{"count":17752,"next":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=596","previous":"http://admin.kavishala.in/sootradhar/authors/?format=json&page=594","results":[{"id":27422,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Teresa_Medeiros.png","name":"Teresa Medeiros","bio":"New York Times bestseller Teresa Medeiros wrote her first novel at the age of twenty-one and has since gone on to win the hearts of both readers and critics. All of her books have been national bestsellers, featured on the New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. She currently has over 10 million books in print. She is a seven-time Rita finalist, two-time PRISM winner, and two-time recipient of the Waldenbooks Award for bestselling fiction. GOODNIGHT TWEETHEART was released in January 2011 and her latest historical THE PLEASURE OF YOUR KISS is coming from Pocket Books in December 2011. Teresa lives in Kentucky with her husband and her cats, Buffy the Mouse Slayer and Willow Tum-Tum.","raw_bio":"New York Times bestseller Teresa Medeiros wrote her first novel at the age of twenty-one and has since gone on to win the hearts of both readers and critics. All of her books have been national bestsellers, featured on the New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. She currently has over 10 million books in print. She is a seven-time Rita finalist, two-time PRISM winner, and two-time recipient of the Waldenbooks Award for bestselling fiction. GOODNIGHT TWEETHEART was released in January 2011 and her latest historical THE PLEASURE OF YOUR KISS is coming from Pocket Books in December 2011. Teresa lives in Kentucky with her husband and her cats, Buffy the Mouse Slayer and Willow Tum-Tum.","slug":"teresa-medeiros","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/teresa-medeiros","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:14.328094","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":27423,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/P.J._Tracy.png","name":"P.J. Tracy","bio":"PJ Tracy is the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo P.J. and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their ten novels in the Monkeewrench series, MONKEEWRENCH, LIVE BAIT, DEAD RUN, SNOW BLIND, SHOOT TO THRILL, OFF THE GRID, THE SIXTH IDEA, NOTHING STAYS BURIED, THE GUILTY DEAD, and ICE COLD HEART have become national and international bestsellers. PJ passed away in December 2016, and Traci started a new series set in Los Angeles, featuring Detective Margaret Nolan. DEEP INTO THE DARK and DESOLATION CANYON are availabe now, and the third in the series, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, will be released in January 2023.Learn more about PJ Tracy at pjtracy.comFollow them on Facebook:  them up on Amazon: ","raw_bio":"PJ Tracy is the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo P.J. and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their ten novels in the Monkeewrench series, MONKEEWRENCH, LIVE BAIT, DEAD RUN, SNOW BLIND, SHOOT TO THRILL, OFF THE GRID, THE SIXTH IDEA, NOTHING STAYS BURIED, THE GUILTY DEAD, and ICE COLD HEART have become national and international bestsellers. PJ passed away in December 2016, and Traci started a new series set in Los Angeles, featuring Detective Margaret Nolan. DEEP INTO THE DARK and DESOLATION CANYON are availabe now, and the third in the series, THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, will be released in January 2023.Learn more about PJ Tracy at pjtracy.comFollow them on Facebook:  them up on Amazon: ","slug":"pj-tracy","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/pj-tracy","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:15.944831","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":27424,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Misty_M._Beller.png","name":"Misty M. Beller","bio":"Misty M. Beller is a USA Today bestselling author of romantic mountain stories, set on the 1800s frontier and woven with the truth of God’s love. For a limited time, you can get a free bestselling novel here:  on a farm and surrounded by family, Misty developed her love for horses, history, and adventure. These days, her husband and children provide fresh adventure every day, keeping her both grounded and crazy. Misty’s passion is to create inspiring Christian fiction infused with the grandeur of the mountains, writing historical romance that displays God’s abundant love through the twists and turns in the lives of her characters.Sharing her stories with readers is a dream come true for Misty. She writes from her country home in South Carolina and escapes to the mountains any chance she gets.Learn more at ","raw_bio":"Misty M. Beller is a USA Today bestselling author of romantic mountain stories, set on the 1800s frontier and woven with the truth of God’s love. For a limited time, you can get a