The Muse Online Conference

Presenters H - J


   

PAT HARRINGTON
Patricia Harrington, Mystery Author
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Patricia Harrington is a multi-genre author and writer.  Her mystery novels feature Bridget O'Hern, amateur sleuth, and her grant writing has produced fifty million in funded grants for nonprofits, enabling them to fulfill their missions.  She has many published short stories for both adults and children, and she the recipient of a Derringer Award from the Short Mystery Fiction Society.  Her website is www.patriciaharrington.com.
 
SHEL HOROWITZ
Shel Horowitz is an ethical marketing expert, writer, speaker, consultant, community organizer, frugalist .
 



LINDA J. HUTCHINSON
Linda J Hutchinson writes about construction, heavy equipment, parenting, food, marketing, volunteerism, art and life, for print and online media. An essayist at heart, she also writes sales copy (copywriting), is the author of the e-book The Bare Bones Basics of: So You Want to be a Writer (updated!), and operates an online gift store. (Hubby likes depositing checks
on a regular basis.)  www.lindajhutchinson.com

 


J. Richard Jacobs
Co-Author of the scientific presentations for the Mars Society ON TO MARS 2,the Sci-Fi SEEDS OF MEMORY , the thrilling read of the Sci-Fi XENOGENESIS, and Co-Author of the anthology TWISTED TAILS

 
This is J. Richard Jacobs, but he prefers to be called "J". He began his writing career in 1956 and just hasn't been able to..."break the habit," he says with a wry grin. He writes primarily science fact and fiction, though he is equally at home with other genre and tends to cross genre lines with a delightful frequency in all his works. He has been an avid amateur astronomer since his first light through a telescope in 1947.
In college he majored in physics and mathematics and minored in astronomy but he didn't pursue any of them into the professional level. Instead, he spent 28 years  designing ships and yachts--he even became a hands-on builder of custom yachts "...for rich folks who couldn't think of anything better to do with their money than throw it into an extremely expensive hole in the water to which they would then attach some absurd name. A few sailed off into the sunset, while others contented themselves by remaining dockside and drinking their martinis dry," he says with a laugh.
When he retired he moved to Mexico where he taught the art of boatbuilding to several Mexican firms. He has also lectured on meteoritics (NEOs, PHAs, and other potentially dangerous rocks in space--and the fine art of collecting, selling, and trading meteorites), astronomy, the possibilities of life in the universe and other strange things at universities, high schools, and anywhere else where people showed an interest. Now...now he writes. His most recent venture was putting together an anthology of strange tales written by even stranger authors. The title? Twisted Tails. The book was published by Double Dragon Publishing in April 2006. It was given a stunning cover by Deron Douglas.

The author was born in Calcutta and spent her formative years in Delhi. She graduated in Economics (Honours) from Miranda House, Delhi University.  She received her post graduation in Economics from Jawahar Lal University New Delhi. For a brief while she taught Economics in Delhi University as a lecturer. She did her research on the ‘Changing Agrarian relations and its socio-economic impact on development’ from Rajasthan University.
 
