Authors

Rhett DeVane

Rhett DeVane has just released the fourth book in the Chattahoochee series, titled Cathead Crazy. It follows Mama's Comfort Food, with some of the same characters readers fell in love with in The Madhatter's Guide to Chocolate and Up the Devil’s Belly. .

Rhett is also the coauthor of a published vampire parody, Evenings on Dark Island, and a political drama, Accidental Ambition. A born and bred southerner, Rhett lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is a practicing dental hygienist and dedicated southern scribe.

Find out more about Rhett at www.rhettdevane.com.

Jane Driber

Jane Driber is currently revising a novel manuscript titled The Gardens of Cornucopia. The novel is set in the not-too-distant future following an environmental disaster. The United States is falling apart, except for one small area which is rediscovering what it means to be a community where residents are in touch with each other and in touch with nature. Jane is a student in Florida State University's creative writing department.

Gayle Swedmark Hughes

Gayle is a recently retired lawyer who was the only woman in her law class at the University of Iowa. Her memoir, Two Thousand Daffodils, is so-named because the love of her life, planted two thousand daffodil bulbs on her farm when they became engaged. The book was first printed in 2011. A seccond imprint came out in the fall of 2011.

Peggy Kassees

Peggy is an imaginist. She likes to take what is, give it a twist to see what could be ,then explore the new journeys and stories this creates. Her favorite question is "What if," and her passion is the study of mankind past and present. Her stories usually incorporate elements of myth, mystery, magic, mayhem, and love. She is eagerly awaiting the debut of her first novel by Wild Women Writers. Peggy encourages everyone to imagine the possibilities - then write about it.

Donna Meredith

Donna Meredith is a freelance writer living in Tallahassee, Florida. Her latest title, The Color of Lies, won first place for unpublished women’s fiction in 2009 in the Royal Palm Literary Awards, sponsored by the Florida Writers Association in 2010.

Her novel, The Glass Madonna, was published by Wild Women Writers in late 2010. It also won first place for unpublished women’s fiction in 2009 in the Royal Palm Literary Awards, sponsored by the Florida Writers Association and runner-up in the 2009 Gulf Coast novel contest.

Donna taught English, Newspaper Journalism, and TV Production in public high schools in West Virginia and Georgia for 29 years. She is active in the Tallahassee Writers Association and currently coordinates the Seven Hills Literary Contest.

Find out more about Donna and her writing at www.donnameredith.com.

Susan Womble

Susan is the author of Newt's World: Beginnings, which won the gold medal in the Florida Book awards in 2008. The sequel is Newt's World: Internal Byte. Both are middle grade novels. She is currently at work on several books for young adults, incuding Bloodstone Legacy.