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Allison Bottke
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Allison Bottke is a bestselling inspirational author and speaker. Her international outreach includes over twenty-five published nonfiction and fiction books, including the acclaimed God Allows U-Turns compilation book series. She is a frequent guest on national radio and TV programs around the country. Her nonfiction book, Setting Boundaries with your Adult Children, has been heralded as a landmark resource for parents and grandparents. Setting Boundaries with Your Aging Parents is the second book in the series and released this past April. Allison is the founder of SANITY Support Group, an international support group network developed to foster healthy boundaries using the Six-Steps to SANITY outlined in her book. Allison also writes "boomer lit," contemporary fiction for baby boomer women. She loves to encourage and empower writers to make their dreams become realities. For more information, visit Allison's web site at www.AllisonBottke.com. You can follow Allison at Facebook.com/AllisonBottke.
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Britta Coleman
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Britta Coleman is an award-winning author, essayist and inspirational speaker. Her debut novel from Time Warner Books, Potter Springs, won the Lone Star Scribe Award from Barnes & Noble Booksellers. Britta's essays have appeared in anthologies from Guideposts Books and Simon & Schuster, and she has written for FYI Television Features, Heroes for Humanity, Authorlink, the Amarillo Globe-News and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Britta lives in Fort Worth with her husband and two children. For more information, visit Britta's web site at www.BrittaColeman.com.
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DiAnn Mills
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Award-winning author DiAnn Mills launched her career in 1998 with the publication of her first book. Currently she has fifty books in print and has sold over 1.5 million copies.
DiAnn believes her readers should “Expect an Adventure.” She is a fiction writer who combines an adventuresome spirit with unforgettable characters to create action-packed novels.
Six of her titles have appeared on the CBA Bestseller List. Three of her books have won the distinction of Best Historical of the Year by Heartsong Presents. Five of her books have won placements through American Christian Fiction Writer’s Book of the Year Awards 2003 – 2008, and she is the recipient of the Inspirational Reader’s Choice award for 2005 and 2007. She was a Christy Awards finalist in 2008 and 2010.
DiAnn is a founding board member for American Christian Fiction Writers, a member of Inspirational Writers Alive, Romance Writers of America’s Faith, Hope and Love, and Advanced Writers and Speakers Association. She speaks to various groups and teaches writing workshops around the country. DiAnn is also the Craftsman Mentor for Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writer’s Guild.
She and her husband live in sunny Houston, Texas. They have four adult sons and are active members of Metropolitan Baptist Church. For more information, visit DiAnn's web site at www.DiAnnMills.com.
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Frank Ball
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Frank Ball founded North Texas Christian Writer's groups, a consortium of some 250 members in the North Texas area, who encourage one another to write and write well. He has worked as a ghostwriter, writer's coach, e-zine columnist, and copy editor for a trade magazine. As Pastor of Biblical Research and Writing for three years, he wrote sermons, teaching materials, and hundreds of devotionals. His life-changing book is Eyewitness: The Life of Christ Told in One Story, a compilation of all biblical information into one chronological story that reads like a novel. He travels to churches and writer’s conferences across the country to help churches develop writing ministries and show writers how to reach the people who need to read their stories. For more information, visit Frank's Web sites at www.NTChristianWriters.com and www.EyewitnessTools.com.
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James Pence
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James H. (Jim) Pence is a full-time author, editor, and Web designer who lives in north Texas. He is the author of six books, including two Christian suspense/thriller novels, Blind Sightand The Angel. Jim is currently writing his seventh book, Terror by Night, the compelling true story of how Terry Caffey survived the murders of his wife and two sons and came to forgive the killers. Tyndale plans to release Terror by Night in September 2009. For more information on Jim, visit his web site at www.JamesPence.com.
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Jan Brand
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Jan Brand is a full-time freelance writer who is Director of Encouragement Groups for North Texas Christian Writers. For the last three years, she has worked with meeting leaders and individual members as they improve their skills and gain publishing success. She has studied creative writing at the University of Oklahoma, the University of Texas at Arlington, and with Writer's Digest. Her desire is to see Christian writers emerge as the standard bearers of our culture, and God honored in America again.
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Jan Coleman
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Jan Coleman's career began in a barn when the editor of her small-town weekly paper sent her to interview the proud owner of a four-horned sheep. (Big news in rural California!) Crafting that story proved she could make something newsy out of nothing. Five years later she was still penning a weekly humor column and spinning off features to major magazines. After an unwanted divorce, she traded her denim for dresses and went to work as a speechwriter for a state senator where her skill at turning phrases came in handy.
Her first book, After the Locusts, (based on God's promise to restore) came out in 2002, followed by four more. Jan loves cheerleading writers, helping them find their style, message and where they fit in the ever-changing literary world.
