"Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for."
-Alice Walker
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Meet a few of the writers:
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| BOB BROWN, GROUP FOUNDER, LEADER AND MODERATOR
As a prelude to creative writing, Bob harvested oysters, cut cedar, been a sailor, run a business, been a radio commentator for NWPR, served on a school board and wrote for newspapers. Then he graduated from college. Since then he has dedicated his life to his family and to Round Table Writers, aka Tri City Writers, in the hope that promoting the craft of writing and helping other writers along the road to publication will help to make the world a better place.
Bob's short story, "Scott's Planet," has been included in The Book of Exodi, an anthology edited by Michael K. Eidson, with an introduction by Harry Turtledove. The book is available from Eposic or you can go directly to Eposic's store on Amazon. Contact Bob if you would like a signed copy.
Bob has also co-authored one novel and is working on another.
http://radconbob.livejournal.com/
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| Blackhawk writes short stories in the genre of science fiction/horror. Blackhawk gardens, watches movies and reads whatever is available (Talebones, Gardening How-To, National Geographic, Smithsonian, Birds & Blooms, Wall Street Journal…). Her favorite books are Contact (Carl Sagan), the Dune series (Frank Herbert), The Stand (Stephen King), the
Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) and State of Fear (Michael Crichton).
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| Allen Broyles majored in English at the University of Washington; however, because of family responsibilities, he put aside his ambitions and did not write again until 1995 when he started his first novel, a police procedural set in Seattle. Allen says it has been a wonderful learning process. He has now completed that novel, Sealed for Death, and has started work on the second book in the series, A Riff for Amber Blu.
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| Kathy Grater has been a member of the group for about four years. She writes mainstream fiction. Kathy works as a Field Interviewer for NORC, which allows her to travel and meet people all over the country and get paid for it. Can’t beat that! When not working, she spends her time maintaining her property where she gets to indulge her real passion, raising and riding cutting horses. This “addiction” has generated the novel she is currently working on, Dancin' in the Dirt.
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| Kris Keating is a Vietnam era Vet, having served in the Navy for four years, and is currently retired from the Post Office, where she worked for fourteen years (now that's a survivor!). She has been with the group for about three years. Kris describes her writing as a combination of sci-fi and fantasy, generally set in the present or very near future. She is currently working on four different fiction projects. Her nonfiction has appeared in a Manx breed magazine. Kris is also a talented artist, and has had a portrait of an Arabian horse make the cover of a Canadian Arabian Horse magazine. Besides her artistic endeavors, she assists a local nonprofit group that runs a low-cost neuter and spay program for cats. Kris also enjoys photography. She shares her home with more dogs and cats “than a rational person should keep,” along with a manic macaw named Gabriel.
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| Nathan Lamb-Ockerman is a talented young writer of dark and bizzare short stories. Not much more can be said about him, but heck - he's only twenty.
Nathan's short story, "Anna Belle," was published in the February 2010 edition of Noctober, an e-zine of dark, speculative fiction.
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| Lara Scarberry enjoys writing fantasy and horror, although her published writing has been in another genre, under a pseudonym. Some of her favorite authors are Kay Kenyon, Sheri S. Tepper, Louise Marley, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Ayann Hirsi Ali, Sam Harris and Robin McKinley. She also loves Beethoven and Mozart. Lara creates and designs all of the jewelry for her own business, Jade Cat Jewelry. She belongs to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Pet Over-Population Prevention, the Tri-City Digital Photography Club, and 509 Arts. Lara lives with her husband, Randy (a great guy!) and their four cats.
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| News anchor in the Tri-Cities since 1990, Kevin Shaub has an ex-wife, two dogs and one completed manuscript in need of an agent.
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| Mike Wolf, an ex-newspaper employee, has one published novel to his credit, Dolphins Don't Dream, a fantasy for young adults and the young at heart. The novel is available through Xlibris.
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