free bestselling novel here:  on a farm and surrounded by family, Misty developed her love for horses, history, and adventure. These days, her husband and children provide fresh adventure every day, keeping her both grounded and crazy. Misty’s passion is to create inspiring Christian fiction infused with the grandeur of the mountains, writing historical romance that displays God’s abundant love through the twists and turns in the lives of her characters.Sharing her stories with readers is a dream come true for Misty. She writes from her country home in South Carolina and escapes to the mountains any chance she gets.Learn more at ","slug":"misty-m-beller","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/misty-m-beller","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:16.446385","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":27425,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Patrick_Taylor.png","name":"Patrick Taylor","bio":"There is more than one author with this namePatrick Taylor, M.D., is the author of the Irish Country books, including An Irish Country Doctor, An Irish Country Village, An Irish Country Christmas, An Irish Country Girl, and An Irish Country Courtship. Taylor was born and raised in Bangor, County Down, in Northern Ireland. After qualifying as a specialist in 1969, he worked in Canada for thirty-one years. He now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.","raw_bio":"There is more than one author with this namePatrick Taylor, M.D., is the author of the Irish Country books, including An Irish Country Doctor, An Irish Country Village, An Irish Country Christmas, An Irish Country Girl, and An Irish Country Courtship. Taylor was born and raised in Bangor, County Down, in Northern Ireland. After qualifying as a specialist in 1969, he worked in Canada for thirty-one years. He now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.","slug":"patrick-taylor","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/patrick-taylor","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:17.019150","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":27426,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Zeyn_Joukhadar.png","name":"Zeyn Joukhadar","bio":"Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of The Thirty Names of Night, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Stonewall Book Award, and The Map of Salt and Stars, which won the Middle East Book Award and was a Goodreads Choice Awards and Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize finalist. His work has appeared in the Kink anthology, Salon, The Paris Review, [PANK], and elsewhere, and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Joukhadar guest edited Mizna's 2020 Queer + Trans Voices issue, serves on the board of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), and mentors emerging writers of color with the Periplus Collective.","raw_bio":"Zeyn Joukhadar is the author of The Thirty Names of Night, which won the Lambda Literary Award and the Stonewall Book Award, and The Map of Salt and Stars, which won the Middle East Book Award and was a Goodreads Choice Awards and Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize finalist. His work has appeared in the Kink anthology, Salon, The Paris Review, [PANK], and elsewhere, and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Joukhadar guest edited Mizna's 2020 Queer + Trans Voices issue, serves on the board of the Radius of Arab American Writers (RAWI), and mentors emerging writers of color with the Periplus Collective.","slug":"zeyn-joukhadar","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/zeyn-joukhadar","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:17.523971","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":27427,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Nick_Cole.png","name":"Nick Cole","bio":"Nick Cole is a working actor living in Southern California. When he is not auditioning for commercials, going out for sitcoms or being shot, kicked, stabbed or beaten by the students of various film schools for their projects, he can often be found as a guard for King Phillip the Second of Spain in the Opera Don Carlo at Los Angeles Opera or some similar role. Nick Cole has been writing for most of his life and acting in Hollywood after serving in the U.S. Army.","raw_bio":"Nick Cole is a working actor living in Southern California. When he is not auditioning for commercials, going out for sitcoms or being shot, kicked, stabbed or beaten by the students of various film schools for their projects, he can often be found as a guard for King Phillip the Second of Spain in the Opera Don Carlo at Los Angeles Opera or some similar role. Nick Cole has been writing for most of his life and acting in Hollywood after serving in the