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Linda Apple
R. H. Burkett
R. H. Burkett
Award-winning author and motivational speaker Linda Apple writes inspirational nonfiction, women’s fiction, and books for children featuring her Scottish Terrier, Winston. Linda has provided workshops on writing across the US and abroad.
Her book was on the shortlist for the Benjamin Franklin Award. Public schools have used her Winston ch
Award-winning author and motivational speaker Linda Apple writes inspirational nonfiction, women’s fiction, and books for children featuring her Scottish Terrier, Winston. Linda has provided workshops on writing across the US and abroad.
Her book was on the shortlist for the Benjamin Franklin Award. Public schools have used her Winston chapter book series, which features Social and Emotional Learning, for their One-Book program. Winston also has a newsletter for children. Look for his latest book, ARF! Arfsome Real-life Fables in 2024.
Linda received the 2023 Arkansas Writers Hall of Fame Award, given annually to an Arkansas author of note.
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R. H. Burkett
R. H. Burkett
R. H. Burkett
R.H. Burkett, aka Ruth Weeks, is an international tarot card reader who draws from her deep Cherokee and Cajun roots to write riveting tales of the paranormal. From her travels to ancient stone circles in rural Ireland to her explorations in the French Quarters of New Orleans, she tells stories that encompass her love of all things mystic
R.H. Burkett, aka Ruth Weeks, is an international tarot card reader who draws from her deep Cherokee and Cajun roots to write riveting tales of the paranormal. From her travels to ancient stone circles in rural Ireland to her explorations in the French Quarters of New Orleans, she tells stories that encompass her love of all things mystical.
Broom Flyers Tales and Spells, is a compilation of her short stories, one of which was nominated for a 2023 Spur Award (Western Writers of America). In addition, the cover won the best book cover 2022 (Between the Pages Award). Her first novel, Soldiers in the Mist, was voted Ozark Writers League (OWL) 2012 Best Book of the Year. Her second novel, Daughter of the Howling Moon, was the Oklahoma Writers Federation (OWFI) 2015 Book of the Year.
Follow her author’s Facebook page, where you can watch videos of the author talking about her travels and how she gets inspiration from her travels, her heritage, and the people she meets, both from this world and the next.
Connect with RH Burkett www.RHBurkett.com
Genie Burton
R. H. Burkett
Schyrlet Cameron & Cathy Brown
Genie Burton was born near Spokane, WA. Her father was in the Air Force, so she has lived in states from Maine to California and the Panama Canal Zone. She has a B.S. in Education from Millersville State College in Millersville, PA, and taught Math for three years in Union, Missouri.
She is retired from a career in Project Management and
Genie Burton was born near Spokane, WA. Her father was in the Air Force, so she has lived in states from Maine to California and the Panama Canal Zone. She has a B.S. in Education from Millersville State College in Millersville, PA, and taught Math for three years in Union, Missouri.
She is retired from a career in Project Management and lives with her husband in Burlington, WI. She is new to writing and illustrating, and now that she is retired, she decided to write the book she wishes she could have shared with her daughter when she was young. She and her daughter used to love to explore the illustrations in picture books and create their own stories from the objects or characters in the pictures. Those “Up to You Stories” they created are now lost to time. That encouraged her to write this book for parents, friends, grandparents, or anyone who wants to create, share, and collect keepsake memories with the special child or children in their lives.
Schyrlet Cameron & Cathy Brown
Schyrlet Cameron & Cathy Brown
Schyrlet Cameron & Cathy Brown
Schyrlet Cameron and Kathy Brown are sisters. Growing up in the Ozarks, much of their time was spent on their grandparents’ farm, where their grandmother always kept them entertained... tending the garden, feeding the chickens, milking the cows, and listening to late-night tales of life in Possum Hollow. These memories are the inspiration
Schyrlet Cameron and Kathy Brown are sisters. Growing up in the Ozarks, much of their time was spent on their grandparents’ farm, where their grandmother always kept them entertained... tending the garden, feeding the chickens, milking the cows, and listening to late-night tales of life in Possum Hollow. These memories are the inspiration for their writing.
