BOOC: Authors

Genres: Children's Picture Books

Areas of Expertise: Baton Twirling Majorettes

Bio: My daughter started twirling the baton when she was 4 years old. I looked everywhere for storybooks about twirlers with no luck, so I wrote my own. The Molly the Majorette storybooks are all based on the real-life adventures of my little twirler.

Genres: Non-Fiction, Educational, Parenting

Areas of Expertise: Youth Leadership, Involving Teens, Raising Leaders (Parenting), Designing Leadership Curricula

Bio: Mariam G. Macgregor, MS, founded and runs Youthleadership.com, an online resource center for individuals working with youth leaders. She is a former school counselor who also served as coordinator of leadership programs at an alternative high school in Colorado.

Genres: Non-Fiction, Business, Self-Help

Areas of Expertise: Personal Finance, Courting Financial Success, Coaching Your Team to Greatness, Winning Sales

Bio: Jenifer Madson is a former financial services broker who now teaches people how to get what they want by improving their relationship with money. She coaches corporations and individuals on the process of financial transformation.

Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Thriller, Spirituality, Suspense

Areas of Expertise: The Psychic Detective or Unconventional Creativity

Bio: Alex Marcoux’s newest suspense thriller is A MATTER OF DEGREES. In this mystery involving esoteric traditions she features a precognitive novelist as her protagonist. Her second novel, BACK TO SALEM, was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best Mystery, and her debut novel, FACADES, was introduced in 2000.

Genres: Non-Fiction

Areas of Expertise: Poetry, Criticism, Creative Nonfiction, Greek Literature, Irish Literature, British and American Lit

Bio: David Mason is the author or editor of nine books, including The Country I Remember, Arrivals, The Poetry of Life and the Life of Poetry, and the anthologies Twentieth Century American Fiction, Twentieth Century American Poetics, and Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry.