Welcome Melissa J. Cunningham to the spotlight today. She's the author of The Ransomed Souls Series. 

Melissa, thanks for joining us today!  What is your next project?
The third book in the Ransomed Souls Series, The Undoer, is coming out this spring! It’s by far my favorite out of any books I’ve written!

Name 5 of your favorite movies.
The Count of Monte Cristo, because Jim Caviezel is beautiful and I love how it’s a story of redemption and coming back from your lowest point (which I too have had to do). The Lord of the Rings, and do I really need to explain why? LOL The Hobbit, because I love Lord of the Rings. Princess Bride, because it’s a classic with some of the best one-liners ever written. I could watch it over and over. Pitch Perfect, because I’m a music buff. I used to be a music major in college. I sing, play guitar and piano, and used to write music. Now I write stories.

Today's spotlight is on another great author,  Amanda Strong, who talks about her novel, Hidden Monster. 

Amanda, what made you pursue writing? How old were you when you starting writing?
I’ve loved writing my entire life!  I wrote my first complete novel at sixteen, which sits happily in a box, never to see the light of day.  It’s just plain awful!  I took a big break from pursuing my dream of being published as college, marriage, kids, and life happened. 
​In 2011, thanks to a friend, the writing bug bit me again, and I’ve been obsessed since!

Today's spotlight is on Sherry Ficklin, author of the #Hacker Novels. 

Playing With Fire:
One brilliant young hacker. 
One experimental government aircraft. 
One chance to keep it all from going up in flames. 
Still recovering from her troubled past, Farris is no stranger to change. But when the military transfers her father across the country to an experimental aircraft squadron, settling in to a new life is the least of her problems. As a series of apparent computer glitches threaten the security of the fleet and the blame falls on her father, she decides to put her computer skills to use digging up the truth. Soon she's drawn into the perilous world of a hacker who is determined to ground the fleet—at any cost. 

To start off our month-long Author Spotlight, meet Lila Felix, author of Lightning Kissed, among many other, great books!

Lila, if you were not an author, what would you be doing right now?
I would still be editing books for indie authors and loving every second of it.

Five years ago, what were you doing?
I was working nights at Wal-Mart in their cash office, counting tons of money every night.

​March rolled in like a lion here in southeastern Wisconsin. We awoke to a blanket of snow, inches deep. Yes, enough for the snow plows to come through. March is still winter for us—unless the groundhog’s early prediction of spring comes true—which doesn’t happen often.
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So in between shoveling snow and salting walkways, we await the madness. The March Madness.