Off The Chain

Andy is an incredibly well-rounded writer. His book, "Riding Shotgun and Other American Cruelties", is my personal favorite of all our titles. RIDING SHOTGUN AND OTHER AMERICAN CRUELTIES A novel by Andy Rausch A unique collection of quirky, Tarantinoesque crime novellas. In the first story, "Easy-Peezy," a band of elderly Old West bank robbers return to their wicked ways in the 1930s John Dillinge...

About the Author Jennifer S. Alderson (1972) worked as a journalist and website developer in Seattle, Washington, USA, before trading her financial security for a backpack. After traveling extensively around Asia and Central America, she moved to Darwin, Australia, before finally settling in the Netherlands. There she earned degrees in art history and museum studies. Home is now Amsterdam, where s...

Sherry Rentschler is a best-selling, multi-award-winning, multi-genre author, writing coach and speaker. A retired US Air Force non-combat veteran, Sherry Rentschler completed her bachelor and graduate degrees while serving her country. Her background includes bylines in newspapers and online journals, plus previous work as an assistant poetry editor for an online poetry journal, a freelance colum...

The Ladies started this journey with the simple thought that life is different from textbook or what society told them. They missed some things. They forgot to to teach everything needed to be a successful women in today's world.  The ladies came together to write a book about what they have learned along the way throughout their lives.  The And I Thought Ladies range in age from 26-62 ( they are...

Author Bio  Robbie lives in sunny Florida where he spends his days where he can usually be found tucked away on his back porch with a cup of coffee while working on his latest manuscript. He has enjoyed a freelance career writing for several magazines, sharing some of his interesting viewpoints on life and those around him. While he enjoys traveling with great friends and their family. Most often,...

Alexander Lowry is a professor of finance at Gordon College and Director of the school's Master of Science in Financial Analysis program.  He's also a Board of Directors Member for fintech and financial services companies. Which means he's transforming, accelerating, and advising businesses that students he's educating want to work for. As a professor, he help students understand how the financial...

After retiring from a career in elementary education, midlife restlessness prompted Eva to rekindle her passion for storytelling by composing fiction that taps into significant issues affecting the lives of women over forty. Her novels in the genre of Contemporary Women's Fiction are distinguished for their character-driven plots which feature protagonists who plunge the depths of despair and suff...

Time Travel and Paranormal Romance author. Her Destiny series takes you on a roller coaster ride through time with sexy Highlanders and sassy female heroines. If shifters are your kryptonite then check out her Black Mountain Pack series which throws a twist on the traditional shifter lore. Miranda is a mother to two teenage boys who are sure they know it all, a 75lb lapdog, and a 15lb foot warmer....

Clifton Pettyjohn has served as an essential factor in both the religious and education cultures for well over sixteen years and recently he has added influence in the culture of business to his summation. With guided passion, he meshes personal life lessons with practical and biblical principles to teach, train, and transform groups of divergent individuals. His unique skills, personality, delive...

Terri is a former English teacher and librarian. She taught middle and high school and college. Now she works from home homeschooling her two daughters and living out her dreams via her stories. She began escaping into books a little later than most but was hooked after the first book. It has been her dream to give back to the book world since second grade. When she's not writing or reading, she e...

Amanda Sterczyk is an author, ACSM Certified Personal Trainer, Certified Essentrics® Instructor, and Creator of The Move More Institute™, an initiative to promote healthy active living by adding more movement/activity/motion to individuals' daily lives. Her first book, Move More, Your Life Depends On It: Practical Tips to Add More Movement to Your Day, is available for sale on Amazon. She has been...

David L. Hoof is a critically praised, international best-selling fiction author and writing teacher who lives in Washington, DC. His goodreads rating for his nine novels is 4.70. Critical appraisal, including citation for skill in enchanting and evocative language is given on the home page, and copied below:  Honorable Mention 2009 Beach Book Festival 2009 readers circle choice Nominated for Book...

Kenny Weiss is a Coach, Speaker, Author of ‘Your Journey To Success,” host of a weekly Podcast by the same name and Founder of The Greatness Movement. Through his own personal journey and nearly 30 years of studying about the role emotions play in our lives and decision making, Kenny discovered something he calls, “the Worst Day Cycle’ which affects us all. Kenny’s journey included multiple addict...

