The purpose of this web page is promote the books of published members of Willamette Writers. Send information (limit 150 words) to wilwrite@willamettewriters.com; jpegs welcome.

Jean M. Auel

Jean Auel's new novel, Shelters of Stone, the fifth installment in the Earth's Children series continues the story of Ayla she began in Clan of the Cave Bear. Jean's extensive research has taken her to prehistoric sites in France, Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine, the Soviet Union, Hungary, and Germany (to follow a portion of the Danube for the 4th novel).

Blythe Ayne PhD

In Blythe's book Abundance, she asks the questions, why would anyone focus their amazing creative powers on denying abundant flow anywhere - least of all with money - which is but a contrivance we've manifested as a convenience to simplify exchange? Why would we allow money to ever become an ogreish medium, as if it has a power of its own, when the underpinning of its invention is to make it easier for us to interact, and therefore, easier to get along?

To order a copy of Abundance or other books, visit Blythe's website at http://www.alighthere.com/index.html

Trisha Barnes

Author Trisha Barnes, a former resident of the small town of Happy Camp, California, has used the background of that community and the myths and mystery of the Klamath River Canyon as a setting for her latest novel, The Klamath Treasure. Her slice-of-life vignettes of small town living, logging, mining and dealing with the decline of the timber industry are weaved throughout the the historical fiction tale of Euclid Plutarch Hammarsen.

Euclid, in his nineties and faced with his own inevitable end, finally sits down to write about his own adventures -- mostly of his boyhood search for The Klamath Treasure. He recounts an incredible tale of mystery that includes a hidden jade temple, a father who who could move mountains, and his own famous struggle with the Monster Fish of the Klamath. Find out more about Euclid and his amazing adventure at www.RiverCanyonPress.com.

Carol Ann Bassett

Carol is the author of Galápagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin's Cradle of Evolution (National Geographic Books, 2009). Her previous books are A GATHERING OF STONES: JOURNEYS TO THE EDGES OF A CHANGING WORLD (a finalist for the Oregon Book Award in creative nonfiction), and ORGAN PIPE: LIFE ON THE EDGE (part of the Desert Places series). Her essays have been anthologized in  American Nature Writing. Bassett was a regular contributor to The New York Times and Time-Life, and was an independent producer for National Public Radio. She was editor of the alternative newspaper, the Tucson Weekly. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, Conde Nast Traveler, science magazines, and numerous other national publications. She teaches environmental writing and literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon.

Dale Basye

Dale Basye's debut novel, Heck: Where the Bad Kids Go, was published by Random House. Though born in Dallas, Texas, Dale was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. After attending San Francisco State University, he went to work for the San Francisco Chronicle while concurrently studying at the San Francisco Art Institute, majoring in Neon Sculpture and Avant-garde Film. The next book in the Heck series, Rapacia: The Second Circle of Heck, will be available in July, 2009. Dale speaks about getting a two book dead from Random House from his pitch at the 2005 Willamette Writers Conference.

Jean Braden

John and Helen Schafer have been married six months when they decide to go to Oregon with John's family. The Journey to Oregon - 1934 is a true story of eight family members who travel from the drought and dust storms of Nebraska to the promise of Oregon. They are short of money and each time one of the vehicles needs repair or a flat tire is fixed, the stress of survival increases. The actual ten-day journey to Oregon is only part of the story. The rest takes place in Oregon and includes how a small farming community provides support for the family. The family is successful in finding a better life in Oregon, and many people follow them to share in the bounty the state has to offer.

Jo Brew

Anne Marie's New Melody, the latest novel by Jo Brew, is now available. Anne Marie, a musician, gourmet cook and a woman of the senses retires to spend more time with Robert. She had been widowed once and does not want to miss the opportunity to enjoy a traveling companion or more time for the activities she enjoys. Without experiencing children of her own, she was unprepared to contemplate assuming a parental role for Robert's grandchildren. Nor was she prepared to give up her relationship with Robert. It takes a Disneyland moment of self discovery for her to find the road to the life she wants.

Larry Brooks

Larry Brooks Larry Brooks is the author of four critically-acclaimed thrillers, including a USA Today Bestseller and a Publishers Weekly "Best Books of 2004" lead entry (mass market). His workshops deliver a nuts and bolts understanding of story architecture and how to infuse it with passion, tension and meaning. Larry has just launched a new ebook, 101 Slightly Unpredictable Tips for Novelists and Screenwriters.

Larry has released a new ebook entitled, The Three Dimensions of Character -- Going Deep and Wide to Create Compelling Heroes and Villains. Brooks takes a unique approach to the essential task of characterization by breaking the process down into three realms of depth, each with a succinct aspect of character and each with inherent risks and rewards, as well as criteria for effectiveness.

K. P. Burke

Proof Through The Night: A B-29 Pilot Captive In Japan is the true life saga of Ernest Pickett, as told to able scribe K. P. Burke, of his World War II odyssey and nightmare. Shot down behind enemy lines, Ernest survived the horrendous conditions which the Japanese military authority inflicted upon prisoners of war in general, and hated American bomber pilots in particular. A gripping, first-person saga of endurance, humanity, and the horrors of war.

Jeannie Burt

Burt, a human resources consultant and breast cancer patient who has been affected by lymphedema, and White, a physical therapist, have put together an informative little book that should help all women suffering from the condition, at least to some degree, Lymphedema: A Breast Cancer Patient's Guide to Prevention and Healing. Their useful guide will help women remain active and, one hopes, less obsessed with the "other" results of breast cancer. Recommended for patient health collections.

S.W. Capps

With the law, a bloodthirsty ex-wife and a hired killer on his heels, Woodrow Salmon, a desperate corporate executive turned fugitive, embarks on a strange and harrowing journey, one that will lead him through the minefields of his past and change his life forever. Salmon Run is available in hardback and paperback at Cover to Cover Books in Vancouver and on-line at Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, Borders.com, Powells.com, InkwaterBooks.com and www.swcapps.com.

Grace Elting Castle

When Advanced Forensic Civil Investigations was released by Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company, it was hailed as the "bible" of civil investigations. The second book, Advanced Criminal Defense Investigations was similarly received. These two books, used in college and university classrooms across the nation, as well as by practicing investigators, attorneys and paralegals, were edited and co-authored by WW member Grace Elting Castle, who now resides and writes in Eugene. A retired professional investigator, Castle encourages writers to use these books to learn the truth of how investigations are conducted. They are available on her website at www.cluesonline.com/books.htm.

Jennifer Chambers

In Jennifer Chambers' January 2010 novel, Learning Life Again, Maggie McLeod, adult brain injury survivor, mentors a newly injured teen as they journey toward health, success, and fulfillment. Their struggle to regain physical and emotional ability after brain injury delves into universal feelings like loss and redemption. Learning Life Again explores the way we adapt to challenges and how we can learn to heal. Chambers, a brain injury survivor herself, is an editor for literary magazine Groundwaters(www.groundwatersmagazine.com.) She has been featured in Redbook Magazine and the front page of AOL.com, as well as various newspapers and websites. Visit her website at www.jenniferbchambers.com for more information.

