Published Authors E and F
Below is a listing of all the Northeast Florida published authors we can find or have been told about with the last names beginning with the letters E and F. If you are a published northeast Florida author and your name isn’t listed please use our Contact Us form and let us know. We would be happy to add you.
L.L. Eadie (Historical/Children and Young Adult Fiction)
Lake City, FL
Columbia County
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BooksbyLLEadie
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linda.eadie/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@AuthorLLEadie
Amazon Author Profile: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B084M7TK7T
L.L. Eadie is a Lake City author and former history teacher who writes historical fiction and young adult stories rooted in Florida’s past. A proud University of Florida graduate and Royal Palm Literary Award recipient, she brings rigorous historical research and genuine storytelling warmth to readers of all ages. She has been republishing and updating much of her backlist in eBook format in recent years.
Yearning for the Unattainable – Sept 2019
Alligator Warrior: Halpatter Tustenuggee – March 2020
Pedro Menendez: The Adelantado of Florida – March 2020
My Mistaken Identity – April 2020 (Revised and Enhanced from Mistaken Identity)
Momma Alligator Goes To School – May 2020
That’s Impossible, Cluckiepunkle! – June 2020
Don’t Kiss and Tell – July 2020
Jenniferology – Sept 2020
There Once Was a Man Called Napoleon – 2021
A Tale of Cleopatra – 2021
The Life of Rileigh – 2022
Darlene H. Eaton (Fiction)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
No website, Facebook page, or Amazon author profile found.
Darlene H. Eaton is a Jacksonville fiction author whose novel The Osceola Community Club was published in 2004. No additional published works or web presence have been located, but the novel remains available for purchase.
The Osceola Community Club – May 2004
(Jess) Elliott (Mystery/Horror Fiction)
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
Website: https://hedonistichoundpress.com/
Book Series Website: https://haintsretreat.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@hedonistichoundpress
Amazon Author Profile: https://www.amazon.com/J.-Elliott/e/B07NBQQWYL
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HedonisticHoundPress
Jess Elliott is a Gainesville author and Vice-President of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville who writes in two distinct directions: the humorous Haint Blue Adventures mystery series, set at a Buddhist meditation retreat in fictional Catfish Springs, Florida, and a growing body of classic-style ghost stories in the Victorian and Edwardian tradition. She runs her own imprint, Hedonistic Hound Press, and has been publishing consistently since 2016.
Ghost Lite – Oct 2016
Tales From Kensington: And Other Macabre and Unsettling Offerings – July 2018
Uncanny Stout: A Dark, Fortifying Collection of Macabre Stories – Jan 2020
Lady Eleanor Hosts a Seance: A Short Ghost Story – Sept 2023
Jiko Bukken: a ghost story – June 2024
The Odds: Short Stories – Sept 2025
Haint Blue Adventures Series
Monkey Mind (Book 1) – Oct 2018
Monkey Heart (Book 2) – 2020
It’s a Haint Blue Christmas – 2021
Contributed to:
Frightening Fables – Oct 2020
Cynthia Enuton (Gooberella) (YA/Children Fiction)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Website: http://gooberella.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Gooberella
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/C.L.-Enuton/author/B0034W64LA
Cynthia Enuton writes children’s and young adult fiction under the brand name Gooberella and publishes as C.L. Enuton, drawing on a deep love of animals to create books that celebrate the bond between people and their pets. Her Fur Angels series and stand-alone animal-centered titles have found a loyal audience among young readers and pet-loving families throughout Northeast Florida and beyond.
