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| Brad Baker
Brad Baker is a 23 year resident of Florida, most of which has been in Jacksonville. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Ohio Northern University. His hobbies include playing the blues on guitar and his many harmonicas. He is a member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians and has three pet doves - BeBe, Sam, and Monica.
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| Jerry (Pop) Bishop
Jerry “Pop” Bishop is a retired educator. He spent 37 years as a teacher, coach, and administrator. His master’s
degree is from Arkansas State University in school administration. Pop Bishop has had an avid interest in fish and
wildlife since he was big enough to hold a fishing pole. He now resides on a tidal river in Georgia where the fish and
wildlife are abundant. Although his writing is basically fictional much of it is also true.
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| Jennifer Bjork
Penelope’s creativity and independence come from
Jennifer’s personal experience. Yes, as a child
Jennifer got into trouble, too, even fell out of a
tree. Still a kid at heart, she makes up games and
writes for children. Born in California and raised
in Colombia, South America, she now resides in
and explores Florida.
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| Johnnie W Blackwelder
Mr. Blackwelder is a 35 year resident of North Florida. He was raised on a farm and moved to Florida in the early 70's. After graduating, he went into the construction field building cable systems and fiber optic systems around the country. Deciding to slow down the traveling, he spent the next 20 years in the restaurant and entertainment industry as a manager, partner and owner. He was also a professional actor and D.J. during those years. In 2001 he started his own company, had his first child and was changed forever. "Being a Dad is the best thing I have ever done" said Mr. Blackwelder, adding "had I known how great it was or how much I would enjoy it I may have started sooner". Mr. Blackwelder operates a successful water treatment distributorship and enjoys keeping up to date on sales training and attending motivational seminars.
While seeking materials for his daughters to read, he found very little on the subject of positive thinking for children and decided to write a book about the subject. He is passionate about helping children and hopes to make POSMENATT (pronounced:poz-min-ott) a household word in the future. Quoting Mr. Blackwelder, "I think kid's these days have it a lot harder than we did. The family atmosphere that I was blessed with is difficult for families to do these days. Knowing how blessed I was and how I benefited from the love, training and discipline in my life, I wanted to bring up a subject that tends to sometimes get overlooked in our hustle and bustle world. Learning the value of positive thought and how to apply it is crucial for children to learn at an early age. I created The Posmenatt series to try to reach children in a positive and entertaining way.My hope is that it helps children and their families start to discuss and focus on being positive people! I know how much it helped me to have this training in my youth and would love for every child alive to learn about the power of the mind and how using it correctly, in their own unique way, can be such a blessing!"
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| Robert Blades
Bob has enjoyed a long and varied career in the health care field and has a vast knowledge of the industry. His executive and consulting experience has given him great insight into health care in general. He understands the regulations, the issues and the positive aspects of our system. Bob has been a frequent national speaker on health care technology and has consulted with many hospitals throughout the U.S. and in other countries. He continues to offer strategic consulting to the health care industry through the Blades Group.
Bob resides with his wife in St. Augustine, Florida. Both he and Sharon enjoy traveling, reading, photography, and staying involved with local and national political issues. They have been engaged in out of country mission projects with their local church and continue to stay physically fit through exercise and a focus on healthy living. Bob has an ongoing interest in the way the health care reform debate transpires not only for his family but for all of yours as well.
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| Luigi Bresciani
I was born in ancient Lombardy, Italy,
at the outbreak of the worst calamity
the world has ever known, W. W. ll.
By the end of that horror and its aftermaths,
I was a schoolboy
and all I could hear was the name of our liberators from far across the ocean, the Yankees.
I was told they were from a place where people had plenty of everything,
including laughter and a strange music called the jitter bog.
That place was called America.
I never dreamt that I'd be an American one day,
striving to be like F. Scott, Earnest and Thomas Wolfe.
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| Jeannine Carroll
Jeannine Carroll and her husband, Jimmy, live on a farm in Smithfield,
VA. The Christmas Gift shares a tradition that was celebrated by
Jeannine and her two children, Adam and Amy, as they grew up.
Now, she would like to share this tradition with her grandchildren and
with your family!
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| Katherine Ciriello Clark
Katherine Ciriello Clark grew up in the small northeastern town of Prospect, Connecticut. She graduated from Holy Cross High School Waterbury. Throughout her youth, Katherine enjoyed all sports – especially soccer. In fact, she attended Jacksonville University in Florida on an academic and soccer scholarship. She currently coaches for the local soccer club and still plays soccer.