Megan Clark

Megan Clark's literary erotic novels dare to be different, and have been compared to the provocative writing of Anais Nin. In SEDUCE ME, her latest novel, two unique women cross paths and embark on an uninhibited journey that brings them to very different destinations. Offering differing feminist viewpoints, Charlotte and Carissa are THE modern-day flappers. In Clark's debut novel, RESCUE ME, an aspiring photographer hopes studying abroad will open her to new experiences that will give her art more depth. She has no idea how successful her plan will be until she meets her new roommate, Natasha, a woman whose vanity plates read "Rescue Me." What ensues is a sensuous journey of bisexual awakening, drawing upon the many parallels between art and lust.
Visit www.meganclark.net for upcoming events.

Sage Cohen

Sage Cohen is the author of Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry (Writer's Digest Books, 2009), The Productive Writer: Tips & Tools to Help You Write More, Stress Less & Create Success (Writer's Digest Books, 2010) and the poetry collection "Like the Heart, the World." Sage teaches the online class Poetry for the People and publishes the Writing the Life Poetic zine. Visit Sage at www.sagesaidso.com.

Erin Cole

In her debut novel, Grave Echoes: A Kate Waters Mystery, Erin Cole redefines the worst of nightmares: Kate Waters suffers from narcoleptic hallucinations, which parallel her sister’s fatal car accident. When Kate acquires a mysterious key of Jev's, she unlocks a world of perilous secrets involving witchcraft, poltergeist, and a heartless killer determined to get back what is his. To save herself and solve Jev's murder, she will have to trust in a reality where the possibilities are unbelievable and the consequences are deadly. To learn more about Erin Cole's writing or purchase a book, you can visit her website at www.erincolewrites.com

Constance Crooker

Constance Crooker's Gun Control and Gun Rights is one of Greenwood Publishing Group's historic guides to controversial issues in America. Competing views on gun control are analyzed. The history of major gun rights and gun control organizations is summarized. The author, a lawyer, demystifies the legal arguments for and against the view that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution was intended to protect an individual's right to bear arms. She summarizes, chronologically, the major federal gun laws of the past thirty years.

M. Thomas Cooper

Set in Portland, Oregon, 42 follows George Olson as his life is thrown into chaos and his mind into a possible state of psychosis. When accusations of murder lead George to examine the forces at work in his life, he becomes lost amid paranoia, coincidences, and a strange reality. In a plot that quickly escalates from a mundane existence to accusations of arson and murder, George's very life depends on him making sense of the answers that are hidden everywhere. Can a number really lead him to the truth, or is it all in George's mind?

T.L. Cooper

'T. L. Cooper's All She Ever Wanted is the story of a blossoming interracial friendship between a white woman and an African-American man and his family. Victoria Caldwell must confront and deal with her own prejudices, as well as those of her family, and those of her ancestors as recorded in their journals. A thoughtful, insightful look into the changing human mind and spirit evoked by an interracial friendship, All She Ever Wanted is a superbly written, highly recommended novel showcasing a theme that is as historic and universal as interracial human experience, and contemporary as today's newspaper headlines.' Midwest Book Review. For more information, visit http://www.authorsden.com/tlcooper

Kassy Daggett

The Gift of a 50th Birthday: An Anthology of Fifty-Words on Turning Fifty, is a collection of 50 original quotes by me plus 100 from friends and family ranging in age from 3-93. Each quote of exactly 50 words was written in response to the question, "What does it--or did it--or will it--mean for you to turn 50?" What has emerged is a multi-generational group memoir of sorts--filled with candor, vividness, wisdom, and playfulness--something for everyone.

Marva Dasef

Marva Dasef's YA science fiction thriller, First Duty, was released by Sam's Dot Publishing. It is currently available only at The Genre Mall (http://www.genremall.com/fictionr.htm#firstduty) or from her website (http://marvadasef.com/firstduty.aspx)

Sheila Deeth

Sheila Deeth's "What IF...Stories: Inspired by Faith and Science" are available from www.stores.lulu.com/sdeeth. They include illustrated drabble calendars (hundred word stories for each day of the season) to promote family celebrations of Christmas, Easter and Thanksgiving; Bible picture books teaching colors and numbers; and a book of 3-minute read-aloud stories based on characters in Genesis. For more information about Sheila visit her website at www.sheiladeeth.com.

Beren deMotier

Beren deMotier is the author of The Brides of March: Memoir of a Same-Sex Marriage, a raucous tale of getting married, celebrated, lost in legal limbo and annulled by state supreme court decision in Multnomah County. (From her website: Beren deMotier is a Carol Brady in Levi's/tattooed Madonna in a mini-van, lesbian mama obsessed with safety, doing the right thing, and the amount of dog hair on her wood floors. Her writing has been described as "charming, sexy and appealing" with a "rowdy and bawdy sense of humor".)

Nancy E Dollahite

Sourcework: Writing From Academic Sources, a writing text from Houghton Mifflin, offers step-by-step help for any university student writing an academic essay, with special emphasis on the challenges faced by ESL writers. Purchase of the book includes access to a website with detailed teaching instructions and answers to all exercises. Author Nancy E Dollahite, who, with her co-author Julie Haun, teaches at Portland State University, has worked in ESL for over 20 years in the United States, People's Republic of China, Mexico, Scotland and Brazil.

Carola Dunn

In her 10th cozy featuring English writer Daisy Dalrymple (To Davy Jones Below, etc.), Dunn captures the melting pot of Prohibition-era New York with humorous characterizations and a vivid sense of place, and with careful plotting lays out an enjoyable tale of adventure.

Steve Dreben

Steve Dreben's latest novel "The Murder of Kaelin" provides a microscopic view of how horrific the stage of a missing child can be. For more information, visit Steve's website at http://www.drebensviewinandout.com.

Michele Longo Eder

Michele's book, Salt In Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife, recounts her life as the wife of a commercial fisherman, while balancing responsibilities as mother of two boys and maintaining a career as an attorney. Set against the sudden loss at sea of Eder's oldest son, Ben, the book is a tale of indescribable sadness but also one of resilience and courage. Salt in Our Blood received the 2009 WILLA award for creative non-fiction.

John Edge

John Edge, Salem poet and publisher, is the author of LOOK BOTH WAYS: Poems of Wonder and Reason; In My '60s: Poetry From a Decade of Change, a selection of his poems written between 1959 and 1968, examining his life and experiences in San Francisco's North Beach, and elsewhere on the Pacific coast; and Snapshots and Other Souvenirs, a time-trip to the Wisconsin of his childhood, 1943 to 1957.

Meagan Grace Elliott

Feeling Bliss, Touching Grace, A Poetic Journey is about the year of transformation that Grace experienced while living in Thailand. Excerpts from the book and selections of her poetry are available at www.meagangraceelliott.com. Meagan graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies, and a Minor in French. She currently resides in Portland, Oregon, where she enjoys frequenting coffee shops, dancing ecstatically, being in nature, and getting around by foot and bike.

Mark Ellis

Dumbarton Ghosts chronicles the life-changing moments of characters faced with metaphorical versions of San Francisco Bay's most infamous bridge, a bridge doomed and risen. Through eleven eclectic tales, choice and fate attend each crossing. From the abyss, the cumulative madness of our era beckons. A love poem to the South Bay, the title story becomes universal as a couple struggles with infertility and the myths of phantoms.

