Authors on Fire

I was raised in Unicoi County, surrounded by the traditions and dialect of the area. I embraced the regional stories, mountain views, culture-except sweet tea and unannounced visits-and sought to correct the misconceptions about the local people and the town stories that turned into rumors. I reside in Erwin, Tennessee, with my children and husband. I have hiked the section of the Appalachian Trai...

Amy M. Le was born in Vietnam and immigrated to the United States in 1980 at the age of five with her mother and cousin. She graduated from Western Washington University with a degree in Sociology and worked in the technology and telecommunications sector for twenty years. After her mother’s death in February 2017, Amy left her corporate job to write her debut novel SNOW IN VIETNAM as a tribute to...

  In 2021, the second year of the global pandemic, Tom Tracy, like so many of us, found a new passion – writing children’s stories.  Inspired by his now 5-year-old daughter’s curiosity for the world around her, Tom embarked on his story-telling journey.  His first book, Scoochie & Skiddles in Fun at Gramma’s, is a beautiful recounting of creating family memories through imaginative play and creati...

Susan K. Hamilton is the award-winning author of epic, dark, and urban fantasy books including Shadow King, Darkstar Rising, The Devil Inside, and Stone Heart (coming August 2022). Her short stories have been featured in the ESCAPE! DECEPTION!, and Passageways Anthologies from Writing Bloc. Her new short story, "Pearls and Swine," will release in April 2022 as part of the FAMILY Anthology. Horse-c...

Susan Rex Ryan is the award-winning author of the Amazon bestselling Defend Your Life books about the awesome health benefits of vitamin D including immunity as well as the prevention of autism, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and multiple sclerosis. Ms. Ryan’s health articles have been published on Hormones Matter (TM), Lucine Health Sciences website, and in Choices Magazine. Sue has also been f...

JULIE SCOLNIK is a concert flutist and the founding artistic director of Mistral Music, a chamber music series which since 1997 has been known for its virtuosic artists, imaginative programming, and the personal rapport she establishes with her audiences. Since her treatment and recovery from breast cancer in 2005, Scolnik has found ways to play and organize benefit concerts which raise funds for...

Born and raised in Oakland, CA Natasha learned the importance of resilience at a young age. As a teen, she struggled with homelessness, addiction and a suicide attempt. By her early 20’s she was determined to turn her life around. With faith, hard work and a radical shift in mindset she created the life of her dreams. She opened Shear Passion Hair Salon at 25 years old, which is still successfully...

Lisa Charles is a federal prosecutor turned singer/actress, wellness expert, certified health coach/consultant, and an acclaimed speaker. She is the fitness/wellness research coordinator for the Rutgers University Aging & Brain Health Alliance, CEO of Embrace Your Fitness, LLC, and the author of YES! COMMIT. DO. LIVE. She successfully directed her struggle with temporary vocal loss into personal g...

Patricia Leavy, Ph. D., is a best-selling, award-winning author, publisher, arts advocate, and internationally recognized leader in research design and arts-based research. She is widely considered the world’s most visible proponent of arts-based research as a means of making research publicly accessible. Moreover, she coined the terms “social fiction” and “fiction-based research” and has been pio...

Award-winning author Lukman Clark lives with his wife, Dr. Linda Strahan, and two cats in Riverside, California. He works as a fulltime writer and gardener in his own backyard. Long ago, Lukman earned his BA in Communications/English Lit and an MBA in International Marketing. From there he went on to executive positions in banking, finance & investment, petroleum equipment manufacture, art museum...

Angie K Elliston and her husband have been married over 20 years. Together they have adopted from the foster care system, adoption disruption, internationally and privately. Their oldest child at adoption placement was 16 and their youngest was a newborn. They are committed to one another and the challenges of adopting children from an array of backgrounds and trauma. “I have always been willing t...

Jacqueline Shortell-McSweeney is a proud member of Sisters in Crime, Women’s National Book Association and Honorary Member of Women Make Movies and Suffolk Bar Association. Jacqueline Shortell-McSweeney writes only when inspired, or when her Muse, Noreen, stands over her with a metaphorical rolling pin. At other times, she has worked as a producer for Women Make Movies (Where WHY WOMEN STAY was pr...

