Bev Walton-Porter

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Gender Female
Industry Publishing
Occupation Author, freelancer, editor and writing coach
Location Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Introduction is a professional author, freelance writer, editor and writing coach. Wife to an awesome/talented guy, mother to two wonderful kids and four lovable fur kids. She's published six books: Sun Signs for Writers, Mending Fences, Hidden Fire, Secrets of the Professional Freelancer, Shadows of the Soul and The Complete Writer: A Guide to Tapping Your Full Potential, co-authored with three other writers. Bev holds membership in The Authors Guild, Romance Writers of America, Pikes Peak Writers and the American Federation of Astrologers. She is represented by the Meredith Bernstein Literary Agency in New York City.
Interests 80's music, angels, animals, archaeology, architecture, aristotle, astrology, athena, bagpipes, baruch spinoza, black cats, border collies, brandon lee, buddhism, canada, candles, cats, cemeteries, chessboard floors, chinese water dragons, christopher walken, cinema, coffee, colorado, computers, conversation, creativity, criss angel, crows, cruxshadows, dean koontz, depeche mode, dragons, dreaming, dungeons and dragons, dykons, edgar allen poe, egypt, erotica, eyeliner, film noir, fire, flirting, gargoyles.
Favorite Movies The Crow, Princess Bride, Spaceballs, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, The Last Samurai, Pan's Labyrinth, Beast of Yucca Flats, The Libertine -- or anything with Johnny Depp *g*.
Favorite Music Alternative, rock, classical, nu-metal, symphonic metal, electronica. Not fond of country or gangsta rap, though.
Favorite Books Too many to list. I read mostly nonfiction, with occasional forays into genre fiction (romance and horror).

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"A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others." --Ayn Rand