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“Communicating - it is why I write, why I was in radio, why television has been my life’s work, and why a one-on-one conversation is absolutely one of the most delicious things in the world,” Alison told us. “It all comes back to my desire to communicate with another human being, to make a connection.”

Writers eager to reach a new audience with their stories, plays or poetry will find community access television a welcoming alternative. People TV is Atlanta’s non-profit, public access television station and is designed to provide you, the (writing) public, with access to communicate whatever you choose to say to the people in your own community. Anyone who lives in Atlanta can produce their own television show about whatever topic they choose. There are no commercials and therefore no advertisers to appease. There are no ratings and no programmers to tell you which show is not viable. What you will find are instructors that can show you how to bring your words to the screen. Whether you choose to talk about your novel in progress, read stories to children, or act out a play, it’s entirely up to you. As a public access station, People TV supports the rights of the First Amendment and your right to freedom of speech.

First published by Hill Street Press, in 2002 it will be released with a new title, ‘Tine, by Three Rivers Press (Random House), and Hill Street Press will release her first novel, tentatively titled, The Bittersweet Impermanence of Things.The novel is largely Southern, partially ghost-ridden and somewhat historical, and was inspired by part of her childhood living in the “old Dean Rusk house” across the river from her grandmother’s Sweet Apple cabin.

Sibley works as an independent consultant for public relations and marketing . She has also been a freelance writer and produced newspaper columns and articles, magazine pieces, books, newsletters, scripts, and speeches. She is the recipient of the Family Channel Seal of Quality for “enduring quality and family entertainment” for her 1997 children’s book How to Rock Your Baby. In addition, the Atlanta Chapter of the National League of American Pen Women recognized her for “outstanding writing” in 2000.

As a storyteller, Sibley has appeared at the St. Petersburg Times Storytelling Festival, the South Carolina Center for the Book Annual Book Festival, the Southern Festival of Books, the Ronald McDonald House, the Georgia Center for Children, the Children’s Home Society, and the Literacy Volunteers of America.