She now lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida with her husband and dog, Ruby. She also has two beautiful step-children. Katherine is an elementary school teacher and loves enriching the lives of her students.
She fell in love with writing at an early age and enjoyed the adventure of being creative and passionate through written words.
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| Lamia Dagher
Lamia is an elementary school student in Florida. She wrote this story the same eveing that Brownie came home. She was nine years old. Lamia like to write, dance, sing, act and play music.
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| Jim Daher
Jim Daher, a native of Atlanta, enjoyed a successful career in the health care industry before pursuing his passion for writing. He continues to do a limited amount of consulting in the health care arena while spending the remainder of his time writing novels. He and his wife live on St Simons Islan with their Springer Spaniel and two cats.
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| Joyce Davidson
Joyce Davidson, president of North Florida Writers, is a member of Promoting Outstanding Writers and Florida Writers Association. Davidson has won numerous awards in the First Coast Writers Festival and was the first winner in the University of North Florida Corbomite Club's twenty-four hour, play writing lock-in.
A graduate of Muskingum College in Ohio and Jacksonville University in Florida, Davidson taught gifted studies and English in Duval County Florida and speech in Ohio & New York. She lives in Green Cove Springs, Florida with her husband.
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| Paul C. and Michael DeFazio
Paul and Michael DeFazio were both born in the Dorchester section of Boston and raised in Quincy, MA. Their collective background
consists of nine years of Air Force and Army military service, 28 years in corrections
and law enforcement, nine years of living abroad in six different countries, and extensive international business experience.
Paul has a Masters degree from Emmanuel
College and a Bachelors degree from the University of Massachusetts. Michael
possesses a Masters degree from Chapman University and a Bachelors degree from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.
The brothers’ professional and life experiences
have allowed them to tell this realistic
and gritty story.
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| Heather DeVries
Ms. DeVries is a graduate of Salem college in Winston Salem, NC majoring in English. She spent many years living and working in Atlanta. She and her husband, John, moved to Amelia Island in 2000. Heather met Peggy, the illustrator of Fearsome, Fascinating, Ferocious Shark, volunteering at the Nassau County Humane Society, where their affection for animals and each other grew into this project.
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| C.L. Enuton
Cynthia grew up in the suburbs of Maryland, outside the city limits of Washington, D.C. She received a BA degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland in Baltimore (UMBC). Cynthia has worked with severe emotionally challenged children and adolescents at a State facility for over 13 years and has utilized dogs as a therapy tool in the treatment of her students. Cynthia currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida, as a children/young adult author with her Pekingese dog, Xia, and parrot, Sunkiss.
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| Eileen Erikson
Eileen Erikson, is a wife, a mother and now a grandmother. She is also a nurse and an author. She published her first book, "The Patients of a Saint, a Nurse's Story" and participated in the book, "Nursing the Spirit". As a nurse for 35 Years, she is now inspired by her three grandchildren to write a children's book. She is currently working on two other books about her grandsons, Nathanael and Conner.
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| Margina Gabriel
Margina Gabriel received a B.A. from Chatham College and M.Ed. from the
University of Pittsburgh. She has worked as a school counselor since 1989 and
presently works as a school counselor at Cunningham Creek Elementary in the St
Johns County School District of Florida.
This book was written by Margina as a memoir of Cadillac Zac. The relationship
between Cadillac Zac and B.C. touches upon all of the Character Counts Pillars of
Fairness, Responsibility, Citizenship, Respect, Caring, and Trustworthiness.
Margina wrote this book to encourage students to express their thoughts and ideas creatively. It is her belief
that “You too can write, illustrate, and express creativity.”
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| Ken Gorman
Ken grew up in the Bronx, New York and is a 1954 graduate of Manhattan College. He retired in 1997 as CEO of a New York based Insurance Company. With his wife, Betty, he relocated from Morristown, New Jersey to Ponte Vedra Beach. He wrote his first novel in 1996 followed by In Honor of Justice in 2007 and THE ATKINSEN TICKET in 2008.
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| Theresa Greco
Theresa, a life-long resident of Florida resides in Ponte Vedra Beach, FL with her husband, son, daughter, and tabby cat. Although by profession, a National Technology Recruiter, she was inspired to write ABC Town when her children were in preschool. Ms. Greco earned a Bachelors degree in Business from the University of Central Florida and a Masters degree from the University of Tampa. She actively volunteers in her local parish church, her children's schools, and at the YMCA. In her free time, she can be found at the beach with her family.
