The purpose of this web page is promote the books of published members of Willamette Writers.

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).

R.J. Archer

Seeds Of Civilization novels incorporate actual archeological mysteries into the story lines. In Tractrix, a team of explorers investigates the origin of a mysterious black sphere, leading them on a journey from Seattle to the secret military installations of Nevada and on to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, where they stumble across a three thousand year old secret that suggests a possible link between the shamans of Mesoamerica and a race of alien explorers. In Tsubute, an ancient Japanese throwing weapon leads the team across the Pacific to the tiny Japanese island of Yonaguni, where a 9,000-year-old submerged monument holds the key to the island's incredible secret. In Triangle, the conclusion to the series, the NWIDI team gets themselves into really deep water. As a result of their incredible discoveries in Mexico and Japan, the NWIDI team has become an unofficial resource for certain government agencies. A call from "the highest levels" sends them back to Mexico to investigate the nature and origin of sunken megalithic structures 2,100 feet below the surface just off the western tip of Cuba. Visit www.SeedsOfCivilization.com to learn more about the series.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tom Cantwell

The Seminole and the Slave is Tom's first young adult novel. The year is 1835, and a young slave named Sam suffers constant abuse at the hands of a cruel master in Florida. Sam's only hope for escape lies with Osceola and the local Seminoles, proud Indians poised on the brink of war. Based on the epic true story of two cultures united in a desperate struggle for freedom, Sam's sweeping adventure offers one teenager's perspective on growing up in a time of war. The Seminole and the Slave is available at Tom's website: www.cantwellbooks.com.

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.

Donald Cauble

This Passing World tells the story of one man's journey to free himself from the prisons-within and without-of his own making. The time emerges from the depths of forgotten memories: everything rings with a universal chord, for we have all been prisoners of something once. How does one transcend? This Passing World suggests a way and leads us gently by relating the characters' experiences. For more information, visit http://www.seahorseseyes.com/

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.
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Karen Coates

Cambodia Now: Life in the Wake of War

This new book examines Cambodia in the aftermath of genocide and civil war. It is one of few publications to focus on life in Cambodia today. Each chapter investigates a different issue, covering health, democracy, development, women, children, psychology, environment, pollution, violence, relations with neighboring countries, the role of Angkor in modern society, Cambodian culture at a crossroads and prospects for the country's future.

Coates, a journalist based in Thailand, draws her research from print sources as well as hundreds of interviews with Cambodians from all walks of life. The book gives voice to farmers, royalty, beggars, teachers, monks, orphanage directors, politicians, NGO workers and Cambodia scholars. Dozens of exquisite photographs, taken by veteran photojournalist Jerry Redfern, illustrate the book. Cambodia Now also includes a glossary of Khmer words, people, places and names, as well as an appendix of organizations providing aid to Cambodia.

To see more work by Coates and Redfern, visit their website at: www.redcoates.net

Thank you! And samnang l'or.

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.

Marv 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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Paul Gerald

With 60 Hikes within 60 Miles: Portland as your guide, by Paul Gerald, you have dozens of places to hike to your heart's content, and all within an hour's drive or less. 60 Hikes within 60 Miles provides you with the information you need to choose the perfect day hike, including maps, directions, trail lengths, hiking times, and a wealth of detail about the trail itself.

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.

David Greenburg

A TUGGING STRING has just been released by Dutton Publishers! The book, which is historical fiction, was written for Middle-School readers. His other published books include THE GREAT SCHOOL LUNCH REBELLION, YOUR DOG MIGHT BE A WEREWOLF — YOUR TOES COULD ALL EXPLODE, BUGS!, SKUNKS!, WHATEVER HAPPENED TO HUMPTY DUMPTY?, SNAKES!, and THE BOOK OF BOYS FOR GIRLS — THE BOOK OF GIRLS FOR BOYS, DON'T FORGET YOUR ETIQUETTE, CROCS!

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.

Carolyn Harris

Carolyn Harris spends her winters touring New Zealand in her motorcaravan, and she's written a book about her adventures, RV in NZ: How To Spend Your Winters South-Way South in New Zealand. She'll show you step by step how to:
* Buy a motorcaravan
* Get the motorcaravan on the road
* Find free or low cost parking
* Meet and travel with New Zealand movaners

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

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.

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!"

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”.

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.

Claire Krulikowski

Claire's Grants For Writers, http://www.lulu.com/content/1270501, and Book Publishing Contracts: Be Prepared, http://www.lulu.com/content/1251095, offer information about getting grants and understandign book contracts.

Gabe Kubichek

TRUE TALES From Here and There is a collection of stories, some biographical, some autobiographical; all of them having been safely stored in the memory bank of the author for years. To place an order, search for True Tales From Here and There in your favorite on-line bookstore or visit www.anauthorsdream.com. ISBN: 0-9771091-7-8 978-0-9771091-7-3, $13.95.

