Writers Corner Live: Authors Thornton Cline, Hannah Goodman, Larinna Chandler and Tina O'Hailey

Thornton Cline’s Biography author on Writers Corner

Thornton Cline is a bestselling, acclaimed author of 13 books. He was honored with the Songwriter of the Year award twice in a row by the Tennessee Songwriters Association for his hit song “Love is the Reason”, recorded by Engelbert Humperdinck and Gloria Gaynor.

 

Cline has received Dove Award nominations as a project writer and Grammy Award nominations for Music Educator. He is an in-demand author, teacher, speaker, clinician, performer and songwriter. Cline is also a registered Suzuki violin teacher with the Suzuki Association of Americas. He teaches piano, violin and guitar at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. Cline lives in Hendersonville, Tennessee with his wife and two children.

Hannah Goodman author Writers Corner

Hannah Goodman is often referred to as “the teenage whisperer”. She has written essays about mental health for various online publications. Her 4th book was published in 2009 and all were self-published. However this summer Indie publisher Black Rose Writing released her novel Till It Stops Beating.

Hannah's  first Young Adult novel, My Sister’s Wedding, won the first place award for The Writer’s Digest International Self-Publishing Contest in 2004 in the children’s book division. 

She published the follow-up, My Summer Vacation, in May 2006, and that went on to win a bronze IPPY, an award for independent publlishers in 2007. 

Her third Maddie book, Fear of Falling, was released in 2009.

She’s published young adult short stories on Amazon’s Shorts, in an anthology entitled Bound Is The Bewitching Lilith, and in the journal Balancing The Tides. 

She has also written columns for The Jewish Voice & Herald. . 

Hannah lives in Bristol, Rhode Island in the US with her husband, two daughters, and black and white cat named Zoe.

Tina O’Hailey author Writers Corner

Absolute Darkness

Tina O'Hailey is a professor in animation, visual effects, and game programming. 

She is also a caver and occasional mapper of grim, wet, twisty caves (if she owes a friend a favor or loses a bet).

Her passion is to be secluded on a mountain and to write whilst surrounded by small, furry dogs and hot coffee. Tina has even been struck by lightning once.

She served as an artistic trainer for Walt Disney Feature Animation, Dreamworks and Electronic Arts. 

Tina has written text books on animation and her debut novel is Absolute Darkness.