C. Hope Clark is founder of FundsforWriters.com , a writer's resource awarded 101 Best Websites for Writers by Writer's Digest Magazine each year for over a decade. Her weekly publications reach 40,000 readers. She works from her study overlooking Lake Murray in beautiful central South Carolina.Hope comes alive at conferences across the country, from Mississippi to Oklahoma, from Pennsylvania to Florida, South Carolina to Iowa. She motivates and educates writers to step up, take charge, and create their careers. Her latest FFW release often discussed at conferences is The Shy Writer Reborn: An Introverted Writer's Wake-up Call.Hope, however, is most excited in her mystery fiction. She's the author of The Carolina Slade Mystery Series, the first release entitled Lowcountry Bribe, by Bell Bridge Books, Memphis, TN. Tidewater Murder and Palmetto Poison released the following two years. With an agriculture degree from Clemson University and a two-decade history of working with US Dept of Agriculture, Hope can walk the walk of protagonist, Carolina Slade, who reviewers are falling in love with per the long list of five-star reviews at Amazon. However, Hope branched out with a new series in 2014 with Murder on Edisto, book one in The Edisto Island Series. Edisto Jinx came out in 2015 with the third in the serires expected summer 2016. Her writing voice now more seasoned, she dives into a coastal world with a new character, Callie Jean Morgan, who finds that the beach isn't all that relaxing. The series is set on Edisto Beach, South Carolina, Hope's second home.