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 Gary Alexander
Gary Alexander has written 16 novels. He's written 150+ short stories and sold travel articles to 6 major dailies. One story appeared in Best American Mystery Stories 2010, another in Ice Cold, last year's Mystery Writers of America anthology. His website is www.garyralexander.net Read More >>>
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 Kenneth Appleton
I grew up in Appleton Wisconsin, a medium sized city, as the middle kid in a family of five siblings. From an early age I was drawn to the interests of science, science fiction, and fantasy books. I remember well spending hours reading the encyclopedia set we had. Read More >>>
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 Jessica Argyle
Jessica Argyle is a writer from Montreal, Canada. She holds an MA from the Creative Writing program of Concordia University and has had many stories published in literary magazines and a collection of short stories (Arrest Me Before I Write Again) published in 2011 . Read More >>>
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 Brooke Babineau
Brooke Babineau came to Key West in 1985. While sampling the "tropical life" (shark hunting, and working on fishing boats), Babineau met playwright Budd Schulberg who immediately warmed to a kindred creative spirit and encouraged him to develop his stories. Read More >>>
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 Barthélemy Banks
Barthélemy Banks is the nom de plume of a former supervisor for a publishing company secretly backed by the CIA. He spent a number of years in the Bahamas where he rubbed elbows with spies, smugglers, international bankers, and reclusive millionaires. Read More >>>
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 Sloan Bashinsky
Sloan Bashinsky’s blog says it all: afoolsworkneverends.blogspot.com. Born on 1942 in Birmingham, Alabama, he’s had a dozen different lives since then. “Started off normal, whatever that is,” he says. “Until the mothership retrieves me, I’m here, waiting, spoofing, poking, laughing, writhing.” Read More >>>
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 Randolph W.B. Becker
Randolph W.B. Becker has spent his professional career as a Unitarian Universalist Minister and a spiritual adventurer. He has taught at several colleges and theological schools and had one of the first podcasts on a religious theme as the Internet developed. Read More >>>
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 David and Nancy Beckwith
David Beckwith is a three-generation native of Greenville, Mississippi, with a BBA and an MBA from Ole Miss. David's wife Nancy earned a doctorate in finance and was the largest commercial lender and underwriter for Florida National Bank/1st Union/Wachovia. Read More >>>
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 F.W. Belland and Chris Belland
F.W. Belland and Chris Belland are brothers born in Miami, Florida, in 1944 and 1948 respectively.
The brothers grew up in Miami when it was much different from the Miami of today.
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 Leah Benner
A graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Leah Benner majored in English. Between raising her children and making a living, she had little time for writing until she and her husband uprooted and took off in their boat. Their travels led them from Maryland to . . . Read More >>>
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 John David Bethel
John David Bethel is the author of previous novels, Evil Town, Blood Moon and A Washington Trilogy. He has also been published in popular consumer magazines and respected political journals. Read More >>>
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 Joel Biddle
Joel Biddle has written music for Concerto Soloists in Philadelphia, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony Orchestra in Boston and has had compositions performed in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Read More >>>
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 Elissa Bishop-Becker
Elissa Bishop-Becker's professional journey began with her own grief journey. After experiencing multiple losses, she returned to school and received her M.Ed. (Master of Education) degree from the College of William and Mary in 2000. Read More >>>
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 Tom Bleakley
Bleakley is a trial lawyer specializing in the handling of civil litigation of major pharmaceutical cases against Big Pharma, and these experiences form the bases for his writings. Additionally, he plays tuba in several concert bands in Florida and Michigan. Read More >>>
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 Carl and Jane Bock
Carl and Jane Bock are retired Professors of Biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Carl is an ornithologist and conservation biologist. Jane is a plant ecologist and an internationally recognized expert in the use of plant evidence in criminal investigations. Read More >>>
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 Bob Bowersox
Bob Bowersox holds a Professional Programs MFA in Screenwriting from UCLA, and holds Certificates in Screenwriting and Playwriting from Gotham Writer’s in New York. His first stage play, Going Again, won the Distinguished Playwright Award in his previous hometown of Philadelphia. Read More >>>
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 Rosalind Brackenbury
Rosalind Brackenbury grew up in England and has lived in France and Scotland and traveled widely; she has lived in Key West for 20 years. She is the author of novels, short stories and poetry, as well as many book reviews. Read More >>>
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 Lucy Burdette (a/k/a Roberta Isleib)
Lucy Burdette (a/k/a Roberta Isleib) is a clinical psychologist and the author of ten mysteries, including Death In Four Courses, the second in the Key West food critic series. Her books and stories have been short-listed for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. Read More >>>
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 William R. Burkett, Jr.
