About Us
The people behind Designing Writers Publications are a diverse group of writers and editors who initially joined together to create an outlet for the writings of the Writersville Gang, the members of the Yahoo group, The Writer's Life. (We have listed ourselves alphabetically, to make things easy.)
Ron Berry
Ron was born and raised on a farm, fifty plus years ago. He has greater than five years of post secondary education. That being said, he writes, makes beaded jewelry, and washes dishes to eke out an existence. He tends to give speeches that are overly technical, quite scientific and hopefully somewhat educational. Ron has written a few humorous pieces and has even garnered a few chuckles at the toastmaster meetings.
Ron's Web site: http://rberrysurrea
Ron's Blog: http://360.yahoo.com/unwriter/
Linda Rucker
Linda Rucker lives in Central Florida with her husband, a dog, Tubby, and a cat, Alley.
Linda has been writing professionally for five years and has published two novels, What the Heart Wants and Dark Ridge. She has dozens of short stories and several articles to her credit, and is busy with her third novel.
Read excerpts from her novels, as well as a sampling of her short stories on her website at: www.LindaLRucker.
Lea Schizas
Lea Schizas is an award-winning author/editor, a short story competition winner, living in Montreal with her husband Jimmy and five children. She describes herself as "finally woke up after a 23-year self-induced coma taking care of the family, and rediscovered my passion for writing."
She is the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of two Writer’s Digest 101 Top Writing Sites and recipients of the Preditors and Editors Most Useful Writing Sites Award: Apollo’s Lyre, an online writer’s Zine: http://www.apollos-
- Founder of The Muse Online Writers Conference, http://www.freewebs
.com/themuseonli newritersconfere nce/ - Founder of The Muse Marquee, http://themusemarqu
ee.tripod. com - Founder of The Muse Book Reviews, http://themusebookr
eviews.tripod. com
She is the author of the Young Adult fantasy/adventure novel The Rock of Realm (http://rockofrealmn
You can read more of Lea’s bio and accomplishments at: http://leaschizased
Irene Smith
A published author of fiction and non-fiction, including conceptual and reference materials for computer programmers, she is a former employee of Microsoft Corporation where she wrote documentation for their database objects from 1999 to 2003. In 2003, following her father's stroke, she moved back to New York State with her husband and son and returned to the life of a freelancer.
Gaming has been a prime enticement for Irene from the beginning. She bought her first computer in order to play games and still spends as much time as she can find playing computer games. In addition to playing them, she also writes computer games and, in 1994, she published three computer game packages (Solitaire, Dice Games, and Casino Games) through SofSource. You might have seen her games in K-Mart or Electronics Boutique.
If you want more information about Irene, including a list of her publication credits, visit Irene's personal site at: http://www.irenesmith.com.