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Audrey Shaffer
Write? Who has time to write? Audrey
started a freelance accounting/web
development/business writing company in
April of 2004. In the fall of 2004 she got
involved with The Writer's Chatroom. In 2005
she built this website so the chatroom had room to grow. In 2006, she took over
management...and promptly went insane. She has
published an essay in an online magazine,
has an
essay posted on the "This I Believe" website, and an article in
Funds For Writers. She is
currently collecting rejection letters for
her short stories, letting her novel rest and trying to find time to
work on a self-help book for single women. She is becoming the local expert
on Grant Accounting for Non-Profit Agencies.
A new sideline is speaking engagements with
professional organizations. At least once
a month, something comes up in the Wednesday
Chat that gives her an idea for a new book.
When she hits the lottery, she will sit down
and write them all. (Hmm...put "buy
lottery tickets" on the to-do
list.) In between, she tries to
spend time with her three grown children and
four growing grandchildren. Dating seemed to
disappear from her life around the time that
the business started. She just might find it
again if she ever manages to get her desk
cleaned off. Audrey lives in rural Western
Pennsylvania, US, with a gender-confused cat and a 120 lb
St. Bernard/Pit Bull mix who adores her and wants
to sit in her lap all the time. Thankfully,
as long as they are fed regularly, the
animals don't mind if the housework isn't done. Business website - http://audreyshaffer.com
Writing samples -
http://www.audreyshaffer.com/my_writing.htm Blog
- http://audreysays.blogspot.com/ Book
Reviews - http://audreyshaffer.blogspot.com/
MySpace - http://www.myspace.com/audreyshaffer |
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Renee' Barnes
At
an age where most are planning for
retirement, Renee' has carelessly thrown all
caution to the wind and stepped into the
life of a humorist. If asked why, she is
likely to remark, "Huh, I'm almost done
with this part, wait a sec," then she
may giggle, scratch her butt and dive back
into her keyboard.
If
you ever do get a straight answer from her,
it will be filled with sappy clichés about
her "need to write" and having
"something to say." Just give her
her meds and she will be fine.
She
spends her free time warming the couch
beside her husband, watching TV, reading and
coming up with more and more creative
excuses to avoid housework.
Her
life's ambition is to be crowned Dear Abby
for the Trailer Park set.
Trailer
Park Gazette (free humor E-zine)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TRAILER_PARK_GAZETTE/
Trailer
Park Life and other Redneck fun.
Each issue is sure to leave even
the stiffest shirts with spit stains.
A
sampling of her ramblings can be found at:
http://360.yahoo.com/rg_barn
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Kim Richards
 Kim Richards, born
and raised in the infamous 
Roswell, New Mexico, now resides in Northern California where she writes full time. Her
preferred genres are horror, science fiction, fantasy and erotica, though she has had a
children's book published and non-fiction articles as well. When her fingers aren't busy
tapping on the computer keyboard, she enjoys reading and movies in her preferred genres. She
is a costumer and regularly participates in a 
Live Action Role Play group called Amtgard (for over
18 years). Her sons are grown men now, of whom she is extremely proud.
Besides hanging
around The Writer's Chatroom, she edits reviews for MyShelf book reviews and produces
the monthly newsletter for the women's online horror community,
Pretty-Scary, along with a quarterly newsletter
for her local neighborhood association (circulation approx: 3000
members). She edits for
Eternal Press. All this is supervised
by a Tonkinese cat named Shemay.
Websites: www.kim-richards.com
and
www.robedinfantasy.com
Blogs:
MySpace
Live Journal
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Lisa Haselton

Self-employed writer, editor, and small
business owner, Lisa loves the life she’s created for herself.
She has been a book reviewer since 2002
and loves being introduced to new authors and different types of
writing. She writes fiction, but also dabbles in poetry, New
Hampshire-focused destination articles and nature essays. Her fiction
writing interests run from short flash pieces to short stories to novels
to scripts and include mysteries, thrillers, sci-fi, children’s, horror,
Christian, romance, suspense, historicals, and anything else her muse
finds exciting.
A lifelong resident of NH, Lisa enjoys
traveling and having adventures (a week of white water rafting down the
Colorado River, a week at a dude ranch in Wyoming), and visiting places
she can’t reach by car (St. John, Caribbean). She quit her corporate
job in ’06 to pursue her writing passion and hasn’t looked back since.
She loves learning, b&w film photography, as well as cycling, hiking,
and hanging out with her ‘Little Sis’ from Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Lisa had an adventurous upbringing
behind a wild animal farm that had, yes, lions and tigers and bears, oh
my! Along with elephants, emus, llamas, and a fully occupied snake
house, among other things. Lisa’s romantic life is like her novels –
works in progress that will have successful completions amongst several
twists, turns, and surprises.
Website:
http://lisahaselton.tripod.com
MySpace:
http://myspace.com/lisahaselton
Book Review and Author Interview blog:
http://lisahaselton.tripod.com/reviewsandinterviews
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