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Born of a Tlingit mother and Swedish-Finnish father, Walt Larson grew up in a small fishing village in southeast Alaska. In his teens he left the wilderness to head for the lower Forty-eight.
With a four-year stint in the Air Force behind him, he found his way to the ocean-going tugs that became his life. Larson spent years sailing around the world, then back in Anchorage, he discovered another love--telling tall tales.
Larson passed away early this year.
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Leo Carpenter taught in Wellesley, Massachusetts, served in the Air Force during the Korean War, and receiving his degree from Boston State.
Carpenter passed away several years ago. He used to divide his time between Cape Cod and Florida's Emerald Coast where he entertained people with his writings, and waiting for the muse to strike.
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Lawrence Gordon is a 30-year veteran of broadcasting. As an author and ghost expert, Gordon has entertained radio audiences across the nation, Canada, and Europe with his thought-provoking tales of "the other side."
Lawrence lives with his family in a two-story waterfront house on a bayou in Panama City, Florida. Well-known psychics have visited their home and consistently reported a presence that "is not of this world." In the Gordon home, things really do go bump in the night!
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Brenda Ray earned a master's degree in nurse-midwifery from the University of Florida. In 1997 a life threatening latex allergy abruptly ended her nurse-midwifery career.
Creative writing offered a healthy distraction. Brenda won first place in a 1997 Romance Writers of America
contest, and her work has appeared in various regional and national publications, including Midwifery Today.
Brenda is married and the mother of three sons. She lives near Panama City, Florida. When she's not busy researching and writing, Brenda enjoys sailing, needlework, quilting, and woodwork.
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