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| Sharon Hoffman
Sharon Hoffman is a Veterinary dentist
and oral surgeon. She and her husband,
Scott Brewer, moved from Akron, Ohio to
Jacksonville, Florida when Queen Lily was
14 years old. She finds that pets constantly
teach us life lessons in their own special
ways.
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| Homer H. Humphries
Mr. Humphries was born at
1315 Talbot Avenue, in the
Avondale area on January 15,
1930. He attended local schools,
earned his B.A. at the University
of Virginia and his LLB at The
Stetson College of Law. Early in
his 45 years of practice he served
as an assistant state’s attorney in
the Jacksonville offce under Edward Booth and William A. Hallowes. He
served on the old city council from June 1967 to October 1, 1968 and then
elected to the fi rst city council under Consolidation. He served as the third
President of that fi rst council. He did not run for a second term on the council
but returned to the full-time private practice of law.
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| Lora Inman
Lora Inman is an inspirational writer and speaker who has spoken to support groups on behalf of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill in the Chicago area. She communicates her message from the heart because she writes and speaks from experience. She has suffered from depression, and ultimately bipolar disorder, for years before finding a treatment that has relieved her of symptoms since 2002. She and her husband, Michael, live in Jacksonville Florida and Kirkland Washington.
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| Dick Kirtley
Dick Kirtley is a humorous motivational speaker, devoted
husband, father, and grandfather. Following graduation from
the Naval Academy and a 20 year Navy career, including a
year in Vietnam , he held various management positions
with Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems, retiring in 2006 as
an Operations Director. In 1996, Dick developed a course
for Lockheed titled “Humor in the Workplace - Creating a
Positive Environment,” which he taught for years throughout
the company. His speaking service, “Laugh To Live,” has since
allowed him to spread his unique message internationally, to
businesses, schools, and professional/social organizations.
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| Sue Wells Kirwan
Sue Wells Kirwan lives with her husband, Keith, in Jacksonville, Florida. They have been married for forty-seven years and have one son and two grandsons.
Sue’s family has lived in the Jacksonville area from the early 1800’s. She attended Rollins College in Winter Park where she developed her love of Florida history and writing.
Sue was a charter member of the Riverside Hospital Auxiliary and first editor of the Auxiliary’s newsletter, The Pink Link. As editor, she became friends with Congressman Charles Bennett whose mother had also been a Pink Lady for many years. At Congressman Bennett’s request, Sue wrote an article honoring his mother.
When her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, Sue became her guardian and caregiver for many years until her mother’s death in 2003. She also worked with the local Alzheimer’s Association office to raise money for funding research and awareness of this disease. Sue has been featured in Grand Magazine and Better Nutrition for the awareness and control of diabetes.
She feels very blessed to have been told many stories by her mother and her family who lived on these beautiful barrier islands of Dames Point, Ft. George, Big and Little Talbot, Fernandina, Jekyll and Cumberland. Sue’s love for these beautiful and historic islands, filled with their mysteries, made the writing of Hurricane a true pleasure.
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| Melinda Kramer
Melinda Kramer is a true Jacksonville native. She taught high school math, developed a computer program at RPDS and now works with her husband, Paul, managing their battery business. Letting Go By Holding Tight is her first book, written to share some insights into processing the loss of her oldest daughter, Katrina. The cover was specially designed by Melinda's daughters, Jennifer and Lauren, representing the creative spirit of this entire project.
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| Judy Lenz
Judy M. Lenz is a graduate of Northern Michigan University School of Nursing, specializing in psychiatric / hospice care. A mother of five, Judy has ten grandchildren. She is an amateur photographer and lives in a condominium in Jacksonville Florida, and has a cottage in Koontz Lake Indiana.
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| Genna Leonard
Genna Leonard spent half of her childhood years in the Midwest, the other out west in the Rocky Mountains. After retirement, she has written a true story about 10 monts of her life since moving to Savannah, Georgia, where she still resides.
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| Ross H. Mackenzie
http://www.patriot-kids.com
Ross H. Mackenzie graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1994 with a B.S. in English. In 2002, he earned an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland.
