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Andrew Aldrichaka Cade Russell |
About: Author of Western fiction. Vallian, a six-chapter short novel, appeared in Dimenovels in spring 2006. | CadeRussell.com |
H. B. Berlow
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About: A writer from Wichita, KS, H.B. Berlow has written screenplays. He currently focuses on crime fiction as well as stories with a Transgressive nature. He lives in a 100+ year old Victorian house with his wife Shelia and the three cats—Mongo, Camille, & Rupert. His interests include lounge music and all things Tiki. News: September 2011: H. B. Berlow’s madcap screwball crime caper, Kansas Two-Step, is now available at Amazon Kindle and Lulu.com. There is also a book trailer at YouTube. His book Quick is also at Amazon Kindle and Lulu.com, and there is a book trailer at YouTube. | H.B. Berlow, Writer and Artist |
Starla Criseraka Starla Kaye
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About: Writer of romance and sensual romance books and novellas. Starla Kaye has published: 19 novels, 20 novellas and 5 anthologies with Blushing Books, Black Velvet Seductions, Decadent Publishing, Red Rose Publishing, and iUniverse. News: August 2011: Starla had two book covers as ads in RT Book Reviews magazines recently. The cover for Maggie’s Secret Wish, from Decadent Publishing, appeared in the August issue. The cover for Their Lady Gloriana, from Black Velvet Seductions, appeared in the September issue. | StarlaKaye.comStarlaCriser.com, for her Blossom the Cow stories and other fun kinds of writing. |
Arlene Rains Graber
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About: Author of the novel A Plane Tree in Provence and a book of devotionals, Devoted to Traveling.News: September 2011: Arlene’s novel, A Plane Tree in Provence is available at Smashwords and on Amazon Kindle. Arlene also sold an article, “Channeling Crisis,” to Mature Living to be published in October 11. She sold a story, “Ask, Receive, Thank,” to Chicken Soup Devotionals to be published in October. She had three short short stories published in July, available on Amazon Kindle. Her website, www.arlenerainsgraber.com, was named website winner for the month of July 2011 by “Writer’s Reminder” newsletter produced by author Carolyn B. Leonard. | ArleneRainsGraber.com |
K.T. Hanna |
About: K.T. Hanna is happily married and shares her life with two corgis, a schizophrenic cat, her husband and a seasonal flock of ducks. She’s been writing and making up stories since she can remember, and while capable of finishing novel length accounts of her warped mind, revision is her weakness – and it’s what she’s currently vested in mastering. Procrastination paves the way far too often. One day she hopes to be published – but it’s a long road getting there. | KTHanna.comBlog |
Conrad Jestmore
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About: Conrad has published short stories, poetry and non-fiction in numerous journals and anthologies. River of Deathis his first novel. He has earned gainful employment as a welfare case worker in the mountains of California, an elevator operator when elevators still had them, a bartender, a paint warehouse stocker, a USO performer and a high school teacher. He is a Reiki Master, and currently teaches Reiki classes and heals both humans and animals in his central Kansas Reiki practice. Conrad’s mystery, River of Murder, has been published as an ebook. It is available at www.smashwords.com/b/63121 and at Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. | www.ConradJestmore.com |
Brian Johnson
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About:Brian is a storm photographer, writer, teacher, adventurer. He’s kind of an evil version of Robert Fulghum. News: September 2011: Brian’s e-book, Hell to Pay, will bereleased Sept. 16 from Hellfire Publishing. Brian was interviewed in August at The Hellfire Herald: Table Talk Tuesday. | Father Thunder/ Mother NightRuminations of Thunder: My adventures storm chasing |
Gordon Kessler
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About: Author of thriller novels Brainstorm, Dead Reckoning, and Jezebel. All have been released as e-books, along with his short stories “Jack Knight” and “Toothpick for Two.” All of his work can be found on www.Amazon.com, www.ReadersMatrix.com and www.Smashwords.com. Additionally, Gordon’s novels are available in paperback and hardcover through Amazon and Barnes & Noble. News: August 2011: Gordon’s latest thriller novel, Brainstorm, was released in audiobook July 15 and will be available from iTunes. This follows the novel’s e-book release in June in all of the most popular formats including Kindle, Kobo, Nook, and Sony, for tablets like iPad and Xoom, and even cell phone applications. Gordon says the recent advent of e-book publishing along with print-on-demand, or POD, have given “indie writers” opportunities that could not have been imagined only a year ago, allowing them to compete with brand-name and bestselling authors. Gordon plans to hold e-book publishing and promotion strategy sessions after the monthly KWA meetings at the Green Mill Restaurant at Kellogg and Rock Road in Wichita (about 4:30 p.m. the third Saturday of the month). He invites all writers interested in e-book and independent publishing to attend. | Gordon KesslerIndie Writers AllianceReaders MatrixThe Writer’s MatrixFacebookLinkedIn |
