Our Friends
Links to our members’ personal websites and other businesses and organizations we like. Have other suggestions for sites to add? Are you a member and don’t see your site here? Let us know!
Member Websites
Mikie DeLong Pyle (2PenAPicture.WordPress.com) – Mikie is an optioned screenwriter who primarily writes character-driven indie family dramas set in small town America about an ordinary protagonist who embarks on an extraordinary journey. However, she is not limited to nor constrained by that genre, and one of her script projects is a magical realism feature set in Cambodia.
Gary Edwards (EdwardsMusicSite.com) – Gary writes mostly music, including several soundtracks and a full opera. He’s also written 17 books, including a memoir about growing up in North Idaho and a book of his grandmother’s recipes.
Anna Goodwin (AnaParkerGoodwin.com) – Anna is a retired psychotherapist and author of several books including some on PTSD and a mystery thriller, Justice Forbidden, about a psychologist caught up in case of “implanted memories”, murder, and insurance fraud.
Mark Griswold (AllOfItsTrue.com) – Mark writes short stories, travel essays, policy analysis and social and political commentary, personal reflections, and poetry. He’s written a literary novel set in 1940’s Hollywood and, being a real estate agent by day, a book on the home buying and selling process.
Suzanne Holland – Suzanne is a professional editor and author of the novel Mermaid in a Fishbowl, about a woman teaching in a men’s prison.
Larry Vardiman (LarryVardiman.com) – Larry has written more than a dozen detective mysteries in the Maurice Bordeau series, featuring a team of anachronistic (the novels are set in present day but the protagonists might have been more comfortable in the 1930s) Scotland Yard detectives, one French, the other English, traveling the world and solving crimes.
Amber Laura Young (LitLiber.com) – Amber Laura “AL” writes romance and women’s fiction novels and has a few published works under her name (by Amber Laura | Publisher: LitLiber). She’s also a professional fiction editor.
Clark Graham (clarkgrahamauthor.com) – Clark is a prolific writer of science-fiction/fantasy, romance and more. He’s authored over 50 books and, along with his wife, Deb, is a regular fixture at the Kootenai County farmers market where you can purchase many of his titles and meet the man himself!
Tyrone Mendez (tyronemendezauthor.com) - Tyrone is an author of a series of young adult fantasy stories, Orbs and Forces, which were inspired by a dream from his son.
Organizations & Businesses
Palouse Writers Guild (PalouseWritersGuild.org) – our neighbors down south in Moscow, ID with regular meetings and critique sessions.
Sandpoint Writers On The Lake (SandpointWriters.com) – our neighbors to the north in Sandpoint. Meetings the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month at the Sandpoint Library.
Spokane Authors (SpokaneAuthors.org) – our neighbors across the border with regular meetings the first Thursday of the month at 2pm at Shadle Public Library.
Bitterroot Mountain Publishing House (BMPHMedia.com) – Local independent publishing company helping authors in a variety of genres tell their stories to the wider world.
Bookishly Happy (BookishlyHappy.com) – Local used bookstore located on Government Way just north of the freeway.
Well-Read Moose (WellReadMoose.com) – Local bookstore located in the Village at Riverstone.
Kindred & Co (KindredndCompany.com) - Books and bites for the soul, located in Post Falls.
Writing Websites
These are sure to help you overcome writer’s block. Great tips and contests too!
WritersDigest.com – tips, writing prompts, grammar and style guides, and contests
NaNoWriMo.org – National Novel Writing Month. Helping writers kickstart their novels since 1999. Can you write 50,000 words during the month of November?
WinningWriters.com – A great resource for finding contests to enter that aren’t just scams to take your money.