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Sushi And Sea Lions Rachel Corsini

After declaring herself a pretty pink princess during her first ballet class, Rachel dreamt of sugarplums and began pirouetting her way through life. While studying to become a ballerina, she compulsively read books under her covers by flashlight and scribbled in spiral-bound notebooks. The urge to tell stories culminated in her graduation from Columbia College Chicago with a B.F.A. in fiction writing. 

Never one to keep her feet on the ground, she traveled the world from Prague to Cape Town. Once settled back in Queens, she dabbled in journalism before working as an Editorial Assistant for a medical publisher. Seeking a more fulfilling career, she earned her MAT from Queens College and currently works as an English teacher in an alternative program in NYC. 

Rachel spends her time sipping coffee, trying to cook, and caring for her judgmental geriatric cat. She currently resides in Freeport, Long Island. http://www.rachelcorsini.com 

Middle Age Cabaret, Shellie Schmal

Shellie Schmals is the producer and creative curator of VonSchmals Productions. With her love for community building, she's spent the past 15+ years working in the entertainment industry using my 25+ experience in the non-profit sector. As Stage 32's Director of Community, she led an online global community of creatives focused on networking and collaboration. As the Senior Program and Industry Relations Manager at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, Shellie worked with emerging filmmakers on widening the scope of their festival-selected films by introducing them to distributors. She loves sharing her experience in developing creative, safe spaces that have multiple points of entry for new/emerging professionals to seasoned/trailblazer veterans. Volunteering is important to Shellie and she sits on the board of directors for Women in Film and Television Atlanta, Georgia Production Partnership, and Film Festival Alliance. Her creative passion is burlesque and pinup, and producing all kinds of comedy, film, fashion, and art shows in Atlanta since 2009, and in November 2023, she's launching Film Strip Fest, a two-day short-film and burlesque festival that celebrates the art of storytelling! http://www.shellieschmals.com

Doctor Knows How To Kiss You Back, Mel Walker

Mel Walker is an award-winning rare bird, the male romance author. Specializing in heartfelt small-town romance, he enjoys telling compelling romances with all the feels. A native New Yorker and life-long frustrated NY Mets fan, he enjoys baseball, reading, bike rides, and writing outdoors where he absorbs the energy of the city. 

http://www.authormelwalker.com 

Outlawed Myths, Evelyn Puerto

Evelyn Puerto reads just about anything and writes in multiple genres and is the author of the award-winning Outlawed Myth epic fantasy series. When she married, she inherited three stepdaughters, a pair of step-grandsons and a neurotic cat. Currently she writes from South Carolina. When she's not arguing with her characters, she's helping her grandsons catch bugs. https://www.evelynpuerto.com 

Fighting Fires Through Romance LoLoPaige

LoLo Paige is an award-winning author who writes romantic suspense and romantic comedies. Her books have received several indie publishing awards for best romance. She's a former wildland firefighter and books from her romance firefighter series were featured in Publishers Weekly Magazine. Her true story about escaping a runaway wildfire won a 2016 Alaska Press Club award. Her books have ranked No. 1 on Amazon Bestseller Lists in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. She's also a playwright and a screenwriter. https://www.lolopaige.com 

Colorful World Of Children’s Books, Leah Pugh

Leah Pugh grew up an avid reader. She could often be found with her nose in a book. She started writing at a young age. Her first book was published while she was still in college. 
Leah is the author of the CrystalO'Mally mystery series and children's books such as The Day Please Slept In (Winner of the 2021 Written Word Award), Something Warm For Grandma, and King Robert the Wet. When she's not writing, she's spending time outdoors, enjoying a cup of tea, or sticking her nose in a book. She is the proud wife and mother of a wonderful family. 

http://www.lpstories.com 

It Was A Pharmacy Destined For Fiction... S. Lee Fisher

Pharmacy to Fiction. Award-winning writing as a second career. 
"Strong Women Rock" is Fisher's life mission statement. 
When Fisher's mother realized she was pregnant, she instilled the need in her unborn child to be a strong independent woman. 
The lesson hit its target. S. Lee Fisher, aka Dr. "P.," a clinical pharmacist, was born and raised in small-town Pennsylvania. She made her 'strong woman' debut in her mid-twenties when she became the first woman in her county to pay a man support. After moving to Pittsburgh, she enjoyed a successful corporate career managing retrospective clinical programs for the PBM side of a Fortune 20 company. 
Fisher began writing fiction to channel the pain and grief of her father's passing. In the process, she discovered that she enjoys the creativity of telling stories, mainly when a strong woman controls the shots. Now a full-time novelist, Fisher lives on Florida's gulf coast with her husband of 38 years, Ralph. She enjoys painting watercolors, ballroom dancing, and swimming when she's not writing or dodging hurricanes. Becoming Olive W., Book 1 in the Women of Campbell County Series, won multiple awards in 2021 and is awaiting outcomes on several other nominations. https://sleefisher.com 

Regaling Detroit with Elizabeth Crowe

Liz Crowe is a Kentucky native and graduate of the University of Louisville living in Central Illinois. She's spent her time as a three-continent expat trailing spouse, mom of three, real estate agent, brewery owner and bar manager, and is currently a social media consultant and humane society development director, in addition to being an award-winning author.

