Meet Featured TPL Community Members! :-)

A prolific author, editor, poet and publisher, as far as Aberjhani can tell, he's one of those people who were born to write because, paired with reading and editing, writing has been the only constant throughout his adult life.

AuthorPoetAberjhani studied journalism and creative writing at: Savannah State University; Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida; Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.; Temple University in Philadelphia; and the New College of California in San Francisco.

He served his country and his writing apprenticeship as a U.S. Air Force Military Journalist in Alaska for two years, Great Britain for four, and South Carolina for two more. Aberjhani is multi-published, with an amazing breadth of subject matter.

AuthorPoetAberjhani is also the operator of his very own Social Network— Creative Thinkers International, a website community that is embracing the world through positive creativity.

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Lynda J. Sanders

She can write the story, direct the play, run the video camera, and control audio sound, direct the choir and teach the music. You'll also see her dabbling in snapping picutres on her camera. She has led school assemblies, conducted graduations, created after-school programs and worked as a camp counselor.

Who is this multi-talented person, Lynda J. Sanders aka L.Jo.T.S.? Someone that has learned several skills without a degree. Instead God has been Lynda's teacher throughout her life.

Lynda has a deep concern for the lives of the youth especially young women. Lynda uses what is inside of her to encourage young women and young men to reach inside themselves to step up to the plate and excel.

A praying woman, Lynda is married to Mack a survivor who has been stricken with meningitis, has had four brain surgeries, has diabetes and high blood pressure. Her personal Jewels are her gifted children Taressa and Mack— check out myspace.com/mack_sir_bentley.

As a writer Lynda's accomplishments are three plays, Hosanna-He Reigns Forever, Let's Celebrate, One Touch from the Master with more to come. Her goal is to utilize her writing gift to inspire, teach, motivate and empower the world to use their gifts and talents to impact the world.

Now on the publishing road to success, Lynda's "Secrets of an Angel" (book cover pictured here) is a sensual, fictional novel about love, seduction, murder and how God forgives and continues to love and use people even when they mess up. Available at L.Jo.T.S@yahoo.com. Go to Lynda's blog for a complete synposis. Visit Linda's Lounge Space:

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Living life to the fullest! Londa is a Publisher (Aminia Books and Publishing), Author, and Poet. In her spare time she loves to read and see who's doing what in the literary world. The rest of her time is spent helping others publish their dreams, community work, and writing.

Londa is really a simple and down to earth person. She loves comedies and any Tyler Perry production. She circles herself around positive minded and mentally grounded individuals. "Life is toooo short for drama, so please... take the hate, the lack of self-confidence elsewhere", says Londa. "I celebrate with winners only. The word loser does not exist in my vocabulary!"

To Londa, the word, "NO" simply means NOT TODAY! "Never take rejection the hard way, unless they tell you to go light yourself on fire and then jump into a lake of FIRE... keep trying!!!!!" "You will eventually get a YES!"

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Sol Luckman

Sol Luckman is author of the internationally acclaimed nonfiction CONSCIOUS HEALING: BOOK ONE ON THE REGENETICS METHOD and editor of the popular ezine DNA MONTHLY.

His articles on consciousness and healing have appeared in numerous print and online venues. Australia’s NEXUS NEW TIMES called CONSCIOUS HEALING, which also received a five-star endorsement from the Midwest Book Review and was recently translated into its third language, a “paradigm-reworking book” that introduces a “revolutionary healing science that’s expanding the boundaries of being.”

In addition, Sol is author of the BEGINNER'S LUKE Series (pictured here) of seriocomic novels that irreverently explore the role of consciousness and imagination in creating reality. Luke’s signature obsessions with self, sex, satire and slapdash highlight a serious, and life-changing, point: consciousness creates. The point is there is a point to living in the imagination— for only through it can we reinvent our ourselves and our world. Reader Views likened the highly experimental yet eminently readable Book I of the Series to a “modern-day ALICE IN WONDERLAND, where anything can come alive when you start with a blank page … [Luckman] shows the reader that as individuals, we, too, have choices and potentials. There are no boundaries or rules to limit us.”

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Marlive Harris

A former classroom teacher and school librarian in Texas, Marlive is fondly known among online and offline literary circles as TheGRITS.com, an acronym for “The Girl Reading In The South.com!”

