Who We Are
WriteNow Founder
With over 450 consecutive writing streams, Kauffman helps writers through the WriteNow community on YouTube. He hosts writing sprints, critique shows, interviews, workshops, and events to help authors write and finish their books. These streams offer practical tips for the mindset, process, and lifestyle of being a full-time Writer.
Kauffman has been writing his entire life. His early inspirations were Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Ender's Game, and Don Quixote. He wrote his first epic fantasy book before graduating from high school, which spanned 15 notebooks. He pursued an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. While pursuing a screenwriting career in Hollywood, he was hired as a Ghostwriter for various writing projects. He later went on to quit his day job completely and start writing full time.
Kauffman offers fiction book editing and writer coaching services when he's not working on his dark fantasy action adventure novel, The Last Scarecrow or telling writers to solve all of their writing problems with one secret… by putting a dragon on it.
Community Engagement Director
Sol Macnamara
Hollow is an adventure writer who has been writing since they were a kid. Inspired by Warriors (Erin Hunter) and Bloody Jack (L.A. Meyer), their stories always follow Coming of Age, Discovery, and Self Growth. Playing video games has helped with their interactive storytelling skills, and writing fanfictions has given them plenty of practice.
Courtney Harding
Community Book Club Director
Courtney is a medically retired U.S. Army veteran who writes emotional, edge-of-your-seat contemporary romance. Her stories feature fierce heroines, stubborn heroes, and the kind of tension that lingers. She was published in WriteNow’s first-ever Freaky Friday Anthology. When she's not writing, she’s curled up with a good book, strong coffee, and her loyal Rottweiler, Quill.
Seasonal Volunteers
Adrian Santiago
Book Club Co-Host
Adrian Santiago writes sci-fi fantasy novels for adults. His flagship series MYTHIC promises genre-bending adventures featuring an ensemble cast of bipoc characters. His real life influences his fictional world with hippies doing magic, lgbtq representation, and the spice of his Caribbean heritage adding flavor throughout the story.
Alessa Winters
Fated Fantasy Collaborator
Alessa Winters is an Alaskan based paranormal romance author who has been self publishing since 2018.
Fated Fantasy Collaborator
Holly Davis
Holly Davis is the author of the YA fantasy, A Diamond Bright and Broken. She's also the host of the Diversity is Lit Book Club, which promotes BIPOC authors. You can find her in the Chicago suburbs helping people as a physical therapist, enjoying the company of her two babies who have fur, and binging Netflix shows.
Jayelle Dee
Fated Fantasy Collaborator
I've always loved writing and wrote my first novel at fourteen. Recently, I delved back in as a form of personal therapy. Before I knew it, I had a published trilogy and just kept going. I've never been happier.
Laura Nettles
Book Club Co-Host
Laura Nettles is a California Canadian author and AuthorTuber. She lights special effects for film by day and pens terror by night. Snuggles with her dog and warm cups of rooibos tea sustain her. With over 30 stories in anthologies and magazines, she decided to publish her own horror collection, “Tiny Shivers," in 2023. Follow her journey and read some of her fiction at lauranettles.com.
Fated Fantasy Collaborator
Natalie Locke
Natalie Locke is a human and fur mom, full-time employee, and when those two don’t impact her sleep enough she genre hops in her flash fictions. Now she hopes to invoke the writing passion in others.
Rachel D. Adams
Fated Fantasy Collaborator
Rach is a multi-genre author who loves collaborations and is always seeking to help other creatives. She is a published writer, works with her hubs developing websites, blogs about writing, and is a self-published author.
