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Leah Alford

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Leah Alford has lived with cats for decades and has been studying and writing about cats, animals, and the natural world for many years. She began drawing and painting in early childhood and writing at age 12. She has a 1971 BA in English from the University of Alabama. While she worked in a hectic t-shirt printing business and later, weathered a serious chronic disease, her art and writing was published in small art, nature, music, and literary journals. She lives with her husband and animals in the deep woods near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, near a creek. She is a Professional Member of the Cat Writers' Association.

See Leah's book here

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Sam Bowman

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Sam Bowman is an avid birder, finding nature a wonderful place to meet with the Lord. For five years, he headed his local Christmas Bird Count. Since 1996, he has completed routes for The North American Breeding Bird Survey, a joint project of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the Canadian Wildlife Service. As a retired clinical laboratory scientist, Sam is relieved to finally be out-of-doors, pursuing his hobbies of birding and bird habitat gardening.

See Sam's book here

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Susan Bowman

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Susan Bowman is an Elijah House-trained prayer minister. Elijah House has long been recognized as the premier training school for ministers of inner healing and deliverance. She has studied with many other respected inner healing and deliverance ministries including Restoration in Christ Ministries, Thrive Today, Shepherd’s House, Hearts Set Free Ministries, Transformation Prayer Ministry, Deeper Walk International and the Immanuel Approach. For more than 20 years, Susan has served the body of Christ as an inner healer and deliverance minister. As well as working one-on-one with believers, she teaches the principles of inner healing and deliverance for the purpose of equipping lay persons, prayer ministers and pastors to set God’s people free.

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See Susan's book here.

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Donald Brown

 

Donald Brown is an advanced journalism professor at the University of Alabama. For 15 years, he was the senior editor of the Tuscaloosa News and Florence Times Daily. He was also the editor of Birmingham Magazine for 11 years. He and his wife live in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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See Donald's books here.

Ian W. Brown

 

Ian W. Brown has been a practicing archaeologist for 50 years. Most of his work has taken place in the Southeastern U.S. He taught for many years at both Harvard University and the University of Alabama. He has been a researcher, teacher, curator, museum director, anthropology department chair, and president of two national professional organizations. He is a lifetime member of the Association for Gravestone Studies and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. In the 69th year of life he began a blissful retirement in Tuscaloosa where he continues to ramble.

 

See Ian's books here.

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George Chumney

 

George Chumney is a retired Presbyterian minister. In addition to his pastoral duties in a handful of small-town churches, he has also worked as a middle school history teacher. He has a brilliant and beautiful wife, two wonderful children, and four delightful grandchildren. 

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See George's book here.

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Vikki Grodner

 

Before becoming a children’s author, Vikki Grodner spent her life exploring many creative outlets. Currently she is building a lifestyle brand that examines the connection between home, family and place. But she has attempted to have her largest impact in her familial role and capture those relationships in her writing.

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See Vikki's book here.

Susan D. Lambert

 

Susan Lambert is a retired physician who specialized in Occupational Medicine and served as the Head of that department at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Vallejo, California, for 25 years. She is now enjoying quilting, traveling, and especially, singing with the Contra Costa Chorale in the Bay Area. Clarence the Clam is her first book but not her last! She spent many happy years living in Greenwich, CT, where this book takes place. 

 

See Susan's book here

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Evan Peacock​

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Evan Peacock was born in the Delta and reared in the backwoods hill country of north-central Mississippi, where as often as not he could be found on a creekbank with a cane fishing pole in his hands. Creek fishing not being an especially lucrative enterprise, he followed a stint in the military with a succession of blue-collar jobs, most of which included manual labor, a strong inducement to pursue a college education. Evan obtained a B.A. degree in Anthropology at Mississippi State University (MSU) in 1988 and a M.S. degree in Environmental Archaeology and Palaeoeconomy at the University of Sheffield, England, in 1990.  Following employment as a professional archaeologist in the private sector and with the U.S. Forest Service, he earned a Ph.D. in Archaeology at Sheffield in 1999, after which he took a faculty position in Anthropology at MSU, whence he retired in 2018. Evan is author of approximately one hundred scholarly works and has written pieces for the public that have appeared in venues such as Mississippi Outdoors, Forest Perspectives, and Hobo Pancakes. His book Mississippi Archaeology Q&A (University Press of Mississippi, 2005) has received wide acclaim. 

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See Evan's book here.

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David Thomas Rogers

 

Tom Rogers is a retired biology professor from The University of Alabama. He earned his B.A. from Huntingdon College, M.S. in zoology, and Ph.D. in ecology from The University of Georgia. He has authored thirty papers in various research journals, and has been an invited participant at natural resource conferences in Honduras and Guatemala. In addition, he has been a sponsored lecturer to the biology faculty at La Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala. In 1988, Tom was awarded the Alumni Achievement Award from Huntingdon College. 

 

See Tom's book here.

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Pamela Wight

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Pamela Wight writes fiction for children and adults. She is the published author of The Right Wrong Man and Twin Desires, Birds of Paradise, Molly Finds Her Purr, and pens a popular weekly blog called Rough-wighting (www.roughwighting.net).

She teaches Creative Writing classes in the Boston and San Francisco Bay areas (pam.wight@colettawight.net).

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See Pamela's books here.

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Erich Otto Wildgrube IV

 

Erich Otto Wildgrube IV was born in New Jersey to Erich the III and Paula Castleberry Wildgrube in February of 1987. At the age of two he moved to Alabama where he has lived ever since.

 

See Erich's books here.

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Paula Wildgrube 

 

Paula Wildgrube and her family live in the one and only Tuscaloosa, Alabama where she and her son Erich IV run Zoe Home School (Zoehomeschool.org), a ministry of Soma Church of Holt, Alabama. Over the years, Paula has enjoyed the company of a variety of furry friends. Her current friends Tango, The Professor, Baggy, Tyler and Steve are the protagonists of the Mayor Tom Mysteries.

 

See Paula's book here.

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