Megan Jayne is an Irish young adult fantasy author with her debut novel, The Worlds That Separated Us. She was born in Northern Ireland and still resides there in a small, picturesque village with her husband, two young children, and beagle. When Megan isn’t writing she loves to travel, read, bake, and spend as much time outdoors as possible.
Marie Sarantakis is a practicing divorce attorney in Illinois and Wisconsin. She obtained her bachelor’s degree from Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin and her juris doctorate degree from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois. During the early parts of her career, Sarantakis interned for the Illinois Supreme Court, Kenosha County District Attorney’s Office, and Kenosha County Public Defender Office. She is currently President of Sarantakis Law Group, Ltd., a family law firm, and Adrikos, LLC, a divorce coaching practice.
Constantine was born in St. Petersburg, Florida and raised by his mother and his aunt. A wholesome Boy Scout and frontman for Tampa ska/punk band: H1N1, he attended St. Petersburg College for his Associate of Arts and New College of Florida for his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. He escaped to Colorado in 2015 where he served with AmeriCorps and later pursued his dream to become a wilderness therapy field guide, completing 550 field days.
He enjoys writing,
tea, cooking, brooding, dancing, yoga,
astronomy, reprehensibly long walks, movies, being outdoors
etc. & suchforth.
Elizabeth Delisi wrote her first story at five years old, and has been writing ever since. She started out writing Twilight Zone-type short stories, and moved up to writing novels a few years later. Now she writes paranormal romance, mysteries, and contemporary romance.
Elizabeth has been married to her high school sweetheart for 43 years. They have three adult children and three grandchildren, plus a dog and a bird. They live in New Hampshire, an absolutely lovely state.
Elizabeth enjoys hearing from her readers. You can reach her here:
www.elizabethdelisi.com
http://www.elizabethdelisi.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.delisi
https://twitter.com/delisi
http://tirgearrpublishing.com/authors/Delisi_Elizabeth/index.htm
Lucy May Lennox is a connoisseur of novels featuring men with physical disabilities. After growing frustrated with all the cliches, ignorance and stereotypes, she decided to write her own positive take on disability. She also loves immersing herself in earlier historical periods and imagining the lives of people who don’t usually make it into the history books. She lives in the beautiful Pacific Northwest USA with her husband and children.
Living on the east coast, I love to travel to Maine. It is just far enough away to feel as if I am escaping the demands of work to enjoy time with my wonderful family while being close enough that most of the short time we find in our competing work schedules to escape is not taken up by travel. The beautiful scenery, national park, and abundance of rocky beaches offers peace and tranquility. I am the mother of three wonderful children and work in a law firm. Writing is something I never thought I could do. My vast work experience is more in accounting and legal work dealing with figures and asset allocation. Writing became a way to allow my mind to escape for short periods of time while my body stayed anchored to care for two dying parents while still attempting to ensure that my children could have a somewhat normal childhood.
David Bush is a medical doctor specialized in haematology. He was born in Malta but left for the UK when he was in his early twenties. He returned to his first home in 2003 where he still practises hospital medicine. He is the co-founder of a support group for patients with blood cancers. Since he gave up his private practice, he has had more time to spend with the family. He enjoys reading, swimming, travelling and doing any type of DIY job. Most of all, though, he cherishes the time he spends with his young great-nephews Jack and Luke.
He has published many papers in international peer reviewed medical journals. He also writes analytical opinion articles for a satirical political blog.
Michael J. Scharen received a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from Montana State in 1987 and a Master of Art’s degree in Physics from Kent State in 1989. He worked in the fledgling field of ceramic superconductors in the development/application as microwave circuits and subsystems. Mr. Scharen is co-author of 6 papers including two as first author with J. Robert Schrieffer — Nobel Prize winner for Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer theory on superconductivity. He worked as a manufacturing engineer on two-way, narrow-band text pagers and fiber-optic components. His interests include history, science and technology, astronomy, sociology, archaeology, Austrian economics, agorism, voluntaryism, and bookbinding.
