List of Fiction Clients (in
alphabetical order)
Note: links to books show some of the books that the Agency has
sold on behalf of the client.
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list)
Winner of the Gayle WIlson Award of Excellence
and triple RITA award nominee, Tamera Alexander
has led women's ministries and enjoys facilitating
small groups and Bible studies, as well as mentoring other women. Tamera
earned a business degree from Harding University and now lives with her husband
in Tennessee, where they enjoy life with their two college-age children and
another important member of their family-a seven-pound Silky named Jack.
Nikki Arana is the author of the The Winds
of Sonoma (Baker Books).
It was chosen as one of the top twenty best books of 2005 by Christianbook.com
and named winner of the Beacon award. She is under contract for more multi-cultural
books.
Author of A Taste of Darkness (Leisure) , Night Bites (Dorchester); and Wicked Nights (Berkley)
Nina Bangs, the USA Today bestselling author,
is known for her "witty, charming, sexy" tales. Before settling
down to a teaching career, she dabbled in a variety of jobs ranging from
working with Arabian horses to singing in Irish pubs.
Angela is the author of over a dozen books including The Amen Sisters (Walk Worthy Press/Warner 2005) which hit #10 on the Essence Bestseller list, Awakening Mercy (Tyndale) Rita finalist and a Christy finalist and Abiding Hope winner of the EMMA Award for Excellence in African-American Christian romance. Angela received two Masters degrees (Spelman College and Georgia Tech), worked 15 years in the telecommunications industry, and recently completed a doctorate in instructional technology at the University of Georgia. She currently works as an assistant professor at a major research institution while also working on her next book under contract.
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Margaret started her career writing inspirational nonfiction and has published more than four hundred articles in such national magazines as Working Mother, Modern Bride, Westways, Instructor, and McCalls. In addition to her nonfiction experience, Margaret is also the author of 22 novels written for Penguin, St. Martin’s Press, Harlequin, and Time Warner. Her books have appeared on Waldenbooks, B. Dalton, and Ingram’s bestseller lists. Her work appeared in an anthology that made the USA Today bestseller list and was picked up by Doubleday Book Club.
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Nina Bruhns joined the agency in 2007. Her successful writing career includes the following awards: National Readers' Choice Award, the Daphne du Maurier Award (twice), the Dorothy Parker Award (five times), the Golden Chalice Award, the Beacon Award, the Colorado Award of Excellence, the Lories, the Write Touch Readers Award. She lives in South Carolina.
After earning a degree in music, Diana sang professional opera, debuting with the Denver Symphony. Diana states that: "Those wonderful stories of passion started me down the road to creative writing. For each of my operatic roles, I imagined my own backstories to motivate my character's actions. My Diana Groe books are grand opera--all angst and high drama. The Emily Bryan tales are like Gilbert & Sullivan--with sex! Travel and history are two of my passions. When my husband took business trips to Europe, I tagged along to play tourist. Other cultures fascinate me and I love to learn how other people view the world."
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Former ER nurse Candace Calvert gives readers a chance to “scrub in” on the exciting world of emergency medicine. Her new Mercy Hospital Series for Tyndale House offers charismatic characters, pulse-pounding action, tender romance, humor, suspense--and an encouraging prescription for hope. Think “Grey's Anatomy finds its soul.” Critical Care, June 2009.
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Candy Calvert is a registered nurse who blames her quirky sense of humor on "survival tactics learned in the trenches of ER. She believes that this allows her to write with "my unique blend of story material evolved--shipboard comedy mixed with mystery, and always with a rich dollop of romance and a happy ending. Because I've learned that what we all need--what is the best medicine of all-- is to be loved, and to laugh deeply enough to free the joy in our souls."
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Author of Hard Evidence (Berkley Sensation) , Unlawful Contact (Berkley Sensation), and Carnal Gift (Leisure).