Fur Angels Series
Angel in a Fur Coat (Book 1) – Nov 2013
Legend of the Pink Toe (Book 2) – 2013
Wayward Angels (Book 3) – Nov 2013
Li Li: The True Story of a Goober – July 2011
The Do Do Blues: A K-9 Melodrama Howl – March 2012
Pugs (A History) – March 2012
Dolittleology (Fur Angels) – Sept 2014
Judith Erwin (Romance/Mystery/Suspense)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Website: https://juditherwin.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JudithErwinBooks/
Amazon Author Profile: https://www.amazon.com/Judith-Erwin/e/B00IR7O9QE
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@juditherwinAuthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/judith_erwin/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jerwinatt/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@juditherwinbooks
Books2Read: https://books2read.com/ap/8vErW9/Judith-Erwin
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judith-e-81339625/
Judith Erwin is an award-winning Jacksonville author and retired family law attorney whose ten novels span romantic suspense, mystery, and women’s fiction. A FAPA Gold Medal winner and FBI Citizen’s Academy alumna, she brings a lawyer’s precision and a storyteller’s instinct to her Shepherd and Associates crime-solving series and her Shadow romance titles. She is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and the Florida Writers Association.
Shadow of Doubt – March 2015
Shadows from the Past – May 2018
Shadow of Silence – June 2018
Shadow of Dance Series
The Ballroom (Book 1) – 2017
The Ballet (Book 2) – April 2018
The Studio (Book 3) – Nov 2019
Shepherd and Associates Series
Capitol Murder (Book 1) – 2021
Faith Lost (Book 2) – 2021
The Price of Murder (Book 3) – 2024
A Raging Fire (Book 4) – 2025
Frank Fiordalisi (Fiction) [1937 to January 22, 2022]
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
Amazon Author Profile: https://www.amazon.com/Frank-Fiordalisi/e/B01BTDSD1Y
Frank Fiordalisi was a Gainesville author, retired pharmacist, and veteran Miami-Dade County detective who published his debut novel, Ichabod Wolfe, at the age of 78. Set in the Civil War era and following a young orphan’s quest for justice in the American West, the book earned warm reviews from fellow members of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville. He passed away on January 22, 2022, at age 84, leaving behind a single novel that reflected a lifetime of storytelling patience.
Ichabod Wolfe – Feb 2018
Maggie FitzRoy (Historical Romance/Mystery Fiction)
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
St. Johns County
Website: https://maggiefitzroy.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/maggiefitzroyauthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maggiefitzroy/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maggiefitzroy
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Maggie-FitzRoy/author/B00DW6H8TA
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5857197.Maggie_FitzRoy
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/maggie-fitzroy
Substack: https://maggiefitzroy.substack.com
Maggie FitzRoy is a Ponte Vedra Beach historical romance and mystery author who draws on a career as a journalist, magazine editor, and history graduate to craft richly researched love stories set in the American past. Her three historical romance novels sweep readers from the Gilded Age to 1920s Miami Beach, and her Story Smith Mystery Series shows a writer expanding confidently into a new genre. She has also documented northeast Florida’s history in two nonfiction volumes for Arcadia Publishing.
Romance Suspense
His Haven
Beacon Beach
Mercy’s Way
Anthologies
Romancing the Holidays – Volume One 2020
Romancing the Holidays – Volume Two 2021
Romancing the Holidays – Volume Three 2022
Romancing the Tropics – Volume 1 – 2023
Story Smith Mystery Series
Never on Monday – 2023
Tuesday Means Trouble – 2024
Woe is Wednesday – 2025
Non-Fiction
Ponte Vedra Beach 2012
Jacksonville Beach 2013
Dorothy K. Fletcher (Non-Fiction/Fiction/Poetry)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Book Website: https://rememberingjacksonville.com/index.php
Amazon Author Profile: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B003ZDQ5SK/about
Dorothy K. Fletcher is a Jacksonville author and retired English teacher whose writing career spans poetry, local history, memoir, and fiction. After 35 years in Jacksonville classrooms, she turned her monthly Florida Times-Union column “By the Wayside” into the foundation of six well-loved local history books. Her 2025 historical novel The Chambermaid, published by the Florida Historical Society, explores the 1564 French Huguenot colony at Fort Caroline through the eyes of a female protagonist, marking an exciting new chapter for one of Jacksonville’s most prolific literary voices.
