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, London, England's Country Music People 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/co-owner of Global Authors Publications,
www.globalauthorspublications.com
which offers aspiring writers a new and different way to become
published authors.
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, Wild About Florida: Central Florida, Under A Bloody
Flag, Under A Black Flag,
and American Music:Born in the USA.. To order an autographed copy,
email her at katyrw@hotmail.com.
Social media connections are Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/arandgh/
or
https://www.facebook.com/katyrwalls (the one I use most)
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/katywalls
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/katyrwalls/
Affiliations
IFWTWA - International Food, Wine & Travel Writers
Association
Contributors:
Tom Straka
Tom Straka is a forestry
professor at Clemson University. He has an interest in history, forestry and
natural resources, natural history, the American West.
Those combine for an interest in charcoal
production history tied to iron production and explain articles on Iron
Works and making charcoal. He usually travels
with his wife, Pat, who is a consulting forester
and the photographer on most articles. They reside in South Carolina, but
have also lived in Mississippi and Virginia.
They try to write their
articles on lessor known spots or angles on better known spots, like the
trail leading to a battlefield, rather than the battlefield itself. Given
where they live,
they have good access to Revolutionary and Civil
War battlefields, and this is a favorite topic.
http://www.clemson.edu/cafls/safes/faculty_staff/straka_thomas.html
Renee S. Gordon
Renee Gordon has written a
weekly travel column for the Philadelphia Sun Newspaper for the past fifteen
years and has published articles on local, national and international travel
in numerous publications. Her columns focus on cultural, historic and heritage
tourism and her areas of specialization are sites and attractions related to
African American and African Diaspora history. Renee has been a guest radio
commentator on various aspects of tourism and appeared in a documentary, "The
Red Summer of 1919". As an educator for thirty years she was an English
teacher, event and meeting planner, served as an educational consultant and
intern-teacher mentor. She contributed to textbooks on women's history and
classroom management and has facilitated workshops on both subjects. Renee
considers herself a "missionary journalist" and as such she continues to
promote heritage and sustainable tourism.
2013 Recipient of African Diaspora World Tourism Flame Keeper in Media Award
for Travel Writing
Affiliations
IFWTWA - International Food, Wine & Travel Writers
Association
IABTW-
International Association of Black Travel
Writers
PBJ -
Progressive Black &Journalists
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, .
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 lives a varied life focused
around her two artistic passions : painting and writing.
Her travel writing and
photography has been published in a variety of publications, including the Los
Angeles Times, UK's Opera Now, Tahoe Quarterly.
Anne has contributed the
quarterly art trails column for the online ezine, AmericanRoads.net since 2006
to date. Other publications include The Tribune Group in South Africa, The Lake
Oconee News, the Greensboro Herald Journal in Georgia, the Milford Chronicle,
MilfordLive.com in Delaware and Lake Tahoe Bonanza, the Nevada Appeal of Carson
City in Nevada.
Anne currently writes and paints
in Milford, Delaware. She mostly paints large size acrylics impasto style with a
palette knife - always full of vibrant color and movement, and charcoal or
watercolor sketches.
Anne was awarded the 2013
Delaware Division of the Arts Established Fellowship Award - Folk Art-Visual
Arts discipline. She also spent 3 weeks in Colorado in 2009 an artist in
residence. During her stay she worked with a well-known print maker in the San
Luis valley.
An award-winning self-taught
artist, her acrylics and watercolors can be found in many private collections in
Europe, Japan, South Africa, Canada, all over the United States. Among her
corporate clients are HBO and Universal Studios, Hollywood, California;
Ritz-Carlton at Lake Oconee, GA.; Datacert Inc., Houston, Texas; TravelTalk
Radio, San Diego, CA., and Entergy Power Company, New Orleans, Louisiana.
Previously she owned The Point of
Art gallery & studio in Georgia. The Point of Art Gallery received the honor of
the Greene County Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year 2008. Anne was
a guest speaker at the Georgia Governor's Conference on Tourism in 2007 and was
also awarded the Georgia Governor's Award of Distinction for 2008-2009.
Among many other things Anne has
been a reporter, photographer, banker, English teacher, housecleaner and a truck
driver. 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.annejenkinsart.com
www.artstrolls.com
Anne Jenkins
(302) 393-6629
http://annejenkinsart.com
http://facebook.com/annejenkinsartgallery
Eleanor Hendricks McDaniel
Eleanor Hendricks
McDaniel is a seasoned travel journalist who enjoys writing about girlfriend
getaways, history, culture, food, wine, and some of the people she meets along
the way. Her travels have taken her throughout the United States, Europe and
other countries.
She has written for
newspapers, magazines and online ezines. They include Heart and Soul, Cuisine
Noir, Blue Ridge Country, River Region Living, WHERE Philadelphia, American
Airlines Black Atlas, Art Matters, Philadelphia Tribune, Philadelphia Sunday
Sun, Pathfinders Travel, Main Line Life, Odyssey Couleur, GoNomad.com and more.
She has lived and
studied in Paris, France and Florence, Italy. A native of Philadelphia, PA, she
now resides in Ormond Beach, FL.
Follow her on
Twitter: @ellethewriter, Instagram: @eleanor1004, Facebook:
@eleanor.hendricks.mcdaniel and her website: flybynighttraveler.com.