Best-selling writer of historical romance and contemporary romantic suspense. Pamela Clare is also an award winning reporter, an anthropologist, college professor and a woman of many accomplishments aside from her extraordinary writing gift. Pamela draws on her experiences with death threats and high-risk situations as a journalist in her suspense novels as her writing career moves rapidly upward to lead author status.
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Debra lives in the small Texas town of Madisonville with her dog Bogie, a wrinkled Chinese Shar-Pei. When Debra isn't writing on her next book she loves to renovate houses and take long or short road trips—as long as she's doing the driving. Debra's readers have described her books as refreshingly funny, a breath of fresh air, reflective, entertaining, exciting, and the list goes on. Debra praises God for giving her the ability to weave a story, a talent she has dedicated back to Him.
Mary says this about her writing ..." I have all these things, I want to say, in my head; the perfect zinger to the rude cashier, which you think of an hour after you've left the store, the perfect bit of wisdom when someone needs help, which doesn't occur to you until they solve their problems themselves, the perfect guilt trip for the kids, which you don't say because you're not an idiot. I keep all this wit to myself, much to the relief of all who know me, and then I write all my great ideas into books. It's therapeutic if nothing else, and more affordable than a psychiatrist."
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Nadine Dajani is an author of multicultural women's fiction. Her first novel Fashionably Late with an Arab heroine set in Montreal and Cuba was published in 2007 by TOR Books.
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Zuri day is a hopeful romantic. She believes in happy endings, half-full glasses and dreams coming true. Zuri doesn't remember exactly how old she was when she picked up her first romance novel, but she does remember it was love at first sight. "It took me away from a fairly dull and routine existence growing up in a small Kassas town"
Things aren't dull and routine anymore. Zuri now resides in Los Angeles with her family and when she isn't writing loves to travel the world, cook vegetarian food, work out, watch sports, attend concerts and theatre and enjoy the simple things of life.
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Leanna Ellis has written a wonderful, wacky, heartfelt novel titled Elvis Takes A Back Seat. Winner of the Readers Choice Award and Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart Award. A former teacher, she now homeschools her own children. With her husband, two children and wide assortment of pets, she makes her home in Texas.
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Author of The Long Mile; and Precious Cargo
Clyde Ford, a noted mythologist, graduated from Wesleyan University, and is the author of several works of nonfiction, including The Hero with an African Face (Bantam). Clyde has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss his books. He currently lives north of Seattle, Washington. He is an avid seafarer.
Clyde won the 2006 IPPY Award for Best Mystery, The Long Mile .
"Clyde Ford knows a great deal about crime
and the human spirit, and he writes about them beautifully."
--Robert B. Parker, NY Times best selling author
Cathy Gohlke's first novel, William Henry Is a Fine Name, won the Christy Award. Her second novel, I Have Seen Him in the Watchfires, won the Christy Award, the American Christian Fiction Writer's Book of the Year Award, and was listed by Library Journal as one of their picks for Best of 2008. Cathy has worked as a school librarian, drama director for adults and young people, and as a director of children's and education ministries. Cathy lives with her husband on the banks of the Laurel Run in Maryland.
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Author of the Texas Tender (Leisure); A Texan's Honor (Leisure); and The Cowboys series of novels.
Leigh Greenwood is the author of over thirty novels. His book, The Independent Bride, was a USA Today Best-seller in 2005. He is a former president of Romance Writers of America. He is the proud parent of three children. He lives in North Carolina. He writes historical and contemporary romance.
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Author of The Perfect Life, Wagered
Heart,
A Vote of Confidence
Robin Lee Hatcher is the author of more than fifty novels, historical and
contemporary, and a past president of Romance Writers of America. Robin won the
RWA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. She has received the Christy
Award for
Romance Fiction, and is a three time winner of the Romance Writers of America's
RITA Award. She has also won the Heart of Romance Reader's Choice Award, and
two Career Achievement Awards from Romantic Times.
