Carol Alwood is a pastor's wife, mom, teacher, and the author of The Good Shadows series and Focused Backstory: The Key to Writing Deep Character Journeys. She loves helping writers and connecting with readers.

Cathleen Armstrong is the award-winning author of Welcome to Last Chance. Though she now lives in Orange County, California, her roots remain deep in New Mexico where she grew up and where much of her family still lives.

Chautona Havig lives in an oxymoron, escapes into imaginary worlds that look startlingly similar to ours and writes the stories that emerge. An irrepressible optimist, Chautona sees everything through a kaleidoscope of It’s a Wonderful Life sprinkled with fairy tales. Find her on the web and say howdy—if you can remember how to spell her name.

ACFW Orange County member D.H. Weinberg writes historical fiction, suspense thrillers, poetry, and devotionals.

My favorite thing is discovering how much there is to love about America the Beautiful and the great outdoors. I’m an Amazon bestselling author, a mom to two navigating the young adult years while battling my daughter’s juvenile arthritis, exploring the delights of my son’s autism, and keeping gluten free. A California native who’s spent significant time in the Midwest, I’m thrilled to be back in the Golden State. Follow me on social media to see all my adventures and how I get inspired for my books!

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Promise Me

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By day, Joy Suzanne Hunt is a supply chain professional. But each night, she transforms into a cape-wearing, debt-slaying, author-website-creating superhero. Joy’s mission is to use words and websites to equip you - yes, you! - to take ownership of your life and faith. Admittedly, crushing debt and rescuing platform-less authors is hard work, so she squeezes her writing in the in-between places. She’s currently writing a serial novel and series of short stories about the cool things that can happen when you bring God into your money fights.

Free from Joy

The Lemon (A Short Story)

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My books are about real-life challenges and real-life faith. My first book release “Shattered Guilt” (working title) is scheduled to release in June 2021.I’ll also share with you about my family traditions and antics through funny and endearing photos and tell-alls. We have some simple family favorite recipes, as well. Let me know if you want the Scone recipe…yum.

Lover of Jesus, widow, retired RN. Contributing editor to Women’s Ministry website. Writer of Biblical historical fiction.

Nancy Brashear lives in San Clemente with her husband, Patrick, and their rescue dog, Goldie, where her grown children and seven grandgirls support her writing. She began her teaching career as a credentialed teacher and reading specialist (elementary and secondary). Now an APU professor emeritus in English and Education, she has published short stories, poems, academic articles, textbook chapters, and educational website content. Gunnysack Hell, her debut thriller, was inspired by a true-crime event. And, yes, she did live off-grid with her family in a homestead cabin in the Mojave Desert when she was a child.

Free From Nancy:

Dare To Wish Upon A Star

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Nancy E Wood was born into a missionary family and lived in Hungary until she turned twenty. Her whole childhood, she loved reading and stories, writing some of her own, but never believing she actually had the talent to be an author. Speaking multiple languages, she never thought she would be good enough in any to become a wordsmith. Her senior year of high school, she was encouraged to write short stories, one of which turned into Perfect, a novel that couldn't stay short. After sharing it with a few people, she decided to get it published a couple years later. She went to college in Florida, where she studied English and Music. After graduating, she married and moved to California. She published her second standalone book, I'll Take the Lie, in the summer of 2019, and Different, the sequel to Perfect, is now available! She also runs a blog for young women, where she writes relatable and motivational posts that point to God. She has also done some speaking in different Christian schools and youth groups, encouraging teens to pursue Christ through some of the most difficult years of their lives.

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Alone

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Nancy C. Wood (1936-2013) was a writer and photographer who produced 28 books about the American southwest. The region’s wilderness and Native American spirituality inspired her life view and profound poetry. Nancy was born in 1936 to a Catholic family in Trenton, New Jersey and fled west to Colorado and New Mexico in 1958. She won numerous awards, including a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award, and the International Reading Association Teacher’s Choice Award. Three of her poems are in the Unitarian Universalist hymnal.A wild and wondrous 17-page biography of Nancy Wood appears as the introduction to Eye of the West. Buy the book and support her rebellious legacy.Researchers should consult the Nancy C. Wood Papers and the Nancy Wood Photographic Archive at the University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research. The papers include her published articles, book manuscript drafts, correspondence, and recorded interviews and research notes for her nonfiction books.

Sally Carpenter is native Hoosier living in Moorpark, California. She has a master’s degree in theater from Indiana State University. While in school, her plays “Star Collector” and “Common Ground” were finalists in the American College Theater Festival One-Act Playwrighting Competition. “Common Ground” also earned a college creative writing award. “Star Collector” was produced in New York City and served as the inspiration for her first mystery series. Carpenter also has a Master of Divinity from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and a black belt in tae kwon do. She’s worked as an actress, college writing instructor, jail chaplain and tour guide/page for Paramount Pictures. And she’s a mom to black cats. The books in her Sandy Fairfax Teen Idol cozy mystery series are: The Baffled Beatlemaniac Caper (2012 Eureka! Award finalist for best first mystery novel), The Sinister Sitcom Caper, The Cunning Cruise Ship Caper, The Quirky Quiz Show Caper and The Notorious Noel Caper (summer 2021 release). The Psychedelic Spy cozy series is comprised of Flower Power Fatality and Hippie Haven Homicide. She has short stories in three anthologies: “Dark Nights at the Deluxe Drive-in” in Last Exit to Murder; “Faster Than a Speeding Bullet” in Plan B: Omnibus; and a Sandy Fairfax adventure, “The Puzzling Puppet Show Caper,” in Cozy Cat Shorts. She penned chapter three of Chasing the Codex, a group mystery by 24 Cozy Cat Press authors. To atone for killing characters on paper, she also writes the Roots of Faith column for the Acorn Newspapers (theacornonline.com). She is a member and lector (scripture reader) of Holy Cross Church in Moorpark.

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Sandra Barela, wife and the mom of three adult children, received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in Education at the National University and was awarded her master’s in English with a focus on Creative Fiction from Southern New Hampshire University in the summer of 2016. During her program at SNHU, she took a publishing class and fell in love with the industry. That infatuation sparked Celebrate Lit Publicity Group where she helps authors publicize their books through Facebook parties and blog tours. In the summer of 2016, she opened Celebrate Lit Publishing to help Christian authors bring their books to the reading world. The avid Christian fiction reader and author enjoys helping other great Christian authors succeed, one book at a time. She lives with her family in beautiful sunny Southern California.

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Scott T. Barnes grew up on a farm, lived, studied and worked in multiple countries, and now resides in Orange County, California as a proud husband and father of two girls. He studies samurai arts (Nami Ryu Aiki Kenjutsu) with James Williams and Russian Systema with Joseph Stoltman. He writes primarily fantasy and science fiction, but also has a keen interest in history. His science fiction story "Insect Sculptor" won the Writers of the Future award. He is the founder and publisher of New Myths Publishing and also editor to the e-magazine NewMyths.com You can find him at work in independent coffee houses all over the California southland.

Susan K. Beatty is passionate about telling stories of finding courage through faith and grit. Since retiring from a full-time homeschool ministry, she has published two novelettes, a devotional about courage, and a novel, Faces of Courage, as part of her Faces of Courage series. A third novelette is due out September 2021 and a second novel is planned for May 2022. She is also the author of the California Homeschool Manual (formerly An Introduction to Home Education). Southern California is home to Susan and her husband, where she, if she had the spare time, would read, watch old movies, and plan her international travel. Susan is proof you can begin a writing career after middle-age.

Free From Susan:

Legacy Of Courage

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