Melissa Keir has always wanted to be an author when she wasn’t hoping for a career as a race car driver. Her love of books was instilled by her mother and grandparents who were avid readers. She’d often sneak books away from them so that she could fantasize about those strong alpha males and plucky heroines. In middle school and high school, Melissa used to write sappy love poems and shared them with her friends and still has those poems today! In college her writing changed to sarcastic musings on life as well as poems with a modern twist on fairy tales and won awards for her writing. You can find many of these musings along with her latest releases on her website and blog. Melissa loves hearing from readers! www.melissakeir.com http://www.facebook.com/melissa.keir#... http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/p... (fan page) www.twitter/melissa_keir

Kayla Krantz is an international bestselling author of dark fantasy, psychological horror, and supernatural thrillers. She is fascinated by the dark and macabre. Stephen King is her all-time inspiration, mixed in with some faint remnants of the works of Edgar Allen Poe. When she began writing, she started in horror, but somehow drifted into thriller and fantasy. She loves the 1988 movie, “Heathers.” Kayla was born and raised in Michigan, but traveled across the country to where she currently resides, in Texas. To keep up with her, sign up for her newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cwZHEz

Lori Joseph has drawn on her life experiences as an artist, wife, mother of four sons, photo stylist, producer, volunteer and friend for inspiration in her writing. The Pennwriters, founded in 1986, awarded a FIrst Place prize to Joseph for her debut poem titled, Wasserfall. Soon after, Joseph completed The Homestead Collection, poetry based on images of the mountain west, taken by photographers Tim O’Hara and Terry Wild. The collection was published online by Clerestory Poetry Journal, Poems of the Mountain West. Joseph also framed the images with her poetry to create a touring exhibit that has shown in Massachusetts, Wyoming and Maryland. Her work has been published by the Union Pacific Railroad, JustBeU magazine, and the Nebraska Writers Guild, founded in 1925, in How It Looks from Here, poetry chapbook and Voices From The Plains, 2nd Edition Anthology. In addition to writing, Joseph offers the A2A workshop which can be tailored for individuals or group team building. Contact Lori@LoriJoseph.com to schedule a workshop.

Maegan Beaumont is the author of CARVED IN DARKNESS, the first book in the Sabrina Vaughn thriller series (Available through Midnight Ink, spring 2013). A native Phoenician, Maegan’s stories are meant to make you wonder what the guy standing in front of you in the Starbucks line has locked in his basement, and feel a strong desire to sleep with the light on. When she isn’t busy fulfilling her duties as Domestic Goddess for her high school sweetheart turned husband, Joe, and their four children, she is locked in her office with her computer, her coffee pot and her Rhodesian Ridgeback, and one true love, Jade. She also writes a blog dedicated to helping writers with plot woes and answering writing questions. Check her out – maeganbeaumont.blogspot.com