Author's Round Table - Hosted by Michigan Avenue Media

Please join Marsha Casper Cook and her guests award-winning authors Joy Ross Davis, Parris Afton Bonds, and Vicki Steifel on Thursday, June 22 at 4EST 3CST 2MT 1 PST.

Joy Ross Davis is of Irish descent and a student of the lore and magic found in the back hills of Tennessee where many of her Irish ancestors settled upon coming to America. After a twenty-five-year career as a college English professor, sheretired from teaching and followed her dream of going to Ireland. As it happened, she was offered a “summer of work” as a writer and photographer at an Irish travel agency where she wrote and published numerous articles and photos designed for first-time American visitors.

Parris Afton Bonds is the mother of five sons and the author of nearly fifty published novels. She is co-founder and first vice president of Romance Writers of America, as well as, cofounder of Southwest Writers Workshop.

Declared by ABC’s Nightline as one of three best-selling authors of romantic fiction, the New York Times best seller Parris Afton Bonds has been featured in major newspapers and magazines and published in more than a dozen languages.

The Parris Award was established in her name by the Southwest Writers Workshop to honor a published writer who has given outstandingly of time and talent to other writers. Prestigious recipients of the Parris Award include Tony Hillerman and the Pulitzer nominee Norman Zollinger.

Award-winning author Vicki Stiefel now’ also writes as Sanna Brand, whose Regency Romance, THE BOND (Book 1, The Secret Tales) launched May 15. Vicki’s fantasy romance series, The Made Ones Saga, launched with ALTERED, continued with CHANGED, and climaxed with ASCENDANT.
Vicki continues work on her Afterworld Chronicles and is currently writing The Deception, Book 2 in The Secret Tales.