Independence has its advantages To be a PublishingWorks author is to be one of the few and the proud. Each manuscript and author is scrutinized for marketability, sales potential, and depth of knowledge. Our authors become part of our team and part of our publishing family.
Jamison Odone
Odone is best known for his children's book illustrations including HONEY BADGERS and THE BEDTIME TRAIN, but is taking a distinct turn away from those lush paintings to draw raw stick characters with odd and quirky idioms floating in the air. The birth of these minimalist drawings came soon after the death of Michael Jackson when Odone used his art as a means of therapy by creating a stick-figure tribute to “the gloved one” performing “Thriller.”
Bente Gallagher is a former Realtor® and home renovator. She is also the nationally bestselling author of the acclaimed Do-It-Yourself Home Renovation mysteries from Berkley Prime Crime, written as Jennie Bentley. She lives in Nashville with a husband and two boys, a hyperactive dog, a killer parakeet, two frogs and a couple of goldfish. A native of Norway, she’s been hanging out in the US for the past twenty years, and still hasn’t been able to kick her native accent.
Brian O’Mara-Croft has wanted to be an author all his life. He submitted ideas for a novel to several publishers at age 10; good sense kept them from accepting. His unfortunate tendency to procrastinate meant his first book didn’t come to fruition until he was in his early forties. He lives with his wife and kids in a suburb of Chicago.
T.M. Murphy, featured in the book 101 Highly Successful Novelists, is the author of the several books for kids. Murphy spends his time teaching creative writing at Boston College, touring schools to motivate young people to write, and also teaching writing during the summer at The Writers’ Shack in his hometown of Falmouth, Massachusetts. The Running Waves is Murphy’s first novel for adults, but not his last. For more information about T.M. Murphy check out his websites capecodwriter.com and therunningwaves.com.
Stephen F. Cohen is a well-known scholar of Russian history and politics, media commentator, and author of several widely acclaimed books.
Cohen grew up in Kentucky, attended Indiana University, and received his Ph.D. at Columbia University. For many years, he was Professor of Politics and Director of Russian Studies at Princeton University, where he is now professor emeritus. Since, 1998, Cohen has been Professor of Russian Studies and History at New York University, where he teaches a popular course entitled "Russia Since 1917." His books include Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography; Rethinking the Soviet Experience; Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia; and, most recently, Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives. His forthcoming book, The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag After Stalin, will be published by Publishing Works in 2010.