William R. Burkett, Jr. is an acclaimed sci-fi writer, listed in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. He published his first novel at 18. A strapping youth who lived with his grandparents at Neptune Beach, Florida, his first job was as a copy boy for the Florida Times-Union. Read More >>>
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 H. A. Burns
H.A. Burns lives in rainy Seattle. She has been telling stories to entertain her four siblings and is constantly coming up with book ideas inspired by dreams, advancements in science and technology, and all the interesting people she meets. Read More >>>
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 Rex Burns
Rex Burns is the author of numerous books, articles, reviews and
stories. He received his AB from Stanford University, and, after serving in
the Marine Corps, his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Retired from the
University of Colorado, he lives and writes in Boulder, CO. Read More >>>
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 Peggy Butler
Peggy Butler retired from hospice nursing in 2002, after 47 years in several diverse fields of nursing, including tuberculosis control. A community and political activist, the author lived on the island of Key West for several years Read More >>>
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 Anne Carlisle
A full professor at the University of Maryland (UMUC), Anne Carlisle teaches online writing courses worldwide to U.S. military students. She also teaches writing for American Intercontinental University as an online adjunct.
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 Candace J. Carter
Candace J. Carter is a South Carolina-based writer. She received a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Iowa State University following military service. She spent much of her professional career with the U.S. Department of the Interior Read More >>>
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 Brewster Chamberlin
Brewster Chamberlin spent several decades of his life working as a historian, archivist, university teacher, lecturer, poet, essayist and writer of longer and shorter fictions while living in Manhattan, Germany, France (Provence), Italy, Washington DC and Greece. Read More >>>
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 J. Allen Clary
J. Allen Clary is currently writing books and enjoying life. He has created 21 stories in just a little over five years, with 10 of them finished. A motorcyclist until death parks his bike, he currently and forever resides at home with his wife of 36 years, along with four cats and two dogs.. Read More >>>
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 Robert Coburn
Robert Coburn is originally from Norfolk, Virginia. After high school in Norfolk, he spent three years in the US Army as a helicopter crew chief stationed in Berlin, Germany. He returned home to attend college at Richmond Professional Institute (Now VCU). Read More >>>
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 Kelley Connor
Kelley Connor has helped hundreds of babies be born in her role as a labor and delivery nurse. She has degrees in nursing and studio art. She started writing stories with her children as a creative outlet and to help them become better readers. Read More >>>
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 Tom Corcoran
Tom Corcoran is a Florida-based writer of mystery novels. He has also authored three books on classic Ford Mustangs. Corcoran is friends with Jimmy Buffett and shot photographs for seven of Buffett's album covers, as well as co-wrote the hit "Fins." Read More >>>
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 George Cook (G. J. Cook)
George Cook (G. J. Cook) lives in Key West, Florida. He is originally from Newark, New Jersey. Besides writing short stories, he also writes songs, poetry, and is a blues musician. He was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2012. At one time he also hand-designed personal greeting cards. Read More >>>
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 Bill Craig
Bill Craig taught himself to read at age four and began writing his own stories at age six. He published his first novel at age 40 and says it only took him 34 years to become an overnight success! He has been publishing steadily ever since . . . Read More >>>
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 C.J. Daniels
The DarkLight represents the first novel in the new Commando, Inc. series from C.J. Daniels, author of The Coming. With degrees in marketing and English, C.J. has a passion for all things sci-fi Read More >>>
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 Dale Dapkins
Dale Dapkins is a 1968 psychology graduate of the University of Rochester.
