She studied art and writing at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point. On August 30, 2000, Audrey completed her studies at WebTech University where she learned HTML coding and took classes in Paint Shop Pro.

A committed volunteer, she has worked on various community projects from coaching youth soccer at the YMCA to working with social services to organize a symposium on domestic violence. At voting time, she has been known to take a child with her, "just to show them how it's done". When it comes to careers, she wears whatever hat is on the hatrack at the time.

Audrey also volunteers as a coordinator for the Netroots Project a citizen action group that works to put the government back in the hands of the people where it belongs.

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Beth Patterson: Technical Consultant, Writer/Editor

Laying aside an early dream of writing for a real career, Beth first became a teenaged beautician and later studied Biology at New Mexico State University. For the next 15 years, she worked in the field of IT -- computers, that is, but not as we know them today. Meanwhile, if only to satisfy the embryonic artist within, she studied for seven years under classical singer, Lenore (Lind) Horsman, sharing the experience joyfully with her sister, Audrey, who did the same.

She finally met and married husband, Larry in 1987-88. Not long afterwards, a fateful event changed her life the way a hurricane changes the shoreline. She and Larry both lost their la-ti-da jobs. In desperation, they learned (by means of a fortunate O-J-T program with a Chicago studio) to supplement their income with wedding photography. That triggered a withering synapse in Beth's right-brain and led her straight out of the darkness and back into creative light once again --and for good.

Now she spends full time writing, reading and feeding the adolescent artist within. Her poetry was recently published in an anthology by Watermark Press, along with those of two sisters and a niece, all three of whose profiles feature on this page. Beth also enjoys feeding a persistent genealogy habit and Website, which can easily be done while listening to jazz, blues, folk and opera.

Beth is a member of Paint Shop Pro Users Group, Writers' Village University, and Writer's Ink, a group in Milwaukee, where she lives with her husband and two pet cats.

Her literary interests include inspirational non-fiction, contemporary and historical fiction, mystery, psychological suspense, mythology and the Bible.

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Time Travelers Quest for the Ancient Light

Christy Weber: Design consultant, Resource Manager, Artist, Writer

Christy Weber is a bank officer at a national bank in Houston, Texas, where she lives with her mother and her cat "Mickey". As a child, one of her favorite things was her big box of 48 crayons and she often made her own coloring books because the pictures in the store bought ones didn't satisfy her. When she was 9 years old, Christy received her first camera as a gift and has had a passion for photography and the arts ever since.

Christy studied Commercial Art & Design at the Art Institute of Houston and took screen-writing courses at Rice University in Houston. She loves to read and write poetry and is listed in the International Library of Poetry. Watermark Press has published three pieces of her work in various anthologies.

An active volunteer, Christy is a speaker and fund raiser for the Gulf Coast Chapter of the United Way. She is a member of the Museum of Natural Science, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and a past member of the Cultural Arts Council of Houston.

Christy's online memberships include; Cyber-Crew, a community of web designers and graphic artists; Digital Eve-Houston, a community of local web designers; and the Paint Shop Pro Users Group. She is an independant film buff, enjoys creating both watercolor and oil paintings, digital images, web graphics and designs for web pages.

"MY Motto: ~ Living in the joy of the blank page ~"

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Jennifer Turner: Granny's Pantry Editor; Writer

Jennifer Turner has had an article published in the T-Zero e-zine and is currently an active columnist for the Peacock Chronicle. She has also completed many courses at Writer’s Village University, including a class titled, Romance 123. Intrigued by historical romances for many years, she has developed a love of the genre. Julie Garwood is her inspiration and she writes in the same tradition.

Happily married with three children, Jenny lives in a small town in central Wisconsin. She fell in love with the written word in second grade when a teacher noticed her first story called Jenny the Giant and encouraged her to pursue her writing ability.

Never losing sight of that goal, despite the many different paths life led her down, she began to seriously pursue her dream of becoming a published author in May 2000 when she joined WVU. With the warm support of friends, family, and the course facilitators at WVU, she has begun work on an historical romance novel.

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