Oconee Spirit Press Authors
Deborah Adams is best known as the author of the Jesus Creek mysteries, including All The Dirty Cowards. She is passionate about small-scale, sustainable agriculture, local economies, and environmental preservation.
Learn more about Deborah Adams on her website: www.deborah-adams.com
Learn more about Deborah Adams on her website: www.deborah-adams.com
David Curran has been hiking for most of his life, and shares some of his adventures in Hiking for Fun and Pain. He graduated with a BA from Florida State University and a MA from the University of Kentucky. He worked for the Tennessee Valley Authority, for 28 years in the Knoxville, Tennessee area. You can learn more about David’s hiking adventures on his website: www.HikingforFunandPain.com
Harold Eppley has worked as a religious professional in various capacities for twenty-three years, including four years in the Allegheny Mountains of western Pennsylvania, where his first novel, Ash Wednesday, is set. With his wife Rochelle Melander, he is the author of seven non-fiction books including Our Lives Are Not Our Own. He currently lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his wife and children, Samuel and Eliana.
Learn more about Harold Eppley and his books on his website: www.HaroldEppley.com
Learn more about Harold Eppley and his books on his website: www.HaroldEppley.com
Author of In Their Own Words: American Women in World War I and No Man's Land & Other Stories, Elizabeth Foxwell serves as managing editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection, the only U.S. scholarly journal on mystery and detective fiction, and staff editor of The Catholic Historical Review, an academic journal on the history of the church. Foxwell coauthored (with Dean James) The Robert B. Parker Companion (2005) and has published numerous articles and several short stories, receiving the Agatha Award for Best Short Story for “No Man’s Land” and first prize in the Cape Fear (NC) Crime Festival short story contest for “Keeper of the Flame.” She edits the McFarland Companions to Mystery Fiction series and has edited a number of mystery anthologies. A cofounder of the mystery convention Malice Domestic, Foxwell received the George N. Dove Award in 2006 from the Detective/Mystery Caucus of the Popular Culture Association for her contributions to the serious study of mystery and crime fiction. She lives outside of Washington, D.C.
Learn more about Elizabeth Foxwell on her website: www.ElizabethFoxwell.com
Learn more about Elizabeth Foxwell on her website: www.ElizabethFoxwell.com
Carolyn Hart is the author of 46 mysteries. Hart’s books have won Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity awards. She has twice appeared at the National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. LETTER FROM HOME, a standalone WWII novel set in Oklahoma, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. She also writes the Bailey Ruth Raeburn and Henrie O series. Oconee Spirit Press is pleased to offer Carolyn's tale of romance and suspense in first century Rome, Cliff's Edge, as well as her vintage suspense novels - Rendezvous in Veracruz, Flee From the Past, A Settling of Accounts, No Easy Answers.
For more information about Carolyn, please visit her website: www.CarolynHart.com
For more information about Carolyn, please visit her website: www.CarolynHart.com
Julie Herman is the author of the Three Dirty Women mysteries, and a Chief Horse Management Judge for the United States Pony Clubs. Her most recent title is the young adult mystery Burned.
David Hunter is a native Knoxvillian, who has left home on occasion, but always returns. He lives there with his wife, Cheryl, his German shepherd, Lady, two cockatiels and two parakeets. David is former decorated police officer; a 20-year editorial columnist for the Knoxville News Sentinel and the author of 16 books, including A Mouse's Tale, From Here To Absurdity, Tempest at the Sunsphere, Tempest at the Helm, and Tempest and the Infinite Variations. His work has appeared in numerous magazines, ranging from Mad to Reader’s Digest.
Learn more about David Hunter on his website and his blog.
Learn more about David Hunter on his website and his blog.
Jane Isenberg is the author of the prize winning memoir Going by the Book (Bergin & Garvey), The Bel Barrett Mystery Series (Avon/HarperCollins), and The Bones and the Book. She earned degrees from Vassar College, Southern Connecticut State College, and New York University and taught English for nearly forty years, first in high school and later in community college. Now retired from teaching, she writes in Issaquah, Washington where she lives with her husband Phil Tompkins.
Learn more about Jane Isenberg on her website.
Learn more about Jane Isenberg on her website.
Dr. Lauture Massac, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, with specialization in chemical dependency. He is also known as Yogi Shubha Darshan Muni, his initiated name given to him by his master guru, Swami Shri Kripalu.
Before becoming a psychologist, he studied yoga in India in different yoga schools, including the famous Lonavala Yoga Institute in Poona, India, where he studied hatha yoga. Behind him are over 45 years of daily personal yoga practices. He is well acquainted with Vedanta, Samkhya philosophy, and the Sanskrit language. He is also a master in Indian classical music as well as a classical piano player. He is the author of Psychology of Daily Holistic Yoga and Self Realization.