Mr. Mackenzie finds his passions in wide open spaces as an avid outdoorsman, boater, backpacker and mountaineer. He is extremely involved in his church and committed to the Anglican Mission in the Americas. He is a devoted father and husband.
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| William Matt Mahoney
The author grew up in a small town called Millington Tennessee in a time when one's imagination was a great asset; a time when having nine pennies to place in a gum machine was considered to be quite a fortune. In these times there was never enough time to play all the games we invented. We told a lot of stories and shared the "good time" with the kids on our block.
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| Hal Mather
Hal Mather retired to Amelia Island after 25 years flying around the world, consulting and lecturing to a huge variety of manufacturing companies. He now spends his time on leisure pursuits, such as gardening and making radio control model ships, tutoring teens in the mysteries of algebra and geometry.
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| Ron Miller
Ron Miller grew up in Lake City Florida not far from the fabled Suwannee River. There, in the valley of the Suwannee, he explored with his friends, the pine forest and gum swamps where he experienced many exciting adventures. When he had children of his own, Ron amused them with tales of his many exploits. That is what inspired him to write it all down. Today he lives on Amelia Island with his wife. Together they enjoy a Brady Bunch of nine children and eighteen grandchildren.
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| Bunny Morgan
Bunny Morgan has been interested in painting since she began school in Michigan, where whe was born. After receiving a BA from Michigan State University, she began teaching art. She traveled to the Pacific and taught art to Micronesian students on the island of Guam, and subsequently traveling and teaching in Massachusetts and Florida.
Bunny has studied under many talented artists and has exhited her work in the Florida National Bank, The Riverside Art Assoc. at the Good Shepherd Episcopal Church, Beaches Bapist Hospital, as well as in several Jacksonville Watercolor Society shows. She is one of the 35 artists in the exhibit Liquid Muse: Painting of the St. Johns River Region and has a painting in Florida's American Heritage River: Images from the St. Johns Region, University Press of Florida 2009.
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| J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan is a retired university professor. He also had twenty years of law enforcement experience at the federal, state, and local levels. During his careers, he published numerous articles in professional journals. In retirement, JP has written three books, a play, and several short stories. His academic credentials are numerous and varied, culminating with a Doctor of Ministry degree from the School of Theology at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore MD.
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| Annette Myers
Annette McCollough Myers is the published author of The Shrinking Sands of an African American Beach. The book written for the preservation of Florida's historic resources was released in Sept 2006. Mrs. Myers is a retired educator, community activist and the proud mother of Donald (Dedria) Myers and foster daughter Alria Mundy. She lives on American Beach located on Amelia Island in northeast Florida.
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| Charles E. Patillo
A third generation Floridian, Charles “Pat” Pattillo was born and raised in Tampa. He received
Bachelor and Masters degrees in Architecture from the University of Florida. After serving four
years in the U.S. Air Force, Pat practiced architecture in Jacksonville for forty years designing
homes, apartments, schools, medical facilities, clubs and churches.
Through the design of numerous churches for a variety of denominations, he developed an
interest in church history and liturgy. An active interest in local history led to the research on
small wood frame Episcopal churches built after the Civil War along the St. Johns River. Interest
in the Civil War, particularly in North Florida, revealed many events that took place on the St.
Johns River. The combination of these varied interests; church architecture, local history, the
Civil War and the legendary treasure of the Confederacy resulted in this book.
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| Gertie Poole
Fantasy in the dark. Gertie Poole is an award winning blind author who has now been unleashed due to technical advances allowing the blind to write. She lives in Jacksonville Florida and spends all her time in the Magic Realm.
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| Carol Powel-Smith
Carol Powel-Smith was a radiation therapist in clinical cancer care for 20 years. At the same time she took formal training in Numerology, Astrology, and Kabbalah. She and her physician husband, serving the World Health Organization, worked in Malaysia and Zimbabwe, where Carol studied Buddhist philosophy and experienced different cultures and spiritual beliefs. Today Carol, a graduate of Quantum Quests School of Energy Healing and Enlightenment, shares her insights with others as a spiritual counselor and writer.
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| Kileen Prather
Kileen Prather divides her time between Texas
and Wisconsin. A school librarian for many years,
she has explored the United States extensively
the last twelve years as a tour manager. Her
travelers are predominantly retirees.
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| Karen Putzke
Karen Putzke, M.Ed., is a wife, mother, and educator of students with special needs. She loves animals, books and kids! Karen is a Florida native and currently lives in Northeast Florida on a horse farm with her family, horses, dogs, cats, a rabbit and a guinea pig. When she’s not spending time with her family, she’s usually riding one of her horses.
