Legacy and identity, founded on hope-filled faith, infuse the tales of the soul written from the heart of JOY E. RANCATORE. Her Carolina's Legacy Collection embraces everyday moments that constitute a lifetime and its heritage. Told around multiple related characters, this collection explores faith, life, death and the demons within through four mediums-novel, novella, short stories and epistolary.An avid reader, student of human behaviors and unwitting empath, Joy absorbs emotions and spills them onto the pages of her work. Joy's technical background includes more than two decades of professional writing and editing. Ongoing training in writing, publishing, business and counseling enables her to package soul-filled stories for her readers. An award-winning, multi-genre Indie Author, Joy believes extraordinary things await her characters and their tales.Despite a fondness for her roles as author, editor, podcaster and speaker, Joy is a hobbit at heart with Bilbo's zeal for mountains. She enjoys a life of quiet stillness with her husband, two children, dog and cat and more books than she's willing to count. When daily homeschool lessons are complete, she eagerly prepares for teatime before writing your next favorite story.
MEAGAN (MEA) SMITH lives in a wooden house on a hill and trips over a multitude of cats while parenting her two rambunctious boys. When her mind floats too far from home, her caring husband tugs on her soul-string and, then, grills her chicken for dinner. Finding joy in a multitude of creative practices, Mea is a published author who co-hosts QWERTY Writing Life podcast with her critique partner, Joy E. Rancatore. Other creative avenues Mea enjoys are visual art, songwriting, photography, jewelry making, and quilting. She speaks to audiences on the topics of creative writing, embracing creativity, nurturing critique partnerships, and writing through grief. Mea earned a Master's in English, though considers herself a perpetual student. Over the years, Mea's nonfiction works have focused on the writing craft and life lessons, delivered with kindness, humor, and honesty. She believes love doesn't deter hateful things from happening, but it always conquers them. Because of this, she continues to create fictional content tinted with hope, preferring her tales set in contemporary and/or fantastical places. Her poetry is based on a true story. Always. If you're in south Mississippi, you can find Mea watching fireflies from her back porch or wandering the aisles of her local library.
RACHAEL RITCHEY is a writer, graphic designer, educator, and curly-haired woman whose coiffure matches the eccentric inside.As a graphic designer, Rachael has been an amateur photographer, digital photo-manipulator, sketch artist, painter, and digital artist going back to the age of ten. In recent years she has studied and worked to improve her skills and now offers them as a service to other writers and businesses with graphic, book cover, and interior formatting design.
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