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Antoinette May |
Antoinette May
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Antoinette May's third novel, The Determined Heart: the Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein was published in October by the Lake Union Publishing Division of Amazon Press. Her first novel, Pilate's Wife, published in 2007 by William Morrow, has been translated into 18 languages. The Sacred Well, her second William Morrow novel, was chosen best of 2009 by the San Francisco Book Festival.
Antoinette's non-fiction includes Adventures of a Psychic which spent 44 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. She was the recipient of La Pluma de Plata, an award conferred by the Mexican Government for the best travel article on their country. She writes weekly columns for the San Francisco Chronicle and SF Gate and is a frequent contributor to the Sierra Lodestar. Antoinette's articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Self, Country Living, San Francisco and Sacramento magazines.
Visit antoinette's website http://www.antoinettemay.com/
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Tommy Orange
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Tommy Orange
Tommy Orange is an American novelist and writer from Oakland, California.
His first book There There was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award.
Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations of Oklahoma. Wikipedia
Born: January 19, 1982 (age 39 years), Oakland, CA
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Ace Antonio-Hall
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Ace Antonio-Hall
Nzondi (Ace Antonio-Hall) was born Acemandese Nzondi Hall in Queens, New York. Hall received his BFA from C. W. Post, Long Island University.
His science fiction/horror work, Oware Mosaic (Omnium Gatherum, September 2019), is the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards® Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel.
Hall is a two-time Honorable Mention winner of the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Award. He is also the author of the novel, Confessions of Sylva Slasher, (Montag Press, April 2013) and a non-fiction book, Lord of the Flies: Fitness for Writers (Omnium Gatherum, April 2017).
His new novel, Lipstick Asylum (The Girl Who Could Raise the Dead) will be available in 2021, also from Omnium Gatherum Media. Follow Nzondi on his social media platforms @Nzondi3 on Twitter or as Ace Antonio Hall on Instagram and Facebook for news, books and updates.
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Carlos de los Rios
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Carlos de los Rios
Carlos de los Rios is a working screenwriter and producer who has written acclaimed films for Academy Award winners Lauren Bacall, Harvey Fierstein, Elliot Gould and others.
Carlos has worked on over 30 films and has written and/or produced 8 films.
Carlos de los Rios has written and published six books of prose and poetry.
Carlos has worked on more than 20 books, 30 films and has written and or produced seven films. Carlos lectures throughout California and is a sought-after script doctor, writing coach and story consultant. Carlos’ clients include top Hollywood screenwriters and New York Times best-selling writers.
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Antoinette May |
Antoinette May
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Antoinette May's third novel, The Determined Heart: the Tale of Mary Shelley and Her Frankenstein was published in October by the Lake Union Publishing Division of Amazon Press. Her first novel, Pilate's Wife, published in 2007 by William Morrow, has been translated into 18 languages. The Sacred Well, her second William Morrow novel, was chosen best of 2009 by the San Francisco Book Festival.
Antoinette's non-fiction includes Adventures of a Psychic which spent 44 weeks on the New York Times best seller list. She was the recipient of La Pluma de Plata, an award conferred by the Mexican Government for the best travel article on their country. She writes weekly columns for the San Francisco Chronicle and SF Gate and is a frequent contributor to the Sierra Lodestar. Antoinette's articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Self, Country Living, San Francisco and Sacramento magazines.
Visit antoinette's website http://www.antoinettemay.com/
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Monika Rose
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Monika RoseMonika Rose, at home in the foothills of Calaveras County, founded Manzanita Writers Press, a nonprofit literary publisher housed in the Manzanita Arts Emporium, a new art center in Angels Camp. She is published in several anthologies and literary magazines, and her book of poems, River by the Glass, by GlenHill Publications, is available from Amazon and Small Press Distribution as a print and eBook.
