NaNo Sweepstakes 2016- Visiting Authors

Nano Sweepstakes
Visiting Authors

 

Book Sale and Signing!  

We will have titles from our visiting authors available for sale at When Words Count Retreat, and they will be happy to autograph all purchases while they are on site. Personalized, signed books make wonderful holiday gifts!

 

November 6th

Kane Gilmore

Kane Gilmour- cropKane Gilmour is the international bestselling author of The Crypt of Dracula and Resurrect. His short stories have appeared in Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters, Snafu II: Survival of the Fittest, and Mech: Age of Steel. He also writes the sci-fi noir webcomic, Warbirds of Mars and the comic book adaptation of Jeremy Robinson’s novel Island 731 for American Gothic Press, and imprint of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine.

He lives with his family in Vermont. Find him on the web at http://kanegilmour.com/.

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Miranda Neville

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Miranda grew up in England and ended up in Vermont, via New York City where she worked at Sotheby’s auction house. She has lived in the Connecticut River Valley for many years and still manages to write about her native land despite the distraction of foliage, gardening, and cross-country skiing.

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November 13th

Katharine Britton

Katherine Britton- cropKatharine is the author of three novels: Her Sister’s Shadow, Little Island, and Vanishing Time (2016).

She has a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from Dartmouth College. Her screenplay, Goodbye Don’t Mean Gone, on which Vanishing Time was based, was a Moondance Film Festival winner and a finalist in the New England Women in Film and Television contest.

When not at her desk, Katharine can be found feeding baby birds at a local wild bird rehabilitation center, or in her Norwich garden, waging a non-toxic war against the slugs, snails, deer, woodchucks, chipmunks, moles, voles, and beetles with whom she shares her yard. Katharine’s defense consists mainly of hand wringing, after-the-fact.

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Amy Braun

amy-braun-headshot-cropAmy Braun was formerly a public school educator in both Arizona and Vermont. She has recorded on Vermont Public Radio, reading her own essay “The Vermont Wave” for “My Vermont” series and featured on NPR Dick Gorton’s “The Story” a 1/2 hour story on the closing of Hancock’s 208 year-old school. She is has also been a guest radio DJ on Waitsfield Vermont’s Radio Station and read the short story “Invitation Divination”, is a special guest on Middlebury Public Television’s “Our Vermont Neighbors”, and was married on TLC channel’s “The Wedding Story”.

Amy volunteers regularly at the local Rochester Town Library, runs a local writing group, and is an aspiring novelist.   Three of her short stories have been featured in “The Manuscript” published by Wilkes University Press and she is a current reader for “Hunger Mountain” Vermont College of Fine Arts Literary Magazine. She also wrote a chapter introduction for the education textbook “Why I Love Working in the Little Red Schoolhouse“. In addition, Amy wrote, produced, and directed a play entitled “I’m Telling” for the White River Valley Players production “Home-Grown Theater“. She also performs in local theater productions.

Awards include an Honorable Mention in the Ten Ten Fiction contest and winning a contest featured in “This Place Matters” on the National Register of Historic Places website.  Amy holds ahas a BA in English/Writing, an MA in Elementary Education and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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November 20th

Anne Stuart

Anne Stuart- cropAnne Stuart is a grandmaster of the genre, winner of Romance Writers of America’s prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, survivor of more than thirty-five years in the romance business, and still just keeps getting better.

Her first novel was Barrett’s Hill, a gothic romance published by Ballantine in 1974 when Anne had just turned 25. Since then she’s written more gothics, regencies, romantic suspense, romantic adventure, series romance, suspense, historical romance, paranormal and mainstream contemporary romance for publishers such as Doubleday, Harlequin, Silhouette, Avon, Zebra, St. Martins Press, Berkley, Dell, Pocket Books and Fawcett.

She’s won numerous awards, appeared on most bestseller lists, and speaks all over the country. Her general outrageousness has gotten her on Entertainment Tonight, as well as in Vogue, People, USA Today, Women’s Day and countless other national newspapers and magazines.

When she’s not traveling, she’s at home in Northern Vermont with her luscious husband of thirty-eight years, an empty nest, two cats, four sewing machines, and when she’s not working she’s watching movies, listening to audio books, acting in musicals, and spending far too much time quilting.

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Miranda Neville

???????????????Miranda Neville’s historical romances are known for their wit and playful sense of history. Ten titles with Avon/HarperCollins include the Burgundy Club series featuring Regency book collectors and the Wild Quartet, centered on the art and archeology of the era. The Importance of Being Wicked was a top ten Publisher’s Weekly romance. Her latest novel, Secrets of a Soprano, is the story of an opera singer, partly based on two great divas of the early nineteenth century. Currently she is working on a three-book series for Kensington Publishing. She is a hybrid author, having successfully self-published novels and novellas.

Miranda grew up in England and ended up in Vermont, via New York City where she worked at Sotheby’s auction house. She has lived in the Connecticut River Valley for many years and still manages to write about her native land despite the distraction of foliage, gardening, and cross-country skiing.

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November 27th

Bill Shubart

bill-schubart-cropBorn in New York City in 1945, Bill Shubart moved to Morrisville, Vermont, at the age of two. There he attended public school and then went on to Exeter, Kenyon College, and the University of Vermont. He attained a degree in French language and culture, which he taught until entering the communications field as an entrepreneur. Bill co-founded Philo Records and in 1982, Resolution, a fully integrated e-commerce services company for broadcasters, print & electronic publishers and direct marketers.

Bill has authored several books: Fat People, The Lamoille Stories, The Lamoille Stories II, Panhead, Photographic Memory, I am Baybie, and Contemporary Vermont. He also writes and speaks extensively on media, book publishing, and civic issues. He has long been a commentator on Vermont Public Radio and speaks at many industry and media events including Book Expo.  His interests include poetry, photography, stone gardening, and all music. Bill currently lives in Hinesburg, Vermont, with his wife Katherine, a journalist. See his full CV at www.Schubart.com.

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Amy Braun

amy-braun-headshot-cropAmy Braun was formerly a public school educator in both Arizona and Vermont. She has recorded on Vermont Public Radio, reading her own essay “The Vermont Wave” for “My Vermont” series and featured on NPR Dick Gorton’s “The Story” a 1/2 hour story on the closing of Hancock’s 208 year-old school. She is has also been a guest radio DJ on Waitsfield Vermont’s Radio Station and read the short story “Invitation Divination”, is a special guest on Middlebury Public Television’s “Our Vermont Neighbors”, and was married on TLC channel’s “The Wedding Story”.

Amy volunteers regularly at the local Rochester Town Library, runs a local writing group, and is an aspiring novelist.   Three of her short stories have been featured in “The Manuscript” published by Wilkes University Press and she is a current reader for “Hunger Mountain” Vermont College of Fine Arts Literary Magazine. She also wrote a chapter introduction for the education textbook “Why I Love Working in the Little Red Schoolhouse“. In addition, Amy wrote, produced, and directed a play entitled “I’m Telling” for the White River Valley Players production “Home-Grown Theater“. She also performs in local theater productions.

Awards include an Honorable Mention in the Ten Ten Fiction contest and winning a contest featured in “This Place Matters” on the National Register of Historic Places website.  Amy holds ahas a BA in English/Writing, an MA in Elementary Education and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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