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Karen Abbott
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Steve Berry
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Patti Callahan Henry
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Joshilyn Jackson
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| Throughout middle school I tortured the editors of Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine by sending them awful short stories featuring murderous matrons and cross-dressing grandmothers. I worked as a journalist for six years on the staffs of Philadelphia magazine and Philadelphia Weekly, and have written for Salon.com and other publications.
For the past three years I've researched Sin in the Second City full time, and I'm currently working on my second book, a portrait of Gypsy Rose Lee and Depression-era New York. I live just a few blocks away from the Everleigh sisters' old brownstone near Central Park.
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Steve's first two books, The Amber Room and The Romanov Prophecy were both national bestsellers. His next novel, The Third Secret, became an instant bestseller, debuting at #13 on the New York Times hardcover list and climbing to #5 on the Times paperback list. His fourth, The Templar Legacy, debuted at #4 on the New York Times list and spent eight weeks in the top 10. It also climbed into the top 10 on the USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and BookSense bestseller lists. The paperback became a #1 bestseller on the Publishers Weekly and BookSense bestseller lists. The Alexandria Link, debuted tied for #2 on the New York Times hardcover list, spending five weeks in the top 10. It also ranked in the top 20 for USA Today, and in the top 10 for the Publishers Weekly and BookSense bestseller lists. The paperback spent four weeks on the New York Times list, rising to #6.
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Patti Callahan Henry is the National Bestselling author of four novels with Penguin/NAL. (Losing the Moon, Where the River Runs, When Light Breaks, Betweeen the Tides). THE ART OF KEEPING SECRETS will be released on June 3, 2008.
Patti is hailed as a fresh new voice in southern fiction. She has been short-listed for the Townsend Prize for Fiction and has been nominated for the Southeastern Independent Booksellers Fiction Novel of the Year. She is a frequent speaker at luncheons, book clubs and women’s groups where she discusses the importance of storytelling and anything else they want to talk about.
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Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies including TriQuarterly and Calyx, and her plays have been produced in Atlanta and Chicago. Her bestselling debut novel, gods in Alabama won SIBA's 2005 Novel of the year Award and was a #1 BookSense pick. Between, Georgia was also a #1 BookSense pick, making Jackson the first author in BookSense history to receive #1 status in back to back years. Jackson read the audio version herself, winning a Listen Up award from Publisher's Weekly and making Audiofile's Best of 2006 list. Both books were chosen for the Books-A-Million Book Club. Her third novel, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, will be published by GCP (formerly Warner Books) in March of 2008.
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Mark Braught
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Laura Knorr-Braught
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Jackie Cooper
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John Mark Eberhart
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Mark Braught's 25 years of professional experience have earned him prestigious awards from The American Advertising Federation (ADDY), Communication Arts, the NY Art Directors Club and the Society of Illustrators, among others. He received his degree in graphic design from Indiana State University and attended the Minneapolis College of Art & Design. He lives in Commerce, Georgia with his wife, Laura, their five cats and Charlie, the dog.
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Georgia artist Laura Knorr has illustrated five chidlren's books, including A Isn't for Fox: An Isn't Alphabet (coming Fall 2007 from Sleeping Bear Press), The Legend of Papa Noel: a Cajun Christmas Story, and P is for Pelican: A Louisiana Alphabet.
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Jackie K. Cooper is the author of The Bookbinder, a collection of stories about life in the South. A respected critic and columnist, he is also the host of "Fridays with Jackie" on Georgia Public Broadcasting.
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John Mark Eberhart’s reportage, essays, columns and reviews have appeared in The Kansas City Star, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, San Jose Mercury News, New Letters and other periodicals and journals. His poetry has appeared in New Millennium Writings, Coal City Review, Thorny Locust, The Mid-America Poetry Review, The Same and other journals. In 1987, he joined the staff of The Kansas City Star and was promoted to be the newspaper's Book Review Editor in March 2000.
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Mitchell Graham
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Lenore Hart
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Cathy Kaemmerlen
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William Rawlings
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Mitchell Graham was born in New York City. He attended college at Ohio State University on a fencing scholarship and later went on to earn a law degree. After practicing for twenty years he went back to school to study Neuropsychology. He has represented the United States many times in international fencing competitions and along the way has won or placed in the finals of over 83 separate tournaments.
"The Fifth Ring" was his first novel and has received rave reviews. He presently lives in Miami, Florida.
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Lenore Hart, a fifth-generation Floridian, holds a BA from the University of Central Florida, an MSLS from Florida State, and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Old Dominion University. She has been a grant recipient and writer in residence for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Florida Fine Arts Council, and a Visiting Writer at Flagler College in St. Augustine. She is also a fellow of the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts at Sweetbriar College, and was writer in residence at The New College of Florida in Sarasota in 2005. She is currently theVisiting Writer at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, and also teaches in the graduate writing program at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
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Cathy Kaemmerlen is a professional storyteller/actress/historical interpreter known for her variety of one-woman shows, her creatively artistic approach to storytelling, and her rapport with audiences.
