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 A.
K. Arenz
Besides writing classic
romantic suspense, Alice K.
Arenz also writes cozy
mysteries as A. K. Arenz.
The first book in The
Bouncing Grandma Mystery
Series, The Case of the
Bouncing Grandma, was a
finalist in the 2009 ACFW
Book of the Year contest.
Book 2, The Case of the
Mystified M.D., was the
February 2010 book choice
for the ACFW Book Club.
For more
information, go to
www.akawriter.com.
 Angela
Breidenbach
Angela
Breidenbach
is Mrs. Montana
International 2009, a
multi-award winning
inspirational speaker and
the author of the Gems of
Wisdom women’s seminar
series, the Creative Cooking
Series including Creative
Cooking for Colitis and
Creative Cooking for Simple
Elegance. She works with
Hope’s Promise Orphan
Ministries and the Jadyn
Fred Foundation. Angela also
teaches online classes and
coaches one-on-one in
courageous confidence,
personal growth, and
powerful living. She’s
certified in mentor/peer
counseling as a Stephen
Minister and life coach.
Angela serves as an
assisting minister for
Atonement Lutheran Church in
Missoula, MT. She volunteers
as the American Christian
Fiction Writer's Publicity
Officer. Not only did she
walk the hard line of
deciding to donate her mom's
brain, but she is also on
the brain donation list at
the Brain Bank-Harvard
McLean Hospital. She is
married, has a combined
family of six grown
children, one grandson.
Gems of Wisdom, the book
and Bible study releases
June 1, 2011 from Sheaf
House/Journey Press.
For more information go to:
www.MyGemofWisdom.com
and
www.AngelaBreidenbach.com
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 Joy
DeKok
Joy
and her husband Jon live in
Minnesota on 35 acres of woods and fields
that includes a bullfrog
bog. They’ve been married 31
years and although childless
enjoy the love and
companionship of over 40
nieces and nephews as well
as the children of their
friends. Faith is a major
factor in Joy’s life. She
met Jesus when she was 15
and fell in love with Him.
She leads a weekly Bible
study, and as she studies
and shares Jesus’ Word with
other women, that love
affair continues.
Joy has
been writing most of her
life and also enjoys sharing
her heart and passion for
God with women as a popular
speaker. Marketing used to
scare the daylights out of
her, but somewhere along the
line she started to enjoy
it. In addition to writing
novels, is developing a
personalized marketing
toolkit for writers that
will be offered through
Sheaf House. The toolkit
will teach writers to
promote themselves and their
books without spending a ton
of money on PR. Joy has
begun coaching new writers
and encouraging them to
consider all the publishing
paths available to them.
You’ll find Joy on the Web
at
www.joydekok.com.
 J.
M. Hochstetler
Joan M.
Shoup, writing as J. M.
Hochstetler, is the author
of
One Holy Night as
well as of
Daughter of Liberty
and
Native Son, books 1
and 2 of her American
Patriot Series set during
the American Revolution.
When she isn’t writing
historical novels, she’s
tending to all the minutia
of running an independent
small press or happily
spending time with her
husband, daughters, and
grandchildren.
Born and reared in central
Indiana, the daughter of
Mennonite farmers, Joan
graduated from Indiana
University with a degree in
Germanic languages. After
moving to
Nashville,
Tennessee, she
worked for The Freedom Forum
First Amendment Center at
Vanderbilt
University, assisting with the development
and production of the only
weekly television program
devoted to First Amendment
rights, broadcast nationally
on PBS. She then spent
twelve years as an editor in
various capacities at
Abingdon Press.
Joan’s interest in the
American colonial and
Revolutionary War eras grew
out of the experiences of
her Anabaptist ancestors who
immigrated to
America from
Europe
seeking religious freedom.
She is currently developing
the subsequent books in her
series. Along with her
cousin, multi-published
author Bob Hostetler, she is
also working on a novel
about the massacre of three
of their ancestors during
the French and Indian War
and the Indian captivity of
the attack’s survivors.
Joan is married to a
truck-driving,
motorcycle-riding, retired
pastor, and they live in the
Nashville,
Tennessee, area whenever they are not exploring
the country with their
fifth-wheel camper. For more
information, visit
www.jmhochstetler.com.
 Deborah
Kinnard
Deb started writing at age
ten, frustrated because
there was no preteen girl
with a horse on
Bonanza. From there she
progressed to short stories
and dreadful poetry. In
college, she gained two
degrees in health care and
spent time observing
hippies, basketball stars,
el-ed majors and other
strange species. While
raising two active girls and
cherishing her husband, she
has enjoyed a career that
encompasses Spanish
translation, volunteer work
at a crisis line, years in
assorted ERs that don’t
resemble the one on TV, and
a day job at a big Chicago teaching hospital. Deb keeps
busy with reading, playing
the guitar, and skiing in
the winter. She is known to
be a loud if semi-capable
singer in church.