Craig English and James Rapson

Anxious to Please: 7 Revolutionary Practices or the Chronically Nice is the first book to reveal the primary psychological cause of chronic niceness-anxious attachment. Anxious attachment drives the Nice Person to accommodate, acquiesce, and avoid conflict, leading to a host of emotional and relational problems. Anxious to Please: 7 Revolutionary Practices for the Chronically Nice unveils seven powerful practices-a synthesis of personal and clinical experience, psychological theory, Buddhism, and gender studies. These seven practices are designed to heal the chronically nice person, transforming a life of anxiety into one that brims with self-confidence, serenity, and passion.

Elizabeth Eslami

This rich and poignant novel examines the experiences of Iranian immigrants and their children. A young Iranian-American woman, Jasmine Fahroodhi, struggles to understand her enigmatic Iranian father after he decides to arrange her marriage. Jasmine is confused, furious, yet intrigued, and realizes she can only understand who she is when she begins to explore her heritage. Ultimately this process opens her eyes to the mysteries of familial and romantic love, as well as her father's strange and exotic past. BONE WORSHIP has already received rave reviews in Library Journal and Booklist.

For more information, please visit the author's website at www.elizabetheslami.com

Bob Ferguson

If you cross-pollinate the humor of Dave Barry with the sagacity of Robert Fulghum you will taste the flavor of Bob Ferguson's memoir, Some Days Chicken, Some Days Feathers. It begins with his earliest recollections in Oregon and ends as he is discharged from the Marine Corps due to Vietnam injuries. It is a comedy mixed with Greek tragedy, but really wants to be a musical as fun as Mama Mia.

Susan Fletcher

For grades 5-9. An imaginary kingdom resembling Scandinavia during the Dark Ages is troubled by dragons, and spirited Kara, the heroine of this prequel to the author's Dragon's Milk (Atheneum, 1989), finds herself unwillingly enmeshed in her sovereign's plot to exterminate the creatures.

Benson S. Forbes

Does America have a hand in the outbreak of Mad Cow and Foot and Mouth diseases in Great Britain? Was a similar outbreak in Washington State merely a case of the past haunting the present? Benson S. Forbes dishes out an intelligent and solid mystery novel in MAD COWS COME BACK TO BITE. Through two unlikely protagonists, we race through England and America, rummaging through the inner workings of governments and top-secret agencies, on a mission to expose cover-ups of botched military experiments of the past.

Benson S. Forbes

Five boyhood chums come of age as the sun begins to set on the British Empire. Along with hundreds of thousands of their countrymen, they eagerly volunteer to fight in the "War To End All Wars," but soon discover that they are at the mercy of the British high command's antiquated tactics. Will they survive? Or, will they be among the millions sacrificed on the altar of aristocratic pride? They are the unsung heroes of World War I. They are The Bottom Five.

P.R. Frost

If you've ever wandered the halls of a Science Fiction Convention on Saturday evening just before the Masquerade you will probably have encountered many beings on the verge of crossing the threshold between humanity and ... something else.

This is Tess Noncoira's world. The world of writing for a living, of promoting her books at conventions and making sure these questionable beings return to their home dimension And when they don't want to return? That's where the fights, and the fun begin.

Diane L. Goeres-Gardner

Before 1903 all Oregon hangings took place at the county level and allowed hundreds of people to watch. Until now, the facts about those events were lost in history. Necktie Parties-A History of Legal Executions in Oregon, 1851 - 1905 is the first book ever printed to examine Oregon's forays into capital punishment before they were moved to the state penitentiary. The 50 cases in "Necktie Parties" focus on the people, culture and attitudes present at the time of the individual hanging. For an unforgettable trip into Oregon's past, "Necktie Parties" is unique in its field.

Necktie Parties-A History of Legal Executions in Oregon, 1851 -1905, by Caxton Press, ISBN 0-87004-446-x Paper, 348 pages, Illustrated, Index, $16.95. www.necktieparties.com

Diane is also the author of Murder, Morality and Madness: Women Criminals in Early Oregon by Caxton Press.

F.I. Goldhaber

F.I. Goldhaber has had a collection of poetry published by Uncial Press of Portland. , a collection of forty-four poems written over a period of four years, examines various facets of our relationships with the world, and the people, around us. The collection has been praised by well-known Pacific Northwest writers. More information and links to purchase the book are available at www.goldhaber.net.

R.S. Gompertz

Ron Gompertz is pleased to announce the print and electronic publication of his first good novel. No Roads Lead to Rome is a quixotic tale that could be misinterpreted as a study of how individual principles are often pitted against organizational imperatives. Alternatively, it could be just a good tale of how an old centurion, a Jewish rebel, a party-boy governor, and a shameless advisor wrestle with the timeless themes of murder, bribery, and blackmail before breakfast. Steeped in humor and history, No Roads provides a raucous romp through an ancient world that’s much like our own. The sights, situations, and smells of 123 A.D. will seem strangely familiar to anyone trying to remain optimistic in the struggle against what often seems like the decline and fall of nearly everything. Explore www.noroadsleadtorome.com for ways your purchase can help a variety of non-profit arts and literacy organizations.

Lenora Good

Lenora's My Adventures as Brother Rat – by Lin Yao, Queen Dowager, Land of Five Dragons, is a young adult epic tale of 66,500 words, set in Ancient China's Warring States period in which a young girl, Lin Yao, who desires above all to become a Healer, but must become the warrior, Brother Rat, to save her country.

Ellie Gunn

Oregon writer Ellie Gunn has published her first novel, One Handful of Earth. The Scottish historical fiction story of the Highland Clearances features a fictitious Clan MacDonan and shows (not tells) the struggle to save their land in 1813. The book may be ordered by email from www.elliegunn.com or through lulu.com and Amazon.

Florence Hardesty

Rock Garden Flower: Growing Up During the Depression is a memoir that describes growing up in the Depression and being a teenager during WWII. It provides a glimpse of a time disappearing from the memory of the nation. It tells of the author's parents struggles to stay together and provide for their children. Major decisions about the author's life were shaped by WWII.

Florence Hardesty

A former nursing professor writes about her students with affection and humor in her book I Always Faint When I See a Syringe: Nurse Student Tales. She introduces the reader to her favorite patients, the ones whose struggles with mental illness, inspired and illustrated her lectures for a quarter of a century. Hardesty's own experience as a mature returning student should encourage those who seek furthur education.

Melisaa Hart

University of Oregon journalism teacher Melissa Hart, author of the memoir Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood (Seal, 2009). Melissa Hart teaches memoir writing for U.C. Berkeley's online extension program. She's a contributing editor at The Writer Magazine. Her essays have appeared in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Advocate, Fourth Genre, and numerous other publications.

Michael Henderson

No Enemy to Conquer: Forgiveness in an Unforgiving World, foreword by the Dalai Lama. Baylor Univ., $19.95 paper (234p) ISBN-978-1-60258-140-1. Henderson (From India with Hope), whose Irish Protestant family sought reconciliation with their Catholic compatriots, may be just the sort of eloquent messenger the world needs to understand the utility and not just the symbolic value of forgiveness. Starting with the Dalai Lama's foreword-a paean to the power of redemption-this book is a blissful read and a persuasive argument for forgiveness as a practical tool for global survival.

