Take your passion, write all you can about it, and become a publisher author. That might just be the prescription for success, at least that’s what Chris McLaughlin has done.

Recently we had a giveaway for Rory Clements‘ debut novel, Martyr, and many of you said you enjoyed the twist of an Elizabethan novel that included a mystery.

I first came across Kim Smith when I was a guest on her popular Introducing Writers! radio show. She was warm-hearted, engaging, and a blast to talk to.

Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS is a nationally known expert on weight loss, nutrition and health who has appeared as a nutrition expert on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC-TV, NBC-TV, CBS-TV, Martha Stewart Living and Oprah and Friends.

Charles Franklin Emery III was born in Los Angeles, California in 1956. He joined the US Navy Submarine force in 1977 and spent the following six years on Fast Attack and Fleet Ballistic Missile submarines as a Sonar Technician and Sonar Supervisor.

Dolen Perkins-Valdez’s fiction and essays have appeared or will appear in The Kenyon Review, StoryQuarterly, African American Review, PMS: PoemMemoirStory, North Carolina Literary Review, Richard Wright Newsletter, and SLI: Studies in Literary Imagination. She is a 2009 finalist for the Robert Olen Butler Fiction Award.

One of the most fascinating people I’ve talked to thus far has to be Sheila Lowe.

I’ll say it again: I love the writers I get to meet as a result of this blog. Ami Hendrickson is a versatile writer who is sure to inspire you.

I love people that bring a book with them everywhere they go, don’t you?

Lisa Russell is another great Suite101 writer who has an impressive list of articles and wide range of interests.