Category: Featured Author

Featured Author: Silvano Williams

Silvano Williams was born in Puerto Rico in 1975 and moved to Houston, Texas during his teen years. There he went to High School and College and began courses to obtain a Minor in Creative Writing. During his school years, Silvano became an avid reader and writer for the sole purpose of mastering the English language. Although his writing generally received a good reception, he did not take his talents seriously, so he gave away many of his stories to friends or simply threw them away. Not being able to jump into a field of study relating to the entertainment business, coupled with having to make several hard choices in his life, he refocused his career and dropped out of college.

With the advent of computers becoming a common household item and a new technology era happening during that time, the choice between a career path and his artistic nature became a logical affair, and Information Technology became his new passion while writing was set aside as a hobby. However, after almost two decades of daydreaming and enjoying the emergence of new mediums of entertainment and publishing, Silvano has reopened the doors to his imagination planning to expose the world to the crazy universes living inside his head. Currently, he resides in Katy, Texas with his wife and two children. And yes, they think he is crazy too.

Lear more about Silvano from his Amazon author page and his website.

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Featured Author: William Hertling

William Hertling is the author of the award-winning Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears and A.I. Apocalypse, near-term science-fiction novels about realistic ways strong AI might emerge. His books have been called “frighteningly plausible”, “tremendous”, “must read”.

These technothrillers are based in realistic technology because he’s worked in the tech industry for nearly twenty years, and holds more than a dozen patents in computer programming and network.

He’s also written articles about the future of robotics and artificial intelligence and how to predict the future.

He’s been influenced by writers such as Charles Stross, Cory Doctorow, Walter Jon Williams, and William Gibson.

William Hertling was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up a digital native in the early days of bulletin board systems. His first experiences with net culture occurred when he wired seven phone lines into the back of his Apple //e, creating an online chat system.

He currently resides in Portland, Oregon, and is working on his third novel, The Last Firewall. By day he works on web and social media for HP. Follow him on twitter at @hertling or visit his blog williamhertling.com.

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Featured Author: Christie Meierz

Christie Meierz is the author of the Amazon bestsellers The Marann, Into Tolari Space, and Daughters of Suralia. Born in Chicago, she grew up in southern California and has traveled extensively with her family all over the United States. She now lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and can say that she has at least set foot and eaten a meal in all 50 States and several of the U.S. Territories.

Christie isn’t certain when she started writing, but she thinks it was in second grade, when she was seven years old. None of her early writings survive, for which she is profoundly grateful. It didn’t occur to her to publish any of her work until the spring of 2012, when she set fingers to keyboard while recovering from a serious illness and started writing a story that would later become The Marann. Before the summer was over, she’d written the basis of three novels and a half dozen shorter stories.

Going indie seemed like the logical choice at the time and proved to be the best one, giving her a great deal of freedom to decide where her writing is going and how it’s presented. She loves to hear from readers as they discover the worlds she’s created.

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Featured Author: Denise Culley

Denise Culley: Love Educator, Coach and Author

Denise Culley is the author of SoulMate Map and Dating Isn’t Scary When You Know These Secrets. She is the founder of Soulmateplan.com, a relationship site dedicated to educating women about love. Her mission is to empower women to see their own worth, raise their standards for how to be loved, and teach them how to “Pick” better partners.

Denise has years of experience as a love educator and coach. She and her husband Emmett started Relationships 123, the parent company to SoulMate Plan. Leading “Inspired Relationships” programs, she helped many couples achieve the relationships of their dreams, reconciling marriages on the verge of divorce and helping other couples take their marriage to new levels of happiness.

“Ten years ago, I had a history of dating disappointments and disasters,” Culley said. “Once my eyes were opened, I felt compelled to share these insights with my friends. After they were marveled by these new insights and success with men and relationships, they were compelled to share with their friends.”

“Suddenly I was hosting courses in my home,” Culley said. “This grew very quickly to being invited to lead workshops in six cities across the country using our special approach to teaching.”

“I help women discover old, ‘bankrupt’ patterns and replace them with new ones that bring immediate change. I believe women’s enlightened understanding about men and their role as a partner is the key to significantly reduce the divorce rate and unhappy unions.” Continue reading “Featured Author: Denise Culley”