Family

Interview with Author – Kevin OConnor

Interview with Author – Kevin OConnor

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Kevin O’Connor enjoys chronicling the stories of families and friends through tracing genealogical histories, writing, and picture collections. His prior writing includes personal letters, articles in professional publications, dissertations, anthologies, and presentations delivered at conferences, seminars, and webinars. He brings people together personally and professionally. Collaborating with friends and relatives, he plans family and class reunions. He sings and performs in theaters. He is active with SMART Ride, a bicycling group that rides annually from Miami to Key West, raising funds for HIV awareness, treatments, and education. He was an elementary teacher, principal, professor, and curriculum coordinator in California, Illinois, and Florida from 1973-2020. In his final educational position, he authored content and provided training in areas including support for substitute teachers, LGBTQ advocacy, and Sexual Health/Family Life. He resides in Ft. Lauderdale with his husband, Leon. Their family includes five sons and seven granddaughters. He references further connections to this book, continues his stories, and highlights perspectives about his interests at www.kevinoconnorauthor.com

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Interview with Author – Carolyn Muradian

Interview with Author – Carolyn Muradian

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Carolyn is the mother of six children; one boy and five girls. Empty nesters, she lives in Little Rock, Arkansas with her husband, Krikor, and their precious Boston terrier, Anoosh. One of her greatest joys has always been watching children discover what their world is all about. Little did she realize these observations would become an invaluable resource for her writing. It was her granddaughter, Macy, who has Down syndrome, that inspired her to write Is Being Different a Good Thing to Be? Anyone who reads a Macy book is bound to be captivated by the curious and charming character.
Writing does not come easily for Carolyn, but the pain and agony of the journey, if you make it to the end, carry a zillion rewards. One of her favorite times to remember was when Carolyn wrote and co-published with one of her daughters the Mother and Daughter Designs series. Included in the fourteen titles they created is the original and unforgettable Heaven’s Grocery Store. She is making preparations for its rerelease.

When Carolyn can find the time, she spends it doing her second favorite thing to do, needlework. She was nine years old. Her grandmother was teaching her how to cut a pattern out of a newspaper and turn it into her dream dress, when she was bitten by the sewing bug. It wasn’t long before she began teaching herself, eventually learning the entire array of needlework. Her current goal is to finish some family quilts she started; fourteen to be exact.

Currently her mind is focused on Is Being Different a Good Thing to Be?, her first Macy book. Following her natural inclination, she has learned from scratch how to create a website, add an email list, embed links and setup media platforms (you get the picture) all this while she writes. Carolyn strives to create a book that is not only exhilarating, humorous and heartwarming, but woven into the story so as not to be intrusive, a spattering of educational tools and descriptive language.

She’ll soon be introducing a new, children’s, picture book series. Already written and illustrated are the first three books. A fourth is waiting for final touches. Children are going to enjoy following this delightfully, dapper character, Bingo Boo, as he ventures through his whimsical, wonky world.

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Interview with Author – Jessica Berg

Interview with Author – Jessica Berg

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Hello! I’m a Midwest girl, born and raised, and my farming/rural background has played an integral part in who I am and what I do. I live in South Dakota with my husband of twenty years and four children (two boys and two girls), and a supposed-to-be miniature Australian shepherd. Something must have jumped the fence, however, as Fitz is a bigature and larger than even normal Australian shepherds. Welcome to my world!
I love my job as a high school English teacher and the 23-24 school year will be my 19th year! I also am an adjunct English professor with two local universities.

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Interview with Author – Lynn Rae

Interview with Author – Lynn Rae

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Lynn Rae was diagnosed with depression at the age of thirty and bipolar disorder at thirty-five. She has been living with these illnesses since 1991 and has had numerous hospitalizations. Two psychiatrists told her at age thirty-nine that she would never work full time again. She has proven them wrong.
Lynn has written two books. The F Book: 7 F’s to Creating Your Fantastic Future teaches you how incorporating these seven F’s will lead to a happier, healthier, more joy-filled life. The other is called My Journey Back to Myself which depicts her struggles and recovery from bipolar disorder.
As an Inspirational Speaker Lynn shares with others her coping strategies for living with bipolar disorder and how she learned to be a productive member of society again and thrive despite how she was labelled. Her talk, “7 F’s to Creating Your Fantastic Future” outlines seven words all starting with the letter F that led to her recovery. She has spoken at hospitals, conferences, Rotary Clubs, libraries, colleges and universities.
Lynn Rae makes her home in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. In the summer she loves taking care of her vegetable garden and eating fresh from it every day.

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Interview with Author – Dalton Smith

Interview with Author – Dalton Smith

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As a little child or pretty much as long as i could remember telling stories has always been my past time. So ,as i got older i had these little voices in my head telling me to write since i had a knack for it. Eventually i listened to my conscious and started my self publishing career. My main focus i primarily write is non fiction. I enjoy the fact that i am able to help other people with my words to solve problems. I have published my first book this year and have other books planned to be published soon so stay tuned.

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Interview with Author – Mary Elizabeth Fricke

Interview with Author – Mary Elizabeth Fricke

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Mary Elizabeth Fricke has lived her entire life within five miles of the Missouri River. She and her husband of 38 years have lived 35 of those years on a farm that has been consistently owned and operated by his family for five generations. They have two grown sons married to wonderful women and two beautiful grandchildren.
A graduate of the Writer’s Institute of America and a member of the Heartland Writers Guild, she has published a number of articles in various forums and magazines, as well as Dino, Godzilla and the Pigs, My Life on Our Missouri Hog Farm. She is also a prolific ghostwriter.
Her stories, based in rural mid-western areas, concern the unique but quickly vanishing way of life on the family farm as well as other mysterious intricacies that evolve life from generation to generation. Romance is her preferred genre.

Previously published in the Birds the Peril Series:
Pigeon in a Snare (Lisa’s story)
Roses for the Sparrow (Jani’s story)
Plight of the Wren (Susie’s story)
Robin Unaware (Stephanie’s story)

The Sweet Trilogy:
Demise of Innocence (Sweet Pea I)
Time to Deceive (Sweet Pea II)
The Price of Passion (Sweet Pea III)

‘Sweet Pea Gift Set—e-version of the trilogy
‘Sweet Pea Trilogy’—paperback version

All are available from Amazon

The only connection between The Sweet Pea Trilogy and the Birds in Peril Series is their central Missouri location. All characters and most places are fiction.

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