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Stillwater, MN 55082

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Laine Jacob - Irma: Memoirs of a Vampire Gone Dry
Laine has worked in a bookstore, as a state social worker and spent 20 years in a Japanese bank. She sits up late at night reading cookbooks and settles for rare steak. Her son holds up the family honor by being a New Yorker. She lives in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg with her husband and her dog Blake.

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Kevin Clemens - Eat Free or Die
                           - Motor Oil For a Car Guy's Soul

Kevin is the Editor-at-Large for European Car magazine. The award-winning writer and adventurer, has driven north of the Arctic Circle in the dead of winter, across the searing deserts of China in the heart of summer, through the perils in the republics of the former Soviet Union, in 41 foreign countries all 50 states.

Aside from restoring and racing vintage sports cars, Kevin spends his remaining spare time with his Australian shepherd Mikka conducting volunteer search and rescue work for FEMA.

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Steve Semken - Pick Up Stick City

Steve resides in North Liberty, Iowa. He has restored a few old houses, likes to bike,fly fish and tell wild stories.
He has been writer-in-residence at the Island Institute in Sitka, Alaska and the recipient of numerous Iowa Arts Council
awards for his writing.

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John A. Martin Jr. -When White is Black

John was raised from infancy to young adulthood in Berkeley, California, where he later spent the bulk of his professional career, as the general director of a social service agency. His life journey has included four years of service in the U.S. Air Force, B.A. and M.A. degrees from San Francisco State University and the University of Omaha respectively, post Master's degree study at Tufts University and the University of California at Berkeley, and a wonderfully satisfying professional life working in anti-poverty programs, social service, education, and civil rights organizations. He is the father of four, and he has four grandchildren.

This is his debut novel.

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Donald Mace Williams -Black Tuesday's Child

Donald Mace Williams lives in Canyon, Texas. A former newspaper writer and editor, he is the author of two nonfiction books: Italian POWs and a Texas Church: The Murals of St. Mary's and Timberline, U.S.A.: High-Country Encounters from California to Maine . In addition, Williams has had poems published in Barrow Street, Iron Horse Literary Review, Western Humanities Review, South Dakota Review, Westview, Concho River Review, and other magazines.

He taught journalism in three universities and then returned to newspaper work. His last newspaper job was as writing coach, weekly columnist, and occasional feature writer for The Wichita Eagle. He had also been, among other things, executive editor of the Pine Bluff (Arkansas) Commercial, city editor of the Amarillo Globe-News, assistant city editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and a special writer for Newsday (Long Island).

A lover of the outdoors, Williams hikes frequently in Palo Duro Canyon, near his house, and also skis, casts flies for trout, and hikes in the Rocky Mountains of New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. He studied singing for many years, sang solo parts in oratorio and musical comedy, and gave recitals of lieder and art songs at several colleges and universities. He is fairly fluent in German, has some knowledge of Spanish and French, can read a little Italian, and has tried off and on for ten years to teach himself the rudiments of Latin.

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John Young Sohn -Korean Gakuhei: My Life in the Japanese Army

John Young Sohn lives with his wife in California. He was born in Yanggu (North) Korea in 1923, graduated from Wonsan Commercial School, followed by a Seoul Commercial College. Drafted into the Japanese Army in 1943. After the War, he emigrated to the United States and received his Ph.D from Indiana University. He worked for the Defense Language Institute for many years.

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Monica Knott -Uncertain Flight

Born into a wealthy, Catholic family in 1935, in a small town near Glatz in Hummeslstadt in Silesia. Her father was a lawyer and an accomplished pianist. Her mother was an operetta singer. As a young girl, Monica witnessed the fall of Germany during the Second World War as well the horrific aftermath of the Russian occupation. Monica was deported to Broistedt, a small town in West Germany, around 1946 by cattle train with her identical twin sister, brother and mother.

Ms. Knott was educated at the Renata Hochschule in Hildesheim in 1953. From there, a four year college in Hanover. She also graduated from the prestigious "Erstes Mannequin (modeling school) in Duesseldorf in 1953. Five years later, she and her twin sister emigrated to America.

Ms. Knott taught German at an elementary school in Wentzville, MO, and also at the Berlitz school in St. Louis. In 1960 she became the first twin flight attendant hired in the world of aviation for Ozark Airlines (later TWA).

Recently, Ms. Knott owned businesses as a wedding hostess/coordinator and sold oil paintings.

She loves to work with people and has been very successful in whatever she has done. She traveled the extensively and has been living a very interesting life. Ms. Knott has two grown children and lives in The Woodlands, TX. In her free time she enjoyes exercise, classical music, theater, watching true stories & war movies, entertaining, traveling, gardening and animals.