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E. Michael Helms turned down a chance to play college baseball and joined the Marine Corps after high school graduation. He served with the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines ("The Magnificent Bastards") in 1967-68 during some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War.
A writer and editor, Helms enjoys canoeing, diving, hiking, and bird watching with his wife.
E-mail: mhelms@karmichaelpress.com
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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."
When writing his books Lawrence lived in a two-story waterfront house in Panama City, Florida. Well-known psychics visited his home and consistently reported a presence that "is not of this world." In the Gordon home, things really do go bump in the night!
E-mail: lgordon@knology.net
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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 stays busy researching and writing, and enjoys needlework, quilting, and woodwork.
E-mail: books@karmichaelpress.com
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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.
Sadly, Larson passed away in early 2005.
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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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