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Raham, R. Gary
Address:
P. O. Box 399, Wellington, CO 80549
Specialties:
Science fiction, Non-fiction for children and adults, magazines, books
Skills & Media:
Magazines, science writing, personal essays, children's publications
Books:
Dinosaurs in the Garden, Explorations in Backyard Biology, The Deep Time Diaries, Teaching Science Fact with Science Fiction, numerous science workbooks, Discovery Channel Books, Bugs That Kill, The Restless Earth:Fossils
Periodicals:
Highlights for Children, Cricket, Earth, The American Biology Teacher, The North Forty News, Colorado Gardener, Trilobite Tales, Fossil News, Read, Writing!
Online Credit:
Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Science-Art.com, Bizymoms.com (SF Expert)
Other Credits:
I have many published illustrations for a variety of clients including Harcourt, Grolier, Teacher Ideas Press, Good Neighbor Press, and others
Memberships:
Colorado Author's League, Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Guild of Natural Science Illustrators, Western Interior Paleontological Society
Awards/Honors:
Highlights for Children Science Article of the Year, 1987; Colorado Author's League Award for Children's Non-fiction, 2001 and 2005; Denver Video Festival Award (1st place) 1993 for "Fossils: Uncovering Clues to the Past"; 1991: the short story "Succession" received Honorable Mention in the National Writer's Association short fiction contest and placed in the quarter finals of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future; Dinosaurs in the Garden listed as a "Best Buy for Junior High Readers" by R.R. Bowker; Poster design for "From Saur to Saur" published in Illustrators 30
Address:
P.O. Box 8862, Denver, CO 80201
Specialties:
Fiction, mystery, crime novels
Books:
Ballad of Rocky Ruiz; Ballad of Gato Guerrero; The Last Client of Luis Montez; Blues for the Buffalo; Brown-on-Brown; Moony's Road to Hell; Latinos in Lotusland; Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery; The Cocaine Chronicles
Online Credit:
Co-founder and contributor to La Bloga, labloga.blogspot.com, one of the most popular literary blogs in the U.S.
Awards/Honors:
Edgar finalist; Colorado Book Award; Top Hand; Chicano/Latino Literary Award;
Agents:
Rachelle Gardner (WordServe Literary Agency) and Ann Spangler (Ann Spangler and Company)
Specialties:
Memoir, spirituality, inspirational books, personal essays
Skills & Media:
Magazine and feature writing, writing workshops
Books:
My First White Friend, I Told the Mountain to Move
Periodicals:
The New York Times Sunday Magazine, USA Today, USA Weekend, Newsweek, Guideposts, In Touch, Christianity Today, Country Home
Online Credit:
christianitytoday.com, intouch.org
Other Credits:
National Public Radio "Weekend Edition"
Memberships:
Authors Guild, Colorado Authors League, National Association of Black Journalists
Awards/Honors:
The Christopher Award, National Mental Health Journalism Award, Sweepstakes Award (Associated Press of Colorado), General Reporting Award (Society of Professional Journalists, Colorado chapter), National Press Women and Colorado Press Women awards for feature writing.
Reese MA, APR, Janet
Specialties:
non-fiction articles, business, travel, outdoors, health, fitness, profiles, consumer, lifestyle.
Skills & Media:
magazines, business communications, articles, newsletters, website content, press releases, media kits, publicity, public speaking, media training, presentation coaching, social networking, web-ready video production
Memberships:
American Society of Journalists and Authors, Toastmasters
Awards/Honors:
DTM, Distinguished Toastmaster
Skills & Media:
Ghostwriting, Editing Anthologies, Freelance Editing, Writing Workshops, Speaking Engagements, Storytelling Performance
Books:
Managing Editor/Author/
Ghostwriter/Contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul series; Cup of Comfort Series
Ultimate Series, Best in the World Series, Rocking Chair Reader Series, God Allows U-Turns Series, Multiple anthologies
Memberships:
Colorado Authors League, Society of Children's Bookwriters and Illustrators
National Storytelling Network
Awards/Honors:
Paul Gillette Award 2001, CAL Top Hand Award 2001, Storytelling World Award 2007,
CAL Harvey Award 2008, Dozens of Storytelling/Writing and Arts Grants
Specialties:
Fiction, Novels for Children and Young Adults
Books:
Authored:
What the Moon Saw (Delacorte, ages 10 and up),
Red Glass (Delacorte, ages 10 and up).
