Jordan Arey
From his earliest years Jordan wanted to understand who he was, why he was, how things worked, and for what purpose. He passed through a childhood stage of eager questioning, riddling his parents with countless inquiries". He can remember the repetition of a certain phrase from his father as a child: "Why all the questions? Are you writing a book?" he would ask. Well, he wasn't then, but he can see now that all his questioning was preparing his mind to do so later.
After high school, Jordan turned to further studies in his faith and attended an institute of religion from which he graduated. During this time, he practiced writing essays on varying subjects to establish his style and voice in the written word. A short time later, he left on a two year ecclesiastical mission that lent greater insight and understanding to the subjects of his work. After returning, he began his college studies, married his wonderful wife, and took to writing with more focus and determination than ever before, completing several short stories and his first novel Powers of Influence.
Braden Bell
Braden Bell grew up in Farmington, Utah and graduated from Davis High School. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in theatre from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in educational theatre from New York University. He and his wife, Meredith live with their five children on a quiet, wooded lot outside of Nashville, Tennessee, where he teaches theatre and music at a private school. An experienced performer, Braden enjoys singing, acting, reading, gardening, and long walks with the dog.
C. David Belt
C. David Belt was born in Evanston, WY. As a child, he lived and traveled extensively around the Far East. He served as an LDS missionary in South Korea and southern California (Korean-speaking). He graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Aerospace Studies. He served as a B-52 pilot in the US Air Force and as an Air Weapons Controller in the Washington Air National Guard. When he is not writing, he sings in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and works as a software engineer. He collects swords (mostly Scottish), axes, spears, and other medieval weapons and armor. He and his wife have six children and live in Utah with an eclectus parrot named Mork (who likes to jump on the keyboard when David is writing).
Trina Boice
Trina Boice is a popular speaker and best-selling author of 15 books, specializing in brainstorm idea books that help you magnify your calling and find joy in living the gospel. Trina teaches BYU classes online and is a corporate trainer on the famous Las Vegas Strip. Trina received the Honor Young Mother of the Year award for California and has 4 sons. She served a mission in Spain, has a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, 2 Masters degrees, 2 Bachelors degrees, 2 water turtles, and a freezer full of ice cream.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Fans-of-author-Trina-Boice/
Blog: www.Boicebox.com
Author web site: www.TrinaBoice.com
Sherry Gammon
Unlovable is Sherry’s debut novel and it quickly rose up many of the top seller’s lists on Amazon. She is pleased to announce that Unlovable is currently being made into a movie. She has added two more novels to her body of work. Souls in Peril, the poignant story of Max Sanchez who is on a journey to help the struggling JD Miller survive high school, and Pete & Tink, a fun, lighthearted novella of a manga-loving geek and a five-and-a-half inch fairy.
Sherry and her husband, along with their children and a couple of crazy dogs, call Upstate New York home. It is where she spends her nights writing instead of sleeping. Her Blog is: www.WordpaintingsUnlimited.com
Jennifer Griffith
Mother, wife, writer, moderately bad housekeeper.
Jennifer Griffith lives in the Arizona desert and battles her unruly dog for dominance in the household while writing escapist fiction she refers to as “cotton candy for the soul.”
Her latest release, Big in Japan, is the story of a big Texan who goes to Japan and accidentally becomes the first blond sumo wrestler. Jennifer learned to love Japan when living there for a year and a half during her college years. She ate the food (including soy-sugar fried crickets and the infamous natto), slept on the floor on a futon (sometimes inside a closet to keep warm in the winter), rode a rickety bicycle through the streets, and spoke Japanese every day while there while meeting and talking to lots of fantastic Japanese people.