Before becoming a psychologist, he studied yoga in India in different yoga schools, including the famous Lonavala Yoga Institute in Poona, India, where he studied hatha yoga. Behind him are over 45 years of daily personal yoga practices. He is well acquainted with Vedanta, Samkhya philosophy, and the Sanskrit language. He is also a master in Indian classical music as well as a classical piano player. He is the author of Psychology of Daily Holistic Yoga and Self Realization.
An award-winning mystery novelist and New York Times Bestseller, Margaret Maron uses her North Carolina background when writing the popular Judge Deborah Knott series.
But before Deborah Knott, there was Lt. Sigrid Harald, a homicide detective with the NYPD. Now, with the re-release of Maron's Sigrid Harald series, long out of print, new readers can finally get to know the character that started it all. Find Sigrid's adventures in One Coffee With, Death of a Butterfly, Death in Blue Folders, The Right Jack, Baby Doll Games, Corpus Christmas, Past Imperfect., Fugitive Colors, and Bloody Kin.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine has said, "Harald is no stereotypical policewoman....Getting to know her is a pleasure;" while the San Diego Union-Tribune says, "Maron combines a lighthearted style, surefooted suspense, and a captivating cast."
Learn more about Margaret Maron on her website.
But before Deborah Knott, there was Lt. Sigrid Harald, a homicide detective with the NYPD. Now, with the re-release of Maron's Sigrid Harald series, long out of print, new readers can finally get to know the character that started it all. Find Sigrid's adventures in One Coffee With, Death of a Butterfly, Death in Blue Folders, The Right Jack, Baby Doll Games, Corpus Christmas, Past Imperfect., Fugitive Colors, and Bloody Kin.
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine has said, "Harald is no stereotypical policewoman....Getting to know her is a pleasure;" while the San Diego Union-Tribune says, "Maron combines a lighthearted style, surefooted suspense, and a captivating cast."
Learn more about Margaret Maron on her website.
Oconee Spirit Press is pleased to offer a print version of Sharyn McCrumb's Appalachia. Sharyn McCrumb is an award-winning Southern writer, best known for her Appalachian “Ballad” novels, set in the North Carolina/Tennessee mountains, including the New York Times Best Sellers She Walks These Hills and The Rosewood Casket.
McCrumb, who has been named a “Virginia Woman of History” in 2008 for Achievement in Literature, was a guest author at the National Festival of the Book in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the White House in 2006. McCrumb's honors include the Perry F. Kendig Award for Achievement in Literature, AWA Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature Award, the Chaffin Award for Southern Literature, the Plattner Award for Short Story, and AWA’s Best Appalachian Novel.
Learn more about Sharyn McCrumb on her website.
McCrumb, who has been named a “Virginia Woman of History” in 2008 for Achievement in Literature, was a guest author at the National Festival of the Book in Washington, D.C. sponsored by the White House in 2006. McCrumb's honors include the Perry F. Kendig Award for Achievement in Literature, AWA Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature Award, the Chaffin Award for Southern Literature, the Plattner Award for Short Story, and AWA’s Best Appalachian Novel.
Learn more about Sharyn McCrumb on her website.
Sylvia Nickels lives in the Appalachian foothills of East Tennessee. Her debut novel, Requiem for a Party Girl, as well as its sequel Delusion for a Lonely Girl, and some of her short stories are set in that beautiful area. She is co-leader and webmaster for Lost State Writers Guild and a board member of the Appalachian Authors Guild, both long-time regional writers' groups. Other affiliations include Sisters in Crime, National and Middle Tennessee chapter, Short Mystery Fiction Society, and Tennessee Mountain Writers.
Learn more about Sylvia and her work at www.ramblinscribe.com
Learn more about Sylvia and her work at www.ramblinscribe.com
Martha Rhynes, a retired teacher, began her writing career by researching the lives of American authors and writing biographies and analyses of their work for inclusion in literary encyclopedias. Her book-length biographies include, I, Too, Sing America: The Story of Langston Hughes; Gwendolyn Brooks, Poet from Chicago; Ralph Ellison: Author of Invisible Man; Jack London: Writer of Adventure;m Ray Bradbury: A Teller of Tales, and How to Write Scary Stories. Her works of fiction include numerous short stories and three novels: Secret of the Pack Rat's Nest; The War Bride; and Man on First. Rhynes is the mother of six adult children and many grandchildren. Her family operates a cattle ranch in Oklahoma.
Learn more about Martha Rhynes on her blog.
