How do you pronounce her name? "Like a bus fell on Captain Kirk...bus - kirk," says the author. A member of the North Carolina Writers' Network, the author was an instructor, project manager, & technical writer for Web-based software teams, working with some of the largest software and telecommunications companies in the world. Buskirk's mission is to help individuals, families, communities & businesses survive and thrive in this new economic condition. "I want to help you make your business dreams come true," she tells readers. Buskirk grew up all over the U.S. in an Air Force family and now writes freelance for a small-town newspaper while looking for a job, taking a course in online marketing, and caring for a few chickens and goats on the small farm her husband bought two years ago.