Michael also wrote a chapter in CHILDREN: THE INVISIBLE VICTIMS OF WAR which was published in November 2008 (proceeds to UNICEF). ISBN 0954722949. This above information comes from Publishers Weekly.

April Henry

April writes articles for Writers Digest, reviews books for the Oregonian, and has taught at Portland State's Haystack program. April talks about books and writing with children and adults at schools, libraries, bookstores, and book festivals. She has even chatted by speakerphone with book groups. Want to learn more about having her at your event? E-mail her at april@aprilhenrymysteries.com

Cindy Hudson

Seal Press just published Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs by Cindy Hudson. In Book by Book Hudson offers practical advice using her own firsthand experience as founder of two long-running, successful mother-daughter book clubs. She features tips from librarians, parenting experts and includes book suggestions, recipes and strategies to keep groups thriving. Visit www.motherdaughterbookclub.com.

Morgan Hunt

The Tess Camillo mystery series has been described as "The Golden Girls meets Murder, She Wrote," "an intelligent woman's beach read," and "Whoopi adapts Agatha Christie." Either way, if you like a traditional mystery puzzle and strange murder methods, interlaced with quirky wit, you'll enjoy these books: Sticky Fingers, Fool on the Hill, Blinded by the Light. A survivor of advanced lobular invasive carcinoma (a form of breast cancer), the author hopes her humor-and-character-driven Tess Camillo mysteries will provide hope to other cancer survivors, and entertainment to all readers.

Patty Jager

Paty writers western novels, including Miner in Petticoats, Marshall in Petticoats, and Gambling on an Angel. From her website, 'Growing up in the Northeast corner of Oregon, riding horses and reading were my favorite pastimes. Many hours were spent roaming the Wallowa Mountains on my horse Junebug and making up stories in my head. I read anything I could get my hands on from the school and local library. Many of my school lunch hours I could be found reading the thickest books I borrowed from the library. Usually Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney.'

Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant

Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant's hysterical new gift book, Not Guilty by Reason of Menopause (Ten Speed Press, 2008, $12.95), is now available at book stores everywhere and online. Leigh Anne says, "I wouldn't have had the opportunity to do this book if I hadn't pitched Ten Speed's editors at the Willamette Writers' Conference for three years running. Even though they rejected my proposal, they decided they liked my style and sense of humor and so they pitched me. Proof positive that the conference sometimes works in mysterious ways!"

JoJo Jensen

You won't be remembered for your fleet of tractors," JoJo Jensen's grandpa used to say - especially not on his farm. A dirt farmer in Nebraska in the 1930s, he farmed without machinery or irrigation. The farm weakened during the Depression, but Grandpa Jensen's legacy is rich. He instilled in his family a way of looking at life and making it better by just tweaking the small parts. With timeless tidbits of insight, old-fashioned farm stories, and 36 poignant half-tone images of farm life, Dirt Farmer Wisdom recalls an almost forgotten time. It brings us down to earth, gently guiding us toward a simpler, more satisfying life. Countless nuggets of farm-speak common sense, like "Stop cussing the mule and load the wagon" and "No point digging a sink hole," remind us that "You don't get what you don't ask for" and "You can't catch water with a fist." Lifestyles change, but genuine homespun common sense works every time.

Jack Everett Johnson

To Rise Above It All is a thrilling - action filled novel about three young teenagers as they climb to fame. It is a story of love, the love of MUSIC, and the love of the women who helped create their story. It is a story of romance, sex, power and control between men and the women that they loved. It is a story - told time and time again, of how musicians climbed above it all. Despite the corrupt recording industry that suppressed them, the TV satations who adored them, yet they all rose to fame. This story is based in part on the life and times of three famous musicians of Portland, Oregon who managed to, Rise Above It All.

Megan Clare Johnson

Called back to Detroit to track down her mother's murderer, Detective Deanna Dopp unravels long-kept secrets and city corruption in this racially tense city that leads her straight to City Hall and the powerful Mayor of Detroit. For readers that enjoy detective series and thrillers - you'll get hooked on following hard-hitting female detective Deanna Dopp as she disentangles clues to a murder that involves cultural clashes, bitter political ambition, family secrets and lovers caught up in the dire circumstances of their generation and metropolis. If you want to experience the grit of a city under your fingernails then Motor City Murder is a must-read.

Bill Johnson

Willamette Writers' office manager Bill Johnson's A Story is a Promise and Deep Characterization explores principles of storytelling through reviews of popular novels, plays and movies. This second edition has twenty pages of new material. Each chapter of the book has questions designed to help writers better understand the stories they are creating. The book also includes a step by step process for outlining a novel that can be used to revise a finished novel, or to help get a new novel off to a strong beginning.

Christina Katz

Christina's latest book, Get Known Before the Book Deal, Use Your Strengths to Grow an Author Platform, has been published by Writer's Digest Books. Christina is also the author of Writer Mama, How to Raise a Writing Career Alongside Your Kids (Writer's Digest Books, March 2007).

Jill Kelly

Kelly's memoir Sober Truths: The Making of an Honest Woman was a finalist for a 2008 Oregon Book Award in Creative Nonfiction. Kelly's demons did not go quietly when she put the bottle down. She had to learn how to be with loneliness, anxiety, distrust of others and not drink, to let go of the jealous dramas of the past and embrace a new life of peace. Along the way, Kelly reinvented herself, becoming a writer and visual artist and developing deep friendships and a satisfying spiritual life.

Carol Marleigh Kline

Carol Marleigh Kline's personal growth book, Streetwise Spirituality: 28 Days to Inner Fitness and Everyday Enlightenment, was just published by Norlights Press. The book's true-life stories and engaging exercises help readers use moments of frustration or anger to break loose from negative or self-defeating beliefs as they pursue a lasting peace between who they really are and what others expect of them.

Edna Kovacs

Edna Kovacs, PhD announces the publication of her latest collection of poetry with journal writing prompts and walking meditations. The book, In A Place Called Sanctuary~Writings From A Healing Garden was published by Palabras Press in Calgary, Alberta in September 2009. Original photographs by the author accompany the text. Kovacs is the author of the groundbreaking Writing Across Cultures: A Handbook For Writing Poetry & Lyrical Prose and Writing With Multiple Intelligences (2001) as well as two award winning haiku chapbooks.

She teaches in the English Language & Culture Program at Linfield College.

Claire Krulikowski

Author, editor, and writing workshop leader Claire Krulikowski has authored three books: India travel memoir, Moonlight on the Ganga (which was brought "back in print" thanks to the Author's Guild 'Back-In-Print' program); an impassioned poetry collection entitled, Rapture: Love of the Heart; and the inspirational non-fiction, Living A Radical Peace: Creating Life Anew. In addition, Claire's recorded audio classes Grants For Writers, http://www.lulu.com/content/1270501, and Book Publishing Contracts: Be Prepared, http://www.lulu.com/content/1251095, provide valuable information about getting grants and understanding book contracts.

Koenig's Wonder

The year is 1937 when two brothers are forced to leave their home in Germany. They arrive in New York City with only a white Lipizzan stallion and a stolen Friedrich painting. What happens next affects three generations of the Maseman family as they become torn apart by greed, war, and revenge. Years later, in Oregon, Emma Maseman discovers the harsh truth about her family when she is investigated for the theft of Koenig's Wonder, a Kentucky Derby winning thoroughbred.

