Sara Crummett Carillo

I'm Sara Carillo, author of fiction, romance and suspense novels. Bella Books, seven titles, Sara Marx Sunstar Books, one title, Sara M Marx Indie Pub, one title, Sara Crummett I have also served as ghost writer for romance novelists who are now actually dead. Over the years I have subsidized my writing career with radio and television voiceover and announcing, including guest hosting on the Home Shopping Network and playing dead people in true crime reenactments because I can really make it look like I'm not breathing. When I'm not writing for dead people or playing one on TV, I am the proud parent to two adult children who are successful healthcare workers because my creative patchwork career scared the hell out of them. I'm going to take that as a win. My wife is a television sportscaster and has enjoyed enough success to never have had to play dead. We have three dogs, mostly doodles, mostly insane. We live near the beach in Naples.

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Ed DeJesus

Ed DeJesus (pronounced D Geezus) joined Indies United Publishing in January 2025. His thriller novel, The Vulnerable, debuts in April 2025. His award-winning short story, From Darkness to Light: Thankful Tonight, which first appeared in Voices from Lowell & Beyond, will join other "Small Bites" contest winners in Indies United 2025 Anthology and sample his forthcoming memoir collection, Simpler Times in The Spindle City. A technopreneur, he was President of Sightline Solar, CEO of JustZip.com, and VP of Engineering for MSL. Previously, his pioneering work at Digital Equipment Corp was published in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Design Automation journals. He served in the US Army Reserves and opened a record store with his wife in the vinyl era. Born in Lowell, MA, he raised his family in Chelmsford, MA, and resides in Fort Myers, FL, where he's weathered multiple category-4 hurricanes. When Ed’s not immersed in his writing or at the gym, he finds joy in reading, dancing, singing Karaoke, and traveling the world with his wife and children, who reside in New Hampshire and Sydney, Australia. A member of The Gulf Coast Writers Association and contributor to the Richardhowe.com blog, his education includes Computer Science from Boston University and Creative Writing from UMass Lowell.

Steve Denison

I am a professor of genetics and microbiology with interests in poetry and the history of science. I published my first book, Settlers, in August 2024. It is a science fiction book about climate change and time travel and the power of art to inspire change. I have carried out research on connections between the writings of Darwin and Wordsworth at the University of Cambridge and Lancaster University in the UK. My hobbies include playing bluegrass music.

Brian Devitt -3 posts

My Name is Brian Devitt. I have been a ‘tech guy’ for as long as I can remember. It could be the first transistor radio my father brought home or messing around with resistors, capacitors, and power supplies in my childhood friend’s basement. I was always fascinated by things that seemed to work as if by magic. Of course, as I grew older, I became more interested in how the magic works. I entered college in 1973 with aspirations of becoming a medical doctor, so I pursued a degree in Biology as a pre-med curriculum. Along the way, I accepted an NROTC (Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps) scholarship. When I graduated in 1977, I had a degree in Biology and a job in the U.S. Navy as a newly commissioned junior officer. After serving at sea on the USS Biddle (CG-34), I accepted a shore duty assignment as an NROTC instructor at Villanova University. (What comes around goes around.) While there, I decided not to pursue medicine anymore but instead catch the technological wave of computing; I went for a Master’s in Computer Science. When my NROTC instructor assignment ended, I resigned from active duty and pursued a civilian career in Information Technology, and I never looked back. Throughout it all, I wrote some short stories and some novels. You can learn more about me by checking out my website @briandevitt.net

Ed Donlin

Edward F. Donlin, born 1946 in Youngstown, Ohio graduated Ursuline High School class of 1964, hired onto Erie Railroad, and attended Youngstown University while unsuccessfully trying to avoid the draft. My Uncle Sam wrote me a letter and off I went. After a mostly unremarkable 23 month, mostly in Germany, I resumed my career on the railroad while tending bar, managing said bar& kitchen and assisting in the management plus being the door man that some assumed was also the bouncer for 8 years. Conrail ruined my railroad, and I tired of the bar, so I was forced to take a severance which I invested in a boat dealership (sailboats). Five years later the family, wife Marion, son Christopher and I moved to Florida where I worked in various aspects of the marine industry. To promote those endeavors, I began writing, producing and hosting a reality television show which nearly went national. After recovering from a near death experience, I and included my son as host of a series of reality restaurant and water-oriented television shows. I have been writing, for many years and have the rejection letters to prove it. My bottom drawer of my desk is full of work that I am now self-publishing on Amazon. I have been a dues paying member of the Gulf Coast Writers Association on and off since the late 1990a & and I am happy to assume the role of web manager this (2024) year. Recently. I have been sidelined by additional health problems and surgeries that I fully expect to recover from, but after 78 years I know there is no certainty in this life. I just keep trying to empty my head of all the stories while leaning forward.

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Thekla Fagerlie-Madsen

THEKLA MADSEN is co-author with retired Cleveland cop Karl Bort of: Bad JuJu in Cleveland, Angry Nurse, and Bad JuJu and the Eye of Oya. Thekla was a corporate business analyst, technical writer, and marketing consultant. She is a member of the Twin Cities Chapter of Sisters In Crime, Wisconsin Writers Association, and the Gulf Coast Writers Association. Her short story It Never Ends Well is published in the Twin City SIC chapter’s anthology “Minnesota Not So Nice: Eighteen Tales of Bad Behavior.” Thekla and her husband divide their time between Wisconsin and Southwest Florida.

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Laura Fuller

Laura is a registered nurse, a self-taught website creator, and a proficient SEO blog post writer. She also operates as a freelance writer specializing in healthcare content. She has always had a desire to uplift others. Rather than telling others they need to heal, Laura writes fiction, offering them a non-judgemental environment to see the light and begin their journey. When Laura is not at her computer typing away, she finds great delight in gardening, losing herself in the pages of a good book, and providing unwavering support to others as they navigate their journey to overcoming and healing.

Claudia Geagan

Claudia has degrees in English and Finance and spent most of her life in cold cities and big corporations. These days she lives and writes in Fort Myers, Florida. Her work has appeared in River Teeth's Beautiful Things, The Louisiana Review, Adelaide Literary Magazine, Prometheus Dreaming, The Lindenwood Review and others. She has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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Rob Gilmore

CEO of 3 software companies, US Army veteran, married 55 yrs, some writing but never published, recently retired with more writing, traveled to 33 countries,

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