Deb is a member of American
Christian Fiction Writers
and serves as Zone Director
for the Midwest. Her previous novels, include
Powerline and Oakwood (Treble Heart Books), and Angel with A Ray Gun (Desert Breeze Publishing) and
Angel with a Back Hoe
(October 2009, Desert Breeze
Publishing). For more
information, go to
http://www.debkinnard.com
 Michelle
Lesley
Michelle Lesley has always
used writing as a creative
outlet.
As a child, she wrote
poems and short stories.
Later, she drew upon
her experience in music
ministry and ventured into
songwriting.
Journaling during her
quiet time led Michelle into
a deeper and more intimate
relationship with God, and
it is out of these journals
that her first book, a
women’s Bible study on the
life of Jacob, grew.
As an
army brat, Michelle has
lived in some interesting
places such as
Alaska
and
New Mexico,
but returned to her native
Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, in 1989.
Here, she graduated
from LSU with a degree in
child and adolescent
psychology, and did her
master’s work in family
counseling.
She remains a
die-hard Tiger fan.
Michelle and her husband
have been blessed by the six
wonderful children God has
brought into their lives.
Passionate about
prayer, Michelle serves as
the Associational Prayer
Coordinator for the greater Baton Rouge area, working with over 100
churches and pastors to
increase corporate prayer.
She also sings on the
praise team, assists her
husband with his duties as
minister of music at their
church, and home schools her
three youngest children.
Visit
Michelle’s blog at
www.breadandh2o.blogspot.com
 Kathi
Macias
Kathi
Macias
is a multi-award winning
writer who has
authored nearly 30 books and
ghostwritten several others.
A former newspaper columnist
and string reporter, Kathi
has taught creative and
business writing in various
venues and has been a guest
on many radio and television
programs. Kathi is a popular
speaker at churches, women’s
clubs and retreats, and
writers’ conferences, and
recently won the prestigious
2008 member of the year
award from AWSA (Advanced
Writers and Speakers
Association) at the annual
Golden Scrolls award
banquet. Kathi “Easy Writer”
Macias lives in Homeland,
CA, with her husband, Al,
where the two of them spend
their free time riding their
Harley. For more
information, go to
www.kathimacias.com.
 Kristin
Elizabeth Marshall
Kristin Elizabeth Marshall
attended Boston University
where she majored in
psychology and graduated cum
laude, with distinction. She
began a career in
advertising in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and subsequently moved to New York City where she
worked in the marketing
research departments of
several of the largest ad
agencies in the world. She
is an avid reader, has
traveled extensively
throughout Europe and the
Caribbean, and
is interested in art,
gardening, and cooking. She
is married, with three grown
children, and resides in
Westchester County,
New York.
Cottage Seven is
her first novel.
 Diane
Moody
Diane Moody is a free-lance
writer, columnist, editor
and author. Born in Texas and raised in Oklahoma, she is a
graduate of
Oklahoma
State
University.
After marriage to the love
of her life, she and husband
Ken moved to Texas where she earned a
Ph.T degree (“Putting Hubby
Through”) while Ken earned a
masters degree at
Southwestern Seminary. After
15 years serving two
churches in Florida, they left church ministry and moved
to
Tennessee
where Ken heads an
internet-filtering company
called Hedgebuilders.
In Nashville, Diane worked
briefly at LifeWay Church
Resources, where, among
other responsibilities, she
helped copyedit books for
Broadman & Holman. In the
process, she felt the tug of
a long-neglected passion to
write again. Since then,
she’s written a column for
her local newspaper, feature
articles for various
magazines and curriculum,
and two completed novels,
with a dozen more stories
eagerly vying for her
attention.
When she’s not reading or
writing, Diane enjoys an
eclectic taste in music and
movies, great coffee, and
the company of good friends.
She and Ken live in the
rolling hills just west of
Nashville
with a peculiar little puppy
named Darby. They are the
proud parents of two grown
and extraordinary children,
Hannah and Ben.
 Peg
Phifer
Peg Phifer, writing as Peggy
Blann Phifer, describes
herself as "writer, friend,
and servant, blessed to have
been born into a God-fearing
Christian home."
A retired executive
assistant, Peg—when she
isn't writing—now enjoys
blogging, reading and
writing book reviews, and
online networking. Some of
her work has appeared on
various Websites and
periodicals both in print
and online. She is a member
of American Christian
Fiction Writers and Christian Writer's
Fellowship International. Peg also enjoys
handcrafts of all kinds and
her home shows off some of
her work, though most end up
as gifts for friends and
family.
A
mother, grandmother, and
great-grandmother,
Peg makes her home in
southern Nevada with her
hubby Jim and a family of
gorgeous—but spoiled!—Lynx
Point Siamese cats.