She has edited anthologies such as the recently released A Taste of Literary Elegance: Wine, Cheese & Chocolate, and the ongoing Manzanita series of literary prose and poetry, Wild Edges. With a Masters Degree in English, she teaches courses in writing and literature at Delta College as an Adjunct Associate Professor. Monika is currently writing a novel while editing other writers' books, readying them for publication. Contact her at www.manzapress.com or her website ~ you can also email her at
mrose209@gmail.com.
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Kevin Arnold
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Kevin Arnold is a transplanted Midwesterner who’s lived in Palo Alto, California most of his life. His poems, praised for their accessibility, have been published in over fifty literary magazines and online journals He has published a book of poems and a novel. The San Francisco/Peninsula California Writer’s Club recently named him Writer of the Year.
He served as President of Poetry Center San Jose,for twelve years, while he earned an MFA from San Jose State University. His novel, The Sureness of Horses, is available from Manzanita Press in hardback, softcover, and as an audiobook read by Sands Hall from Cherry Hill Publications.
He’s published a number of articles on usrepresented.com, including a series called Kevin’s Favorite Poems.
The national website YourDailyPoem.com has selected his poems eight times and is anthologizing his work in their ‘Best of Your Daily Poem’ collection, Poems to Lift You Up & Make You Smile, due this summer. A new anthology of Kevin’s poems is in the works—all efforts are being made to debut it at this year’s Gold Rush Writers.
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Kathy Boyd-Fellure
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Kathy Boyd Fellure
Kathy Boyd Fellure is author of four children's books, and her debut contemporary women's fiction novel that released January, 2018. The Language of the Lake is the first book in the completed ~ On the Water's Edge Tahoe Trilogy.
Her 4th novel, Across the Pond and her WIP, Harper House, are both set in England. Kathy is a member of CWC, ACFW, and is the founder of Amador Fiction Writers. She hosted, wrote & produced the TSPN TV Show ~ Authors, Writers, Books & Beyond from 2012- 2015.
Kathy has served as a judge for the NCPA book awards in 2017-18. She guest speaks, teaches at writer conferences, hosts an annual literary read, exhibits her photography, and is agented with Books & Such Literary Agency. Kathy Boyd Fellure currently lives in the foothill gold country of California with her family and three stand-up comedian rescue dogs.
http://www.kathyboydfellure.com/
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Lucy Sanna
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Lucy Sanna
Lucy Sanna's historical novel, The Cherry Harvest (HarperCollins 2015), was named Book Club Book of the summer by the Wisconsin State Journal and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association's Book Club Pick for July. For this and previous works, Lucy has been featured on national television and radio, including CBS, NBC, NPR, and FOX. Her books have been recognized by national press, including the Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Examiner, Wisconsin Journal, San Jose Mercury-News, Playboy Magazine and Men's World Magazine.
Lucy is a sought-after speaker and workshop leader at writers' conferences, including San Francisco's Litquake, the Wisconsin Book Fest, the Chicago Tribune's Book Fest, the Chicago Tribune's Printers Row, the University of Wisconsin's Writers Institute, the University of Wisconsin's Write-by-the-Lake Retreat, and the Sterling North Book & Film Festival. Since 1999, Lucy has served on the Executive Planning Board for the National Kidney Foundation's annual San Francisco's Authors Luncheon, the premier authors' event of the San Francisco Bay Area. She has also served on the Board of the California Writers Club, San Francisco Peninsula Branch. She is currently working on her next WWII historical novel.
Lucy's website: www.lucysanna.com
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Kathie Isaac-Luke
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Kathie Isaac-LukeKathie Isaac-Luke is a poet, editor and freelance writer.
Her poetry collection, Chrysalides, was published in 2010 by Dragonfly Press, and was selected as runner-up
at the 2014 Los Angeles Book Festival. Her poetry appears in numerous journals and has been widely anthologized.
She was nominated for a 2015 Pushcart Prize for her short story, “The Collection.”
Kathie was formerly a program coordinator for Poetry Center San Jose, where she edited the journal, caesura. She currently lives in Sonora, California, and
has reviewed plays for The Union Democrat newspaper for 14 years. She is currently working on a new poetry chapbook.
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