Chris Heimerdinger
Chris Heimerdinger is an American author and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who has written sixteen novels for young people and adults, the Tennis Shoes Adventure Series, most of which center on religious themes familiar to Latter-day Saints. Books: Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites, Warriors of Cumorah, Tower of Thunder
Marie Higgins
Marie Higgins is a multi-published author of romance; from refined bad-boy heroes who makes your heart melt to the feisty heroines who somehow manage to love them regardless of their faults. Visit her website / blog to discover more about her – http://mariehiggins84302.blogspot.com
Joni Hilton
Joni Hilton is an award-winning playwright, the author of 20 books, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Professional Writing from USC. She also has sold more than 100 articles to national magazines. At age seven, her mother dragged her to the doctor to find out why she spent all her time in a closet, writing. The doctor talked to Joni for a few minutes, then told her mother, “She’s a writer. Leave her alone.” Hilton hosted a daily TV talk show in Los Angeles for four years, is still a TV spokeswoman across the U.S. for various corporations, and is highly in demand as a public speaker. Visit her website, jonihilton.com, for more information. You can also find Joni on Twitter: @JoniHilton.One of her comedy plays, “Does This Show Make My Butt Look Fat?” has just been accepted for publication by ArtAge. Award-winning “In Bed With Chuck and Lois” will be performed January 18-19, 2013, at the Arthur Newman Theatre in Palm Desert. Her comedy, “The Christmas Triple Whammy” was just performed in Queens, New York.
Kurt Kammeyer
Kurt Kammeyer is a software engineer and writer. He lives with his wife, Pam, in Colorado Springs. He has extensive experience in the aerospace industry and in telecommunications. He speaks French and has also studied Hebrew, Welsh, Icelandic, and Hindi as background for his books.
Angie Lofthouse
Angie Lofthouse went to college with every intention of becoming a particle physicist, but through a series of misadventures, found herself studying Shakespeare instead. After college she combined her love of science and her love of words into a science fiction writing career.
www.angielofthouse.com
Erin Ann McBride
Erin Ann McBride is a writer, dreamer, and blogger. She is the author of the novella “The Agency,” and co-author of “Beyond Perfection.” She is the associate editor of “Meridian Magazine,” and regularly blogs about the stock market for “The Motley Fool.” She enjoys politics, pop culture, all things 80′s, and watching canceled science fiction TV series. She is a native of Washington, D.C., and currently resides in Roanoke, Va.
Personal Blog: The Story of a Nice Mormon Girl
J. Lloyd Morgan
Author J. Lloyd Morgan is an award winning author and television director. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Communications and a minor in English. Morgan has lived all over the United States, but now resides in North Carolina with his wife and four daughters. Aside from writing, Morgan is an avid reader. He’s also a huge fan of baseball and enjoys listening to progressive rock.
More information can be found at www.jlloydmorgan.com
Matt Peterson
Matt loves his family, the outdoors, the indoors (for sleeping and such), and British mini-series. He hates onions, crickets, and traffic.
Personal Blog: The Matt Peterson Blog... or whatever.
Luisa Perkins
Luisa Perkins lives in a small town in Southern California with her husband and their six kids. She loves Tudor Church music, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and stale Red Vines.
Cheri Schmidt
Cheri is a mother of four beautiful girls, a wife to a loving computer geek, a writer, an artist, a photographer, a lover of words, and a lover of reading books. Cheri went to Brigham Young University in 1988 where she majored in photography and design. She has worked as a portrait photographer and artist for twenty years.
She has only recently realized that she can share the stories constantly playing through her thoughts, and added writing to her list of creative endeavors. She always did well in English, but never realized she could write as her other talents seemed to overshadow that hidden skill. She has always had an interest in fairies, mermaids, vampires, witches, and, in truth, just about any type of fantasy or myth. She started out in elementary school drawing mermaids, fairies, and witches, and has since sold paintings of them on eBay. As computer technology advanced, she began digitally enhancing photographs into those magical creatures as well. When stories of these beings continued to entertain her thoughts, to the point of almost haunting her, she decided it was time to start writing them down.
FATEFUL is her first finished work, though other stories had come to her before that. She has seven other books in the plans, including: some on vampires, some on fairies, and all of them with a romantic twist.
E.M. Tippetts
Emily Mah Tippetts writes romance as E.M. Tippetts and science fiction and fantasy as Emily Mah. She is a former attorney with degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University and business law from UCLA.
Originally from New Mexico, she now lives in London with her family. She is a devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and thus often includes LDS (Mormon) characters in her work. For more information or to sign up for updates on future book releases, visit her website at www.emtippetts.com.
G.G. Vandagriff
GG Vandagriff has been a traditionally published author for 20 years, but has recently gone Indie with her (clean) Regency romances. She was the Whitney Award winner of Best Historical Novel (The Last Waltz) for 2009. She also publishes a mystery series about two women who solve mysteries using their genealogical expertise. In addition, she has published a couple of women's fiction titles and two suspense titles.
