Month: November 2021

Karen E. Osborne

KAREN E. OSBORNE’s  novels followed a forty-year career, first as an academic administrator and then co-owner of The Osborne Group, serving as a consultant, trainer, and motivational speaker. Now Karen writes women’s fiction/suspense novels full time.

Getting It Right, published by Akashic Books, came out in June 2017, and was featured in Essence Magazine and Poets & Writers. Tangled Lies, Black Rose Writing, was released on July 22, 2021. It was chosen as a 2021 BestThriller.com finalist. Reckonings is due out on June 16, 2022.

Julie Doyle Cullen

Prior to writing Sometimes Shells Make Sand, author Julie Doyle Cullen spent thirty years as an executive, mostly in the media business. During the pandemic, Julie transitioned her career to a company of community-based healthcare centers focused on senior adults. Julie currently resides in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with her husband Mark. They have three adult daughters between them that they love dearly: Kylie, Caitlin, and Erin. Unfortunately, Winnie the Labradoodle recently passed away, and is currently running wild in heaven reunited with her previous owner, Suzanne, Julie’s mother.

Gina Yates

Gina Yates’s debut novel NARCISSUS NOBODY was released in April 2021 by Three Rooms Press. As the youngest daughter of the late American literary master Richard Yates, Gina always felt a natural impulse to craft stories that illuminate shared human vulnerabilities. After attending the University of British Columbia in the early nineties, she sidestepped higher academia, opting instead to hone her fiction writing skills along a less conventional path of world travel and entrepreneurship. Gina currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with her two rescue dogs Fannie and Scarlett, and she is the owner/operator of an eclectic vintage clothing shop.

Kelly Ann Jacobson

Kelly Ann Jacobson is a prolific author and editor specializing in queer fiction and unique twists on genre fiction. In addition to Tink and Wendy, her recent books include the linked story collection An Inventory of Abandoned Things: Stories, winner of the Split/Lip Chapbook Contest, Miranda (Storylandia!), and Cairo in White (Musa Publishing). Her short fiction, poetry, and nonfiction has been appeared in more than fifty publications. Kelly earned her PhD in fiction from Florida State University and teaches as the Visiting Assistant Professor of English at the University of West Alabama and as an instructor of speculative fiction for Southern New Hampshire University’s online MFA in creative writing. She lives in Livingston, Alabama.

Pamela Seelig

Pamela Seelig is a yoga teacher and the author of Threads of Yoga: Themes, Reflections, and Meditations to Weave into Your Practice. She began her yoga and meditation journey in 1991 when an illness interrupted her Wall Street career. Along with helping recovery, the impact of her meditation led to a lifelong pursuit of perceiving and sharing yogic wisdom through practice, teaching, and writing. She completed her teacher training in 2006 at Integral Yoga Institute in New York. Pamela considers Swami Satchidananda, the founder of Integral, as her primary teacher (root guru), but she has trained with many of the top yoga luminaries in the world today. Pamela is a fervent student of yoga and continues to deepen and expand her yogic knowledge and understanding. Along with Hatha yoga, Pamela also studies Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras and is a certified Raja Yoga instructor. While grateful for so many brilliant teachers along the way, she regards the practice itself as the greatest teacher. She lives in New Jersey where she practices yoga, teaches yoga workshops, writes, and empty-nests with her husband, Bob, and dog, Bodhi.

Jenn Bouchard

Jenn Bouchard’s debut novel First Course was published by TouchPoint Press in 2021. It was named a finalist in the American Fiction Awards. Her short stories have appeared in the Bookends Review, Litbreak Magazine, the Penmen Review, and the Little Patuxent Review. A high school social studies teacher of twenty-two years, she is an avid cook and devoted Red Sox fan. She is a graduate of Bates College and Tufts University. She lives in the Boston suburbs with her husband and two children.

Christine Nolfi

Christine Nolfi is the bestselling author of twelve novels of women’s and book club fiction, including The Road She Left Behind, Sweet Lake, and her 2021 release, The Passing Storm. Her award-winning books delve into the extraordinary moments in seemingly ordinary lives. She is the adoptive mother of four children, all now grown. Today Christine lives in South Carolina’s Lowcountry with her husband and crazy Wheaten Terrier, Lucy.