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Larry Brooks - "Whisper of the Seventh Thunder" - www.whisperofthesevenththunder.com

Larry Brooks

Larry Brooks is the author of four critically-acclaimed thrillers, and the guy behind www.storyfix.com, one of the fastest-growing and most respected writing sites on the internet.

Brooks’ resume reads like a Cheesecake Factory menu, an analogy that honors his favorite restaurant. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon in 1952, he graduated with a degree in marketing communications from Portland State University in 1975, where he attended in the off-season during an unremarkable five-year career as a professional baseball player (he pitched in the Texas Rangers organization).

This led to his first published writing: a magazine article on the life of a minor league pitcher. Still not keen on a writing career – he had his eye on the money back then, like most of the newly graduated– his first lives in a business suit had more than a few more swings and misses. He likes to say he was history’s worst stockbroker for the world’s largest brokerage firm, then the world’s worst personnel manager in a major department store (remember what Dirty Harry said about Personnel managers?), in addition to a couple of other humbling career fliers he chooses to forget. Each abandoned career resulted in another published magazine piece lampooning the experience, and his interest in writing began to emerge as his best – and perhaps last – viable career option.

In 1983 he answered an ad for a “script writer” at a small audio-visual production company – eight "arteests" and a slide projector. Cut to 1996, when the company was one of the largest marketing and training firms in the western U.S., and Brooks was the executive creative director and a partner, with some 120 employees and a portfolio with more corporate videos, brochures, websites and other useless stuff than Harlequin has romances. He and his partners sold the business in 1999, at which point Brooks took the money and ran toward the career he’d been quietly cultivating on the side for the prior two decades – writing novels and screenplays.

His first published novel, DARKNESS BOUND, was based on one of his original screenplays, featuring – here’s a surprise – a stockbroker who hates stockbrokering. It debuted in October 2000, spending three weeks on the USA Today best-seller list. His second novel, PRESSURE POINTS – an ad exec who hates the ad business – appeared to solid reviews in December 2001, with comparable sales. His third novel, SERPENT’S DANCE, was a February 2003 release from Signet paperbacks, and was also well reviewed despite selling like parkas in Pakistan. And his fourth, July 2004’s BAIT AND SWITCH , earned a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly, who also named it their lead Editor’s Choice for that month, and at year end to two of their lists: Best Overlooked Books of 2004 (the only paperback so named; perhaps, says Larry, a dubious honor) and Best Books of 2004 (lead entry, mass market).

His book on writing – Story Engineering: Understanding the Six Core Competencies of Successful Writing – will be published by Writers Digest Books in February 2011. That book leverages the growing audience for his writing-skills website (www.storyfix.com), which explores a fresh and rhetoric-free perspective on writing fiction from a carefully articulated model and plan, rather than the seat-of-the-pants creative chaos so many writers employ.

Screenplays for all his books are in various stages of development. In late 2002, Brooks’ script for the adaptation of DARKNESS BOUND was named a finalist in the prestigious Don and Gee Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting, sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the folks who bring you the Oscars. It was one of ten scripts selected out of 6044 submissions, which he hopes you find impressive, especially since he didn’t end up winning one of the five Fellowships. He got the t-shirt anyway.

Brooks has been developing and teaching writing workshops since the mid-1980s. He has been named a Mentor by the Oregon Writer’s Colony (www.oregonwriterscolony.org), and teaches at writing workshops around the country.
Brooks is very happily married to his wife of nearly fifteen years, Laura, an artist and interior designer, who wants you to know she “is not the Dark Lady” (the villainess from his first novel), though central casting might disagree. He also has a wonderful son, Nelson, who is 19 and a sophomore at USC; three supportive step-children, Tracy, Scott and Kelly; and seven step-grandchildren who have no clue what “Poppy” does for a living. Nor says Larry, do they give a rip, as long as he keeps tossing them around at family gatherings.

Larry and Laura divide their time between homes in Portland and Scottsdale. He is at work on a new novel, as well as his writing book and the continued growth of his website.

Feel free to contact Larry at storyfixer@gmail.com, or through Sons of Liberty Publishing.

David Daniel - "Coffin Dust"

David Daniel

David Daniel was born in Boston and grew up in Weymouth, on the south shore. His novel The Heaven Stone (1994), winner of the St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Private Eye Novel contest and a Shamus Award nominee, introduced private investigator Alex Rasmussen, who has also appeared in The Skelly Man (1995) Goofy Foot (2004) and The Marble Kite (2005), all published by St. Martin’s.

In addition to nine novels, including Ark (1985) Murder at the Baseball Hall of Fame (‘96) and The Tuesday Man (‘91), Daniel has published more than 80 short stories (some of which are collected in Six Off 66 and Coffin Dust) and is co-author of a college English text, Take Charge of Your Writing (Houghton Mifflin 2001). He has written 300 articles, book and music reviews. He has worked as a janitor, a carpenter, a tennis instructor, truck driver, and a "brain slicer" at Harvard Medical School. He teaches at Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School and is an adjunct professor at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, where he has served as the Jack Kerouac Visiting Writer in Residence.

Daniel lives in Westford, MA with his family. He served as a consultant to Walter Salles's forthcoming documentary on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. Dennis McNally, official historian of the Grateful Dead, declared Daniel’s suspense novel White Rabbit (2004) one of the best "Sixties’ trips" he’s taken. Reunion, is his most recent novel. Coffin Dust, a collection of stories, will be published in May 2010 by Sons of Liberty Publishing.

Visit David's website at: www.daviddanielbooks.com

Lloyd L. Corricelli - "Two Redheads & A Dead Blonde" & "Chasing Curves" www.ronanmarinomysteries.com

Lloyd L. Corricelli

Lloyd is a native of Tewksbury, MA. He is a 1987 graduate of the University of Lowell with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice. He served eight years on active duty in the United States Air Force as a "SAC Trained Killer" with the Security Police and Special Agent with the Office of Special Investigations. He rose to the rank of Captain before separating as part of the Cold War “peace dividend.”

After leaving the Air Force active duty ranks, he worked in the film and television industry in Orlando, FL and toiled at Walt Disney World in a variety of positions. Lloyd currently resides in Southern New Hampshire with his wife Michelle, their two children and their spoiled terriers, Ginger and Boomer.

Lloyd can be emailed at: roninent1@yahoo.com

Visit the Ronan Marino website: www.ronanmarinomysteries.com

  You can read his blog here "Random Thoughts of a Busy Mind" - click here

Eugene Sockut - "Thunder from Rain"

Eugene Socket

Eugene Sockut is a former dentist from Connecticut, active in protecting Second Amendment rights. A former Captain in the United States Army, Eugene later moved to Israel and was assigned to the paratroopers in the Israeli Army in the rank of Major. There he served as the Chief of Marksmanship and Snipers; writing training manuals and implementing his original methods in the field. He is most proud of training a brigade of Israeli paratroopers single handedly during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 when M-16 rifles were emergency airlifted from the US in support of the Israeli Defense Force.

Mr. Sockut is a screenwriter, lecturer, newspaper columnist and author of the non-fiction book “Secrets of Street Survival: Israeli Style.” He now resides in the Judean Hills outside Jerusalem, Israel with his wife, three children and ten grandchildren.