Mike Klaassen
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About: Mike is the author of two young-adult novels: Cracks and The Brute. Writer of numerous articles and book reviews about the craft of writing fiction. Publisher of FOR FICTION WRITERS, a free, monthly e-zine about the craft of writing fiction (visit Mike’s website to subscribe). | MikeKlaassen.com |
Samantha LaFantasie
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About: I’m an aspiring writer, mother, and wife. I have three children and have been married for 10 years. I was born and mostly raised in Kansas. I am now working to get my BA in Education. While attending school, growing a family, and moving cross country a couple of times, I started writing. My writing got put on hold until I re-discovered my love for it when my mom handed me something. It was a silly adaption of Aladdin I wrote for my mom when I was younger. I used a type writer. It re-kindled the fire inside me. I picked up the story that I had left years ago. After tweaking it, it has grown to a full length novel. Now I am polishing it up in hopes that I can hook an agent and become a best-selling author! I get lost in my writing; I’m told that’s very good because if I get lost in my world that I am writing, my readers will too! | SamanthaLaFantasie.com |
Marilyn Hope Lake
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About: Marilyn Hope Lake, PhD, is known most widely as the author of Buddy and The Grandcats, a children’s picture book, but she also writes short fiction, plays, and poetry. She has been an educator, association executive, state public relations officer, as well as a state cancer prevention trainer, and a small business development counselor. Her writings in these fields are many. Marilyn is a lover of family, friends, and animals. Her belief that God’s intent for each of us is revealed in the talents he gives us guides her to continue her creative activities. Currently, she is doing watercolor painting of the Kansas landscapes she has learned to love. | Compass Rose Publications |
Tom Mach
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About: Tom Mach is the author of two historical novels–Sissy! and All Parts Together, an award winning collection of poetry (The Uni Verse), a collection of short stories (Stories to Enjoy) and ebooks, which include An Innocent Murdered, Advent, and Homer the Roamer. He publishes a blog that has about 2,000 followers entitled “Prose & Verse World.” Tom is a former copywriter, writing instructor, editor of both a regional magazine and a national magazine. He has presented many lectures, conducted several writing workshops, and visited members of book clubs, volunteer organizations, and women’s clubs. | TomMach.comProse & Verse World |
Carol Martin
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About:Carol J. Martin is a veteran blogger and inspirational writer/speaker. She resides in Arkansas City, KS, with her husband, Steve, and four very spoiled cats. Carol leads the Cowley County Writers Guild, which meets every third Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the Arkansas City Public Library.News: May 2011: “I got a $5 check in the mail last week. ‘Big whoop!’ you say. Indeed, but it marks a beginning in my writing career. That $5 was the prize money I was awarded for taking third place in the Kansas Authors Club-District 3 Literary Contest. My inspirational piece “Your House is on Fire” was the entry. Maybe I’ll just frame it.” | Female in Motion |
Kelsey Norman
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About: The most important thing to know is I love my Lord. Also, I adore reading and writing. The background of my blog contains some of my favorite books by some of my favorite authors. Hopefully, one day I will have my own published book to add to my library. | Concrete Girl |
April Pameticky
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About: I live and love in Wichita. I write, read, teach, and attempt to raise my child, all while staying happily married for over a decade. | April in Wichita |
Erin Perry O’Donnell
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About: I write magazine articles on a freelance basis and fiction on an infrequent basis.News: November 2011: I just completed copy for a new visitors guide for Frisco, Texas, commissioned by the Frisco Convention and Visitors Bureau. I also have articles coming up in Generation Boom magazine in Wichita and TLH Moms magazine in Tallahassee. | ODCreative.comTwitter: @epodonnell |
Ray “Grizzly” Racobs
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About:Grizzly has written three young-adult novels featuring Oro, a telepathic golden retriever loosely based on his own beloved Oso. He also writes a light humor column for The Kansas Senior Times and various other publications.News: Grizzly won first place in two separate categories with this year’s Kansas Authors Club District 2 contest. His short story “A Bird in the Hand” took first in Children’s Story by Adult Author and his commentary piece “The Pursuit of Happiness” took first as a Feature Article. | Grizzly’s Books |
Everett Robert |
