Authors K-O 2012
Dozens of authors
participated in Book 'Em North Carolina on February 25, 2012.
Click on the
links below to view the author list in alphabetical order.
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Jean Keating is a feature writer for Chesapeake Style Magazine and the author of six books. Her non-fiction won a Virginia Press Award in 2005. Her second mystery won the national Author F. Jones Trophy as best book featuring a purebred dog. Her latest article published in the AKC Gazette won two national trophies and the DWAA Maxwell Medallion for excellence. She travels with a six-pound hearing assist (service) Papillon named Puff who has been nominated for the AKC Service Dog of the Year award. |
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Pamela June Kimmell is a writer and artist who lives in Warrenton, Virginia. She has supported Book ‘Em through her appearances in Waynesboro, VA events and is looking forward to Lumberton’s first Book ‘Em. Her newest writing adventure is a children’s book of short stories called Rainbow Forest Fables which is appropriate for kids of ALL ages. She will also bring copies of her small town mystery novel The Mystery of David’s Bridge which features Bailey Ferrol, private investigator in a small Virginia town. Pamela was one of six women who put together an anthology of stories from their lives which reflect many womens’ similar journey experiences, titled Pink Jasper:A Journey of Women and she will have some copies of that available. Another venture for Pamela has been the business of selling blank note cards featuring images of her original paintings and photography. Pamela’s Artcards are sold only through her website and she will be bringing a wide variety of her note cards to Lumberton for those who like sending personal notes bearing unique artwork. This is Pamela’s second Lumberton visit. She appeared at the Osterneck Auditorium in October of 2008 where she discussed her mystery novel The Mystery of David’s Bridge and conducted a book-signing. |
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Romantic Suspense novelist Dixie Land brings a wealth of experience to her writing and to her latest venture as a publisher. Born in Clinton, Iowa, Land married her high school sweetheart, Larry. They have lived in North Carolina for nearly 40 years, where they raised their only son, Brad. For many years, Land, a registered nurse, devoted her time to her family, raising Brad and working with Larry in his contracting business. After Brad was grown and raising a family of his own, Land decided to pursue a dream she had set aside for years – to write a novel. Fourteen years and ten books later, Land not only continues to weave stories that garner favorable reviews and recommendations from such publications as Our State Magazine and Writers’ Digest, she has launched her own publishing company, Alabaster Book Publishing, with partner David Shaffer. To date they have published over 60 novels for more than 30 authors.Land is a founding member of the Triad Writers Roundtable and also helped organize the first Triad chapter of Sisters-in-Crime. In the fall of 2006, Land was recognized in FORSYTH WOMAN MAGAZINE as one of the region’s “Women on the Move." |
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Deborah J Ledford’s latest release SNARE is The Hillerman Sky Award Finalist. STACCATO is book one of the Steven Hawk/Inola Walela thriller series, both published by Second Wind Publishing in Winston-Salem, NC. She is a three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and her award-winning short stories appear in numerous print publications as well as literary and mystery anthologies. Part Eastern Band Cherokee, she spent her summers growing up in western North Carolina where her novels and quite a few short stories are set. She is also a screenwriter and independent film producer for her production company IOF Productions Ltd. Deborah invites you to her website where you can read the first chapters of her novels and a few short stories: www.DeborahJLedford.com. |
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During Hawk
MacKinney's service as a Navy Commander, he was a full-time
faculty member at several major medical facilities. He earned
two postgraduate degrees with majors in languages and history.
He has taught postgraduate courses in both the United States and
Jerusalem. Hawk MacKinney is well known for his works of
fiction. Moccasin Trace
was nominated for the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for
Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book
Award. A historical romance,
Moccasin Trace is the family background for the
serial protagonist in the “Craige Ingram Mystery Series”.
Vault of Secrets, the
first book in his "Ingram Mystery Series," received national
attention. Nymrod Resurrection,
2010 is the second book in the series.
