Authors "Mashed for Cash" in StoryMash's Sixth Collaborative Writing Contest

Katrina Robinson
StoryMash Username: Katrina

Katrina Robinson has been the community manager and blogger extraordinaire at StoryMash.com since April 2008. She is a full-time freelance writer and editor as well as an undercover fiction writer—undercover because she has yet to try to be published. Katrina has been a contributing writer for Graffiti, Diamond Magazine, ANF Magazine, and Pure Times Magazine. When she’s not writing and working on one of her many projects, Katrina can be found soaking up the rays on the Charleston beaches and reading anything she can get her hands on.

Melissa Monks
StoryMash Username: Honeygloom

Melissa has been a member of StoryMash since December 9th, 2007. She grew up writing. Her first ever story, written in 3rd grade, was about a little boy who got attacked by a Vampire who also happened to captain a schooner. Since then, she’s written more, read a few books, and earned a BA in English/Creative Writing from the University of Utah. When not reading, writing, or hanging out on StoryMash, she knits, beads, or pensively walks along the beach thinking of reading, writing, StoryMash, etc.

Teresa Brown
StoryMash Username: tabr0wn

Teresa Brown has authored and published three books. (She got great advice from an expert that long subtitles up to no more than 30 words have more keywords for search engines to crawl both in Amazon.com and anywhere else online so if these subtitles are a mouthful, don’t choke!) Adoption Records Handbook: Birth Family Searches Made Easier with Self-Help Tips, Registries, Search Angels, Pro Se Legal Forms, etc.; Business Security: Save Money While Protecting Your Family and Small Business Against Theft, Workplace Violence, Fraud, Hostage Situations and More; and My Father’s Daughter: A Romantic Historical Adventure. For her fiction novel she goes under the pseudonym of Teresa Marotta. Her books can be ordered at Amazon.com as well as BarnesandNoble.com, through bookstores and libraries. More information can be found at www.CraryPublications.com.

Rebekah Tiemens
StoryMash Username: Shadinah

Rebekah was introduced to Storymash a little over a month ago. She hadn't written fiction since high school, but, as she has been an avid reader all her life, writing comes fairly natural. She has a wealth of experiences to draw from, having lived in three states, eight cities and over a dozen houses within the last decade. Three kids and a full time job complete the busy picture and writing is one of her few creative outlets.

Cyndi Bishop
StoryMash Username: Aggeloi

Cyndi joined Storymash about two months ago, having discovered the site through Craig's List. She has been writing since childhood, and has been a full-time writer for the last two years. Brio, a magazine for teen girls, has published several of her articles, and she has worked on two ghostwriting projects, with a third underway. She is also trying to find a publisher for her first two completed novels. When she isn't writing, she loves reading, knitting, crocheting, and playing brain-cell-destroying video games.

Jim
StoryMash Username: nashvillebecker

Jim learned typing in seventh grade by playing a tutorial video game. If a student scored one million on said game, Mr. Hayes, the typing instructor, would give them A's for the rest of the year. Due to time constraints, such a score was impossible for anyone who didn't cut their next two classes. Like Jim cared about math or social studies. He finds typing therapeutically calming, and maintained over fifty mail correspondences before he ever opened an email account. However, typing didn't mean much without decent (or better) ideas to write. He thinks he sounds important when he addresses himself in third person. He has been published and continues submitting articles and stories to a variety of magazines. He has written scripts, children's books, songs, and driving directions. A member of StoryMash since he joined, he promotes idiocy in real life and quality in writing. Lastly, Jim thrives on the opportunity to write new profiles about himself, especially since his verb tenses aren't corrected.