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.

David D Levine

David's short story collection, Space Magic, has been published by Wheatland Press. There's a signed and numbered hardback edition available exclusively from Wrigley-Cross Books (http://www.wrigleycrossbooks.com/). In

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.

Mitch Luckett

To Kill a Common Loon is part murder mystery, part contemporary fantasy, part eco-fable, and all fun. Harp P. Gravey, a down-and-out sometime-banjo picker, just wants to fulfill a deathbed promise to a friend and scatter his ashes in the wilderness. He never bargained on shape-shifting dragons, Indian Princesses, hat-loving cougars, and a villain who will stop at nothing to steal his friend's land.

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

Ted Magnuson

Ted Magnuson's first novel, Moses Probe, is the story of Jac, an astronaut, and Cheryl, a cosmologist, who are the first to travel to Protos, the planet at the center of the Universe, a place of power and danger. ISBN 1594261229, Mundania Press, www.mundania.com. Also available in ebook format (html, ms reader, pdf file).

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

Lindy McClean

Lindy McClean's new activity book, Senior Smart Puzzles, is now available for sale through her website www.seniorsmartpuzzles.com or Amazon.com. It's a book of simple-to-solve picture puzzles, illustrated with vintage scenes.

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.

Marlene Moore

If you hate shopping, Marlene Moore's humorous book Hunting for Mr. Good Bargain will tell you how to enjoy shopping. If you are a collector this book gives tips on how to expand your search without leaving town. Hunting for Mr. Good Bargain is full of personal anecdotes that will put you at ease with your shopping woes, offer you a few laughs, and eliminate your embarrassment about that bargain that was not a bargain after all.

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.

Mike Nettleton & Carolyn Rose

The Hard Karma Shuffle is hit-the-floor-running entertainment from the first page to the last.the kind of fun you used to find only in the movies. It's Paladin vs. the bad guys -- including his loveable, cynical self!

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.

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.

Anna Richenda

Anna Richenda's The Saint and the Fasting Girl is a work of historical fiction with spec elements.
SISTER GEORGIA LIVES AT THE CENTER of a bustling Yorkshire nunnery at the eve of the English Reformation. Yet she is no ordinary nun. Georgia and her sisters follow the ways of the legendary Saint Isela, recording her signs and miracles and preparing for her return. But the archbishop of London , Philip SeVerde, a man rising in Henry VIII's royal court, cannot bear this 'wild' nunnery of the north. SeVerde demands that the nuns submit to his control and strict monastic rule. Georgia is persecuted and tortured, yet she refuses to back down. Read more at http://www.annarichenda.com

Thom Rock

Thom is the author of Silk Pajamas & Tombstone Eyes, a novel set in Vietnam.

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's first book, Images of America: WEST LINN, was released by Arcadia Publishing. The pictorial history book covers life in the Portland suburb from its 1840 start through today, and includes a chapter on the world famous Willamette Meteorite, discovered in West Linn in 1902. Visit the website www.ImagesOfAmericaWestLinn.com for more info.

L. J. Sellers

Jenna just wants to get pregnant. But the doctor at the fertility clinic takes one look at her and has other plans. Stealing one of Jenna's eggs is supposed to be a simple procedure that the "donor" will have no memory of. But from the beginning, things go terribly wrong. Soon Jenna's life is in danger, and no one even knows where she is.

Reviewers say Beyond Conception by LJ Sellers is an edge of your seat, pulse pounding, thrill ride, can't put down, page turner of a suspense novel.

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.

Al Siebert

When faced with adversity, tragedy, or just bad karma, what makes one person crumble, another survive, and another thrive? Al Siebert first became interested in this question when he discovered that World War II combat survivors were less like Sylvester Stallone in Rambo and more like Alan Alda playing Hawkeye, the irreverent M.A.S.H. surgeon. Years of subsequent research taught Seibert that those who survive (and thrive) often respond to challenge with humor, wisdom, and mental and emotional flexibility. He's gathered his research into his book, The Survivor Personality: Why Some People Are Stronger, Smarter, and More Skillful at Handling Life's Difficulties...and How You Can Be, Too .

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. David’s 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. David’s 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.

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.

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.

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 ABC’s "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 author’s 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.

Eowyn Wood

Award-winning Naked in the Rain tells the story of two teenage boys who run away with dreams of escaping their abusive homes and exploring the world. But reality hits as River and Brian wander the streets of Los Angeles: no money, no food, nowhere to go. Until they meet a stranger who brings them home to his mansion in the Hollywood Hills. The mansion is full of secrets, and the boys discover they are living in a high-class brothel. River and Brian fall in love with each other as they are lured into a world of drugs, power and prostitution. For more info or to order, visit www.eowynwood.com or www.crookedhills.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/.

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.