He lived in Turkey for two years with the Peace Corps making a movie for the Turkish Tourism Ministry in the late sixties. Read More >>>
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 James Darrigo
James Darrigo is a lover of nature and science who has always wondered how and why, when and where as it pertains to the workings of our vast universe. The mechanism to life, fitting into the realm of the universe's power and control, continues to fascinate him and inspired his imagination. Read More >>>
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 George Davidson
George "Harley" Davidson's unfortunate nickname has carried over from childhood. He has never owned a motorcycle. He has worked for publishing houses in New York and London. Sometimes he moves to the other side of the editor's desk to create a book. Read More >>>
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 Jane Dawkins
Jane Dawkins was born in Palestine and grew up in Wilton, a small English country town in Wiltshire, neighboring county to Jane Austen’s Hampshire. She now resides in Key West, Florida, with her husband and her Golden Retriever. Read More >>>
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 Monica De Vargas
Monica De Vargas, in her debut novel, “The Typing Room,” explores an entirely different approach to the world of Alzheimer's patients and the nearly 16 million family caregivers in the United States whose lives are profoundly affected by this disease. Read More >>>
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 Alexandra Dietz
Alexandra Dietz is a photo documentarian driven by an insatiable curiosity to better understand people - their stories, what motivates them, and the way they live their lives. This is the focus of her photography, to immerse her audience in the excitement and strength of each subject. Read More >>>
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 Mike Dennis
Mike Dennis has been a professional musician (piano) and a professional poker player. He turned to writing when his first novel, The Take, was picked up by a publisher in 2009. His second book, Setup On Front Street, was the first of a series called Key West Nocturnes. Read More >>>
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 Roberta DePiero
Roberta DePiero was born in Cleveland, Ohio and transplanted to Key West in 1991. Her theatre photography has appeared in print and posters. Following her love of history and her own genealogy search, she became a www.Findagrave.com volunteer photographer Read More >>>
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 Richard Edwards
My life has been full of some pretty amazing people places and things. As a seasoned writer and photographer for the past 50 years and have had over 2000 bylines over the years my best memories were the times when I was in the service. Especially, my time in Vietnam. Read More >>>
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 James Esposito
After a classical education and an intensive study of music, James Esposito served in British Intelligence before entering academic life as a philosopher of the later Greek and early mediaeval period. James is the author of numerous books. Read More >>>
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 George Feifer
Growing up in the 1940s, I knew my mother declined to reveal the makings of her salad dressing to admiring guests because its base was olive oil, which almost everyone we knew in northern New Jersey considered "disgusting."
A long-time denizen of New York City. Read More >>>
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 James Fox
James R. Fox has been putting his thoughts onto paper for many years. "I touch upon many topics such as religion, music, family and friends, politics," said Fox.
Now retired, he devotes his time to writing, music, photography, traveling, and reading. Read More >>>
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 Wayne Gales
A former Key West resident. Wayne spent seven years there as a director in the hospitality business, where he spent endless hours in the Key West public library pouring over microfilm records of his families’ conch roots. Wayne currently lives in Melbourne, Florida with his wife Tina. Read More >>>
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 Hollis George
Hollis George is editorial director of The New Atlantian Library and Absolutely Amazing eBooks. A former journalist, college professor, and museum president, he brings a wealth of knowledge to the books he writes and edits. A long-time denizen of New York City. Read More >>>
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 Ian Grace
Ian Grace was born in Zambia in 1967 and grew up in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe. He has travelled extensively, having lived in various countries in Africa and also Australia and Europe. Ian currently lives on the Isle of Man.
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 Jerome Grapel
In 1972, a friend from college introduced me to Key West, the perfect antidote for cultural misfits like myself. I've lived there ever since, working a multitude of inconsequential jobs, none of which had to be taken home with me.
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 Robert J. Green
Robert J. Green hails originally from New Jersey. As a teenager he served as an altar boy at All Saints Episcopal Church in Scotch Plains. He graduated from Watchung Hills Regional High School and earned a Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Rutgers University. Read More >>>
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 Bob Haines
Bob Haines is a retired patent attorney or, as he puts it, “I was a lawyer but I got better.” He grew up in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., escaping in the mid seventies to attend college at Florida Institute of Technology in beautiful Melbourne, Florida. Read More >>>
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 Lewis C. Haskell
Lewis C. Haskell is a former international corporate executive and today is a fresh water conch who has owned property in Key West for 15 years. A diver, sailor, and Harley owner he can be found riding his bicycle around town most mornings or with a glass of wine at Grand Vin in the evening. Read More >>>
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 Susan Haskell
Susan has lived in Canada and on both US coasts and the Midwest. She was an Operating Nurse assisting in hip replacements to heart surgeries. As a traveler, she has experienced over 50 countries. But being a Mum was her favorite job. Read More >>>
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 Michael Haskins
Michael Haskins is the author of seven Mick Murphy Mysteries, five of them set in Key West. His short stories have been published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine and The Saturday Evening Post and he has been nominated for the Shamus Award. Read More >>>
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 John Holt
John Holt spends as much time as possible fishing and hanging out in sparsely-populated country with his wife, photographer Ginny Holt, mainly the remoteness found on northern high plains east of the continental divide in Montana that runs north into the Yukon. Read More >>>
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 Frank Holtzer
Frank Holtzer has been called "an international adventurer" and "a Lothario of some note." Well, at least he makes those engrandized claims . . . He swears that many of the risqué stories in his books are true. You decide.
