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Dinah Manoff is an award winning actor and director. She has written for both stage and television and had several short stories presented at the prestigious writer's forum Spoken Interludes and recorded for NPR's KCRW. She has had numerous roles on stage and film, among them, “Grease”, “Ordinary People”, and “Child's Play”. Dinah has starred in the television series “Soap”, “Empty Nest” and most recently “State of Grace”.

She received a Tony award for her role in Neil Simon's play, “I Ought to be in Pictures” (which she reprised in the feature film), and won the prestigious L.A. Theater award for her stage adaptation and direction of her father's novel, “A Telegram for Heaven”.

Dinah is the daughter of actress/director Lee Grant and the late writer Arnold Manoff. She and her husband and their three boys reside in Bainbridge Island, Washington where she has recently completed her first novel.

Pacific Northwest native Tamara Sellman operates Writer's Rainbow Literary Services, where she assists writers from around the world in completing works in progress and developing stronger writing practices. She specializes in services for writing parents, bloggers and writers of speculative fiction. Sellman has twice completed the National Novel Writing Month challenge--in 2006, with her mid-grade fantasy chapter book,Fiddlehead's Odyssey, and again, in 2008, with The In-Between, the first title in her paranormal mystery series-in-progress, The Lost & Found. She has also received two Pushcart Prize nominations for works of poetry and short fiction.