H. L. Dyer
H.L. Dyer works as the Clinical and Academic Director for the Hospitalist Program at a pediatric teaching hospital near Chicago. She loves that she can now combine her work as a pediatrician with training future physicians.
Her novel,
THE EDGE OF MEMORY, is represented by
Katherine Boyle of Veritas Literary Agency. In addition to all things literary (which includes grilling her legion of test readers), she enjoys experimental cooking and composing impromptu parodies to annoy close friends and family.
Mary Lindsey
Mary Lindsey writes paranormal fiction and lives on the Texas Gulf Coast with her husband, three kids, two dogs, her daughter's pet rats, an Australian Bearded Dragon and dozens of Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches. (The roaches are long story—don't ask.)
Mary is represented by the
Erin Murphy Literary Agency. Her young adult paranormal romance, SHATTERED SOULS (Philomel/Penguin), is scheduled for release Fall 2011.
Prior to attending University of Houston Law School, Mary received a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Drama from the University of Houston. She's taught drama and playwriting in a large public high school and English in a private school. Currently, she teaches acting to children and teens at a private studio. She's a member of The Writer's League of Texas, SCBWI, RWA and WH-RWA.
Elana Johnson
Elana is the author of
FROM THE QUERY TO THE CALL, an ebook that covers everything you need to know about querying and securing a literary agent. She will be speaking at a conference in April 2010, covering the topics of querying the national market and writing a killer query letter.
Elana is represented by Michelle Andelman at
Lynn C. Franklin Associates.
She wishes she could experience her first kiss again, tell the mean girl where to shove it, and have cool superpowers like reading minds and controlling fire. To fulfill her desires, she writes young adult science fiction and fantasy.
She runs a
personal blog on writing as well as a
query critique blog.
Carolyn Kaufman
Carolyn Kaufman has a doctorate in clinical psychology and teaches college full-time in Columbus, Ohio. She is represented by
Kate Epstein of the Epstein Literary Agency and her first book,
THE WRITER'S GUIDE TO PSYCHOLOGY: How to Write Accurately About Psychological Disorders, Clinical Treatment and Human Behavior (Quill Driver Books) is slated for an autumn 2010 release.
In addition to her work on the QueryTracker.net Blog, she runs
Archetype: Psychology for Fiction Writers, where writers will find articles about psychology tailored to their needs. They can also
ask her their writing/psychology questions and read the answers on the Archetype Writing
blog.
She is often quoted by the media as an expert resource and has appeared in magazines such as
Marie Claire and
Seventeen, newspapers like
The Boston Globe and
The Plain Dealer, and books like Andrea Kay’s
Work’s a Bitch and then You Make It Work.
Suzette Saxton
Suzette Saxton is a stay-home mom of three children, two of them beautiful and one of them a teenager. She writes fiction for children of all ages and is represented by
Suzie Townsend of FinePrint Literary Management.
You can find Suzette volunteering at the school library on Wednesdays, mentoring teen writers through the Literati Outreach program on Saturdays, and reading to her own children every day of the week. Though occasionally she can be forced to take a walk in the lovely little canyon in which she lives, at all other times you can find her writing.
The Bone Setter, her short story inspired by a dream, was published in
Mindflights Magazine's ezine and later republished in their print edition. She has a special love of dark fairy tales and very old nursery rhymes. You can find Suzette on
Twitter,
Facebook,
her personal blog, or her
website.
Last updated: April 3, 2010
