Christy Cooper-Burnett is a best-selling author based in southern California with a degree in Administration of Justice. She has one grown son who inspired her to write her award-winning debut novel, No Way Home. She began her writing career later in life, but once she started she couldn’t stop. Her work focuses on creating relatable stories and characters that transcend genres and encourage readers to imagine what they would do if thrown into the unique, imaginative situations her trademark strong female protagonists end up in. Christy’s novels have received numerous book awards including the California Indie Author Project, the Maxy Book Awards, PenCraft Awards, the Indies Today Book Awards, International Book Awards, Literary Titan Gold Medal Award, Reader’s Favorite Five Star award, and recognition as one of Indies Today’s top five time travel novels.  Her new release RUN,  a thriller due to release on July 4, 2024, has received critical acclaim as a noteworthy contribution to contemporary thriller literature, and placed as the runner up in the mystery/crime category in the 2024 Maxy Awards.  You can learn more about Christy or contact her to subscribe to her mailing list for news, book deals, and upcoming events at www.christycooperburnettbooks.com

June Le Masters Davison, an Elmwood, Illinois native, is an outspoken octogenarian that is committed to the love of family. A widow, after 70 years with her beloved Allen, a mother of two beautiful daughters and the sole surviving sibling of a beloved story that encompasses the strength of her Mama and loyalty of her Dada. She is retired after 38 years, continues to speak up for others, fought for equal pay for women and currently resides outside of Chicago, Illinois. 

Michelle M.T. Letcher, grew up in Illinois and is a U.S. Army Veteran. She has lived all over the world, most recently in Austin, Texas with her husband, Dr. Ken Letcher and their three sons, Thomas Allen, Tyler, and Trevor. Through her passion to develop and lead, Michelle has used her love of genealogy, travel, and family to highlight the extraordinary lives of women who’s stories have been lost to time. She gives a voice to those whose legacy must be remembered and reminds us all to break trail. 

J.R. Rice is a Black man, writer, teacher, and spoken word artist, born and raised in Oakland, California. He has a B.A in Creative Writing and an English Education teaching credential from California State University of Long Beach. While studying abroad in Greece, he was mentored by the author, George Crane. His novella, Broken Pencils earned the 2024 Literary Titan Gold Book Award, the Literary Global Gold Award, and Third place in Best African-American Literature and Best New Fiction in the 2024 Firebird Book award contest. In addition to his writing accolades, he earned the Rookie of the Year award at the 2005 National Collegiate Poetry Slam in Philadelphia. He was a Semi-Finalist in the 2023 Berkeley Poetry Slam Finals. To learn more about J.R. Rice, please visit his website at www.jrrice.com.

Though Deborah L. King has been a writer and storyteller her whole life, publishing her first short story at seven years old, she took 32 years to complete her first novel. All three of her books have won awards. Most recently, Mary Not Broken won second place in the BooksShelf Writing Contest in the new release category. As a fiction writer, Deborah loves the work of Octavia Butler, classic Stephen King, Peter David, and the illustrations of Dan DeCarlo. She loves storms, champagne, Old Time Radio, and 70s Blues and Soul. Thanks to an interesting childhood, she’s afraid of escalators, bill collectors, and sometimes fresh produce.

Along with being a professed Vulcan and a bread-bender, Deborah enjoys cartoons, baking, photography, and classic Star Trek. Born and raised in Chicago, she has managed to achieve all of her childhood dreams—artist, teacher, baker, photographer, model, writer— and still lives in the area with her husband and youngest son. According to her daughter, she has “literally aced her life!”

Randall Northcutt is a 6th generation Texan, small town doctor, and avid student of Southwestern legend and lore. He is the Past Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias of Texas. His life among rednecks, outlaws, and boondock angels, provides endless fodder for his gritty writing style. Randall’s first novel, The Cusser Club was awarded a coveted ‘Starred’ Review from Kirkus Reviews on April 15, 2024.

