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Rob Fanney
from Portsmouth, Virginia |
Robert Marston Fannéy
grew up in a world very close to this place of magic
and fantasy. To the west of his childhood home in
Virginia Beach, Virginia was a wild and darkly
forested State Park and to the east, the equally
mysterious and beautiful Atlantic Ocean. This place
nurtured Robert’s heart as he became a writer, a
surfer, a singer, a lover of nature, and a poet.
During his adult years, Robert has served as a
waiter, a police officer, a soldier, an editor — but
always he pursued his original stories, as he felt
they defined him best of all.
Educated at Flagler
College in St. Augustine, Florida, Robert edited the
Flagler Review
and headed the College Colloquium to bring in
prominent writers and speakers. He was an NCO in the
Army National Guard, a Department of Defense police
officer, and a writer and editor for national and
international corporations in and around Washington,
D.C.
Robert has written and
published two books and over 30 magazine articles,
and has contributed as writer and editor to over 15
published books, online and print magazines, and
professional reports. He is happily married and the
proud parent of two cats.
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Robert Lawrence Gilstrap
from Lake Monticello, Virginia |
Bob Gilstrap is a writer who
has written or co-authored ten books for children, parents
and teachers. His most recent book,
We're
Going to Hollywood!, a historic
fiction novel for young adults, was inspired by a family
history project in which he learned that his father and
father-in-law were both involved in the early movie business
and is set in the summer of 1920. A story from his first
book for children,
a collection of North African tales,
was selected for the Junior Great Books (series 4). A
professional educator, Bob began his teaching career as a
fourth grade teacher in Texas and retired from George Mason
University in 1997 after working for 33 years in teacher
education. He lives with his wife, Dorothy, at Lake
Monticello. They have been blessed with four children and
five grandchildren.
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Chris Graham 
from Crimora,
Virginia
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Chris Graham is the author of
Stop
the Presses, a collection
of columns. He is the founder of The Augusta Free Press, a Web-based newspaper based in the
Shenandoah Valley. Graham is well-known throughout
Central Virginia and the Valley for his feature stories and columns
- and has spent the past 10 years in the field of journalism.
He has written a number of online
novels and published them in a fiction section found on-line
at www.augustafreepress.com.
He will be signing his latest
release, Mad
About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall,
and his first two books,
Judge Not
and Stop the
Presses.
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Crystal Graham
from Crimora, Virginia |
Crystal Graham is
the author of
Crystal Clear, a
collection of columns focusing on everyday life and
reflection.
Crystal has
written a column for more than five years for various
newspaper outlets in Central Virginia and the Shenandoah
Valley, including The Augusta
Free Press, an on-line news source she
founded with her husband, Chris.
She is recognized
in the region as a television host for public television and
a writer.
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Alison Hart
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Alison Hart is the author of nineteen children's books. Ms.
Hart's newest novel, A Spy on
the Homefront: A Molly Mystery, a WWII mystery
for the American Girl Molly doll, was published in March 2005.
Book Review Columnist Erika Sorocco writes,
"Alison Hart has done a fantastic job with this mystery". In the
fall of 2005, her historical suspense novel
Anna's Blizzard was
published by Peachtree Publishers.
Other writings include
Danger at the Wild West Show, an American Girls
History Mystery, Rescue: A Police Story (Random House Children's
Books), and Return of the
Gypsy Witch, an Aladdin Mystery (Simon &
Schuster), which won a 2003 Honor Book award for Society of
School Librarians International.
Shadow Horse,
her middle grade mystery, was nominated for an Edgar Award in
2000. It was also chosen for the 2003-2004 Indiana Media
Educators' Read-Aloud Books Too Good To Miss program (middle
grade).
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Kim Headlee
(c) 2006 Christopher R. Headlee
From Wytheville, Virginia |
Kim Headlee, also writing as
Kimberly Iverson, is a native of Washington State, descended
from a checkered family that includes everything from Midwestern
horse thieves to Russian nobility. One of her cousins won a
Heisman trophy, another was mayor of a town in Minnesota, and
her great-grandfather served as Captain of the Palace Guard for
Tsar Nicholas II in St. Petersburg. But her favorite family
story is that of her grandmother, a childhood companion of the
doomed Princess Anastasia forced to flee Russia with little more
than the clothes on her back. Such tragic yet romantic stories
inspired Kim at an early age to pen fiction.
Her first novel,
DAWNFLIGHT, featuring
a likable (for a change!) warrior-queen Guinevere, was published
in 1999 and garnered awards, award nominations and critical
acclaim, including being positively reviewed in an academic
journal. In 2004 she contributed a chapter about how to research
& write about the Arthurian Legends to
THE FANTASY WRITER'S COMPANION. Her latest
fiction release, LIBERTY,
features a female gladiator and was purchased on proposal for
publication in multiple editions. |
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Patrick Hite
from Staunton, Virginia |
With almost two decades of experience in
radio, newspaper and television, Patrick is an award-winning
sportswriter. Along with his co-author Chris Graham, Patrick
will be signing copies of his first book,
Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University
Hall.
