Authors on Fire

Amy Rivers is an award-winning novelist, as well as the Director of Writing Heights Writers Association. She was named 2021 Indie Author of the Year by the Indie Author Project. Her psychological suspense novels incorporate important social issues with a focus on the complexities of human behavior. Her novel, STUMBLE & FALL, is the second...

Sherman Edward Ross is a retired biochemist. He has lived in Germany as well as numerous locations around the USA. He attended undergraduate and graduate universities in Colorado and Texas, receiving history, biology, and biochemistry degrees. He has been employed as a biochemist in both academia and the pharmaceutical industry. In addition to writing Code...

  Over the last 28 years Kelly Hudson has used her talents and education to custom-design a career, working with performers to become the best versions of themselves. Losing, Learning and Loving, the title of her recent book, is based on her experiences while serving as the Head Athletic Trainer and Director of Sports Medicine...

Donna lives in a small, Iowa town with her husband Marty; an ordained minister, who also does construction work and painting. A stage four cancer survivor, she started to write when, during treatments, she could do nothing else.  After decades in management  positions for large companies, she suddenly had nothing to manage and asked God...

Stephen and Mary Weller were born in Texas and decided it was a good place to live. Mary prefers the summer heat. Stephen prefers the winter cold. One of them compromised. Stephen is the author of two award-winning books: The Progressive Machine: Before We Called It Lean and The Progressive Hospital: A Lean Hope. Mary...

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  Howard Eisenberg, M.Sc. (Psych), M.D., is a Medical Doctor with postgraduate training in both Psychology and Psychiatry. He has been a Lecturer at the University of Toronto and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Vermont. He is also the CEO of the international consultancy – Syntrek® Inc. On a more personal level,...

  S.G. was born in a faraway land of castles, monarchies and fallen dictatorships, aka Hungary. Hollywood movies were forbidden under Soviet oppression during her childhood, but her dad smuggled them in anyway, risking his life so that his children could experience the magic and hope inherent in those stories. She watched rebellions unfold in...

George Hopkins is a former United States Marine Corps Sergeant who served on active duty during the Cuban Missile Crisis.  He was Chairperson of English at a high school designated as a national school of excellence, and has taught at St. John’s University, Middlesex College, Columbia Teachers College and in Puerto Rico.  He was twice named “Teacher of the...

  Valerie Taylor is retired from a forty year career in marketing and is living the author life in Shelton, CT. Financial services marketer, copywriter, editor, novelist, author are all words to describe Valerie. But being called Mimi by her granddaughter is what brings her the most joy these days. Born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut, Valerie earned a B.S. Marketing degree and an MBA from Sac...

Lucky At Bat is about a young boy named Jack, and his two rescue rats- Lucky and Gus-Gus. He discovers, through taking Lucky to Little League practice, that Lucky has a talent for baseball, and the little rat becomes the team's mascot and secret batting coach. This book follows the relationship between the two rat brothers, as well as the relationship between a boy and his pets. We see inter-team...

Deb Radcliff is the first investigative journalist to make cybercrime a beat. Since 1996, she has been embedded in the hacker and law enforcement communities learning their techniques, lifestyles, and philosophies that make them unique. Deb has won two Neal Awards for investigative reporting, and feels one of her crowning career moments was addressing engineering students and faculty at West Point...

    Larry Freeland was born in Canton, Ohio.  Since his father was an officer with the United States Air Force he grew up on many Air Force bases across this country.   After graduating from High School at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico, he attended the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.  He graduated in 1968 with a degree in mathematics and a concentration in finance. He joined t...

  Blogger and author Cheryl L. Eriksen has a master's degree in social work (MSW) and is a former equine assisted therapy facilitator. She also authored two training manuals for Eagala model equine assisted therapy facilitators. While earning her MSW from Western Michigan University, Cheryl took a special interest in the effects of trauma on the developing brain, and she applied that learning, alo...

  A native of São Paulo and mother to three children, Cristiana Pinciroli began her sports career as a high-performance professional water polo player. She captained the Brazilian team for 15 years, playing professionally for four years in Italy, her side winning the European Interclub Champions Cup for the first time. In her final appearance at the World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia...

Matt Jardine is a fiction and non-fiction author, podcaster, entrepreneur and teacher.  He is a Londoner born and bred, but now travels the world writing and public speaking. He says that different countries, cultures and points of view help him get a better grasp of the things that drive and inspire humanity. They also inspire ideas for his writing. Former tennis pro and coach to the Royal family...

Karen is a multi-published author of Native American historical romances. She has been praised by reviewers and fans alike for bringing the historic American Indian culture to life, and she has been nominated for several different awards. Karen's great-grandmother was Choctaw Indian, and because of this, she is honored to be able to write stories that depict the Native American point of view. All...

“OK Boomer” has become a dismissive act of ignoring a comment a Boomer says. Instead of feeling upset or put off by eye rolls, we are here to gently remind Millennials and Boomers we are all OK! Let’s laugh and lean in together.   Best Family Hosts Relationships 1st Place Slice of Life-Humor 1st Place Lifestyle 2nd Place  

* LGBTQ+ 1st Place * Health and Wellness (General) 2nd Place * Self Help 2nd Place Cosmos (cos/they), aka Meenakshi, is an award-winning podcaster, medical doctor, a trauma-informed love, sex, relationship and empowerment coach and an author bringing more than two decades of experience to these conversations. Sublime Soul Surrender (SSS) is about breaking norms. We talk about all things labeled as...

* Best Host  * Business Entrepreneurship 1st Place * Lifestyle 1st Place * Self Help 3rd Place With over a third of our lives spent at work, not doing what we love for a living makes little sense. Yet so few do. When asked, eight out of ten people said that they would not return to their places of work if they were given a million pounds. How do we then bridge the gap between the two extremes: hap...

Mark lives with his wife Loren and their dog Emily in Denver, Colorado. He schooled at Haverford College and Washburn University, and practiced commercial bankruptcy law for four decades before moving on in 2019 to write, photograph, volunteer, travel, and play music. He is the author of "And . . Just Like That – essays on a life before, during, and after the law" and three books in his 3J legal t...

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