U.S. Army.","slug":"nick-cole","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/nick-cole","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:18.735311","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":27428,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Chris_Regan.png","name":"Chris Regan","bio":"Chris Regan is a comedy writer who wrote for \"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart\" for seven seasons, winning five Emmys and two Peabody Awards. He was one of the coauthors of the best-selling \"America (The Book)\" and his work has appeared in USA Today, The New Yorker, and New York magazine. He has also written for Comedy Central's \"The Burn with Jeff Ross\" and \"The Jeselnik Offensive\" with Anthony Jeselnik.His books include the 2008 humor book, \"Mass Historia: 365 Days of Historical Facts and (Mostly) Fictions,\" published by Andrews McMeel. He was also the co-author of \"Shatner Rules\" with William Shatner, released in 2011. \"You can't change the past, but with Mass Historia, Chris Regan has done a very fine job of making fun of it.\"--Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report\"For my money, Chris Regan is America's finest craftsman of funny sentences, sentences which start off interesting and amusing, coax laughs with pitch-perfect, snarky descriptors along the way, and then suddenly SLAM you with the unexpected, truly hilarious punch.\" --Adam Felber, author of Schrodinger's Ball and writer, Real Time with Bill Maher\"Anybody can make history. Only one man can write it. And only a greatly funny man like Chris Regan can make it worth reading. Sorry, Thucydides, but you can suck it!\"--Mo Rocca, commentator, CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me\"'Mass Historia\" is one-eleventh the length of Will and Ariel Durant's 'The Story of Civilization' with six times as many laughs. Maybe even seven times as many! There is no one I know who understands the weave and weft of that grand tapestry called history like Chris Regan does. That said, I'm really glad he wasted all that knowledge on this book, because it's hilarious.\"--Eric Drysdale, five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report\"Hilarious! Chris Regan is one of the smartest, funniest writers around, and 'Mass Historia' is almost big enough to hold everything inside that giant brain of his. Buy this book, read it, laugh your ass off, then take it back to your old high school and use it to smack your history teacher across the jaw.\"--Bob Powers, author of You Are A Miserable Excuse for a Hero and Happy Cruelty Day! \"Shatner Rules is a light, clever, witty book that is all about enjoying life from the perspective of a now eighty-year-old man with fascinating stories to tell… this is a great read.”—Portland Book Review“The galaxy's most famous starship captain offers a mostly tongue-in-cheek guide to his rules for living, complete with anecdotes and life lessons. Eighty years old and still going strong with multiple TV shows, films, books and appearances…Shatner's lust for life shines through… Whatever the situation--be it an awkward dinner with Charlton Heston or a fight to the death with a wild boar—Shatner applies his rules as only he can…[his] fans will relish the opportunity to learn from the master.”—Kirkus Reviews","raw_bio":"Chris Regan is a comedy writer who wrote for \"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart\" for seven seasons, winning five Emmys and two Peabody Awards. He was one of the coauthors of the best-selling \"America (The Book)\" and his work has appeared in USA Today, The New Yorker, and New York magazine. He has also written for Comedy Central's \"The Burn with Jeff Ross\" and \"The Jeselnik Offensive\" with Anthony Jeselnik.His books include the 2008 humor book, \"Mass Historia: 365 Days of Historical Facts and (Mostly) Fictions,\" published by Andrews McMeel. He was also the co-author of \"Shatner Rules\" with William Shatner, released in 2011. \"You can't change the past, but with Mass Historia, Chris Regan has done a very fine job of making fun of it.\"--Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report\"For my money, Chris Regan is America's finest craftsman of funny sentences, sentences which start off interesting and amusing, coax laughs with pitch-perfect, snarky descriptors along the way, and then suddenly SLAM you with the unexpected, truly hilarious punch.\" --Adam Felber, author of Schrodinger's Ball and writer, Real Time with Bill Maher\"Anybody can make history. Only one man can write it. And only a greatly funny man like Chris Regan can make it worth reading. Sorry, Thucydides, but you can suck it!\"--Mo Rocca, commentator, CBS Sunday Morning and NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me\"'Mass Historia\" is one-eleventh the length of Will and Ariel Durant's 'The Story of Civilization' with six times as many laughs. Maybe even seven times as many! There is no one I know who understands the weave and weft of that grand tapestry called history like Chris Regan does. That said, I'm really glad he wasted all that knowledge on this book, because it's hilarious.