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About Us
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Brian O'Connell, Founding Partner
Brian O'Connell is a Bucks County, PA based freelance writer. A former Wall Street bond trader, O'Connell is
the author of 15 books, including two bestsellers. His work has also appeared in publications like The Wall
Street Journal, Men's Health, USA Today, Cigar Magazine, "CBS News Marketwatch",
Newsweek, and many others.
w: www.brianoc.com
e: brian.oco@verizon.net
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Joy E. Stocke, Founding Partner
Joy E. Stocke is Co-Founder/Executive Editor of the Wild River Review.
She is the author of a novel, Ugly Cookies (Pella Publishing, 2000), and a volume of bi-lingual (English/Greek) narrative poems,
The Cave of the Bear (Pella Publishing, 1999) based on her travels in Crete.
She has published poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, and has written about and lectured widely on her travels in Turkey and Greece,
as well as religion, ancient and modern. She appeared on the syndicated NPR radio program "A Chef's Table" in May 2004 to talk about
Turkish cuisine.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Madison with a Bachelor of Science in Home Economics/Journalism, she participated in the
Lindisfarne Symposium on "The Evolution of Consciousness" with William Irwin Thompson at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in
New York City. Currently she is completing a three-year program in Tantric Studies at the Saraswati River Yoga School in New Hope, PA.
w: www.wildriverreview.com/2-upthecreek_js.html
e: stockeyoung@comcast.net
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Jonathan Maberry, Founding Partner
Jonathan Maberry is a professional writer and writing teacher; since 1979 he's sold more than 900 articles, sixteen nonfiction
books, three novels, as well as short stories, poetry, song lyrics, video scripts, and two plays.
In June of 2006 his thriller novel, Ghost Road Blues, was released by Pinnacle Books, to be followed by two sequels in 2007 and
2008; and in October of 2006 Citadel Books released Vampire Universe: The Dark World of Supernatural Beings That Hunt Us, Haunt Us
and Hunger For Us, the first of a series of four nonfiction books of supernatural folklore.
Jonathan is the Executive Director of The Career Doctor for Writers,
which provides workshops, classes and editorial services for
writers of all genres. Jonathan is also a Board Member of the
Philadelphia Writers Conference, a writing mentor for the HWA (Horror
Writers Association), an active member of the Mystery Writers of America, a speaker for the National Writers Union, and president of
the NJ-PA Chapter of the Horror Writers Association. He is a writing teacher and conducts writing workshops for both fiction and
nonfiction. Jonathan is a frequent speaker at writers' conferences, where his most common lecture topic is on how to break into
the writing business.
Jonathan is also the co-founder of the Wild River Review, an online
literary magazine.
Jonathan taught Martial Arts History, Jujutsu, and Women's Self Defense at Temple University for 14 years, and also worked for the
Philadelphia District Attorney's Office as an Expert Witness for murder cases involving martial arts. He's also a former bodyguard
and worked in that capacity in the entertainment industry for four years in the early 1980s. Also in the '80s he developed two
award-winning self-defense programs for the physically challenged: At Close Range (for the visually impaired) and Steel Wheels
(for the "wheelchair warrior"). He is President and Chief Instructor of COP-Safe
(www.copsafe.com), a company that conducts safety,
defense, and risk management workshops for law enforcement officers. In 2003 Jonathan was inducted into the International Martial Arts Hall of Fame.
w: www.careerdoctorforwriters.com
w: www.jonathanmaberry.com
w: www.ghostroadblues.com
w: www.vampireuniverse.com
e: info@jonathanmaberry.com
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Kim Nagy
Kim Nagy is a freelance writer and consultant with extensive experience in marketing/public relations for publishers,
corporations, state agencies, and nonprofits. She received her M.A. from the Department of History at the University of
Connecticut. Kim's experience includes work with major publishers, such as Princeton University Press, W.W. Norton, and
Routledge UK. She has also written articles on subjects ranging from biotechnology and higher education to yoga, poetry, and parenting.
w: www.kimnagy.com
w: www.wildriverreview.com/2-columns_nagy.html
e: kim@kimnagy.com
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Raquel Pidal
Raquel B. Pidal is a freelance editor and writer who has worked on a variety of projects, including memoirs, business and
career management books and articles, health articles, book proposals, and novel synopses and analyses. She has also taught several
workshops for children and young writers. Raquel graduated Cum Laude from Ursinus College with a degree in English and Creative
Writing. She earned departmental honors for her senior thesis, a memoir about her Cuban émigré mother, and has won several
awards for her writing. Raquel's creative nonfiction has been published in The Bucks County Writer, The Bucks County Review,
and Wild River Review, including book reviews and a regular column
in Wild River Review called
"Around the
Block." She is currently working on a novel.
w: www.wildriverreview.com/2-columns_pidal.html
w: blogs.targetx.com/wildriverreview/pidal/
e: rpidal@wildriverreview.com
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Jill Sherer
Jill Sherer is a former "Weight Loss Diary" columnist for Shape Magazine. During that time, she took six million readers
(who now know how much she weighs) on her journey to get fit each month through a series of personal essays and live chats. An award-winning
journalist, whose work has appeared in a variety of business- and health-related media, she's also been writing feature articles, scripts
and other marketing, corporate and creative communications for more than 18 years. (Somebody has to pay the mortgage.) She is currently
rewriting her first novel, again, so she can get it to her agent before he dies or decides to retire. Jill is also a blogger for the
Wild River Review, and writes the
"Diary of a Writer in Mid-Life Crisis".
She lives in New Hope, Pennsylvania, with her husband, her Golden Retriever, too many houseguests, and a lot of over-the-counter pain medication.
w: blogs.targetx.com/wildriverreview/sherer/
e: Streetcarcomm@aol.com
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Wendy Steginsky
Wendy Fulton Steginsky was born and raised in Bermuda.
She found her way to the U.S. via Europe in the late seventies. She was a special education teacher for many years
and worked most recently as program director at the Writers Room of Bucks County. She is currently Managing Editor
of the Wild River Review. Poetry is her passion and she writes the column,
“Fire and Blood of Poetry”. In September 2006 two
of her poems appeared in Bermuda’s First Anthology of Poetry.
w: www.wildriverreview.com/2-columns_steginsky.html
e: Wendydoylestown@aol.com
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