Our Writing Instructors
Jack Adler has been a fulltime freelance writer since 1974, drawing upon his previous business experience for his writing specialties: travel, health, recreation and leisure articles. A fulltime job as feature editor of Travel Weekly helped lead Jack to becoming a columnist, on a freelance basis, for the travel section of the Los Angeles Times for 15 years; he wrote two columns: Consumer Report and Bargain Corner.
Holly Alder
Holly Alder graduated from Northwestern University with and Education/English double major and an emphasis in children’s literature. She also acquired an M.Ed. from National College of Education in elementary teaching, with an emphasis in grade school art.
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Sharon Carmack
Sharon Carmack is a freelance writer and editor and the author of sixteen books, including You Can Write Your Family History, Carmack’s Guide to Copyright & Contracts: A Primer for Genealogists, Writers & Researchers, Your Guide to Cemetery Research, and Organizing Your Family History Search. She has also authored several family history narratives, including My Wild Irish Rose and Italians in Transition.
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Holly Chaker
Holly Chaker is a grammar enthusiast who enjoys sharing her passion for creating interesting and easy to read documents with students of all ages. She has been writing professionally for the last twenty years. Many moons ago while living in Dallas she was an I.T. headhunter. She quickly discovered that she preferred the writing aspects of her job and decided to carve a niche for herself. She created training manuals and taught her fellow headhunters how to organize and write the kind of resumes that would get their candidates noticed (and hired).
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John DeChancie
John DeChancie is the author of two dozen books, both fiction and nonfiction. His novels in the science fiction and fantasy genres have been attracting a wide readership for more than fifteen years, and over a million copies of his books have seen print, many in foreign languages. His humorous fantasy series, beginning with Castle Perilous, became a best seller for Berkley/Ace. Booklist described John’s novel MagicNet (William Morrow) as “a welcome sigh of comic relief…shamelessly droll, literate, and thoroughly entertaining.
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Elizabeth Delisi
Elizabeth Delisi time-travel romance set in ancient Egypt, Lady of the Two Lands (a Bloody Dagger Award winner and Golden Rose Award nominee), and her romantic suspense novel, Since All is Passing (an EPPIE Award finalist and Bloody Dagger Award finalist), are available from Amber Quill Press. Fatal Fortune (a Word Museum Reviewer’s Choice Masterpiece), the first in the Lottie Baldwin Mystery series, is currently available from Fictionwise.
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Michelle Demers
Michelle Demers holds an MFA in poetry from Vermont College and has been published in Leaves by Night, Flowers by Day; Collecting Moon Coins II; Diner; The Dryland Fish; The Blue Fig Review; and Busenhalter among other publications.
She received a grant from the Vermont Arts Council, plus scholarships to attend a month-long writing residency at the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson, Vermont.
