Our Artists
Amanda Gail Smith
Amanda received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Jacksonville State University with a focus in photography. While there, she also explored other techniques in art both on and off the computer. She won Second Place in a professional Photography contest in Gadsden, Alabama. She has shown her work at galleries all over the south and sold various paintings. She created a children’s book based on her series of paintings and continues to design book covers, book jackets, interior graphics, and ebook covers for several imprints.
Amanda enjoys Manga and Anime, and holds a Black Belt in Taekwondo. She currently lives in Japan where she is a teacher for the DOD school system.
Connect with Amanda online: www.amandagailstudio.com
Chautona Havig
Chautona Havig lives and writes in California’s Mojave Desert. Chautona lives in an oxymoron, escapes into imaginary worlds that look startlingly
similar to ours, and writes the stories that emerge. An irrepressible optimist, Chautona sees everything through a kaleidoscope of It’s a Wonderful Life sprinkled with fairy tales.
In addition to writing critically acclaimed novels and novellas, Chautona is also a world-class cover artist and sought after speaker.
In all her work, Chautona strives to use story to nudge people to the feet of the Master Storyteller.
Find her at Chautona.com and say howdy—if you can remember how to spell her name.