About: Everett has worked with community theaters as a writer, director, actor, and fight choreographer. Among many other stage credits, he is the writer/co-director of The Absolute, True Story of Tom Sawyer As Told by Tom Sawyer. He is a founding member of The Rural Shakespeare Company, where he performed The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America.News: Everett’s one-act play for children, The Absolutely True Story of Tom Sawyer as Told By Becky Thatcher, was produced by the Hill City, KS, summer children’s theater program in July 2011. The play was directed by fellow KWA member Bill Goodwin. | Emergency Room Productions |
Lois Ruby
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About: Lois Ruby is the author of more than a dozen children’s and young adult books, including some historical fiction. Her first book was published in 1977. Her most notable works are the historical fiction novels Steal Away Home and The Secret of Laurel Oaks.News: June 2011: I was featured in an interview as the May guest author on a blog about children’s literature. My first non-fiction book, called Strike! Mother Jones and the Colorado Coal Field Wars, will be published by Filter Press of Colorado and will be released early 2012. In June I taught a class on writing historical fiction forSouthwest Writers (the N.M. version of KWA). | LoisRuby.com |
B.D. Tharp
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About: B.D. Tharp’s novel, Feisty Family Values, was published by Five Star Publishing in 2010. A lifetime resident of Kansas, B.D. began a freelance copy writing and editing company in 2004, now called Scribble LLC. Some publishing credits include a short story, articles, and an essay that has appeared in Sheridan Edwards Review, Women’s Focus Magazine, Wichita Register Magazine, and A Waist Is A Terrible Thing To Mind, an Anthology. Accomplishments include: Writer’s Digest 76th Annual Competition-Stage Play category award winner, Kansas award winner in short story, children’s picture book, and prose. B.D. has started working the sequel to Feisty Family Values, Patchwork Family, which also won the KWA award for first pages of a novel. | BDTharp.com |
Richard Walkup
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About: I have been a writer, in one form or another, since the 1960s, but it wasn’t until I retired from the Federal Aviation Administration in 1994 that I became serious about it. In the 1980s and ’90s, I’d had several opinion pieces published in the local newspapers, but it wasn’t until I began writing life-experience short stories and novels that I considered becoming a published fiction writer. My most recent novel is called The Haint. | RichardWalkup.com |
Mike Watson
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About: Independent writer of adventure novels and short stories. The series I am currently working on begins in Durango, Colorado, during the 1950s. My 70,000-word debut adventure/thriller novel, The Nestorian Alliance: A Jack Trader Adventure, is now available in paperback via Amazon and in Wichita at Watermark Books, Al’s Bookstore, and Book-A-Holic (21st & Tyler); Blue Dragon in Derby; and soon in Perfect Peace. It’s also available as an ebook on Amazon.com, B&N, and Smashwords. | AdventureWithMike.com |
Jae Byrd Wells
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About: Jae Byrd Wells, a Kansan, fuels her active imagination by reading and watching Action, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance and Mysteries. She married her soulmate and they have two boys and two girls, one being a cancer survivor. Jae loves her family, writing, SCA, her Great Pyrenees, cats, horses and peacocks. | |
Makayla Yokley
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About: Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, and Laurell K. Hamilton are all my idols for one simple fact: They believe in what they write. They do research on their topic. They write stories that make you think. That’s what I look for in my own writing. To make people think, but also to create something so real that you can reach out and touch it. | The Forgotten Kingdom |
Hello Kansas Writers, I am a member of the Nebraska Writer’s Guild. For several months now I have been doing interviews of Nebraska writers that I publish on my blog and hope to release as a book by the end of the year.
I grew up in northern Kansas just south of Marysville on the river road on the west side of the Big Blue River. I often refer to myself as a Kansas river rat. I would love to interview at least one or more Kansas authors for my blog and upcoming book. If you are interested in being interviewed by me you can contact me at my email gfralin@yahoo.com
Please feel free to visit my blog http://www.wordsprings.blogspot.com to read previous interviews. I focus on the author as well as their writings and I like to stress that the interview is about you, not me. My mission in these is to put you out there center stage. My reward comes from the traffic these interviews have brought to my blog and hopefully a big following for the upcoming book.
I have written many poems and short stories. I have one novel THE SEARCH: LUNIS FLOWER OF HIDDEN which is a Christian fantasy. It is not a preachy book, but hopefully the reader finds the book entertaining as well as events that are based in Scripture.
Please contact me if you would like an interview.
Sincerely,
G. K. Fralin