Author of the Week Archives

Award winning author Rowena Cherry is a self-described lifelong lurker and fact magpie.

Rowena's youth was spent on the tiny British island of Guernsey: a mystical, idyllic setting with its prehistoric earth-goddess, historic Martello towers, underground gun em

Shiela Stewart lives in Saskatchewan, Canada, with her husband of twenty-one years, William, and her three children. She is the second youngest child of seven children, and has three brothers and three sisters.

In Shiela’s spare time, apart from tending to her family, she cares for four cats, one dog, eight fish and three turtles. She also belongs to a local club for The Army,

Melanie Bowles was born and raised in Michigan and moved to Florida in her early twenties. After acquiring her first horse in 1992 and learning of the mistreatment endured by many horses, she set out to create what would become Proud Spirit Horse Sanctuary, a fifty-acre facility in Myakka City, Flor

Anne Whitfield was born in the small town of Camden N.S.W. Australia, to English parents, Ken and Betty, and is the youngest of five children.

Anne’s courage and belief in herself was tested when her parents went back to England to own and operate a family business. It was a trying time for the whole family. The business failed and the children were homesick for Australia until they returned home three ye

Cindy Bauer was born in Davenport, IA where she grew up the youngest of three children. Since childhood, she has always been an avid reader and dreamed of becoming a writer. She graduated from Assumption High School in 1975 and married her husband, Robert, in 1976. She worked as a D

Russ Heitz was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and lived for a number of years in the area where Crosshairs takes place. He is a graduate of Temple University and has been writing most of his life. After moving to Florida with his wife, Lee, he published dozens of suspense stories and also worked as a publications specialist for local government. This is his

Barbara Watkins was born in Sikeston Missouri to Jackie Dean and Betty Lucille White. She attended Sikeston High School where she met her childhood sweetheart, Jim Watkins, whom she later married.

Barbara worked as a waitress, medical records keeper, and later helped m

Tory Lynn was born in San Bernardino California and raised in Washington State. After she graduated from high school, Tory moved back to California to be near family. After two years of living and working in Southern California, she met and married her husband of twenty-one years. They later adopted their wonderful daughter. Last

Jon F. Baxley is an award winning freelance writer, novelist, historian, editor, author and Internet entrepreneur from Hondo, Texas. His latest major work is a serialized fantasy epic that began with an eBook entitled The Scythian Stone and continues with the April 2006 hard cover release of The Blackgloom Bounty from Five Star Publishing & Thorndike Pr

Curtis E. Gibson currently lives with his wife, two grown sons, and a big orange dog with a black tongue in very small town in Kentucky where they are slowly restoring an old Victorian home. Retired, Curt spends his days crafting hand-turned pens from exotic woods and working on his second novel.

Curt has studied people in depth durin