The sisters have co-authored five cookbooks, four adult fiction books, and one children’s book.
Schyrlet Cameron has thirty-four years of experience as an elementary and middle school teacher. She has authored or co-authored over 75 teacher resource books.
Kathy Brown is a licensed preschool educator. She has forty years of experience in early childhood education and presently owns and operates a daycare center in southwest Missouri. Kathy has co-presented workshops on a variety of topics, including “How to Get Published.
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Tessa Dysart
Schyrlet Cameron & Cathy Brown
Sherry Roberts
Tessa Dysart is the Assistant Director of Legal Writing and a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E Rogers College of Law. She is a national expert on appellate advocacy issues and the co-author of the third edition of Winning on Appeal: Better Briefs and Oral Arguments. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal o
Tessa Dysart is the Assistant Director of Legal Writing and a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Arizona James E Rogers College of Law. She is a national expert on appellate advocacy issues and the co-author of the third edition of Winning on Appeal: Better Briefs and Oral Arguments. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Appellate Practice and Process. Professor Dysart is a graduate of Harvard Law School. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband, two young children, and two cats.
Sherry Roberts
Schyrlet Cameron & Cathy Brown
Sherry Roberts
Sherry Roberts holds a Doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Louisville. She has taught middle school through college in her 37 years of teaching. She has conducted technology camps, workshops for K-12 students, and teacher educational technology training.
She began creating stories with her nephew and nieces. This
Sherry Roberts holds a Doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Louisville. She has taught middle school through college in her 37 years of teaching. She has conducted technology camps, workshops for K-12 students, and teacher educational technology training.
She began creating stories with her nephew and nieces. This grew to writing children's stories for others to read. Her love of dogs, particularly basset hounds and rescue dogs, led to her debut picture book, Twas the Night Before Christmas…A First for Gus (Young Dragon Press 2021) about a shelter pup named Gus. This debut book has won multiple awards, including the 2022 Readers’ Favorite International Book Award – Silver, Children’s.
In 2023 she published three picture books. Hello, Can I Bug You?, What's Wrong with Barnaby?, and The Best Reading Buddy. All three books have won awards this year.
This award-winning author has completed her debut middle-grade book (February 2024), The Galaxy According to CeCe. This is part of a three-book middle-grade series. This series began as a nod to her life of moving around and the one truly unusual home her family once lived in. This is also a STEM-related book with the inclusion of astronomy as a background of CeCe's family. Book two, The Galaxy According to Cece: The Mysterious Dr. Pruitt, arrives on bookshelves in November 2024. Book three will be out in 2025.
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Kelly Reddin
Thomasina Tissue
Richard Snelson
K elly Reddin is an accomplished Education Consultant focused on increasing the successful experience of students and teachers in the areas of STEAM and STEM. She has a proven track record of creating solutions for small schools to large districts. Known for excellent communication skills, education, and outstanding business acumen, she p
K elly Reddin is an accomplished Education Consultant focused on increasing the successful experience of students and teachers in the areas of STEAM and STEM. She has a proven track record of creating solutions for small schools to large districts. Known for excellent communication skills, education, and outstanding business acumen, she provides high-quality professional development and consulting. Ultimately, she is passionate about developing teachers to enable student success and consistently exceeds customer expectations in delivering training programs.
Kelly’s areas of expertise include Curriculum Design, Staff Development, Instructional Technology, Educational Leadership, E-Learning, Teaching, Public Speaking, and Coaching.
Kelly was a Global Master Trainer and Solutions Engineer with LEGO Education for over twenty-one years. She planned and authored the curriculum, created the materials and teacher’s guides, developed video scripts, and facilitated hundreds of presale workshops to promote professional development for LEGO Education products in the United States.
