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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 

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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

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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.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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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


 

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

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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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