Marriage brought her to Rajasthan a desert state, where time appeared to stand still. The veil separating the past from the present was thin. She could sense the fact that the history, which shaped the destiny of the place, hadn’t been lost. The violent and blinding sandstorms which blows through the hot summer months, revealed new shapes and contours to her, telling a different tale each time.  Her husband’s postings offered her an opportunity to travel in the state, which boasts of palaces and forts of a bygone era; which forms a backdrop to many of her tales. 
She is presently staying in Jaipur. She is currently working on a collection of short stories, ‘Quixotic Quest and other Tales’ and her novel ‘Prithvi-2050’
   A collection of her short stories ‘Forsaken God and Other Tales’ has been e-published by Karen Scott of New Writers Consultancy and is available www.author-network.com/Chandra.html
ISBN 0-9540058-8-0
 www.puff-adder.com/chandra.html
You can visit her web site www.writersquest.faithweb.com
‘Manasa Vriksha’ has been e-published and is available on
 www.sulekha.com /articlesdecs.asp?cid=243371…on 17.9.2002
‘RockyTrial’ onwww.sulekha.com/article desc.asp?md=c&cid284889
‘Tarika:Belonging to the stars’ on www.sulekha.com/article desc.asp.cid=306548
‘Witch, the Enchantress and the unwitting Macho man’ on
 www.indo-link.com/stories/publish/s213.html
‘Kaalkunj’ on www.indolink.com/stories/publish/s219.html
‘Enakshi’ on www.sulekha.com/article desc.asp.cid=306757on15.9.2003
‘Perambulation’ on www.sulekha.com/expressions/articledesc.asp? cid=30725 on 12.05.2004
‘Illusion’ on www.sulekha.com/expressions/articledesc.asp?cid=307446 12.12.2004
‘Yoginalaya’ on www.sulekha.com/expressions/articledesc.asp?cid=307161 on March 7 2003
‘To market…’ on www.sulekha.com/expressions/weblogs/weblogdesc.asp?cid=21972
           A cyclonic vacation on www.alongstoryshort.net/acyclonicvacation.html
 Jan 2006
           Prodigy on www.alongstoryshort.net/prodigy.html
 March 2006
Writing as Meditation an on-line writing course on www.lsswritingschool.com/writingasmeditation.html
 March 2006
‘Holiday Home’ on Delivered March 2006 issue ISSN 1744-5736
www.grimmyproductions.co.uk.
 ‘The Macabre birthday’ on www.alongstoryshort.net/themacabrebirthday.html April 2006 in the Flash Fiction section
‘The Land of Adipoz ’ on www.alongstoryshort.net/thelandofadipoz.html April 2006 in the women’s issue section
‘Heart of the matter’ on www.alongstoryshort.net/ heartofthematter.html July2006 in the international writer’s section
‘The Haven’on http://www.alongstoryshort.net/The Haven.html September 2006
‘A Rag picker’s Notes’ a novel has been published and is available on www.bookpuzzlers.com/A_Ragpickers_Notes_Chandra_Ghosh_Jain.dnl
ISBN 1-905906-03-X
ISBN 978-1-905906-03-1 September 2006
You can find her on her blogs on
www.chandrasramblings.blogspot.com
www.writersalchemy.sulekha.com
Her workshop on ‘Writing as Meditation’ is available on www.freewebs.com/themuseonlinewritingconference.com
‘A Tubby Apparition’ on www.alongstoryshort.net November 06
Review of William Dalrymple’s ‘The Last Mughal’ in www.chillibreeze.com April 2007
‘An Enigmatic Statue’ in www.chillibreeze.com April 2007
 
   
 
 
CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON
 
CAROLYN HOWARD-JOHNSON
Author - Instructor at UCLA - Editor of "Sharing With Writers"
THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER: HOW TO DO WHAT YOUR PUBLISHER WON'T,
Winner USA Book News' "Best Professional Book 2004" - #1 Bestselling ebook at Star Publish

Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This Is the Place, won eight awards. Her second book, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, creative nonfiction, won three. Her chapbook of poetry Tracings, was named to the Compulsive Reader's Ten Best Reads list and was given the Military Writers' Society of America's Silver Award of Excellence. An instructor for UCLA Extension's world-renown Writers' Program, her book The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't is recommended reading for her classes, and was named USA Book News' "Best Professional Book 2004." It is also an Irwin Award winner. Her second book in the How To Do It Frugally series is The Frugal Editor: Put Your Best Book Forward to Avoid Humiliation and Ensure Success is also a USA Book News award-winner as well as the winner of the Reader View's Literary Award in the publishing category. She is the recipient of both the California Legislature's Woman of the Year in Arts and Entertainment Award and the Glendale American Business Women's Association's Woman of the Year award. Her community's Character and Ethics Committee honored her for promoting tolerance with her writing. She was also named to Pasadena Weekly's list of 14 "San Gabriel Valley women who make life happen." She is a popular speaker and actor. Her website is www.HowToDoItFrugally.com 


   

Kristin Johnson is the author of the Midwest Book 
Review 'enthusiastically recommended CHRISTMAS 
COOKIES ARE FOR GIVING (Tyr Publishing, 2003),
co-written with Mimi Cummins. ORDINARY MIRACLES: 
My Incredible Spiritual, Artistic and Scientific Journey, 
written by Sir Rupert A.L. Perrin, M.D. with Kristin 
Johnson, was published by PublishAmerica in 2004.
 Ms. Johnson is also the author of BUTTERFLY WINGS: 
A Love Story (iUniverse, 2000). 

