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Name: Mary Batten
Website: www.marybatten.com
Contact: Barbara Markowitz - Literary Agent

Questions:

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: Smithfield, VA

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: My newest book is WHO HAS A BELLY BUTTON? Published by Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 2004. This book was written to explain to young children why they and all mammals have belly buttons. This book is recommended by the National Science Teachers Association.
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Name: Maggie Davis
Website: www.maggiedavis.com
Contact: MaDav1@aol.com

Questions:

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: I was born in Tidewater, Virginia (home of the historic Mercury Space Program) and raised in New York City. I actually went back and forth with vacations in Virginia in the summertime, which makes me a Southerner/Northerner or a Northerner/Southerner.

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: I’m currently working on a romantic suspense about a Fashionista who inherits a castle in Scotland.

Q: How old were you when you first started writing?
A: I was writing for my school magazine when I was in the 6th grade. Really doing some good work, too. I was such a book worm it seemed writing was implanted in my brain from an early age. And I had wonderful teachers.
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Name: Tzivia Gover
Website: www.tziviagover.com
Contact: inotherwordsink@comcast.net

Questions:

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: I’m from Long Island, New York.

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: My latest book is a poetry chapbook called DREAM HOUSE. The poems center on the theme of “home.” Joanne Gover Yoshida, my sister who lives in Japan, created the paintings and photographs that are featured in the book. My friend Aja Riggs, who lives in Missouri, designed the book, which is a hand-bound, signed and limited edition.

My second most recent book is MINDFUL MOMENTS FOR STRESSFUL DAYS (Storey Books). This is an inspirational/self-help book. It is beautifully illustrated by Kent Lew, and includes simple tips and ideas for adding joy and meaning to everyday life.
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Name: Joan Hall Hovey
Website: www.joanhallhovey.com

Questions:

Q: Joan, your writing has been compared to that of Mary Higgins Clark and “Stephen King without the profanity” — pretty heady stuff. Tell us, how did you become a novelist?
A: Those comparisons are very flattering, and interesting too, when you consider that those authors write very different from one another. But since I happen to be a fan of both, I’ll take it. Whether merited or not.

I’ve always considered myself a storyteller. I loved making up yarns to entertain classmates. If I could frighten them so much the better. In some ways, I was shy and insecure, so maybe it was a way of gaining acceptance and approval. I also liked being the center of attention.
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Name: Linda M. Hasselstrom
Website: www.windbreakhouse.com
Website: www.windbooks.com
Contact: Tamara Rogers, assistant, info@windbreakhouse.com

Questions:

Q: Where are you originally from?
A: I was born in Texas, lived in South Dakota until graduating from college, worked briefly in Iowa, got my graduate degree in Missouri, and returned to my family ranch in South Dakota. Since 1992, I have lived in Cheyenne, Wyoming, while maintaining my businesses — the ranch and writing retreat– in western South Dakota.

Q: Can you tell us your latest book news?
A: I’m excited to be working on a book about changing communities in the West. But the most beneficial work I’ve ever done was probably during the past decade, helping to edit three anthologies of writing by ordinary Western women. See www.windbooks.com for more on this project. The books are “Leaning into the Wind,” “Woven on the Wind,” and “Crazy Woman Creek,” all published by Houghton Mifflin.
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