\"--Eric Drysdale, five-time Emmy Award-winning writer, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report\"Hilarious! Chris Regan is one of the smartest, funniest writers around, and 'Mass Historia' is almost big enough to hold everything inside that giant brain of his. Buy this book, read it, laugh your ass off, then take it back to your old high school and use it to smack your history teacher across the jaw.\"--Bob Powers, author of You Are A Miserable Excuse for a Hero and Happy Cruelty Day! \"Shatner Rules is a light, clever, witty book that is all about enjoying life from the perspective of a now eighty-year-old man with fascinating stories to tell… this is a great read.”—Portland Book Review“The galaxy's most famous starship captain offers a mostly tongue-in-cheek guide to his rules for living, complete with anecdotes and life lessons. Eighty years old and still going strong with multiple TV shows, films, books and appearances…Shatner's lust for life shines through… Whatever the situation--be it an awkward dinner with Charlton Heston or a fight to the death with a wild boar—Shatner applies his rules as only he can…[his] fans will relish the opportunity to learn from the master.”—Kirkus Reviews","slug":"chris-regan","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/chris-regan","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:20.169798","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":27429,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Ronald_Malfi.png","name":"Ronald Malfi","bio":"Ronald Malfi is the bestselling, award-winning author of many novels and novellas in the horror, mystery, and thriller genres. In 2011, his novel, Floating Staircase, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for best novel by the Horror Writers Association, and also won a gold IPPY award. Perhaps his most well-received novel, Come with Me (2021), about a man who learns a dark secret about his wife after she's killed, has received stellar reviews, including a starred review from BookPage, and Publishers Weekly has said, \"Malfi impresses in this taut, supernaturally tinged mystery... and sticks the landing with a powerful denouement. There’s plenty here to enjoy.\" His most recent novels, Come with Me (2021) and Black Mouth (2022), tackle themes of grief and loss, and of the effects of childhood trauma and alcoholism, respectively. Both books have been critically praised, with Publishers Weekly calling Black Mouth a \"standout\" book of the year. These novels were followed by Ghostwritten (2022), a collection of four subtly-linked novellas about haunted books and the power of the written word. Ghostwritten received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called the book a \"wonderfully meta collection...vibrantly imagined,\" and that \"Malfi makes reading about the perils of reading a terrifying delight.\"Among his most popular works is December Park, a coming-of-age thriller set in the '90s, wherein five teenage boys take up the hunt for a child murderer in their hometown of Harting Farms, Maryland. In interviews, Malfi has expressed that this is his most autobiographical book to date. In 2015, this novel was awarded the Beverly Hills International Book Award for best suspense novel. It has been optioned several times for film.Bone White (2017), about a man searching for his lost twin brother in a haunted Alaskan mining town, was touted as \"an elegant, twisted, gripping slow-burn of a novel that burrows under the skin and nestles deep,\" by RT Book Reviews, and has also been optioned for television by Fox21/Disney and Amazon Studios. His novels Little Girls (2015) and The Night Parade (2016) explore broken families forced to endure horrific and extraordinary circumstances, which has become the hallmark for Malfi's brand of intimate, lyrical horror fiction.His earlier works, such as Via Dolorosa (2007) and Passenger (2008) explored characters with lost or confused identities, wherein Malfi experimented with the ultimate unreliable narrators. He maintained this trend in his award-winning novel, Floating Staircase (2011), which the author has suggested contains \"multiple endings for the astute reader.