Lee Ambrose: I am passionate about words! I enjoy reviewing books for the SCN Book Review Site almost as much as I enjoy reading the reviews posted by my sister reviewers. Reading and writing are such an important part of my life that I cannot imagine a day without actively reading or writing—or both! —read more...
		Duffie Bart: I am a writer and reader living in Santa Barbara where my daughter Scout and two beautiful grandchildren keep me busy and happy. My primary interest is in the deepening of my awareness, and it is through writing, reading, and relationship that I find my growth and spiritual awakening. —read more...
		Rhonda Esakov: I am a volunteer instructor for Texas Parks and Wildlife, an NRA Certified Shooting Instructor/Range Officer and have managed my own tax practice for over 25 years. When not working or teaching gun and outdoor courses, I enjoy visiting caves, camping and canoeing. My writing includes a piece in the Kitchen Table Stories anthology... —read more...
		Judith Helburn has been involved with Spiritual Eldering and Sage-ing® since 1994. She is currently Mentor/Intern Coordinator and Chair of the Coordinating Circle for the international Sage-ing Guild. Judith works with seniors in several other programs in Austin, Texas, including the Older Women's Legacy (OWL)-Circle memoir program of Story Circle Network. —read more...
		Sharon Lippincott lives near Pittsburgh, PA, and has been writing for thirty years. After retiring from the business world, she turned her focus to life story and memoir writing and leads workshops on these topics based on her latest book, The Heart and Craft of Lifestory Writing. —read more...
		Jennifer Melville is a freelance writer and proud military wife living in Jacksonville, Florida. She has been published in Natural Awakenings, Women's Digest, Jax Air News, and multiple other publications and has a degree in English from the University of Maryland. —read more...
		Mary Ann Moore: I am a poet, writer and creativity facilitator in Nanaimo, British Columbia. Ever since carrying them around, for the feel and smell of them, I have loved books—before I had yet learned to read! —read more...
		Patricia Nordyke Pando: Having been born in Texas, I enjoy returning there on occasion to take care of my Story Circle responsibilities, and to visit a precious grandson. I have been an SCN member for many years, as well as a contributing editor to the Story Circle Journal and a member of the board. —read more...
		Doris Anne Roop-Benner: I have lived in Richardson, Texas, since 1973 and been a member of Story Circle since its creation in 1997. Born and raised in Philadelphia, I have been married to Bob for 42 years. —read more...
		Susan Schoch: As a freelance writer, editor and custom publisher, I specialize in memoir and personal history work at my little cabin in Idledale, Colorado. The natural fit with Story Circle Network for the past 8 years has been both motivating and fulfilling. Because I'm always discovering women's books that increase my awareness and stoke my passion for their stories, it's an honor to write reviews for SCBR and share those discoveries. —read more...
		Sharon Wildwind is a Calgary, Alberta writer, who focuses on mysteries and memoirs. She has kept a journal since 1978 and has one published memoir, Dreams that Blister Sleep, based on the year she spent in Vietnam with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps. —read more...
		Linda Wisniewski: I joined Story Circle Network about eight years ago and have been an Internet chapter member almost as long. I've facilitated an e-circle, written book reviews and was one of the editors of the Kitchen Table Stories anthology. —read more...

• Carolyn Blankenship lives in Lockhart, Texas and is a Board member of Story Circle Network. She facilitates a monthly Writing Circle, Older Women's Legacy circles, and has developed and taught a variety of programs on journal writing and personal growth. —read more...

• Sharon Blumberg is a freelance writer and junior high Spanish teacher. She has been a teacher for 17 years. She currently teaches seventh grade Spanish in Flossmoor, Illinois. She resides in Munster, Indiana with her husband and dog. —read more...

• Janet Caplan, who lives near Victoria, British Columbia, has been a member of Story Circle Network since February 2005 and is a member of the Internet Chapter's writing circle #14. In addition to her work as an accountant, Janet enjoys writing personal essays, her local writing group, book club and long boat rowing. —read more...