Blood and Gold, his
third volume in the "Ingram Mystery Series," was released
November, 2011, and will be at Book 'Em North Carolina for
author signings. "Without question, Hawk is one of the most gifted and imaginative writers I have had the pleasure to represent," states Barbara Casey, president of the Barbara Casey Literary Agency. "His reading fans will have something special to look forward to in the Craige Ingram Mystery Series. Intrigue, murder, deception and conspiracy—these are the things that take Hawk's main character, retired Navy SEAL/part-time private investigator Craige Ingram, from his South Carolina ancestral home of Moccasin Hollow to the dirty backrooms of the nation's capital and across Europe and the Middle East." |
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Georgia’s 2008 Author of the Year, Man Martin lives, teaches, and writes in Atlanta, Georgia. Martin’s second novel, Paradise Dogs, which has been called “a cross between Carl Hiaasen and Confederacy of Dunces,” was chosen as an “Okra Pick” by the Southern Independent Booksellers Association. Sonny Brewer (Poet of Tolstoy Park) says Martin’s debut novel, Days of the Endless Corvette, has “enough pathos, adventure, and pure-D magic to fill seven lesser novels.” Michael Griffith says Martin “is an author to celebrate. Loudly and now.” Man Martin blogs at http://manmartin.blogspot.com His webpage is at http://manmartin.net. |
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Karen McCullough is the author of ten published novels in the mystery, romantic suspense, and fantasy genres and has won numerous awards, including an Eppie Award for fantasy. She’s also been a four-time Eppie finalist, and a finalist in the Prism, Dream Realm, Rising Star, Lories, Scarlett Letter, and Vixen Awards contests. Her short fiction has appeared in several anthologies and small press publications in the fantasy, science fiction, and romance genres. Her most recent release is A Gift for Murder, published in hardcover by Five Star/Gale Group Mysteries. Karen worked in trade publishing for more than ten years as an editor, managing editor, and senior web editor. She lives in North Carolina and now runs a web design company that specializes in creating web sites for authors and other small businesses. A member of Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, and the Writers’ Group of the Triad, she is also a former president of the Southeast Chapter of Mystery Writers of America and has served on the National Board of Mystery Writers of America as well as the boards of the Carolina Romance Writers chapter of RWA and the Writers’ Group of the Triad. She still serves on the board of the Gothic Romance Writers chapter of RWA. She invites visitors to check out her home on the web at http://www.kmccullough.com and her site for the Market Center Mysteries series, http://www.marketcentermysteries.com |
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Jan Neuharth, an avid equestrian, practiced law in Los Angeles before her love of horses drew her to the Virginia hunt country where she and her husband started a full-service equestrian facility they named Paper Chase Farms. Life in the colorful, close-knit foxhunting community inspired Neuharth to write mystery novels set in and around the picturesque small town of Middleburg, Virginia—where George Washington used to “ride to hounds” and a place Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Pamela Harriman, Elizabeth Taylor and Robert Duvall all have called home. Her debut novel, The Hunt, was a Benjamin Franklin Award finalist and was nominated for a Library of Virginia Literary Award. The Chase won the IPPY Gold Medal for Best Regional Fiction and was a Notable Winner of the Eric Hoffer Award. The Kill, released in 2010, was honored as a finalist in the Best Books Awards hosted by USA Book News and won a Bronze Medal in ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards. Neuharth received her B.A. degree from the University of Florida and her law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School. She serves on the boards of several equine, business, and educational entities. Neuharth and her family live in Middleburg, VA where she is at work on the fourth novel in her Hunt Country Suspense series. |
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A story that readers say they “can’t put down,” a crime drama that reflects on home and community, and a lyrical look into the changing face of the New South—Blood Clay is all three. Valerie Nieman’s latest novel, called by Jane Alison “both a tense, plot-driven story about complicated issues of race and guilt, and a meditation on solitude, history, and ways of living,” centers on Tracey Gaines, who has moved to rural Saul County, NC, to escape the wreckage of a divorce. She devotes herself to teaching at an alternative school and renovating a farmhouse, but finds she can’t as easily build connections in this new place. When she witnesses a tragedy, her insistence on truth-telling splits the community—but she finds an ally in Dave Fordham, a native son who left for new opportunities only to face his own trauma and a forced return home.This is the third novel by Nieman, a longtime newspaper reporter and editor who now teaches at North Carolina A&T. She is also the author of a collection of short stories, Fidelities, and a poetry collection, Wake Wake Wake. Her work has appeared in many journals including New Letters, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Green Mountains Review, Arts & Letters, and several anthologies.She has received an NEA creative writing fellowship, two Elizabeth Simpson Smith prizes in fiction, and the Greg Grummer Prize in poetry. She graduated from West Virginia University and Queens University of Charlotte. |
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Edward P. Norvell
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Edward P. Norvell lives with
his wife Susan in Salisbury, North Carolina. He is an attorney
in private practice who works for non-profit land trusts across
the state of North Carolina.
His novels include Southport, a Story of Second Chances, published in 1997 by Research Triangle Publishing and reissued by John F. Blair Publisher in 2010; Portsmouth, Spies, U-Boats, and Romance on the Outer Banks, published by John F. Blair Publisher 2008; and Shadows, published by Vantage Press in 2008. In addition to his novels, he has written several short stories published in local and regional literary magazines. He received his undergraduate from UNC-Chapel Hill, a masters degree in English and creative writing from the City University of New York, and his JD Degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law. He attended the Breadloaf Writers' Conference at Middlebury College, Vermont, in 1991 and 1992 and he also attended the Charleston Writers Conference several times and is a member of the North Carolina Writers' Network, and Poets and Writers Inc. |
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