Author site: http://www.ggvandagriff.com
Blog: http://www.ggvandagriff.com/blog
Roseanne Evan Wilkins
Roseanne was born in Utah. When she was 8, she moved with her family to Salina, Kansas, the exact center of mainland USA. She is the second oldest in a family of 9 children. She has always loved children.
Roseanne started her first novel when she was 14. That novel was put aside, as were all the other books she started, when she married Craig. They moved 15 times in ten years. During that time, they worked as foster parents and then became adoptive parents. They've also added three birth children to the family. They moved back to Utah over a dozen years ago. With all the work of raising children and parenting foster children, Roseanne put aside her writing.
After reading the Twilight Series, she felt moved to write a fanfiction book, Noonday Sun (available free on fanfiction.com and Goodreads). After finishing that novel, she dug through her files and found the manuscript to Tangled Hearts - a book that was started in 1983. Hidden in the Heart, the second book in the series, was started in 1991. The third book in the series, Change of Heart, is a new story.
She is looking forward to finishing the other novels she started so many years ago.
You can follow Roseanne on twitter at RoseannesSpot or her blog: http://www.roseannesspot.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-time.html
Michael Young
Michael is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree in German Teaching and a minor in Music. He puts his German to good use teaching online German courses for High School students. Though he grew up traveling the world with his military father, he now lives in Utah with his wife, Jen, and his two sons. Michael enjoys acting in community theater, playing and writing music and spending time with his family. He played for several years with the handbell choir Bells on Temple Square and is now a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
He is the author of the novels THE CANTICLE KINGDOM, THE CANTICLE PRELUDE and THE LAST ARCHANGEL. He is also the author of the inspirational pamphlet PORTRAIT OF A MOTHER, a contributor to the anthology PARABLES FOR TODAY and the author of several web serials through BigWorldNetwork.com. His most recent work is SING WE NOW OF CHRISTMAS, an anthology of short stories with the proceeds going to charity. He has also had work featured in various online and print magazines such as Mindflights, The New Era, Allegory, and Ensign.
From his earliest years Jordan wanted to understand who he was, why he was, how things worked, and for what purpose. He passed through a childhood stage of eager questioning, riddling his parents with countless inquiries". He can remember the repetition of a certain phrase from his father as a child: "Why all the questions? Are you writing a book?" he would ask. Well, he wasn't then, but he can see now that all his questioning was preparing his mind to do so later.
After high school, Jordan turned to further studies in his faith and attended an institute of religion from which he graduated. During this time, he practiced writing essays on varying subjects to establish his style and voice in the written word. A short time later, he left on a two year ecclesiastical mission that lent greater insight and understanding to the subjects of his work. After returning, he began his college studies, married his wonderful wife, and took to writing with more focus and determination than ever before, completing several short stories and his first novel Powers of Influence.
Braden Bell
Braden Bell grew up in Farmington, Utah and graduated from Davis High School. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in theatre from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. in educational theatre from New York University. He and his wife, Meredith live with their five children on a quiet, wooded lot outside of Nashville, Tennessee, where he teaches theatre and music at a private school. An experienced performer, Braden enjoys singing, acting, reading, gardening, and long walks with the dog.
C. David Belt
C. David Belt was born in Evanston, WY. As a child, he lived and traveled extensively around the Far East. He served as an LDS missionary in South Korea and southern California (Korean-speaking). He graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a minor in Aerospace Studies. He served as a B-52 pilot in the US Air Force and as an Air Weapons Controller in the Washington Air National Guard. When he is not writing, he sings in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and works as a software engineer. He collects swords (mostly Scottish), axes, spears, and other medieval weapons and armor. He and his wife have six children and live in Utah with an eclectus parrot named Mork (who likes to jump on the keyboard when David is writing).
