Cache Valley Chapter
of the
League of Utah Writers
Brags
Chadd VanZanten
Literary Fiction and Creative Non-fiction
E-mail Chadd at chaddvanzanten@gmail.com.The only thing Chadd VanZanten loves more than writing is fishing, and the only thing he loves more than fishing is living in Cache Valley with his wife and family. He is an active member of the Cache Valley Chapter of the League of Utah Writers and is always starting some new project without really knowing whether it will ever get finished. Chadd often writes about characters who are in the process of missing the point life is trying to make, hoping it might help him avoid doing so. He wishes he had more time for things like comic books and Scrabble.
Chadd's short story "The Skin of Misery" is published in the September 2010 issue of Provo Orem Word (provooremword.org), an arts and literature journal.
Dianne Hardy
Creative Non-fiction
Dianne welcomes comments and inquiries—email to drmusic435@gmail.com.Mother of three children and seven grandchildren, Dianne Hardy retired in December 2008, after spending the last 46 years in piano teaching—the last 20 in higher education. She loves the slower pace of her life and feels only one compulsion, to create every day. She started writing just two years ago when looking for something to occupy her time in retirement. She loved writing when she was a child, but never looked seriously at it because it was always her mother's domain—hers was music. Now she is writing memoirs from her childhood and finding them to be therapeutic. Says Hardy, “They are honest and truthful accounts of my childhood and I do not…will not censor them.”
Dianne won an honorable mention in the Whispering Prairie Press 2010 Writing Awards. Her essay, Stealing, was picked from more than 500 entries from 32 states and the District of Columbia. As a result of her placement, Dianne was asked to submit her winning entry to The Kansas City Voice magazine for upcoming publication.
Dianne Hardy was named and awarded Best New Writer of 2009 by the League of Utah Writers for her short story, Lena. She also took third place in the same category for her short story The Weigh-In AND... honorable mention for her personal essay, A Spiritual Experience.
Lena and The Weigh-in can be read on the Writers Cache page at: http://www.writerscache.org/diannehardy.html.
EA Younker
Fantasy/Science Fiction
EA Younker is a writer who has more hobbies than time. Since she doesn't enjoy starving she completed a degree in technical writing. She lives happily with her husband and a pooka in northern Utah.
Her short story "Painted Death" is published in "A World of Their Own," a fantasy anthology from Nightfall Publications, coming out Summer of 2010
Painted Death
Once an enthusiastic painter, Doreen is imprisoned and forced to change reality with her art. Destroying the National Mall was hard enough but now she is given a choice: paint death or die.
Amy C Maddocks
Memoirist
When she isn't teaching or writing, Amy enjoys camping, four-wheeling, and rafting.
She graduated from Utah State University with a Bachelor's degree in Education, and currently teaches in Beautiful Cache Valley, where she lives with her husband and children.
Too Precious for Earth
A poignant and compelling story of one tiny boy, whose brief moments in his family’s life changed them and others around them forever.
Available at Amazon—Too Precious for Earth.
Review of Too Precious for Earth.
Linda Chadwick
L.D.S. Fiction
Born and raised in Providence, Utah, Linda graduated from Mountain Crest High School in 1988. It was there she met her husband of 22 years and has chosen to raise their 5 wonderful children.
She is an active member of the Providence 3rd Ward and has enjoyed many callings in the primary. When not writing at her computer, Linda enjoys camping, boating, and just hanging out with her family.
Linda has done it again! Her book, The Conterfeit Convert has been published and is available at Borders or from Amazon at The Counterfeit Convert.
The Counterfeit Convert
Marry the girl, take the money, and run. It seems like a simple plan, until Tristan Taylor finds out the girl is Mormon, and the only way to get the money is to convince her he belongs to the Church too.
