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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/
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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

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
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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.
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