About our Team

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.

Lisa Haselton is the pseudonym for Lisa J. Jackson. Lisa loves the life she’s created for herself as an independent writer and editor.

She has been a book reviewer since 2002 and loves being introduced to new authors and different types of writing. 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. All book reviews and fictional writing are published under Haselton. Non-fiction work, articles, essays, and poetry are under Jackson. Why? Because you can already find numerous Lisa Jackson novels on the mystery shelves that she hasn't penned. :)

A lifelong resident of NH, Lisa enjoys traveling and taking adventure vacations (for example, a week of white water rafting down the Colorado River, a week at a dude ranch in Wyoming and two weeks in a tent on St. John in the Caribbean). She quit her corporate job in ’06 to pursue her writing passion full-time and hasn’t looked back since. She loves learning, b&w film photography, as well as cycling, hiking, and just being outside exploring.

Websites: http://lisahaselton.tripod.com and http://lisajjackson.com

MySpace: http://myspace.com/lisahaselton

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/lisajjackson (include a note in the friend request)

Twitter for twice-weekly grammar tips: http://twitter.com/lisajjackson

Book Review and Author Interview blog: http://lisahaseltonsreviewsandinterviews.blogspot.com

Sally Franklin Christie

Sally Franklin Christie lives in a constant state of chaos. Okay, not really, but it sure makes a better story than saying I live in Montana. My life has been a series of stories in different settings with changing characters.

I went to public school and college in Illinois. I spent a little time in Florida, a place rich in insects and characters. I met a heroin addict at a laundry mat. I also did a little work there as a police dispatcher. All the while, I gathered stories.

In Montana, a more constant cast of characters showed up as a husband, children and grandchildren. More stories.

You should write a book, someone said. Someone else said I should help organize for social change and write a series of letters. The certificate on the wall honors the Power of my pen, and my willingness to use it.

I have been hanging out online in one format or another since 1982 when my Vic 20 ran on hamster power. I was reading a magazine a few years back that listed the Writer’s Chat Room as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers. I dropped in to chat and pretty soon I was as hooked as that addict in the laundry mat.

I am glad to be a part of a group of writers who are so willing to suspend judgment and offer comfort and encouragement to writers of all stages in their careers. The moderators manage to bring in experienced and successful authors Sunday after Sunday. The Wednesday chats are great for unwinding. The Writer’s Chat Room is rare in its unflinching look at the more difficult side of writing, Branding and Marketing.

As long as Life is a Story, I’ll be busy Telling it Big.