Linda's first novel:
Second Chances
Forty-one-year-old Larry Porter is facing challenges that no father should ever have to face. Almost overnight he has become both father and mother to his three children, and they aren’t having anything to do with him. Soon, Larry comes to understand that his children are more important to him than anything else. He must change the path they are on or lose them forever. This tender and thought-provoking story will bring you face-to-face with the realities of losing a loved one. It will touch your heart, lift your spirit, and inspire you to tackle your own challenges with determination and hope.
In stores now, or available through Amazon at Second Chances.
Josi Kilpack
Young Adult and LDS Fiction.
Josi S. Kilpack was born and raised in Salt Lake and never got far from home. She currently lives in Willard, Utah with her high-school sweetheart, their four children, a dog and chickens. When she's not writing, she's keeping the books of the family business, Blind Wholesaler, or baking, sleeping, reading or running kids to and fro. She's involved in several local writing organizations and is passionate about the written word.
Her novels include:
Devils Food Cake (Book three in the Sadie Hoffmiller culinary mystery series)
Earning Eternity
Surrounded By Strangers
Tempest Tossed
Star Struck
To Have or To Hold
Unsung Lullaby
Sheep's Clothing (Whitney Award Winner 2007)
Her Good Name
Lemon Tart
English Trifle
Cami Checketts
Suspense Author
Cami Checketts is a wife, mother, exercise scientist, and proud supporter of Cold Stone Creameries. During the short minutes she isn't cleaning up magic potions, constructing castles, and reading Chickens in the Headlights to the boys she enjoys writing suspense novels.
Cami hosts a fitness blog for busy women - http://fitmommas.blogster.com.
Books:
The Fourth of July
The Broken Path
The Sister Pact
Doreese B. Severe
www.seeabcs.com
"See the Sound!"
Doreese and her husband live in Smithfield, Utah. She has five children and five grandchildren who are the joy of her life. She never intended to be an author until one day she stumbled onto a great way to teach reading. Now teaching parents how to teach their kids to read is her passion.
See abc's Reading Program
The See abc's Reading Program, teaches through visualization not memorization. Why is letter 's' so easy to teach? Because it looks like a snake and it sounds like snake. In the book, abc’s, See What They Say every letter looks like what it says. There are ten books in the program, four of which are written by Doreese's sister and partner, Sherry Garr. Doreese's final book, Imletteration holds the secret to learning sight words (rule breakers). You can check out her new video of she and Sherry demonstrating their books at www.seeabcs.com.
See abc's Reading Program Author and Creator
Utah's Red Wagon Award and Governor's 8th Point of Light Award
Wally Pride
Fiction and Children's Literature
Wally Pride spent his growing years celebrating Christmas in his hometown of Rupert, Idaho. Over a lot of years after graduating high school and then college, he became a teacher, a school administrator, and an elementary school counselor. Now that he is retired, he and his wife, Marilyn, live in Logan, Utah.
The Mighty Christmas Oak:
A mighty oak, proud to be the forest king, is suddenly cut down. It becomes a coach for an emperor, then a carriage for a traveler, then an army wagon, then a cart for a pilgrim. With each change, the oak feels less and less noble, always hoping to once again become the mighty oak it once was. Its final position is the most humbling of all, but also the most noble.
The book is available by calling the author at 435-752-0260 or contacting him at 
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Janet Kay Jensen
www.janetjensen.com
http://janetkayjensen.blogspot.com/
http://janetkayjensen2.blogspot.com/
Don't You Marry the Mormon Boys (Bonneville Books, Cedar Fort, Inc)
First Runner-Up, Best New Writing: The Eric Hoffer Award for Independent books (commercial fiction)
Finalist, USA Best Books 2007 (religious fiction)
Bronze Award, Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year (religious fiction)
Semi-Finalist, Reader Views Literary Awards (religion/spirituality)
Whitney Award Nominee for LDS authors
Honorable Mention, Marilyn Brown Unpublished Novel Award
The Book Lover's Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Celebrated Works of Literature and the Passages that Feature Them
(Wenger & Jensen, Ballantine, 2003)