Consider us your cheerleading squad for books, reading, authors and girl power! Meet the Bookettes, our team of savvy and smart bloggers featured regularly on our site.

Malena Lott, author, Dating da Vinci & The Stork Reality

Founder, Book End Babes

Malena is on a mission. When she heard most folks only read one book a year, she knew she had to take to the interwebs and promote reading for fun and making it a part of our daily lives. Like most writers, she’s an avid reader, reading up to four books at once – all different, no plot confusion – and loves to share cool books and authors she thinks deserve extra buzz. Malena is a published author of two novels, married mama of three and brand strategist, living in Oklahoma.

order Dating da Vinci on Amazon here.

www.malenalott.com
www.twitter.com/malenalott

Sonia Gensler, Author and YA Bookette
Sonia Gensler grew up in a small Tennessee town and spent her early adulthood collecting impractical degrees from various Midwestern universities. A former high school English teacher, she now writes full time in Oklahoma. So far, her husband and cat are putting up with this. Her YA novel, The Revenant, debuts from Knopf in 2011.

blog: http://soniag.livejournal.com/
webpage: http://www.soniagensler.com

 Heather Dearly is a stay-at-home Stepford wife (who currently works), nefarious mother, and writer. You can follow the nearest trail of empty Skittles boxes to find her working on her next project, or you can follow her on Twitter.

Anne Brown
Anne Greenwood Brown is an attorney and aspiring fiction author living in Stillwater, MN. She’s published a number of legal articles as part of her “day job,” and recently had her first creative writing published in Literary Mama. She is an honorary guest blogger on Writer Unboxed and is thrilled to be participating in Book End Babes and expanding her circle of book-crazy girlfriends. Her personal blog can be found at www.annegreenwoodbrown.wordpress.com

Kathy Wheeler, Romance

Never met a female fantasy football fanatic? Now you have! Make that one who jazzercises, even. As Nora Roberts once said when she was asked if she works out, “You have to get off your ass.”
Kathy started writing romance several years back and has been a member of the Oklahoma Chapter of Romance Writer’s of America and the National Organization since March of 2006. She grew up in the Dallas area and definitely considers herself a city girl. She does not limit her travels to Writer Conferences in San Francisco, Washington DC, Seattle, Dallas and Atlanta because Jazzercise has fun conferences too (Denver, Palm Springs and Orlando). You can’t keep her at home!
An avid reader of romance and patron of theatre her main sources of inspiration come from mostly an over-active imagination. Go figure! She currently resides in Edmond, Oklahoma with her husband, Al; dog, Willie; and new family member—Carly, the cat.

www.klwheeler.com
www.twitter.com/kathylwheeler

Vivan Boroff, Foodie

Elizabeth Cordes, D.O., Wellness
Elizabeth Cordes, D.O. is a private-practice psychiatrist in Edmond, Oklahoma. A native of Oklahoma, she enjoys living in Suburbia with her husband and two boys. Professionally, she is passionate about mind-body medicine. She enjoys reading about and exploring spirituality, meditation, and living life to the fullest. In her spare time, she is a certified Disney geek, social media junkie, and Apple fangirl who loves to create and consume cupcakes. She promises that if you meet her outside of “the office” that she isn’t analyzing you.
You can also find her here: cordespsychiatry.wordpress.com and here: twitter.com/cordespsych

Jamie Livingston
Jamie Livingston-Dierks is a former magazine writer, now trying her hand at the craft of fiction. She’s written three novels, but her main focus is currently screenplays. She’s the owner of two businesses, an A&W Restaurant, and Jamie’s Studio Jewelry.
Connect some more with Jamie here and on Twitter.

Michelle Langston, Books to Screen
Michelle Langston is a film publicist at Moroch Advertising, where she works for major and independent motion picture studios, handling marketing and publicity campaigns for upcoming theatrical films. She is also a wife, mom, photographer, writer, bookworm, beer lover, firefly catcher and part-time zombie. She has had short fiction and poetry work published, and provides technical writing services in both the legal and medical fields. Michelle has had a life-long love of movies, and believes that everyone should be required to watch a subtitled film once a year. She would love to eventually be able to combine her dream of being a published fiction author, travel photographer and urban farmer (with lots of fancy chickens and big vegetable gardens), with all the other things in life she loves, like: humans, aliens, Universal monsters, philosophy, art, the atomic age, the human condition and Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate. Connect with Michelle on Twitter: @WhenToyzattack

Carmen Shirkey, Travel/Adventure
Carmen popped out of the womb with pen in hand, ready to write. She’s got a romantic comedy novel, THE LIST (www.tinyurl.com/buythelist) under her belt and several other projects in the works. Once upon a time, she broke open a fortune cookie, and the paper inside read “you will step on the soil of many countries.” She took that as a command, and paired her love of writing with her love of travel and photography to compose advice and inspiration for others so that they might take their own journeys.
Find her on Twitter @carmenshirkey

Mari Farthing
Mari Farthing is a military wife, mom of two and magazine editor. In her free time (all 15 minutes of it), she likes to cook, discover new music, read, watch movies, run and share drinks with friends … not necessarily in that order. Mari firmly believes that life is best lived with a wicked sense of humor, a willingness to listen, a stash of cute accessories, an open heart for others and a very dirty martini. Follow her on Twitter @marifarthing.

Dani Stone
As a Mom by day, insurance editor by night and staff writer for VerbICT in between, Dani is on a permanent quest for balance and the perfect cup of coffee. The insurance editing gig might pay the bills but her staff writing position lets the creative side of her brain out of its cage.

She considers her single most important job to be the one where she is the kisser of boo-boos and the maker of grilled cheese sandwiches. As a stand-up-comedian in her own mind, she is a simultaneous source of amusement and embarrassment to her husband of eleven years and her two children.

In her brief moments of spare time, Dani loves to read and then talk about what she’s reading with the book club she founded almost a year ago. Their book club motto: “we don’t judge.” This typically results in outlandish discussions where nothing is off limits.

Since 2006, Dani has been raising awareness for Vein Of Galen Malformation, a rare brain disorder her daughter has battled since birth. Dani is currently working toward the creation of a VOGM website where parents can find information, qualified surgeons and support.

If you want to see what Dani is writing about the great flat state of Kansas you can find her here, www.VerbICT.com

When her insanity needs a place to run amok, Dani can be found on the perfect playground, Twitter. If you want to come along for THAT ride, you can find her here. www.twitter.com/@danimichelle.