One Minute Past Christmas

Dr. George T. Arnold is a professor emeritus in the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications at Marshall University. He is the author of scores of professional and academic articles, and his communications skills textbook/resource book, Media Writer's Handbook, a guide to common writing and editing problems, is in its sixth edition with McGraw-Hill and has been used at more than 300 colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from Marshall University and a Ph.D. from Ohio University. Regina Jeffers has worn many hats over her lifetime: daughter, student, military brat, wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, tax preparer, journalist, choreographer, Broadway dancer, theatre director, history buff, grant writer, media literacy consultant, and award-winning author. Living outside of Charlotte, NC, Jeffers writes novels that take the ordinary and adds a bit of mayhem, while mastering tension in her own life with a bit of gardening and the exuberance of her "grand joys."