from Charlottesville, Virginia

As an artist, Bob started at the age of five. His first writing attempt was a hand written newspaper he produced while in the third grade to entertain his parents' friends.

Bob has worked as a cartoonist for a newspaper in Paris, he's produced 52 illustrations for a medical atlas on anatomy, and he has worked as an architect (and still does). His first book for children, OBO, was published in 1999. When I Was a Little Boy I Was a Black Panther was published in 2002, and a third book, set in India, was released in 2004.  

                       from Buckingham, Virginia

                        from Fulks Run, VA 22830

This book contains the details of a miraculous recovery from traumatic brain injury caused by being hit head-on by a drunk driver. Learn about community re-entry and alternative therapies.

                         from Waynesboro, Virginia

Deb Booth is a newly published author with her base in photography and digital art. Her first book is titled Floral Fables – How Flowers Came to Be.

The story’s focus is on Mother Nature as she creates flowers – roses, iris, daisies, tulips, amaryllis. But she saves the most important flower for last. You’ll be amazed at Mother’s Nature’s choice, and her poignant reasoning provides a warm lesson of strength and tenacity – with a joyful touch of whimsy. Full color photos in vibrant, mouth watering shades make the book a pleasure to read for young and old alike. Booth lives in Waynesboro, Virginia.

                      

                          from Virginia Beach, Virginia

A self-professed nerd, Crystal B. Bright has been telling stories for as long as she can remember. Not one to give up on her dreams, she was determined to make it as an author. After earning her Bachelors of Art degree in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University and her Masters of Art degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University, she became serious in pursuing her dream.

Crystal makes Virginia Beach, Virginia her home. She enjoys writing, reading, watching movies and spending quality time with her family and close friends. To know more about this up-and-coming author, please visit her website at www.CrystalBrightWriter.com.

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Before you can say, "She can't go there with that story!" Bridget Midway is already taking you there and then some. Currently living in Virginia, Bridget writes erotica and erotic romances with multi-racial characters and usually with interracial romances. Differences should be celebrated, shared and explored, not seen as taboo. When she's not writing she's writing and writing and, oh, writing some more. To read about her upcoming events, read her latest news, participate in her contest or read exclusive excerpts, go to her website at www.BridgetMidway.com.

                      from Silver Spring, Maryland

RUTHIE BLACK (Argonne House Press, 2006) was a “Reviewer’s Choice” in The Midwest Book Review and  is sponsored by the Faulkner Society of New Orleans.  It's based upon Mr.Brown's story that won first prize on the O.Henry Festival Competition, 2004.  Mr. Brown is Judge of The MacGuffin magazine’s 1st annual fiction competition, 2006, Associate Editor of Potomac Review, and an Instructor at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. 

                            from Virginia and Georgia

                          from Richmond, Virginia

Burton is a graduate of Hollins University and currently lives in Richmond, Virginia. Hobbies include yoga, the occasional triathlon, and lots of reading.

                              from Dublin, Virginia

"Free Of Me" has been a book of tears, experiences, and accomplishments.  Coming from a small town and raised in Pulaski County she found that there has been this pressure building inside that has wanted to reach to others on succeeding if they let themselves.  The author’s childhood has been depleted by abuse, insanity, and lack of encouragement.  Her first book is liberated and without writing she said “I probably would have exploded within as well as not being myself”.  Dari’s thoughts race and love to write about life experiences and her travels.  As her poems reach the hearts of others, being they have similar events, she wants to encourage and inspire the readers to set goals. 

Dari Carroll has become a recent published-author and her writings reflect on life, people she meets, and places she has visited.  Self-marketing her books if interested please visit her website: daricarroll.blogspot.com

Newspaper article “Town & Country Living” Susan Strong from the Southwest Times interviewed Dari Carroll about her book of poems.  The author has also made a speech at Critzer Elementary School in Pulaski VA to inspire the students.

                     from Mill Valley, California
                NY Times Best Selling Author
 

Catherine Coulter wrote her first novel to pass time aboard the ark. A modest offering, it nonetheless earned enough to feed the cats. Soon, her first long historical appeared, followed by eight trilogies/quartets and series, which translates into oodles of books. In 1988, she appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List and has continued to hit The List 57 times now. She’s written 62 books and has over 60 million books in print worldwide. She enjoys writing one historical romance and one contemporary suspense every year. Her newest thriller, Double Take, the 11^th book in her terrifically popular FBI series, was released in June.

Catherine loves to travel, sacrifices her body on the ski slopes and reads voraciously while recuperating. She and her husband and two cats, Corky and Cleo, live in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.

                          from Laurel, Maryland