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1. How to Keep a Garden Journal by Gloria Daniels - Gloria Daniels has wanted to be an author for most of her life and has written many books and articles. However, she has never published a book until Kindle came along. She has published 2 #1 best selling Kindle books. Now that she has followed her dream,she knows there will be many more books to follow. Gloria was born in Maine and has always lived there. She was married right out of high school and raised 6 children. Last year, she and her spouse celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. She and Arthur taught ballroom dancing for over 20 years. When they retired from dancing, she worked for 15 years at Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Maine,specializing in Health Data. She then went on to build authority websites for her own enjoyment. Her largest site, www.home-decorating-room-by-room.com, has been listed in Google as a number one site in many categories.
   
2. Callis Rose - Mark Tufo was born in Boston Massachusetts. He attended UMASS Amherst where he obtained a BA and later joined the US Marine Corp. He was stationed in Parris Island SC, Twenty Nine Palms CA and Kaneohe Bay Hawaii. He lives in Maine with his wife, three kids and two English bulldogs. Visit him at marktufo.com or http://zombiefallout.blogspot.com/ or http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mark-Tufo/133954330009843 for news on his next two installments of the Indian Hill trilogy and upcoming installments of the Zombie Fallout series.
   
3. Swept Up by the Spirit Journey of Transformation - After 18 years of furniture building, mostly self-employed, seven years of contracting, designing and building luxury homes, a new direction emerged. With a radical conversion and total life turnaround, my work since 1982 has been “ woodworks to Glorify God”-crosses and church furnishings- through our business, Images of the Cross. In 2012 we completed a three year project, our 1st book," Swept Up by the Spirit." Married since 1958 to my wife , Nancy , we have four children, fourteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. We are members of Alleluia Covenant Community since 1984 and continue fully active running the race.
   
4. Money Making Machine – How To Publish, Market and Make Money Using Kindle Books - Anbu Rayappan is an entrepreneur and a full-time Sr. Database Administrator in the IT Department of a Fortune 100 company. He has done Masters in Computer Science from a reputed university in India. He is a very ambitious person, known for his positive and optimistic attitude among his friends and family. He is a voracious reader and he has read at least 1000 books, mostly non-fiction. He loves to read and write non-fiction books. His is extremely passionate about Psychology, Hypnotism, NLP(Neuro Linguistic Programming), History and Relationship. When he is not reading and writing, he enjoys spending time with his 8 years old son. He lives in Bay Area.
   
5. The Robinsons’ Dark Matter - A technology lover from a very young age, Michael Raymond's first computer was a VIC-20. All the way back in 1982 his father managed to learn the lesson that if a cool piece of tech was on sale, it was probably outdated. Within a couple of weeks the VIC-20 was exchanged for a Commodore 64 and it was on that machine that Michael fell in love with programming in BASIC, and eventually found himself coding in assembly. Years before that first (and second) computer, Michael had been introduced to the Berenstein Bears, the collective works of Richard Scarry, and many other fantastic children's books. He loved to discover interesting characters and see what adventures befell them. Most of all, he loved to learn about the wide world outside through the fictional lives of those characters on the page. Michael's worlds of technology and books came together for the first time when he discovered the game "Below the Root," which stems from the fantastic Green Sky Trilogy by Zilpha Keatley Snyder. The game had deceiving emotional depth to its story and incredible, original gameplay considering the limitations of the Commodore 64 platform it was coded for. It planted a seed in his mind. He wanted to be able to give the experience he'd just had to others--to create characters and worlds that would make people laugh, and cry...and think.
   
6. Kitty Cat Love. Why we love cats so much! - Howard VanEs is a cat and dog lover, author of several health and wellness books and yoga teacher living in the Bay Area of San Francisco. Howard is passionate about creating books that inspire, motivate and empower people to live happier and healthier lives. His deep appreciation for our furry friends and the love and joy they bring into our lives has led him to write Kitty Cat Love and Doggie Love.
   