Nancy Herriman's story The Irish Healer placed second for Historical Fiction in the ACFW 2009 Genesis contest. She has been a finalist in other contests and won the 2006 RWA Daphne du Maurier award for Best Unpublished Mystery/Romantic Suspense. Nancy lives in the Midwest with her husband and two teenaged children, and is very active in the music ministry of her church.
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Diana Holquist, whose first novel Make Me A Match received rave reviews including a starred review in Booklist. Her most recent books are Hungry for More, and How To Tame a Modern Rogue.
When she's not writing, reading about writing, thinking about writing, or talking about writing, Samantha Hunter enjoys spending time with family and friends ... walking with her dogs and her husband (usually picking his brain on plots and character development, or talking about books they are reading at the time), learning to quilt, working in the unruly gardens that surround her house, and reading. Samantha lives in Syracuse NY. Her recent novel Untouched , was a 2008 RITA finalist in the Series: Suspense and Adventure category
Myra Johnson's roots go deep into Texas soil, but she's proud to be a new Oklahoman. Empty-nesters now, she and her husband share their home in Broken Arrow with two loveable dogs and a snobby parakeet. Her debut nove., One Imperfect Christmans, is a September 2009 release from Abingdon Press.
Myra writes full-time and is active in her church as well as local and national writers' groups.
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Sherry Jones is a journalist and the author of the acclaimed novel about A'isha the wife of Muhammad: The J ewel of Medina.
Sherry states that — "Writing isn't all I do. I'm a gourmet cook, a classical pianist (or at least I try to be), mother of a terrific teenage daughter, and a student of languages. I believe in human rights, peaceful solutions to conflict, protection of the environment, freedom of speech, and a spirituality whose only tenet is that God is love. And, after all the turmoil surrounding my book in 2008, I'm an impassioned believer in the power of the written word. I hope to use this power, as the old saying goes, for good and not evil."
Glynna Kaye treasures memories of growing up in small Midwestern Towns - Missouri, Iowa, Illinois - and vacations spent in another small community with the Texan side of the family. She traces her love of storytelling to the many times a houseful of great aunts and uncles gathered with her grandma to share hours of what they called "windjammers" — candid, heartwarming, poignant and often humorous tales of their youth. A graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, Glynna now lives in Arizona. When she is not writing, she enjoys gardening, reading, photography, and exploring he great outdoors.
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Harry Kraus is a surgeon, living in Virginia, as well as a fiction and nonfiction author. He is currently back in the USA on furlough from his mission hospital in East Africa. In Africa he lived in Kijabe, Kenya with his family, having volunteered for four years to work in ameliorating medical problems there. He is the highly regarded author of several inspirational suspense novels. He is also the author of the spiritual nonfiction works: Breathing Grace, and Domesticated Jesus.
The Still, Small Voice encouraged Patti to write after a brave Irish friend shared memories of betrayal and her decision to forgive. In 2008, An Irishwoman's Tale was published by Kregel Publications. Patti's second novel, What the Bayou Saw , draws on the memories of two young girls who refused to let segregation, a chain link fence, and a brutal rape come between them.
The secrets women keep and why they keep them continue to capture Patti's imagination. She writes full time, teaches Bible studies and seminars, and attends book signings. Patti and her husband live in Illinois and have two grown children, and a dog named Laura.
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Professor Joyce Lebra has authored twelve books, including two historical novels, DURGA'S SWORD and SUGAR AND SMOKE. She led three research teams to Asia to research women's roles in the work force, each of which resulted in a book: WOMEN IN CHANGING JAPAN, CHINESE WOMEN IN SOUTHEAST ASIA, and WOMEN AND WORK IN INDIA. Her historical novel, Scent of Sake will be published early in 2009.
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Julie is the author of a forthcoming historical inspirational series set in turn of the century Boston and Ireland to be published by Revell Books. The first book was A Passion Most Pure. Julie is a commercial writer, a published poet and a 2005 Golden Heart Finalist. She has a heart to write mainstream novels reaching the 21st-century woman with compelling love stories laced with Gods precepts. She resides in High Ridge, Missouri with her husband, Keith, their two children, Matt and Amy, and their Golden Retriever, Bunker.
