TF23-Presenter Bios

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We’re proud to offer sessions with a talented cadre of experts who know their craft and are able to teach with authority and pizzaz.

Click here to register see them online via Crowdcast @ ThinkingFunny23, April 1, 2023, 8:30 am to 6 pm Pacific Time, with a 6:30-8 pm afterparty on Zoom.

Leighann Lord BWIC 2021
Leighann Lord
Carole Montgomery
Photo of standup comic Joanna Briley on stage.
Joanna Briley
Jerome Kurtenbach
Photo of publisher, reporter, and columnist Doni Chamberlain.
Doni Chamberlain
Nancy Fulton portrait. Nancy is the a media expert and the creator of many tutorials and instructive lessons on a wide variety of media-related topics.
Nancy Fulton
Photo of wine columnist and author Mike Stepanovich
Mike Stepanovich
Mike Larsen
Gordon Warnock
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John Vorhaus
Robb Lightfoot online at the #virtualerma Bombeck Writer's Workshop of Fall 2020
Robb Lightfoot
Educator, composer, and Banana Slug String Band's "Solar Steve" Van Zandt
Steve Van Zandt
Dave Fox
Dorothy Rosby
Photo - Headshot of Michael Carr, Veritas Literary
Michael Carr
Photo of Michelle Spencer, humor columnist.
Michelle Spencer
Photo of Maeve MacLysaght, an agent with Copps Literary Services. She represents BIPOC, Queer, and marginalized creators writing commercial genre fiction across MG, YA, Adult, and Graphic Novel. Her particular weaknesses are genre-blending SFF, horror, and anything with murder or making out (ideally both). Her clients include Emily Ettlinger (Skeleanor the Decomposer, Penguin Workshop 2024) and Sami Ellis (Dead Girls Walking, Amulet 2024). Find her online: https://www.emlysaght.com/ or https://twitter.com/mmmlysaght
Maeve MacLysaght
Photo of songwriter Tom Smith
Tom Smith

In alphabetical order

Joanna Briley – Standup Comedy

Michael Carr, Agent

Doni Chamberlain – Column Writing

Dave Fox – Journaling/Memoirs & Travel

Nancy Fulton – Kindle Publishing For Profit

Jerome Kurntenbach – Laughable Lyrics

Michael Larsen – Agents Panel

Robb Lightfoot – Column Writing

Leighann Lord – Standup Comedy

Maeve MacLysaght – Agents Panel

Carole Montgomery – Standup Comedy

Dorothy Rosby – Column Writing

Michelle Spencer – Column Writing

Tom Smith – Laughable Lyrics

Mike Stepanovich – Column Writing

Steve VanZant – Laughable Lyrics

John Vorhaus – Comic Toolbox/Creating Comedic Characters

Gordon Warnock – Agents Panel

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