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After 35 published books, Hal Higdon decided to write his latest work online. Through the Woods is a memoir about the sport of cross-country. The author is issuing the book on Kindle in small segments of 3-4 chapters, which readers (and runners) can download for 99 cents. Hal plans to release sections of the book every 10-14 days, aiming for a final draft by fall, not coincidentally during the cross-country season.

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Alan Caruba's Bookviews blog has gone through many reincarnations since it began in the late 1960s as a weeky column. Caruba' newest reincarnation is as a commentator whose work appears on many Internet news/opinion websites and blogs. Warning Signs daily posts range over topics from politics to energy, national security to foreign relations, and everything in between. More than a million people visit the sites on which it appears. Visit Caruba's web site at: http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com

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After twenty-five years of nonfiction writing, Stephen Morrill is working on a fantasy novel series, The Sorcet Chronicles. Morrill finds being able to just make up stuff to be wonderfully liberating. See the blog at: http://sorcet.wordpress.com/

Suki Casanave's articles and book reviews appear in national publications, and Casanave has experience as an editor at several magazines, including Yankee and the University of New Hampshire Magazine. Casanave has also worked on a number of book & film projects and provides copywriting for corporations, small businesses, and nonprofits. See the web site at: http://sukicasanave.com

Maxine Cass's inventory of more than 35,000 35mm slides has been used in dozens of magazines and even more newspapers. Cass has clients in Asia, Europe, South Africa and North America and she is available for assignments worldwide. http://www.agpix.com/photographer/prime/A0208160.html

Anne Cassidy's essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor and many other publications. She's been published in Woman's Day, Family Circle, Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Parents, Working Mother, McCall's (where she was an editor for four years) and many more magazines. She's written two books, including Parents Who Think Too Much (Dell). Anne is the editor of Georgetown Law, the alumni magazine of Georgetown University Law Center. See the web site at: http://www.anneccassidy.com

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