Linda Carson is currently a Co-Host of the “Suncoast View” daily TV show, ABC 7 out of Sarasota/Bradenton Florida. She recently celebrated her 26th anniversary at the station. During this time, she has also been an Anchor and a reporter. Her notable career included events that focused a nation. She was in the classroom with President George Bush, at Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, on September 11th 2001 when he received news of the terrorists strikes on the Pentagon. Over her nearly six decades of involvement in television, she has covered natural and human tragedies. She is an award-winning journalist, and is noted for a series she did on serial killer Danny Rolling. That endeavor included interviews with Danny on Death Row, and bearing witness to, and reporting on, his execution.

Linda has been telling America’s stories, in nine different states and multiple stations since the 1960’s. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, she is a graduate of Mercer University in Macon, GA. She began working as a Promotion Writer at WAGA - TV in Atlanta, and then went on the air as the Weather Caster at Channel 11 before becoming a reporter, and anchor.

She met her husband, Bud Carson, who was the Head Coach at Georgia Tech on an interview. That romance and marriage involved moves and job changes for Linda as Bud became Defensive Co-Ordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers, followed by Bud’s joining the Rams in Los Angeles, and so on. Linda followed Bud, and built an amazing career as an on-air personality in news and sports in Baltimore, Kansas City, Hartford, Conn., Cleveland and Philadelphia and now on Florida’s Cultural Coast, in Sarasota. Bud died in 2005. Together he and Linda have a family legacy of 4 children, six grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.

Linda is a strong community supporter having served on the Boards of Directors for Circus Arts Conservatory, The American Cancer Society, and the Alzheimer's Association. She has a passion for sailing, and for many years sailed a pram with the Luffing Lassies at the Sarasota Sailing Squadron. Linda is also a lover of books and currently hosts a twice weekly, on-air, book club for Suncoast News, and Facebook followers.

Lainey Cameron is a digital nomad and author of women’s fiction. A recovering tech industry executive, her award-winning novel, The Exit Strategy, was inspired by a decade of being the only woman in the corporate boardroom. It’s been called a “rallying call for women to believe in themselves and join together” and tells the story of a Silicon Valley investor who first meets her husband’s mistress across the negotiating table.

A digital nomad—meaning she picks locations around the world to live (and write) for months at a time—Lainey is an avid Instagrammer, and loves to share her travel tips and insights with readers.

She’s the founder and host of The Best of Women’s Fiction interview series and podcast, proud member and volunteer with Women’s Fiction Writers Association, believes community makes the author's life worthwhile, and is on a mission to obliterate the term aspiring writer.

Originally from Scotland, Lainey has a soft spot for kilts and good malt whisky, and when she’s not writing (or reading), you’ll find her hunting down new single malts, checking out rooftop bars, and when possible, hanging out with anything equine (donkeys rock!).

Michelle Cox is the author of the Henrietta and Inspector Howard series as well as “Novel Notes of Local Lore,” a weekly blog dedicated to Chicago’s forgotten residents. Her books have won over 50 international awards and have been praised by Kirkus, Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Elle, Redbook, Brit&Co., Popsugar, Buzzfeed, and many others.

Unbeknownst to most, Michelle hoards board games she doesn’t have time to play and is, not surprisingly, addicted to period dramas and big band music. Also, marmalade. She lives in Chicago with her husband, three children, naughty Goldendoodle and is hard at work on her latest novel. 

Mary Helen Sheriff is the author of the award-winning southern women’s fiction, Boop and Eve’s Road Trip. She serves as the CEO of Bookish Road Trip and a blogger at “...the gift of story.” After 14 years teaching elementary school, middle school, college, and professionals, Mary has taken a break from the classroom to focus on writing. She has an MFA from Hollins University, an MA from Old Dominion University, and a BA from UVA. She is an entrepreneur and an adventure. She lives in Henrico County, Virginia with her two children, two cats, and one husband.

Claire Fullerton has always known she’s a storyteller.  She was born in Wayzata, Minnesota (the homeland of her father) and transplanted at the age of ten to Memphis, Tennessee (the homeland of her mother). She learned early that the art of observation can be an acclimating lifesaver. Her mother told her that as a child, she would sit and watch people. Claire was thirty years old the first time her mother said this, then her mother added: "You still do.” It is what is known as “the writer’s eye,” the ability to see the world from the outside in.  If that is true, Claire admits, she is happily guilty. 

Claire currently lives in Malibu, California, but will always consider herself a Southerner: a card-carrying member of the last romantic culture on earth.  She found her niche in music radio as a member of the on-air staff of five different stations, during a nine-year career. Three weeks after her return to the United States from a year-long trip to Ireland, she reviewed the journal she kept while living abroad and knew then that she had a good story to tell.  Today, she is the author of eight traditionally published books and multiple essays.  Claire is a much sought-after speaker and radio guest with a strong voice for women’s fiction and the voice of the American South.

Kathy L. Murphy is an artist, author, and CEO & Founder of The International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club Reading Nation, the largest "meeting and discussing" book club in the world that brings their authors into the book club conversation. The book club started January 18, 2000 has been running for nearly 21 years with an annual convention held always Martin Luther King Week in January called The International Book Club Convention.

Her first book was "The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara Wearing, Book Sharing Guide to Life" and for her 20th Anniversary she debuted her second book, "The Pulpwood Queen Celebrates 20 Years" edited by Susan Cushman and published by Brother Mockingbird. She is currently workin on the sequel to her first book's memoir to be called "The Pulpwood Queen Goes Back to School".