Our Authors 

Writing stories since the age of ten, April Coker’s dream of writing and publishing a book didn’t happen until her children were raised. Now with several novels and a children’s book under her belt, she has now realized her dream of being an author. April’s books have won several Author Shout Reader Ready awards, a Texas Authors First Place Christian Fiction award, Page Turner Book Award Finalist, and a Readers Favorite award. When she’s not at her laptop, the happily retired schoolteacher enjoys spending time with family (especially her three grandchildren), glamping with friends, thrifting, and junk journaling. April resides in the East Texas countryside with her Boston terrier Stella, hedgehog Cinnabon, and banana ball python Crystal. Learn more about April and her books at www.aprilnunncoker.com.

Breakfield and Burkey have created award-winning stories that resonate with men and women, with a fresh perspective on technology possibilities within a fictional framework. They have two technothriller series, The Enigma Series and Enigma Heirs. They ventured into writing cozy mysteries with the Underground Authors in the Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles. Their newest short story collection complements their novella and individual short stories. Their love of children’s imagination prompted them to create the delightful story and activity book The Dream. Reach out directly to Authors@EnigmaSeries.com or visit their website at: https://www.EnigmaSeries.com.

CW Hawes is a novelist and award-winning poet. He’s most known for his Justinia Wright Private Investigator Mysteries series, set in Minneapolis, Minnesota; The Rocheport Saga, a post-apocalyptic series set in America’s Midwest; and the Pierce Mostyn Paranormal Investigations series, set wherever there be monsters. His love of fine food, interesting places, philosophy, music, art, books, and history can be seen in each of his tales...

Caleb Pirtle III lives in the present but prefers the past. He is the author of more than eighty books, including four noir thrillers in the Ambrose Lincoln series: Secrets of the Dead, Conspiracy of Lies, Night Side of Dark, and Place of Skulls. Secrets and Conspiracy are also audiobooks on audible.com. All of the novels are set against the haunting backdrop of World War II. His Lonely Night to Die features three noir thrillers in one book, following the exploits of the Quiet Assassin, a rogue agent who has fled the CIA. He takes the missions no one else wants. He is expendable, and he knows it.

For many years, Cindy was known for her murder mysteries and romantic suspense, many of which were set in her home state of New Hampshire. And they achieved considerable success.

Now a transplant to South Florida, she found herself changing genres. (Sometimes things happen.) First, Joy Wagner, a cozy mystery series set in a fictitious Florida town called Uncertain. The second is a series based in Texas Hill Country town of Magnolia Bluff, where someone is murdered every month. It's quickly become known as the murder capital of the world. But what can you expect when twelve authors are busy with their craft?

After a successful career in mathematics and computer science, receiving grants from the National Science Foundation and NASA, and being listed in Who’s Who in Computer Science and Two Thousand Notable Americans, James R. Callan turned to his first love—writing. He has had four non-fiction books published. He now concentrates on his favorite genre, mystery/suspense. An award-winning author...

As much as Joe loves figuring out how to create and solve crimes of murder in his PI Detective series (The Razzman Files – Tony Razzolito PI), he is equally passionate about writing short stories. The shift in style between plotting out a full novel versus the tighter plot points needed to develop a good short story helps keep Joe thinking outside the box.

When Joe is not writing he can be found spoiling his grandkids.

I always thought I would communicate in the world as a writer. As a child I was a voracious reader and knew someday I would pen a great novel. Life sometimes takes unexpected turns, and I attended broadcasting school instead of a four-year college. I spent numerous years having fun, spinning records, interviewing people, and doing love song dedications. I had a ball until…

The U.S. Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which allowed broadcast corporations to own multiple radio stations in the same market. The gobbling began, and soon behemoth broadcasting corporations ate up radio stations like locusts in a wheat field. And radio announcers like me were axed on bloody Fridays with surgical precision. I left radio and went to work for Social Security. I had a successful career with the federal government and retired in January of 2023. Now I spend my waking hours fulfilling my lifelong dream of being a full-time successful writer.

Linda Pirtle is a retired educator who taught the art of writing and understanding literature for years as an English teacher at St. John High School, Lancaster High School, and Ennis High School as well as Business Communications at Navarro College in Waxahachie, Texas. She also served as principal of Ennis High School and Program Director/Grant Writer for EISD. Linda is a member of several professional writing associations...

Marjorie credits her interest in writing to the unusual backdrop of her childhood. When she was just ten months old, her incredibly hardworking father enlisted a partner and bought an eighteen-hole golf course. The new town had a tiny population. For the family of six, the same was true of their living accommodation at the end of the course’s clubhouse. Living on-site allowed little privacy, but Marjorie discovered she genuinely enjoyed her view from inside the fishbowl looking out. She grew up observing and imagining. Eventually, her imagination outgrew its bounds, and a multi-genre author emerged.

At the University of Stevens Point, Marjorie graduated with a degree in secondary education with a major in English and a minor in psychology. Still living happily in Wisconsin, she and her husband have two grown children, three grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren—wonderful, each and every one of them.

Paul Hollis is an American author of fictional terrorism and espionage. His bestselling series, "The Hollow Man Series", follows a U.S. government analyst and his partner in an odyssey of suspense across Europe.

RC and JP Carter aka Rob and Joan Carter, are authors, book publicists, podcasters and paranormal investigators. They are the proud parents of six children, grandparents of fourteen grandchildren and great grandparents of one great granddaughter. Their household is run by a nine and a half pound Papillon/Shih Tzu rescue dog.

Richard Schwindt is a retired psychotherapist, and writer in Kingston, Ontario. He is author of Emotional Recovery from Workplace Mobbing, The Death in Sioux Lookout trilogy, Tony Price: Confidential and four books in the Magnolia Bluff Crime Chronicles.