Koenig's Wonder is a fictional portrayal of Linda Kuhlmann's family history that began when her great-great-grandfather and his brother came to America and were separated, never to meet again. Visit her website for an excerpt and reviews: www.lindakuhlmann.com

Ron Kurtus

Tricks for Good Grades: Strategies to Succeed in School is a delightful book with tips and ideas of how a student can excel in school and still have time to go out and have fun. It covers topics from the best ways to do your homework, test preparation, dealing with teachers and why cheating on tests doesn't pay off. The book is based on the essays in Kurtus' award-winning School for Champions website (www.school-for-champions.com), as well as feedback from the many students using the site. It is available in hardcopy and as an e-book from Amazon.com and other outlets.

Michael R Lane

Emancipation is a literary compilation focused on a melting pot of Americans. Gratey Johnson is a PSTD war veteran whose combat hell has left him a shattered and demented man struggling to corral his demons. Gratey is also the universal fulcrum around which all other stories pivot. Parents, grandparents, children, lovers, executive, thief, cop, educator, and drug dealer all have their unique tales to share. Their individual narratives of virtue, mischief, faith, immorality, morality, commitment and perseverance bridge generational gaps and make whole a humane patchwork in an otherwise ambiguous life-scape. As we step through this journey of ordinary and extraordinary circumstances, perhaps the lesson learned is that we possess more common threads that bind us than differences that divide. Go to BookLocker to read a free excerpt from the book.

Ken Lewis

In Ken Lewis' suspense/thriller Little Blue Whales, the new police chief in a small but troubled town on the southern Oregon coast makes the desperate choice to risk his life and the life of the woman he loves, when he first tries to deny, but is ultimately forced to admit to, a horrible truth about himself and his past.

Sue Lick

Sue Lick's Freelancing for Newspapers is available from Quill Driver Books, www.quilldriverbooks.com, ISBN: 978-1884956-68-3. Chapters include finding markets, developing ideas, pitching, writing and publishing, and the business side of freelancing. Lots of handy references and exercises to get you started or reinvigorate your inner writer. Available at most online and brick-and-mortar bookstores. List price is $14.95, but you can buy it cheaper at Amazon.com.

Ron Lovell

Ron Lovell's Murder in E-flat Major Released

This is Ron Lovell's eighth book in the Thomas Martindale Series, which includes Murder at Yaquina Head, Dead Whales Tell No Tales, Lights, Camera Murder!, Murder Below Zero, Searching for Murder, Descent into Madness, and Yaquina White. Lovell, a former magazine journalist and retired Oregon State University journalism professor, lives in Gleneden Beach.

Dick Lutz

Exploring Egypt is a concise history of Egypt. Ancient Egypt is described concisely in Part 1 of this book and Part II discusses the years between ancient Egypt and modern Egypt. In the third part an actual tour of the country and many of its monuments is described in detail. Part IV is about Cairo and modern Egypt. Dick is the author of eight books including books about the Amazon, Patagonia, and Belize. Dick speaks about self-publishing on this video posted on YouTube.

Elizabeth Lyon

Makeover: Revision Techniques No Fiction Writers Can Afford to Ignore is Elizabeth's final and most comprehensive book for writers. Other books, all in print, include A Writer's Guide to Fiction, A Writer's Guide to Nonfiction, The Sell Your Novel Tool Kit, National Directory of Editors & Writers, and her bestseller, Nonfiction Book Proposals Anybody Can Write. Elizabeth speaks about writing query letters on this video posted on YouTube.

Doc Macomber

Embedded in the slender neck of the burned corpse, a gold coin beckons. Its surprising thumbprint peels back the veneer on a morass of intrigue that threatens to destroy military investigator Jack Vu's sense of order and his career. As his hunt for the murderer unravels, Vu ricochets from the Big Easy to the unlucky waters of the Pacific Northwest. Along the road, he discovers unlikely allies and unexpected enemies. The Killer Coin is Doc's first novel.

In this third book in the Jack Vu series, Snip exposes readers to a modern Vietnamese military investigator, Animal Right's issues, the hot topic of horse racing, and the deep seated fictive secrets of Louisville, Kentucky history. For more information about Doc, visit his website at www.docmacomber.com

Mary Maher

Mary Z. Maher announces that her third book about acting Shakespeare has just been published by the Hal Leonard Group (Applause Books) and received a hearty endorsement in Playbill magazine. Actors Talk About Shakespeare is a "treasury of talents, tactics and tales" and has received marvelous coverage and reviews in the Rogue Valley as well, home of the award-winning Oregon Shakespeare Festival company, where Maher lives. For more info on all the books, log onto www.actorstalkingaboutshakespeare.com and find commentary by Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Stacy Keach, Ben Kingsley and other greats in her fine stable of artists.

RC Marlen

RC Marlen's (Rosalie Marlen Schele) Inside the Hatboxes has been published by iUniverse.

St. Louis, Missouri, 1932: Too poor to afford a funeral, firefighter Tony Scaglione and his wife Claire bury their fourteen-month-old daughter in a secluded woods. While driving around town that night, Tony stops to smoke a cigarette. Out of the darkness, a lost little girl wanders to his Packard coupe and promptly climbs inside. Overwhelmed by grief and blind to the consequences, he takes the child. Tony, Claire, and their new daughter return to the city, not knowing how this crime will affect their future.

Ten years later, druggist John Bartlett has an engaging conversation with the young and vibrant Suzanne. The young girl reminds him of his own daughter, Elizabeth, lost so many years ago. When his family meets and becomes friends with hers, they begin a collision course with fate. When the truth in their lives is learned, everyone will be astounded...including the reader.

RC Marlen

The Drugstore: During 1955, neighborhoods in St. Louis flooded with change and prejudice after Brown vs. Board of Education. In the Bartlett family drugstore, stories unfold of ordinary people's strife, like the fire at Miss Pansy Dimestore and Mr. Joe's death by knife. Becky Bartlett, whose father runs the corner drugstore, wants to help solve these crimes and all the holdups. Becky and her brothers get caught in a whirlpool of crime. After one brutal holdup, Becky flees from Freddie Payne who had tried to rape her. Soon he starts calling her, and she realizes that he always knows her whereabouts. Nothing can stop the demise of the neighborhood, but can Becky outwit Freddie Payne?

For more info, visit www.rosaliemarlenschele.info

Leandra Martin

Leandra Martin has published her first book this past January. L'Landra's Tale: A New Day for the Dauntless is a Sci-Fi book, which can be purchased online through her website www.outskirtspress.com/leandramartin or by email for a signed copy at: llandra@netzero.net

Patricia J. McLean and Duane Poncy

A first novel by Patricia J. McLean and Duane Poncy is published on the web at http://bartlett-house.net. Bartlett House, a Will Adelhardt/Lucy Hidalgo mystery, is set in Portland, Oregon. When a fire burns down the historic Bartlett House, the body of young activist, Emmy d'Angelo, is found inside, dressed in bondage gear. Her older lover, professor Will Adelhardt, is under suspicion, but the manner in which Emmy is found is incomprehensible to Adelhardt, who is devastated by her loss. Now he must take a dark voyage through the past and his own tortured soul to find out what happened. To find the truth, Will Adelhardt and his journalist friend, Lucy Hidalgo, embark on a journey through Portland, Oregon's history from sixties protest to the lumber barons and radical Louise Bryant.

