Larry J. Hilton
Author Historical Fiction
Larry J Hilton is an avid student of history who has studied and traveled in Europe for more than fifty years. With a B.A. degree in history from Arizona State University and a graduate degree from the Southwestern School of Banking at Southern Methodist University, Larry has an extensive background in the financial services industry as a banker, stock broker, and portfolio manager. At age 79 he has recently completed classes at Oxford University Summer School for Adults. This is Larry’s second book, having published the nonfiction “Europe: Chained By History. What Force Can Break The Chain?” His lively writing style leads us to a ready understanding of how events in the history of Vienna led to the Holocaust. He is a former Naval Officer with experience in the Vietnam War. Larry lives and works with his wife Patty, in Chandler, Arizona.
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C.D. "TONY" HYLTON, III
Fiction, Drama, Political Thrillers
While Enough is fiction, Tony Hylton has been around journalism for more than 76 of his 77 years. He was less than a month old when printers’ ink was applied to his feet and the images made on newsprint as his sportswriter father held him.
His connection with this honorable profession has taken many forms – Editor/publisher of the Hinton (WV) Daily News (now Hinton News); visiting professor of journalism at Susquehanna University; public relations practitioner for a national trade association in Washington, DC and a steel company in northern West Virginia; communication director for AARP Virginia and Public Information officer for a major U.S. Army headquarters in the Republic of Vietnam. Enough features the interaction of journalism and the brand of rough and tumble politics found in southern West Virginia in 1960.
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Dr. Linda J. M. Holloway
Award-Winning Children's Book Author
Dr. Linda J. M. Holloway Ed.D, NCC is an Associate Professor of Counselor Education at Alabama State University. She has over 27 years of teaching experience. She is a poet, storyactivist, and multi-award winning children’s book author of 5 children books, The Little Miss Linda Series.
I love My Happy Hair 2021-New York Big City Book Distinguish Award (Four Star Review From Readers Favorite-2021); Little Miss Linda Goes To Counseling, 2021 New York Big Book Award (Five Star Review From Readers’ Favorite-2021); Little Miss Linda Speaks Out About Sickle Cell, 2020 Moonbeam Children’s Award (Five Stars Review From Readers’Favorite-2021); Little Miss Linda Speaks About Rape; Little Miss Linda Speaks About Diversity(Five Star Review From Readers’Favorite-2021).
Dr. Holloway is a true servant leader who lives by her life motto, “Always willing to serve.” She retired from the United States Army Reserves as Colonel after serving over 27 years. She completed four combat tours during her time: (1) Operation Desert Shield Desert Storm Farewell, (2) Two Tours to Iraq- Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), and (3) Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan.
She is a native of Mound Bayou, Mississippi where she grew up on a farm with both of her parents, Mr. Eugene and Willie Lue B. Holloway along with her six sisters and two brothers. Dr. Holloway said this is where she learned many pearls of life.
Dr. Holloway attended I.T. Montgomery Elementary and John F. Kennedy High School in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. She later went to complete her undergraduate studies at Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi, obtaining a B.S. in Psychology. She received her Master’s in Sociology, with an emphasis in Alcohol and Drug Studies at Jackson State University, in Jackson, Mississippi. Finally, she received her Ed.D. in Counselor Education, with a concentration in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, from Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi.
During Dr. Holloway's spare time, she loves to spend time with her family and friends, read, travel, go to the movies, and exercise. Her philosophy on life is "Dream Your Own Dreams." She is building her legacy through her own personal ministry- Women Without Limitations, where she educates, elevates, and empowers women and girls by teaching them there are no limits to what God almighty can do with your life.
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Lauren E. Hudson
Fiction, Business / Finance, Education, Middle Grade
Award-winning author, Lauren Hudson, co-authored her first book, Our Best Tomorrow, at age thirteen. She is the recipient of a Mom’s Choice Gold Award, E-Lit Silver Award, Great Southeast Book Festival Award and young adult book awards at the New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco Book Festivals. A student at Dixie Height High School in Northern Kentucky, Lauren has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business News, and the Blaze.
