LIST OF AUTHORS MENTIONED
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Stefanie Barnfather
Stefanie Barnfather is a Canadian author. Previously, she worked for the Calgary Board of Education as a high school arts and inclusion educator. Stefanie graduated with honors from Sheridan College’s Music Theatre – Performance program and has a BFA and BED in fine arts from the University of Calgary. When she isn’t writing, Stefanie enjoys painting, hiking, and spending time with her husband and pug.
Her debut collection of short stories – You Know What I Think? – ranked first on the Calgary Herald’s bestselling fiction list in 2023.
STEFANIE’S BOOKS
Nancy LiPetri
Nancy LiPetri loves living on the scenic U.S. coastline and shares her passion for North Carolina and Floridian the Lake to Coast Series. She writes with realism while entertaining readers with characters experiencing a spectrum of issues people don’t always dare to speak about: dilemmas involving family and friends, midlife, love and sex, infidelity, mortality and more. Her fast-paced stories reveal a fascination with psychology and the power of the subconscious. Retired from a copywriting career, she’s now happily focused on her fiction plus book club reading, pickleball, birding, photography…and interacting on social media.
NANCY’S BOOKS
Luella Stanley is the managing director of First Aid Action, a successful business that provides valuable first aid training. Luella has valuable experience as a registered nurse in various hospital settings, as well as emergency care and has spent many years teaching first aid to students, teachers and clients.
The Dare to Golden Mountain is Luella’s debut children’s book, featuring Finlay the First Aid Bear. She has teamed up with long-time friend and illustrator, Dani Mathewson, to bring her ideas to life. This is the first book in a series aimed at teaching easily understandable first aid to kids through engaging characters on an epic adventure of discovery.
LUELLA’S BOOK
Joy Su
Dr. Joy Su, Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology and M.Sc. in Computer Science, passionately unravels the world’s complexities through keen observation, diligent study, and contemplative meditation. Despite facing physical ailments and battling depression, she draws strength from Taoism, Buddhism, Qigong, Christianity, and meditation. Over 25 years, Joy’s resilience shines, overcoming despondency and poor health. The last decade witnessed a remarkable transformation, radiating happiness, self-assuredness, gratitude, and unwavering optimism. Her inspiring journey exemplifies the human spirit’s resilience and the limitless potential for personal growth and enlightenment.
JOY’S BOOKS
A 31 year old messianic hebrew man from New Hampshire who currently resides in Texas near the Gulf coast. Who originally has been writing since the age of twelve. He is a staunch mental health advocate. A jack of all trades, when not writing, he enjoys being lost in nature.
STEVEN’S BOOK
James Wright
James Wright is a character focused writer who enjoys genre fiction, trying to take fun premises and make them real from a mostly first person perspective. He can frequently be found in a library, or else binging films and TV shows, often horror based in nature. Constantly trying to clash irreverence and earnest sentiment he hopes to capture the true contradiction of human thought and emotions in his work, as well as write books that he wished he had read growing up to help people who don’t fit in feel less alone. There are jokes in his books too!
JAMES’S BOOK
Carlie Kuhtz
(they/them)
C. M. Kuhtz is a nonbinary writer of queer fantasy fiction. They have worked with horses, been a member of Viking reenactment and sword fighting troupes, wrote a PhD thesis on queer identities, and are now employed in academic publishing. They live in Hungerford, Berkshire.
CARLIE’S BOOKS
Loretta Barnard
Loretta Barnard is an Australian author, arts writer, reviewer, and editor. She’s been a
contributing writer to a range of reference books; and has authored six non-fiction books.
She’s regular contributor on music and the arts to a number of online sites. Imagining
Australia: a history of our nation through music, film, literature & art (co-authored with
Ingeborg van Teeseling) is her latest book.
LORETTA’S BOOK
Nancy E Dunne
Nancy E. Dunne lives and works in the Upstate area of South Carolina with her Irish Wolfhounds Bryn and Ciaragh, her terrier mix Willow-Pickle, and her husband Simon. Nancy is a nationally certified American Sign Language/English interpreter, and in her free time can be found working on her next novel as well as hanging out with ‘the girls’ and her husband. Nancy and her wolfhounds spend many weekends performing in historical re-enactment with the group she helped to found, The Hounds of East Fairhaven. Check out her photo blog, Our Daily Bryn, for more Bryn (and Willow-Pickle) as well as Isn’t The Lettuce Brave? (her main blog).
NANCY’S BOOK
Cendrine Marrouat
Cendrine Marrouat is a poet, writer, photographer, painter, digital and digital artist, podcaster, and blogger. She has authored and co-authored 50 books in several genres, including poetry, non-fiction, and literary fiction. She is also the creator of several poetry forms.
CENDRINE’S BOOKS
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