• Mary Jo Doig is passionate about reading and nurturing other women's stories. "Since 2001 I have been a SCN member, have led my internet writing circle 7 for six years, and have been editor of Story Circle Journal's "True Words From Real Women" for five years. I have found so many different ways to express my soul's longings in SCN. Writing book reviews is yet another way for I can both deepen and share my experience with a book that has been particularly meaningful to me." —read more...

• Robin Edgar has over 30 years of experience as a professional writer and storyteller. Specializing in profile and lifestyle articles of a positive nature, her work appears in national and regional publications such as The Charlotte Observer, Our State Magazine, Skirt!, and Museum News. —read more...

• Barbara L. Heller is a clinical social work psychotherapist and writer living in a small village in upstate NY with her husband of thirty years. She blogs with her wonderful 29 year-old daughter at Intentions and Inspirations. Her first blog, The Dream Year, chronicled her and her husband's one-year sabbatical, traveling around the US and Canada in small vehicles—a 22-foot van, an inflatable kayak, bicycles and a 26-foot boat. —read more...

• Becky Lane is a lifelong voracious reader—especially of books about people who are "living the good life." She and her husband have recently left suburbia and embarked upon their own quest for the good life in the Texas Hill Country. —read more...

• Penny Leisch is a writer, author, and resume specialist who lives in Austin, Texas. Her clients include the City of Tempe, Walsh America, Camping & RV Magazine, Warner Wrangler newspaper, Loving Pets Magazine, Garden and Hearth, Adams Media (Cup of Comfort anthology series), and many more. —read more...

• Martha Meacham has a home nestled in motts of live oak and clumps of junipers on a piece of hardscrabble land southwest of Austin. The gentle rolling hills nearby remind her of the glacial drumlins of upstate New York where she grew up before leaving for college in Mexico. —read more...

• Diana Nolan is a former librarian and has worked in public and academic libraries, as well as a law library. "A born and bred New Englander, I moved to Virginia with my husband seven years ago expecting only a change in the weather! I have two sons, one in New York, and one in Tennessee, and three grandchildren." —read more...

• Edith O'Nuallain, mother of 5 and substitute teacher in a local primary school, lives in Wicklow, the Garden County of Ireland. She reads and writes whenever the opportunity presents itself to her, and has an insatiable appetite for buying books, a habit her dearly beloved husband prefers to call a disease! —read more...

• Donna Van Straten Remmert is a former member of the SCN Board of Directors, and has facilitated writing workshops and writing circles. She has published a memoir about her childhood, The Littlest Big Kid and a memoir about her teen years, The Jitterbug Girl. —read more...

• Cheri Rosenberg and her husband of twenty-five years live in New York with their three teens, two dogs, and other assorted pets. Cheri is a consultant dietitian who started writing for public venues five years ago after she wrote a fan letter to an author who strongly recommended that she review fiction. —read more...

• Becca Taylor joined Story Circle Network in late 2005 as a holiday gift to herself. Since then, she's participated in several workshops, facilitated an e-Circle, and presented at the 2008 SCN Stories from the Heart conference. In 2006, she discovered a way she could put her geekdom to good use to serve SCN: she started the SCN podcast. She is also a Board member for SCN. —read more...

• Susan J. Tweit is the award-winning author of eleven books (including the recent Colorado Less Traveled, a finalist for the Colorado Book Awards), numerous magazine articles, and newspaper columns. Visit her website. —read more...

• Kathy Waller is a paralegal, a librarian, and a writer. She loves reading, and one of her favorite activities is giving book talks. A native of Fentress, Texas, she now lives in Austin. —read more...

Guests*

• Judy Alter
• Penny Appleby
• Karen Ballinger
• Stephanie Barko
• Julie Baum
• Bobbi Chukran
• Catherine Cogburn
• Patricia Daly-Lipe
• Nancy Dasenbrock
• Carol Feder
• Judy Fettman
• Kara Flathouse
• Sally Gelardin
• B. Lynn Goodwin
• Darla Grant
• Susan Hanson
• Joan Shaddox Isom
• Mary Marino-Strong
• Susan Cummins Miller
• Katherine Misegades
• Marion Mitchell
• Sallie Moffitt
• Linda Joy Myers
• Tracie Nichols
• Brenda Osborne
• Janet Grace Riehl
• Deborah Robson
• Karen Ryan
• Danelle Sasser
• Lisa Shirah-Hiers
• Allison Stadd
• Marlys Marshall Styne
• Mary Tinkler
• Sherry Wachter
• Carol Waid
• Allyson Whipple
• Gwen Whitehead