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Jan Thornton Jones
Fiction, History, Headline Kids, Education, Middle Grade, West Virginia Authors/Illustrators
Jan Thornton Jones graduated from West Virginia University with a degree in Elementary Education, a Master’s in Communication Studies, and another Master’s in Early Intervention Special Education. She is a retired Early Childhood teacher. Jan has written two award winning children’s books, The Angel In The Park and Why Me? She has always been fascinated by the heroism, patriotism and bravery of the soldiers on both sides of the Civil War. These acts of valor, along with the ageless wisdom of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, served as the inspiration for Last Letter To Gettysburg.
Bucleigh Newton Kernodle
Headline Kids, Fiction
A native of Charlotte, NC, Bucleigh Newton Kernodle has always had a passion for creative writing. Inspired by her ninth grade English teacher to spread her wings, sparked to push her limit at Elon University by her communications professors, and her editor at the Charlotte Business Journal showed her how to make words their very best selves, all culminated into a desire to write children’s books. Her faith in God is where she finds her direction. She cherishes being a wife, mother and daughter to her loving family and they have never stopped believing in her. For more information visit the author’s website.
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Raymond A. Keller, Ph.D
Books, Non-Fiction, Metaphysical / Paranormal
Dr. Raymond Keller has been involved in active UFO research since 1967, when he was a reporter for the Bedford Times Register in his hometown of Bedford, Ohio, and a research associate with Earl J. Neff, the founder and director of the Cleveland Ufology Project (CUP). Keller established his own group in 1986, the Outer Space International Research and Investigations Society (OSIRIS) and was the publisher and co-editor with Ballarion Starr of that organization’s monthly organ, The New Millennial Star. Keller has conducted numerous excursions to UFO hot spots throughout the world and has communicated directly with extraterrestrials on many occasions. Venus Rising is his second book; the first being Emergence of the Afro-Zulians in the Transatlantic World, 1722-1811 (Lewiston, NY: Mellen Press, 2013). He now travels the world lecturing about Venus and his research on his books.
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Barry Kienzle
Fiction, Historical, Non-Fiction, Biographies / Memoirs
Barry Kienzle was born, raised and educated in northern Kentucky and is in every sense, a Kentucky boy, proud of his heritage and the state he calls home. As such, he is very familiar with its history and culture and feels honored that his first novel, The Crossings, is a story with northern Kentucky origins.
Barry studied Accounting at Northern Kentucky University, became a CPA and worked primarily in the accounting and finance areas in construction and real estate development companies, currently as a CFO. As he nears retirement, he is venturing toward a second career in writing and felt compelled to begin it with a novel about an amazing venture of his father’s who, in 1932 hopped a freight train and rode it to New Orleans to see the Mardi Gras.
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Marcus Kirsch
Non-Fiction
Marcus Kirsch has worked as a transformation service designer, and innovation specialist for over 20 years. He is a Royal College of Art alumnus and former MIT Medialab researcher. He led projects for companies like British Telecom, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft, McDonald's, Nationwide, Nissan, Science Museum, P&G, Telekom Italia, non-profits and startups. He won awards in the areas of creativity and innovation and has been publishing for the Guardian, Wired and other industry-relevantt publications.
He is a thought leader and keynote speaker. In his off-time, he is a mediocre indoor climber, movie nerd, maker and likes his whiskies neat.
His articles can be found on Medium.com and LinkedIn.com and now in book form as well.
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Paula Christian Kliger, PhD
Author
Originally from New York City, Dr. Paula Christian Kliger is an artist, a board-certified clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst who has practiced as a clinician and a leadership/organizational consultant for 30 years. Dr. Christian-Kliger received her MA Degree and PhD in Clinical Psychology, with a minor in Statistical Measurement and Design, from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
Dr. Christian-Kliger’s unusual path to psychology through a career in music performance significantly influenced her to study psychology, after she returned from Southeast Asia where she performed for US troops and for injured Vietnamese people during the Vietnam War.
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Susanna Liller
Author
Susanna Liller, like many women, wears multiple professional hats (which she enjoys wearing). She is an organizational-development consultant, executive coach, women’s workshop leader, writer and musician. Her career, whether ediating, facilitating or coaching with groups or individuals, has always been about helping people find the path that evolves them to the next level of success. Susanna sees herself as a guide and motivator in this transformational process.
