Andy Loch

Professionally he is a versatile, intelligent, and dedicated Aquatic Ecologist. His career in ecology began in 1982 on foreign fishing trawlers in the Bering Sea. After twenty six months at sea, acquired over five years, he set sail for land. On land he carried out various studies on: salmon ecology, fishers surveys, urban streams, water […]

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Roland Trenary

Born in the first half of the last century, Roland Trenary has parlayed his modest Midwest upbringing into a modest 21st Century adventure. He is creator of seven issues of the magazine Normal Bean, one acoustic album of self-penned/performed songs (Fever That Yearns), and several music-related videos on Youtube. With over forty years of researching […]

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Hugh Mannfiend

Hugh was born and raised in the American west, primarily within the mountain states of Wyoming, Colorado and Idaho. He graduated high school in the central Wyoming town of Riverton where he helped work his father’s 80 acre farm not far from the Wind River Mountains. He attended college at the University of Wyoming in […]

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Christine Gustavson-Udd

Christine Gustavson-Udd was born and raised in Minnetonka, Minnesota, where she lived until getting married, and then moved to the Pacific Northwest.For her bachelor’s degree, she studied art-mostly acrylic painting, at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus.She earned an Elementary Education Residential Teaching Certificate at Western Washington University, Everett campus and a Master of […]

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H.D. Vesser

H.D Vesser (Alias Bart The Bat) H.D. grew up reading Piers Anthony (A Spell For Chameleon) Black Beauty, A Wrinkle In Time, and strangely enough, Stephen King novels. Little did she know how much those books would influence her on her way to what she calls “Bartworld,” her favorite escape from the world. This entire […]

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Tori Centanni

Tori Centanni writes suspenseful urban fantasy books with snarky protagonists, intriguing mysteries, and dynamic casts of characters. She’s a nerd girl and recovering goth who likes dark, quirky stories with elements of humor. When not reading or writing, she can be found baking, watching too much television, and wrangling cats. She lives in the Pacific […]

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Chloe Holiday

I write the things I love to read: steamy, fun stories about ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, smart women and men who aren’t jerks. I like to read about friendships, either close women or a good bromance. I want all the feels: the thrill of a smoldering gaze or the barest brush of fingertips, the […]

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Susan Old

I am fascinated by the many worlds within our world, that we often do not notice. My experience in the Peace Corps in Zaire in the late 70’s helped me question every norm. Later, I worked in the field of Mental Health/Addictions in California at a street emergency shelter, then County Mental Health, then a […]

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Linda Jordan

Linda Jordan writes fascinating characters, visionary worlds, and imaginative fiction. She creates both long and short fiction, serious and silly. She believes in the power of healing and transformation, and many of her stories follow those themes. In a previous lifetime, Linda coordinated the Clarion West Writers’ Workshop as well as the Reading Series. She […]

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Susan Brown

I love to write! Ever since I was a kid, bored with school, I’ve been making up stories. Eventually I became a journalist, got married, had kids, adopted rescue dogs and started writing books in earnest under my own name, Susan Brown, as well as four co-authored with Anne Stephenson using the pen-name of Stephanie […]

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