As a boy Robert A. Benjamin understood that he was different, without knowing why or whether that was good or bad. Over the years he earned his way through life at jobs ranging from drugstore clerk to certificated public school teacher. He qualified himself to become an artist on contract to a nationally recognized publisher [...]
Author, speaker, and workshop leader J.T. Kirk has more than 20 years in various hiring manager positions for Fortune 500 companies in energy development and high technology. Kirk’s most recent book, Confessions of a Hiring Manager: Sage Advice for Fearless Job Seekers and Career Changers in a Confused Economy, addresses how people can minimize the [...]
Native Tyler, Texas. Attended Tyler Junior College and Texas Womans University (Denton, TX), majored in journalism, minor in government. Spent 30-plus years working for newspapers in Tyler and Rockport, TX, and Sheridan, WY., where I lived from late 1980s until 2008 when I started spending winters in Texas and summers in Wyoming. Wrote my first [...]
Joan Klostermann-Ketels is an author, educator, president of her own corporate training company, a poet and musician. Her professional and personal interests are dedicated to the health and well being of the human spirit, as is her website, BeingOfSoundSpirit.com. Joan has a theology degree from Loras College and a master’s degree in training and development [...]
Elmore Hammes has published several novels, including The Holmes & Watson Mysterious Events and Objects Consortium: The Case of the Witch’s Talisman (middle grade mystery/fantasy), The Twenty Dollar Bill (contemporary fiction), The Cloud (science fiction) and Not Fit For Human Consumption: A Comedic Farce (satire/science fiction). His short stories have appeared in The First Line, [...]
Nan Becklean is probably a lot older than you and thus has had time to write articles, musicals—librettos and lyrics—short stories, essays and poems while raising children or earning a living. Some have appeared in print or been performed on stage.
She has a B.A. in English from Smith College.
She administers her husband’s [...]
Natalie Tinti is a fourth grader living in Southern California. With her passion and talent of illustrating, she has won many awards for her excellence. The most recently are the Spring 2010 Pinnacle Achievement Award hosted by the North American Bookdealers Exchange and the Silver Medal in the 2009 award contest hosted by the nationally [...]
Gina is a spiritual teacher who writes and teaches about awakening and living in the moment. Her most recent book, which was just released by Hampton Roads, is Loving in the Moment: Moving from Ego to Essence in Relationships. She is also the author of six other books. She has a master’s degree in counseling [...]
Casey Hibbard has helped dozens of companies create nearly 500 customer case studies and success stories over the past decade. She has produced and managed customer stories for companies such as Level 3, MarketingProfs, Qwest, Jobfox, Verio and Vocus. She consults one-on-one with organizations in capturing their stories, and teaches hands-on courses to marketing professionals, [...]
I have bipolar disorder and a Masters degree in psychology. I was first locked behind the psych ward doors in 1988 – three weeks before I was scheduled to complete my degree. My life was saved by Christ in that hospital. That does not mean that I have been cured. It means that I can [...]