Mystery and children’s book author, Saralyn Richard, is a writer who teaches on the side. Some of her poems and essays have won awards and contests from the time she was in high school. Her children’s picture book, Naughty Nana, has reached thousands of children worldwide. Murder in the One Percent, ©2018 Black Opal Books, pulls back the curtain on the privileged and powerful rich. Set on a gentle...

Paul Thaler is a professor at Adelphi University and New York University. He is a former journalist and the author of the critically acclaimed The Spectacle: Media and the Making of the OJ Simpson Story, and The Watchful Eye: American Justice in the Age of the Television Trial. Bronxland is his debut novel published by Black Opal Books. In addition to his writing, Paul has also been an on-air medi...

In the new paradigm of existence, people need to understand they matter regardless of their opinion and as humans we need to take the time to tell people that in every opportunity” Alison Donaghey   Alison Donaghey is a Radio Host of Think Opposite, Author of an international best-selling book Think Opposite: Using the Domino Effect to Change Your Business, Change the World, Speaker, and a Cause a...

Jenny Youngberg Dew is happily married to Larry for forty-four years. They are the parents of five children and have eight grandchildren. She is a Parent Leader in the Parent Advocacy Council of Utah for parents raising Reactive Attachment Disordered children. After meeting a legislative advocate during one of her council meetings she helped to create a house bill for Utah in the legislative sessi...

Best Selling author, Certified Relationship, Love & Life Coach for Singles and Couples, Certified Clinical Trauma & Addictions Professional and Licensed Mental Health Counselor Riana Milne (“The Life & Love Transformation Expert”), focuses on increasing a Client’s personal growth and self-esteem while improving their holistic health for mind, body, and spirit. She specializes in helpin...

Chris Goslow is a multi-faceted artist with a unique background and a broad musical reach. Hailing from Northern California, Chris is an active performer, songwriter and composer who has delighted and inspired audiences for years with his creativity, versatility, and showmanship.    Chris’s latest album, “The Cherry Rainbow Piano Experience,” is a lyrical collection of musical delights brought to...

Joanne Fisher was born in Canada and lived there until she was 20, at which time she moved to Italy with her parents. She married and had three children. When her father died, she, along with her sister, their respective families and mother, returned to Canada. Her husband didn’t fit well in Canada, they divorced, and he returned to Italy. She met the love of her life, Dan and now lives in Florida...

Marty Roppelt was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He was brought up with Grimm's Fairy Tales at bedtime. Marty later ran across horror novels that his mother borrowed from the local library, by contemporary masters of the horror genre—Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub.   Small wonder. Marty's parents emigrated from Transylvania.   Marty's original profession was acting. He lived in New Y...

Gary Starta is a former journalist who studied English and Journalism at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. His love for science fiction compelled him to write his first novel What Are You Made Of? published in 2006. Inspired by Isaac Asimov, the science fiction novel focuses on intelligent artificial life and whether sentient androids should possess the same rights as humans. The android...

Chad lives in Battle Creek, MI. with his wife, children.  For over two decades, he has been a contributor to several different outlets in the independent music and film scene, offering articles, reviews, and artwork. He has written for Famous Monsters of Filmland, Rue Morgue, Cemetery Dance, and Scream magazine. His fiction can be found in a few dozen magazines and anthologies including his own 18...

John Isaac Jones is a retired journalist currently living at Merritt Island, Florida. For more than thirty years, "John I.," as he prefers to be called, was a reporter for media outlets throughout the world. These included local newspapers in his native Alabama, The National Enquirer, News of the World in London, the Sydney Morning Herald, and NBC television. He is the author of five novels, a sho...

 Sasha Lauren, a writer of flash fiction, screenplays, poetry, and articles on health currently lives in California where she works passionately as a patient safety activist. As founder of Epiphany Scripts, she was as a script doctor in Hollywood where she did page one rewrites for individuals and studios. Several of her stories written in her signature whimsical prose won contests, and poems, art...