Authors
M. L. Malcolm
Heart of Lies: A Novel
Although born in New York, M.L. Malcolm spent most of her childhood in Florida, both in a small town on the Gulf Coast, and in the state capital of Tallahassee. Her education gradually brought her back north, as she earned a B.A. and an M.A. in political science from Emory University in Atlanta, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in Boston. Between college and law school she spent a year in Aix-en-Provence, France as a Rotary Foundation Fellow. She developed a strong interest in World War I while touring the battlefields in Northern France, and used that time period as part of the setting for Heart of Lies. M.L. Malcolm began her professional career as an attorney in Atlanta, Georgia. However, after practicing law for three years, she determined that "she and the law were not meant for each other," and is now a self-described "recovering attorney."
Doug Marlette
Magic Time: A Novel
Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, and raised in Durham, N.C., Laurel, Mississippi and Sanford Florida Doug Marlette graduated from Florida State University and began drawing political cartoons for The Charlotte Observer in 1972. He joined the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 1987, New York Newsday in 1989, the Tallahassee Democrat in 2002 and the Tulsa World in 2006.
Charles Martin
Maggie
earned his B.A. in English from Florida State University, and his M.A. in Journalism and Ph.D. in Communication from Regent University. He served one year at Hampton University as an adjunct professor in the English department and as a doctoral fellow at Regent. In 1999, he left a career in business to pursue his writing. He and his wife, Christy, live a stone's throw from the St. John's River in Jacksonville, Florida, with their three boys: Charlie, John T., and Rives. When he's not writing, Charles fishes with his boys, works in the yard with Christy, coaches T-ball, and kneels by his boys' beds at night. Right now, the boys are praying for two things: a boat with space for a cooler, three or four people, and five or six rods because they're not catching any fish off the neighbor's dock, and Daddy's book.
Cathryn Michon
The Grrl Genius Guide to Sex (with Other People): A Self-Help Novel
is an actress/comedian/author. Her books include The Grrl Genius Guide to Sex and The Grrl Genius Guide to Life.
Victoria Moran
Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
is the author of ten books. An international speaker on wellness and personal growth and a certified life coach specializing in transformation and rejuvenation. Victoria’s latest book is Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit. Moran’s articles have appeared in publications including Ladies’ Home Journal, Woman’s Day, Body & Soul,Weight Watchers Magazine, Natural Health, and Yoga Journal. She has been a guest on TV and radio programs including Oprah!--two appearances. A native of Kansas City, Missouri and an adopted New Yorker, Victoria is married to an attorney and author. Her daughter Adair is an actor in New York City.
Michael Morris
Slow Way Home
The Washington Post has compared Morris's work to Harper Lee, Flannery O'Connor and to Mark Twain. But such comparisons are difficult for the native of the rural south to accept. "Growing up in a small town in North Florida, I always thought that writers lived in New York or Paris," Morris explains. "And if writers were from the south they were eccentric alcoholics who lived in run down mansions. That was really my world view at the time. My mother and I had fled an abusive household and lived in a trailer. So I never thought that writing was in the realm of possibilities for me."
Marsha Moyer
Heartbreak Town: A Novel
was born in Austin and grew up in Bryan/College Station in central Texas. After graduating from Bryan High School, she attended the University of Texas at Austin, and for the next 25 years held a variety of jobs, including those of secretary to two animal scientists in the field of swine management, newsletter editor at the Texas A&M computing center, and assistant to the late chemist Karl Folkers, whose work in the field of coenzyme Q-10 research is world-renowned.