Publisher:

Kathleen Walls
Kathleen Walls is the publisher, editor and general go-for at American Roads. If the issue looks good, it's because she has a lot of good writers to back her up. If it looks bad, it's because she didn't format it correctly. She writes fiction books, non-fiction books, and travel books.  Her travel and food related articles have been published in Woodall's Publications, Family Motor Coaching, Amateur Chef, Georgia Magazine, North Georgia Journal, Georgia Backroads and others. She is a photographer also with many of her original photographs appearing in her travel magazine as well as other publications. She is also available to speak at events if you need a speaker on any thing related to travel writing, ghost stories, War Between the States and other American history subjects.

She is the publisher/owner of Global Authors Publications,
www.globalathorspublications.com which offers aspiring writers a new and different way to become published authors.

She currently resides in Florida and shares her space with   Martin Walls, who is also a   photographer, her dog, Romeo,  four cats,  Georgia, Frankie, Winn and Spoo, and a backyard full of feral cats.

Her books to date are: Last Step,  Georgia's Ghostly Getaways, 
Kudzu, Man Hunt - The Eric Rudolph Story, Finding Florida's Phantoms, Tax Sale Tactics, Hosts With Ghosts and Wild About Florida: South Florida and Wild About Florida: North Florida. To order an autogrpahed copy, email her at katyrw@hotmail.com.

Contributors: 

Mary Emma Allen
Mary Emma Allen has been writing travel articles and cooking columns for more than 25 years and enjoys traveling around the country finding new places to explore and recipes from various areas.  She also writes for children; her stories and illustrations appear in her anthology, Tales of Adventure & Discovery. In addition, Mary writes about quilting, Alzheimer's disease, party planning, and politics.  Visit her blogs:  http://tea-time-notes.blogspot.com, http://quilterspotpourri.blogspot.com, http://partypizzazz.blogspot.com .

Leigh Cort
My passion for travel & food prompted me to launch TableTalk, a Travel/Culinary publication from Savannah, GA to St. Augustine, FL. My adventures took me to barrier islands, celebrity chef’s tables, world-class resorts and legendary restaurants. I enjoy writing about travel, food, chefs, themed parties, coastal adventures and intriguing people. I've been writing since the early 1980's when I was Party Director at New York's Trump Tower, launching me into writing about themed parties/food. As one of the early founding members of the Roundtable for Women in Foodservice in NYC, I've launched an organization in the NE Florida area: Women's Food Society. Thanks to NATJA, I was inspired to nurture my travel writing and have my first two Arizona stories on 5 travel sites and in 2 newspapers!

Martin Walls
Martin Walls has always been interested in both nature and photography. He spent much of his early years roaming the Mississippi and Louisiana swamps. As an adult, he studied photography at Valencia College and had his work published in that school’s art magazine, The Valencian. Some of his work hung in the Orlando Museum of Art at Loch Haven Park. He has a certificate from Mid-Florida Technical Institute in Contact Photography and is a life member of International Freelance Photographers Organization.

Martin is the principle photographer for the Wild About Florida series.

He has had his photographs featured on the cover of Woodall’s Southern RV. He has also had his photographs in Family Motor Coaching Magazine, Woodall’s Florida RV Traveler, Georgia Magazine, http://www.visitgeorgiaonline.com/westville.htm, http://www.visitgeorgiaonline.com/dahlonega.htm and  http://www.visitkeywestonline.com/conch-republic.htm

Some of his work is displayed at http://www.wildaboutflorida.us on the photos page.

Anne Jenkins
Anne, a British citizen born and raised in South Africa, also lived in six European countries for 25 years and traveled the world extensively before settling in the United States. New Orleans  was Anne’s beloved adopted city for a few glorious years until Hurricane Katrina.

Anne now operates The Point of Art gallery & studio at 604 Sibley Ave., Union Point, Georgia  30669, situated half-way between Atlanta and Augusta and her new gallery in Washington, GA.. Here she can be found painting in her large new studio doing anything from soft watercolor house portraits, funky folk art on 1895 tin roof tiles or painting acrylics on big canvas full of vibrant color and movement.

A self-taught artist, her acrylics and watercolors can be found in many private collections in Europe, Canada, all over the United States and among her corporate clients are Universal Studios, Hollywood, California; Datacert Inc., Houston, Texas; and Entergy Power Company, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Among many other things Anne has been a reporter, photographer, banker, English teacher, housecleaner and a truck driver. Her travel writing has been published in a variety of publications, including the Los Angeles Times and Opera Now. 

