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Robert Dalby is a native of Mississippi and lifelong patron of the Piggly Wiggly. Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly is his first novel. www.pigglywiggly.com/
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Cindy Daniel lives in Rockwall, Texas (a lakeside suburb of Dallas) with her husband. She works as an orthopedic research coordinator at a Dallas area children's hospital.
Her debut novel, Death Warmed Over, was released in hardcover in October 2003; it was followed by A Family Affair in November 2005. This new series, set in the East Texas Bible belt, is packed with sibling rivalry, lust, old-fashioned Christian guilt, death of a beauty queen, and, of course, pickup trucks. www.deathwarmedovermysteries.com
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J. Brooks Dann, author of Anecdotal and 2007 Timber Guy of the Year. J. Brooks Dann is a strategic adviser to companies and has been a contributor to several national publications on innovation and technology. Currently, he lives in many places, but mostly in Northern California. This is his first novel.
www.jbrooksdann.typepad.com/
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Carol Dawson, author of several books including the non-fiction story of House of Plenty and several novels that include The Mother In Law Diaries, Body of Knowledge and The Waking Spell.
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Loraine Despres was born in the snows of Chicago, but within months moved to a little town in Louisiana. She grew up in the family home. It had white columns on the front porch and bullet holes in her bedroom wall. She discovered her love of books at the local grammar school, but her real education came from her
grandmother, who wanted her to become a gracious Southern lady; her popular aunt, who taught her on how to flirt; and her mother, who just didn't want the boys to take advantage of her. Loraine kept their advice in her head, adding to it over the years, and giving it the ironic name, the Southern Belle's Handbook. It became her survival manual for life and she lent it, with
some changes, to Sissy in The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc.
Loraine grew up Jewish in a little Bible belt town with no Jewish congregation. Like the Rubinstein children in her latest novel, The Bad Behavior of Belle Cantrell, she was an equal-opportunity churchgoer. She has fond memories of Sunday school at the Episcopal Church and Summer Bible sessions learning to sing hymns and climb trees with the
Methodists. When her father had his first heart attack, all the churches in town prayed for him, which may well have played a role in his recovery. But she was always an outsider. Her school friends were convinced that, unfortunately, she was going to hell. Her parents told her she always had to be on her best behavior, because she was "a representative for our people."
Loraine was rarely on her best behavior. www.lorainedespres.com/
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Ronlyn Domingue's debut novel, The Mercy of Thin Air, was a finalist for the 2005 Borders Original Voices Award and has been acquired in 11 other countries. Her writing has appeared in New England Review, Clackamas Literary Review, New Delta Review, and The Independent (UK). Born and raised in South Louisiana, Ronlyn lives there still and is at work on her second book. www.ronlyndomingue.com
http://www.myspace.com/themercy
ofthinair http://www.simonsays.com
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Phil Doran. A TV producer for more than twenty-five years, Phil has worked as a writer-producer for such shows as Sanford and Son, Too Close for Comfort, and Who's the Boss?; as a writer for The Wonder Years; as well as writing episodes of The Bob Newhart Show and writing for
such variety-show stars as Tim Conway, the Smothers Brothers, and Tony Orlando. He received an Emmy nomination, a Humanitas Award, and the Population Institute Award for his work on All in the Family. He has also written for the Los Angeles Times. He and his wife divide their time between Tuscany and their home in California. www.reluctanttuscan.com
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Cindy Dyson is nothing like any character in her book. She wouldn’t even hang with people who were anything like characters in her book. While she is blonde and did grow up in Alaska, any resemblances to her characters are just rumors started by questionable friends. Okay, she did have a few wayward years, and she did sling
drinks at the notorious Elbow Room. But not for very long, and she’s never eaten mummy flesh, although she has tried muktuk (whale blubber) as well as lusta (fermented seal flipper).
In fact, Cindy is a respectable member of her of community near Glacier National Park, MT. She has a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and was a reporter for a few years. She wrote scads of magazine articles and several nonfiction kids’ books. Mostly she’s a mom, a foster parent and an elitist
homeschooler, who does exciting things like drag her kids to library story hour and teach toddler karate classes. cindydyson.com
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