The book features more than 60
interviews with former University of Virginia men’s and women’s
basketball players, coaches, administrators and fans.
Mad About U traces
the history of UVa.’s former basketball arena, University Hall,
and its role in the development of the University’s basketball
programs.
A member of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media
Association, Patrick has covered the Atlantic Coast Conference
for more than a decade. He has also covered sports as diverse as
the All-American Soap Box Derby in
Akron, Ohio; the 2004
NCAA Division I-AA football national championship game; and a
tee-ball game on the South Lawn of the White House.
Patrick is also co-host and producer of
“ACC Nation,” a broadcast/podcast (www.accnation.com)
covering ACC sports.
He lives in
Staunton, Va., with
his wife, Kari, and two daughters, Alexa and Ainsley. |
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Irene Hughes
from Arrington, Virginia |
A few years ago I retired from a
real estate business to return to writing, which I had abandoned
in my twenties. I live in Nelson County, Virginia and have
utilized that locale and some experiences from my real estate
career as
background for SIGN IN FOR
MURDER and SCENT OF
SUSPICION. (The novels also contain references to
Waynesboro and Lexington.) The settings for my novel scheduled
to be published in 2007 are the Fairfield / Lexington area of
Virginia and the central area of Colorado. My professional life
has included publicity writing in Los Angeles, high school
teaching in Manassas and Lovingston, and real estate sales in
Richmond and Lovingston. Other
than writing, my interests include theatre productions, tennis,
horses and traveling.
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Melanie M. Jeschke
from Vienna,
Virginia |
Melanie Morey Jeschke grew up in Richmond,
graduated from the University of Virginia, and now resides in
Fairfax, Virginia with her husband Bill and their nine children.
She has traveled extensively throughout Europe, including a
number of trips to Oxford, England, as a tourist, researcher,
and tour leader. Rick
Steve's England 2006
travel guide features a new chapter on Oxford, researched
and written by Melanie. Her numerous visits to the UK and
participation in several conferences on C. S. Lewis provided the
inspiration for her series of historical romances called
The Oxford Chronicles
(Harvest House Publishers). Melanie will be signing copies of
Inklings,
Book One;
Expectations, Book Two;
and
Evasions, Book Three of
The Oxford Chronicles. Melanie
was recently featured in the summer book issue of World
magazine. Besides writing, Melanie speaks to book clubs, writers
groups, and women's organizations. She will be happy to chat
with you about C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien (who appear as
characters in her novels) as well as Oxford, all things British,
travel, or even home-schooling and big families. |
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Bob Johnson
from Waynesboro, Virginia |
Bob Johnson is the Pastor of the Blue Ridge
Chapel Church of the Brethren located north of Waynesboro,
Virginia on Route 340. Chaplain Bob is a Master Chaplain with
the International Conference of Police Chaplains (ICPC), where
he currently serves as a Disaster response team member and holds
life membership. He also serves as the Mid East Regional
Director for the organization, providing administrative
leadership for chaplains in seven states and the DC area.
Chaplain Bob served two tours of duty at
the WTC disaster in New York and was compelled to write about
his experiences. He recently served as the point man for the
ICPC in Gulfport Mississippi, in the aftermath of Katrina,
serving the police departments of Gulfport, Long Beach, and Pass
Christian.
Chaplain Bob has just finished the National
Incident Management Training from FEMA as part of the Homeland
Security disaster response team and is also a member of the Blue
Ridge Critical Incident Stress Team. In addition to his service
in law enforcement chaplaincy, he also serves as a volunteer
Chaplain at Augusta Medical Center, where he is also a member of
the chaplain’s supervisory committee.
Bob has served as a Chaplain for the
Staunton-Augusta Rescue Squad, the Staunton Police Department
and is now serving as Chaplain for the Waynesboro Police
Department. He is a former FBI Chaplain having served in
Washington DC. He is a life Member of the Staunton-Augusta
Rescue Squad and served as a Sergeant of a patrol unit with the
Staunton Police Reserves.
He has written a training seminar called
the Ministry of Presence: One-on-One
and is presently developing a training book on this program.
Bob has presented this seminar at the International Annual
Training Conference of the ICPC and at regional training
seminars as well. He has spoken at the Virginia Occupational
Safety and Health annual conference on his experience at the WTC
disaster and has shared his story with many local civic
organizations as well.
Chaplain Bob Johnson will be signing copies of "Where
was God? The World Trade Center Disaster Seen Through a
Chaplain's Eyes" at Book 'Em. |
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Eddie Jones
from Raleigh, North Carolina
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Eddie won first place at this year's Delaware Christian Writer's
Conference for his book proposal,
Bahama Breeze. Winning the award was timely,
since Eddie was camping in a state park and when he returned
from the award ceremony he discovered his tent had collapsed in
the rain. Eddie used part of the $1000 winnings to check
into a Howard Johnson motel. Eddie is a
contributing writer for:
The Ocracoke Observer
Living Aboard Magazine
Town Dock
Beaufort Breezes
Inner Banks Newsletter |
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