As a national speaker, Jan is known for her unique humor and unvarnished honesty. Audiences describe her as "funny and deep" and if you land in one of her workshops, it's a good chance you'll get both. For the rest of the scoop, pop by her web site at www.JanColeman.com.
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Karen Power
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Karen Power utilizes her multi-faceted skills to empower speakers to be the best they can be. Karen has written stories in Making the Blue Plate Special by Florence Littauer, Marita Littauer and Lauren Littauer Briggs, and Your Spiritual Personality by Marita Littauer. Over the years, Karen has been a musician, speaker, corporate trainer, writer, certified personality trainer, virtual assistant, and Bible teacher. Born and raised in Tallahassee, Florida in a committed and active Christian family, she grew up in a musical environment traveling the southeast region. Karen started playing drums at age 11 and later playing bass guitar for local Christian bands with styles ranging from southern gospel to contemporary Christian. She wrote several Christian songs that were recorded by local artists. She has been a facilitator at the Glorieta Christian Writers Conference, Pitney Bowes New Sales Manager Training and EDGE Leadership Training, and Personality Principles Advanced Personality Training Workshop. Having owned and operated her own virtual assistant business since 1994, Karen continues to focus on the needs of Christian communicators, churches, ministries and other organizations. In 2007, this business expanded to become Christian Speaker Services. For more information, visit Karen's web site at www.ChristianSpeakerServices.com.
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Kathy Ide
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Kathy Ide is a published author of books, articles, play and movie scripts, short stories, devotionals, and curriculum. She has ghostwritten several books and speaks at writers' conferences across the country. She is a full-time freelance editor/proofreader/mentor for new writers, established authors, and book publishers. She also acts as an editor services coordinator through the two groups she founded—The Christian PEN: Proofreaders and Editors Network (www.TheChristianPEN.com) and the Christian Editor Network (www.ChristianEditor.com). For more information, visit Kathy's web site at www.KathyIde.com.
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LaWanda Bailey
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LaWanda Bailey, author of Miss Myrtle Frag, the Grammar Nag, has worn several professional hats: teacher, Northwest ISD language arts coordinator, copy editor, humor writer, writing institute director, ghostwriter, pianist, and school bus driver. As a longtime writing mentor for students, teachers, and freelance writers, she is honored to have been cited in seven books. LaWanda completed the Keystone Writing Project and the New Jersey Writing Project in Texas. She earned trainer certifications in writing and grammar from NJWPT, presented sessions at their state conferences, and was awarded their Sue German Award for Excellence. She also wrote and edited for an educational publisher, co-authoring Texas: Writing with Power. Some of LaWanda's articles are published in The Single Parent magazine, the R&E Journal, the East Texas Study Council newsletter, local newspapers, and on The Christian Pulse.com. She is active in North Texas Christian Writers where she is a team leader of Super Scribes and Royalty Writers.
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Mary DeMuth
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Mary E. DeMuth is the author of nine books (four nonfiction, five fiction). Her recent releases include Life in Defiance and Thin Places: A Memoir (Zondervan 2010). She's passionate about helping new writers get published as the chief mentor at The Writing Spa (www.TheWritingSpa.com), and she's had the privilege of keynoting, teaching breakouts and major tracks at Mount Hermon Christian Writers, Write to Publish, American Christian Fiction Writers, Philadelphia Christian Writers, She Speaks, and Colorado Christian Writers. She's the mom of three terrific kids, has an incredibly supportive husband, and loves to garden, cook, and train for sprint triathlons. Find out more at www.MaryDeMuth.com.
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Mona Hodgson
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Mona Hodgson is the author of the Sinclair Sisters of Cripple Creek novel series published by WaterBrook Press, nearly thirty children's books (including Real Girls of the Bible: A Devotional and How Did Bible Heroes Pray), contributions to eleven books for adults, and hundreds of short stories, articles, and poems in more than fifty different newspapers and magazines. One of Mona's favorite things to do (besides writing or eating dark chocolate) is to speak at schools. Not only does Mona speak regularly at women's retreats and conferences throughout the United States and Canada, she also fits several school visits into her speaking schedule each year.
"I fit several school visits into my schedule each year because: 1) They are fun, fun, fun! 2) They assist educators in instilling a love and respect for the power and playfulness of words. 3) Author visits offer a face-to-face venue for inspiring students to write as a means of expression and communication. 4) I can help support literacy one school and one student at a time. Whether it is a Christian school, a Catholic school, a public school, or a home-school event, I can provide interactive programs for pre-school through college students, and for teachers and librarians as well. I'm happy to work with the school representative to shape each session to meet the needs of the various age groups and skill levels, and to accommodate the school's specific goals for my visit. The same is true for teachers' in-service programs, librarian events, and educator conferences."
