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USA
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Stephen Windwalker
April Hamilton
Lauren Carr
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Steve began his career covering the Cape Cod Baseball League and other sports for what was then called the Cape Cod Standard-Times and later the Boston Globe. He studied the craft of writing with Robert Lowell, Kurt Vonnegut, Monroe Engel and Carter Wilson, and served as Fiction Editor of the Harvard Advocate. In 1999, Steve founded a small independent publishing company, which has produced niche bestsellers, and has had exceptional success with the Kindle publishing platform. Steve is a member of the Boston chapter of the National Writers Union. His career includes that of author, publishing executive, bookseller, marathoner, and elected official.
April L. Hamilton is an author, blogger, Technorati BlogCritic, leading advocate and speaker for the indie author movement, and founder and Editor in chief of Publetariat. She is a regular speaker at pre-eminent conferences such as the O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, and the Writers Digest Business of Getting Published conference. April has also judged self-published books for competitions organized by Writers Digest and the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Lauren has worked in writing, editing, layout design, and printing with daily the federal government, newspapers, newsletters and a Christian magazine before giving up her career to be a stay-at-home mom.
A Small Case of Murder, her first book in the Joshua Thornton mystery series, was a finalist at the 2005 Independent Publisher Book Awards . Her second book, A Reunion to Die For. was released in June 2007 with a traditional publisher. Having been involved with both sides of publishing, Lauren chose to return to independent publishing for her third book. With the aim of helping other authors independently publish quality books, Lauren has started Acorn Book Services, which specializes in book interior layout design.
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Leigh is a lawyer by profession, with a career as a senior executive for various public companies in her home country of Australia. She has three master degrees in law, commerce, and an MBA. She has been writing full-time for five years, and now lives in SIngapore.
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Australia
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Kev C. Webb
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Born in Kent, England in 1963, Kev immigrated to Australia in 1971 with his parents. The family settled in Brisbane, where he has lived ever since. He is a qualified tradesman, but writing is his passion. Kev completed his first book, Dream Raider, at the age of thirty-three and knew immediately that this was what he wanted to do. He has not stopped writing since. |
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