Rodney Christian
Power
Rod grew up in Grand Falls,
Newfoundland. He joined the
Canadian Corps of Engineers
in 1957 and attended survey
school in Ottawa. After
returning to civilian life
in 1966, he became a
professional land surveyor
and established a consulting
practice in Vernon, British
Columbia.
He became a member the
Bahamas Association of Land
Surveyors in 1979 and in
1981 graduated from the
School of Community and
Regional Planning at the
University of British
Columbia.
Rod is an accomplished
musician, mostly playing
piano, and at one time
played lead guitar with a
rock band. He has traversed
the length and breadth of
North and South America,
Europe, Africa, Indonesia
and the Middle East as an
international consultant.
Those exciting and sometimes
dangerous experiences—at one
point he was minutes away
from being lynched in Qum,
Iran—prompted him to reflect
upon our spiritual diversity
and to record many of his
encounters with the locals.
He has recently assembled
and arranged his notes in
storyline context, which has
resulted in six manuscripts
in various stages of
completion.
Rod's first book, Shadow
of Light, is due to be
released January, 2011.
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 John
Robinson
John Robinson is married
thirty-five years to the
finest woman on the planet,
his wife Barb. The father of
two grown sons and
grandfather of two, he’s
also the retired owner of a
successful financial
planning firm. John hopes to
eventually go into full-time
writing, and as the author
of the popular Joe Box
suspense series, is well on
his way. He’s made some good
friends in the Christian
publishing world, including
Karen Kingsbury, Al Gansky,
and Christy-winner James
Scott Bell, all of whom used
their talents to help John
hone his craft.
Visit
John at his website at:
http://www.johnrobinsonbooks.com
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 Julie
Saffrin
Julie
knew she wanted to
write stories as a
profession in
seventh grade after
reading
The Ivy Tree by
Mary Stewart.
Today, Julie
still loves people’s
stories, both to
hear and to tell.
“Who’s more fun that
people?” she says.
She believes words
carry the power to
positively impact
another person’s
life. Her book,
BlessBack™
Those Who Shaped
Your Life, set
to release with
Journey Press in
September 2011, is a
result of that
belief.
BlessBack shows
how the power of
words enhances and
enlarges our lives
when we thank our
life influencers in
a tangible way.
She writes
both fiction and
non-fiction and has
more than 150
published articles,
including works in
Guideposts and
Chicken Soup for the
Soul: Woman to Woman
Our 101 Best Stories.
She
received her B.A. in
Print Journalism and
English in December
2008 from the
University of St.
Thomas.
She divides her time
between suburban and
lake life in
Minnesota with her
husband Rick, three
sons, Sam, Joe, and
Jake, and a golden
retriever named
Mick. Stop and say
hi at
www.juliesaffrin.com/blog
and
www.blessback.com.
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 Beth
Shriver
Beth Shriver
received a degree in
social work and
psychology from the
University of
Nebraska. She worked
as a case worker for
Boulder County
Department of Social
Services before
starting a family.
Beth and her husband
of twenty years and
their two children
live in Texas, and
she freelances for
the local papers in
her area as well as
writing columns and
devotionals for
magazines and novels
in a variety of
genres.
Visit Beth at her
website at:
http://www.bethshriverwriter.com
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 Jen
Stephens
Jen
Stephens grew up in a small
Ohio town where she developed a passion for
writing at an early age. She
participated in Young
Authors contests in grade
school, wrote her first
novel in high school, and
wrote dozens of poems and
short stories in between.
She majored in elementary
education with a
concentration in English and
the humanities at the
University of
Toledo.
Jen
lives in the
Nashville,
Tennessee,
area with her husband and
two beautiful daughters. She
teaches third grade at a
Christian school and is very
active with the youth in her
church. A member of Middle
Tennessee Christian Writers,
American Christian Fiction
Writers, and Nashville
Christian Writers
Association, Jen writes in her “spare”
time. Her first novel,
The Heart’s Journey Home,
released in February
2010. The Heart's
Lullaby, the second
book in the Harvest Bay
Series, is scheduled for
release in March, 2011.
Visit Jen
at her website:
http://www.jenstephens.net
 Michelle
Sutton
Michelle Sutton resides in
Arizona and is employed
full-time for the state. She
has been writing for
seven years and has sold
over a dozen novels to be
published through 2012. As
a member of American
Christian Fiction Writers
for six years, Michelle
formerly served on the ACFW
board as Volunteer Officer.
She is also a member of CWOW
(Christian Writers of the
West), and is their blog
mistress. Michelle
is an active member of a
variety of blogger
communities and a well known
book reviewer. She hosts an
Edgy Christian Fiction
Lovers site on ning.com and
is active on many social
sites. She has book reviews
published on Novel Reviews,
Christian Book Previews,
Writer. . .Interrupted,
Favorite PASTimes historical
blog, as well as her own
blog and other
sites. Michelle has two sons
and lives with her husband
in Arizona. To find out more
about Michelle, visit her
website at
www.michellesutton.net
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