Warren Martin often tells people that he doesn’t know what he wants to do when he grows up. In 2012 he published his first fictional book “Forgotten Soldiers” and currently teaches business and leadership related courses for Norwich University and Bryan University. After a 21 year career in the Army Warren transitioned into business and later business ownership. During recent years he has been focusing on academic pursuits, writing, and serving and supporting various organizations. Warren serves as President of the St. Louis Publishers Association and the area chapter of the Special Forces Association. He is a member of the St. Louis and Missouri Writers Guild and serves on the Advisory Board for the Green Beret Foundation.
Born in North Carolina, Kelly’s stint as a Tarheel was short-lived. At the age of two, her parents whisked her off to the State of Kentucky, a move that would be the first of many. Along with North Carolina and Kentucky, Kelly has resided in California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, and Texas.
Emancipated at the age of 17, with her life now her own responsibility, she discovered a few things: 1) There’s a down side to using a fake id, 2) nobody believes you when you say you saw a UFO, and 3) missing the deadline to register for college classes can change your life.
Currently, she lives n Texas with her husband and her three dogs. She spends her days managing their Internet-based retail business, using her high-tech mobile phone to play Candy Crush, and pursuing her career as an Independent Author. She is the author of the Aspen Moore humorous mystery series and currently has a shorty story in the Fish or Cut Bait Anthology.
Donna Ross writing as Fedora AMIS won the Mayhaven Fiction Prize for her St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Seller Jack the Ripper in St. Louis, a Victorian whodunit. She dons corset and hoop skirts to perform as real historical people and imagined characters from the 1800s. Fedora loves live theater, travel, plants and cooking. She has one son, Skimmer, who partners Fedora in writing science fiction and fantasy.
Mayhem at Buffalo Bill’s Wild West was a 2016 SPUR nominee by the Western Writers of America and a finalist in Missouri Writers’ Guild’s Show Me contest.
“Why do I write? I love words—always have–reading them, writing them. I even like looking them up in the dictionary. So call me eccentric. Call me crazy—but call me a writer.
Jo Allison (pen name for Linda Dobkins) has been writing full-length murder mysteries and associated short stories set in 1910 Missouri for some fifteen years. But her day job kept her too busy to do much except store them away. Retirement has allowed her to resume writing–and produce 6 books including an entire book of short mystery.
Her full-length crime stories/mysteries follow the adventures of a “new woman,” a suffragist with an unconventional position in the City of St. Louis Police Department in 1910. Jo has finished four books in the series and is working on the fifth. Short stories related to the series serve as prequels and “between murders” vignettes.
In the course of writing the period mysteries, Jo has accumulated a wealth of knowledge about progressive-era St. Louis and shares it on 1910-stlouis-by-jallison.com. (See contact information for the link.)
