After teaching English for 35 years, Dorothy K. Fletcher found a new life as columnist for The Florida Times-Union. Her collected columns are the basis of her latest book Remembering Jacksonville: By the Wayside (The History Press).

Dorothy’s poetry and articles have appeared in over 100 literary journals, anthologies, and national publications. She has published three other books The Week of Dream Horses, The Cruelest Months, and Zen Fishing and Other Southern Pleasures.

Dr. Ervin Williams is a consultant, businessman and author and is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Savannah State University. His forte is entrepreneurship and has published a book, The Global Entrepreneur, and is writing another book on Corporate Entrepreneurship. He has founded nine companies on three continents, is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Angel-Entrepreneur Venture Connection, Ltd., and is Chairman of BestMedical, Inc., an Internet social media company.

Gary Ferguson believes that strong writing grows out of strong experience. He spent a season in the field at a wilderness therapy program to write Shouting at the Sky, and backpacked 500 miles to write Walking Down the Wild. His 2004 title, Hawks Rest: A Season in the Remote Heart of Yellowstone became the first work to win nonfiction book of the year from both the Pacific Northwest and Mountains and Plains booksellers associations. "I started my career writing about the tracks humans leave in nature," he explains.

Becoming a writer after a midlife reassessment at forty, Haywood Smith--also known as Anne--has lived in Buford for 37 years. In the past 13 years, she has published six critically acclaimed romance novels about "strong women, men who are men, positive resolutions, and accurate history" set in England and Scotland that received numerous national awards and nominations.

Henry is the English/Language Arts Facilitator at Southside Performance Learning Center in Brunswick, Georgia. He is one of four Georgia educators accepted into the Freedom Writers Institute located in Long Beach, CA, which is led by Erin Gruwell and the Freedom Writers. In 2008, he collaborated with other Freedom Writer Teachers in putting together a collection of true-life experiences to produce the book, "Teaching Hope: Stories from the Freedom Writers Teachers.

Jack McDevitt has been a naval officer, an English teacher, a customs inspector and a taxi driver. He has provided leadership seminars for the Customs Services and has been writing science fiction since 1979. He's won many of the top awards, and his last four novels have all been on the final Nebula ballot. In all, he's been nominated fourteen times, and he was designated the field's Susan Lucci until "Seeker" broke through in 2006 and was named best novel.

J.M. Lacey is a professional freelance writer and writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her articles focus on business, women's issues, human interest, social development, the arts, health, fashion and Victorian homes and lifestyle.
Her fiction is literary and women's fiction.

John DeDakis is an editor and writer on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." During his award-winning, 40-year career in journalism (21 years at CNN), John has been a White House Correspondent, interviewed such luminaries as Alfred Hitchcock, and taught journalism and writing at American University in Washington, D.C. and Regent University in Virginia. His mystery-suspense novel Fast Track (2005) is the first book in the Lark Chadwick series.

Jonathan Rabb is the author of the critically acclaimed historical novels Rosa and Shadow and Light, the first two books in a trilogy set in Europe between the wars. The final installment, The Second Son, will be published by Farrar Straus & Giroux early in 2011. Rabb won the international Dashiell Hammett prize at the Spanish Semana Negra Festival in 2006 for Rosa.

June Hall McCash, recognized both for her writing about Jekyll Island, Georgia, and about women in the Middle Ages, has published six nonfiction books as well as numerous articles and several recent poems. She has won eight literary awards for her nonfiction, fiction, and poetry and has recently completed her first historical novel.