Trina Boice
Trina Boice is a popular speaker and best-selling author of 15 books, specializing in brainstorm idea books that help you magnify your calling and find joy in living the gospel. Trina teaches BYU classes online and is a corporate trainer on the famous Las Vegas Strip. Trina received the Honor Young Mother of the Year award for California and has 4 sons. She served a mission in Spain, has a Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do, 2 Masters degrees, 2 Bachelors degrees, 2 water turtles, and a freezer full of ice cream.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pages/Fans-of-author-Trina-Boice/
Blog: www.Boicebox.com
Author web site: www.TrinaBoice.com
Sherry Gammon
Unlovable is Sherry’s debut novel and it quickly rose up many of the top seller’s lists on Amazon. She is pleased to announce that Unlovable is currently being made into a movie. She has added two more novels to her body of work. Souls in Peril, the poignant story of Max Sanchez who is on a journey to help the struggling JD Miller survive high school, and Pete & Tink, a fun, lighthearted novella of a manga-loving geek and a five-and-a-half inch fairy.
Sherry and her husband, along with their children and a couple of crazy dogs, call Upstate New York home. It is where she spends her nights writing instead of sleeping. Her Blog is: www.WordpaintingsUnlimited.com
Jennifer Griffith
Mother, wife, writer, moderately bad housekeeper.
Jennifer Griffith lives in the Arizona desert and battles her unruly dog for dominance in the household while writing escapist fiction she refers to as “cotton candy for the soul.”
Her latest release, Big in Japan, is the story of a big Texan who goes to Japan and accidentally becomes the first blond sumo wrestler. Jennifer learned to love Japan when living there for a year and a half during her college years. She ate the food (including soy-sugar fried crickets and the infamous natto), slept on the floor on a futon (sometimes inside a closet to keep warm in the winter), rode a rickety bicycle through the streets, and spoke Japanese every day while there while meeting and talking to lots of fantastic Japanese people.
Chris Heimerdinger
Chris Heimerdinger is an American author and member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) who has written sixteen novels for young people and adults, the Tennis Shoes Adventure Series, most of which center on religious themes familiar to Latter-day Saints. Books: Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites, Warriors of Cumorah, Tower of Thunder
Marie Higgins
Marie Higgins is a multi-published author of romance; from refined bad-boy heroes who makes your heart melt to the feisty heroines who somehow manage to love them regardless of their faults. Visit her website / blog to discover more about her – http://mariehiggins84302.blogspot.com
Joni Hilton
Joni Hilton is an award-winning playwright, the author of 20 books, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Professional Writing from USC. She also has sold more than 100 articles to national magazines. At age seven, her mother dragged her to the doctor to find out why she spent all her time in a closet, writing. The doctor talked to Joni for a few minutes, then told her mother, “She’s a writer. Leave her alone.” Hilton hosted a daily TV talk show in Los Angeles for four years, is still a TV spokeswoman across the U.S. for various corporations, and is highly in demand as a public speaker. Visit her website, jonihilton.com, for more information. You can also find Joni on Twitter: @JoniHilton.One of her comedy plays, “Does This Show Make My Butt Look Fat?” has just been accepted for publication by ArtAge. Award-winning “In Bed With Chuck and Lois” will be performed January 18-19, 2013, at the Arthur Newman Theatre in Palm Desert. Her comedy, “The Christmas Triple Whammy” was just performed in Queens, New York.
Kurt Kammeyer
Kurt Kammeyer is a software engineer and writer. He lives with his wife, Pam, in Colorado Springs. He has extensive experience in the aerospace industry and in telecommunications. He speaks French and has also studied Hebrew, Welsh, Icelandic, and Hindi as background for his books.
Angie Lofthouse
Angie Lofthouse went to college with every intention of becoming a particle physicist, but through a series of misadventures, found herself studying Shakespeare instead. After college she combined her love of science and her love of words into a science fiction writing career.
www.angielofthouse.com
Erin Ann McBride
Erin Ann McBride is a writer, dreamer, and blogger. She is the author of the novella “The Agency,” and co-author of “Beyond Perfection.” She is the associate editor of “Meridian Magazine,” and regularly blogs about the stock market for “The Motley Fool.” She enjoys politics, pop culture, all things 80′s, and watching canceled science fiction TV series. She is a native of Washington, D.C., and currently resides in Roanoke, Va.
Personal Blog: The Story of a Nice Mormon Girl
J. Lloyd Morgan
Author J. Lloyd Morgan is an award winning author and television director. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in Communications and a minor in English. Morgan has lived all over the United States, but now resides in North Carolina with his wife and four daughters. Aside from writing, Morgan is an avid reader. He’s also a huge fan of baseball and enjoys listening to progressive rock.
