PROFILE: Halcyon
LOCATION: United Kingdom
BLOG: Messed Up World
CREATED: 1/4/05

Look up Halcyon in the dictionary and discover the opposite between the man and his messed up world.  Halcyon is a trained chemist but continually struggles to find the formula for a happy life, just like you and me.  Maybe that's his talent -- telling that story.  He also writes about the story of Caelris, aka the Dark One.

PROFILE: Angelena
LOCATION: Virginia, US
BLOG: Occasional
CREATED: 12/27/03

Angelena suffers from Occasional Madness to the delight and reading pleasure of all who love her dearly and check in on her blog.  She also suffers from occasionally writing a 50,000 word novel in less than 30 days, as she won a NaNoWriMo award for her fiction.  Curl up in your chair and check that out at her fiction writing blog, 50k Challenge.

PROFILE: Darren Shan
LOCATION: Ireland
BLOG: Darren Shan
CREATED: 7/24/05

Darren Shan is a prolific author, published novelist and generally interesting person.  I think you have to be interesting to get yourself a wikipedia entry.  In a very mentoring way, Darren likes to blog about the process of writing and publishing one's work.  He also holds the record for the most comments that I've ever seen on a Blogdrive blog ... over 4400.

PROFILE: Soni Pitts
LOCATION: North Carolina, US
BLOG: Soni Pitts
CREATED: 6/25/04

Soni Pitts is also a professional writer, except unlike the others I have pheatured here, her genre is not pure fiction.  Instead, Soni's writing genre is something I would classify as enhanced non-fiction.  She is a professional copywriter who helps businesses and organizations market their message.  Soni tells the story in an attention-grabbing way.  Her blog is mostly personal, but even that is written with humor and intrigue.  Always entertaining!