\"His more \"monstery\" novels, such as Snow (2010) and The Narrows (2012) still resonate with his inimitable brand of literary cadence and focus on character and story over plot. Both books were highly regarded by fans and reviewers in the genre. A bit of a departure, Malfi published the crime drama Shamrock Alley in 2009, based on the true exploits of his own father, a former Secret Service agent. The book was optioned several times for film. Ronald Malfi was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1977, the eldest of four children, and eventually relocated to Maryland, where he and his wife, Debra, currently reside along the Chesapeake Bay with their two daughters.When he's not writing, he's performing with the rock back VEER, who can be found at veerband.net and on Twitter at @VeerBandVisit with Ronald Malfi on Facebook, Twitter (@RonaldMalfi), or at ","raw_bio":"Ronald Malfi is the bestselling, award-winning author of many novels and novellas in the horror, mystery, and thriller genres. In 2011, his novel, Floating Staircase, was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for best novel by the Horror Writers Association, and also won a gold IPPY award. Perhaps his most well-received novel, Come with Me (2021), about a man who learns a dark secret about his wife after she's killed, has received stellar reviews, including a starred review from BookPage, and Publishers Weekly has said, \"Malfi impresses in this taut, supernaturally tinged mystery... and sticks the landing with a powerful denouement. There’s plenty here to enjoy.\" His most recent novels, Come with Me (2021) and Black Mouth (2022), tackle themes of grief and loss, and of the effects of childhood trauma and alcoholism, respectively. Both books have been critically praised, with Publishers Weekly calling Black Mouth a \"standout\" book of the year. These novels were followed by Ghostwritten (2022), a collection of four subtly-linked novellas about haunted books and the power of the written word. Ghostwritten received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, which called the book a \"wonderfully meta collection...vibrantly imagined,\" and that \"Malfi makes reading about the perils of reading a terrifying delight.\"Among his most popular works is December Park, a coming-of-age thriller set in the '90s, wherein five teenage boys take up the hunt for a child murderer in their hometown of Harting Farms, Maryland. In interviews, Malfi has expressed that this is his most autobiographical book to date. In 2015, this novel was awarded the Beverly Hills International Book Award for best suspense novel. It has been optioned several times for film.Bone White (2017), about a man searching for his lost twin brother in a haunted Alaskan mining town, was touted as \"an elegant, twisted, gripping slow-burn of a novel that burrows under the skin and nestles deep,\" by RT Book Reviews, and has also been optioned for television by Fox21/Disney and Amazon Studios. His novels Little Girls (2015) and The Night Parade (2016) explore broken families forced to endure horrific and extraordinary circumstances, which has become the hallmark for Malfi's brand of intimate, lyrical horror fiction.His earlier works, such as Via Dolorosa (2007) and Passenger (2008) explored characters with lost or confused identities, wherein Malfi experimented with the ultimate unreliable narrators. He maintained this trend in his award-winning novel, Floating Staircase (2011), which the author has suggested contains \"multiple endings for the astute reader.\"His more \"monstery\" novels, such as Snow (2010) and The Narrows (2012) still resonate with his inimitable brand of literary cadence and focus on character and story over plot. Both books were highly regarded by fans and reviewers in the genre. A bit of a departure, Malfi published the crime drama Shamrock Alley in 2009, based on the true exploits of his own father, a former Secret Service agent. The book was optioned several times for film. Ronald Malfi was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1977, the eldest of four children, and eventually relocated to Maryland, where he and his wife, Debra, currently reside along the Chesapeake Bay with their two daughters.When he's not writing, he's performing with the rock back VEER, who can be found at veerband.net and on Twitter at @VeerBandVisit with Ronald Malfi on Facebook, Twitter (@RonaldMalfi), or at ","slug":"ronald-malfi","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/ronald-malfi","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:20.733896","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":27430,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Joshua_Ferris.png","name":"Joshua Ferris","bio":"Joshua Ferris is the author of novels Then We Came to the End, The Unnamed and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour as well as a story collection, The Dinner Party. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize. He was named one of The New Yorker's \"20 Under 40\" writers in 2010. He lives in Hudson, New York with his wife and son.","raw_bio":"Joshua Ferris is the author of novels Then We Came to the End, The Unnamed and To Rise Again at a Decent Hour as well as a story collection, The Dinner Party. