Meet our (fabulous) Authors
Barbara G Tucker
Barbara G Tucker
Barbara G. Tucker is an educator, novelist, and playwright living in Northwest Georgia. She hails from Maryland and has family in Virginia and the Carolinas. She has taught college students for 45 years and still loves it. Her fiction centers on the family and the emotions they bring and on ordinary people living in extraordinary circumstances. She has a husband, son, and daughter-in-law and two dogs, Nala and Butter. She is available for speaking engagements. Sudden Future is her eighth novel.
Barbara is the author of Sudden Future, Lying In, and several other publications.
S.M. Kirkland
S.M. Kirkland
S.M. Kirkland is an award-winning journalist with more than 30 years of experience covering politics, education, and crime, but her heart has always loved fiction. She has published three novels, ranging from Christian military fiction to space opera, and now to drama. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of North Georgia, the Senior Military College of Georgia, and in Communication Disorders from Utah State University.
S.M. Kirkland is the author of The Redeemed Series.
Book one is The Disposable. Book two is The Disturbed. Book Three is expected early 2025.
Andy Turner
Andy Turner
Andy is an avid golfer and all-around sports enthusiast. Being raised in a pastor's home, he has deep-rooted beliefs and faith. These beliefs have helped him endure and stay grounded and focused in times when many people would have wanted to quit. His love for his family and his dedication to a work ethic of integrity, loyalty, and honesty have been driving forces in him his entire life.
Despite Andy’s success in business and leadership, what truly makes him happy is his time with his family. Raising his four children is what he has stated as being his greatest accomplishment and happiest time in life. When Andy is not working, you will find him spending time with his children, restoring classic cars, racing cars, and loving his favorite teams, the Georgia Bulldogs and the Atlanta Braves.
Andy is a debut author with Colorful Crow. His book titled Who Turned Up The Silence is a memoir brought about by tragedy.
Eliot Parker
Eliot Parker
Eliot Parker is the author of four thriller novels, most recently A FINAL CALL, which was named A Best Book to Discover in 2022 by Kirkus Magazine and was a finalist for The Hawthorne Prize for fiction. His short story collection SNAPSHOTS won the PenCraft and Feathered Quill Book Awards for best short story anthology. A recipient of the West Virginia Literary Merit Award, Eliot hosts the author podcast program, "Now, Appalachia," on The Authors on the Air Global Radio Network. He teaches writing at the University of Mississippi.
Conversation is more than just words begin spoken, interpreted, and acted upon by others. Conversation is also the ultimate human interest activity, bringing people into direct contact with people in all of their complexity and vulnerability. The main characters in Parker's ten multi-genre stories set in the heart of Appalachia want to be heard; to have others listen to them—really listen—and understand their needs and concerns. The characters in these stories do not always get listened to, and many of them find that the need for attention comes from aggression. A woman confronts her father about his dementia. Two fathers whose guilt and shame over the disappearances of their sons hide more sinister motives. A young boy frustrated with a ring appraisal learns a lesson about how people and things can be valued equally. Each of the characters in the collection is faced with a balance of talking and listening with a need for action, which often leads to manipulation and coercion.
Since childhood, Karli M Donalson has been fascinated with written word. Through books and stories, she has escaped many grown-up days and hidden herself deep in fairytales. She grew up climbing orange trees in the small, quaint town of Frostproof, Florida and now resides in Northwest Georgia.
In 2014, she founded the Calhoun Area Writers and proudly watched this small group of friends blossom into a tremendous support system for writers. This year she announced the addition of a sister group- The Cartersville Area Writers. Karli owns and operates Colorful Crow Publishing.
While she hopes to sit humbly one day on a best-sellers list, she will settle for a smile or kind word from a stranger.
Karli M Donalson
Karli M Donalson
Karli is the author of Perfectly, Imperfect, a laugh-out-loud, middle-grade fiction book about friendship and self-worth. Her more recent book, The Day After Yesterday, follows the life of Lydia Edwards and the harsh realities of aging parents and wrecked plans, and just how beautiful that can be.
Matt Brown comes from a background that stems from a deep love of fantasy and complex character development. Some of his influences include novels like the Dragonlance Series, Forgotten Realms, Lord of the Rings and The Wheel of Time. The world of El’Anthar came into being from such inspirations and is a place that has been a labor of love for many years.
Matt Brown
Matt Brown
Sokoras. A frigid, icy region of endless winter where weakness invites death, or worse, undeath.
Leif, a Sokoran Ranger has a choice to make against a creature he barely understands. But with every decision, subversive shadows nip at his heels, calling him towards death.
Mangarmyr, an ancient wolf spirit, fights a world plagued by darkness. He is alone... searching for a love powerful enough to save him.
Finn, a Sokoran Ranger, is trapped behind enemy lines fighting for his life. Hunted for sport, he must use all his knowledge and skill to make it across the border to safety.
Rachel Perkins is an avid reader, and writer. She started writing after the traumatic loss of her sister who passed away tragically and unexpectedly. She writes about her personal struggles with Grief and death in hopes of healing herself and others. She resides in Georgia with her husband and two beautiful daughters.
Rachel Perkins
Rachel Perkins
In her debut work, Perkins not only introduces herself as a poet of remarkable talent but also establishes a connection with readers through the universal themes of love, loss, and the enduring power of sisterhood. "Me, Without You" is more than a collection of poems; it is a lyrical legacy, a tribute that displays the profound impact of a sister's presence in the tapestry of one's life.
Rita McAlister
Rita McAlister
On the outskirts of a small Georgia town, Rebamac was raised in the southern tradition of moral values that placed Jesus and family as her foundation. She now calls Alabama her home, where she resides with her two sons.
She began writing based on personal experiences to be read only by her children after her passing. She wanted them to understand why she made the choices she did. Throughout the years of writing, she found herself overcome by past memories, but eventually writing became a healing therapy as she processed and realized she was not alone in her struggle.
FINAL CURTAIN CALL is Rebamac’s debut novel, shared in hopes of helping others realize they are not alone.
Sandra Gail, a charismatic dreamer. Taught to work hard by her caring father, she believed she could have anything she wanted. Charles Black, her knight in shining armor. He was everything she ever wanted, the answer to her most important dream. Or so she thought.
The dream was to be an adored wife, loving mother, and exceptional nurse. A dream that would be quickly haunted by a reality she could have never imagined. She would soon find herself caught in a webbed triangle of three main characters that would change the course of her life forever. Slowly taken captive with no escape in sight, Sandra struggled through the darkest days of her life. Battered and beaten down, emotionally and physically; wounded from torture, deceit, and betrayal, she still prayed for a way out. Before long, she found she had two reasons for living: Alex and Little Noah. Now she had a reason to fight, even if the cost was her life, determined to have peace at the Final Curtain Call.
