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Our Authors/WritersA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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Carol Kenny wrote her first poem at the age of seven. Years ago, she wrote newspaper book reviews, and travel and feature magazine articles. In 1990, she founded Learning At Work, Inc., and wrote training books for corporate clients, winning the David Campbell Innovation Award for Creative Excellent. She sold her business to focus on fiction. Her story, “In Touch with Faith,” was published in a Chicken Soup for the Soul book and is online at http://www.news-record.com/whois/carol_kenny . Finalist in Press 53’s fiction contest, she won Honorable Mention in a West Virginia writing contest and just finished her first novel, Whispers from St. Mary’s Well. It is available on Amazon.com and in certain book stores, and additional details are available on my website at www.carolkenny.com. Whispers from St. Mary's Well is the fictional biography of Caroline Rose Newlyn, who was born in St. Mary's County, Maryland, in 1851—beneath the veil—predicting that she will experience episodes of clairvoyance. She witnesses her family's traumatic losses, her mother's descent into deep depression, and a brutal murder that incites decades of racial violence. Virtually orphaned at a young age, she must find a way to raise herself with help from spiritual allies, a supportive community, and her role model, Cappy the Madcap, a character from her favorite book. The books Caroline read inspired her, just as this book has inspired many readers. Please journey with them into the 19th century and into the world beyond, where shattered souls reside. |
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Hal Koger is a member of the WGOT Non-fiction genre. Hal worked his way through college at Florida State to earn a Master’s degree in Engineering Science, with minor degrees in Physics, Chemistry and Math. Even with this academic load and a one person office equipment repair business to run, he graduated Cum Laude. After college, and a ten-year employment with Hewlett-Packard, he helped start Pen-Tech Associates, Inc. and subsidiary firms. Hal enjoys writing. Anything from technical articles to humorous stories about his grandchildren or short stories about life as he sees it. One of these recently appeared in the WGOT newsletter. His "Soldier's Medal" story appeared in the Guilford County veteran's anthology, Freedom's Heroes. His story, "The Slip" was in the adult WGOT anthology, Wordworks. He has completed one book, titled Philosophy of Wealth, prompted by his interest in friends and family who want to believe that wealth is based on luck or some unusual skill. Koger has had a variety of unusual jobs which add to his rich array of experience and helps contribute to his writing. He's worked with apples, tobacco, pulpwood and cattle. He was an automobile mechanic for two years, which led to rebuilding antique cars as a hobby. He's been a chef, landlord, electronics technician, carpenter, and engineer. He is now a business owner, writer, volunteer mediator, arbitrator, deacon, and a director for various organizations. Most of these occupations have occured in parallel. |
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Steve Lindahl has recently joined WGOT. He is the author of Motherless Soul, a novel published by All Things That Matter Press. The story is about Emily Vinson, a woman whose entire life has been impacted by the loss of her mother when she was 2 years old. At age 82 Emily contacts a hypnotist hoping to draw out hidden memories and discover as much as possible about her mother. Motherless Soul is a mystery, but a unique one. It is a "who will do it" rather than a "who done it" mystery. It is about discovering the events of past lives and using that knowledge to deal with the future. Ultimately, it is about love: romantic love, but also friendship and family love. Steve has also published short fiction in Space and Time, The Alaska Quarterly, The Wisconsin Review, Eclipse, Ellipsis, and Red Wheelbarrow. He served for five years as an associate editor on the staff of The Crescent Review, a literary magazine he co-founded. Steve's Theater Arts background has helped nurture a love for intricate characters in complex situations that is evident in his writing. Steve and his wife Toni live and work together in McLeansville. They have two adult children: Nicole and Erik. Motherless Soul is Steve Lindahl's debut novel. |
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Sharon Logan, member of the WGOT Nonfiction genre, is a former Vice President of WGOT. One of our nonfiction groups meets monthly at her residence. She is almost like a motivational speaker to those of us who are not handicapped and in good health. She believes that wallowing in self-pity gets in the way of doing something constructive with your life. Sharon realized her life's dream a couple of years ago when she boldly tackled the sidewalks of New York in her wheelchair. Sharon has always loved to write. She has articles published in The Annals of Saint Anne de Beaupre, poetry in the Rape Crisis Intervention Program Advocate at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center, humor in Disabilities Digest, regular columns in a company newsletter, and articles and letters to the editor published in the News & Record. Her short story, "Then the Day Changed," is included in the Truthsayers section of the Wordworks anthology (2003), and she is currently working on a 16-chapter memoir of her life. |
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Elizabeth Lustig, facilitator of WGOT's Short Fiction genre, finds brevity challenging. She prefers writing short stories over book length manuscripts. Her list of published articles is impressive, and one should not be surprised to find the bizarre, the fantastic or the surreal in them, as in the Song of Cthulhu, Midnight Zoo and Indigenous Fiction. Liz has a multitude of talents. She has written news stories, features and book reviews for the News and Record, is a former editor of the UNC-G literary magazine, Corraddi, and has been an entrepreneur, owning Northstate Graphics and publishing the Northstate Reader. "The most important thing to do, to get better," she advises, "is to read. So, when I can't write, I read. I read mostly short fiction -- all genres." |
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Rus McCarter, Ph.D., a member of WGOT Nonfiction Writers group, is a professional speaker, trainer, facilitator and consultant, the author of numerous training materials and three participants' workbooks: Teamwork Styles Participants' Workbook; Team-Based Performance Coaching; and The Shared-Vision Organization, as well as four audiocassette programs. Dr. McCarter specializes in enabling organizations to move from a top-down to a team-based approach. Internationally recognized for his application of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and workstyles in organizations, he is Past President and Chair of the NC Voters for Clean Elections, a statewide coalition of over 40 organizations working for campaign finance reform. (See www.Excelsources.net) Rus is now doing booksignings for his book, Be the Leader People Love to Follow, a distillation of tools and practical information about leadership, motivation and information. He has a wife, two adult sons and four tennis rackets. His hobbies are tennis, classical music, sailing, camping and hiking |
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Karen McCullough a former editor for a variety of trade publications. Karen has written four romantic suspense novels published by Avalon, a mystery and a paranormal novella published by Cerridwen Press, and two fantasy novels. She'll have a mystery published by Five Star/Cengage in January, 2011, titled A GIFT FOR MURDER. Her novel A Question of Fire was an Eppie 2000 finalist in the Mystery category and is now available in a Kindle edition. Her Shadow of a Doubt was an Eppie 2001 finalist in the Romantic Suspense category. Karen also has an extraordinary web page that introduces you to all of her books: www.kmccullough.com |
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Writers Group of the Triad writers with national magazine credits
or writers with stories published in anthologies are included. Being
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still trying to get this sort of thing worked out. If you are listed
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