The novel may be read online or downloaded via pdf file.

Marilyn Catherine McDonald

Little Girl Lost, a true story of a boy's drowning and his 10-year-old sister's loss, is drawn from the author's haunting memories of growing up in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan in the 1940s. Part II of the book offers adults resources and a bibliography to assist children experiencing loss and grief. The author has said: "Thank God, there's an increasing awareness and emphasis in helping children understand and process the impact of traumatic and tragic events and experiences that directly or indirectly affect their lives. The counseling of children has come a long, long way from the times of which I write - half a century ago."

Phillip Margolin

Phil's latest novel is Fugtive. His third novel Gone, But Not Forgotten, was a runaway success internationally and was turned into a movie. Since 1996 Margolin has been President and Chairman of an organization called Chess for Success. The organization helps kids in Title I schools to develop skills necessary for success in school and life by learning chess.

Arthur Mokin

With a novelist's eye and a historian's devotion to accuracy, Arthur Mokin recreates the early days of the Civil War. The Union army is stalled and the Navy in a shambles when Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles learns that the Confederates are completing an "invincible" iron vessel. In desperation he turns to Captain John Ericsson, a brilliant but eccentric engineer, for an ironclad response. The confrontation between the first ironclads proves crucial to the survival of the Union. IRONCLAD: The Monitor & the Merrimack, by Arthur Mokin, explores this turning point in the Civil War.

Jessica Morrell

Jessica Morrell's Bullies, Bastards & Bitches, How to Write the Bad Guys in Fiction, published by Writer's Digest Books, is now available. Topics include how to tap into reader's primal fears, the moral continuum for fictional characters, the role of adversity and evil in fiction, and a bad guy's many uses in a successful story. Categories include unlikable protagonists, antagonists, villains, sociopaths, and monsters. Morrell also explores the rise in popularity of anti-heroes and how these complicated characters reflect contemporary society.

Mike Moscoe-Shepherd

Now, in the thrilling follow-up to First Dawn and Second Fire, Lieutenant Launa O'Brian and Captain Jack Walking Bear return from 4,000 B.C.--and discover a radically changed civilization, and a society infested with a different sort of plague. On this video posted on YouTube, Mike speaks about his latest novels.

Judy Nedry

A combination of wine and mystery threads Judy Nedry's delightful new release, An Unholy Alliance (published by iUniverse). Initially, Ms. Nedry was inspired to write about the major changes she witnessed in the Northwest wine industry in the late 1980s where it was only a matter of time before the bucolic, idyllic landscape transformed into something bigger. Instead, what followed was a work of fiction about the Oregon wine industry, one that involves amateur sleuth Emma Golden, a woman in her fifties who feels invisible. But that's about to change.

Mike Nettleton & Carolyn Rose

Carolyn and Mike have authored a number of mysteries as a team and individually. The Big Grabowski is the most recent to be published. Surf to www.deadlyduomysteries.com for more information.

Jennifer Ott

Author of Ooh Baby Compound Me - a satirical comparison of credit card companies and fraternity hazing, Jennifer Ott introduces her third book Edge of Civilization. Her quirky and thoughtful story depicts the journey of a displaced Vietnam veteran and his search for civilization in the Nevada desert. On his journey he experiences the history of mankind - a simple man searching for intelligent life and a young man soliciting faith at the crossroads. Edge of Civilization is a compelling tale of a man's quest to find his identity and return home. This multi-layered story raises many issues for the reader - what is home, the importance placed on outward appearance in our society, what is a hero and most importantly is civilization a forward process? But most of all, the story poses the question, "What is the future for men who have lost sight of the past?"

Dave Page

Dave's novel Mithras Court was published by Wizards of the Coast and is available in bookstores everywhere! Mithras Court weaves a mesmerizing tale of mystery and intrigue, love and revenge with ties to popular Wizards of the Coast world Ravenloft and will be a key book for fans of horror and gothic romance alike.

Sharon V. Parker

A guide to selling today and achieving business success, without sacrificing integrity, personal satisfaction, or spiritual growth. A career in sales can provide monetary rewards, but at what price? Selling With Soul gives clear instruction on how to sell in today's economy, while leading with integrity. You can achieve career success, without sacrificing personal satisfaction and spiritual growth.

Irene Radford

In the conclusion to her series devoted to Merlin's descendants (Guardian of the Vision, etc.), Radford's adroit mix of dark fantasy and Elizabethan politics, involving the complicated rivalries among the English, Scottish, French and Spanish, continues to entertain. Two years ago, Irene took up fencing as research for GUARDIAN OF THE FREEDOM, Merlin's Descendants #5. She figured one quarter would give her some vocabulary and a feel for a weapon in her hand. But that wasn't enough to write realistic battles on the Ottoman frontier or convincing duels. So she signed up for another quarter. And another. Now she's addicted and needs to add fencing to more of her books and let her subjects range further afield.

Naseem Rakha

Naseem Rakha is the author of The Crying Tree, a novel about the death penalty and forgiveness set in southern Illinois and Oregon. Naseem is an award winning journalist whose stores have been heard on OPB and National Public Radio. She lives in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

Nel Rand

Nel Rand's Mississippi Flyway combines the vibrant flavor of Southern literature with the complexity of a daughter's love for an abusive father. With glimpses of a time and place long since past, Mississippi Flyway reveals the turbulent history of the 1960's and a woman's struggle to search for peace in the midst of personal tragedy. Visit www.nelrand.com for more information. Available from iUniverse, Amazon.com, and Barnes & Noble.com; ISBN: 0-595-35762-8.

Nel's second novel, The Burning Jacket, has been published by Dancing Moon Press. It is currently available through amazon.com. Please visit her website, www.nelrand.com, for news release and more information.

Valerie Rapp

What the River Reveals (ValGene Press). This nonfiction book for adults tells the story of how we've changed our Pacific Northwest rivers and what we've lost--and also the story of how we can help them heal, plus what we might gain from it.

Protecting Earth's Land (Lerner Publications Company). This hardcover book for middle school grades explains how people are finding better ways to use and take care of Earth's land, and what kids are doing to protect land. The book is part of the new Saving Our Living Earth series.

Protecting Earth's Air Quality (Lerner Publications Company). This hardcover book for middle school grades explains how air pollution hurts people, what people are doing to improve Earth's air quality, and how kids are helping. The book is part of the new Saving Our Living Earth series.

Grace Reed

Needs is a collection of short stories and poems based on Graces' two years of exposure and research on homeless and addicted at-risk youth. Needs was written after a two-year exposure and creative expression research, for her MA in Conflict Resolution, with addicted at-risk youth in a juvenile justice RAD (restorative justice) unit and with street youth for the Guerilla theatre project at Outside/In. The script 'Children of the Other Shoe' was started at Guerilla theatre and finished at the RAD unit. The boys worked with in JJ were 13 to 17. The poems, script, and short stories reflect their life experiences, their struggle to survive, and the works impact on the author. Letters profiled detail the need for RJ for deeply conflicted at-risk youth and suggest ways to allow more chances for better choices. Needs also serves as a workbook for workshops coming soon.

