Meet Author Iva Lee Elliot

Oklahoma born Iva Lee Elliot shares the intimate and heartwarming story of her  personal life journey.  In  her book, Thanks Lord, is a unique and rare tale of courage, fear, new paths, and old friends.  Her book is available through the publisher, CrossBooks.

Molly Lemmons

Molly Lemmons is an experienced author whose skill as a storyteller enhances her writing to produce stories that entertain, touch the heart, and bring a chuckle.  Her books include: We Are Invisible, Kind of Heart, Seize the Flashback, Pure as the Driven Snow, and Passing of Paradise.

Her stories will tug at your heartstrings and encourage you to celebrate God, families, and life.

One of her most popular titles has been Kind of Heart and is a book compiled from the columns she wrote for the Mustang News for three years. Molly's stories have been published in Chicken Soup for The Mother's Soul, Christian Woman, Christian Chronicle, Christian Journal, Ideals Magazine. She was also published in Chicken Soup for the Kids' Soul 2, and Heavenly Patchwork. Her stories have also appeared online in Heartcatchers, Write2theHeart, and Heartwarmers, as well as newspapers in Arkansas, Texas, and Oklahoma. 

All of her current works are available via Amazon.    Check out her webpage link.  She joins Whorl Books through its Affiliate Author Promotion program.

Barbara Jones

Barbara, a career teacher, has taught children and adults in the USA, Mexico, and South America. She grew up in Oklahoma, but as an adult her love for travel took her throughout the United States and Latin America. For many years she and her family lived in Mexico, Peru, and Paraguay, and traveled extensively

in South America. Her first hand knowledge as a 'foreigner' taught her the need to respect cultural diversity. 

EXPERIENCE

Barbara has told stories and given workshops in conferences, libraries, schools, and churches throughout the USA, including, Texas Foreign Language Association, Southwest Conference on Language Teaching, Southern Conference on Language Teaching, U.C.O. Multicultural Institute, Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers Association, Red Dirt Book Festival, Festival of the Arts, and the Spirit of Oklahoma Storytelling Festival. 

She is a board member of Territorial Tellers, state storytelling guild. She served on the Oklahoma Foreign Language Teachers Association board, Oklahoma

Language Teachers Leadership Team, and is past president of Teachers of Elementary and Middle School Foreign Languages.

AUTHOR 

Her books include: Pisadas Por El Peru, World Languages - Group Projects, Talking Finger Puppet Plays, In the Footsteps of the Pioneers and Pisadas

de Devotion.  Her book, Rolling Heads and Other Tales to Tell, is a medley of stories of Spanish explorers and folk tales of the native people of the Americas. She is now branching out into historical romance.

She joins Whorl Books through its Affiliate Author Promotion program.

Cullan Hudson

Strange State was featured in Oklahoma Today and Hudson's short story “The Iron Door: Curse of the Sierra Jumanos” was selected for the 2005 Red Dirt Anthology. Hudson has interviewed, researched and investigated many of these tales first hand, uncovering new information in the process.

The author has sought mysteries from North Africa to Europe and the Caribbean, including a three year stint in Puerto Rico, examining such legends as the Chupacabras.

Hudson is currently busy penning Stranger State: MORE Mysteries and Legends of Oklahoma. You can look for his short fiction collection, Dark West, and his first novel, a supernatural thriller entitled The Mound.

Velma Dora Terry

Velma Terry (1915-1999) was born in Reno Co., Kansas and from her life and the challenges she faced came simple poems of great faith.    Originally her poems were published by the author in several smaller collections. In 2010, the best of her works were gathered together and a biographical essay added by her daughter and editor, Marilyn A. Hudson.  The result was In Her Own Words.

Marilyn A. Hudson

Marilyn A. Hudson is the Director of Library Services at Southwestern Christian University in Bethany, Oklahoma. Prior, she served as public services librarian for the Metropolitan Library System and as a library media specialist for Norman Public Schools. Listed in the 1997 Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities, she was the 2002 recipient of the OLA Outstanding New Librarian Award, and member of the Phi Alpha Theta Honor Society, Golden Key, and Phi Kappa Phi. Her general research interests are in history, especially social, religious, and church history; women’s studies; mythology, folklore and storytelling. Hudson was lead writer and editor of the book, One Night Club and A Mule Barn: The First 60 Years of Southwestern Christian University and authored, Those Pesky Verses of Paul: Examining Women in the New Testament, Elephant Hips are Expensive, and others. She received a B.A. in History and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Oklahoma.      

Contact: 

marilynahudson@yahoo.com