Born and raised in Calgary, Canada, I graduated from the Theatre Arts program at Mount Royal University. After about 20 years working in the entertainment industry, I worked as a singer, actor, director, producer and technician in live shows and film & television. Frustrated by my lack of (financial) success as a performer, I decided to take a 5-year ‘hiatus’ from Show Biz and travel the world teaching English.
Fifteen years later… I started writing my first novel.
My first destination was Turkey, where I met my wife and watched her give birth to our son. I missed performing and creating/telling stories, and was able to channel some of this energy into writing and directing amateur actors and students in a few plays. Later, we moved to Germany, where my wife’s career took us. I continued teaching and had much success, but the artist in me longed for expression. So, I began taking courses online and started writing and planning my next career move— to be a self-published author.
When she was growing up in the 1970’s, Nora Delzelle felt like the only girl who loved science fiction and fantasy novels. Some of her most cherished childhood memories happened at the local library, discovering those adventure stories. That love of science and adventure eventually led to a fulfilling career, and as time went on she was inspired to tell her own stories. Death Mask is her exciting debut novel in a series about cursed antiquities. Ms. Delzelle has been an avid white-water rafter, a movie extra, a scientist, and now an author.
MOJGAN AZAR was born in Iran and lived most of her adult life in Iraq. She was living in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2014 when the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham swept through the area, displacing millions and trapping Mojgan in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Her harrowing experiences have inspired her writings. For the first time she is making that story known to the world.
After completing a variety of roles including working in libraries, the theatre and even training to be a teacher, I settled on writing in my early thirties. I decided that self-publishing was the right route for me and set about writing my first ever story, a children’s book about a muddled fairy. Since then, I’ve self-published 4 more children’s stories and a teenage novel. I have written two books so far in the Leaves of Change Café Series, all contemporary romances. I live in the northeast of England with my family and our beloved cat Louie. I can usually be found writing with a cat on my knee and lots of cups of tea!
I’m a YA fantasy author from a little town on the edge of Sherwood Forest, England. I’ve always loved reading, anything with animals was my go to as a child, but I really got into fantasy when I was a teenager and I discovered Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl. My first story was a school project when I was ten where we had to write a poem in the style of Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes. I wrote a retelling of Red Riding Hood, and it ended up being shown around all the primary schools in the area. But I started writing seriously in 2016 and published my debut novel, The Fair Queen in August 2020.
Emem Uko, whose first name means “peace” in Annang, a dialect of Akwa Ibom, Nigeria, was born in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Emem developed a love for storybooks and writing at an early age and blames it on her parents’ decision to buy her books instead of candy. During her master’s program, Emem began a blog, Z and S, as a hobby and as a way to clear her head from the stress of school life. She started writing her first book without plans to publish it. Thanks to a nosey friend, Emem ended up publishing her first Young Adult (YA) novel. She has published several fictional books ranging from YA to contemporary romance and doesn’t have plans to stop anytime soon.
Peter Solomon is a physicist and an entrepreneur who is devoted to passing on his love for the many wonderful science stories to the younger generation. The birth of his twelfth grandchild was the inspiration for his first book and the STARDUST MYSTERY project that has created companion video games, science videos, and Expert Avatars that will answer questions about their lives and work. The theme of the Stardust Mystery story is that we are made of STARDUST that was once in the body of Albert Einstein and the last T-Rex. That is true. We each have more than 300 trillion carbon atoms that once belonged to and were exhaled by Einstein and more than 5,000 trillion that were once in each T-Rex that roamed the Earth. Those atoms were created in the end-of-life explosions of stars.
His new book, The Race to the Big Bang, set in the coronavirus pandemic, continues that story. The same child characters make the best of their new life constraints and enter a new contest, The Race to the Big Bang. They, and hopefully the reader, will learn lots of new science. Peter lives in Connecticut with his wife, Sally Moshein Solomon. Sally and Peter have had their vaccine shots and are now visiting with their grandchildren again.