Northern California Publishers & Authors

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Web site: www.booksbymitchell.com

Topics

• National Missile Defense
• Military
• Homeland Security

Bio

Ed Mitchell is a former Airborne Infantry Ranger, rocket scientist, and management consultant, writing among the oaks in Monterey County, California, at least when the cat is not invading his lap.

Ed spent fourteen years crafting the Gold Lust series of contemporary thrillers. Gold Lust, the debut thriller of the series, was selected as the first “non-Steinbeck” novel accepted into the National Steinbeck Center Resource Library, followed by receiving regional recognition for Best Mystery Thriller and National recognition for Best New Fiction in the U.S. and Canada from a small press. Gold Raid, the stand-alone sequel to Gold Lust, won the Sacramento Publishers & Authors Association’s 10th annual fiction award for Best Action Book and the San Francisco Bay Area Independent Publishers Association fiction award for Best Thriller.

Ed’s stories about modern gold exploration, spy satellites, gene manipulation, hostile financial takeovers, and national security stem from the following life/career experiences:

• Latch-key child sent to juvenile hall; later a foster child on welfare, living on a dairy farm.
• West Point graduate, Army Airborne Ranger Infantryman; served overseas in Alaska and Korea.
• RAND Fellow at the RAND Corporation. The historical text he authored at RAND, on Army use of space systems, was later used as a resource text at the Army Command & General Staff College.
• Graduate from the Defense Department’s Program Management school; performed program management within the “Star Wars” program.
• Served in the U.S. Space Command as a space-ground combat analyst before and at the beginning of the 1991 war in Iraq.
• Aerospace Engineer/Consultant supporting development and launches of National Missile Defense interceptors, satellites, and targets; as well as evaluating Homeland Defense.
• Amateur prospector & member of the Gold Prospectors Association of America (GPAA).

Company: Emidra Publishing
Phone: 916-961-2450
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Web site: www.emidrapublishing.com

Topics

• Parenting
• Relationship Skills

Bio

Elva Anson, a long-time marriage family therapist and author of Becoming Soul Mates, can tell you where and how to find your soul mate. Probably not where you think. She and Everett, her husband for nearly 50 years, happily announce that you don’t find a soul mate. You learn to become one.

Elva has done more than 60 radio talk shows and has appeared on several TV talk shows. Becoming Soul Mates is her fourth book. She teaches classes on relationship, communication, time management, parenting, and marriage.

Phone: 916-454-2484
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Topics

• Thomas Jefferson
• Slavery
• U.S. History

Bio

Esther Franklin’s award-winning book, The Others at Monticello, tells of the forgotten “others.” Members of Sally Heming’s family, Thomas Jefferson’s slaves, come alive in this historical novel which contains carefully researched details about the Sage’s books and beginnings of Library of Congress. It honors the “others” neglected by history and raises relevant questions for individuals of mixed heritage today.

Phone: 916-933-6706

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Web site: www.evelynswiftbooks.info

Topic

• Historical fiction
• Contemporary fiction
• Fantasy
• Memoir

Bio

Evelyn Luscher-Swift was born and grew up in Nottingham England. She has lived in Switzerland and Germany. She writes fiction as Evelyn Swift.

Her first book, published in 1999, was a WWII memoir written in collaboration with her brother, Stanley Swift, who served in the British army. Her three historical fiction books published in 2004 — Nottingham Lace, Widdicombe Fair, Barnston Life — that comprise the Lace Trilogy depict three generations of a family from 1900 to modern times, against a background of the English lace industry. The Lostcreek Legacy is a contemporary fiction published in 2008, and is set in the Mother Lode country of California where Evelyn now lives. Wyla the Witch, also published in 2008, is a delightful fantasy for children of all ages.