Firebird book award winner David Petrovic talks about the book co-authored with his mom, Sandy. A powerful conversation!

Steve is a multi-award winning and international selling author. He is the creator of the Polish Dragon P. I. series and was born in the Slavic Village area of Cleveland, Ohio where many of his stories take place. He is a member of the Private Eye Writers of America. He has wanted to be an author since elementary school while reading books like White Fang and Call of the Wild by Jack London. He sp...

Wendy Sanford grew up in an upper-middle-class white suburban family in Princeton, New Jersey. During the socially turbulent time of the 1970s, she became a feminist, a lesbian, and a Quaker. A founding member of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, Wendy co authored and edited many versions of Our Bodies, Ourselves, the women's health and sexuality classic. In her fifties, she began to reck...

Meg Nocero, a magical manifester, is a former federal prosecutor, a TEDx inspirational speaker, a transformational coach, and the award-winning author of The Magical Guide to Bliss: Daily Keys to Unlock Your Dreams, Spirit & Inner Bliss and Sparkle & Shine: 108 M.A.N.T.R.A.s to Brighten Your Day and Lighten Your Way. After she was brought on stage in Miami with Oprah Winfrey in 2014, she was inspi...

Mary Lou Wells is an award-winning author of poetry, non-fiction, and a semi-fiction dark fantasy epic series. In 2021 she won a Firebird Book Award in the Series category for the second installment of the Annals of Aeternum series with Spear of Destiny: Finding Bucephalus, the sequel to Spear of Chaos: Legend of the Undead, her debut novel.  Mary Lou's first non-fiction book, The Illustrated Guid...

Robert Gainey is a born and raised Floridian, despite his best efforts. While enrolled at Florida State University and studying English (a language spoken in several small countries), Robert began volunteering for the campus medical response team, opening up a great new passion in his life. Following graduation, he pursued further training through paramedic and firefighting programs, going on to b...

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 real time. Journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean for love....

Joni Iraci is a retired Registered Nurse who, after raising three children, returned to college to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. She earned a BFA in liberal studies with a concentration in literature and creative writing. She then earned an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University in her 60’s and published “Reinventing Jenna Rose,” shortly thereafter. Her second novel is currently...

Prior to Gary Lee Miller beginning his writing career, he was a successful businessman and entrepreneur. Miller’s writing is rooted in life experiences and people who have crossed his paths in his life’s journey. He draws on his ability to translate his observations into very relatable stories by readers. Gary lives in “the Scenic City of the South” Chattanooga, Tennessee and has two adult daughte...

Kiel Barnekov forged his career as an information technology executive pioneering innovative airline and airport technology projects for over 30 years.  Mr. Barnekov chaired the Airport Council International – North America Information Technology Committee. Channeling his grandmother (and fellow author), Fleur Conkling, Sheperds of Destiny is the first novel in his reality bending series. VISIT TH...

Caitlin Billings lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.  She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and has a thriving therapy practice specializing in complex trauma. She is working on her second book. VISIT THE WEBSITE You are listening to a short radio spot   LISTEN TO CAITLIN'S INTERVIEW

Deborah Wynne began writing as a young girl, filling dog-eared spiral notebooks with whimsical stories and terrible poetry. A University of Colorado alumna, Ms. Wynne entered the workforce listening to the advice of her parents who said, “Get a good government job.” She subsequently had two distinctly different careers in municipal government before becoming a private sector consultant. Unlike oth...

Deanie Humphrys-Dunne is a multi-award winning children’s author of eight books : My Life at Sweetbrier–A Life Changed by Horses, Charlie the Horse, Charlene the Star, Charlene the Star and Hattie’s Heroes, Charlene the Star and Bentley Bulldog, A Tractor Named Wilbur and  Un Tractor Llamado Wilbur and Wilbur’s new Home. Many of her fictional books are beautifully illustrated by Holly Humphrys-Baj...