Background
Laura was born in NJ, which means she has to fight her genetic predisposition for big hair and pork roll. She received her degree in education from Rutgers University and her Masters in history from Harvard. Her teaching experience ranges from museums to libraries and classrooms. It was while teaching the Holocaust curriculum, Facing History and Ourselves, that she learned about the story of  Terezin, the camp on which Drawn from Memory, her novel, is based.

expertise
Laura specializes in young adult and adult novel writing and independent publishing.

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Adrift, a YA contemporary fantasy. Sixteen-year-old homebody Thea Deveraux gets lost in the Bermuda Triangle while shooting her father’s travel reality television show.

Background
After a long career in advertising, Nancy turned to writing her own material, including several published memoirs. She has also published two essay collections and eight novels; memoir, however, is her special interest.

expertise
Nancy is an enthusiastic advocate for memoir.

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Old Crow, a novel written during the WCLC’s recent challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Return to Goshen, the third in the Goshen Island novel series.

Background
Evea received her Bachelor’s in creative and professional writing from Central Washington University, her Master’s in English with a Writing Specialization from Salem State University, and her Master’s of Fine Arts in Fiction from the University of New Hampshire, where she taught English Composition and fiction courses. 

expertise
Evea specializes in speculative fiction with an emphasis on the uncanny, including fantasy, world building, magical realism, and realistic fiction.

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Evea is working on an untitled, speculative fiction/fantasy novel. It is still in the early stages, but can best be described as Tim Burton meets Stranger Things.

Background
Claudette is a retired teacher living in Reading, Massachusetts. In addition to reading and writing, she enjoys golfing, hiking, skiing, and the beach. 

She is currently writing realistic fiction in short story or novel form.

expertise
Fiction, short-story and novels.

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The Deer in the Road

“A troubled young man has an encounter with a deer, setting off a series of events that force him to make life-changing decisions that will reverberate into the future.”

Background
AJ studied film and creative writing at Boston University and now runs his own independent publishing company. He has three illustrated children’s books published with plans to release a three-part novel series in 2025.

expertise
Fiction, supernatural, realistic magic, horror, mystery, children’s illustrated.

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A three-part series of magic and mystery about four high school kids, who, while doing a history project around Salem, MA, uncover a secret which will endanger their lives, threaten their souls, and change history forever.

Background
For more than a decade, Asa has been writing short—and long-form narrative. He publishes his work at www.mattcantorwriting.com.

expertise
Asa specializes in surrealism and fabulism, with an emphasis on folklore and mythology.

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Moonlight in Her Hand, Surrealism/Historical Fiction/ “At the height of Spain’s Inquisition, a Morisco girl finds herself following in the shaky footsteps of the recently deceased Don Quixote to try and right the unrightable wrongs unfolding all around her.”