Hope Clark

C. Hope Clark is founder/editor of FundsforWriters.com , a Web site selected for eight years running by Writer's Digest for 101 Best Web Sites for Writers. Her motivational newsletters reach 15,000 readers, providing grants, competitions and publishing opportunities on a weekly basis. Her publishing credits include Writer's Digest, The Writer Magazine, Byline Magazine, several Chicken Soup volumes, TURF Magazine, Voices of Youth Advocates (VOYA), Next Step Teen and many more. She just completed her second agricultural mystery novel.  www.fundsforwriters.com

Dick Huiras

Dick Huiras as been writing self-help manuals, books and information for over 40 years.  Some of his works include, Conquering the Task Management Blues, Coaching for Commitment & Performance, Taking the Stress Right Out of Your Life, Do What You Can and Can The Rest, and his most current work and already popular book, How to Build a Bond of Mutual Trust.  Dick has published over 100 hundred articles for such publications as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Houston Post, DBA Houston Magazine, Nations News, Irish Independent News.  He has received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees in psychology and has used this valuable training in a very successful teaching, coaching, and international speaking career.  Dick has won many awards for his work but he says none more important to him than winning the Instructor of the Year award from the University of Houston. Dick brings to the world of writers a complex knowledge of how to bring the characters in a book to real life and understanding of the human mind.  www.huirasassoc.com/HA

Eric has been working with creative and performing artists for more than twenty-five years, first as a therapist and now as a creativity coach. He has been writing for thirty-five years. His more than thirty books include Coaching the Artist Within, Fearless Creating, A Writer's Paris, The Van Gogh Blues, The Creativity Book, Performance Anxiety, and Ten Zen Seconds. Eric holds undergraduate degrees in philosophy and psychology, master's degrees in counseling and creative writing, and a doctorate in counseling psychology. For a decade he taught personal and professional development classes at St. Mary's College, Moraga, California. He founded and wrote Callboard Magazine's Staying Sane in the Theater column and currently writes for Art Calendar Magazine. He also writes periodically for Writer's Digest Magazine, The Writer, and other publications including Dramatics Magazine, Intuition Magazine, and The California Therapist. Eric has been a presenter about creativity issues at the American Psychological Association annual conference, the Romance Writers of America annual conference, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the American Conservatory Theater, the Writer's Digest Writers Conference and other organizations. www.ericmaisel.com

Travis Terry

Travis Terry, a creative, leading Native American flute player remains true to his roots. Praised for the beauty of his musical stories, Travis has traveled the country and abroad to perform for the people of many nations. His audience has included children and elders, senators and ambassadors. Performing at art shows, pow wows and ceremonies, Travis shares the tales of his land. He has honored the elders of all Native people at dedications in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada. He was featured at the American Indian Heritage Festival in Las Vegas; the Native American Music Festivals in Tsaile, Arizona and Portland, Oregon; the Youth Alliance Conference in Las Vegas; and the American Indian Heritage Festival also in Las Vegas. Travis was honored in the BBC documentary, Travis Terry & Canyon de Chelly.  He performed at the 2004 Navajo Nation Presidential Inauguration and at the Native American Music Awards. His music is also the soundtrack for Images of Arizona for PBS, and Native Faces Desert Light. To fulfill his legacy of honoring the lives of those who walked the earth, and to share the joy of playing the native flute, Travis speaks and teaches at schools and workshops around the country, and performs at sacred gatherings of both women and indigenous people.  www.highspirits.com/mcart/