Wendy Laing

Wendy Laing

Wendy Laing is one half of the pseudonym or pen name "Dalziel Laing" of Dianne Dalziel and Wendy Laing, the co-authors of Mirror, Mirror. She is also a multi-published author in her own right. A writer, part-time housewife with a Teaching Diploma, a Bachelor of Arts Degree with Majors in Professional Writing (creative writing, editing and publishing) and Communications (mass media and gender imaging) with electives in Literary Studies and Sociology, and Master of Arts (project/thesis called: "Severance Packages A Crime/Paranormal…
Wendy Nichols

Wendy Nichols

As a child, Wendy wanted to be a nurse. Then she discovered that she felt queasy at the sight of blood so she forgot that idea and thought about becoming a ballerina or an actress. Finally she decided she'd like to be a Drama and English teacher and has since put on plays with hundreds of kids around Australia. Now, she is writing and lives in Brisbane with her husband, Rob, two boys, James and Mark, and Marco the attack…
Will Greenway

Will Greenway

First published in 1983, Will Greenway started his creative career wanting to draw and script comics. After a number of years, he found writing better suited to his skills. Aside from writing and art, Will is a self-taught programmer, PC technician, and network troubleshooter. He enjoys skiing, racquetball, Frisbee golf, and is steadfast supporter of role-playing games. To date he has completed eighteen novels more than twenty short stories, and numerous articles on writing. He resides in the Spring Valley…
Courtney Mroch

Courtney Mroch

A member of Mystery Writers of America and the Short Mystery Fiction Society, Courtney Mroch's award-winning short stories have appeared in numerous zines. Her short story, Skin Ish Ca, ranked #2 in the 2003 Preditors & Editors Reader Poll. Her e-book, Cellfish Ways, published by Echelon Press, is the publisher's year-to-date #2 best-selling dollar download. She lives in Jacksonville, Florida with her husband, Wayne Pryor, and their cat, Mr. Meow (aka Kitty), and dog, Murphy. Beneath the Morvan Moon is the first book…
Claralice Hanna Wolf

Claralice Hanna Wolf

Born in Thailand in 1921 to missionary parents, Claralice and her twin sister were home schooled by their mother, until eleven when they went to India to an American boarding school. At sixteen, they entered a boarding Academy, then college in Illinois. It was there Claralice met her future husband, and they were married three months after he graduated from seminary, the day after she graduated from college. His first pastorate was in Massachusetts, then they went into mission work…
Christine DeSmet

Christine DeSmet

Christine DeSmet is an award-winning fiction writer and professional screenwriter. She is the author of the bestselling Fudge Shop Mystery Series and the popular novella series called Mischief in Moonstone. She is a Distinguished Faculty Associate in Writing at University of Wisconsin-Madison where she teaches novel writing and screenwriting and directs the annual summer Write-by-the-Lake Writer's Workshop & Retreat. Through her master classes she has seen many of her adult students become published. She is also a professional writing coach…
Chris Spindler

Chris Spindler

Chris is a German author who also writes in English. Her first mysteries introduced London's Inspector Frederick Terry to high praise from critics and readers alike. They're available from Hard Shell Word Factory. In Germany, Chris Spindler is mainly known under her maiden name Tina Zang. Her quirky "Karate Hamster" series is a roaring success with 7 to 10 year olds. She also writes YA romance and novels.  Find out more by visiting her website at http://www.christinespindler.com . Author of: https://www.writers-exchange.com/falcons-bend-series/
Cheryl Scott Norman

Cheryl Scott Norman

Cheryl Scott Norman lives on the edge of a golf course on the southern coast of Victoria, Australia, with her retired husband, three hundred kangaroos, possums, echidnas and an assortment of native fauna. When she's not dodging golf balls and keeping the kangaroos away from the rose bushes, she can be found reading or writing fantasy and science fiction as well as being a busy mother of two adult children and four grandchildren. Three years ago, Cheryl received her Diploma…
Charles Sutton

Charles Sutton

Charles Sutton was born in London and served in the Royal Engineers for seven years including the whole of the Second World War. Most of that time he spent instructing on the use of explosives and on bomb disposal. After the war he spent many years working in the prisons getting to know many famous and infamous people. He is very aware of how some of the present versions of events that occurred during his lifetime and even before the…
Catherine Dove

