Mary Schulte works as a photo editor and children’s book reviewer at The Kansas City Star although her dream job would be to write for children all day! She has published nonfiction and fiction books including nine books with Children’s Press/Scholastic, 4 with KidHaven Press, and 1 with Mason Crest. She writes anything that pops into her head, so her magazine publications include a song, crossword puzzle, rebus, poetry, fiction and nonfiction for Ladybug, Whimsy, My Friend, Our Little Friend, Fun for Kidz, Highlights and Highlights High 5. If she could settle down and focus, she would love to finish her three w.i.p. novels whose characters keep pestering her about finishing their stories.
Lisa Wade McCormick is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years experience as a newspaper reporter and investigative television producer. She’s worked for The Independence Examiner, The Greeley Tribune, and KCTV. Her stories have won numerous awards, including two Emmy’s and the I.R.E. Medal for outstanding investigative reporting. (Read more…)

Judy Schuler’s children’s book, Foxes for Kids, is now out of print, but still available on Amazon. She has published short stories and articles in magazines such as Scholastic Scope, Boys’ Quest, Grit, and Writers’ Journal. She currently does free-lance editing online. She currently does freelance editing from her website, www.editsonline.com.

Judy Hyde has published three books with Scholastic: ROOKIE READER: RAINY DAY MUSIC and ROOKIE READ ABOUT GEOGRAPHIES: LOUSIANA and INDIANA. She is the current moderator of the Wednesday critique group and has been attending since 1985.
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Diane Bailey has sold three non-fiction books for children, Cyber Ethics (Rosen, 2008), Extreme Careers: Brain Surgeon (Rosen, 2008), and Mary J. Blige (Rosen, 2009), and is furiously finishing two more. She is currently marketing two middle grade novels. The Jack Factor is a light fantasy that retells the Jack and the Beanstalk story, and Steamed! is historical fiction that explores the steamboat-railroad rivalry of the 1850s. She’s also written Firekeepers, a non-fiction book for young readers about the history of fire in the United States. And with her stepfather, she co-wrote an adult murder mystery, “Murder in Four Parts,” which is set in the world of Sweet Adelines (That’s women’s barbershop singing, in case you were wondering. Diane used to be a Sweet Adeline.)
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Sarah Clark’s day job has her writing stories and editing behind-the-scenes video for Fox4KC.com. Her literary publications include a short story in Well Versed, the primary literary publication of the Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers’ Guild and numerous editorials in the Maryville Daily Forum. Sarah and her first novel, GLORY B, are represented by Jennifer DeChiara of The Jennifer DeChiara Literary Agency.
Joanne M. Anderton aka Johana Gast Anderton aka J. M. G. Anderton
Books:
- The Glass Rainbow, The Story of Depression Glass, Trojan Press, North Kansas City, MO, 1969, eight reprints. (pioneer work on subject), OP.
- Twentieth Century Dolls, From Bisque to Vinyl, Trojan, 1971, OP.
- Sewing for Twentieth Century Dolls, Vol. 1, Trojan, 1972, 1979, 1996. OP
* Sewing for Twentieht Century Dolls, Vol. 1, Hobby House Press, 1998. OP
- The Collector’s Encyclopedia of Cloth Dolls from Rag Baby to Art Object, 1984, Wallace-Homestead Book Company, Lombard, IL 60148, OP.
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