About the Authors

John B. Ricks - Freddy Anderson's Home (Freddy Anderson Chronicles Book 1)

• John Ricks was born in Longview Washington and moved thirteen times before he finished middle school. After graduating high school he joined the Navy where he spent twenty more years traveling the world meeting new and astonishing people. His degrees, extensive reading, and traveling have helped him see all life in a wonderfully different way. He developed a great sense of fantasy and his children were always amazed with the stories he could tell.

John E. Baker Jr. - Chicken Noodle News

• John received a television degree from the University of Houston. He signed on with the first educational TV station in the US and played with all the new TV toys.

  He has worked for commericial TV stations in Houston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Washington DC, Detroit, and CNN in Atlanta.

  He was a live TV director, production manager, public affairs director, program manager, executive producer of news, and Vice-President of Operations for CNN.

William Beecher - The Acorn Dossier

• William Beecher, a Pulitzer Prize-winning former Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times, also served as a top official in the Defense Department and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He has reported extensively in Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, and Asia and has medals from the Pentagon and the White House for his work in government. He is currently a journalism professor at the University of Maryland. This is his third novel. He lives with his wife in the Washington suburbs.

Nickolas Cook - The Black Beast of Algernon Wood

• Nickolas Cook lives in the Southwest desert with his wife and three pugs. His short fiction, reviews, interviews, and non-fiction articles have appeared in many print and e-zines. He is also the author of Baleful Eye and Paint it Black.

  More information about the author may be found by visiting his myspace site:

  www.myspace.com/nickolasecook

  Nickolas Cook is the Moderator for the Shocklines Writing Group. It can be found at:

  www.Shocklines.com

  The Horror and Jazz-Blues Review is the official website of Nickolas Cook. It can be found at:

  www.angelfire.com/jazz/nickolascook

JH Hardy - Revenge!

• JH has swum upstream in the sewers of humanity. This anointing has created a philosopher to the world. Or as JH says, "If you want to clean out the stables, then first you have to get in with the muck."

W.W. Jackson – In Lieu of Light

• Wayne W. Jackson was born in Long Island, N.Y. and studied Photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology New York, N.Y. He continued his education in South Carolina in Theology. Wayne has lived abroad in Germany and Amsterdam while serving his country in the armed forces. He is currently living in Amityville, N.Y. and working on the third book in the trilogy chronicling the exploits of Sabrina and Chantelle Le’Noach.

Judy Jones - The Bones of the Homeless

• Judy Jones is an artist, photographer, poet, and librettist; having won “Brava for Women in the Arts” contest, with an opera libretto based on the life of painter Frida Kahlo. She wrote for the Coronado Journal newspaper as she traveled around the world doing volunteer work with Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charities and while on the Great Peace March for Nuclear Disarmament.

  ‘Bones of the Homeless’, Judy’s first spoken word/music cd, recorded by Ray Charles bass player, Curtis Ohlson, includes many of the poems in ‘The Poorest of the Poor’, and can be found at:

  www.judyjonesbonesofthehomeless.com

  In the Limelight Interview

Dale Mettam - Pub at the Center of the Universe

• O.K. Here's all the stuff you never wanted to know about me. Of course, if you're planning on becoming an obsessive fan/ stalker, then this is just the tip of the iceberg.

  I was born and raised in Sheffield, England. This is the city, most recently best known as the location for the movie "THE FULL MONTY." When I was there, removing all your clothes for a group of baying women was not a viable career option. If it had, there's a distinct chance my working life could have gone in a totally different direction.

  Having graduated college I worked for a small regional newspaper as a staff writer, restaurant reviewer and weekly contest compiler. Following that I worked in print and advertising, writing print copy and promotional/training videos. Around this time I also found myself relocating to the States. In the middle of writing a training video for lawyers, I realized that the best bits weren't the training parts, chopped those out and was left with my first short story about Lawyers in Hell.

  Since making the move away from writing believable and sometimes humorous lies for other people, I've written screenplays, a novel and numerous short stories. Three shorts made it to the quarter finals of the L. Ron Hubbard "Writers of the Future Contest." I'm also sweating over my second novel; developing and scripting several comic book titles; and on the screenplay front, I'm working with a couple of production companies on a comedy and a horror movie.

