Steve S. Saroff

Steve Saroff is a short-story writer, novelist, and inventor who dropped out of high school and then started launching and selling successful companies, and as an investor and adviser helped launch Submittable, the submission system used by writers and publishers. Steve Saroff is the author, most recently, of the literary novel Paper Targets (Flooding Island), which spent 3+ months on Amazon Top 100 lists. His traditionally published short stories appeared in Redbook and other national glossy magazines, and his work has been published widely in small publications, including Cutbank, Arlington Literary Journal, Whitefish Review, The Montana Review, Monkeybicycle, Bull Literary Journal, and more. Saroff is the host of the podcast Montana V

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Iris Yamashita

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Melanie Ansley

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Milana Marsenich

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Gary R. Simonds

Gary Simonds practiced the full breadth of neurosurgery for decades in the US Army, Geisinger Clinic, and as the Chief of Neurosurgery at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. He has performed thousands of highly complex procedures on adults and children and cared for tens of thousands of patients. In addition to his expertise in neurosurgery and the neurosciences, he is interest in an array of related subjects including: medical ethics, medical socioeconomics, humanism, doctor patient interactions, patient advocacy, and burnout and psychological distress in healthcare workers. He has co-authored with Clinical Psychologist Wayne Sotile three non-fiction books on burnout and resilience in healthcare workers and has recently written
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K.R. Hill is a mystery/thriller author. He left the states at a young age to satisfy a need for adventure. During a decade of travel he harvested apples in Switzerland, taught English in Germany, lived on a kibbutz in Israel, traveled atop supply trucks across Sudan, and lived in an abandoned house beside the Caribbean, where he daily spear-fished for food. While abroad, he wrote several novels and sold travel articles.

If you'd like a free book, join his mail list here: www.authorkrhill.com

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Julie McCarthy

63 year old writer of poems and very short stories. One recently published early August 2022.

Title "Just add coffee or tea a tea break read mix of my poems"

I will be starting a new book soon. The above is only available on kindle e books Amazon.

I write about anything and everything whatever my soul or spirit thinks of at the time.

I am retired from a full time medical transcriptionist. I have 3 grown children, no grandkids. I live with my lifetime partner.

hobbies are reading writing crochet music movies walking photography beach and mountain drives.
I am currently into 2nd year of learning the piano online.

Thankyou if you do read my book.

watch this space for more updates,

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