7. Coping With Infidelity: Making Smart Decisions - What To Do When Your Spouse Cheats and the Coping With Infidelity Series is written by Leigh Richwood to help people struggling to recover from their spouse's affair. Leigh's writings are compilations of helpful resources that can help anyone dealing with the anger and pain of infidelity in their marriage. Leigh is a wife and mother who has dealt with a fair amount of difficulty in her marriage. Her husband had an affair several years ago. Leigh says about that time, "I thought I wouldn't recover, but I did. We did." Leigh has managed to keep a sense of humor and she no longer takes everything so seriously. There was a time when she was unable to see humor in anything. Time has helped soften the jagged edges, but finally getting to a place where she no longer felt vulnerable and exposed was the path to truly being able to lighten up and enjoy life again. This event in her life affected her deeply and made her stronger. She says that she appreciates what she has more than ever before. Life in her family is finally good again! Now Leigh helps other people who have spouses involved in infidelity. "I believe one of the most important ways to recover is to take up for yourself and get all the facts - but do it from a position of power. That's what I teach people how to do," says Leigh. Leigh hears from people every day who thank her for being there and for sharing her story. The ability to help others is very rewarding for her and she says she feels blessed to have a platform to share her story.
   
8. Karen’s Colorful Trip - My name is Yael Aharoni I was born in October 1967 in Haifa city, The capital of northern Israel. I am happily married since 1990 A mother of two beautiful daughters. Lives in Kiryat Haim, a suburb of Haifa. My profession is accounting and medical secretary. I quit my job at “Rambam Medical Center”,Located in the port city of Haifa, I wanted to do something I love. My love for books is from childhood. When I became a mother my love has increased. When the girls were babies I read them a lot of books, they liked the content of the stories and really liked the illustrations in the books, Even to direct and to present them. I think reading from a young age is beneficial for the development of the child. Very important for parents and children read books in order to enrich the language, knowledge and eloquence. I began to write books for children and suddenly I discovered what I really love to do. I really enjoy the work of editing my books. I want to thank my dear husband for his help and support in this activity, and to my precious daughters. Hope you enjoy the books I've made so far and hope to write many other books for children. Thank you for visiting my author page Love Yael
   
9. The Bounty Hunters - Van Holt wrote his first western when he was in high school and sent it to a literary agent, who soon returned it, saying it was too long but he would try to sell it if Holt would cut out 16,000 words. Young Holt couldn't bear to cut out any of his perfect western, so he threw it away and started writing another one. A draft notice interrupted his plans to become the next Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour. A tour of duty as an MP stationed in South Korea was pretty much the usual MP stuff except for the time he nabbed a North Korean spy and had to talk the dimwitted desk sergeant out of letting the guy go. A briefcase stuffed with drawings of U.S. aircraft and the like only caused the overstuffed lifer behind the counter to rub his fat face, blink his bewildered eyes, and start eating a big candy bar to console himself. Imagine Van Holt's surprise a few days later when he heard that same dumb sergeant telling a group of new admirers how he himself had caught the famous spy one day when he was on his way to the mess hall. Holt says there hasn't been too much excitement since he got out of the army, unless you count the time he was attacked by two mean young punks and shot one of them in the big toe. Holt believes what we need is punk control, not gun control. After traveling all over the West and Southwest in an aging Pontiac, Van Holt got tired of traveling the day he rolled into Tucson and he has been there ever since, still dreaming of becoming the next Zane Grey or Louis L'Amour when he grows up. Or maybe the next great mystery writer. He likes to write mysteries when he's not too busy writing westerns or trying to find out when they are going to start making Twinkies again.
   
10. The Secret Life of Objects - Dawn Raffel's illustrated memoir, The Secret Life of Objects, was published in June and was on Oprah's Summer Reading List and Best Memoir List for 2012. She is also the author of two story collections— Further Adventures in the Restless Universe and In the Year of Long Division (which has been reissued as an e book)—and a novel, Carrying the Body. Her stories have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, BOMB, Conjunctions, Black Book, Fence, Open City, The Mississippi Review Prize Anthology, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Arts & Letters, The Quarterly, NOON, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. She was a fiction editor for many years, followed by a seven-year stint as Executive Articles Editor at O, The Oprah Magazine and three years as Editor-at-Large at More magazine; she has also taught in the MFA program at Columbia University and at the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia; Montreal; and Vilnius, Lithuania. She is now Editor at Large at Reader's Digest and the editor of The Literarian at the Center for Fiction.