A longtime frustrated screenwriter, most recently she 
has delved into horror, both in the MuseItUpClub 
anthologies ALEATORY'S JUNCTION and the forthcoming 
CARPATHIAN SHADOWS as well as in the Summer and 
Fall 2007 issues of THE MAGAZINE OF UNBELIEVABLE 
STORIES. Horror kicked her screenwriting into high 
adrenaline mode, Her first two feature scriptwriting
assignments became the direct to DVD B-movies 
"Blood Mask" and "Pirates of Ghost Island". BLOOD MASK 
director Dennis Devine raves, "Kristin has the unique blend 
of poetry and low-budget horror styling that gives the genre 
a fresh twist. She is working on two more horror projects as
well as a comedic murder mystery and coming of age drama.

Ms. Johnson is an award-winning writer (1999 Edward W. 
Moses Graduate Grant in Creative Writing for "Sinatra's Dogs"; 
First Prize, 1997 3rd Tri-Annual Blue Mountain Arts Poetry 
Competition for "On Our Wedding: Ahava"; 2000 12th 
Tri-Annual Blue Mountain Arts Poetry Competition for
"Wedding Dance"). A journalist who has written for local 
publications in both her native Michigan and in Palm Springs, 
California, she wrote the definitive article on the Palm Springs 
film industry, "Hollywood East," which appeared in the Desert 
Post Weekly on October 3, 2002. 

Her one-act play, "Greetings and Salutations," was performed 
November 14-17, 2002 at the National Palm Springs Short Play 
Fest in the same week that her one-act play "No Women 
Allowed" was performed on the November 19, 2002 National 
League of American Pen Women Palm Springs Branch
Celebration of Women Luncheon. 'Greetings and Salutations' 
was nominated for five Desert Theatre League Desert Stars 
Awards in the One-Act Play category, 2003: Outstanding Lead 
Actor; Outstanding Lead Actress; Outstanding Director; 
Outstanding Overall Production; Bill Groves Award for
Outstanding Writing. 'No Women Allowed' was performed at the 
NLAPW Southern California State Association Luncheon in 2004. 

A graduate of the University of Southern California Master of
 Professional Writing Program, she is the former First 
Vice-President of the Palm Springs Branch of the NLAPW and 
former Vice-President of the NLAPW Southern California State 
Association. She's a member of Women in Film, Desert Actors 
Network, andthe Original Palm Springs Writers Guild. 
 
Ms. Johnson currently lives and writes in Palm Desert, California.
Visit www.ghostislandmovie.com  and Kristin Johnson's IMDB 
entry: 
http://imdb.com/name/nm2612330/
   
 
LINDA BARNETT-JOHNSON
Linda Barnett-Johnson is the Administration Director for Long Story 
Short School of Writing. http://www.lsswritingschool.com/
She's also Assistant Editor of Long Story Short, Inc. 
 
If you are ready to invest in your writing career, the Long Story Short 
School of Writing can guide you toward your goals.  Whether you 
dream of writing the great American Novel or long to sell your 
articles to those elusive magazine editors, our writing school 
curriculum can help you along the path.
 
    
 
Pauline Baird Jones is the award-winning author of 
eight novels of action-adventure, suspense, 
romantic suspense and comedy-mystery.She's also 
written two non-fiction books, Adapting Your Novel 
for Film and Made-up Mayhem which will release in 
print in 2008. Her seventh novel, Out of Time, an 
action-adventure romance set in World War II, is an 
EPPIE 2007 winner in the single title/mainstream 
category. Her eighth novel, The Key, released in 2007 
from LL Dreamspell. She also has a short story in 
The Final Twist anthology, Dead and Breakfast. And 
will have stories appearing in A Death in Texas and 
Mysteries from the Green Mist. You can find Pauline 
at www.perilouspauline.com or
email her at pauline "at" paulinebjones.com

 



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