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Malena Lott is the author of "mommy lit" novels with her first release The Stork Reality in 2006. In addition to being a real life mother of three, she owns a prominent advertising agency BrainWorks that caters to small businesses in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She is also a nonfiction author.
Dorothy Love launched her literary career as D. Anne Love, publishing twelve novels for preteens and young adults. Her books have garnered numerous awards and honors. In addition to her native state of Tennessee and her adopted home state of Texas, Dr. Love has lived and worked in Illinois, Iowa, Ohio, and California. A popular speaker at workshops and writers' conferences nationwide, she teaches creative writing in the summer MFA program at Hollins University. She makes her home in the Texas hill country with her husband and their two golden retrievers.
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Lutisha states that ... "Through my many personas and/or titles, words-and
creative ways to express them-have been the common denominator: actress,
poet, radio/tv host, editor, writer. It's been about a love of expression,
and still is. "
Lutishia's first novel Sex in the Sanctuary was published
in 2007. Love Like Hallelujah was published in January
2008.
Books
Highland Warrior (Leisure), A Breath of Scandal (Leisure), The Price of Pleasure (Leisure)
Connie Mason is a New York Times best-selling author of more than thirty historical romances and novellas. Connie was named Storyteller of the Year in 1990 by Romantic Times, and was awarded a Career Achievement award in the Western category by Romantic Times in 1993. Connie makes her home in Florida.
Creston Mapes has written marketing and magazine copy for clients such as Coca-Cola, The Weather Channel, Focus on the Family, ABC-TV, Johnson Controls, Haggai Institute, The Southern Company, Oracle Corporation, In Touch Ministries, BellSouth, Stein Communications, Mission to the World, and many others. He enjoys creating inspirational fiction. His debut novel, DARK STAR: CONFESSIONS OF A ROCK IDOL, was published by Multnomah Publishers in June of 2005.
As he has for 22 years, Creston resides in the Atlanta metropolitan area with his hometown sweetheart and four marvelous children. He loves reading, painting, morning runs with his dog, family outings, watching hockey, going on dates with his wife, meeting friends for coffee, and spending time in God's Word.
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A Reason to Live (Berkley) ; To Find You Again (Berkley)
Maureen McKade is the author of historical romance and contemporary romances. Maureen's first book, Winter Hearts, was a finalist for both the Romance Writers of America's Golden Heart and Rita Awards. Maureen lives in North Dakota.
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Vanessa Miller of Dayton, Ohio is a best-selling author, playwright, and motivational speaker. Her stage productions include: Get You Some Business, Don’t Turn Your Back on God, and Can’t You Hear Them Crying. A perfect day for Vanessa is one that affords her the time to curl up with a good book. She is currently working on the Live Right or Die Trying Series. The books in this series, although they can be categorized as suspense thrillers, will still have elements of God’s redemptive power throughout the stories.
Siri Mitchell graduated from the University of Washington with a business degree and worked in various levels of government. As a military spouse, she has lived all over the world, including Paris and Tokyo. Siri enjoys observing and learning from different cultures. She is fluent in French and loves sushi. Two of her novels, Chateu of Echoes and The Cubicle Next Door have been Christy Award finalists. She has been called one of the clearest, most original voices in the CBA.
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Child of the Mist (Baker); Embrace the Dawn (Tyndale); Daughter of Joy (Baker)
Kathy Morgan has written over 25 novels and established a reputation as an author of Christian women's and fantasy fiction. Her book Embrace the Dawn was the winner of the 2002 Rose Award for best inspirational novel. Kathleen lives with her husband in Colorado. Giver of Roses (Baker 2005) launches a new inspirational fantasy series.
