By day, Steven wears the hats of Graphic Artist, Art Director, Illustrator, and Copywriter. By night, hats are hung and he writes. He has published as an illustrator, and hopes to publish as a writer within the next year. Steven is currently tapping out two novels, one Urban Fiction, the other Literary Fiction. Both have been pitched and shown interest—it’s a matter of editing to finish both and formally submit. 

Charles grew up in Dallas, living there until deciding to try a mobile lifestyle a couple of years ago. With his wife, Mary Kay, he calls an RV home, and after being rooted in Dallas for decades, he’s seldom in one spot for more than a month. Although his most recent novel had a killer first chapter and was almost readable, it mainly represented a heroic expenditure of patience from his critique group. 

He very much relies on AWOW to help him improve his craft and his next novel.  

Surprising many, none more than himself, he has emerged as a professional writer and his travel stories and essays appear quarterly in the RV magazine, Roughing It Smoothly.

Saving Ben: A Father’s
Story of Autism. He is currently writing Love Me Truly, a gay Vietnam war romance.
Burns, who is retired, is a former adjunct professor of English at the University of Texas, Arlington. His critical works appear in Modern Fiction Studies, South Central Review, Literature/Film Quarterly, Studies in the Humanities, and Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. His short film “Hide Your Love Away” was a winner at Worldfest Houston 2021. He is President of Appleseed Charities, an autism-related non-profit tax-exempt 501 (c)(3).

Melyssah Jade Colerangle is a writer, educator, and performer based in Dallas Texas. 

She has a Masters in Theatre and Film, and a Culinary, Baking, and Pastry certificate from Dallas College. 

She writes plays, films, children's, YA, and Romantic Suspense novels. She also writes songs. 

Steven M. Collins is a Business Intelligence Analyst for the University of North Texas and an adjunct professor of history for North Central Texas College. He is the author of “Dr. Gertrude Helmecke: A Young German Woman’s Life in Denton Texas, 1916-17” (Southwestern Historical Quarterly, January 2019). Other academic works, Professor Carl A. Helmecke and Nazism: A Case Study of German-American Assimilation and Intelligence and the Uprising in East Germany 1953: An Example of Political Intelligence are published on ProQuest. Steven specializes in German-American culture and is the proverbial grandfather with a funny accent to six German grandchildren. He is currently writing his first, yet-to-be-titled, fictional work. His preferred genres are romance and historical drama.

Madeleine Dale graduated from Barnard in 1981, and obtained a Master's from Columbia University's School of International Affairs in 1982. During the 1980s, she worked as a PA on two feature films and one TV Pilot, as well as producing/directing independent projects. Her life took a turn for the conventional when she entered a professional career, but she still managed to write sci-fi novels (including the Acuity trilogy -- Eternity, Inc., Blink, So1o available on Amazon). Once her son went off to college, her focus returned to writing and she workshopped material with the Columbia Fiction Foundry. After living in NYC for forty years, she moved to the beach in Kill Devil Hills, NC where she lives with her husband Karma Lama.  A Pangolin Slept on Buddha's Lap, written during the pandemic, will be released March 31, 2023

Allen grew up in a castle listening to lions roar at dusk and playing in the wilderness near the Fort Worth Zoo.  As a youth, he led role-playing games and developed a healthy imagination in the attic of his childhood home. After college at TCU, he conducted world-building throughout thirty years of military service. After leaving the service, he returned to Fort Worth and continued building worlds through writing speculative fiction and toiling in the fields of entrepreneurial endeavors. He has spoken about entrepreneurship at South by Southwest in Austin, TX and Startup Weekends in Fort Worth, TX. He has moderated and spoken on world-building panels for writing organizations like Dallas Fort Worth Writers Workshop and The Science Fiction Writers Group. “One of my greatest joys has been writing fiction inspired by the toy company Lux Blox and their founder Mike Accra.  Allen is currently working on a Space Opera working titled “Aria 51.” 

Don Eggspuehler has lived in Richardson, Texas since 1975, but he grew up in Iowa Falls, Iowa, a small town in the heartland of America. Don graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.A. in International Studies in 1969 and later became a Marine Corps officer, who flew combat bombing missions in A6-A
jets in Vietnam.
He was married for twenty-three years to Linda Combs and they had three
children, Cari, Jaime and Chad. She passed away from a brain tumor at age 46. Don’s business career included 30 years in computer software sales, management,
and consulting. His hobbies have included: golf, tennis, traveling, creating home movies, and writing. Don is now retired and happily married to his second wife, Lynda Lou (Sherman).
Don has written numerous articles for newspapers and magazines, and he
previously self-published two books: one a family memoir titled Star
Benchwarmers (2011), and a historical fiction of Iowa Falls, Iowa, from the early settlers and Civil War through the 1950’s, titled Teachings from Pop (2014). Life Lessons Learned in Grade School is his fifth book. Additionally, he wrote two other thrillers that have not been published.

After growing up in a small and famously racist town in East Texas
in the 1940s, I went on stints with
several major American
corporations in the multi-racial
societies of Mexico and Brazil. When
retirement came, a life full of
adventures demanded telling—and making sense of.

Currently, I’m working on a
mystery/thriller novel, a memoir,
and the occasional short story—a
couple of which have found their way into ezines.
Fencing with ice sabers anyone?

My name is Charlie Hilliard and I write everything but mystery. My first book is Unspoken Words which is a poetic memoir. I cannot wait to continue to publish different genres and become a better writer. 