Performing for over 25 years, she has done literally thousands of solo in-school performances throughout the country, using her dance and theatre backgrounds to enrich her tales and bring her characters to life, and her writing skills to craft her varied stories and shows.
Cathy is the author of two books with the History Press: GENERAL SHERMAN AND THE GEORGIA BELLES: TALES OF WOMEN LEFT BEHIND and THE HISTORIC OAKLAND CEMETERY OF ATLANTA: SPEAKING STONES.
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Rawlings was educated at Emory University in Oxford and Atlanta and at Tulane University in New Orleans where he earned a Master's Degree and his Doctorate in Medicine. He did his postgraduate medical training in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, after which he returned to Sandersville to practice medicine. Although he has numerous academic publications to his credit, fiction writing is a relatively recent interest. "I think one of the most fascinating jobs in all the world is to practice medicine in a small, relatively rural Southern town. Perhaps I have an undue advantage; I grew up here so I know-or know of-most people, many of whom I claim as relatives. It doesn't take long to realize that a place rich in history and populated by memorable characters is an inspiration and a rich resource for anyone who aspires to be a writer."
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Walter Sorrells
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Karen White
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Dana Wildsmith
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Edgar Award-winner Walter Sorrells is the author of over twenty novels. His most recent thriller for adults, Blind Fear, appeared this year under his pseudonym Lynn Abercrombie.
Last year another mystery, Feet of Clay, appeared under his pseudonym Ruth Birmingham. Feet of Clay is the sixth novel featuring Atlanta private investigator Sunny Childs.
Sorrells also writes novels for young adults. His latest novel for young adults is First Shot, which was just given a starred review in Booklist. His mystery Fake ID was named one the 10 Best Mysteries of 2005 by Booklist. Fake ID features a girl who has to unlock secrets from her past in order to find her missing mother. The follow-up, Club Dread, was released earlier this year.
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One day in 1996 when my children were just babies, I decided it was time and started writing my first book. When I had a few chapters written, I sent it in to a writer's contest and by some miracle it won. The finalist judge was a New York literary agent and she offered to represent me. That first book, In the Shadow of the Moon, was sold and then published in 2000. It was a double finalist in Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA award.
I have since published seven award-winning novels, and three more books are scheduled: The Memory of Water (March 2008), The House on Tradd Street (November 2008) and a third as yet untitled book set in Savannah, Georgia will be out in May 2009.
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Wildsmith writes about the elemental focuses of our lives, which may be the reason her poetry has proved so popular: her first chapbook, Alchemy, sold out its first printing within a matter of months—an almost unheard-of event in the world of small poetry presses. Her subsequent poetry collections, Annie and Our Bodies Remember, as well as an audio collection, Choices, have also been so well-received that one farmer keeps his copy of Our Bodies Remember in the cab of his tractor, handy to thumb through while he’s taking a break. At recent workshops taught by Wildsmith, attendees have come asking for “those new poems”, which are included in the collection One Good Hand, now available from Iris Press.,
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Julie Cannon
Homegrown Diva
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Jackie Miles
Rose Flower Diva
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Patricia Sprinkle
Sleuthing Diva
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| ( AKA The Tomato Queen) Julie writes the Homegrown Series of novels published by Simon & Schuster-- a trio of engaging yarns with a colorful supporting cast who alternately make you want to laugh and cry. The stories are a heartwarming evocation of small-town life in the rural south where hard work and prayers unite the community and healing can be found digging in the backyard vegetable garden. The series includes Truelove & Homegrown Tomatoes (Aug 2003), 'Mater Biscuit (April 2004), and Those Pearly Gates (2005). Julie lives with her husband and three children in Bishop, Georgia.
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Jackie, an accomplished public speaker hails from Lilburn. She's the author of the regional best-selling novel Roseflower Creek and Cold rock River (Cumberland House, September 2006) Miles' characters will steal your heart, from Lori Jean, age ten, to Aunt Lexie who's convinced that "a woman who will tell her age will tell anything.
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Patricia is from Smyrna, Ga. and is the author of the Thoroughly Southern Mysteries series published by Signet. Sprinkle plots murder cases in fictitious Hopemore for her magistrate sleuth, Judge MacLaren Yarbrough, to solve. Her mysteries have been bestsellers both in the southeast and in independent mystery bookstores across the country. Her latest title is Guess Who’s Coming to Die?(February, 2007). She also has a new genealogy series and the first offering is called Death on the Family Tree and debuts in January 2007.
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