The Indigo Notebook (Delacorte, ages 10 & up)
Star in the Forest (Delacorte, ages 7 & up)
Contributed to:
By the Seat of My Pants (Lonely Planet),
Tales from Nowhere (Lonely Planet),
The Best Women's Travel Writing 2006 (Travelers' Tales),
The Best Travel Writing 2006 (Travelers'Tales),
Mexico: A Love Story (Seal Press)
Periodicals:
Cricket, Skipping Stones, Cicada, Brain Child, Matter, Pilgrimage, Front Range Review
Awards/Honors:
For RED GLASS:
International Reading Association Award, Americas Award, CAL Harvey Award, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, Colorado Book Award Finalist, Oprah's pick.
For WHAT THE MOON SAW:
CAL Award, Colorado Book Award, Americas Award Honor Book, Junior Library Guild Selection, Parents' Choice Recommendation, Notable Social Studies Trade Book, Booklist Top Ten First Novels for Youth , New York Book for the Teen Age, Arizona Young Adult Book Award, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults.
Other: Fort Collins Arts Alive Fellowship, Puffin Grant, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant
Specialties:
Nonfiction, essays, books, articles; fiction, short stories
Books:
Handspun Treasures from Rare Wools; Knit Lit the Third; Knit Lit (too); The Knitter's Gift; High IQ Kids; Uniquely Gifted; Ariadne's Thread--A Collection of Contemporary Women's Journals
Periodicals:
American Artist; International Artist; The Artist's Magazine; Pilgrimage; Spin-Off; River Oak Review; Interweave Knits; Many Mountains Moving; Manassas Review; A Room of One's Own; Seattle Post-Intelligencer/Northwest Magazine; Country Journal; Frets; Threads; Small Press Review; Writers Forum; Twigs; Dogsoldier; Port Townsend Journal; Fiberarts
Other Credits:
http://independentstitch.typepad.com
Memberships:
American Society of Journalists and Authors; Publishers Association of the West; Independent Book Publishers Association
Awards/Honors:
Independent Publisher Book Awards and ForeWord Book of the Year Awards (as publisher)
Pseudonyms:
Robert Root, Robert L. Root Jr.
Skills & Media:
essays, memoirs, editing, nonfiction consulting, nonfiction teaching, family history
Books:
(author) Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now; Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale; E.B. White: The Emergence of an Essayist; Wordsmithery; Working at Writing; The Nonfictionist's Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction. (editor) The Fourth Genre: Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction; Those Who Do Can: Teachers Writing, Writers Teaching; Landscapes With Figures: The Nonfiction of Place; Critical Essays on E. B. White; The Island Within Us: Isle Royale Artists-in-Residence 1991-1998; Time by Moments Steals Away: The 1848 Journal of Ruth Douglass
Periodicals:
Ascent, Center, Colorado Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Ecotone, The Pinch, Rivendell, Writing on the Edge, College English, Pedagogy, JAEPL, Issues in Writing, Fourth Genre, Under the Sun, Clackamas Review, The Concord Saunterer, divide, Statement
Other Credits:
Artist-in-Residence, Isle Royale National Park 1993, Rocky Mountain National Park 2004, Acadia National Park 2006
Memberships:
Colorado Authors League, Authors Guild, Associated Writing Programs, Conference on College Composition and Communication, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Region and Nation Literature Association, Michigan Council of Teachers of English, National Council of Teachers of English
Awards/Honors:
2006 Donald Murray Prize for Best Essay on Writing, 2004 Michigan Notable Book Award, 2002 National Parks Cooperating Services Excellence in Media Award, Selected to Contemporary Authors 2001
Specialties:
Nonfiction, humor, medicine including patient-advocacy and health consumerism, and articles for newspapers, magazines and Internet journals. Co-authoring a book.
Skills & Media:
35 years as a print journalist for various newspapers here & overseas; currently freelance.
Memberships:
CAL; National Writers Union; Society of Professional Journalists
Awards/Honors:
CASE Media Fellow in transplant medicine, Univ. of Louisville School of Medicine, 2002.
Address:
P.O. Box 922, Buena Vista, CO 81211
Specialties:
non-fiction, books, magazines, online, writing coaching
Books:
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO SELF-PUBLISHING (revised 5th edition due out March 2009), JUMP START YOUR BOOK SALES, SHAMELESS MARKETING FOR BRAZEN HUSSIES
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