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 Mark Howell
It was as a student at Britain's Cambridge University that Mark Howell hitchhiked to Morocco and to Afghanistan. But his trip across America was made with a friend in a 1964 electric-blue Plymouth Savoy. Read More >>>
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 Hal Howland
Hal Howland is the author of After Jerusalem: A Story and Two Novellas, The Human Drummer: Thoughts on the Life Percussive, and Landini Cadence and Other Stories: A Rich Castillo Threesome, a finalist in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Read More >>>
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 J.E. Irvin
J.E. Irvin is a career educator and award-winning author. Her stories have appeared in both print and online journals and magazines, including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and Spark a creative anthology. Avid canoeists, Irvin and her husband live in Springboro, Ohio. Read More >>>
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Roberta Isleib (a/k/a Lucy Burdette)
Roberta Isleib is a clinical psychologist and the author of ten mysteries, including Death In Four Courses, the second in the Key West food critic series. Her books and stories have been short-listed for Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. Read More >>>
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 Todd “Jake” Jacobson
Todd “Jake” Jacobson is a Midwestern native who graduated from North Central College. A fairly good distance runner, he was a proud member of two NCAA cross country championship teams. After college he started a career in insurance and banking, eventually becoming a corporate malcontent. Read More >>>
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 Angela Jarvis
After health issues caused Angela Jarvis to quit her job as a Physical Therapy Technician, she decided to devote more time to writing, which she has loved since her early teens. Angela lives in a very small town on the southern edge of Lake Okeechobee with her husband, daughter, and several fur babies. Read More >>>
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 Maryjane Elizabeth Jones
Maryjane Elizabeth Jones loves to cook and share her recipes almost as much as she loves to write. She got the idea for the Phantom Cooks mysteries from a friend who actually started a catering business called Phantom Cooks, home-cooked meals. Read More >>>
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 John Jeremiah
John Jeremiah is the product of a Jesuit education which equipped him to take any side of an argument on a moment’s notice. He hitchhiked around the USA and spent a fair amount of time following the Grateful Dead and trying to write short stories. Read More >>>
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 Wayne "Skip" Kadar (a/k/a Justin Maxwell)
Wayne "Skip" Kadar (a/k/a Justin Maxwell) taught at the high school level for several years then became a high school principal. Now fully retired, Skip spends time with his wife, Karen, in Michigan and winters in the fabulous Florida Keys. Read More >>>
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 Albert L. Kelley
Albert L. Kelley is an attorney located in Key West, Florida and concentrates primarily in the areas of business, corporations, contracts, copyright, trademark, and entertainment law.
In 2002, Al Kelley produced an award-winning video biography of Capt. Tony Tarracino. Read More >>>
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 Ben Kelley
Ben Kelley comes from a family of journalists and writers. After a stint in Japan in U.S. Army intelligence, he remained in Tokyo as a newspaper editor for three years. He returned to the U.S. to work as a news reporter in Washington, D.C., Read More >>>
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 Renee Kumor
Renee Kumor has lived in North Carolina for over thirty years. The setting for the River Bend Chronicles series reflects her early life in Ohio and her later years in North Carolina. She was a stay-at-home mom for several years developing a personal ethic of community service. Read More >>>
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 Marcia Lange
Marcia Lange was born and raised in a small Connecticut town. Her love for reading and writing was enhanced by becoming a beta reader for a friend and a new journey, to do some writing of her own, resulted in her co-authoring Conundrum, her debut novel. Read More >>>
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 P. A. Lassiter
P. A. Lassiter grew up on a cattle and wheat farm in the Midwest and now lives a bi-coastal life, in Seattle, Washington, and Key West, Florida. She holds degrees in English Literature, Psychology, and Computer Science, and her alter ego wrote two best-selling computer books. Read More >>>
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 Larry Lentchner, Ph.D.
