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Sarah Normandie (Sarah Crowne-Pen Name)
Writer & Founder of
WHAT’S GOIN’ ON?! SLN Publishing, LLC
www.sarahcrownebooks.com
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Sarah Crowne writes twisty time travel mysteries and speculative thrillers. Her latest novel, All These Threads of Time, follows a teenage girl who discovers she can rewrite the past to stop her sister’s murder. A Pushcart-nominated author, lawyer by day, and lifelong story lover, she’s also the author of Rebel Writers: The Genius Behind the Pen and believes stories can change the world.

Bill Burkland
www.billburkland.com

Bill Burkland lives in Seattle. He recently retired from Amazon after eighteen years, and is excited to be reading from his award-winning debut novel, The Misconceived Conception of a Baby Named Jesus. It’s a religious satire with sensibilities similar to The Book of Mormon and Monty Python’s Life of Brian. Kirkus Reviews calls it “A fun, pithy sendup of one of the best-known origin stories.”

Buffy Aakaash
www.buffyaakaashpoetry.com

Buffy Aakaash is the Treasurer of the Poetry Society of Vermont. He is the author of the poetry chapbook, Utangling the Knots (nominated for the 2023 Vermont Book Award), and the forthcoming full poetry collection, Breaking, being published by Shanti Arts, LLC, later in 2025.

Joni Marie Iraci
https://www.jonimarieiraci.com

Joni Marie Iraci earned an MFA in creative writing (fiction) from Columbia University at the tender age of 66. Her second novel, “Vatican Daughter,” is a story inspired by the real-life papal kidnappings of Jewish children in 1859 Italy, centering on one modern day woman’s relentless search for her kidnapped child while coming head-to-head with the most powerful entity on earth.

Geza Tatrallyay
www.gezatarallyay.com

Born in Budapest, Geza Tatrallyay escaped during the Hungarian Revolution (1956), immigrating to Canada. After Harvard, he studied at Oxford (Rhodes Scholar) and LSE. He has worked in government, international finance and as an environmental entrepreneur. He is a Canadian citizen, a green card holder and lives in Vermont. Geza has had nineteen books published (thrillers, a murder mystery, poetry collections, memoirs, one short story collection and a children’s picture storybook). His murder mystery, The Purple School Bus Murders, set here in wintry Vermont, just came out this March.

Jack Pendleton
www.professorspectre.com

Jack Pendleton is the author and cover illustrator of the Professor Spectre series of supernatural thriller novels. These are books for people who like their horror fast paced with a pulp inspired twist. Jack is also an avid hiker and explorer of abandoned places.

Alice Allnutt

Children’s book author Alice Allnutt writes and paints her stories in her Reading Brook studio south of Woodstock.  Her 12 different full page color picture books, with fiction stories for children ages 2 to 8, are about forest animals, bears and children who garden, giant bugs, frogs who want a different life, fairies hiding in the woods, bunnies looking for some summer fun and more.

Lynn
www.eveannaliesplace.com

Author E. Lynn has lived in Northern Vermont her entire life and recently started her author journey on January 1, 2024. Her first book to be set in Vermont was, If I Had Been There, a romantic suspense, her books live by the motto of, finding the light in the dark and life after heartbreak. Every book has themes of trauma and how the characters strive to overcome those events.

Carolyn Cutler Hughes
Carolyncutlerhughes.com

Carolyn Cutler Hughes is the author and illustrator of hand watercolored children’s books. She watercolors to work through life events and turns her pictures into children’s picture books.

Rick Stromoski
https://www.instagram.com/rickstromoski/

Bonnie Waters

New Hampshire author, B. Waters, spent more than 15 years researching and writing her book, “History and Heresy: A Holy Place”, about the connections among the three Abrahamic faiths, with a particular focus on Christianity and the hidden truth of the life of Mary Magdalene, and other figures from the earliest Christian community. 

Andrew F. Balog
www.andrewfbalog.net

Andrew F. Balog is an American novelist, born in 1990, and grew up in a quaint lakeside town on Lake Champlain, New York. His deep-seated passion for storytelling emerged early in his life. Balog embarked on his career in the film industry, where he spent over a decade refining his skills. Ultimately, he chose to return to his first passion: writing novels. His Book, What Whispers in the Darkness, is psychological horror story that takes place along Vermont’s iconic Route Two.

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