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Krystian Leonard
Headline Kids
Krystian experienced first-hand the trials and self-esteem issues associated with visible scars beginning at age 4. Healing with visible scars left her feeling damaged and ashamed. She found the strength she needed to overcome her self-image and entered her first beauty pageant at the age of 14. Krystian began to volunteer in her community and searched for a platform she could resonate with. She wanted to choose a platform that she could be passionate about, and thus Shining S.C.A.R.S. was born. Through her healing campaign for Shining S.C.A.R.S. Krystian has used her personal experience and pain as a way to reach out to others, helping them to feel PROUD of their imperfections knowing that those scars and the stories of those scars helped shape the person they have developed into.
Krystian has shared her vision and mission for Shining S.C.A.R.S. at TEDx Boca Raton, Contagious Optimism Live and Next Gen Summit. She works to gather funding to provide her book Shining Scars, to children’s recovering centers treating patients relating to burns, cleft palate, spina bifida and cancer recovery. Her book was awarded the Mom’s Choice Award – Silver in 2013. By creating a positive and character building organization it is Krystian’s goal to build an informative community aiding in the healing process.
Krystian traveled to New York in 2013 for Book Expo America, where she met David Mezzapple, which led her to the Contagious Optimism Family, and co-author of 10 Habits of Truly Optimistic People. Krystian is currently an anti-bullying speaker for ICubed Agency, and is scheduled as one of the speakers on The Rise Above Tour 2016.
Modeling is another passion of Krystian’s, she has been featured in local commercials and gained modeling jobs nationwide, for designers as Rachel Allen and Fernando Wong.
Looking to the future, Krystian is interested in continuing to write and publish children’s books, and is studying Broadcast Journalism at West Virginia University.
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Larry LockridgE
Author
Larry Lockridge attended Indiana University and graduated with Highest Distinction in English in 1964. He took his doctorate at Harvard in 1969, and taught in departments of English at Rutgers, Northwestern, and New York University, from which he retired in 2016 as Professor Emeritus of English. A Danforth, Woodrow Wilson, and Guggenheim Fellow, he has published books and articles on the European Romantics and critical ethics. But it is his biography of his father, Ross Lockridge, Jr., author of the1948 novel Raintree County, for which he is best known. Shade of the Raintree: The Life and Death of Ross Lockridge, Jr., was published by Viking in 1994, was nominated for the National Book Award and Pulitzer in biography, and received the MidAmerica Award. It was republished in 2014 by Indiana University Press with a new preface.
Set in nineteenth-century Indiana in a mythical county based largely on Henry County, Raintree County is still judged by a few critics to be the greatest American novel yet written. But at 1,060 pages and upstaged by a dubious MGM adaptation of 1957 starring Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Marie Saint, Lee Marvin and Montgomery Clift, it remains largely unread in the academy and elsewhere. Ross Lockridge, Jr. was himself born and raised in Bloomington, and, as “A plus Lockridge,” graduated from Indiana University in 1935, with the highest grade point average ever accumulated there. He died a suicide in 1948 at the age of thirty-three, just as his novel rose to number one on the nation’s best-seller lists. He left a wife and four children. Larry was five at the time.
Larry Lockridge tired of writing tragic narrative and in retirement began a series of satiric novels, The Enigma Quartet, to be published serially by Iguana Books, Toronto over the next two years.
The Cardiff Giant, set in Cooperstown, New York in 2003, is a satire on human gullibility, with focus on the paranormal and beliefs Carl Sagan discusses in The Demon-Haunted World. The Great Cyprus Think Tank, set in Cyprus in 2024, is a dystopian story that doesn’t give up altogether on utopian ideals. Out of Wedlock, set in Greenwich Village and Santa Fe from 1961 to 2008, tackles issues of identity, its protagonist a not altogether competent facial surgeon. And The Woman in Green, set in New Harmony, Indiana, in 1999-2000, is a satire on key aspects of American history and culture.
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Evan Marcus-Rotman
Chef, Author
Evan Marcus-Rotman is 54 years old. He grew up in Southern California and has traveled to nearly 50 countries. After cutting his teeth in restaurants, catering, and hotels, he worked as a private chef on yachts, private islands, estates, and on the road with rock bands, before spearheading a successful private chef business in Silicon Valley. These days he can be found cooking on the South Maui shores and is happiest when eating, dancing, or 53 feet underwater, breathing compressed air while neutrally buoyant.
