Current Columnists
Zen & the Art
of Writing, by
Rebecca Crandell
Rebecca Crandell writes
non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, and owns a
home-based business specializing in editing. She has
studied ancient matrilineal societies especially in
the Mediterranean area, and has authored a speculative
fictional series based upon those cultures. An excerpt
from the fourth book in the series was a semifinalist
in the ABNA competition. Her website is www.the7thmoonchronicles.googlepages.com.
Featured Book
Review, by Leah
Davidson
After three abortive attempts at grad school
in three different fields, a two-year stint as a teacher of
freshman composition, grammar, and literature, eight years
substitute teaching in public schools, and eight more years
as a bookseller for a major big box retailer which shall
remain nameless, Leah Davidson has completed two novels in
her adult fantasy series, The Alliance Chronicles, OF
TWO MINDS and TRUE MINDS, both currently
under revision, and is working on a third, as yet untitled.
Leah reluctantly "moderates" a modestly popular online
critique and discussion group for writers of speculative
fiction when her schedule of writing, working for wages,
and caring for her family permits.
Running the
Gauntlet, by Ian
Thomas Healy
Ian Thomas Healy is the author of The Milkman. His
manuscript Deep Six: A Just Cause Novel was a Top
100 semi-finalist in the 2007 Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel
Award contest. He blogs regularly at http://ianthealy.blogspot.com and
http://popcornprinciple.blogspot.com.
He also produces a daily webcomic, The Adventures of the
S-Team, found at http://ianthealy.comicgen.com.
Contact him at ian@ianthealy.com or visit his website,
www.ianthealy.com for more
information.
The Next
Step, by Tom
Maremaa
Tom Maremaa is the author of a half dozen novels, including
most recently, Soldiers of Orange, a semifinalist in the
ABNA competition. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he
studied languages, literature and philosophy at the
University of Zurich, Switzerland, and worked on his Ph.D
in comparative literature at the University of California,
Berkeley. He has worked as an editor, teacher of writing,
tennis professional, and software developer. He lives with
his wife in Silicon Valley, and travels widely to learn
about and understand as many cultures and languages as he
can. He can be reached at tom.maremaa@gmail.com
Columnists
In Our
Words, by Jeff
Fielder
Jeff Fielder is
the author of Life
& Death. After
serving six years as a Russian Linguist in Military
Intelligence, Jeff earned his degree in Journalism from the
University of North Texas. Today he is a graphic designer
and freelance writer and photographer in Kansas City, Mo.
He is also the author of a non-fiction book,
Reflections: A Folklore
History of Lewisville, Texas. You can reach Jeff at
jfielder13@yahoo.com.
A Novel
Approach, by
Scotti Cohn
Scotti Cohn is a freelance writer and
copyeditor and the author of five nonfiction books
published by The Globe Pequot Press, with a sixth book
under contract. Her short stories have appeared in
magazines for middle-grade and teen readers. She recently
signed a contract with Sylvan Dell Publishing for a picture
book, to be published in 2009. Her unpublished novel
Sister To Dragons was a semifinalist in the Amazon
Breakthrough Novel Award competition. Her Web site is:
www.scotticohn.com
The Next
Step, by Julie
Ann Shapiro
Julie Ann Shapiro is a novelist and short
story author and is widely known for her magic realism
style prose. She has completed two novels the first
is Jen-Zen and the One Shoe Diaries, published by
SynergEbooks.com in December 2007. Her second novel,
Three Drop Pennies is a semifinalist in Amazon’s
Breakthrough Novel Contest. Julie is a Pushcart Nominee and
has published over seventy short stories, including the
story collection, Flashes of the Other World, published by
Pulp Bits in August 2006. The author is a recurring flash
fiction workshop leader at the Southern California Writers
Conference. Her Web site is: www.julieannshapiro.com