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Barnes and Noble Discover Award and the PEN/Hemingway Award, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize. He was named one of The New Yorker's \"20 Under 40\" writers in 2010. He lives in Hudson, New York with his wife and son.","slug":"joshua-ferris","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/joshua-ferris","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:22.254177","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":27431,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/K.I._Lynn.png","name":"K.I. Lynn","bio":"K.I. Lynn is the USA Today Bestselling Author from The Bend Anthology, Amazon Bestseller Becoming Mrs. Lockwood, and the Amazon Bestselling Series, Breach. She spent her life in the arts, everything from music to painting and ceramics, then to writing. Characters have always run around in her head, acting out their stories, but it wasn't until later in life she would put them to pen. It would turn out to be the one thing she was really passionate about. Since she began posting stories online, she's garnered acclaim for her diverse stories and hard hitting writing style. Two stories and characters are never the same, her brain moving through different ideas faster than she can write them down as it also plots its quest for world domination...or cheese. Whichever is easier to obtain... Usually it's cheese.","raw_bio":"K.I. Lynn is the USA Today Bestselling Author from The Bend Anthology, Amazon Bestseller Becoming Mrs. Lockwood, and the Amazon Bestselling Series, Breach. She spent her life in the arts, everything from music to painting and ceramics, then to writing. Characters have always run around in her head, acting out their stories, but it wasn't until later in life she would put them to pen. It would turn out to be the one thing she was really passionate about. Since she began posting stories online, she's garnered acclaim for her diverse stories and hard hitting writing style. Two stories and characters are never the same, her brain moving through different ideas faster than she can write them down as it also plots its quest for world domination...or cheese. Whichever is easier to obtain... Usually it's cheese.","slug":"ki-lynn","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/ki-lynn","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:22.836897","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":27432,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Rachel_Yoder.png","name":"Rachel Yoder","bio":"Rachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch (Doubleday), her debut novel. Selected as an Indie Next Pick in August 2021, Nightbitch has gone on to be named a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and shortlist for the McKitterick Prize. To date, Nightbitch has been translated into 13 languages.A film adaptation produced by Annapurna, directed by Marielle Heller, and starring Amy Adams will be released in 2023. Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. With Mark Polanzak, she is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process.","raw_bio":"Rachel Yoder is the author of Nightbitch (Doubleday), her debut novel. Selected as an Indie Next Pick in August 2021, Nightbitch has gone on to be named a best book of the year by Esquire and Vulture and recognized as a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Fiction, finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and shortlist for the McKitterick Prize. To date, Nightbitch has been translated into 13 languages.A film adaptation produced by Annapurna, directed by Marielle Heller, and starring Amy Adams will be released in 2023. Rachel is a graduate of the Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program and also holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona. With Mark Polanzak, she is a founding editor of draft: the journal of process.","slug":"rachel-yoder","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/rachel-yoder","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:23.365027","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2},{"id":27433,"image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_author/Nicky_Charles.png","name":"Nicky Charles","bio":"Nicky Charles is an independent writer/publisher who became an author quite by accident. She always saw herself as a ‘reader not a writer’ and can thank—or blame, depending on the day—her friend/editor and fellow author, Jan Gordon, for the career she now finds herself immersed in. The tale goes something like this:In January of 2009, Nicky penned a fanfiction for an old TV series, “Scarecrow and Mrs. King”, and soon became ‘hooked’ on story telling. She joined a fan-based group for the show and through there met Jan Gordon. It was an idle comment made by Jan during a review of Black Silk (Jan’s newly published book) that inspired Nicky to write her first original story. Over the course of the