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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.

Creating A Survival Pilot, Roberta M. Roy

As an award-winning novelist, Roberta M Roy's book Home Again 2020 (Jolt Survival Trilogy Book 3) took the Gold Medal for Current Events II (Social Issues/Public Affairs/Ecological/ Humanitarian) and Silver Medal for Multicultural Fiction in the Jenkins 2021 International eLit awards and Jolt: a rural noir (Book 1) took the 2011 Jenkins Living Now Inspirational Fiction Award. Her book Slivers: Poems by Roberta M Roy, medaled in the 2020 Jenkins International eLit Awards in Poetry. Roy is a certified teacher of secondary English and a NYS Licensed Speech Language Pathologist. 

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Your ”Midnight Cravings” Talk w/ Shari Nichols

New York Book Festival Honorable Mention, Reviewers Choice Award for Best Book, Reviewers Choice Award for Best Series, Beverley Award, Golden Leaf Finalist, Golden Leaf Finalist For Best Book by a New Jersey Author, HOLT Medallion Finalist, Literary Titan Silver Medal Winner. Midnight Cravings Amazon Link: https://a.co/d/76jhfzn

Chasing The Darkness Cassie Sanchez

Pain is inescapable. Suffering is a choice.

Amazon Book Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Darkness-Cassie-Sanchez/dp/1631956094/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1670542558&sr=8-2

The ScreenWrite, Kiril Maksimoski

Born in 1979 in Gostivar, Macedonia. Lives in Karlovac, Croatia from 1981-1991. There he's first time involved with performance art through participating in drama section of the "Zorin Dom" theatre. From 1993 until present lives in Skopje, Macedonia. After graduating from high school, he works as a graphic designer in various places. In 2004 joins alternative theatre "Steps" in Skopje and is an active member as an actor until 2009. Since the beginning of his efforts as a writer/director, back in 1998, he authored several short films, screenplays, poems and short stories. So far several of his scripts have been optioned in Macedonia and abroad and in 2015 his short script titled "Elevation 404" has been produced into short film under Auripigment Productions. Has his first feature script optioned as of 2018 by an award winning production company "2hotfilms" from UK. Currently lives and works in Skopje. Experienced as: graphic designer and 4 years as CS for UK/Ireland market among others. Fluent in: English, Serbo-Croatian. http://meetthescriptwriters.com/scriptwriter/kiril-maksimoski/