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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
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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 over 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 Anne Jenkins Art Gallery & Studio at 127 NE Front Street, Milford, DE 19963. Here she can be found painting in her 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. Before this, Anne owned The Point of Art Gallery & Studio in Union Point, Georgia 30669, situated half-way between Atlanta and Augusta.
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 HBO and Universal Studios, Hollywood, California; Datacert Inc., Houston, Texas; and Entergy Power Company, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Anne completed a public arts project in May 2011 for the City of Union Point which was supported in part by the Georgia Council for the Arts (GCA) through the appropriations of the Georgia General Assembly. GCA also receives support from its partner agency, the National Endowment for the Arts.
In 2009 Anne was awarded an artist in residency at the Luna Studio's in Colorado and also had an entry to an exhibit at the Contemporary Museum of Art in Atlanta accepted and displayed.
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.
http://annejenkinsart.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.
Wendy Rubicam 
Wendy Rubicam is a freelance magazine writer and copywriter in Scottsdale, AZ. As owner of Rubicam Writing ( www.rubicamwriting.com ) and principal writer for Lucorp Marketing ( www.lucorpmarketing.com ), Wendy has written for a wide variety of businesses across many industries. Her experience includes writing for news radio, copywriting, editing, content management, developing email marketing and social media campaigns, and freelance journalism.
Wendy's feature articles and interviews are published regularly in So Scottsdale! and Scottsdale Health magazines, as well as across the web. While home in Scottsdale, Wendy is also a licensed realtor ( www.scottsdalehomesandlifestyles.com ). When the road calls, you can find Wendy kayaking, rafting, hiking, climbing, wining, dining, exploring, camping or backpacking.
John Gifford
John Gifford (www.john-gifford.net) is a professional writer providing marketing communications and Web-Copywriting services to businesses of all sizes. He's also a freelance travel writer and has written recently for Birmingham Magazine , Evansville Living , and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Tom Straka Tom Straka is a forestry professor at Clemson University in South Carolina. Bob Wynn is a Western ghost town expert and operates Ghost Town Seekers website. Both have a keen interest in Western history.
Persis Granger 
Persis—better known as “Perky”—Granger never dreamed that farming would play a role in her life after leaving her family's New York dairy farm to pursue an English degree at the College of Wooster and the University of Massachusetts. She married and had two daughters. It was in 1970 that she and her husband, Dick, fell in love with the Adirondack Mountains of New York and bought the first of two old farms they would own there. In 1976 they moved to the second, a 160-acre farm with overgrown fields and woodland. The rundown 1800s house and barns required major restoration while the couple raised chickens, cows and pigs, and grew huge gardens. They canned, cured, dried, froze and root-cellared food to last through the long mountain winters.
As their children approached college age, the couple began hand-building log cabins from pine trees harvested on their farm. One cabin became their home when they moved from the farmhouse, and several were sold as vacation cottages. Perky earned a master's degree in education during that time, and her study of young adult literature reignited her long-dormant interest in fiction writing, eventually resulting in completion of two YA works of historical fiction and a teacher's guide, (“Adirondack Gold” and its sequel, “A Summer of Strangers”) as well as an adult nonfiction anthology about living with Alzheimer's disease (“Shared Stories from Daughters of Alzheimer's: Writing a Path to Peace”). Another novel is in progress, vying for time with her freelance work and community volunteer efforts. Inspired by and enamored of the writing community, Perky also created “Fiction Among Friends”, a mini-business which hosts readings, workshops, signings and retreats for writers.
Read more at http://www.PersisGranger.com .
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