Company: Prairie Angel Press
Phone: 916-781-2830
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Web site: www.hunawarrior.com

Topics

• Visionary Fiction
• Huna: The Ancient Religion of Positive Thinking
• The Cultural Creatives: America’s Latest Movement

Bio

Jennifer Martin is a former teacher and educational administrator in Northern California. She holds a B.A. in English from Holy Names College in Oakland, an M.A. in Educational Administration from California State University, Sacramento, and is listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 1998 edition.

A published writer since the age of ten, she is the co-author, along with Rosemary Dean, of The Angels Speak: Secrets from the Other Side and gives workshops on writing for the metaphysical market. She has stories in the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul series: Writers Soul, Teenage Soul Letters, Sisters Soul 2, Women Golfers Soul, and Christmas Collection (to be published in November 2007).

Jennifer has also been a television host/producer in the Sacramento area of educational programs on Channel 10 and the Sacramento Educational Cable Consortium’s Channels 71 and 72. She has hosted a national TV program on the Travel Network called Tahoe Weekly Magazine and has acted in many local commercials as well.

For many years she has had an abiding interest in Huna — an ancient healing tradition of the kahuna or shaman of Hawaii — which has culminated in her latest novel, The Huna Warrior: The Magic Begins, which made its debut in June 2006. This book won a Bronze Medal at the Independent Publishers of America book awards in June 2007. Jennifer lives in Sun City, Roseville, with her husband, Bud Gardner, and is currently writing screenplays.

Company: Barsotti Books
Phone: 530-622-4629
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Web site: www.barsottibooks.com

Topics

• Children’s Books
• Early Readers

Bio

Joan Barsotti — author, presenter, storyteller, and guest author at elementary schools — has written five children’s picture books. Her most recent book is Okei-san: The Girl from Wakamatsu for fourth to sixth grade students.

Grandmother’s Bell and the Wagon Train, 1849 is listed in the California Department of Education’s Recommended Resource Guide, California to Statehood and Beyond.

A popular visiting author, Joan Barsotti is available to go to schools in Northern California and Nevada. Need references or information about fees? Please contact Joan directly either by phone or e-mail.

Joan also enjoys speaking to daytime groups or organizations. Her books appeal to grandparents because the stories are about grandchildren and their grandparents. Her presentation is about writing and publishing children’s picture books and is appropriate for all ages. No fee, but would expect the opportunity to sell books after the presentation.

Phone: 916-852-6234
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Topics

• Historical research
• Self-publishing

Company: KP Enterprises Business Consulting, Inc.
Phone: 916-928-0888
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Web site: www.relaxfocussucceed.com

Topics

• Relax, Focus, Succeed: Encouraging Success through Balance
• Network Documentation

Company: Publishing Syndicate
Phone: 916-987-6501
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Web site: www.fishsoul.com

Topics

• Nonfiction Book Proposals
• Writing Chicken Soup Stories Successfully

Company: Walk in Peace Productions
Phone: 775-815-2872
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Web site: www.parenting-child-development.com, www.keepersofthechildren.com

Topics

• Parenting, Child Development, Parent-Child and Adult Relationships
• Raising Children to Make Life-Affirming Choices: The True Meaning of Child Discipline
• Becoming Your Child’s Spiritual Guide: Why Parenting Is About the Growth and Development of Child and Parent
• What Native Americans Can Teach Us About Parenting: From Child Stewardship to Self-Actualization
• Raising Biracial and Multiracial Children to Feel Good About Themselves

Bio

Laura Ramirez is the author of the award-winning book, Keepers of the Children: Native American Wisdom and Parenting. She is the publisher of Family Matters Online Parenting Magazine, has a degree in psychology, and lives with her husband (a Native American from the Pascua Yaqui tribe) and two children in the foothills of Northern Nevada. Laura has written hundreds of articles on raising children and the parent-child relationship. She has given talks to educators and parents and teaches an online course on parenting and child development. Laura has done numerous radio and television talk shows. Keepers of the Children is the first in a trilogy of parenting books.