International Award Winning Author Wendy H. Jones lives in Scotland, and her police procedural series featuring DI Shona McKenzie are set.Wendy has led a varied and adventurous life. Her love for adventure led to her joining the Royal Navy to undertake nurse training. After six years in the Navy she joined the Army where she served as an Officer for a further 17 years. Killer's Countdown was her first novel and the first book in the Shona McKenzie Mysteries. Killer's Crew won the Books Go Social Book of the Year 2017. The seventh book in the series. Killer's Curse will be released early august 2020. The Dagger's Curse, the first book in The Fergus and Flora Mysteries, was a finalist in the Woman Alive Magazine Readers Choice Award Book of the Year. Turning to humorous crime the Cass Claymore Investigates series was born. She is also a highly successful marketer and is currently in the process of rereleasing her completely updated marketing book Marketing Matters. This will be part of the Writing Matters Series following the release of Motivation Matters. She is also the author of the Bertie the Buffalo picture book and associated soft toy and colouring book. Wendy is delighted to be one of the authors in two anthologies aimed at empowering women - The Power of Why, and Women Win Against All Odds. She is proud to be the President of the Scottish Association of Writers and is the host of The Writing and Marketing Show podcast, a writing and marketing coach. and CEO of Writing Matters online writing school, Authorpreneur Accelerator Academy.

Susan O'Reilly was born in Dublin, Ireland. Susan started writing late in life. Susan still lives in Dublin with her husband.

Alicia lives in upstate New York and wouldn't have it any other way. She gets through the long winters with her coffee close and her laptop closer. She's an avid reader and enjoys writing “high stakes” romance. It's been a genre journey that began with her FAIRY TALE series (Amazon/Fantasy) and has progressed through Horror/Dystopian, Teen Fiction, and Mystery/Thriller (among others), most of which are available for free on Wattpad (@Fairytale_Fabler).

Her stories are known for dark themes, lots of steam, strong characterization, and unapologetic rule-breaking. Since she loves movies as well and always keeps the “camera” in mind, her dream is to have James McAvoy play Law in the movie version of her ongoing book, THE FALLOW, or Taylor Kitsch agree to the role of Christopher in FAIRY TALE: WINTER'S BITE. But she would happily settle for Lily Collins and Dylan O'Brien in SONGS OF THE SEASON (because that would be adorable).

Alexander Nderitu is one of the most popular writers in the Commonwealth region.

Some of his works have been translated into Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Kiswahili, French, Swedish, Dholuo, Gikũyũ, and Czech. In a career now spanning twenty years, he has authored several critically acclaimed books, including 'Kiss, Commander, promise' and 'The Moon is Made of Green Cheese.' He is also a playwright and theatre critic. His stage plays include 'Hannah and the Angel' and 'The Talking of Trees'. In 2007, he co-won a Theatre Company prize for his comedy 'Hannah and the Angel'. In 2017, Business Daily newspaper named him one of Kenya’s ‘Top 40 Under 40 Men’. In 2020, he was a finalist for the Collins Elesiro Literature Prize. In 2019, the script for 'Hannah and the Angel' was a finalist in the ASSITEJ SA Playwriting Contest. In 2021, an excerpt from the manuscript of 'The Talking of Trees' – titled 'Freedom Corner' – took 2nd place in the IHRAF African Human Rights Playwriting Prize. In 2022, his short story, 'The Hummingbird', took 3rd place in the Share Africa Climate Change Fiction Awards.

Nderitu has written numerous papers on African literature and theatre. He is the Deputy Secretary-General of Kenyan PEN and a Regional Managing Editor for TheTheatreTimes.com.

Official website: www.AlexanderNderitu.com

Born in Yorkshire but now living in Cardiff, I have been writing for nearly forty years. Initially a large majority of my work was writing non-fiction for magazines, newspapers, educational booklets and an award winning website.

