As I posted on
Monday, this blog is part of the upcoming Calling All
Critiques cross-blog event. Today’s post is to introduce the
bloggers who will be participating, critiquing, and calling everyone
they know to help support those brave souls who have shared their
work. You can read more about the event here:
Calling All Critiques:
A Cross-Blog Event.
Meet Our Hosts
We have seven
fabulous bloggers who will be participating in Calling All Critiques.
Brian Basham
Brian grew up and
still lives in Va Beach, VA where he spends his time playing with his
black lab, Sadie, a.k.a. Inspector Puppy. In his spare time he plays
softball, poker, and the occasional video game. Oh, and he writes
too. You can read some of his stories for free at
his
Wattpad page. The first novel in his Virtual Wars
series is going through edits and rewrites with no current release
date announced. He blogs about writing, publishing, movies, and
whatever else he feels like talking about at
http://www.brian-basham.com/.
MM Jaye
MM
Jaye is the pen name of Maria Messini, a bilingual Greek native who
lives in Athens with her husband and daughter. She is a
certified translator and also teaches the art of translation to young
adults. Writing was Maria’s idea of therapy when, back in 2009,
her spirits had temporarily nosedived, but she didn't take it
seriously until her first manuscript was completed last year. Since
November, she’s been building her author platform aiming at
publishing
Fate Accomplis, her first contemporary romance, in
the fall, along with
Fate Captured, a prequel novelette. She
blogs at
mmjayewrites.com
and
myfriendsexcerpts.wordpress.com.
You can also find her on Twitter
@MMJaye
or
Facebook.com/MMJayeauthor.
Quanie
Miller
Quanie Miller grew up in New Iberia, Louisiana. She
fell in love with reading at an early age and spent most of her time
at the Iberia Parish Library discovering authors like R.L. Stine and
Christopher Pike (she was often found walking back home from the
library with a stack of books that went up to her chin). She holds
degrees from Louisiana State University and San Jose State
University. She has been the recipient of the James Phelan Literary
Award, the Louis King Thore Scholarship, the BEA Student
Scriptwriting Award, and the Vicki Hudson Emerging Writing Prize. Her
debut novel,
It Ain't Easy Being Jazzy, is a romantic comedy
loosely based on her experiences living and working in Silicon
Valley. Her first paranormal novel is called
The New Mrs. Collins
and is slated for a September 2014 release. She lives in Charleston,
South Carolina with her husband and is currently, as always, working
on another novel. To find out more about Quanie and her works in
progress follow her on Twitter
@quaniemiller
or visit
quaniemiller.com
and
quanietalkswriting.com.
S. L.
Saboviec
Samantha grew up in a small town in Iowa but now
lives in the suburbs of Toronto with her Canadian husband and
expatriate cat. In her spare time, she reads, writes, and thinks
about reading and writing—along with playing the occasional
video game or eight. She's expecting her first child in September,
but pregnancy has only slowed her down a little; her debut release,
Guarding Angel, will be available May 19th. She blogs
speculative fiction book reviews at
the
Magic & Mayhem Book Review Blog and tweets about
life and writing from
@Saboviec.
M.G. Silverstein is
a YA fantasy novelist and fantasy genre blogger. She is currently
completing her second Bachelor’s degree in English (her first
is in Hospitality Management/Culinary Arts). Her debut YA fantasy
novel
Elemental will be available in 2015.
Although she
considers the Washington, D.C. metro area her favorite place on
Earth—she isn’t ‘from’ anywhere. Having lived
in 7 states, 14 cities, and 2 different countries, the only place she
feels at home is when reading or writing fantasy. You can visit her
at
www.mgsilverstein.com
to hear her musings on both the fantasy genre and writing a
fantasy novel.
Christie Stratos
Christie Stratos is
an editor and award-winning author who lives in the New York area and
holds a degree in English Literature. An avid reader of all genres
and world literature, Christie reads everything from bestsellers to
classics and is always on top of current publishing trends and
technology. In her spare time, you can find her playing French Horn
for musicals, small ensembles, orchestras, and a 10-year-old
community band for which she was a founding member. Christie can be
reached through her editing business,
Proof
Positive, her
author
website and
blog,
Twitter,
Google+,
Facebook,
and
Goodreads.
Mike Verbickas
Mike says: Growing
up in a small town, you spend a lot of your time thinking, dreaming
and waiting. It's this experience I credit to why I became a writer.
A trained journalist
and fiction writer, I think I bring a unique mix of skills to the
blogosphere. In journalism, you feel most alive when meeting diverse
people and experiencing new things. After all, who can't pass up a
good story?
Only one week
left until we begin accepting critiques!
While you wait,
check out all the participating blogs and bloggers:
We look forward
to seeing you back here in a couple weeks.
Any questions? Leave
them in the comments!
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