Participating Authors
Tom Simmons
Author Tom Simmons pilot Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency www.loiaconoliteraryagency.com Simmons grew up in Gulfport, Mississippi, attended Marion Military Institute, the U. S. Naval Academy, the University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Alabama....
Mahala Church
Mahala Church, freelance editor and writer, is an award-winning author whose fiction and non-fiction stories have appeared in anthologies, including the 2014 Mississippi Profiles and placed first in the 2014 Alabama Conclave writing...
Tammy Turnage
Tammy Turnage is a recording artist, actress, vocalist, pianist, organist and writer. She enjoys writing from life’s experiences. She is a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi...
Mavis M. Jarrell
Mavis M. Jarrell (M. M. Jarrell) is retired as an academic advisor from the University of South Alabama. She has award-winning poetry in several periodicals. Chicken Soup For The Soul anthologies...
Sandra Lynn Price
Sandra Lynn Price is a voice of hope and healing in the aftermath of Katrina. She tells her story in a way that all who have ever experienced personal or wide-scale disaster can know her anguish and...
CJ Petterson
Author “cj petterson” is the pen name of Marilyn A. Johnston. She is an award-winning writer whose short fiction and...
Debbie Hussey @DJBooksLLC
DJ Hussey has worn many hats throughout the past thirty years: wife, mother, landlord, financial counselor for the Navy, bookkeeper, teacher, administrative analyst for an oil company, legal...
Chuck Galey
Chuck Galey has worked in children’s book publishing for over twenty years. After a short stint as an art director in advertising, he began illustrating for children’s picture books and...
Carolyn Haines
When I was growing up in the small town of Lucedale, Mississippi, I had big dreams. I wanted to be a cowgirl, a writer, and Nancy Drew. Life has surely thrown me more than a few twists, but dreams are hard to destroy. Today, I’m all three–sort of. Of...
Neil White, the Author biography
Neil White has been a newspaper editor, magazine publisher, advertising executive and federal prisoner. He lives in Oxford, Mississippi, where he operates a small publishing company, writes plays and essays, and teaches memoir writing. His memoir, In the Sanctuary of...
Judith Lucci Biography @JuditnLucci
Judith Lucci writes about what she knows…..Hospitals, Patients, Nurses, Physicians and Health Care. She adds mystery, bad guys, suspense and along with well developed plots, vivid descriptions and...
Philip L. Levin
Philip Levin combines his passions for medicine, writing, and travel to create marvelous tales that explore the breadth of mankind’s motivations. His descriptive travelogues of his yearly...
Jim Ritchie
Jim Ritchie invites you to pull up a chair by his back porch swing at Ritchie’s Roost in Shocco, Mississippi and enjoy a mint julep. His easy, laid-back style of humor will keep you in stitches while he...
Bill Wilson
Bill Wilson has worked as a portrait painter, gallery artist, jewelry maker and illustrator for over 20 years. His portraits and gallery work are in both corporate and private collections all over the country and...
NancyKay Sullivan Wessman
NancyKay Sullivan Wessman writes, edits, and reads. As a nationally known and respected public relations director, NancyKay helped create and lead organizations that attracted other public...
Janet Taylor-Perry
Janet Taylor-Perry, a native of Laurel, Mississippi, a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi with a BS in psychology, Belhaven University with a Master of Arts in teaching, and gifted...
Wynne Huddleston
Born in Texas, Wynne Huddleston lived in several states before the family moved back to Mississippi permanently when she was 8 years old. She began writing poetry and playing piano at an...