Jane C. Rosen

Jane C. Rosen, a successful television producer/director and corporate PR executive, wrote her first book, My Life as a Corporate Goddess, as a humorous reflection of those careers. After all, if the Goddess could share the Acropolis with the great Gods of Greek mythology, then why can’t she share a seat alongside the mere mortals of the corporate boardroom? Jane also co-wrote Convergence Marketing: Combining Brand and Direct for Unprecedented Profits, with Richard G. Rosen, published by John Wiley & Sons.

Steven Schoen

The Truth About Fiction presents readers and creative writing enthusiasts with comprehensive coverage of the elements of fiction and real-world writing techniques that help build skills - such as sensory detailing, character construction, and cause and effect plotting. Plenty of practical advice completes this treatment of the fiction genre.

Cornelia Becker Seigneur

Cornelia Becker Seigneur is a West Linn writer, editor, instructor, speaker, photographer, and author of Images of America: WEST LINN published by Arcadia. Cornelia has been a regular contributor to The Oregonian newspaper since 1996, where she has specialized in faith and family and community features. Her work has also appeared in Travel Oregon, Twins magazine, and Portland magazine at the University of Portland, among other publications. Cornelia was an editor for Pamplin Media Group for five years, and continues freelance editing. She also enjoys teaching and leading writing workshops at conferences and in schools. She has taught at George Fox University and through the Center for Excellence in Writing at Portland State University, among other higher education and secondary education settings. Her website is www.corneliaseigneur.com and she can be reached at corneliaseigneur@comcast.net.

L. J. Sellers

L.J. Sellers is an award-winning journalist and the author of the Wade Jackson mystery/suspense series, based on a homicide detective in Eugene, Oregon. The first two books, The Sex Club and Secrets to Die For, have been highly praised, and the third book, Thrilled to Death, will be released in August. Her next two novels, Passions of the Dead and The Baby Thief, will be published in 2011.

Mystery Scene magazine calls the series "thrilling" and OverMyDeadBody.com says, "These well-plotted, suspenseful crime stories keep readers on a rollercoaster ride." The novels are consistently on Kindle's top selling list of police procedurals. For more information and to see what dozens of readers say about the series, visit: http://ljsellers.com

Lizzy Shannon

In the 21st century, humanity still believes they are alone in the universe. That changes when temporal experiments from the future go wrong, and an innocent bystander, Catriona Logan, is suddenly thrust into a future where the Earth is a wasteland. Humanity now reluctantly fights for the alien Leontors in a war against the reptoid Komodoans, in return for technology to re-terraform their ruined Earth.

The war is at a stalemate. Catriona's unique 21st century brainwave patterns will ensure a victory to whoever can scan her first, and she becomes a pawn between the alien races. Captured, Catriona must unravel the threads of deceit and find a mysterious and compelling ally in a world where her rules no longer apply.

Time is fractured and only Catriona can put it right, but at what cost?

Jean Sheldon

The Woman in the Wing by Jean Sheldon features Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and Rosie the Riveters in a fictional suspense thriller set in a WWII defense plant. A WASP trainee hoping to fly for her country has her career threatened when an army major removes her from training for refusing his proposition to do something other than fly. The dedicated pilot never gives up hope of earning her silver wings, even as she makes a perilous flight with a Nazi demolitions expert holding a gun to her head. ISBN: 978-0-9723541-6-5 www.jeansheldon.com

Ann Shorey

Ann Shorey is pleased to announce her debut novel, The Edge of Light, has launched. The Edge of Light is Book One in the At Home in Beldon Grove series, published by Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group. For more information, visit www.annshorey.com Ann is an active member of several writer's organizations, among them American Christian Fiction Writers, Oregon Christian Writers, Willamette Writers, and Women Writing the West. Ann is available to teach workshops on research, story arc, and other fiction fundamentals to writer's groups.

Jennie Shortridge

Tallie Beck is a 34-year-old washed-up, self-centered, rock-n-roll singer who has never grown up. Now she has to go home and face the music. Her career is in tatters, her bank account is nonexistent, and the only job her agent can offer is in a piano bar in her hometown. Shortridge's book chronicles the growing-up process from Tallie's perspective, providing a haunting inside look at the world of musicians on the edge between success and failure.

Riding with the Queen is a story of running away, running on empty . . . and finally, learning to run your own life.

David Michael Slater

David Michael Slater writes for children, teens, and adults. He is the author of numerous award-winning picture books, including Cheese Louise!, The Ring Bear, and Flour Girl. Seven new books will be published in '09. Davids teen series, Sacred Books, launched in Oct. '08 with The Book of Nonsense, a finalist for the Association of Booksellers for Children's Best of 2008 list and Cybil Award nominee. Book two, The Infinite, is due in August, '09. Davids first novel for adults, SELFLESS, was published in March, '09, and his first collection of short fiction is scheduled for later in the year. Finally, David has a film, Mocha Cola High, in development with Right Angle Pictures. David teaches middle school in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife and son. Website: www.davidmichaelslater.com

Carole Marlene Sletta & Cheryl Long Riffle

In Through Spiritual Eyes, you will be able to travel along and become part of this spiritual odyssey as it unfolds for Carole, who has been open to the spirits since a child. She is joined by Cheryl who first becomes the biographer then becomes a participant on the spiritual journey that bridges heaven and earth.

Anne Warren Smith

Anne Warren Smith's Turkey Monster Thanksgiving features a young girl trying to create a nice Thanksgiving for her father and young brother when her mother leaves the family to be a country western singer. Aimed at children ages 9-12.

Alaina Smith

Alaina Smith is a writer whose true tales appear in multiple anthology series including Chicken Soup for the Soul, Chocolate for Women, and A Cup of Comfort. She has experience writing and editing for nonprofit organizations and businesses in the areas of journalism, law, politics, development, education, and marketing. Although experienced in multiple kinds of writing, Alaina's primary passion is creative nonfiction. She has a bachelor's degree in magazine journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Local anthology contributors interested in collaborating on readings and book-signing events are welcome to contact her at writersmith@yahoo.com.

Rose St. John

The father-to-be who wants to know what his laboring woman needs from him and how to meet those needs, as well as the pregnant woman who wants her man to know how to be the best possible birth companion, will find what they need in Fathers at Birth: Your Role in Bringing Your Child into the World. Based on medical science, sound yogic principles, and St. John's methods developed and proven in years of attending births, it gives men a profound sense of place in the entire birthing process. Practical and conceptual, it presents a holistic view that deals with birth accurately and shares the fears, desires, and emotional / spiritual growth men make in the birth experience. An engaging read, start to finish; filled with stories and quotes from men.

Patricia Snyder

Patricia Snyder's first novel, Advent Tour, is now available from Black Matrix Publishing, www.blackmatrixpub.com. The young adult comic fantasy is about an espresso worker who is transported to a magical world as its new, reluctant ruler and faces the challenge of touring and uniting the kingdom while fending off those who are unhappy with his arrival.

Cheryl Strayed

Garnering remarkable praise and rave reviews, award-winning writer Cheryl Strayed emphatically delivers with her debut novel, Torch, now available in paperback, the moving story of a family struck down by random fate and how it learns to heal. Writing with insight, compassion, and humor, Strayed reveals her "gift of getting to the core of the human condition" (Kirkus Reviews).