Mona lives in Arizona with her husband, Bob. Check out www.MonaHodgson.com to learn more. You can follow Mona at www.facebook.com/MonaHodgson and at www.twitter.com/MonaHodgson.
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Steve Miller
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Steve Miller is an editor with MindFlights magazine, recognized by Writer's Digest as one of the "Top 100 Markets for Magazine and Book Writers" (Writer's Yearbook 2009). He has reviewed more than five hundred short stories for the magazine. He is a freelance editor (www.HolisticEditor.com) and was a content editor for Lilley Press.
An author in his own right, Steve's fiction includes speculative fiction in The Sword Review, humor in The Wittenburg Door, and science fiction in Ray Gun Revival. His nonfiction includes a devotional that appeared in The One Year Life Verse, a personal experience in Michigan Out-of-Doors, and articles how to write software in the old journals such as SQL Server Professional, Oracle Developer, and FoxTalk. He also contributed two chapters to the software book Special Edition: Using Visual FoxPro3. Steve has taught every year at the North Texas Christian Writers Conference since 2006. He is a recurring guest on the critique panel for the Dallas Area Writers Group, and has taught there as well. He also once taught creative writing to junior high students. Steve holds a B.A. degree in Linguistics. His interests include swimming, playing the bass guitar, and Chinese food.
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Thomas Umstattd
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Thomas Umstattd Jr loves technology. He built his first web site at the age of 13 and taught his first web design class at only 16 years old. He has been helping authors and small businesses use the web ever since. His blend of youth and experience give him a unique perspective that can help your organization use the web in a whole new way. As an award winning speaker, Thomas teaches all over the world. His friendly speaking style blends multimedia and audience participation. Thomas is the CEO of Umstattd Media, a company that helps authors use the web to sell books and win contracts. He also runs www.AuthorTechTips.com a resource for authors timid about technology.
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Tim Shoemaker
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By God's grace, Tim Shoemaker writes and speaks full time. Tim is the author of seven books and has published a number of short stories in magazines. Tim has been teaching fiction at writing conferences for over five years and thoroughly enjoys helping others strengthen their writing schools. Happily married for 30 years, Tim has three grown sons and is active in leadership and youth ministry at his home church.
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Victorya Rogers
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Writers coach, Victorya Michaels Rogers is a popular speaker at universities, churches, conferences, women's retreats, single's groups, and teen events. This former Hollywood agent has 25 years experience working in mainstream television, film & publishing. She is the author of four books and has appeared hundreds of times on radio, television, magazines and the internet, such as "Focus on the Family", The Joni Show, CBN and every network including MTV. She has appeared in such magazines as Charisma, Today's Christian Woman, Woman's World, and Cosmopolitan. Rogers received her Master's in theology from Fuller Seminary and her bachelor's in broadcast journalism from Cal State Long Beach. For more than a decade Victorya was a prominent Hollywood agent bringing in $25 million dollars in business for her clients. She represented award winning producers, directors, writers, technical crew and actors for film and television. She also taught three years at Entertainment Studies extension program at UCLA on how to break into Hollywood. She speaks at media conferences across the country including ACT ONE events, Biola Media Conferences and various writers' conferences. The author of Finding a Man Worth Keeping is a Life Coach, Relationship Expert and Life Transition Counselor who speaks to women across the country on how to achieve the life and love of your dreams. For more information about her writing and life coach visit her web sites at www.Victorya.com or www.TimeForYourBook.com.
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Vonda Skelton
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Vonda Skelton is a national speaker, the author of four books, and a freelance writer. Her women's non-fiction book, Seeing Through the Lies: Unmasking the Myths Women Believe (Gospel Light/Regal Books), is appropriate for either personal or small group study and takes women on a "hilarious journey through all things female as they search for truth in a counterfeit world." She is also the author of a mid-grade series, The Bitsy Burroughs Mysteries. The latest in the three-book series, Bitsy and the Mystery at Hilton Head Island, is a SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance) Book Award nominee. Bitsy's other adventures are set on Amelia Island, Florida and Tybee Island, Georgia. Vonda's articles have appeared in many national magazines, including Focus on the Family publications, HomeLife, Christian Single, ParentLife, New Man Magazine, and many others. She is the co-director of the Gideon Media Arts Conference & Film Festival Intern Program for teens and is an award-winning playwright and lyricist who enjoys performing in church and community theater. In addition to speaking nationally at Christian women's events and writer's conferences, Vonda has taught her Writing is Fun! workshops to over 20,000 elementary students throughout the southeast. She also has a writer's blog at her web site www.VondaSkelton.com. The Christian Writer's Den posts weekly and includes writing instruction, writing opportunities, reader kudos, author interviews, and book giveaways. As one who tries and often fails to be like Christ, Vonda is thankful God can take her messes and use them for His glory!
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