Florida Writer Podcast

After 35+ years of operations for various businesses (including her own), Melody pursued her dream of someday writing a novel. Having written for business publications, local magazines and even publishing a poem, Chemo's not for Sissies, during treatment after her first cancer diagnosis, it was time to finish the novel that was started many years ago. When she started writing "Facade: Things Aren't Always as they Appear," she had no idea where her characters were going to take her. "The Unbroken Series" was born.

Melody lives with her husband in her native home state Florida. She's blessed to be alive today after two cancer diagnoses and enjoys watching her grandchildren grow up something she doesn't take for granted.

After 35+ years of operations for various businesses (including her own), Melody pursued her dream of someday writing a novel. Having written for business publications, local magazines and even publishing a poem, Chemo’s not for Sissies, during treatment after her first cancer diagnosis, it was time to finish the novel that was started many years ago. When she started writing “Facade: Things Aren’t Always as they Appear," she had no idea where her characters were going to take her. "The Unbroken Series" was born.

Melody lives with her husband in her native home state Florida. She’s blessed to be alive today after two cancer diagnoses and enjoys watching her grandchildren grow up something she doesn’t take for granted.

Michael David Anderson is the author of the Teddy Dormer novels, Teddy and Wake, their companion piece Desynchrony, and the haunted house novel In the House of Wolves. He possesses degrees in both Psychology and English. He was born in East Tennessee in 1985 and currently resides in Orlando, Florida with his fiancée Christine. www.michaeldavidanderson.com @shadeofmidnight on Twitter @michaeldavidanderson on Instagram

Michael David Anderson is the author of the Teddy Dormer novels, Teddy and Wake, their companion piece Desynchrony, and the haunted house novel In the House of Wolves. He possesses degrees in both Psychology and English. He was born in East Tennessee in 1985 and currently resides in Orlando, Florida with his fiancée Christine. 

www.michaeldavidanderson.com @shadeofmidnight on Twitter
@michaeldavidanderson on Instagram

John W. Bateman was the first person in his family to leave the fly-over states in more than 200 years. It didn't last. John writes and looks for stories in the Deep South. His work has appeared in The Santa Fe Writer's Project Quarterly, OneNewEngland, Glitterwolf Magazine, Huffington Post, TIMBER, Nately's, as well as on the silver screen. He has a secret addiction to glitter and, contrary to his southern roots, does NOT like sweet tea.

John is a recipient of a 2018 Emerging Filmmaker Grant from the Mississippi Film Alliance. His first novel, Who Killed Buster Sparkle?, was released June 12, 2019, by Unsolicited Press and has appeared on the weekly Top 10 Mississippi Reads list nearly a dozen times. He'd really like for you to buy a copy so that his mother isn't his only fan.

@JohnWBateman

John W. Bateman was the first person in his family to leave the fly-over states in more than 200 years. It didn't last. John writes and looks for stories in the Deep South. His work has appeared in The Santa Fe Writer's Project Quarterly, OneNewEngland, Glitterwolf Magazine, Huffington Post, TIMBER, Nately's, as well as on the silver screen. He has a secret addiction to glitter and, contrary to his southern roots, does NOT like sweet tea. 

John is a recipient of a 2018 Emerging Filmmaker Grant from the Mississippi Film Alliance. His first novel, Who Killed Buster Sparkle?, was released June 12, 2019, by Unsolicited Press and has appeared on the weekly Top 10 Mississippi Reads list nearly a dozen times. He'd really like for you to buy a copy so that his mother isn't his only fan.

@JohnWBateman

Pop Culture Poets Wilnona and Jade are considered one of the 20 Iconic Authors according to Every Writer's Resource. They are the founders of The Inspirational Women in Literature Media and Journalism Awards, the Thoughtful Book Festival and Thoughtful Book Awards, the magazine 25 Hottest Indie Authors, Artist & Advocates, and the And I Thought Literary Magazine.

Together, they have written 11 books and participated in over 700 interviews around the world.

Visit them at andwethought.com

Pop Culture Poets Wilnona and Jade are considered one of the 20 Iconic Authors according to Every Writer’s Resource. They are the founders of The Inspirational Women in Literature Media and Journalism Awards, the Thoughtful Book Festival and Thoughtful Book Awards, the magazine 25 Hottest Indie Authors, Artist & Advocates, and the And I Thought Literary Magazine.

Together, they have written 11 books and participated in over 700 interviews around the world.

Visit them at andwethought.com

Al Pessin is an award-winning journalist, author and playwright. Kensington will publish his first novel, Sandblast, on March 31, 2020. The first of the Task Force Epsilon thrillers, Sandblast was a top-five finisher in the Unpublished Book of the Year competition at the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards and a shortlist selection for the 2017 Bosque Fiction Prize.

Sandblast is the story of an Afghan-American U.S. Army lieutenant who goes undercover inside the Taliban to find the new global terrorism mastermind, and his boss, a woman at the Pentagon with West Point and two combat tours behind her, who has to fight the top brass and even the president to keep her agent alive and his mission on track. The first sequel, Blowback, will be published in the spring of 2021, with a second sequel scheduled for a year later.

New York Times Bestselling author Tom Straw (Richard Castle) said, "Al Pessin escorts you through thrills and chaos, writing with the sure hand of authority. This guy knows his stuff."

He lives in Delray Beach, FL with his wife Audrey and their precocious Labrador Rory. Contact Al through www.alpessin.com.

Al Pessin is an award-winning journalist, author and playwright. Kensington will publish his first novel, Sandblast, on March 31, 2020. The first of the Task Force Epsilon thrillers, Sandblast was a top-five finisher in the Unpublished Book of the Year competition at the 2018 Royal Palm Literary Awards and a shortlist selection for the 2017 Bosque Fiction Prize. 

Sandblast is the story of an Afghan-American U.S. Army lieutenant who goes undercover inside the Taliban to find the new global terrorism mastermind, and his boss, a woman at the Pentagon with West Point and two combat tours behind her, who has to fight the top brass and even the president to keep her agent alive and his mission on track. The first sequel, Blowback, will be published in the spring of 2021, with a second sequel scheduled for a year later. 

New York Times Bestselling author Tom Straw (Richard Castle) said, “Al Pessin escorts you through thrills and chaos, writing with the sure hand of authority. This guy knows his stuff.”

He lives in Delray Beach, FL with his wife Audrey and their precocious Labrador Rory. Contact Al through www.alpessin.com.