Larry Lentchner, Ph.D., is a practicing psychologist. Dr. Lentchner began to work through his understanding of the origins and dynamics of terroristic consciousness. This effort, over a decade in the making, led to the novel Onederland. Read More >>>
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 Bill Lorraine
Writer/composer Bill Lorraine was born in Miami and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland. Lorraine has published one novel, The Heat; one book of poetry, From the Balconies of Key West . . . Read More >>>
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 James D. Loy
James D. Loy was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and for twenty-five years, he studied and wrote about the social behavior of monkeys. In the mid-1990s, however, unable to think of anything else he wanted to know about monkeys, Jim shifted his research . . . Read More >>>
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 Joe Mc Kay
Joe Mc Kay grew up with a precocious ear for language. Standing in his baby carriage, he "read" aloud the full names of grocery items, e.g., "Kemp's Sun-Rayed Tomato Juice," to audiences of appreciative shoppers as his gloating parents held up the cans and boxes. Read More >>>
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 Kerry Gene Martin
Kerry Gene Martin is a sixth-generation native of East Texas who grew up on Rod Serling and Alfred Hitchcock. A graduate of Baylor University, he enjoys long his career as an architectural illustrator. His passion for historic restoration has exposed him to many mysterious places. Read More >>>
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 David Matteson
David Matteson taught psychology and counseling for almost three decades at Governor’s State University, south of Chicago, an educational institution founded on experiential teaching. Read More >>>
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 Rosemary Mason
Rosemary Mason's byline has appeared in publications for more than 40 years. Rosie writes both non-fiction feature articles and books that range from children's stories to mysteries to cookbooks. She enjoys editing and reviewing ebooks … and loves her Kindle Fire. Read More >>>
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Justin Maxwell (a/k/a Wayne "Skip" Kadar)
Justin Maxwell (a/k/a Wayne "Skip" Kadar) taught at the high school level for several years then became a high school principal. Now fully retired, Skip spends time with his wife, Karen, in Michigan and winters in the fabulous Florida Keys. Read More >>>
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 Jack Mazur
Jack Mazur studied creative writing at Southern Connecticut State University in the 1980s under Richard Russo, who would go on to win the Pulitzer for Empire Falls in 2005 or so. Read More >>>
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 William B. Mead
William B. Mead is the author of six books on baseball history, plus a seventh in partnership with Paul Dickson.
Mead and the former Jennifer Hilton of Richmond met as seniors at Northwestern University and married in 1956, when he was a private in the U.S. Army. Read More >>>
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 Steve McMillan
Steve is an associate professor at the Abington campus of Penn State University. Prior to joining academia, Steve worked in accounting and real estate in the Philadelphia area. He has visited over 30 countries. Read More >>>
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 Oscar Blas Fernandez Mesa
"Although my full name is Oscar Blas Fernandez Mesa, I answer to the name with which Ernest Hemingway baptized me, Cayuco 'Jonronero.' From childhood, my friends always called me Cayuco which simply refers to someone with a large but not unattractive head. Read More >>>
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 Miguel Enrique Samuel C. Montaña
Miguel Enrique Samuel C. Montaña has traveled the countryside at the behest of corporations, observed weary homemakers as they navigated through the tight corners of a wet market, all the while embedding everything onto a spreadsheet. But through it all, it has been his passion to be a writer, creating new worlds and building the lives of characters within it. Welcome to his first novel! Read More >>>
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 Dennis Basil MulQueen
D Basil MulQueen is an old-time investigative journalist and musician who recently moved to Key West, Florida, to follow in Hemingway’s footsteps. Currently one of the longest transplant survivors in the world – in 1981 he became the first person ever cured of cancer by a bone marrow transplant at the Detroit Medical Center’s Harper Hospital. Read More >>>
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 Bud Navero
Bud Navero has been a writer, teacher and learner in Key West. "It's always been a place that encourages you to live in your imagination and follow your passion. That's what sets it apart. That's what this book embraces, celebrates and urges everyone to cultivate." Read More >>>
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 Jane Newhagen
Jane Newhagen grew up in Denver, Colorado. Armed with an unexpected scholarship and what she now recognizes as astonishing bravado, she flew east to attend Brown University. She settled in Key West where she’s the archivist at the city cemetery. Read More >>>
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 H.L. Osterman
Howard Lowell Osterman collected a few rejection slips from popular magazines before deciding he preferred the steady salary of a staff writing position with a newspaper. That led to other "writing gigs" with magazines and book publishers. "A good living," as Osterman tells it. " Read More >>>
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 Pamela Paige
A long-time journalist and feature writer, Pamela Paige got her start writing for a newspaper Sunday magazine. For years her feature articles were a weekly staple in the Florida Times-Union. After three marriages, she specializes in the Romance genre and loves reviewing new books. Read More >>>
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 Norah-Jean Perkin
Norah-Jean has spent her working life in Ontario, Canada, as a newspaper reporter, freelance writer and editor, and fiction author. She has published five novels. Her inspiration has come from West Africa, Australia, and Ontario.