Michele Marie Tate

Blood, Money, Power is a fictional political saga of wealth and greed that leads to murder. Inspired by a true story, it follows the Preston family bloodline for three generations. (1920 -1997) You'll discover dark family secrets, callous deeds and a love worth dying for. Relive the folklore of Hearst castle, foreign intrigue, and find out if Amber wins her battle for truth and justice.

For more information, please visit the author's website at http://www.michelemarietate.com.

D'Norgia Taylor

D'Norgia began, as a serious writer, 40 years ago. Although her favorite authors include Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut and Octavia Butler, Taylor's preferred genre is science fiction/fantasy. The film, Portrait of Jenny, which she saw as a child, gave her a taste of science fiction/time travel that grew into a passion. She combined her talent and love of writing into the debut of her first novel String Beans and Candy Canes.

Linnie Thomas

Linnie Thomas is excited to announce The Encyclopedia of Energy Medicine, published by Fairview Press, was released the beginning of April. Shortly after its release a contract was signed to translate it into Portuguese. The book contain 65 chapters each describing a separate modality in energy medicine.

Kilong Ung

As recounted in his memoir, Kilong Ung was a leaf at the mercy of the wind. The wind carried him from one remote part of the world to another. It blew him through turbulence and catastrophic weather. It took him to a Khmer Rouge labor camp and lingered for an eternity. It dehydrated him and nearly starved him to death. Ung helplessly watched the most devilish mother of all winds ruthlessly crush his tree into lifeless pulp. Like an almighty Olympian god, when the wind wanted to toy with him, it blew him through minefields, rockets, and bullets. While two million leaves disintegrated, Ung persevered. Through an extraordinary journey, he discovered himself. He is fortunate, and he doesn't easily perish. He was a golden leaf. Against all odds, he survived, laid down roots, and became a tree.

Bob Welch

Bob Welch is a speaker, author, award-winning columnist and teacher. He serves as an adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Oregon in Eugene. His book about a heroic World War II nurse, American Nightingale (Atria Books, 2004), was featured on ABCs "Good Morning America" and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. His most recent book, Pebble in the Water (AO Creative, 2008), amplifies the authors American Nightingale experience from an idea written on a Wendy's napkin to the four years it took before the book was published.

Steve Wheeler

Steve Wheeler is delighted to announce publication of his first novel called The Right of the People. Daniel Travis leads a non-violent, civil disobedience movement for national campaign finance reform that becomes a threat to the plutocrats who control the U.S. government. Aiming to derail the movement, the chairman of the super-rich elite orders Travis eliminated. The story is both political thriller and political fantasy set in 2007. Compare the fictional statesmen with those currently on the stump.

Cynthia Whitcomb

Cynthia Whitcomb has sold more than 70 feature-length screenplays, 25 of which have been filmed. She has made millions of dollars for her work, and her scripts have won and been nominated for many awards, including the Emmy Award, Cable Ace Award, Edgar Allan Poe Award, Humanitas Award, and Writers Guild of America Awards. Her students have also gone on to write successful box-office hits. She has taught screenwriting for many years, including seven at the acclaimed UCLA Film School. Writing Your Screenplay offers her practical advice on writing the first or tenth script.

Cynthia Whitcomb

With the average screenplay selling for $100,000 or more, every writer knows that movies are where the money is. In The Writer's Guide to Selling Your Screenplay, veteran screenwriter Cynthia Whitcomb reveals everything today's aspiring screenwriter needs to know about selling a movie script to Hollywood, cable TV, or network television.

Laura Whitcomb

Laura Whitcomb grew up in Pasadena, California in a mildly haunted house. She received her English degree at California State University at Northridge in 1993. She has taught Language Arts in California and Hawaii. She has won three Kay Snow Awards and was once runner up in the Bulwer-Lytton writing contest for the best first sentence of the worst Science Fiction novel never written. In her spare time she sings madrigals with the Sherwood Renaissance Singers and is the props mistress for the Portland Christmas Revels. She lives in Wilsonville, Oregon.

The Fetch, Laura's latest book, is now available in bookstores.

Doreen Gandy Wiley

One Hundred Candles describes the defining decade of Doreen Gandy Wiley's years in the Philippines. Of Spanish/English parents, Doreen's seventh through seventeenth years are challenged by the emotional upheavals of youth-divorce of her parents, abandonment in boarding school, and the trauma of Japanese Occupation during WWII. Trapped for weeks in their hand-dug, backyard trench, One Hundred Candles gives a firsthand account of the fiery holocaust that characterized culmination of Japanese rule.

Jerri Wolfe

Jerri Wolfe's novel, No Regret, is now available through Amazon as a Kindle book.

No Regret is a family saga about Bertha, a child abandoned by her parents in the turn-of-the-century booming Missouri town of St. Louis who is eventually reunited with her mother. But all the opportunities to be a family may be lost when the twisted heart of a step father comes between them.

Neglected and left in an orphanage, Bertha is emancipated at age 12, and is sent by train to South Dakota to become part of her mother's new family. While she is accepted by her step father and half brothers, her struggle to bond with her mother highlights the complex and sometimes dangerous relationship between parent and child.

Eowyn Wood

Naked in the Rain is the award-winning debut novel from Eowyn Wood. The sequel, Afterglow is now available. In addition to her work as an author, Wood performs editing for Crooked Hills Publishing and works at a non-profit AIDS service organization. She resides in Portland, Oregon with her partner, two cats and a Chihuahua. The first chapters of Naked in the Rain and Afterglow are available on the web site, as well as photos, reviews, and much more! For more info, go to http://www.eowynwood.com

George Byron Wright

George Byron Wright is the author of Roseburg 1959, (C3 Publications, ISBN 978-0-9632655-4-8, paper, 272 pages, $15.95) which is influenced by the explosion of a powder truck in 1959. The other books in Wright's trio are Baker City 1948 and Tillamook 1952. Visit George's website to learn more about his work: www.c3publications.com/.

George's latest book is Driving to Vernonia. About the book, Edmund Kirby-Smith's life is in ruins. He thinks the way back from his rage and despair is to find Richard Vickerman, a man who used to have answers. Set in the northwest, Driving to Vernonia is a penetrating story of deprivation, laced with love and anger, violence and self-discovery.



George speaks about Driving to Vernonia in this video taped at the Wordstock Festival.

Karen Spears Zacharias

Karen's Where's Your Jesus Now? offers a seriously funny look at what happens when fear becomes the compelling factor in our decision-making, both personally and politicially. PASTE magazine said that this collection of essays, culled from Karen's days as a crime beat reporter in Oregon, "offers a potent rebuttal to the contemporary commentary that only the stupid can be religious and that intelligence beats faith every time."

After the Flag has been Folded? is an account of what happens to a soldier's family in the afthermath of his/her death. Zacharias was 9 years old when her father, Stf. Sgt. David Spears, was killed in Vietnam's Ia Drang Valley. The family was told that he died in his sleep. It was a lie. One that Zacharias wouldn't discover until she came across an autopsy report in her days as a crime beat reporter. This story begins the day the telegram came and ends with Zacharias traveling to her father's battlefield in Vietnam.