Her fascination with technology, particularly the Internet, and love of literature is what led to the development of The G.R.I.T.S. Online Reading Club with good friend, Portia Dowell-Simmons in 2000, the award winning G.R.I.T.S. Kidz Book Club in 2001, and The GRITS COM Literary Service, which specializes in serving the unique web publicity needs of authors, publishers, and most literary professionals, in 2004.

Connect with Marlive at her Lounge Space: http://thepeopleslounge.ning.com/profile/MarliveHarris
Visit Marlive at TheGrits.com : http://www.thegrits.com

Angee The Poet

Angela Edgar, also know as Angee… an Inspiring New Poet, has had a love of writing since her days as a young teenager. With a diverse working history spanning Retail, Video Production, finally forging a Contact Centre career in Market Research, a writing hiatus of 6 years ensued which ended in 2006.

Taking up writing all over again, Angee put pen to paper, discovering she had a talent as if it were the dawn of a new day. Poetry came thick and fast, and with this new found confidence, followed a tentative leap into the arena of Spoken Word performances.

Job cuts in 2007, gave her the freedom, time and inspiration to tackle a previously unfulfilled dream – that of writing a book. Motivated by wanting to share her previously unheard words on paper and in person, Angee realised that her poetry was inspiring to others and resonating deeply with people.

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Bryan H

Rev. Joseph B. Howard, Sr., Th.D., is a third generation steel worker born amidst the red haze and dust of the steel mills in Gary, Indiana. He attended college and later joined the US Navy.

Rev. Howard has been in ministry for twenty-eight years, working as an evangelist, associate pastor, senior pastor, inspirational books author, and bible institute curriculum developer, instructor/director, and finally as an institutional chaplain.

Rev. Howard has a bachelors of arts in Adult Education, masters in Biblical Studies, and an earned doctorate in Christian Education. Dr. Howard’s new novel entitled, “Beyond the Prison Walls; by Grace Came Restoration” will be released July 2008.

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Mary J. Dressel

Mary J. Dressel is the author of Historical, Paranormal, and Contemporary Romance. Writing is important in her life– her “warm fuzzy.” It gives her solace, and she writes because it calls her. Writing and English were always her favorite classes. Her first writing compliment came from her seventh grade Literature teacher. This spring, she’ll be teaching a Creative Writing class at a local college.

Her debut novel, Visions of Enchantment, was published December 2006. Enchantment's Embrace, Book Two in The Enchantment Series, will be released February 18, 2008. Mary also writes short stories, poetry, and essays. She’s currently finishing a vampire romance, and a contemporary romance with a lighthouse keeper hero. In between, she will be working on book three in her series which consists of four books. Mary says she has already started book four in her head!

She lived in Detroit until she was eight years old then moved to a suburb, and lived there most of her life. Three years ago she moved to West Michigan. She is mother to two of her own sons, and three stepdaughters. Her career outside of writing is in education, spent working in a middle school.

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Visit Mary at her Official Website: http://www.maryjdresselbooks.com

Cheryl Robinson

After graduating from the famed Cass Technical High School, native Detroiter Cheryl Robinson headed for D.C. where she attended Howard University for two years before returning to Detroit to complete her business degree from Wayne State University. It was at Wayne State where she discovered her passion for writing when a last minute decision to enroll in a fiction writing class opened Cheryl's imagination for creating memorable characters.

In 2001, shortly after the death of her only brother Benjamin Jr., Cheryl completed her first novel, Memories of Yesterday, which was dedicated to his memory. The following year Cheryl self-published Memories of Yesterday. And in 2003, her second novel When I Get Free. In 2004, after acquiring a literary agent, she landed her first book deal with New American Library (NAL) a division of The Penguin Group, a major publishing company based in New York that re-released Memories of Yesterday in 2005 under the title If It Ain't One Thing with the sequel It's Like That also published by NAL the following year.

Two more book deals followed; one with HarperCollins Publishing company for the anthology These Are My Confessions in which Cheryl penned the novella Strapped, which will be released in July 2007 and another novel with Penguin (NAL) entitled Sweet Georgia Brown, which will be released in December 2007.

Aside from Detroit, Cheryl has also had the opportunity to live in Syracuse, Kansas City, Dallas, and Orlando, but so far her novels have all been set in the city that she knows the best--Detroit.

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