WRITING & PUBLISHING

Julie Auriana has written a manuscript that is a memoir of her recovery from anxiety disorder. Julie lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Lise Bennett is a screenplay writer, living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Her screenplay, en el Nombre de Dios, was selected as a finalist in the 2007 Latino Screenplay Competition. (www.latinoscreenplaycompetition.com)

Jeff Bradford and his wife Karen Arnett are authors of the book Masters' Con. This book is the fictional story based on the real events the couple faced when investing in Venue Tech, a fraudulent high-tech startup company. Jeff and Karen now live in Golden, Colorado.

Currently residing in Colorado, Bill Cairo is a lifelong fan of a juicy quotation, and of sports and their history and trivia. His book, The Story Behind the Glory: Winning Quotes From Sports Greats on the Game of Life, searches for the best sports quotations from which we can all gain wisdom and inspiration to apply to our own lives. His next book, SportsWise on Golf, is due in late 2008.

Dialogue Publishing, Inc., was formed in July 2004. The mission of the company is to provide new authors an outlet to get superb mainstream fiction and niche non-fiction work in print and to conduct writers workshops using the Amherst Writers & Artists method.

Author EllynAnne Geisel lives with her prince charming in Pueblo, Colorado. She has gathered more than 400 aprons and apron memories from across America which are featured in her book, The Apron Book.  She also celebrates the spirit of the men and women who wore aprons through her national traveling exhibit, Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections (www.apronchronicles.com).

The Apron Book reminds us of everything we once loved about aprons and then shows us how to make them ourselves. You'll also find the images of apron lovers past and present and their apron stories, plus four basic apron patterns, detailed and illustrated sewing instructions, and a host of variations for sewers of all skill levels. As a bonus, the Basic Bib Pattern is packaged separately and tucked within the book's pages!

There is no other book like The Apron Book, which celebrates the humble yet lovely apron and the spirit of the men and women who wore them, and at the same time provides the inspiration and the tools to reinvent aprons for the here and now.

According to EllynAnne, aprons don't hold us back, they take us back…the very reason for the apron's status as today's hottest collectible (www.apronmemories.com).

Filter Press has been a continuously operating publishing house in Palmer Lake, Colorado, since 1957. Doris and Tom Baker purchased the business in 1995 and have maintained a publishing focus on quality nonfiction and fiction dealing with the Southwest in general and Colorado in particular.

Rebecca Dunbar is the author of Mariah Jennings - The Battle. Mariah Jennings was destined to be an evangelist. At four years old she was thrust into a battle for her heart. A battle between heaven and hell. And Satan is determined to win by whatever means necessary. In Tennessee, South Carolina and Michigan, the struggle intensifies over forty years before an almost silent God. In the heat of the conflict, Mariah hangs in the balance between a corporation that has been forced into corruption and an overly zealous church. She has had trouble before, but nothing like this. At work, she locks horns with her boss, Gerhardt Schultz, and must choose between gaining the world and saving her soul. At church, she is taunted with a lie that brings her to her knees. Fearful one moment and bold the next, Mariah is downright misunderstood. She proves to be too holy for the corporation and not holy enough for the church.

FunTreks Guidebooks provides quality guidebooks featuring 4X4 trails, ATV trails and SUV backroads. Books include detailed directions, custom maps and hundreds of photos to exciting 4-wheel-drive roads in Colorado, Utah, Arizona and California.

Constance Gelvin is the author of No Reason to Lie, a suspense thriller published by Hard Shell Word Factory (www.hardshell.com). No Reason to Lie is for you if you think people who've had encounters with aliens or the Loch Ness Monster are publicity-seeking crackpots; you've ever wanted a dream job so bad you could taste it; or you've ever been attracted to someone you know is all wrong for you. If so, then welcome to the world of secretary Susan Crewe, a wannabe private investigator who gets her first shot at a "real" case when Clarrissa Rendall, the woman who stole her man, is murdered.

Molly Lord is a television screenplay writer based in Colorado.

Lane Mathis is a free-lance writer based in Colorado.

Real Solutions Press is a publishing company creating a series of books on non-fiction topics.  The first series, QwikSmarts™, puts information in a brief, easy to reference, format. The second, Smartest Thing™, provides solutions to people's puzzles. In this series, each title has its own charity associated with it.

Laura loves creating beaded beads and beadwork based on the patterns provided by polyhedrons and geometric tilings. Although she has been teaching many different forms of beadwork since 1995 to adults and children, Laura began concentrating on teaching her geometrically inspired beadwork in 1999. She has taught at the Bead and Button Show yearly since 2000, as well as for the Bead Society of Greater Chicago and at a number of bead stores in the Midwest. Laura is currently working on a book about geometrically inspired beadwork.

"My work explores simple and complex two and three dimensional geometric forms using beads and thread in a variety of sizes and materials. I specialize in "angle-stitching". The three regular tilings (square, triangle, and hexagon) can be interpreted in specific styles of bead netting known as right angle weave, triangle stitch and hexagonal stitch. Most semi-and demi-regular tessellations can also be beaded. Angle-stitching can be two-dimensional (flat) or three-dimensional and volumetric (polyhedra). I enjoy the irony of working in highly symmetric forms with materials (glass and leaded crystal beads) that are essentially chaotic plastics made of silica and ash transformed by fire. I love executing continuous spiral thread paths through my beadwork as nature's energy through matter or our DNA through our bodies."

Carrie Vaughn is the author of the Kitty Norville fiction series: Kitty and The Midnight hour, Kitty Goes to Washington, Kitty Takes a Holiday, and Kitty and the Silver Bullet. Featuring Kitty Norville, a mid-night shift DJ for a Denver radio station, and a werewolf in the closet. Carrie lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Madge Walls, the author of Paying the Price, currently lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Paying the Price, features a Maui Realtor Laura McDaniel. Laura feels she has finally gotten her life on an even keel after a divorce and the disappearance of her teenaged daughter. When her favorite customers want to buy a property that is For Sale By Owner, Laura’s instincts warn her it will be the most difficult sale of her career. After Annie returns, distraught and pregnant, Laura faces the overwhelming possibility of raising her granddaughter alone while trying to succeed in an all-consuming profession.

Mandy Ziegler is republishing the books of the late Warren Ziegler. Mr. Ziegler founded Futures-Invention Associates International and has a worldwide following. His book, Ways of Enspiriting, is about entering into dialogue with your spirit so that it expresses itself in your life, work, relationships, and relevant world and action settings in new ways. The ways of enspiriting are disciplined practices that help us to re-engage with our spirit in a culture which, for several hundred years, has denied spirit its place in our lives. Warren Ziegler's other book, When Your Spirit Calls: In Search of Your Spiritual Archetype, helps you learn the key in fulfilling your greatest dreams.

Mary Zalmanek is the author of The Art of the Spark: 12 Habits to Inspire Romantic Adventures. Mary has an MBA, but she’s more proud of her R. A. She’s a Romantic Adventurer, and she knows how to help you put the spark in your relationship. It’s not that she knows it all, but she’s learned a lot from being in love with love, and listening to other people. They trust her with their stories. Her enthusiasm for romance translates into a gift for helping others plan their romantic adventures.