She listened and wrote as God minister to her. Hence, the beginning of “Stop! Look! Listen! God Wants a Change.”

Pearl has five other books she is currently working on. Messages From God, Mommy Can I Live, Life After an Abortion, A Visit With The Dead (a glimpse of Heaven and Hell) and a book of Spiritual Skits. Her next project will be writing a series of books reaching to our youth. Hopefully the parent will gain some knowledge from the series of books also. Pearl’s dream, desire and goal is to be a Best seller author for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. For the Bibles says if we delight ourselves in Him, He will give us the desires of our heart.

Writing is her passion. That passion coupled with her burning desire to lead people to God. She enjoys reading and writing poems for different occasions. She wrote, and read poems for Church Anniversaries, Pastor’s Appreciations, and Funerals. God has always challenged her to write from her heart and through her heart you will know that He lives in her. She made a promise to God to write only for His kingdom only. May you be richly blessed through her writing?

Pearl’s posts can be found in the following categories: Book Marketing Online, Inspiration & Motivation, Religion among others. To view Pearl’s posts, simply click on her name.

Susan Nash – Search-Net Management
Susan Nash is president and founder of Search-Net Management Corp. which is one of the industry leaders in Asset Location. They provide litigation support, judgment debtor tracing and asset research to the collection industry and operate nationwide. Ms. Nash also is a forensic accountant and investigative consultant. Ms. Nash regularly conducts seminars in the areas of Skip Tracing and Personal Growth. She is the author of several articles published in various trade publications, as well as “Budgeting Basics & Beyond: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Non-Financial Managers” published by Prentice Hall. In December 2008 her book “Skip Tracing Basics & Beyond: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide for Locating Hidden Assets” was published by iUniverse.com and endorsed by National Association of Retail Collection Attorneys and the PI Magazine. Ms. Nash holds a baccalaureate degree in Accounting from Queens College. She the President and Founder of the New York Judgment Recovery Specialists, and a member of the National Judgment Enforcement Group, the National Association of Investigative Specialists, the Association of Independent Information Professionals, the Society of Professional Investigators, the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Long Island Chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, former chair of the Internet Committee and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Susan’s posts can be found in several categories. To view Susan’s posts, simply click on her name.

Stuart Aken – Stuart Aken
Stuart Aken, a writer born in the recently fertile city of Hull, on the north eastern coast of England, currently lives in a small market town in East Yorkshire. He has been writing for decades and, having finally decided his apprenticeship is served, is now putting his work before the public. His working life has been varied, mostly in management of one sort or another, but including farm labouring, press photography, graphic arts technician, travelling salesman and retail manager. Falling victim to CFS/ME in 2002, he now works part time for the local government authority, helping business people understand the vagaries of business rates.

His writing began in his late teens with illustrated articles for various photographic mags in the UK. He won a prize with the Radio Times for a radio play, Hitchhiker, which was broadcast by the BBC on Radio 4. His appetite for fiction writing thus sparked, he was persuaded by an agent to concentrate on further radio and television scripts. Many of these reached pre-production stage but, for various reasons, no more were broadcast. A lengthy spell of debilitating illness (not CFS) in his late 20s, stopped him writing for a while.

His first marriage ended after 18 years and his new wife, a supportive and loving woman, encouraged him to start writing again. He has had a number of short stories published and some success in short story contests, his latest being with the UK writing magazine, Writers’ Forum, for a sci-fi story called Rebirth, published in the January 2010 issue. Earlier this year, his first novel, Breaking Faith, was published, under the auspices of the UK Arts Council, by YouWriteOn. This tale of corruption versus innocence is set in the Yorkshire Dales, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, during the heat-wave of 1976.

He is now rewriting the first volume of a fantasy trilogy, untitled at present, which he describes as an adventurous quest set against a background allegory of organised religions and their flaws. Plenty of action combined with romance and philosophy. He will shortly be seeking a publisher for this work. He is also writing more short stories.

Stuart’s posts can be found in several categories. To view Stuart’s posts, simply click on his name.

Matt Musico – Matt Musico’s Blog
Matthew Musico is a 22 year old recent college graduate that enjoys writing about sports and his experiences within baseball. In the fall of 2009, he went to a professional baseball tryout in Chicago, IL and chronicled his journey day-by-day. Matt considers his journey through the game of baseball a very unique one and he is eager to share it, along with other aspects of sports. Matt is an amateur writer, but is very excited to share his most memorable experiences with anyone who is not only interested in sports, but how they play a role in our lives.

Matt’s posts can be found in the following categories: Life Experiences, Sports, Inspiration & Motivation among others. To view Matt’s posts, simply click on his name.

Kristen Houghton – And Then I’ll be Happy
Kristen Houghton is the author of the popular new book, “And Then I’ll Be Happy! Stop Sabotaging Your Happiness and Put Your Own Life First”. Published by GPP Life an imprint of Globe Pequot Press her book chronicles the true stories of real women who always seem to place their own happiness last on their exhaustive to-do list and offers solid solutions for creating a happy, healthy, personally successful life on your own terms.

An award-winning writer with critics hailing her work as “fresh, insightful, sharp, and sophisticated,” Houghton’s articles appear in Examiner.com, More, Hartford Woman, Gulfshore, and other print and online newsmagazines. She is the former head writer and features editor of Mused Literary Magazine.

Under the name, CK Houghton, she writes “nice little horror stories” guaranteed to make you check your locks and look under the bed before going to sleep. A “California” girl at heart, Kristen and her husband reside in the New York City area. Read Kristen’s Happiness Keys Blog at: And Then I’ll be Happy Twitter @kristenhoughton email her at: kch@kristenhoughton.com

Kristen’s posts can be found in the following categories: Lifestyle, Marriage, Relationships among others. To view Kristen’s posts, simply click on her name.

Genevieve Sawchyn –
I began writing four years ago, motivated by my need for quality fictional companionship. That was how I discovered my passion: I love to write. I have written three novels and am in the process of writing three more (one of which is my first foray into co-writing), two children’s stories and about a dozen short stories, two of which have been published online. I also write short articles for a Canadian newsletter for Clan Graham, and am excited to post the occasional (hopefully humourous) blog on here. My first novel, Under The Same Sky, is the second fastest rising Historical novel of all time on Authonomy.com, an author website created by Harper Collins Publishing. Please come take a read!

Under the Same Sky,

I graduated from the University of Toronto in 1986 with a Bachelor in Music in Performance (I played the oboe), then earned my black belt in Karate. I retired from music, then jumped into the world of advertising and promotions, in which I worked for ten years in various capacities. I have a very generous husband who lets me stay home and type until my fingers wear themselves out, and two beautiful daughters (12 & 9) who are good writers and even better people. I volunteer for both the Calgary and Halifax Highland Games because I have a mad obsession for all things Scottish, including actor Gerard Butler, kilts, pipes, brogues … you name it. I bet I can wear you out with my obsession. I also love coffee & baileys every morning, M&M peanuts and wicked, dry senses of humour.

Genevieve’s posts can be found in the following categories: Life Experiences, Current Events, Humor among others. To view Genevieve’s posts, simply click on her name.