Skyway, The True Story of Tampa Bay’s Signature Bridge and the Man Who...
It’s been 36 years since a ship hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge spanning Tampa Bay, causing it to break in pieces, killing 35 people. St. Petersburg native Bill DeYoung has been a writer and editor at...
View ArticleThe Wrong Road Home
Palm Beach area author Ian O’Connor, a retired U.S. Air Force colonel, has three Justin Scott thrillers under his belt. But it’s his recently published novel, “The Wrong Road Home,” based on a true...
View ArticleA Falling Star
Chantel Acevedo is a poet and novelist whose books speak eloquently about the Cuban-American experience. An Associate Professor of English in the MFA program at the University of Miami, she has been...
View ArticleSeashells, Gator Bones and the Church of Everlasting Liability
Susan Adger’s forbears came to Florida in the late 1800’s and have now been here for five generations. True Florida crackers, Susan’s family loved to tell stories about their adventurous ancestors....
View ArticleCold Florida
Phillip DePoy is a prolific novelist, poet, and playwright. He was nominated for a Shamus Award for a book in his popular Flap Tucker series, and received the prestigious Edgar Award for a 2002 mystery...
View ArticleLife Without A Recipe
Born in New York to an Irish Catholic mother and a Jordanian-Muslim father, Diana Abu-Jaber teaches writing in Portland, Oregon but makes her home in Miami. Her fiction, “Crescent,” and “Birds of...
View ArticleThe Veins of the Ocean
Patricia Engel was born to Columbian parents, raised in New Jersey, and now calls Miami home. After publishing her debut novel, “Vida,” in 2010, she was lavished with prestigious literary awards,...
View ArticleRazor Girl
“Miami Herald” journalist Carl Hiaasen is a Florida native who lives his home state enough to tell the difficult truths about politics and the environment when necessary. But it’s through his fiction...
View ArticleNine Island
This month’s book review is from Author Jane Alison. She’s had an eclectic career. She was born in Australia and educated in Washington, DC, and Princeton where she studied classics. She worked for the...
View ArticleBackroads of Paradise, A Journey to Rediscover Old Florida
Cathy Salustri is the Arts and Entertainment editor of the website Creative Loafing Tampa. She was working on a master’s degree project in Florida Studies at the University of South Florida in St....
View ArticleThe Whistler
John Grisham’s name should need no introduction. Though he dreamed of being a professional baseball player, he became a lawyer in Mississippi where he must have seen and heard enough to last a...
View ArticleBest State Ever
Prolific author Dave Barry should need no introduction to Florida readers, but if you’re new to the Sunshine State you’re in for a treat. For more than 20 years Barry wrote a weekly column for the...
View ArticleA Million Fragile Bones
Florida native, Connie May Fowler, is a prolific writer with six novels and two memoirs to her name. Oprah Winfrey adapted her book “Before Women Had Wings,” winner of the 1996 Southern Book Critics...
View ArticleThe Shark Club
New York Times best selling author Anne Kidd Taylor uses the familiar structure of the summer romance novel as a jumping off point to explore second chances, familial ties, and the choices women make,...
View ArticleCamino Island
In a slight departure from the standard John Grisham thriller, the ever-present courtroom halls are traded in for a (fictional) quiet island off the coast of Florida. The rest is Grisham through and...
View ArticleThe Cuban Affair
For forty years New York native Nelson DeMille has been thrilling readers with novels of murder and espionage, many informed by his years in the Army where he became a decorated officer. His wry sense...
View ArticleThe Ice House by Laura Lee Smith
An advertising executive who lives in north Florida, Laura Lee Smith has had her short stories published in several prestigious anthologies and journals. Her first novel, “Heart of Palm,” set outside...
View ArticleSentinels, a Florida Mythos
Rich McKee is a retired college professor who lives and writes in Venice, Florida. He is the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Colleague Award from the Florida College English Association and has...
View ArticleKiller Serve
Born on the southside of Chicago, Jeanne Meeks is a former business owner turned world traveler who now winters in southwest Florida. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in...
View ArticleGun Love
Author Jennifer Clement has studied at NYU, in Paris, France, and received an MFA from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. She is the first woman elected to head PEN...
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