More information can be found at www.jlloydmorgan.com
Matt Peterson
Matt loves his family, the outdoors, the indoors (for sleeping and such), and British mini-series. He hates onions, crickets, and traffic.
Personal Blog: The Matt Peterson Blog... or whatever.
Luisa Perkins
Luisa Perkins lives in a small town in Southern California with her husband and their six kids. She loves Tudor Church music, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and stale Red Vines.
Cheri Schmidt
Cheri is a mother of four beautiful girls, a wife to a loving computer geek, a writer, an artist, a photographer, a lover of words, and a lover of reading books. Cheri went to Brigham Young University in 1988 where she majored in photography and design. She has worked as a portrait photographer and artist for twenty years.
She has only recently realized that she can share the stories constantly playing through her thoughts, and added writing to her list of creative endeavors. She always did well in English, but never realized she could write as her other talents seemed to overshadow that hidden skill. She has always had an interest in fairies, mermaids, vampires, witches, and, in truth, just about any type of fantasy or myth. She started out in elementary school drawing mermaids, fairies, and witches, and has since sold paintings of them on eBay. As computer technology advanced, she began digitally enhancing photographs into those magical creatures as well. When stories of these beings continued to entertain her thoughts, to the point of almost haunting her, she decided it was time to start writing them down.
FATEFUL is her first finished work, though other stories had come to her before that. She has seven other books in the plans, including: some on vampires, some on fairies, and all of them with a romantic twist.
E.M. Tippetts
Emily Mah Tippetts writes romance as E.M. Tippetts and science fiction and fantasy as Emily Mah. She is a former attorney with degrees in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University and business law from UCLA.
Originally from New Mexico, she now lives in London with her family. She is a devoted member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and thus often includes LDS (Mormon) characters in her work. For more information or to sign up for updates on future book releases, visit her website at www.emtippetts.com.
G.G. Vandagriff
GG Vandagriff has been a traditionally published author for 20 years, but has recently gone Indie with her (clean) Regency romances. She was the Whitney Award winner of Best Historical Novel (The Last Waltz) for 2009. She also publishes a mystery series about two women who solve mysteries using their genealogical expertise. In addition, she has published a couple of women's fiction titles and two suspense titles.
Author site: http://www.ggvandagriff.com
Blog: http://www.ggvandagriff.com/blog
Roseanne Evan Wilkins
Roseanne was born in Utah. When she was 8, she moved with her family to Salina, Kansas, the exact center of mainland USA. She is the second oldest in a family of 9 children. She has always loved children.
Roseanne started her first novel when she was 14. That novel was put aside, as were all the other books she started, when she married Craig. They moved 15 times in ten years. During that time, they worked as foster parents and then became adoptive parents. They've also added three birth children to the family. They moved back to Utah over a dozen years ago. With all the work of raising children and parenting foster children, Roseanne put aside her writing.
After reading the Twilight Series, she felt moved to write a fanfiction book, Noonday Sun (available free on fanfiction.com and Goodreads). After finishing that novel, she dug through her files and found the manuscript to Tangled Hearts - a book that was started in 1983. Hidden in the Heart, the second book in the series, was started in 1991. The third book in the series, Change of Heart, is a new story.
She is looking forward to finishing the other novels she started so many years ago.
You can follow Roseanne on twitter at RoseannesSpot or her blog: http://www.roseannesspot.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-time.html
Michael Young
Michael is a graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree in German Teaching and a minor in Music. He puts his German to good use teaching online German courses for High School students. Though he grew up traveling the world with his military father, he now lives in Utah with his wife, Jen, and his two sons. Michael enjoys acting in community theater, playing and writing music and spending time with his family. He played for several years with the handbell choir Bells on Temple Square and is now a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
He is the author of the novels THE CANTICLE KINGDOM, THE CANTICLE PRELUDE and THE LAST ARCHANGEL. He is also the author of the inspirational pamphlet PORTRAIT OF A MOTHER, a contributor to the anthology PARABLES FOR TODAY and the author of several web serials through BigWorldNetwork.com. His most recent work is SING WE NOW OF CHRISTMAS, an anthology of short stories with the proceeds going to charity. He has also had work featured in various online and print magazines such as Mindflights, The New Era, Allegory, and Ensign.
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