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Richard Snelson
Thomasina Tissue
Richard Snelson
RIchard Snelson is a Missouri author and historian. He enjoys fictionalizing his family's past and working on his next novel. A long time member of the Missouri Writer's Guild he spends time traveling the Ozarks and learning about the rich history of that area.
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Thomasina Tissue
Thomasina Tissue
Thomasina Tissue
Thomasina Tissue grew up in Setauket, Long Island. Captured in her heart at a young age, her stories are woven from a tapestry of a time spent long ago in the salty ocean air, walking along beaches, laughing with friends, and mixing her own wild imagination with regular and not-so-regular things that happened to her. And there her stori
Thomasina Tissue grew up in Setauket, Long Island. Captured in her heart at a young age, her stories are woven from a tapestry of a time spent long ago in the salty ocean air, walking along beaches, laughing with friends, and mixing her own wild imagination with regular and not-so-regular things that happened to her. And there her stories bided their time, for over forty years. After leaving Long Island, she grew up, married, and became a teacher of reading and writing, all the while continuing to feel the longing to write her own stories.
When she retired from teaching, her husband asked her if she would like a special gift. She fluttered her eyelashes at him and said, “I’d love a laptop.” Thinking this was a slightly strange request, he asked, “Whatever for?” She responded, “I have stories in me that need to come out!” Three months later, she completed the first draft of Water’s Edge, her first middle-grade fiction work. Water’s Edge was inspired by the original Setalcott people of the Setauket area. Her second middle-grade fiction work, Boy Patriot, received a Kid’s Choice Kid’s Literature Writing Contest Honorable Mention for 2023. Look for Boy Patriot coming in 2025.
Thomasina is a proud member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators and the Long Island Authors Group. Besides writing, Thomasina’s favorite things to do are yoga, travel the world when she can afford it, pretend she is fluent in Spanish and love on her sweet daughter Emma, and husband, Dan, and not all in that order.
As always, Thomasina loves to hear from her reader’s! You can connect and catch up with all things Thomasina at www.thomasinatissue.com.
Clarissa Willis
Dawn Renee Young
Thomasina Tissue
Clarissa Willis has been involved in early childhood education for more than four decades. She has extensive experience in public schools, early intervention, curriculum development, and teacher training.
She earned a doctorate in Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Southern Mississippi.
She brings a unique perspective
Clarissa Willis has been involved in early childhood education for more than four decades. She has extensive experience in public schools, early intervention, curriculum development, and teacher training.
She earned a doctorate in Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Southern Mississippi.
She brings a unique perspective on early childhood development and special education issues as an author, trainer, teacher, special educator, grant administrator, and author.
She is the author of two children's books. Fast As the Wind: The Story of Johnny Fry Pony Express Rider won the Will Rogers Medallion Award for Best Western Children's Book in 2022. Anderson the Ornithologist tells the story of a young boy with autism who makes his first friend.
Dr. Willis's latest book, "Fill Your Backpack with Evidence-Based Behavior Strategies," is now available.
To connect with Clarissa, please visit https://clarissawillis.com/ or email her at clarissa@clarissawillis.com.
Dawn Renee Young
Dawn Renee Young
Dawn Renee Young
Dawn Renee Young holds an ED.S degree in Education. Her first career was spent as an elementary teacher, principal, TEAM Evaluator, and reading specialist. She has worked with children ages Pre-k-12th grade.
Currently, she is a full-time children’s author. Her debut picture book was The ABCs of Making Good Choices. She has written seven b
Dawn Renee Young holds an ED.S degree in Education. Her first career was spent as an elementary teacher, principal, TEAM Evaluator, and reading specialist. She has worked with children ages Pre-k-12th grade.
Currently, she is a full-time children’s author. Her debut picture book was The ABCs of Making Good Choices. She has written seven books in the Mrs. Good Choice Series. Her books include Little Cub's Big List: Fun with Sight Words and Tap-Tap-Tap. Liam's Big Surprise will be published in early 2024. She loves making school visits and attending child-focused events. Dawn lives with her husband near Nashville, TN.
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