



| Dallas Woodburn Dallas Woodburn’s recently released collection of short stories, 3 a.m., is available at www. barnesandnoble.com and www.amazon.com. Laurie Stolarz, award-winning author of the Blue is for Nightmares series, says: “Woodburn is a very gifted writer whose work celebrates the beauty and humor of everyday life.” Dallas’s writing credits include the magazines Family Circle, Writer’s Digest, and Justine, and the books So, You Wanna Be a Writer? and four Chicken Soup for the Soul books including Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IV and Chicken Soup for the Girl's Soul. Dallas is a sophomore “Trustee Scholar” at the University of Southern California majoring in Creative Writing. She is currently teaching an online writing course and leads a workshop at the Young Writer’s Program at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference each summer. Her foundation "Write On!" encourages kids to read and write with essay contests and an annual Holiday Book Drive that has donated 7,390 new books to underprivileged kids the past five years. Check out Dallas's website, www. zest.net/writeon, for writing contests, interviews with authors, book reviews, and more! I'd like to thank Alex Izykowski, Nic Bean, Brooke Shaw, Colin McManus and Kate McDermott for their willingness to share their expertise while I was doing research for Picking Up the Pieces. I am forever grateful for your kindness. |