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 Captain Mark T. "Reef" Perkins
Captain Mark T. "Reef" Perkins is a marine surveyor with a colorful past. From commanding a 150-foot 300 DWT US Army diving ship off Vietnam to smuggling in the Caribbean, Reef Perkins has become a living legend. . Raised in rural Michigan, Reef now lives in Key West. Read More >>>
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 Louis Petrone
Louis Petrone was first a successful environmental attorney in New York who maintained a national reputation. He retired to Key West. He has blossomed into a blog writer, television and blog talk radio host, a newspaper columnist and writer with an international following. Read More >>>
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 Justin Phillips
Justin Phillips lives in Austin, Texas with his wife and son, where in addition to writing he is a practicing acupuncturist and professor of Eastern Medicine.
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 Larry Presby
Larry Presby grew up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, taught English at Southold High School and Sayville High School, both on Long Island. He graduated from Plymouth State University and University of Massachusetts; served in the New Hampshire and New York National Guard. Read More >>>
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 David Porteous
J is for James, but I was called Dave until USA dual citizenship exposed me to bureaucracies that cannot abide people who never use their first names – I’m still Dave to you. Read More >>>
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 Diana Reif
Diana Reif first came to the Keys in the 70s and it was love at first sight. She left to attend law school in Miami and then practiced law in the Lower Keys for many years. Diana is an avid painter as well as a writer. She and her husband live in Key West with their rescued dog, Picasso. Read More >>>
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 Shirrel Rhoades
Shirrel Rhoades is a writer, critic, filmmaker, former college professor, art collector, and publishing consultant. These days, he calls Key West home. He and his wife share their historic classic temple revival style house in Old Town with a number of dogs and cats. Read More >>>
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 Marjory Sorrell Rockwell
Marjory Sorrell Rockwell says needlecraft arts – quilting, crocheting, knitting – are pastimes every woman can appreciate. And she loves quiltmaking. “It’s like painting with cloth,” she says. But when not quilting she writes mysteries about a midwestern sleuth not unlike herself. Read More >>>
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 Mark Ryno
Born in a small town in Upstate New York, Mark Ryno grew up in quite a tranquil setting. After graduating high school, Mark made a move to South Texas where he embarked on a career in radio and writing. The Whiskey Hollow in the book was near where the author grew up. Read More >>>
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 Allison Seaborn
Allison Seaborn is twice-divorced, a mother-in-law, and a grandma. Just like many of her lady boomer sisters, she has started over emotionally and financially -- learning from both success and failure. . . . Read More >>>
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 Arndt Schorr
Arndt Schorr was born in Europe of British and German descent. Raised and educated in both countries. Schorr met and married his American wife in Augsburg, Germany, and moved to the United States in 1996. They have two grown-up children and live in Key West, Fla. Read More >>>
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 Harry Schroeder
After a hitch in the Marine Corps and a Ph.D. at Yale, Harry Schroeder dropped out into the Florida Keys, where he worked as a cab driver, copy editor, drug counsellor, professor, musician, and music critic. Read More >>>
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 Billy Selesnick
Billy Selesnick says he’s recovering from an amnesia “much like Jason Bourne, a character in a series of espionage books who due to brainwashing could not remember what he did.” Read More >>>
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 Leslie Silton
Formal education finally concluded with a BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art. Leslie is a published poet: in magazines, anthologies, in her own chapbooks, on the internet. She has participated in well over 150 open mic readings . . . Read More >>>
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 R.K. Simpson
R.K. Simpson lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife Patty. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and a veteran of the Marine Corps and the war in Vietnam. He served as a diplomat in several of our embassies in Europe and Africa for over twenty years. Read More >>>
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 Brian Gordon Sinclair
Brian Gordon Sinclair, author of Hemingway On Stage, is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and holds a Master of Arts degree in Theatre from the University of Denver. He has also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England. Read More >>>
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 Paul Sinor
Paul Sinor is an award winning screenwriter/producer and novelist. He has
eight feature films that have been produced from scripts he wrote. He
currently has two mystery series in print, a non-fiction book on marketing
screenplays and two stand-alone novels. Read More >>>