Catherine Dove

Fantasy writer Kathy Ann Trueman also writes romance under the name of Catherine Dove. She lives in rural Texas with a lifelong friend and a menagerie that includes horses, dogs, cats, and birds. She's addicted to chocolate, dragons, books, movies, and football. She's a 50+ single who graduated from a small college and still prefers the quiet of country life. An avid reader, she was an Army brat who spent most of her young life moving, so books became her…
Cathan

Cathan

Cathan is a former CPGA club golf professional. Specialized in teaching juniors but is writing full time now. She has a University background, in anthropology, archeology and psychology. Cathan studied with the Maui Writers group and had a local newspaper column. She lives in Canada and writes children's books and also adult mysteries. Children's humour is her favourite genre. Author of: http://www.writers-exchange.com/dani-pepper-and-the-spelling-bee/ http://www.writers-exchange.com/the-magic-clown/   And writing as Cathan Shoniker: http://www.writers-exchange.com/and-the-lucky-winner-is/  
Betty Jo Schuler

Betty Jo Schuler

Betty Jo Schuler writes for all ages, from kids to adults. She writes romance, humor, and mystery.  Her books are print and electronically published, and she is proud of both. She is a former elementary teacher who frequently talks about the writing process at conferences, libraries, and schools. Author of: https://www.writers-exchange.com/brain-man-and-double-trouble-ditto-box/
Beryl Trebble

Beryl Trebble

Beryl was born an only child in 1937 in Southport, Lancashire, UK but her parents took her to Kenya to pyrethrum farm when she was 2 years old and they ended up in Durban for the duration of the war years. After graduating from the Loreto Convent in Eldoret at 15 she studied in Liverpool for a year before returning to South Africa. Here she married a farmer and they uprooted to pioneer a tea estate out of the rain-sodden…
Aytul Akal

Aytul Akal

While all writing is her lifelong love, she is dedicated to writing for children.  Her ambition is to support their creative minds, their constructive reasoning and communication, and their fair insight. She believes that raising the cognitive standards of today’s children will help bring peace and happiness to the Earth. Aytul has two wonderful sons, Evren and Alper. Author of: https://www.writers-exchange.com/the-magical-door-series/
Aleksandra Zajackowski

Aleksandra Zajackowski

Aleksandra is a naturalized American, born in Poland. She studied English at the Jagiellonian University of Cracow, Poland, and then at the Justus-Liebig University of Giessen, Germany.  After receiving an MA in English she continued her education at the University of Maryland and graduated with a Master of Library Science degree. She speaks a few languages (Polish, English, German and Russian), paints, plays piano and writes. Aleksandra lives in Virginia with her husband and two children and she works as…
Alan Strickland

Alan Strickland

Alan Strickland has worked as a freelance technical writer following a long 'dirty hands' career as an engineer and technician in British and Australian industry. Originally from Carlisle in the north of England he is married, has two adult daughters and a dog and lives in the foothills of Adelaide, South Australia. Amongst his interests are renewable energy, ecosystems and sustainable living. Alan is a public speaking tutor and is currently training to become a professional counsellor. He's always had…
A. J. Walker

A. J. Walker

A.J. Walker is an archaeologist who likes to get to the bottom of things. His training has taught him that under an innocuous field may lie a vanished village, while turning over a simple stone may reveal ancient writing. Finding the hidden under the surface is what archaeology is all about. It's what writing is all about too. What makes people do what they do, and feel what they feel? It's often hard to find that out in the real…
Max Overton

Max Overton

Max Overton has travelled extensively and lived in many places around the world--including Malaysia, India, Germany, England, Jamaica, New Zealand, USA and Australia. Trained in the biological sciences in New Zealand and Australia, he has worked within the scientific field for many years, but now concentrates on writing. While predominantly a writer of historical fiction (Scarab: Books 1 - 6 of the Amarnan Kings; the Scythian Trilogy; the Demon Series; Ascension), he also writes in other genres (A Cry of…
Commonwealth Universe, Age 1, Volume 1: KHYBORS: In the Beginning 3d cover 2024 updated

Commonwealth Universe, Age 1, Volume 1: KHYBORS: In the Beginning by Michelle Levigne

Before the Commonwealth existed, there was an expanding, multi-galaxy civilization. Due to the combined effects of a too-aggressive policy of expansion, civil unrest, the inequality and abuse of the classes, and the categorizing of augmented humans as a slave class, the Central Allied Worlds (CAW) disintegrated.   The period of darkness and barbarism that followed is referred to as the Downfall. Various groups of people fled the Central Allied Worlds (referred to by its descendants/survivors simply as "First Civ") as…