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Author of The Skull Mantra; Bone Rattler ; Prayer of the Dragon
Eliot Pattison is the winner of the Edgar Award for The Skull Mantra (St. Martin's Press) . His novel Bone Rattler, a mystery set in colonial America was published by Carroll & Graf in December 2007. His novels are popular in countries all over the world. He has had bestsellers in Germany and France. His numerous books and articles on international policy issues have been published on three continents. Eliot lives in an 18th century farmhouse in Pennsylvania.
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Author of Sucker For Love; and Just One Bite
Kimberley Raye writes steamy contemporary and paranormal romance.
Kimberly Raye has published more than 20 novels and has been nominated for several awards, including a Reviewer's Choice Award from Romantic Times magazine and a Rita Award, Romance Writers of America's highest award of excellence. She was born and bred in the Lone Star State where she lives with her husband and children.
Sandra Robbins is a native West Tennessean, and a former school teacher and principal. While working as a principal, Sandra came into contact with many people burdened with problems. Her writing ministry grew out of the need for hope that she saw in the lives of those around her. Her first attempts at creating a novel were directed toward historical romance. A childhood love of Nancy Drew mysteries, however, gave her a different direction. She now spends her days dreaming up mayhem and mystery in the lives of her characters.
Sandra is married and has four children and five grandchilren.
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Author of Seaside Cinderella; and Matchmaker Matchmaker
Anna Schmidt is the author of over twenty contemporary and historical novels, and a two-time finalist for the coveted RITA award from Romance Writers of America. She was also a semi-finalist in the Nicholl Screenwriting Competition sponsored by the Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is the author of five nonfiction books on issues of aging including Parkinson's For Dummies (Wiley & Co.). Anna -- a transplanted Virginian -- resides in Wisconsin with her husband, Larry.
Anne Schroeder is a fifth-generation California farm kid whose love of writing was fueled by stories of her Norwegian ancestors. Over forty of her short stories and essays have appeared in national magazines such as Potpourri, Liguorian, Skipping Stones, Stitches, Mindprints, Lynx Eye, Western Digest, Romantic Hearts, Radiance, and Christian Reader.
Life has brought her great blessings, including a forty-plus-year marriage to a man who encourages her at every step. She is a Benedictine Oblate, a novice motorcyclist and a new grandmother. She considers exercise a necessary evil, but she enjoys walking Maggie, her chocolate Lab, and sitting in the spa after an easy workout.
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Boston Teran is the acclaimed author of four novels. God Is a Bullet is considered a cult classic that has been compared to such seminal works as Joan Didion's The White Album and John Ford's The Searchers. Never Count Out the Dead has been called a modern equivalent of MacBeth and his most recent work Three Women has been reviewed as “a true masterpiece.” The author has been published around the world and has been nominated or won such far reaching awards as the INTERNATIONAL IMPACT AWARD OF DUBLIN for Best Novel, the Best Novel of the Year in Japan and the John Creasy Award in England.
Mary Miley Theobald has been a free-lance writer since 1986. She has published six nonfiction books (under the name Mary Miley Theobald) and more than 160 magazine articles, most on history, travel, and business topics. She lives with her husband, an attorney, in Richmond, Virginia. Her greatest pleasures are travel, playing the pipe organ with all stops out, and reading mysteries.
Missy Tippens is a pastor's wife and mom of three. After ten years of pursuing her dream, she made her first sale of a full-length novel to Steeple Hill Love Inspired. She still pinches herself to see if it really happened! Her debut novel, Her Unlikely Family, was a 2009 American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year contest finalist and is now available in large print from Thorndike.
Linda is the author of two novels published by Putnam Books, one of which became a major motion picture starring Jill Clayburgh. She is working on a new novel titled Madame Bovary's Daughter.
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Bonnie Vanak is the author of five vivid, lushly sensual historical romances that have the unusual setting of Victorian Egypt and are endorsed by several New York Time best-selling authors. These are exciting, passionate stories of desert sheiks and Victorian ladies entangled in dark mysterious plots. The Sword and the Sheath will be out in 2007. She is also writing paranormal romances for Harlequin's Nocturne line. Bonnie works as an intrepid reporter constantly on assignment in third world countries like Nicauragua and Guatamala where she reports on situations of horrific suffering for a large international charity.