Editors

	Susan Wittig Albert, Editor: In 1985, I left my career as a university professor and administrator and began working fulltime as a novelist and freelance writer. For the past 16 years, I've written the China Bayles herbal mysteries, and for the past five, a series of historical fantasies called The Cottage Tales, featuring Beatrix Potter. —read more...
	Susan Andrus, Editor: I am an energetic person who loves to read, write, walk, paint, teach, and play cello. I can do many activities that I would otherwise not have time for because I don't have a TV. Right now, I'm working on a series of articles regarding equal education for all. Maybe they will grow up to be a book someday. —read more...
	Linda Hoye, Editor: I currently lead a double life. I am an HR Business Analyst by day and the rest of the time I am a writer trying to find enough time to devote to my passion. I have been an SCN member since 2008 and last year I was privileged to become a board member. I maintain two blogs: My Own Velvet Room is my main blog that is an eclectic reflection of my life and at Arms of Adoption I focus on positive aspects of adoption. I am currently working on a memoir about growing up as an adoptee and my eventual reconnection with my birth family. More about this project can be found on my website. I love books, I love reading, and I love writing and I love being involved with Story Circle Book Reviews! —read more...
	Laura Strathman Hulka, Editor. I am a lifelong Californian, except for nine years spent in Tennessee, learning to speak Southern. I consider myself a "renaissance woman" with a wide variety of interests and enthusiasms, including gardening, reading, writing, baking, dogs, crafts and family, (not necessarily in that order!) I taught myself to read at age four, from the back of cereal boxes at the breakfast table, and haven't stopped reading since. My favorite genres are cozy mysteries, historical fiction and biography. I am one of four sisters, whom I credit with my love of family and my eagerness to help others. —read more...
	Susan Ideus, Editor. I've been a SCN member since January 2006—one of the best New Years' resolutions I've made! I've been fortunate enough to attend two SCN national conferences and several weekend retreats, and I facilitate online writing group #3. I contribute to SC Book Reviews and have had several pieces of my writing included in SCN publications. I just recently retired from the business world, an event which also coincided with a move back to my beloved New Mexico. —read more...
	Judy Miller, Editor: Two years ago I took my husband's advice and began my writing career. It was in one of my writing classes that I came across Story Circle Network. I was drawn to the idea of women nurturing women in their quest to write and share their stories. I joined SCN almost a year ago and volunteered to become one the of the SCBR editors. I have had dozens of articles and essays published in parenting and adoption magazines and my stories are included in A Cup of Comfort for Adoptive Families: Stories That Celebrate a Special Gift of Love, Pieces of Me: Who Do I Want to Be? and Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Mom. —read more...

Editor Emerita

Paula Stallings Yost, Editor, 2002-2008: After a twenty-five-year career in public relations and journalism in Dallas, I returned to my roots in the piney woods of East Texas, working for a while as lifestyles editor for a small-town daily newspaper. In 1999, I established LifeSketches/ Heirloom Memoirs Publishing. —read more...

Former Reviewers

• Melanie Alberts
• Karen Bensing
• Lisa Check
• Gloria Cordova
• Leslie Crowley
• Grace Forrest-Maestas
• Christine Gilbert
• Cassandra Jacobs
• Jazz Jaeschke
• Juanita Johnson
• Maggie Knorr
• Dianne Lodge-Peters
• Denise McAllister
• Laurie Park
• PJ Pierce
• Paulette Rees-Denis
• Rebecca Roberts
• Jan Epton Seale
• Leslea Smith
• Peggy Talley
• Lina Tanner
• Marti Weisbrich
• Mary Welker-Haddock

^*Stars have posted 10 or more reviews in the past 18 months and have their own web pages. Associates have posted 5-9 reviews in the past 12 months, and Guest Reviewers have posted 1-4 reviews in the past 12 months.