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Susan Abram

Susan has been writing stories since she was a little girl.   A former elementary and middle school teacher for twelve years, Susan feels a special connection with people, especially children and wants to express that in her writing.  She co-wrote Hockey Pups, a children’s book about the Puppy Hockey League.  Susan lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two daughters, and cat.

 

Dennis Rand Hutchings

Dennis has been working as an artist most of his adult life. He has worked in many different media and enjoys acrylic painting, drawing and using the Wacom Tablet on the computer. His paintings and drawings have been shown at Penn State main campus, at numerous events and fairs. He has worked as a carpet designer, a package designer and graphic artist. Dennis is a Vietnam veteran with many memories of past travels. After years of designing for a mid-state food company, he is currently illustrating for a large printing firm near Harrisburg, PA. Dennis and his wife Georgia, live in rural Juniata County, Pennsylvania.  

 

Robyn Jorde

Robyn was inspired to become an artist at an early age by the art she saw in picture books. At school, she was thrilled to find a whole library of books with pictures and to discover fingerpainting and potato prints. She went on to enjoy a varied artistic career. She has art directed with a major advertising agency, taught drawing and painting as part of a social renewal program, completed advanced degrees in fine art, and paid her dues doing layout and design in an ad production shop. Robyn’s images are usually done in pastel, oils, or mixed media. Although her work is mostly made the old-fashioned way on the drawing board, she sometimes uses digital techniques as well. 

 

Lisa J Michaels

Lisa J. Michaels has been a professional illustrator of Picture Books since 2003. She has won several awards for her talent and her work has been published both traditionally and on the World Wide Web. Her extensive portfolio collection can be viewed at www.whimsicalscribbles.com.

In addition, Lisa is a long-standing member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, The Picture Bookie Showcase (an on-line collaboration of 50 of the top illustrators in the nation), and the and moderator for her own on-line professional group “The Yellow Brick Road”, which consists of 15 rising stars (authors & illustrators) in the Children’s Book industry.

Currently, Lisa is hard at work on her next Picture Book, “Alphey Loves Letters” by Marty Flynn. She has also written and is illustrating her own Picture Book, “Polly Opossum’s Country Music Jamboree”.

To read more about Lisa, visit her blog, at www.wscribbles.blogspot.com.