In her pre-author life, Joan was a New York City high school English teacher. She turned to writing after she retired and stayed at home to raise my family. Over the years she has written forty-two books, including regency romances, regency historicals, straight historicals, contemporary romances, pre-histories and two medieval mysteries. Her books have consistently made the USA Today bestseller list and have also been on the bestseller list of the Washington Post. Her novel, The Arrangement, was named the ‘Best Romance Novel of the Year' by the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and her Dark Ages trilogy of historical novels ( The Road to Avalon, Born of the Sun, and The Edge of Light) were cited by the New York City librarians and the North Carolina librarians as notable books.
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Michelle Yu and Blossom Kan are a team of two cousins writing multicultural women's fiction. China Dolls was published by the Thomas Dunne imprint of St. Martin's Press in 2007.
List of Nonfiction Clients (in alphabetical order)
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Author of Language and
Species. "The evolution
of language is a fascinating topic, and Bickerton's Language
and Species is the best introduction we have."--John C. Marshall, Nature
He is currently working on 2 new books on language. The first, Bastard
Tongues, was published in 2008.
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The Waiting Child (St. Martin's)
Cindy Champnella is an advocate for adopted children and orphans.
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Hope is the Thing with Feathers (Tarcher/Warner)
The Fallen Sky: Eccentrics & Scientists in Pursuit of Shooting Stars (Tarcher/Warner)
2008
Christopher Cokinos is the author of the critically acclaimed — Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds —(Tarcher/Putnam, 2000; Warner Books, 2001). He is the winner of a Whiting Writer's Award, the Sigurd Olson Nature Writing Award, the Glasgow Prize for an Emerging Writer in Nonfiction and an Antarctic Visiting Artist and Writer Fellowship from the National Science Foundation. His next nonfiction project, on meteorite hunters, is under contract with Tarcher. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Utah State University, where he also is Editor of Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing."
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Referred to as the Baby Yoga Expert by Newsweek Magazine, Ms. Garabedian is the author of Itsy Bitsy Yoga: Poses to Help Your Baby Sleep Longer, Digest Better, and Grow Stronger Helen Garabedian is an innovator in specialty yoga with babies, toddlers and tykes. She founded the Itsy Bitsy Yoga program to aid physical/ social/ emotional development of children and has trained facilitators in the United States, Japan, Singapore, Europe, South America and Canada.
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The Intelligent Universe (New Page Books); Biocosm (Inner Ocean)
James N. Gardner is an accomplished amateur
cosmologist whose peer-reviewed articles have been published in prestigious
scientific journals, including Complexity and the Journal
of the British Interplanetary Society. He is a former U.S. Supreme
Court clerk and a former Oregon state senator. He currently serves as science
book review editor for The Sunday Oregonian.
James Gardner's second book The Intelligent Universe:
AI, ET, and the Emerging Mind of the Cosmos will be published in 2007
by New Page Books/Career Press.
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Gaia’s Garden (Chelsea Green)
Toby Hemenway is a professionally trained scientist, but he prefers spending time in his ever-evolving garden in Southern Oregon. He is an associate editor of The Permaculture Activist, North America's leading journal of ecological design.
Carter Phipps is executive editor of EnlightenNext magazine. In his ten years with the magazine, he has been responsible for some of its most in-depth investigative features, including the The Real Evolution Debate, a spiritual and scientific analysis of evolutionary worldviews. .
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Author of Organizing For the Spirit
Sunny Schlenger co-authored How to Be Organized in Spite of Yourself (Signet/Penguin), a BOMC alternate selection that sold 100,000 copies. She has been an organizing expert for over 20 years and is a regular guest on numerous TV and radio shows as well as being profiled in USA Today, Fortune, New Woman, Success and many other publications. She also authors a large on-line newsletter. Sunny lives in northern New Jersey.