Richard J. Gonzales is a full-time, freelance writer. He is the author of Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas (University of North Texas Press, 2016) and Deer Dancer (Sleeping Panther Press, 2017). He wrote as a contributing Fort Worth Star-Telegram guest op-ed columnist, 2001-2007 dealing with historical, cultural, political and educational Latino/a issues. He currently writes a monthly column for the same paper about Fort Worth Latino history. He has published short stories in the The Americas Review, a literary journal of the University of Houston (Arte Público Press, 1987, 1988). A non-fiction article, “Our Way Home,” appeared in the Panther City Review, 2017. His work has appeared in a Texas Christian University college reader and newspapers across the country. Latino Author com selected Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas as the number one Latino book for nonfiction in 2016 and listed Deer Dancer as a recommended fiction book to read in 2018. He wrote and directed a play Pauline and Louis, 2021, that was staged at Artes de La Rosa, Fort Worth, Texas. The Texas Book Festival in 2016 invited him to discuss Raza Rising: Chicanos in North Texas on a panel. His books can be found online at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.

Leslie Lutz writes young adult horror and thriller, short stories for the adult literary market, and poetry. She is the author of Fractured Tide, a young adult thriller about an ill-fated scuba trip that strands the protagonist on a time-bending island. Leslie’s poetry and short fiction have appeared in various journals, including Typishly, The Lyric, Raintown Review, and Orca Literary Journal. Her next YA novel, The Dark Place will hit the shelves in the fall of 2023.

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https://lesliekarenlutz.com/

Bobbie has been a technical writer and Business Professor since 1985.  After so many years of writing repetitive, eyeball numbing and just plain boring manuals, she was ready to put some fun and creativity into her lifelong passion. She joined DFW Writers Workshop and learn how to write fiction. Her first book was an experiment in Fantasy Fiction, followed by a Historical Fiction book, and her third is a physiological drama.  In 2017 she and her husband decided to sell their home and travel. They bought an RV and have been exploring the country full time ever since. 

www.BobbieRobertson.com

bobbie@Bobbierobertson.com

The Tin Man Cometh

White Buffalo Maidens

Rabbit Holes

I have been a writer all my adult life.  I retired from primarily writing emails and tech journal articles shortly before the pandemic and concentrated on short form fiction.  It was a natural transition – most of my emails were flash fiction anyway.  After binging everything on Netflix during the pandemic I wrote my first novel, The RIF, a novel about the workplace that brings new meaning to phrase “our people are our greatest asset.”  I have continued bouncing between short stories and attempting novels.  I am currently writing a murder mystery – or I think it’s a murder mystery.  I am also working on a collection of short stories. 

I have learned so much from engaging with the many talented writers on All Writers Online Workshop and the DFW Writers Workshop.  The feedback has been extremely beneficial, and I can tell it has helped me improve my writing.  I use the penname Kehoe Rogers – partly in honor of my late mother, also a would-be writer, and partly due to there being so many men and women named Shawn Rogers on social media.    

@kehoerogers

I'm a science editor by day and a science fiction author by night. My first book, Finnegan's Awake, a YA thriller about a young hacker kidnapped by mistake, was published by Fawkes Press in April 2021. My current work is a science fiction story set in London in 1984 about physics students, cops, robbers, jazz musicians, and, of course, aliens.

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https://trilbyblack.com/

BJ Sloan, is a true daughter of Texas with relatives who defended the Alamo. A bonified country girl, she grew up on the family dairy farm in central Texas. A graduate of Tarleton State University, BJ has contributed feature stories and photos for national publications of North American Simmental and Hoard’s Dairyman as well as Texas Dairyman’s Digest, Erath County Living magazine, and the Empire-Tribune newspaper. Plain-spoken and authentic, BJ’s gritty writing style explores the humorous and practical spunk of rural characters. She is currently working on fictional novels based on true stories. BJ is a member of DFW Writer’s Workshop where she currently serves as Hospitality Chair for the annual DFWCon. She has also served as VP of Outreach for the DFWWW as well as being an active member of AWOW and Women’s Fiction Writers groups. The most notable aspect that shines through all of BJ’s writing and the very thing guaranteed to fix a bad attitude simply…more cowbell.

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Shirtpocketfiction.com  #shirtpocketfiction  @sloan_bj

Daryle has a BA from the University of Kansas, JD from the University of Texas/ Pilot-USAF, Vietnam, Pilot-Delta 93-03. He writes about his journey and experiences from a center-city kid of wide open 50s and 60s to combat/airline golden-era flying and Texas trial lawyering during the heyday of those. His stories are born of particular where's and when's. He writes for himself, family, and friends; not commercially.

S.K. Terentiev, AKA Sarah Terentiev (she/any) lives in the wilds of North Texas where she's hunting for the perfect latte or tacos al pastor. A published speculative short story author, she’s fascinated by how the magical can intersect with everything from the day-to-day grind of modern-day life to far-flung future galaxy-spanning conflicts. Besides short fiction, she’s also working on her first epic fantasy novel. 

Sarah’s never seen a chupacabra or a werewolf, as far as she knows. 

Look for her on Twitter @SKTerentiev or at her website SKTerentiev.com. 

After freelance editing for several years, TwylaBeth began working with Fawkes Press in 2017 while continuing to work with select self-publishing authors. Recent titles she’s edited include COLOR CODED by Katie Proctor, FELONY AT FRIPP'S GRAVEYARD by Whitney Skeen, DARK DIAMOND by Christine Sandgren, THE MORTICIAN MURDERS series by Greta Boris, and WORST CASE SCENARIO by Larry Enmon.

She works with aspiring and established authors, providing editing support across the continuum from developmental to final dust-offs and copy proofs. Her editing philosophy: It’s important to know the rules. It’s more important to know when and how to break them to give your readers the best adventure possible.