Presenters K - M
D.S. Kane
D. S. Kane
is the pseudonym of a writer living in northern
Kane was co-founder, Chief Financial Officer and Principal of the
Manhattan Management Consulting Group, working there for a decade. Kane
traveled globally for clients including government and military agencies, the
largest banks and Fortune Hundred corporations. One of the banks Kane
investigated housed the banking assets of many of the world’s intelligence
agencies and secret police forces, including the CIA and NSA. Kane’s
macroeconomic forecasts helped move the global economy.
Kane was a faculty member of
Timothy H. Kennedy
Tim is a
New Media Consultant and President of Kennedy New Media (http://kennedynewmedia.com) which
focuses on helping people by enhancing their business with a shot of 21st
century technology. Having a musical background, audio was the first ground
broken in this venture. He started Vadercast
– The Dark Side of Podcasting (http://vadercast.com)
as a way to show his love of his favorite film franchise, Star Wars. Since then
it has evolved to cover many other sci-fi mediums. Since starting Vadercast, he has spoken at
multiple conventions on podcasting as well as new media to great success. He
has been consulted on many projects and thus began Kennedy New Media.
Tim is also
one of the founding partners of VK Web Solutions (http://theflexsite.net). Tim and his partner
John Valentino provide low-cost web design, web hosting, and media solutions
using Flexsite™ which was developed in-house. It combines the ease of use of
Wordpress and the professional look of a website built using Macromedia Flex
technology.
Lisa Logan is the southern
LOREE LOUGH
At last
count, Loree Lough had 66 books, 59 short stories, and more than 2,500 articles
in print. She teaches writing at area colleges and frequently leads writing
workshops and seminars in the
LITERARY AGENT
Chip MacGregor is president and founder of MacGregor Literary. He has been working in the world of publishing in one way or another for three decades. Starting as a part-time copy editor at a small magazine, Chip served as an editor, reporter, managing editor, then as a senior editor for a book publisher before serving as Associate Publisher with the Time-Warner Book Group (later Hachette Book Group USA). He also made his living for several years as a freelance writer, and has authored more than a dozen books, as well as serving as the collaborative writer on a couple dozen others. In 1998 he joined Alive Communications as a literary agent, and has represented a long line of bestselling authors, including one New York Times #1 bestseller. Three years ago he began his own agency, and continues to work with authors doing "books that make a difference." Known for being one of the few agents who works in both the religious publishing area as well as the general market, Chip is well known by writers and editors alike. He keeps a very popular aimed at helping writers get to know the publishing business at ChipMacGregor.com, and you can find out more about his company by checking out their corporate website: www.MacGregorLiterary.com. Chip holds a Master's degree from Biola University in Southern California, did his doctoral work at the University of Oregon, then moved on to some post-doc studies at Oxford University in England. Married for 27 years and the father of three, he and his wife live on the Oregon coast. Go Ducks.
CHERYL MALANDRINOS
Cheryl C. Malandrinos is a contributing writer for Writer2Writer http://writer2writer.com/ and
a member of Musing Our Children http://musingourchildren.tripod.com/ --a group
dedicated to encouraging the love of reading and writing in young people. Ms. Malandrinos is also a reviewer for the
Muse Book Reviews http://themusebookreviews.tripod.com/.
Cheryl is a Tour Coordinator for Pump Up Your Book Promotion http://www.pumpupyourbookpromotion.com/
and interviews authors and editors at her blog, The Book Connection http://www.thebookconnectionccm.blogspot.com/
She lives in
Linda Jo
Martin is a former web design business owner with more than ten years design
experience, and a professional blogger. She has also worked as a website
content writer and search engine optimization (SEO) consultant. She is the
former owner and editor of an online news publication, and has written novels
for children, teens, and adults.
Anita D. McClellan of Greater Boston works with emerging and published writers of fiction and nonfiction (scholarly and trade), literary agencies, and publishers of all stripes and sizes across the English-language world. Visit http://www.AnitaMcClellan.com to see what Anita does, how she works, her selected client list. A former Executive Editor, Senior Acquisitions Editor, and Development Editor at Macmillan, Inc., and Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt Publishing Company in both New York and Boston, Anita’s speaking and teaching typically include writers’ conferences, workshops, and academic seminars. She has been resident editor at Bennington Writers’ Workshops, NH Writers’ Day, SCBWI-New England(Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators), Boston University Medical School (BUSPH) Writing Seminar, Cumberland Valley Writers Conference, International Women’s Writing Guild, and served as the U.S. PR director for the late bi-annual BookExpoAmerica-style International Feminist Book Fairs.
If anyone had told Beverly Stowe McClure she’d be a writer
one day, she’d have thought they were crazy. When
In spite of her rocky relationship with books, she attended
college and became a teacher. She read to her students; they read to her. She
read to her three sons, and somewhere along the way, she discovered Dr. Seuss
and other great children’s books and realized what she’d been missing. She also
started to write. To her surprise her stories and articles were published in Ladybug, Focus on the Family Clubhouse Jr.,
Today, she reads. She also writes for children and teens,
because she likes those books best.
Her blogs are: http://beverlystowemcclure.blogspot.com
http://rebelinbluejeans.wordpress.com
T.C. McMullen received her diploma from Long Ridge Writer's Group in the mid 1990's and went on to publish 5 novels, the first in 2001 with three more slated for release soon. She has worked with publishers since 2003 in such positions as Senior Editor, and Head Artistic Development Editor. She now works freelance as designer and illustrator while running her Novel Building and Soul Building workshops for Long Story Short School of Writing. To learn more about the author, visit www.tcmcmullen.com
Marilyn Meredith is the award winning
author of the Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series, the latest
two, Judgment Fire and Kindred
Spirits. Under the name F. M. Meredith, she is the author of
the Rocky Bluff P.D. mystery series. The latest is Smell of
Death. She has also written other mysteries, Christian horror and
other novels. She's presented her "Creating Memorable Characters" workshop at
numerous writers' conferences.
Erica Miner, a former violinist with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her debut novel, Travels With My Lovers, won the Fiction Prize in the Direct from the Author Book Awards, and number of her screenplays have garnered awards in recognized competitions. Currently, Erica is at work on Murder In The Pit, a thriller that takes place at the Met Opera, and Shared Secrets, Changing Lives, the first in a series of novels about coming-of-age during the volatile 60s and 70s. , 
Published Author and Co-author of Twisted Tails Biff Mitchell lives at the edge of the world. He has no life. He has no friends. Neighborhood children throw stones at his hovel. At night, Biff throws stones at his hovel. Someday Biff plans to write a book about a man who lives in a hovel that is stoned daily by neighborhood children who through some magical twist of events-turn into snowmen. When Spring arrives, the man's house melts.