Our Authors

We’re pleased and proud to offer you the work of these authors. Where available, click each author’s name to be taken to their individual websites.

Mary Shafer
Mary is the author of our flagship title, Devastation on the Delaware: Stories and Images of the Deadly Flood of 1955. She also contributed her essay, “Thanksgiving Miracle” to our popular anthology, Almost Perfect: Disabled Pets and the People Who Love Them.

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Betty Orlemann
Betty is the author of our Hattie Farwell Mystery Series. The first title In the series, Mission: Murder, won a coveted Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction in the 2008 Independent Publisher Annual Best Book Awards.

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Stacy Ewing
Stacy contributed her essay, “Arrow” to our inspiring anthology, Almost Perfect: Disabled Pets and the People Who Love Them. She’s a professional writer and proofreader whose work has appeared in several professional journals.

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Joyce Grant-Smith
Joyce contributed her essay, “Colbi” to our popular anthology, Almost Perfect: Disabled Pets and the People Who Love Them. She’s an award-winning author who has contributed to several other anthologies, and she also has a full book of her own.

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Susan Bertrand
Sue made her authorial debut with her essay, “My Tuesdays With Tux” in our anthology, Almost Perfect: Disabled Pets and the People Who Love Them. She volunteers at Angels With Paws, a no-kill cat shelter in the Denver area.

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Roberta Beach Jacobson
Roberta contributed her essay, “Fritz: Pink Ears, Red Tape” to our anthology, Almost Perfect: Disabled Pets and the People Who Love Them. She has contributed to several other anthologies, has dozens of books published, and blogs as The Cat Lady for The Seattle Post Intelligencer.

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Linda Bruno
Linda contributed her essay, “Love Conquers All” to our uplifting anthology, Almost Perfect: Disabled Pets and the People Who Love Them. She has pieces in several other published anthologies and is currently a writing workshop facilitator.

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Crystal Parsons
Crystal contributed her essay, “A Most Remarkable Muse” to our animal-loving anthology, Almost Perfect: Disabled Pets and the People Who Love Them. It marked her authorial debut.

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Cheryl Caruolo
Cheryl contributed her essay, “Krieg” to our uplifting anthology, Almost Perfect: Disabled Pets and the People Who Love Them. She’s a freelance writer/editor who specializes in science, spirituality and personal essay.

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Sharon Sakson
Sharon contributed her essay, “Healing Touch of the Xolos” to our heartening anthology, Almost Perfect: Disabled Pets and the People Who Love Them. She has several full books about dogs to her credit and spends quite a bit of time judging dog shows.

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Carol Downie
Carol contributed her essay, “Simon” to our inspiring anthology, Almost Perfect: Disabled Pets and the People Who Love Them. She enjoys and writes about the outdoors and is working on a novel begun as a NaNoWriMo project.

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Vicki Tiernan

Vicki contributed her essay, “Inspiration in our Midst” to our inspirational anthology, Almost Perfect: Disabled Pets and the People Who Love Them. Before her untimely passing a few years ago, she was active and well-known in the pet community in her hometown of San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in City Tails, an SFDOG publication.