next two months, she hastily scribbled down a suspense driven romance entitled Forever In Time and presented it to the world in August of 2009. Soon after, she wrote The Mating, a paranormal romance and followed it up with The Keeping and The Finding. The three stories formed a loose paranormal trilogy called The Law of the Lycans. Nicky continues to expand the Lycan series and has a long list of possible plots waiting in the wings.Nicky works full-time and writes in her off-hours, few though they may be! In the next few years she hopes to retire from her day job and concentrate more of her energy on her new passion of writing.When she writes, Nicky sees the story unfolding in her head like a movie and tries to include enough detail so that readers can ‘see’ the story just as she does. The sights, sounds, smells and sensations of a scene are almost as important to her as the actual plot. Creating main characters that are ‘real’ is also something she strives for. Nicky tries to make each character different, to give them an interesting back story, to make their actions and feelings logical and to hopefully make the reader actually care what happens to the people in the story.Nicky lives in Canada and tries to stick to Canadian spelling and punctuation in her work, in support of her country. She is an avid supporter of animal shelters, nature conservancy, food banks and a variety of other charities. Currently she has two ‘inside’ cats and one official ‘outside’ cat though a number of strays seem to take up residence in her garden each year. When not writing, Nicky enjoys reading – though she often bemoans that she seldom has time for it any more. Her favourite authors are Elizabeth Peters, S.C. Stephen and Cherise Sinclair. She also enjoys spending time out in nature, gardening, taking day trips and eating dark chocolate.","raw_bio":"Nicky Charles is an independent writer/publisher who became an author quite by accident. She always saw herself as a ‘reader not a writer’ and can thank—or blame, depending on the day—her friend/editor and fellow author, Jan Gordon, for the career she now finds herself immersed in. The tale goes something like this:In January of 2009, Nicky penned a fanfiction for an old TV series, “Scarecrow and Mrs. King”, and soon became ‘hooked’ on story telling. She joined a fan-based group for the show and through there met Jan Gordon. It was an idle comment made by Jan during a review of Black Silk (Jan’s newly published book) that inspired Nicky to write her first original story. Over the course of the next two months, she hastily scribbled down a suspense driven romance entitled Forever In Time and presented it to the world in August of 2009. Soon after, she wrote The Mating, a paranormal romance and followed it up with The Keeping and The Finding. The three stories formed a loose paranormal trilogy called The Law of the Lycans. Nicky continues to expand the Lycan series and has a long list of possible plots waiting in the wings.Nicky works full-time and writes in her off-hours, few though they may be! In the next few years she hopes to retire from her day job and concentrate more of her energy on her new passion of writing.When she writes, Nicky sees the story unfolding in her head like a movie and tries to include enough detail so that readers can ‘see’ the story just as she does. The sights, sounds, smells and sensations of a scene are almost as important to her as the actual plot. Creating main characters that are ‘real’ is also something she strives for. Nicky tries to make each character different, to give them an interesting back story, to make their actions and feelings logical and to hopefully make the reader actually care what happens to the people in the story.Nicky lives in Canada and tries to stick to Canadian spelling and punctuation in her work, in support of her country. She is an avid supporter of animal shelters, nature conservancy, food banks and a variety of other charities. Currently she has two ‘inside’ cats and one official ‘outside’ cat though a number of strays seem to take up residence in her garden each year. When not writing, Nicky enjoys reading – though she often bemoans that she seldom has time for it any more. Her favourite authors are Elizabeth Peters, S.C. Stephen and Cherise Sinclair. She also enjoys spending time out in nature, gardening, taking day trips and eating dark chocolate.","slug":"nicky-charles","DOB":null,"DateOfDemise":null,"location":"","url":"/sootradhar/nicky-charles","tags":null,"created":"2023-11-23T18:51:23.808819","is_has_special_post":false,"is_special_author":false,"language":2}],"description":"<p style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 24px;\"> The Great Poets and Writers in Indian and World History! </p>","image":"https://kavishalalab.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/sootradhar_description/black.jpg"}