Writers

Michelle Zaffino (www.michellezaffino.com) has over twelve years experience in the creative world, working for book publishing, magazine publishing, a photographer, retail, internet and marketing companies. She worked in New York for ten years then moved to San Francisco two and a half years ago, where she currently works as a copywriter.

Joel Deutsch's (www.joeldeutsch.net) publication credits range from early poems in "little" magazines like Big Boulevard and Open City to articles and essays in the San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, the Directors Guild magazine, and the online culture and travel journal World Hum (worldhum.com). Currently poetry editor of the online literary quarterly R-KV-R-Y [...]

Peter Y. Sussman (www.peterysussman.com), 65, spent 29 years as an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, leaving in 1993 to pursue an independent career writing and editing. He has continued to devote much of his time to journalism, as a freelance writer and editor, as a teacher and mentor, and -- often through professional organizations [...]

Josh Karp (www.dougkenney.com) is a freelance journalist who writes for a variety of national publications, including The Atlantic Monthly Online, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, Playboy, Premiere, and Salon.com. The ultimate biography of National Lampoon and its cofounder Doug Kenney (www.dougkenney.com), this book offers the first complete history of the immensely popular magazine and its [...]

Donna Bee-Gates (www.donnabeegates.com) is the author of, "I Want It Now Navigating Childhood in a Materialistic World."Paris Hilton. . . Nike. . . Tommy Hilfiger. These are the modern-day heroes for many of our children. Unfortunately, countless youngsters today aspire only to superficial goals in a quest to feel special. I Want It Now will [...]

Kaui Hart Hemmings (www.kauiharthemmings.com) lives in San Francisco where she works at the Writer's Grotto (www.sfgrotto.org). Her work has appeared in The Sun, StoryQuarterly, Zoetrope, Best American Nonrequired Reading and Best American New Voices. Her first novel, the Descendants, will be published by Random House in May.

Linda Press Wulf (www.lindapresswulf.com) grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, and read vociferously throughout her childhood. Her mother encouraged her love of old-fashioned children's books by Gene Stratton Porter, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Ethel Turner, and the two L.M.s - L. M. Montgomery and L.M. Alcott; her father showed her how to polish both writing and [...]

Don Phillips (www.donphillipsbooks.com) is the author of On the Wing of Speed: George Washington and the Battle of Yorktown.

Jack Boulware (www.jackboulware.com) is a San Francisco writer.

Update: domain wasn’t renewed, so site down. Alan Thicke’s How to Raise Kids Who Won’t Hate You is on the shelves and online (howtoraisekidsbook.com). Let’s face it – kids have hated their parents since the beginning of time. The goal is to minimize the tension and find the happy ending. Is it possible to raise […]