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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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Karen Lander
is a member of the WGOT Mystery II genre that meets at Kitty
Beasley Edwards home. She has a strong interest in human behavior
and finds that writing fiction allows her to explore character
and relationships. She loves mysteries, "the darker and more
tangled the better," and writes in the detective fiction genre.
In addition to writing, she has her own jewelry designing business
and plays the role of soccer/hockey/baseball mom.
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Ellen Lloyd,
a member of the Childrens Lit Subgroup, is the author of Freckles,
a hardcover illustrated by David Stanley and published by Butterfly
Creations. (ISBN 0-9650449-0-4). The namesake of the book is
a lost puppy that has misadventures with wild dogs that live
in the forest. It teaches children some important lessons, like
listening to your heart, having respect and compassion for others,
and the value of standing up for what you believe in. Ellen
grew up in Wilmington, NC and graduated from the University
of North Carolina Greensboro with a degree in Economics and
a minor in Communications Studies. She began her career in newspaper
publishing at the Greensboro News & Record. A marketing genius,
Ellen was a guest speaker for breakout sessions on Marketing
and Self Publishing at the Carolinas Conference for the Society
of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators in Chapel Hill,
NC. For some real fun, visit Ellen at her web site: www.funwithfreckles.com
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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
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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, and four electronically
published fantasy novels, plus many articles and short stories.
Her novel A Question of Fire was an Eppie 2000 finalist
in the Mystery category. Her Shadow of a Doubt was an
Eppie 2001 finalist in the Romantic Suspense category. Both
are available through Daylight Dreams. Her novel The Rainbow
Bridge was the Eppie 2000 Winner in the Fantasy category.
The Rainbow Bridge and her newest release, Witch's Journey,
are available through Dreams Unlimited. Karen also has an extraordinary
web page that introduces you to all of her books: www.kmccullough.com
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Judith
Mercer is a native New Yorker
who moved to Greensboro in 2002 and joined the Writers' Group
of the Triad. She has a degree in English from Ohio State University.
While living in Miami, Florida she was a frequent contributor
to Tropic, the Sunday magazine of the Miami Herald.
Her work also appeared in Crescendo, an anthology of
the South Florida branch of the National Writers' Association.
She writes both fiction (read "Final Request" under the Storytellers
section of Wordworks) and nonfiction (read "The Persistance
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NOTE: How does one get to be included on this list? Published
Writers Group of the Triad writers with national magazine credits
or writers with stories published in anthologies are included. Being
a facilitator of one of our genres or a WGOT board member also gets
you in. As you can see, we have had difficulties with some of the
photos, and we appreciate your patience and understanding. We are
still trying to get this sort of thing worked out. If you are listed
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the one on the website, please email a digital copy (.jpg files
preferred) to Webmaster Karen McCullough at karen@kmccullough.com.
Please put "WGOT" in the subject line. If you are not
listed here but want to be, please forward a short bio (not to exceed
100 words) and photo to the same address.
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