For the A to Z Challenge, I will be featuring up to three
authors per letter (via their last name). Some of the authors responded to my
request for authors to promote. Others, I found. Please check them out and
their books. Thank you!
Our "P" Authors
Paye, H.C.
H.C.Paye has been an author for over five years, and a writer for as long as she
can remember. Through her writing experience, she's helped other authors with
her skills and knowledge in the publishing industry. In 2008, her first novel
A Gift from Above was published, making her the youngest novelist in
Arizona.
In
the past few years, she acquired the title of "editor" at Joyfully Reviewed and
decided to make the hobby she loves - Graphic Design - her professional career.
Recently, she expanded her work towards not only authors, but businesses and
people of all types with her business design area, expanding with over 20 new
design types including business cards, brochures, and restaurant
menus.
Today, Miss Paye continues to write and is working toward a bachelors
degree in liberal arts to further improve her graphic design skills. In her
spare time, she enjoys reading, entertaining her Twitter followers with her
random quips, and actively supporting her favorite organizations such as the Ian
Somerhalder Foundation and the HOPE Animal Shelter.
Links: Blog Website Twitter Facebook YouTube
Links: Website: http://martinpond.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/
Pope, Christine
Pond, Martin
Born in East Kent in 1970, Martin was educated at the
University of East Anglia... but unlike many more famous writers didn't
study Creative Writing there or do "The MA". A career in IT followed,
and continues to pay the bills. In 2007 Martin made a hesitant return to
fiction, not having written remotely seriously since his student days. He returned to UEA too, and took a diploma in Creative Writing.
Martin's stories have appeared in Unthology No 1, Streetcake magazine and Alliterati magazine, whilst three poems have appeared in The Artillery Of Words magazine.
He is currently working on a novel-length work, Drawn To The Deep End, and, as an experiment, is publishing the first draft, unedited, in weekly online instalments.
Martin's first collection of short fiction, Dark Steps, was published in August 2011.
Links: Website: http://martinpond.blogspot.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/
Pope, Christine
A native of Southern California, Christine Pope has been writing stories
ever since she commandeered her family’s Smith-Corona typewriter back
in the sixth grade. Her short fiction has appeared in Astonishing Adventures, Luna Station Quarterly, and the journal of dark fiction, Dark Valentine.
She published three novels with Pink Petal Books before going indie in
mid-2011. Her first self-published book was the novella Breath of Life, a science fiction reinterpretation of the classic Beauty and the Beast story, and was followed by Bad Vibrations,
a paranormal romance romp featuring a psychic, a ufologist, and alien
conspiracies. Releases for 2012 so far have included No Return, a modern retelling of the Phantom of the Opera story, and Heart of Gold, a gaslight fantasy romance.
Not one to be pigeonholed into just one sub-genre of
romance, Christine Pope writes as the mood takes her, and her work
encompasses paranormal romance, fantasy, horror, science fiction, and
historical romance. She blames this on being easily distracted by
bright, shiny objects, which could also account for the size of her shoe
collection. After spending many years in the magazine publishing
industry, she now works as a freelance editor and graphic designer in
addition to writing fiction. She lives with her husband and an
explosively fluffy Pomeranian mix in the San Gabriel Valley of Southern
California, and in fact just returned to the town where she was born,
thus disproving the theory that you can’t go home again.
Links: Website Twitter @ChristineJPope Facebook Tumblr
Now, if you like fantasy
flash fiction, please visit my other blog participating in the challenge: Cherie Reich - Author.
To find the other participants, click here.
