GREEN GECKO PUBLISHING - Author Bios and Index

Judi Calhoun

9/29/2015

Author Judi Calhoun

Judi Calhoun is the author of the YA novel Ancient Fire. Her short fiction stories have appeared in anthologies such as the popular Pulp Fiction, Love Free or Die in the Granite State, a horror anthology called Canopic Jars: Tales of Mummies and Mummification, Bugs, Tales that Slither, Creep and Crawl, Live Free or Ride in the Granite State and The Black Cat Anthology.

Judi enjoys writing literary fiction, Fantasy and Horror. She lives in the Great North Woods of New Hampshire with her husband and is currently working on a new YA novel, Dragon Girl.

As an Artist, Judi studied at Palomar College, in San Marcos, California, working with Children’s book illustrator, Michael Sternagle and learning portrait work under the tutelage of Hollywood portrait illustrator, Steven Miller. Judi was the winner of the Artist Innovation Award for 2009 by Art Works, NH and twice commissioned to create a cancelation stamp for the US Postal service. View her portfolio at http://judiartist2.wix.com/judisartwork.

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Katie Winkler

9/29/2015

Author Katie WInkler

Katie Winkler lives and works in the beautiful mountains of Western North Carolina with her husband John, daughter Hannah and their rescued cat Stormy. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous online and print publications, including Fabula Argentea, Punchnel’s, A&U, AIM and The St. Anthony Messenger. She is also a frequent contributor to the Hendersonville Times News as a feature writer and theater reviewer.

Samples of her work can be found by following the link and searching ‘Katie Winkler’: http://www.blueridgenow.com

Also a playwright, Winkler, is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, has had several one-act plays produced as well as her first full-length play, a musical called A Carolina Story. It was produced in the spring of 2012. See her page on the Guild’s website: http://www.dramatistsguild.com/memberdirectory/getmembership.aspx?cid=38223

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Lela Marie De La Garza

9/29/2015

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Lela Marie De La Garza has had work published in Behind Closed Doors, Pound of Flash, ChickLit, Daily Romance, Creepy Gnome, Passion Beyond Words, Black Denim and Mad March Hare. She was born in Denver, CO. in 1943 while her father was serving in WWII. She currently resides in San Antonio, TX. with three and a half cats, some stray kittens, and a visiting raccoon.

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Carolyn Roberts

9/29/2015

Author Carolyn Roberts

Carolyn Roberts lives in Scotland and works in mental health. Her work has previously appeared in Oh Comely Magazine, The Magazine, too anthologies published by the Scottish Book Trust and on BBC Radio Scotland. In 2013 she won a University of Glasgow narrative non-fiction contest.

URL: www.theshooglypeg.com

Twitter: @theshooglypeg

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Jack Hillman

9/29/2015

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Jack Hillman is a novelist, journalist, playwright and a medical underwriter. His fiction has been published in multiple magazines while his novel length work currently numbers three young adult fantasies. In addition, Jack has written and directed four mystery plays for local audiences in the Lehigh Valley. On the non-fiction side, Jack has served as a stringer on local newspapers, winning a Keystone Press Award for his investigative reporting. He has also worked on a wire service covering the insurance industry as well as serving as a contributing editor to a life underwriting journal for eleven years. He has worked in the insurance industry for over thirty years and has a wide medical background due to his position as a medical underwriter. In addition, Jack is an avid martial artist and a collector of edged weapons. Additional information is available at www.JackHillman.com.

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Pat Walker

9/29/2015

Author Pat Walker

Pat Walker’s short stories have been performed at the Kravis Center for the Arts in West Palm Beach, Florida and on National Public Radio’s Florida Arts View. Her work is included in Darker Times Anthology Volume One: edited by Jessica Grace Coleman, available in paperback on Amazon.

She has contributed to Turtle Tracks, Loxahatchee Sierra Club’s magazine, Mensa’s South Florida magazine, and presented a series of environmental education pieces in the Holy Name of Jesus Bulletin.

Pat and her husband Charlie enjoy frequent travel both in the US and other countries, and recently undertook a month long Tanzanian Safari. Stories and impressions of this trip can be found at http://tanzaniaxxootraveltalk.blogspot.com

Pat is a volunteer Sierra Club leader who loves sharing the Florida outdoors with others, especially children. Her home life is ruled by a dog and three cats.

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Ellen Denton

9/29/2015

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Ellen is a freelance writer living in the Rocky Mountains with her husband and two demonic cats who wreak havoc and hell on a regular basis (the cats, not the husband). She has had both fiction and non-fiction published in a variety of magazines and anthologies, and has taken honorable mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.

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Alison Graham Bertolini

9/29/2015

Author Alison Graham Bertonlini

Alison Graham Bertolini, author of Vigilante Women in Contemporary American Fiction, (Palgrave MacMillan 2011), is a one-time Yankee who now calls Baton Rouge, Louisiana home. When she is not writing about cats she writes about justice, ethnic literature, and contemporary women's issues. Visit her blog at http://www.vigilantewomen.com/ or connect with her on Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/alibertreads.

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JD Cano

9/29/2015

Author JD Cano

JD Cano currently resides in Texas with his son and dog. He has a tendency to order pizza four days a week. You can find him at https://www.facebook.com/JDCanoWrites, a site he does not update near frequently enough.

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Paul Dixon

8/25/2015

Paul Dixon began his professional career as an oceanographer, but he is currently a digital marketing technologist. All his life he has been nurturing his passion for the craft of writing. He currently strives to combine technology, writing and environmental science to find solutions for todays environmental issues with focus on the healing of the ocean. He hopes to write, to educate, to inform and, of course, to entertain. Paraphrasing Winston Churchill—if not the arts, then what are we fighting for?

He lives with his wife and daughter in his Seattle hometown and can usually be found at a coffee shop. But unless you’re willing to search through every coffee shop in the city, you can reach Paul at www.paul-dixon.com, say hi on Facebook (www.facebook.com/sunstealer) or send him a tweet @paul_a_dixon.

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