Convictions of a Chef is a prison memoir, a travel memoir, and a chef’s memoir all rolled into one. It’s filled with fascinating and fun anecdotes about overcoming adversity, culinary challenges, and health issues. You will see how one boy grew into a man in the trenches of a cruel and senseless drug war and embraced food, music, and travel with all that he had.
Gritty, vulnerable, and humorous, Chef Evan delves into the ethics of the drug war with the same sense of adventure that he embraces culinary, cultural, and psychedelic exploration.
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Marcie May
Children's Books
Marcie May was already singing in coffeehouses at age 14; at 16, she started singing with local bands, and at 21, she was singing backup vocals in Nashville, Tennessee. She joined an all-girl band that was signed to Brown Dog Labels and toured all over the country. Years later, Marcie wrote music for an Emmy-winning daytime television for nearly 20 years. After that, she changed paths to become an author. Dream-inspired, The Adventures of Penny & Tubs: The City on the Sea, the first book in the series, was chosen for a Mom’s Choice Award and a Reader’s Favorite Award. Marcie is also the CEO and Founder of the Penny and Tubs Foundation (a Non-Profit Organization for Literacy).
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Lisa A. McCombs
Books, Non-Fiction, Biographies / Memoirs, Self Help, True Stories
Lisa A. McCombs retired from the public school classroom after a wonderfully combined thirty-three years in Taylor and Marion counties. A recipient of Marion County’s Reading Teacher of the Year, Lisa does not remember a time in her life that she wasn’t passionate about books: both reading and writing them.
Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2001, Lisa has fulfilled her life with a successful 33 year teaching career. She is a Readers Favorite award winning author of young adult fiction with books that include Abby, Raspberry Beret, Opening Pandora’s Box, and Bombs Bursting in Air. I Have MS: What’s Your Super Power? is her nonfiction debut.
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Derek McFadden
Author, Poet, Editor
Derek McFadden began writing stories at six years old. He is a poet, author, editor, blogger, radio enthusiast, an unapologetic Seattle Mariners fan, and a former March Of Dimes ambassador. Stricken at birth with a mild form of cerebral palsy, along with a mild form of not being able to see very well, Derek has worked his whole life to illuminate for others a life experience at once unique, fun, and–at times–harrowing.
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Bruce McLaughlin
Author, Veteran, Attorney
Bruce W. McLaughlin is a proud retired Army JAG officer and an attorney who runs his own law firm in Leesburg, Virginia.
As a criminal defense attorney falsely accused and jailed during an emotionally charged divorce, McLaughlin found himself ill-prepared for the challenges to proving his innocence. “More than 80% of abuse accusations leveled amid divorce proceedings prove to be false,” McLaughlin has since learned. He was one of the very, very few with the expertise, resources, and network necessary to eventually overturn his conviction—after spending 4 years in jail for an abhorrent crime he did not commit. Bruce’s eventual redemption allowed him to restore his law license, reputation, and life. He continues to rebuild his relationship with his four children.
Bruce McLaughlin captures his experiences and shares his lessons learned in He Said, She S.A.I.D, a cautionary tale for any parent contemplating divorce. An advocate for the falsely accused, McLaughlin focuses his general practice on helping the underdog and those unable to help themselves. He blogs about his journey to developing a thriving law practice across the street from the same courthouse that sentenced him to 13 years in prison.
Bruce lives with his family in Frederick, Maryland, and is an avid cyclist who loves to ride in the Catoctin Mountain’s foothills. He spends his free time with his family and helping recovering addicts at the local Frederick Rescue Mission transition back into the workplace.
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Heidi Ruby Miller
Non-Fiction, Education, Self Help
Heidi Ruby Miller uses research for her stories as an excuse to roam the globe. With degrees in Anthropology, Geography, Foreign Languages, and Writing, she knew early that penning fast-paced, exotic adventures would be her life. She’s put her experiences and studies to paper in her far-future AMBASADORA series and into her two new thriller series. In between trips, Heidi teaches creative writing at Seton Hill University, where she graduated from their renowned Writing Popular Fiction Graduate Program the same month she appeared on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. AMBASADORA was her thesis novel there, and the multi-award winning writing guide MANY GENRES, ONE CRAFT, which she co-edited with Michael A. Arnzen, is based on the Seton Hill program and was named #5 in The Writer magazine’s Ten Most Terrific Writing Books of 2011.
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