With stories set in the not-so-common worlds of breweries, on the soccer pitch, inside fictional television stations and successful real estate offices, and even in exotic locales like Istanbul, Turkey, her books are compelling and told with a fresh voice. The Liz Crowe backlist has something for any reader seeking complex storylines with humor and complete casts of characters that will delight, at times frustrate, and always linger in the imagination long after the book is finished.

 

http://www.lizcrowe.com

The Rennington Chronicles: The Night Professor By P.F. Felix

“Freedom is a fool’s paradox...even the devil gets his due, eventually.”

Such was the mantra of Amyra Rose Moore. Before it all went haywire, Amyra’s life was blissfully centered. As the comely daughter of a West Coast socialite and pillar of her law school's LGBTQ-collegiate society, nothing could stop this rising L-gunner; that was…until that fatal-night after being convicted for her involvement in her biracial girlfriend's accidental death, causing insatiable media frenzies and death threats to ensue.

To ensure her daughter’s protection, her mother (the town’s mayor) struck a secret deal, forcing Amyra into hard servitude at a distant boarding school located in the middle-of-nowhere New England town of Rennington for the duration of her sentence. Upon arrival, she notices strange occurrences happening throughout the town via its reconstruction efforts; as an outside entity, MalCORP seemed to be funding the endeavor single-handedly without question.

When all seemed lost, she encounters a newly on-boarded professor who immediately took the school by storm. As she learns to adjust to her situation, an old trouble resurfaces, causing her to cower until a near-death experience prostrates her to remain at the school, as if fated. Later, Amyra is taken on a journey where she and the recently acquired teacher venture together, forming a solid friendship that churns into something unexpected. While their friendly liaison aggrandizes, the unusual occurrences happening in the woods behind the academy suddenly bring to light the deadly truth of the town’s cryptic past, as well as the pernicious reasoning behind why Amyra was truly brought there.

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Meteoric Levels Cinematics, Philip C Sedgwick

Philip wrote his first screenplay largely due to the prompting of a writer friend. The second script he penned, Neon Cactus, landed a berth as a Quarter-Finalist in the Academy's esteemed Nicholl Fellowship (1990). Since then, more than thirty of his scripts & films have received acclaim in screenwriting contests, film festivals and writing fellowships (a complete listing of awards can be found via a link below).

Philip is a member of the Arizona Production Association.

An award-winning writer and director, Philip is frequently sought out for and has completed many work-for-hire screenplay assignments such as the recently completed:

OUT OF THE DARKNESS - Based upon the efforts of Clyde Tombaugh to discover Pluto in 1930 Arizona.

He penned three work-for-hire popular short films for the festival circuit including:

MIRAGE AT ZABUL PROVINCE (2015), a short film written by Philip and directed by Nathan Bettisworth completed and a four festival award-winning film and was in competition in an Oscar-Qualifying film festival.

OTRO LADO (2018), a short film conceived by EP and composer Alex Holland.

ELEVATOR PITCH (2017), based upon a short screenplay contracted by EP, Rutger Oosterhoff.

Last year his short screenplay ZAP! took first place honors in the Phoenix Film Festival. Despite the pandemic the script was filmed last year, where Philip made his directorial debut. Now complete with the festival circuit, the film was selected to fifty-five festivals worldwide.

In April of 2022, Philip directed his second short film from his script METEORIC. With an amazing cast, this film is currently on the film festival circuit.

Additionally, Philip is in conversation as a work-for-hire director on short films to be filmed in Arizona. Other short films based upon Philip's scripts are in various stages of development.

Committed to restoring feature film production in southern Arizona near his home base in Tucson, Arizona, Philip is working to fund his screenplay, NEON CACTUS, which in its first draft placed in the esteemed Nicholl Fellowship. As well he is now pursuing funding for his award-winning western screenplay, CACTUS JUNCTION. Both scripts are modest budget (under $3M) and have talent attachments.

He continuously works to develop his armada of screenplays, features and shorts, including his multi-festival (Burbank International Film Festival, San Antonio Film Festival) winning script, AN UNDOCUMENTED RUMOR, a hot button, politically-charged thriller with diverse talent and in which both the protagonist and antagonist are female.

Philip served as a juror for the Prescott Film Festival where he also conducted screenwriting workshops..... click here to continue reading.