Kathleen Rodgers
This Texas sweetheart's third novel, Seven Wings to Glory, comes out April 1st, 2017. She is an award winning journalist, poet and novelist who took me under her wing when we met at my first Military Writers of America convention.
Reverend Bill McDonald
Reverend Bill McDonald
Reverend Bill McDonald recently published Warrior a Spiritual Odyssey, describing a life of spiritual encounters that have touched hundreds of people. Bill is a Vietnam Veteran and one of my early readers who had given me plenty of encouragement.
Bill is the founder of the Military Writer's of America organization.
Jennifer Rude Klett
Jennifer Rude Klett
An award winning journalist and free lance non-fiction writer. Alamo Doughboy's: Marching Into the Kaisers Germany is the story of her grandfather's journey from Minnesota farm boy to the WWI battlefields in France and Germany.
She was a gracious early reader for Dragon Soldier. Notice how her weapon of choice fits her genre and matches her outfit.
An award winning journalist and free lance non-fiction writer. Alamo Doughboy's: Marching Into the Kaisers Germany is the story of her grandfather's journey from Minnesota farm boy to the WWI battlefields in France and Germany.
She was a gracious early reader for Dragon Soldier. Notice how her weapon of choice fits her genre and matches her outfit.
Kathie Giorgio and Jim Landwehr
Kathie Giorgio and Jim Landwehr
Kathie's Oddities and Endings: The Collected Stories of Kathie Giorgio, was published in June 2016. Kathie is President of All Writers Workplace. Jim Landwehr has published two poetry collections and Dirty Shirt: A Boundary Waters Memoir, which is his portrait of family seen in a sequence of canoe trips over generations.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Vietnamese American novelist who teachers English at UCLA. Viet won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Sympathizer, a story about a communist spy in the Vietnamese Refugee community after the Vietnam War. It is brutally honest look at how America perceives its wars.
Michael Perry
Michael Perry
Wisconsin author, humorist, radio-show host and master of the bite-sized essay. New York Times best-selling author of Roughneck Grace and twenty other books. Michael's stories entertain with an off-beat take on life in rural Wisconsin.
Nicholas Butler
Nicholas Butler
The Heart of Men is about unlikely friendships, love, heartbreak and forgiveness. He received rave reviews from the New York Times when it was published March 1st, 2017. Butler's shows considerable charm in his first novel, Shotgun Lovesongs which describes four friends growing up in small town Wisconsin.
Laurie Yingling
An innovation specialist for schools, and my sister, who helped me with this website without rolling her eyes too much.