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Anowalk lives in New Jersey.  He started out as a junior high school sports reporter, and has since branched out to poetry.  He enjoys black and white photography, Joss Whedon shows, aggressive women, poker, his exceptionally tall roommate Tommy Two-Tone, clicky pens, politically incorrect jokes, the word buxom, talking about himself in third person, and making lists.

Cynthia Harrison has been blogging daily at A Writer's Diary since 2002. She's a book critic and creative writing teacher. In 2007, Cindy published Your Words, Your Story, a self-help book for aspiring writers.

Ducktoes studied creative writing at Columbia College in Chicago, where he now lives with his wife, who could karate chop him right in half if she wanted to. You can watch him performing a cappella Bon Jovi on YouTube.

Julian_Finn is a Canadian writer and corporate sales professional.  He is currently working on the first draft of his novel, There but for Luck.

Laura Zinn Fromm is the author of the forthcoming How I Killed the Tooth Fairy and Other Tales of Flawed Mothering. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University and teaches fiction and creative non-fiction in the Columbia Artists/Teachers program, and at the JCC in Manhattan. Her short story, Sunlight All Over, was selected for the First Annual Emerging Writer's Festival in Chicago, in May 2008. She is a contributing writer at New Jersey Life and Leisure. A former editor at Business Week magazine, she is the winner of the Clarion Award and the Newspaper Guild's Page One Award for Labor Reporting. Visit her blog at flawedmom.blogspot.com.

Marieke van Buytene from the Netherlands is freelance writer, editor and creative writing teacher, so fate has decreed that she’ll never get a novel published.  Fortunately, a friend tipped her on WEbook in August 2008, so now at least she can share The Devil’s Virgin, and soon also her comic mystery stories and more.

Melissa Jones is the Content Manager at WEbook.  Her fiction has appeared in numerous literary magazines, and she is one of seventeen co-authors of Pandora.  She will receive her MFA in fiction from Columbia University in October 2008.  She lives in Brooklyn with her beloved and a matching pair of oversized, black, fluffy mammals (dog and cat variety).

Moot _Caroo is a senior at the University of Illinois, studying poetry and rhetoric. In his previous life, he served in the United States Navy; studied radio, television, and film at the University of North Texas; and worked as a journalist, photographer, and essayist.

Nick Daws is a UK-based author of over 70 books and innumerable published articles and short stories. He is also the author of the best-selling guide Write Any Book in Under 28 Days. He has a homepage at www.nickdaws.co.uk and a blog at www.mywritingblog.com.

Saraelizabeth is a recent graduate of Montgomery Blair High School, where she was editor-in-chief of her school's award-winning literary arts magazine and took a number of creative writing classes and workshops both in school and out. She currently attends the University of Rochester, and hopes to major in English before penning the next great American novel. Because she knows writers are nothing without something to write about, Cohen freely pursues other interests in film, television, graphics design and art history. After joining the staff of WEbook.com for a summer internship, she plans to continue on with writing on the site and her group project Top Writers Under 20.

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