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2007 Festival Authors

List of confirmed authors as of September 7
Author Title
M. D. Abrams Murder at Wakulla Springs
Paco Ahlgren Discipline
Preston Allen All or Nothing
David Amram Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat
David Andelman A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today
Tina McElroy Ansa Taking After Mudear
Cynthia Barnett Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
John Bowe Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy
Bobby Braddock Down in Orburndale: A Songwriter's Youth in Old Florida
Ellen Bravo Taking on the Big Boys
Betsy Carter Swim To Me
Chef Robert and Barb Catherine Romantic Dinner for Two
Roy Peter Clark Writing Tools: 50 Essential Strategies for Every Writer
David Colburn From Yellow Dog Democrats to Red State Republicans: Florida and its Politics Since 1940
Michael Connelly The Overlook
Rosemary Daniell Secrets of the Zona Rosa: How Writing (and Sisterhood) Can Change Women's Lives
Scott M. Deitche The Silent Don: The Criminal Underworld of Santo Trafficante, Jr.
Aidan Delgado Sutras of Abu Ghraib
Pat Duggins Final Countdown: N.A.S.A. and the End of the Space Shuttle Program
Jon Entine Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People
Christopher Felver Beat
Barbara Caridad Ferrer It's Not About the Accent
Debra Gingerich Where We Start
Christopher Goffard Snitch Jacket
Peter Golenbock 7: The Mickey Mantle Novel
Robert Gussin Trash Talk
Patricia Gussin Shadow of Death
Kristin Harmel The Blonde Theory
Bill Hendon and Elizabeth Stewart An Enormous Crime
Burton Hersh Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America
Jay Hopler Green Squall
Chris Jericho A Lion’s Tale: Around the World in Spandex
John Sims Jeter . . . and the angels sang
Stuart Kaminsky The Dead Don't Lie
Michael Largo The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich and Powerful Really Died
Chris Kuzneski Sword of God
Ward Larsen The Perfect Assassin
Janice Law Strangers in Blood: Distanced Lives
David Leavitt The Indian Clerk
Con Lehane Death at the Old Hotel
John Leland Why Kerouac Matters: The Lesson of On The Road
Jeff Lindsay Dexter in the Dark
Kimberly Llewellyn The Quest for the Holy Veil
Robert Macomber A Different Kind of Honor
Malcolm MacPherson Hocus Potus
Kim MacQuarrie The Last Days of the Incas
Jim Melvin The Death Wizard Chronicles
Peter Meinke Unheard Music
Gary Monroe Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman
Cynthia Polansky Far Above Rubies
Jane Porter Odd Mom Out
Eva Rutland When We Were Colored: A Mother’s Story
Eliot Schrefer The New Kid
Tony Silvia Baseball Over the Air: America’s Pastime on the Radio and in the Imagination
Dawna Stone Winning Nice, How to Succeed in Business and Life Without Waging War
James Swain Midnight Rambler
Lucinda Vickers Weeki Wachee: City of Mermaids: A History of One of Florida’s Oldest Roadside Attractions
Jeffrey Wasserstrom China’s Brave New World
Brenda Watson The Fiber 35 Diet
Dolores Wilson Jail Bertie and the Peanut Ladies
Mark Winegardner The Godfather's Revenge
Rick Yancey The Highly Effective Detective


Children’s Book Authors

Author Title
Gennifer Choldenko If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
Adrian Fogelin The Sorta Sisters
Elise Leonard Monday Morning Blitz
Melissa Marr Wicked Lovely
Blake Nelson They Came From Below
Stacy Nyikos Dizzy
Sharon Robinson Slam Dunk
Michael Sampson Chicka, Chicka, 1, 2, 3
Tammar Stein Light Years
R. L. Stine Night of the Creepy Things
Joseph Treaster Hurricane Force: In the Path of America’s Deadliest Storms
Jean Van Leeuwen Cabin on Trouble Creek (SSYRA 3-5)
Gloria Whelan Listening for Lions (SSYRA grades 6-8)
Rick Yancey Alfred Kropp: The Soul of Solomon


Times Writers

Sue Carlton
Ernest Hooper
Jeff Klinkenberg
Howard Troxler

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