Deborah Elizabeth Posca and Zachary Addison Posca started writing Tales from the Kingdome when Deborah was 15 and Zachary was 13. They love reading, writing, and engaging in almost any type of creative activity, and like many of their projects, this book started out as just something fun to do. Read more…
Swimming in the Daylight: An American Student, a Soviet-Jewish Dissident, and the Gift of Hope is the story of the improbable friendship between Lisa Paul, an American college student, strong in her Catholic faith, and Inna Kitrosskaya Meiman, a Soviet-Jewish dissident, which takes place in the repressive 1980s Moscow, just Read more…
Wisconsin native Stacey Joy Netzel fell in love with books at a young age, so for her the graduation to writing them was natural. A member of Romance Writers of America (RWA) and Wisconsin Romance Writers (WisRWA), she credits her parents for encouraging her dreams of becoming a published author, Read more…
Gail Lukasik is a published poet and novelist. Lisel Mueller described her book of poems, Landscape Toward a Proper Silence, as a “splendid collection.” In 2002 she was awarded an Illinois Arts Council award for her poetry. She writes the Leigh Girard mystery series. Kirkus Reviews described the second book Read more…
Wisconsin author Deb Baker writes the humorous Yooper/backwoods mysteries, centering around a fictitious town in the Michigan Upper Peninsula where Gertie Johnson, mother of the local sheriff, solves murders the old fashioned way with friends Cora Mae and Kitty. Deb is working on the sixth in the series. Under her Read more…
Authors Ann Angel and Jacqueline Houtman will be honored at the prestigious Council for Wisconsin Writers Awards Luncheon on May 14 at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee. The awards honor works published in 2010. Additional details are available on the Council’s website, www.wisconsinwriters.org. Ann Angel of Brookfield will receive the Read more…
Ed Janus spent two years as a dairy farmer in Crawford County, Wisconsin, where he fell in love with cows, fields, barns, and farmers. Since then he has interviewed hundreds of people as an audio journalist, writer, and oral historian and has created radio programs for public radio, the Voice of America, and publishers Read more…
Libby Fischer Hellmann, an award-winning crime fiction author, has published seven novels. Her most recent, SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE, is a stand-alone thriller, goes back, in part, to the late Sixties in Chicago. She also writes two crime fiction series. The first, which includes the hard-boiled EASY INNOCENCE (2008) Read more…