Katie Darden is a Business and Career coach, Trainer, Speaker and Internet Marketer with over 20 years experience in Human Resources, including Personnel as well as Training and Development. She's held several different roles in government and private industry across a broad range of organizations, from small business start-ups through City, County, State and Federal governments.

Her vast experience includes working as a consultant for businesses such as Microsoft, Intel, Continental Airlines, Alcoa, Johnson & Johnson, Applied Materials, MCI, British Telecom, Glaxo, Hewlett Packard, Honda, Ontario Hydro (Canada), Syncrude Canada, US West, Department of Veteran's Affairs and several California State Agencies.

Katie has built and managed several small businesses since the 1970s, enjoying all the benefits of being a serial entrepreneur. She loves working with creative people and small start-ups. For several years she focused on working with women entrepreneurs, winning awards for website design and managing local and national business networking groups. In 1999 she received National recognition when she designed and managed the first online virtual network for the National Association for Female Executives.

She is a 1997 graduate of Coach U, a founding member of Coachville and the Graduate School of Coaching, a certified Handwriting Expert, a registered and certified hypnotherapist and Master Practitioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). She is trained in the Emotion Code and several other healing modalities.

Katie is an artist in her "spare" time, designing and creating award-winning fused glass jewelry and painted fabric items for her etsy stores, as well as adult coloring books and journals. Her designs are also sold on tshirts, cups and other materials on both etsy and Amazon.

She considers herself fortunate to live on the far Northern Redwood Coast of California and to spend the rainiest 4-6 months every year in San Felipe, Mexico, on the Sea of Cortez.

Katie enjoys creating environments and opportunities for people to discover and express their natural gifts and talents.

You can find out more about Katie at her website http://careerlifeinstitute.com/about/katie-darden/

***EVALHENA STORIES***

Katie started writing Children's Books with her granddaughter Evalhena Owen, when Evie was 11. Their first book is "The Sad Little Cloud Who Wanted to Make Friends." They had 3 more planned, but you know, life happens!

She also collaborates with friends to create adult coloring books. So far she has one with her grandson Billy, and one with her friend Yvonne and her cousin Michael. They can be found under Magical Design Studios.

Lynne Cantwell has been writing fiction since the second grade, when the kid who sat in front of her showed her a book he had written, and she thought, "I could do that." The result was "Susie and the Talking Doll," a picture book illustrated by the author about a girl who owned a doll that not only could talk, but could carry on conversations. The book had dialogue but no paragraph breaks.

Today, after a twenty-year career in broadcast journalism and a master's degree in fiction writing from Johns Hopkins University (or perhaps despite the master's degree), Lynne is still writing fantasy. She is also a contributing author at Indies Unlimited. She lives near Washington, DC.

Author Diane Ziomek

Diane Ziomek was born in 1968 and spent most of her childhood on the family farm. She loved the outdoors and spent as much time outside as she could; choosing it over television more often than not. Her love of reading also came at an early age.

Her passion for reading turned to dreams of writing, and in 2010 she began writing online. After dreaming about being a writer for at least two decades she began researching her options and found self-publishing was the most feasible option for her.

In October 2012, Diane stepped out of her comfort zone of nonfiction and registered for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and wrote a 50,000+ word novel in the month of November. She has also authored a number of nonfiction titles, which center around helping others follow their passions and achieve their dreams. These titles are mainly based on freelance writing, self-publishing and creating a business from a hobby.

In early 2018 she decided to expand on her fiction journey, and has written The Pipestone Creek Romance Series. Her new romance series (Mount Brooksby Romance Series) is underway.

She does not take the easy way out of anything, and as her late father used to say "If there's a hard way to do something, Diane will find it."

Diane became a widow in May 2020 and made some life changes; one of which was moving from the home her and her husband shared. She bought an acreage in the summer of 2022 and is enjoying being a grandma. She treasures family time and enjoys spending time with her family and friends.

Email: ziomekdiane@gmail.com

Twitter: DianeZiomek

Deborah Carney has been a freelance photographer for over 35 years, covering events, weddings and cat shows, in addition to macro and general nature photography. Her cat photographs were published by T.H.F. publications in two of their cat breed books, one about American Shorthairs and the other featuring the Sacred Cat of Burma.