Since then I have published Dear Friends: Letters from Abroad - a Silver Award-Winning historical novel, a Mystery Short Story Book and the Children's 'Little Friends Picture Short Story Book Series' amongst other genres. The Little Friends Series consist of 3 Sets of 6 books under the Set titles of Woodland Adventures, Garden Adventures and Farmyard Adventures. Each picture story book is full of colour illustrations which will delight all readers. I have also won Awards for Poetry

Being a Writers Mentor I am known as The Fairy Godmother for Aspiring Writers. This work is carried out through Mentoring Writers where I mentor, encourage, assist, and guide writers into the world of creative writing. For the younger writers this is carried out through the Kids-4-Kids organisation. I work with new, developing and even established writers across the world.

Recently I re-opened my publishing business Pen & Ink Designs Publishing.

If you are an aspiring writer or just need help with your work, then check out these websites for more information:

www.ann-brady.co.uk, - www.kids4kids.org.uk, - www.mentoringwriters.co.uk

or contact me at contact@mentoringwriters.co.uk

D.J. Doyle is the author of multiple horror novels and short stories from extreme horror to comedy horror.

She was raised by pot-smoking hippies and spent her days worshipping pagan deities in the HellFire Club, and her nights watching horror movies. She now lives with her family in a treehouse, preying on unsuspecting travellers, and where she likes nothing better than coming up with ideas for new stories and plotting her next novel. Some of this might have been made up. To learn more about D.J. Doyle, her website can be found at http://djdoyleauthor.com and her official facebook author page is https://www.facebook.com/DJDoyleAuthor/

Dan Pullen was born in Naugatuck, CT and lived there until he settled in western CT with his wife and three kids. Always a story-teller, Dan wrote his first book in 2015. Prior to that, most of his stories were told around campfires, kitchen tables, or in the breakroom at work. It only took the constant nagging of family and friends for him to commit fingers to keyboard and get his stories to the masses.

When not writing about nerd-love, death, or miracles, Dan enjoys spending time with his three sons and playing his guitar.

Oznonymous is the Contemporary fiction and sci-fi arm of The Gargoyle Chronicles - www.thegargoylechronicles.com.au - written in conjunction with best selling historical fiction /historical humour/ historical romance author D J Meyers. Based in Australia, these tales are researched throughout the world and set where the stories fester.

If you enjoy literary fiction with a dab of derring-doo, a splash pf suspense, and at its heart everyday humour, seek out Oznonymous and D J Meyers in paperback, hard cover, and on eBooks. With books sold across four continents and hitting the top 30 best sellers in the past few years there is a story for everyone, and every one in these stories of ordinary folk in extraordinary times.

Soleil Daniels is a writer from the Central Florida area. She enjoys creating new worlds with her imagination and bringing them to life. All while hoping to share them with those who enjoy reading, giving them an outlet from their everyday lives.

Sebnem Erisen Sanders is a native of Istanbul, Turkey. Currently she lives on the eastern shores of the Southern Aegean where she dreams and writes Flash Fiction and Flash Poesy, as well as longer works of fiction. Her flash stories have been published on the Harper Collins Authonomy Blog, The Drabble, Sick Lit Magazine, Twisted Sister Lit Mag, Spelk Fiction, The Bosphorus Review of Books, Three Drops from the Cauldron, The Rye Whiskey Review, and the CarpeArte Journal.

She has a completed manuscript, The Child of Heaven and two works in progress, The Child of Passion and The Lost Child. Her debut collection of short and flash fiction stories, Ripples on the Pond, was published in December 2107. More information can be found at her website where she publishes some of her work:

https://sebnemsanders.wordpress.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sebnemsanders

Author's Note:

I would like to share something with the Kindle customers of Ripples on the Pond. All revenues from the Kindle sales will go to a Turkish charity I believe in : The Association for Supporting Contemporary Life (Çağdaş Yaşamı Destekleme Derneği – CYDD), a non-governmental organization which was founded in 1989 to ensure equal opportunities in education for women, young people and children.

https://europa.eu/youth/volunteering/organisation/940150191_en

So if you'd like to contribute to a good cause, here's an opportunity, while enjoying these brief glimpses into life, lunchtime stories, or bite size stories.