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| G.W. Reynolds
Dr. G. W. Reynolds, III was an educator for over 30 years. He has served as a teacher, coach and administrator. His doctoral research at the University of North Florida and his experiences with the pre-natal drug exposed children prompted him to write his novel, Sin City. Growing up as a Mayport shrimper's son inspired his critically acclaimed Jetty Man Series, which explores the superstitions, prejudices and beliefs that can overpower the residents of this small fishing village.
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| Marli Sieburger
Marli Siebuger was born in Minas Gerais, Brazil and as a teenager she
wrote plays and speeches and became a school teacher. Later, in 1976
she moved to Miami where she lived for twenty-three years. She got
married and had her only son Guillermo. She is fl uent in three languages
and worked nineteen years for the
school system. In 2006, she retired.
Today she lives with her husband in
Savannah, Georgia.
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| Verne Simon
Dr. Simon earned a BS at U. of Toledo (home town), MS at Purdue, PhD at Florida State U. Taught chemistry at Rochester Institute of Tech (Rochester, NY) and at Morehead State U. (Morehead, KY). Taught physics at Edison Tech (Toledo, OH). Did research in pharmacology at Medical College of Ohio (Toledo, OH). Worked as chemist at Florida Dept of Health in Jacksonville FL. Father of four (two boys, two girls). Lives in Jacksonville Beach.FL.
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| Lois Simon
Lois Simon is a professional artist
whose work is regularly show in art
galleries throughout the southeastern
United States. Her work has also been
praised and documented in numerous
newspapers and magazine articles.
A graduate of Wells College and a
student of Parsons School of Design,
the author formerly owned and interior
design company, was an allied member
of ASID, served as Curator of the
Cultural Center of Ponte Vedra Beach,
and spends time doing volunteer
work. This is her fourth published and
illustrated children’s picture book. Her
name appears in “Who’s Who in the
East” and “Who’s Who of American
Women.” Married with three grown
children, Lois Simon lives in Florida
with her husband, Bill, and their
miniature poodle, Winnie. She enjoys
painting, reading, exercise, golf and
playing the piano.
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| Robert Solomon
Robert K. Solomon, CEO of MTS Environmental, has over 40 years experience in sales and a passionate commitment to win/win ethics in business and in life. Whether coaching his Pop Warner football team, mentoring young professionals, or teaching, Bob's firm belief in fitness of body, mind and spirit form the backbone of his life and enlivens every page of his guidebook.
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| Barbara Spurlin
Barbara G. Spurlin is a 'National Distinguished Principal from the State of Florida' and has served as an educator for over fifty years. She now live in Jacksonville Florida, as do Troy and Lisa of whom the story "Wish I Had A Pony" was written. C.H. Bellinger grew up in the Shenandoah Valley in
Virginia. She has been creating art for friends and
family since she was old enough to hold a pencil.
Now residing in Jacksonville, Florida with her husband
and three awesome kids, she enjoys painting
and illustrating.
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| Bruce Thomason
Bruce Thomason has been a police officer for more than forty years. After serving nineteen years with the Beaumont, Texas Police Department, he was appointed Chief of Police in West Carrollton, Ohio in 1986. Since 1991, he has been the Chief of Police in Jacksonville Beach, Florida. In his career, he has encountered many characters, both good and bad, similar to those he created in Body Toll
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| Nate Tolar
Nate Tolar retired after a 42 year career in government transportation contracting, then switched from commercial writing to fiction. He served a term as a tutor in the Learn to Read program, is a charter member and past president of North Florida Writers, and occasionally volunteers to critique or edit the work of aspiring writers in that group. He and his wife make their home in north Florida where he is presently fine tuning his second novel, and enough short stories and fictional memoirs to fill a third book. He also writes a unique form of poetry.
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| Pat VanDorn
Pat grew up in Oswego, New York, a small town located on the banks of Lake Ontario where she studied at SUNY to be an educator. Upon leaving New York she spent a few years experiencing much of the South and Southwest before settling in the San Francisco area of California. After retiring from a career in the telecommunications industry where she used her talents to produce instructional material, she decided to fulfill her dream of writing novels. She and her husband now live in Brunswick, GA. Together they enjoy traveling and photography while she gathers background for her latest book.
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