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About poet Barrett La Mont

A native Californian, Mr. La Mont now makes his home in Oregon. He attended Santa Monica High School,

Santa Monica College and went on to study at UCLA. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War.

After his service duties were completed, he prepared for a career in banking and real estate appraising. For a

time, he also worked as a “background actor” in Hollywood for several film and television productions. He has

been a writer all his life, particularly drawn to creating poetry.

Author website: WWW.EBARRETTLAMONTBOOKS.COM

Lynda started Women Action Takers Publishing in 2017. I published three books from 2017 to 2021. Sally joined me in September of 2021.

Since that time, we have published 13 International #1 Bestselling books.

 

Sally Green Is the Vice President of Author Development at Action Takers Publishing. She works with writers to help them develop their stories and become bestselling authors. Action Takers Publishing specializes in themed multi-author collaboration books where each person writes a
chapter and becomes part of a community of like-minded authors. In addition to collaboration books, they also published solo books At the age of 58, Sally realized that she was really good at taking care of everyone else but really bad at taking care of herself. So, she embarked on a
journey of self-care that began with investing in herself and contributing to a multi-author book. Sally is an inspirational speaker, a multiple times
International Bestselling Author and is in the process of writing her book titled: The Self-Care Rockstar due to launch in 2023. 

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Dan has been a leader within the Christian publishing community for 35 years. Much of this time spent leading the international sales and licensing teams of Thomas Nelson, Inc. and partner in a direct-to-church marketing company.  

He currently has his own publishing services company (Fitting Words) that provides authors the full suite of publishing, sales, and distribution services. He publishes new books, works with other publishers, and serves organizations in developing products and resources with their existing or proprietary content. Authors appreciate Dan’s expertise and knowledge for foreign language markets, audio books, custom publishing, and much more. 

www.fittingwords.net

Jay Sidhu serves as Chief Executive Officer of Customers Bancorp, Inc., and Executive Chairman of Customers Bank. Under Jay’s management, Customers Bank grew from a $250 million troubled bank to over $20 billion in assets in approximately ten years. Prior to joining Customers Bank, he served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. There, he grew the organization from an Initial Public Offering of $12 million into the 17th largest banking institution in the country with a market cap of $12 billion at his retirement. Sidhu has received numerous recognitions in the industry, including Financial World's CEO of the Year, Turnaround Entrepreneur of the Year, and was named the Large Business Leader of the Year by the Chamber of Commerce. He is the author of Never Ever, Ever Give Up.  Learn more at JaySSidhu.com. 




GUEST WEBSITE: JaySSidhu.com

SOCIAL MEDIA:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-sidhu-2108b593/



Wall Street Journal best selling author: https://www.wsj.com/articles/bestselling-books-week-ended-april-8-40542573?st=s1h3fuev4z9jlyp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

Irish-born singer songwriter, Clare Cunningham is an independent, award-winning singer-songwriter, performing, touring, and recording artist. Her raspy, Celtic, soulful voice, with the ability to span across a multitude of genres, is what leads her to be an extremely unique artist.

Her 'GRAND OLE OPRY’ debut (March 18th, 2023) was a sold-out show and an accomplishment that’s extremely rare as a completely independent artist. A surprise add-on to the bill on the night was her childhood idol, Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood. Clare also performed with Steve Earle, singing his infamous ‘Galway Girl’ as a duet. 

‘The Josie Music Awards’ crowned her  'ARTIST OF THE YEAR' in 2022; ‘VOCALIST OF THE YEAR’ in 2021 and ‘FOLK/AMERICANA ARTIST OF THE YEAR' in 2020, to name but a few of the accolades she has picked up since moving stateside in 2018. 

Clare had notable success before moving to the US as the lead singer of all female Swedish quintet THUNDERMOTHER (2013-2018) where she released two vinyl albums (Road Fever and Rock 'N' Roll Disaster) and was signed to Warner Music Sweden, her first major record deal, gaining support from Motörhead, Zakk Wylde (BLS), Halestorm, In-Flames and many more. 

 Now completely solo, Clare uses her platform to bring awareness to all mental health matters. Her EP ‘MERCY’ (2022) has been helping her listeners with suicide prevention, addiction awareness, and much more. She wants to be a voice of inspiration and hope. Previous to this release, she put out a collection of songs in an EP called ‘DEAR IRELAND’ (2021) which pays a beautiful ode to her culture and heritage. 

Clare came back to faith at the end of 2020 and her music now reflects how she has become a conduit to her Lord Savior Jesus Christ. She is currently in the studio working on a Christian/inspirational album (‘HELPING HAND’) to release by summer 2023. 

What a few industry folks have said about Clare: 

“Clare has such a tremendous voice. She makes me want to play because she sings with passion and feeling”

STEVE CROPPER 

“Girl you can sing. What a powerful voice”

LZZY HALE (HALESTORM) 

“Powerful voice”

PHIL CAMPBELL (MOTÖRHEAD)

''You sounded amazing, well done''

Tommy Swerdlow is a screenwriter, director, poet, novelist, and actor. He is best known for writing the movie Cool Runnings and other family films, including Little Giants, Snow Dogs, and more recently Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch, Puss In Boots The Last Wish. He is currently working on the next installment of Shrek and recently finished writing an “origin story” script for Donkey (The Eddie Murphy character in the Shrek movies).

His film A Thousand Junkies, which he directed, co-wrote, and co-stars in, premiered at the 2017 TriBeCa Film Festival and was released by The Orchard in January 2018. His work in television includes the series Brutally Normal (WB 2000), which he co-wrote and co-created. His acting credits include Real Genius, Hamburger Hill, Howard The Duck, and Child’s Play.

Stark House Press published his first novel Straight Dope in July of 2021, and his poems are scattered all over the placeSwerdlow is from New York City. He moved to LA in 1983 and has lived there ever since.