She and her husband, Lee, also spent five years on a sailboat in the Mediterranean; many months in a VW van in Central America, Canada and Alaska; months touring Asia on a shoestring budget, plus a couple of crazy years driving a big rig around the Lower 48 and Canada.

Anne’s main interests are art, writing, music, travel and good food enjoyed with wine and friends.

Her mission statement simply put is: To have fun and beat the starving artist rap.      

www.ThePointofArt.net      www.artistsingeorgia.com/annejenkins
www.artgallerylaplace.com and www.annejenkinsart.com

Rudy Ferraro

Author, Motivational Speaker and Consultant, Rudy Ferraro has decades of experience helping both businesses and people improve. Ferraro’s first book, Step By Step Management was dedicated to improving leadership in business. Now, his latest book, Choose Your Way There—The Choices You Make Today Are The Life You’ll Live Tomorrow, is a practical answer to all those schemes and programs that promise everything and deliver only empty platitudes of faux and mystical wisdom. Ferraro’s workshops and seminars are very well received and his message is clear—take control of your life or circumstances will do it for you.

Ferraro Quotes,“I knew everything, then realized I knew nothing. I was either living in the past or the future and getting no where because I’d ignored the only time I could actually control—THE PRESENT. I discovered that micro-choices are the foundation of success in anything we want to accomplish and that anyone can change their lives by simply knowing how to recognise them. Today my mission is simple: I am focused on helping everyone I can have a better life.”

To learn more about Rudy, visit his web site at www.chooseyourwaythere.com

Barb Hansen
"It was the best of times and it was the worst of times," Barb recalled. "The prime rate was 13 percent. Nuclear arms controls were unraveling. Soooo, Vic and I got married.

"I guess we were in an 'Oh, what the heck' state of mind. Hey, if you're going to get hit by a nuclear bomb, why not move to Florida, get married, start a yacht chartering business and a yacht school and, as they say, live happily ever after. Of course, in cold war terms 'happily ever after' was only going to be another month or two."

The Hansens, and the world, survived all that. In 2010 Florida Sailing & Cruising School will celebrate its 25th anniversary as an American Sailing Association-sanctioned education program. This makes FS&CS one of the oldest, continuingly successful schools on ASA's list of accredited sailing schools.

A quarter of a century hence, the Hansens are still living the Florida waterfront dream and still thrill to introduce sailors to their liveaboard "classrooms," sailing vessels from 24 to 34 feet long in slips at Burnt Store Marina in Punta Gorda, Fla.

Suzanne L. Moses
Born in Frankfurt, Germany. Adopted by the Moses family and naturalized in the US part of a military family that traveled for years finally settling in rural Atlanta in the late 1960’s.
Educational Experience:
West Georgia College majoring in art education and journalism and station secretary and radio announcer for WWGC College Radio.
Professional Experience:
Corporate administration in the retail, manufacturing, medical, commercial real estate and travel industry for over 3 decades. Webmaster for www.AmericanMotel.Travel,
www.AmericanMotelonline.com, www.AmericanMotel.mobi. Now living in Lake City Florida serving as General Manager at the Super 8 Lake City.
Volunteer Experience:
1996 Olympic Volunteer - opening ceremonies and host driver. 1999 Gwinnett County Eagles Youth Football announcer. 1998 Gwinnet County Pinewood Derby Announcer
Professional Memberships/Certifications
Southern Tourist Society, Lake City Chamber of Commerce, Suwannee River Valley Marketing Group, Columbia County Tourism Board. Certified Food Manager – state of Florida, Cyber Specialist – Real Estate Cyber Society.
Family:
3 children, 2 daughters in Atlanta and son in Lake City. Mimi to a sports playing young man in Atlanta. (Heaven forbid I be Grandma Moses)

www.americanmotelonline.com

Bill AuCoin
Biill AuCoin is an outdoor recreation and adventure travel marketing communications professional for AuCoin & Associates, Inc. in St. Petersburg, Florida. He reports that one of his favorite things to do is research and write The AuCoin Report – News Briefs from the Great Outdoors.

Bill's clients include Visit St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Wrangler, Ono's Trading Company, Southwest Florida Yachts and Florida Sailing & Cruising School. His professional career included 18 years for a Fortune 500 firm in Chicago and three years as a reporter for United Press International in the Memphis bureau, where he covered the shooting death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., among many other major stories.

Bill grew up in Mobile and reports that " It was a terrific place to grow up. There were lots of woods to roam and ponds to fish with neighborhood and school friends. Fortunately, we didn't have the distractions that kids have today -- no cell phones, no e-mail, no text messaging, and not much to watch on black-and-white TV either."

His favorite thing to do when he's not working? Yep, fishing.

To contact Bill email him at wmaucoin@verizon.net .