{"id":3071,"date":"2015-06-10T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?page_id=3071"},"modified":"2015-06-10T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T02:00:16","slug":"guest-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/blog\/guest-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Regular Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mathiya Adams<\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mattie-Adams-Mystery-Woman-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3156\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mattie-Adams-Mystery-Woman-crop-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mattie Adams-Mystery Woman-crop\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mathiyaadams.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mathiya Adams<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0writes Cozy Mysteries, and is the author of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1HAoPtv\" target=\"_blank\">The Hot Dog Detective\u00a0<\/a>series about Mark MacFarland, a former police detective who now operates a hot dog cart&#8230; but who still keeps finding himself drawn into solving murders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Mathiya Adams worked for many years in the corporate world as an consultant and a\u00a0trainer. She\u00a0taught the most hardened, cynical, and difficult population on the planet: supervisors and managers of large businesses.\u00a0She wrote and published a series of\u00a0management\u00a0development textbooks for businesses.Her\u00a0career has taken\u00a0her\u00a0to many parts of the world. She&#8217;s\u00a0spent large hunks of her\u00a0life in New York, New Jersey, California, Colorado, Texas, Alaska, Scotland, Mexico, the Philippines, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Australia. She&#8217;s\u00a0sojourned in Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, England, France, Canada, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Japan, Illinois, Georgia, Florida&#8230;oh, the list goes on and on. Having lived in so many diverse cultures, she&#8217;s\u00a0acquired a great tolerance and appreciation of people of different cultures and backgrounds. Perhaps that is one of the factors that inspires her detective hero MacFarland\u2019s understanding of the various groups that make up the homeless and underclass of American society.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>You\u00a0can follow\u00a0Mathiya Adams on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mathiyaadams\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or friend her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mathiya.adams\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>. She\u00a0blogs at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mathiyaadams.com\/\">http:\/\/mathiyaadams.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1GjGi7j\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3183\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Hotdog-Detective-Five-books1-1024x295.jpg\" alt=\"Hotdog Detective-Five books\" width=\"1024\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<h1>Rayne Hall<\/h1>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Rayne-Hall-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3157\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Rayne-Hall-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Rayne Hall-crop\" width=\"200\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1BWGHIA\" target=\"_blank\">Rayne Hall<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has published more than forty books under different pen names with different publishers in different genres, mostly fantasy, horror and non-fiction. Recent books include\u00a0<i>Storm Dancer<\/i>\u00a0(dark epic fantasy novel),\u00a0<i>13 British Horror Stories<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Six Scary Tales Vol 1, 2, 3, 4<\/i>\u00a0(creepy horror stories),\u00a0<i>Six Historical Tales<\/i>\u00a0(short stories),\u00a0<i>Six Quirky Tales<\/i>\u00a0(humorous fantasy stories),\u00a0<i>Writing Fight Scenes<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The World-Loss Diet<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Writing About Villains<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Writing About Magic<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<i>Writing Scary Scenes<\/i>\u00a0(instructions for authors).<\/p>\n<p>She holds a college degree in publishing management and a masters degree in creative writing. Currently, she edits the\u00a0<strong><i><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1BWGHIA\" target=\"_blank\">Ten Tales<\/a><\/i><\/strong>\u00a0series of multi-author short story anthologies:\u00a0<i>Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires, Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Scared: Ten Tales of Horror, Cutlass: Ten Tales of Pirates, Beltane: Ten Tales of Witchcraft, Spells: Ten Tales of Magic, Undead: Ten Tales of Zombies<\/i>\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n<p>Rayne has lived in Germany, China, Mongolia and Nepal and has now settled in a small dilapidated town of former Victorian grandeur on the south coast of England.<\/p>\n<p>You\u00a0can\u00a0follow Rayne Hall\u00a0on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>You can <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.us11.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=c7a2f714a3888e254b1ca61f6&amp;id=20bbedb74b\" target=\"_blank\">sign up for Rayne Hall&#8217;s\u00a0newsletter here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1BWGHIA\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2991 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/WritersCraft-10Books-RayneHall-2015-01-19-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"WritersCraft 10Books RayneHall 2015-01-19\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Vashti Valant<\/h1>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Vashti-Valant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3155\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Vashti-Valant-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Vashti Valant\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1SbQkwD\" target=\"_blank\">Vashti Valant<\/a> has written more than eighteen Romance and Erotica \u00a0novels and novellas,\u00a0under a variety of noms de plume. She&#8217;s written for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellorascave.com\/slave-of-the-goblin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ellora&#8217;s Cave<\/a>, Samhain,\u00a0Changeling, and has worked as a ghost writer.<\/p>\n<p>She loves long midnight walks on the beach with a hunky vampire, even if\u00a0he\u00a0bites&#8230;\u00a0<em>especially<\/em>\u00a0if he bites. She also has a mystical side, and has been known to give Tarot readings at fairs and events.<\/p>\n<p>She writes in numerous genres of Romance, including Historical, BDSM, and Suspense, but her favorites are\u00a0Paranormal and Futuristic Romance, in which Heroes are not only super sexy but supernatural.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently collaborating with Tara Maya on a Paranormal Romance series, which is based on the Tarot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1SbQkwD\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3191\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Vashti-Valant-two-books-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Vashti Valant-two books-crop\" width=\"422\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Would you like to submit a Guest Blog Post?<\/h1>\n<p>I am happy to welcome Guest Bloggers. Topics include writing craft and anything related to the genres of fantasy, science fiction, young adult or paranormal romance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathiya Adams Mathiya Adams\u00a0writes Cozy Mysteries, and is the author of\u00a0The Hot Dog Detective\u00a0series about Mark MacFarland, a former police detective who now operates a hot dog cart&#8230; but who still keeps finding himself drawn into solving murders. &nbsp; Mathiya Adams worked for many years in the corporate world as an consultant and a\u00a0trainer. 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