Mrs. Darnell has had mixed media art and photography exhibitions at Art Basel-Miami, Florida and Basel, Switzerland; in Expo Metro in New York Times Square, Barcelona, Spain; and Art Basel Miami;  at New York Pier 36; in Red Dot Miami and Spectrum Miami and in galleries in Zug and Zurich, Switzerland; Venice, Italy; Berlin, Germany; Palma, Spain; Athens, Greece; Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and in the United States. Dawn Renee is a globally recognized photographer. She has won 47 international photography awards so far, and countless local and state awards. Dawn Renee’s images have been published in calendars, books and on covers, yearbooks, newspapers, advertisements, zoos, KOA pamphlets, sympathy cards, business cards, websites, used as logos, and sold in Galleries. She has won many Muse Photography, London Photography, European Photography, and New York Photography Awards, as well as an AVA Digital Award and a Communicator Award. Dawn Renee was born in Houston, Texas. She moved to Carlsbad, New Mexico, in 2016. She has been a board member for five organizations, a New Mexico Delegate, a campaign manager for U.S. Congress, Loan Signing Notary Public of New Mexico, Mrs. Darnell is working on her natural skincare company, Hollyn Renee Skincare, and an organic coffee company, Jim & Yoda’s Coffee House.  Jim was born in Dallas; he spent his childhood in Ivory Coast West Africa as a missionary kid. Jim has pastored three churches and serves as a missionary to Ivory Coast.  A teacher of 24 years in math, French, and Spanish. He is also a Loan Signing Notary Public of New Mexico. Mr. & Mrs. Darnell have a ministry in Ivory Coast, West Africa, supplying French Bibles and musical instruments, building churches and homes for Pastors, and paying for seminary tuition, weddings, and funerals. They are both Ordained Ministers and in the process of starting the Darnell Seminary School. They own a small publishing company, A Desert Dawn, and have 5 personal books that have won 72 book awards as of May 11th 2024.

Author Stacy Rush was born in Massachusetts, spent some of her childhood in Maine, then moved to Iowa as a teenager. Stacy is married and has five (5) children and three (3) grandchildren. She is also an animal advocate. Her love for animals shows with her menagerie of the “Fur Rush Clan” consisting of her four (4) dogs and one (1) cat that keep her company while she is writing. Stacy has always loved to read, her favorite genre being a dark romance. Stacy loves to cuddle up with any good book as long as there is romance involved. She has wanted to write for years, but with working full-time and taking care of family, she never had the time. Stacy became a stay-at-home mom in 2017. That is when she decided to finally try her hand at writing. She’s always had a wild imagination, which she now puts to good use. Living in Iowa for most of her life, a small town with just over 5,000 people, she loved the small-town life while watching her children grow up. Stacy’s favorite place is the Maine/New England area. If you read Stacy’s books, you will see her love for that area in her books. Stacy has recently started to write serialized fiction on Kindle Vella and some of the other reading platforms, such as iReader, Goodnovel, and Eratu. You can find her most recent serialized stories on all platforms. Stacy will soon have an audio production narration of one of her top selling novels being released Spring of 2024. Be on the lookout for more written by Stacy Rush.

Maithy Vu is a Vietnamese American writer of surrealist fiction. Her play, Wounded Wisteria, was selected to be a production of the Chautauqua Festival at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She eventually published Wounded Wisteria as a novella, combining fiction in verse with her own watercolor illustrations.
Vu went on to earn her M.L.A. in Creative Writing & Literature at Harvard Extension School. During that time, she completed her novel, Squid Season, and co-edited the children’s volume Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Inspiring Young Changemakers, which was selected as one of Oprah’s Favorite Things in 2022. Her latest work is a poetry collection titled Poems for Princesses with Peas Under Their Mattresses, in which she turns fairytales on their heads to grapple with womanhood. An obvious booklover, Vu has supported her writing career throughout the years working as a book editor, book buyer, bookseller, reading teacher, and schools’ book fair representative. She lives in California with her husband and their dog, Willoughby.

Woody Woodburn was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1960; spent his adolescence in the ’70s on the sweet-and-salty-aired coast of Southern California, and graduated from UC Santa Barbara; and for the past four decades has been a national award-winning newspaper columnist—sports originally and general interest for the past fifteen years. Now writing for The Ventura County Star, his honors include Columnist of the Year by the Associated Press News Executive Council, Copley News Service, and E. W. Scripps Newspapers; and induction into The Jim Murray Memorial Foundation’s Journalists Hall of Fame and Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame as a journalist. In addition to his new debut novel The Butterfly Tree: An Extraordinary Journey of Seven Generations (BarkingBoxer Press), Woody is the author oftwo nonfiction books—the memoir Wooden & Me: Life Lessons from My Two-Decade Friendship with the Legendary Coach and Humanitarian to Help “Make Each Day Your Masterpiece” and Strawberries in Wintertime: Essays on Life, Love, and Laughter. His work has also appeared in The Best American Sports Writing anthology and more than a dozen Chicken Soup For The Soul titles. When he is not tapping away on a QWERTY keyboard, Woody can be found padding the pavement, park grass or local beaches as a “Streaker” who has run a minimum of three miles (and averaged 11.4 miles) every day without fail since July 7, 2003, for one of the longest officially recognized running streaks in the world. “Woody’s Holiday Ball Drive” has enjoyed an even longer streak while donating nearly one million dollars of new sports balls to underprivileged youth. Longer still, Woody has a marriage streak of forty-one years with his college sweetheart Lisa.

He can be contacted at woodywriter@gmail.com or through his website www.woodywoodburn.com