D. Scott Dickinson

    D. Scott Dickinson is a retired NASA Public Affairs manager at Kennedy Space Center. Starting as a copy boy in the newsroom of U.S. News and World Report, he went on to become a reporter and editor, Peace Corps personnel director and university research fellow. His published works include:

• The Little Box Turtle (a children's book)
• The Dark Side of Town: A Portrait of the Jim Crow South
• Paradox Moon (first in the Regenesis trilogy)
• Lunar Antipodes: The Far Ends of the World (second in the Regenesis trilogy)
• The final book in the Regenesis trilogy is due out soon
• The Janus-Faced Queen
• World Beneath Our Feet
•  The Orbuculum's Riddle (in Dreams, a Space Coast Writers' Guild Anthology)
• The  Bromeliad Passage

Joanne is a Canadian-Italian-American author who has penned eight books. Additionally, she has written four short stories for Space Coast Writers' Guild anthologies. In April, 2019 Joanne was elected President of Space Coast Writers' Guild. She lives on the Space Coast of Florida with her adoring husband Dan, and her two Dachshunds, Wally and Madison. Her books include:

• With All of Me
• With All of Me II
• Her Spanish Doll
• Good Things Always Happen in Springtime
• Traveling Boomers First Stop: Italy
• Baker's Dozen Anthology
• The Devil of St. Gabriel
• Christmas in Venice
• Magnolia Blossom (coming Spring 2020)

     Terri Friedlander, a native New Yorker, has held several notable job titles including writer, college professor, teacher, freelance journalist, and MIS Director of a global law firm. She created an original column that appears in print in Florida Today and online about education in today’s world entitled In Front of the Classroom.

    Her latest venture is a series of two new children’s books, The Adventures of Percy the Siberian Cat and No More Bullying. Terri has also authored three novels: The Dorm, Chasing Her Destiny, and Work Hard Play Hard.

Gene Luke Vlahovic is of Serbian origin. Born and raised in the former Yugoslavia, he acquired his love of literature from reading European Classics at an early age. At fourteen, his first short story was published by his hometown magazine, and at nineteen, several of his poems were published by University Press and the Literary Magazine for Young Poets. Gene Luke lives in Florida and continues to write and publish stories in his second language. He is a member of the Space Coast Prolific Authors, the Space Coast Writers Guild, and the the Florida Writers Association. You may contact him at brevardauthorssociety@gmail.com. Gene Luke's works include:

• Pilgrim of Fate: The Holy Trail of Brother Samuilo
• The Artisan (now available in audio format)

UnabASHed by Disability is the autobiography of a girl who learned how to live with her handicaps, overcome obstacles, and achieve goals. It is a story of hope and encouragement for both the able-bodied and those with disabilities.

Ashley's writing has been included in other anthologies and local publications. She is the Don Argo Award coordinator and a former Space Coast Writers’ Guild board member. She is active at her church in Palm Bay, Florida.

"Everything we do ripples through time," J.P. believes. We leave ourselves and what we do behind as footsteps in life.

As a Science Fiction author and Researcher, J.P. focuses on space travel, the precarious laws that govern space-time, and issues relating to space travel, exploration, and colonization of Mars and exoplanets. J.P. most recently was a top finalist for the Patrick D. Smith award through the Brevard Library Foundation.

 She has written ten novels, mostly science fiction: from exploring Mars in her book Cosmic Rift, to space-folding to an ancient alien world in the following books: First Communication; Battlefield Matrix; and, Astrocity Sagan. She has won several awards, including the prestigious Rupert Hughes' Award at the seminal Maui Writers Conference for her sci-fi novel, The Matter Stream, which she is transforming into her Nelta Series. She won First Place for her play, The Man Next to Me, subsequently published in the San Diego Writer's Monthly magazine. Her new collection of short stories, Commuter Collection, is now available for your reading pleasure as well as her sci-fi short story collection, Pareidolia.

Scott Tilley is the president and founder of the Center for Technology and Society, a professor at  Florida Institute of Technology, where he is the  Director of the Systems Evolution Lab, president of the Big Data Florida user group, and a Space Coast Writers' Guild Fellow. His books include:

• Systems Analysis and Design
• Making Technology Work for You
• Technical Justice
• Surreal Technology
• Technology 2010-2011
• Make Technology Great Again
• Software Testing in the Cloud: Migration and Execution
• Hacktivists Anonymous (Technology Today Book 5)
• Testing iOS Apps with HadoopUnit: Rapid Distributed GUI Testing
• and many others.

Linda is the only person to have won the coveted Space Coast Writers' Guild Don Argo Award twice! Her first award (2018) was for The Gryphon's Glade. In October 2020 she won her second Argo Award for book 3 in the Strandline Series, Keeping the Strandline.  

"Born in Florida, raised on sunshine and bug spray, I read every cereal box I could find and every book I could get my hands on, and when other people's books ran out, I started writing my own."

 Linda's prolific writing began with children's chapter books, like Mooncalf, a finalist for the Space Coast Writers' Guild Don Argo Award, to inspirational books (like The Long-Promised Song) and to a young adult survival, dystopian trilogy: Beyond the Strandline (Book I)  Following the Strandline (Book II), Keeping the Strandline (Book III) winner of the 2020 Argo Award, to her first rural contemporary fantasy The Gryphon's Glade, winner of the 2018 Argo Award, Excellence in Florida Based Literature.

"I write because there can never be too many good books or the people who love them." Linda L. Zern 16Toadstonelane.com lindalzern.net. email linda@lindalzern.net)