Will Radcliffe – Noggle Stones

• E.W. Radcliffe has lived most of his life in a small community in Northeast Indiana. Much of the inspiration for his writing comes from the scenic forests, lakes, and farmland around which he was raised. A 1992 graduate of Ball State University’s Telecommunications Department, Radcliffe won the David Letterman Telecommunications Scholarship for a script and storyboards featuring his original character, the mad goblin scholar, Bugbear. Bugbear has served Radcliffe well over the years, acting as a protagonist in his young adult fantasy novel, Noggle Stones, as well as the lead in his first fiction sales to Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine. Radcliffe was also features in The Hollywood Reporter in an article about his graphic novel and film work with Platinum Studios. He currently lives in the Midwest with his wife Loubna and daughter Julia.

K.D. Richardson – Journey Across Time

• Kent Richardson is a lifelong resident of Hamilton, Ohio, and is a photographer and sports columnist with the Venice Cornerstone newspaper. A 1997 graduate of Miami University (Ohio), Mr. Richardson has been writing for thirteen years and Journey Across Time is his third published work. He has written three screenplays and is busy on his fourth novel.

Casey Swanson - Beyond the Fears of Tomorrow

• Casey grew up in the Seattle area where he attended the University of Washington and majored in History and Russian Area Studies.

  Books and writing have been a part of his life since as long he can remember. As a kid, from about the same time as he developed an interest in Russia, he's wanted to write and publish books. Just something about being around the written word. Moving to California in 1980-1, he first worked as a publisher’s representative. Since that time he’s moved through a series of sales and marketing related jobs till it was decided it was time to pursue his dream.

  He started the, "Beyond the Fears of Tomorrow" while in college in 1978. It only took 26 years to finish. His inspiration was Pushkins "Eugene Oenegin" and Longfellow. He has always been a fan of story telling in poetry.

  Judy Joy Jones Show Interview

Ken Tucker – Are You Fascinated?

• Ken Tucker started a ground breaking management consulting company on the premise that fascinated employees provide the greatest return to an organization. Ken started his company, Ken Tucker & Associates, LLC, after many years of being a Principle Consultant and highly sought after speaker with the Gallup Organization. He is a regular contributor to management columns.

  Ken Tucker and Associates serves clients in the financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries as well as academic institutions and defense contractors. His partnerships span the United States, Canada, South America, South Africa, Hong Kong, Brazil, The Caribbean, and the United Kingdom.

  Ken is a frequent speaker at national conferences, board retreats, and corporate events. He uses humor, real life, and business examples, stories and anecdotes to effectively reach his audiences.

  Ken received his bachelor’s and master’s degree from the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He was selected a Kellogg Fellow in 1998. Ken Tucker is a native of the Bahamas. He lives with his wife, Judy, and three children, Kendra, Kristin, and Kenny in the Washington, D. C. Metropolitan area.

Paula L. Tutman – Deadline!

• I wrote my first poem at the age of four. It went, “Sugar plum, sugar plum in the tree. Please get the sugar plum just for me.” My mother tells me it went on for nine more verses.

  I’ve settled in Detroit because I love the state and the people. In Detroit, we are hearty because of the winters and kind because the rest of the world beats us up, but Detroiters are a proud and spirited bunch and I’m happy they’ve adopted me, as I have them.
  I split my residence between the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and a rural farming community on a bluff overlooking Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada.
  Many people consider me a closet geek. I collect rocks, minerals, fossils, rough gems (I do my own mining and faceting), and I’m a novice astronomer. For stress management I design pearl and gemstone jewelry. I enjoy horseback riding, am an avid cyclist and love motorcycles. Snow beckons me in my love of cross country skiing. I’ve raised hibiscus trees and calle lilies in my living room and orchids in my basement. As a farm girl, originally from the Chesapeake Bay Region, if Mother Nature made it, I love it.

  I’ve done a lot of living, still get carded for alcohol, see as much of the country as I can, and would like to see more of the world. And the one thing that has been constant throughout my years is…I love to write.

  Judy Joy Jones Show Interview

  Paula WON! Hollywood Book Festival 2009
  A well deserved award.

Andrew Winter - Prisoners of War

• Prisoners of Greed is the second installment of the Duper’s Fork Trilogy. The first book, Prisoners of War, was the debut novel of Andrew Winter (pen name) and was published in May, 2008. The third installment is planned for release in May, 2010.

  When he is not working on his novels, Andrew Winter is a practicing attorney in San Jose, California. He resides in Los Gatos with his wife, Mary Ann. He has two adult children, both of whom reside in Los Angeles, California.