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 Chuck Van Soye
Chuck Van Soye's career has ranged from Army officer to Chemical Engineer to Writer and Editor for McGraw-Hill's Chemical Engineering magazine, to Sales & Marketing Executive for Du Pont. Now retired, Chuck relaxes with boating, fishing . . . Read More >>>
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 Edward Squires
Edward Squires studied short story writing at a noted southern university and has worked as a fiction editor before turning to filmmaking. He draws a parallel between short stories and films, both aimed at telling stories in a finite amount of time. Married, he has one son and a houseful of animals. Read More >>>
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 Del Staecker
Born in Blue Island, Illinois, Del Staecker grew up in two very different worlds: The surreal artist’s community of Chicago’s Old Town (where the likes of Jack Kerouac Bob Dylan hung out at his Uncle Erling’s exotic bird shop), and the small town normalcy of Boy Scouts and working on his relatives’ farms. Read More >>>
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 Robert L. Stave
Robert L. Stave, is a former Airborne Ranger and graduate of the University of Minnesota. He has taught creative writing and photography at the Shattuck School. He has also worked as a cowboy, rancher, in personal protection, park ranger and as a dock master in Key West. Read More >>>
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 Teresa Taylor
Teresa Taylor and her husband, Robert Feger, divide their time between Sarasota, Florida and the North Fork of Long Island, where she continues the teaching, writing and coaching activities that give her life such pleasure. This is her first published book. Read More >>>
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 Carol Tedesco
Carol Tedesco is a photographer, publicist and historic shipwreck professional. Her documentary and news photographs have appeared in print and online publications worldwide; her fine art photography on walls in the US and abroad. Read More >>>
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 Cyd Houndstooth Tweed
Cyd Houndstooth Tweed caught a twister to the Eastern seaboard and never blew back. You can find her eves dropping on conversations and at major events that have anything to do with – DOG. Cyd is incognito, so be on the alert. Read More >>>
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 Richard Vetere
Richard Vetere is a well-known author, screenwriter, playwright, actor, director, and educator. He holds a Master’s in Comparative English Literature from Columbia University; teaches screenwriting at Queens College and has taught playwrighting / screenwriting in the master’s program at NYU Read More >>>
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 Dr. Jill Vosler
Dr. Jill Vosler is a family physician whose medical studies at Ohio University took her abroad to the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and on to extensive travel throughout the UK and Europe, allowing her to flavor her novels with people and places far different from her native Ohio. Read More >>>
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 Richard Watherwax
Richard Watherwax has more than 30 years experience in advertising, editorial, and wedding photography. After 25 years in Manhattan shooting for clients such as Coca Cola, TWA, AT&T, Buick, and Nabisco, to name a few, Watherwax found his home in Key West. Read More >>>
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 Lewis M. Weinstein
Lewis M. Weinstein began writing novels when he was 55 years of age, finally taking the advice of his high school English teacher, who said he should write. This updated edition of Case Closed follows his passion for seeing the truth come out in the FBI’s handling of the Amerithrax Case. Read More >>>
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 Paul Wolfe
Paul Wolfe has written in virtually every medium, from fiction and advertising to songs and plays. He has spent three decades primarily as an advertising writer and creative director. Read More >>>
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 Jonathan Woods
Jonathan Woods divides his time between Key West, Florida and Dallas, Texas. His stories have appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Plots with Guns, Thuglit, Pulp Pusher, Dogmatika, the special noir issue of Blackheart Magazine. He is the author of noir crime stories. Read More >>>
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 Patrick Yon
Born in 1965 South Carolina, Patrick Yon was admitted to the University of South Carolina in 1984 and its law school in1989 where he earned, respectively, a BA degree in English and a Juris Doctor. Today, he is a lawyer in Anderson, South Carolina, where he resides with his family.
This is his first novel. Read More >>>
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 Igor Zakowski
Igor Zakowski completed his studies at the faculty of Graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. He studied at the department of Graphic Arts in graphic arts techniques and computer graphics studios. He got his Master of Arts Degree in 2000. Read More >>>
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 Mark Zeid
Mark Zeid spent seven and half years as a military police officer for the U.S. Marine Corps. After leaving active duty, he completed an undergraduate degree in literature and graduate studies in English.. Read More >>>
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