Additionally, as a prolific photographer with an eye for details, she will be publishing a number of books that are photo based with information about the photographs in them. The ability for these photos to now be able to be enjoyed in color on eReaders and eReader apps has inspired her to create a multitude of books on a large variety of subjects.

Her favorite subjects to photograph are butterflies, hummingbirds and macro images of flowers, in addition to wildlife and nature of all kinds. There will be many series of books about nature in general and by species, and wildlife plus beautiful locations that she has photographed.

Deborah Carney has been involved in online marketing since 1997, with a variety of web projects. Currently an award winning affiliate program manager, internet consultant, blogger and podcaster. Carney started the popular ABCsPlus series of podcasts to teach people how to make money online. The series includes Affiliate ABCs, Blogging ABCs, Merchant ABCs, BookGoodies, and WAHMoms-WAHDads with more coming. Carney has also spoken at many affiliate industry events and has a long history of public speaking and writing on disability rights and issues relating to children with disabilities.

Currently Deborah is transcribing the many informative podcasts she has produced with industry experts in both internet marketing and book publishing and will be compiling those into books that will give people good, real, and actionable information from a variety of voices, not just her own opinions.

Deborah's son Daniel was a prolific writer and passed away at the age of 21, Deborah is in the process of releasing his writing first as eBooks, then in print. The first is a book of essays, next will be a novel, followed by novels from his screenplays that he wrote. He was a student at the prestigious NYU Film Writing program and several of his plays and film scripts won awards.

I hope you will join us on our adventure through self publishing.

Alan Seeger began writing stories at around the age of ten, filling spiral notebooks which have since, fortunately, been eaten by a black hole in space. An editor, essayist, songwriter, graphic designer and novelist, he is the proprietor of Five59 Publishing, which, in addition to Seeger’s own work, publishes a quarterly short story anthology, including the annual horror collection 13 BITES and the science fiction anthology PLAN 559 FROM OUTER SPACE.

He writes about things otherworldly -- sometimes interplanetary or interdimensional, other times twisted and terrifying. He is an advocate for Native American rights, writing the Facebook blog Honor the Treaties as well as the music blog Raised on Rock. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature with minors in History and Creative Writing from Sinte Gleska University in South Dakota. He is currently collaborating on a novel of space exploration and colonization with novelist L.L. Phelps. due out around the end of 2016.

Tabitha Ormiston-Smith was born and continues to age. Dividing her time between her houses in Melbourne and the country, she is ably assisted in her editing business and her other endeavours by Ferret, the three-legged bandit.

Rachel Cherie wrote her very first story on dot matrix paper while in elementary school. Ever since, writing in all forms has been her loyal companion. Her first novel-length manuscript was completed at fourteen. She is the author of the Daughters of the High Seas Trilogy – historical seafaring adventures as well as Huck Finn Versus The World (a short included in the What We’ve Unlearned anthology). She currently lives in Southern Oregon with her family and their well-loved fur babies.

Check out her site, http://www.rachelcherie.com.

John R. Phythyon, Jr. wishes he were a superhero or a magician, but since he has not yet been bitten by a radioactive spider or received his letter from Hogwarts, he writes adventure stories instead. He is the author of the Wolf Dasher series of fantasy-thriller mashup novels, the epic fantasy series The Usurpers Saga, several modern fairy tales, and a series of comical memoirs about his childhood ("My True-Life Adventure" series). Prior to becoming a novelist, he was an award-winning game designer.

He lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, their children, a dog, and a cat. It is rarely quiet, but it's often entertaining. His current projects include world peace, desperately wishing for the Cincinnati Bengals to win a Super Bowl, and acquiring more cool socks.

Connect with John on his website, www.johnphythyon.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @JohnRPhythyonJr, where he live-tweets SURVIVOR and Bengals games, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/johnrphythyonjr, where he links cool sci-fi/fantasy stuff and cute cat videos. Or email him at john at johnphythyon.com. He writes back.

To be the first to hear about new books by John, cover reveals, and release dates, subscribe to John's mailing list at http://bit.ly/PhythyonML.