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1. Billionaire Games Boxed Set
   Sandra is an award-winning author of romance. She has eclectic tastes, penning tales in a variety of genres such as paranormal (mostly time travel and reincarnation), contemporary and suspense. She lives in the U.S. (west coast) with her husband, two kids, four dogs and one very temperamental feline. Sandra's books often push the envelope and step outside the boundaries of conventional romance. For more info on Sandra's books, visit her website at www.sandrawrites.com.
2. My Life, a Four Letter Word: Confessions of a Counter Culture Diva
   A performer since 1970, mentored by the legendary Divine, I debuted as a dancing pumpkin in a drag version of Cinderella with the infamous gender-bending Cockettes, and guest-starred in cabarets with the magical Angels of Light. I wrote and performed with the comedy troupe White Trash Boom Boom, a girl’s group who wowed the boys in the San Francisco gay bars, and performed the same shows for women behind bars in California state prisons. In 1977 I was nominated for ‘Best Performer’ by Bay Area Credits Association for Broken Dishes, a musical I co-wrote with Amber Waves. In 1978 I was Artistic Director for S.P.A.R.C., a non-profit public art center in Venice, and received critical acclaim for the lead role in a musical I wrote, The Last Dance of The Couch Potatoes, produced by S.P.A.R.C. and in 1988 at The Powerhouse Theatre and The Odyssey Theater in Los Angeles. Grace Happens, a screenplay based on my Memoir was semi-finalist at the Austin Screenwriting Competition. As a member of A.P.L.A.’s Writing Project I wrote Gay Widow, a collection of AIDS survivor stories. The Shirt from that collection was published in Witness, an A.P.L.A. magazine. Today I live in Venice Beach and continue to write and act in TV commercials and film, while promoting my grown daughter Viva's singing career. I write and perform with Queer Wise, an LGBT senior writer’s collective, and I can be seen story-telling at The Moth and other spoken word venues around town.
3. This Land by L.S. Burton
   L.S. Burton lives in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he works as a writer and freelance editor. Though his stories are diverse, they all revel in the music of words and celebrate imagination. In 2011, Burton was awarded the Percy Janes Award for Best Unpublished First Novel in the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Competition for his novel 'Raw Flesh in the Rising.'
4. A Divide Beyond Reason
   Biography Roger Emile Stouff is the son of Nicholas Leonard Stouff Jr., last chief of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana, and Lydia Marie Gaudet Stouff, daughter of a Cajun farmer. He has been a journalist for more than thirty years and writer of the award-winning column "From the Other Side" in the St. Mary and Franklin Banner-Tribune. He was featured on the television show "Fly Fishing America" in 2006, and was writer and narrator of the documentary "Native Waters: A Chitimacha Recollection" on Louisiana Public Broadcasting in 2010. Based on his two memoirs, "Native Waters" and "The Great Sadness," the show is now showing on public broadcasting stations nationwide, was nominated for an Emmy and was recipient of a Bronze Telly Award. He writes extensively about his Native American ancestry in autobiography, fiction and short stories, including the connection the Chitimacha, "people of the many waters" hold to the ancestral waters of the Atchafalaya Basin. With co-author Kenneth Brown he has also authored science-fiction and epic fantasy novels, including the first two books of the series "The Allidian Saga."