Books in series
Signed, Sealed, & Delighted
2016
Win, Love, or Draw
2015
Out of the Storm
2012
Authors
Carla Hoch is the author of the Writer’s Digest book Fight Write: How to Write Believable Fight Scenes. She is the blogger of FightWrite.net and podcaster of the eponymous FightWrite podcast. Carla has training in nearly a dozen martial arts and fighting styles and regularly teaches workshops on the mechanics of fighting for writers as well as the craft of writing fight scenes. She trains outside of Houston, in the People's Holy Republic of Texas where she lives with her family, paranoid guinea pigs and judgmental cat. Carla Factoids:
- When Carla was in 5th grade she wrote to People Magazine and told them how much she loved their article on the E.T. movie star Henry Thomas. People Magazine wrote her back, she still has the letter, and helped Carla become an official member of the E.T. fan club.
- She was the Sam's Club Employee of the Month once. She was also surveilled by Sam's Club to see if she was stealing money but it turned out she was just super bad at counting down her cash register. They kept her and raised her as their own.
- She was almost suspended in high school for shooting spit balls. It wasn't so much the spit balls. It was that when she was told to write an essay on why she shouldn't shoot spit balls, Carla argued that her spit balls were a cry for peace and if everyone would put down their guns and pick up straws the world would be a better place to live!
- She is a descendent of William Shakespeare's mother's sister.
- She is really good at making popcorn on the stove.
- Carla has training in hapkido, MMA, Muay Thai, street defense, iaido and Filipino martial arts and is belted in judo, aikido, TKD and Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
- Both her late father and late aunt were professional writers
Born in the heart of North Carolina, reared in Virginia’s Tidewater, and now settled in the upstate of South Carolina, Jim Hamlett is every bit the born and bred southerner. He lives with his wife of thirty-eight years in a home he built himself, tucked in a quiet corner at the foot of a mountain. For more than three decades, Jim has been a professional pilot, flying throughout the continental U.S., Canada, and the Caribbean. Moe is his first novel. "Squall Line" is his first short story published in an anthology of twelve stories, Out of the Storm.
Long ago, a high school creative writing teacher told Ralph James he had an excellent grasp of the absurd. In 2014, while creating sample blog templates to show writers how he could help them promote their work, he wrote several paragraphs in different genres to go with his templates. His lovely bride, Clarice, a writer herself, suggested he expand one of them into a short story. The result was Just West of Clovis, which debuted in "Out of the Storm" anthology. Perhaps that teacher was right. Since then, Ralph has expanded other works on His Western and Sci-Fi blog sample pages published them as an E-Book anthology, Premium Mixed Nuts. The paperback is in the final staged of preparation. Ralph and Clarice live in New Hampshire. He lured her from Cape Cod with glowing promises of city water and trash pick-up. She's not sure whether to forgive him.
Terrie Todd's debut novel, The Silver Suitcase, won the 2017 Word Guild award for Historical Fiction. Her second, Maggie's War, won the same award for 2018 while her third, Bleak Landing, was a finalist. In 2018, she was awarded the Janette Oke Award by Inscribe Christian Writers Fellowship. She has published eight stories with Chicken Soup for the Soul, two full-length plays with Eldridge Plays and Musicals, and writes a weekly faith and humor column for her hometown paper. 135 of the most popular columns are found in Terrie's first nonfiction book, Out of My Mind: A Decade of Faith and Humour. Her fourth novel, Rose Among Thornes, released in August, 2021 and her fifth, The Last Piece. in November, 2021. After 20 years leading a church drama team, Terrie worked part-time as an Administrative Assistant at City Hall. Recently retired, she lives with her husband, Jon, on the Canadian prairies where they raised three children and where her novels are set. Over the years, Terrie has pursued acting, vegan cooking, and playing the saxophone, all with mixed reviews. You can catch up with her latest escapades at www.terrietodd.blogspot.com
Karla Rose is a wife and mother of two, living in the Waikato, New Zealand. She spends her time, helping where she can, loving her husband, and supporting her children as they learn and grow. She has a love of food, movies, music, TV series, the beach, friends and family. You can find her on her website karlamrose.weebly.com, her Facebook page Karla Rose - Author, or on Instagram @karlamroseauthor
Linda Kozar is an award-winning multi-published author of traditional and indie-published fiction and nonfiction books, novellas and short stories, speaker and podcaster. In 2021, Sunshine For The Soul took home a First Place Selah and Nonfiction Book of the Year at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference. She was named ACFW Mentor of the Year in 2007 and founded The Woodlands Texas Chapter of the American Christian Fiction Writers. She also serves on the Christian Authors Network board, and is a member of ChiLibris and AWSA. Linda and her husband Michael, married 32 years, live in The Woodlands, Texas and enjoy spending time with their two grown daughters, their wonderful son-in-law, sweet granddaughter Eden, and Gypsy, their rascally Jack Russell Terrier. (American Christian Fiction Writers), Writers On The Storm, The Woodlands, Texas Chapter of ACFW, Toastmasters (Area 56) The Woodlands, Texas, The Woodlands Church, The Woodlands, TX. Represented by Amanda Luedeke of MacGregor Literary.