The Week of Dream Horses – 1984 (No Longer in Print)
The Cruelest Months – Sept 2002
Zen Fishing and Other Southern Pleasures – May 2005
Remembering Jacksonville: By the Wayside (American Chronicles) – Feb 2010
Growing Up Jacksonville: A ’50s and ’60s River City Childhood – April 2012
Lost Restaurants of Jacksonville (American Palate) – Nov 2013
Historic Jacksonville Theatre Palaces, Drive-ins and Movie Houses (Landmarks) – Dec 2015
Jacksonville on Wheels: A Car Culture Retrospective (Transportation) – 2018
HOJO Girl – 2020
Shelter From The Storm – 2021
Iconic Summer Camps Around Jacksonville – 2021
Christmas Lemonade – 2021
The Chambermaid – July 2025 (Florida Historical Society)
Marti L. Forchion (Non-Fiction)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Website: http://collegeprepplanner.com
Marti L. Forchion is a Jacksonville nonfiction author whose A+ College Prep Planner serves as a comprehensive guide for high school students and their parents navigating the college preparation process. Her practical, student-centered approach addresses one of the most stressful seasons in a family’s life with clarity and encouragement.
Marilyn Fowler (Non-Fiction-Memoir/ YA Fiction)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Amazon Author Profile: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004IR8F4Y
AboutMe Profile: https://about.me/AuthorMarilynFowler
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marilyn-fowler-author-37190b22/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4098310.Marilyn_Fowler
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marilyn.fowler.31
Marilyn Fowler was a Jacksonville memoirist and young adult fiction author whose two books drew on personal experience and family memory. Her memoir Silent Echoes was published in 2010, followed by the middle-grade memoir Me and Granmama in the Hill Country in 2014. She was recognized in the Florida Times-Union for her involvement in Jacksonville’s writing community. No public activity has been found since 2014 and she is believed to have passed away, as her websites on Blogspot and WordPress have been deleted, though this has not been confirmed through an obituary. Her books remain available through Amazon. Anyone with an update willing to share please get in touch.
Non-Fiction/Memoir
Silent Echoes – March 2010
YA/Fiction
Me and Granmama in the Hill Country – Dec 2014
Sohrab Homi Fracis (Fiction)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Website: https://www.fracis.com/
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Sohrab-Homi-Fracis/author/B001KIXC9M
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sohrab.fracis
Sohrab Homi Fracis is the first South Asian author to win the Iowa Short Fiction Award, juried through the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and described by the New York Times Book Review as among the most prestigious literary prizes America offers. Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), he came to the United States on scholarship, earned engineering and fiction degrees on two continents, and taught literature and creative writing at the University of North Florida from 1993 to 2003. His debut collection went on to win the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, a Walter E. Dakin Fellowship at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a German translation selected as one of that year’s Most Beautiful Books by the German Foundation for Book Art, and the South Asian Literary Association’s Distinguished Achievement Award. His novel Go Home was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing and his most recent collection True Fiction won the International Book Award for Fiction: Short Story in 2023. Jacksonville is proud to claim one of the most decorated literary voices in contemporary American fiction.
Ticket to Minto: Stories of India and America (Iowa Short Fiction Award) – 2001
Go Home – 2016
True Fiction – 2022
Audrey Frank (Romance/Young Adult Fiction) [May 22, 1928 to August 25, 2016]
St. Augustine, FL
St. Johns County
Audrey Frank was a St. Augustine romance and young adult author who published seven novels across two trilogies in a remarkable creative burst between 2013 and 2015. Her Angel Trilogy and Heart Trilogy brought warmth, faith, and gentle romance to readers, and her additional stand-alone titles extended her reach to holiday and short fiction anthologies. She passed away on August 25, 2016, leaving behind a body of work that continues to be available to readers.
Angel Trilogy
Under Margret’s Wing (Book 1) – May 2013
Whispering Angels (Book 2) – Nov 2013
Mrs. Angel (Book 3) – Aug 2014
The Heart Trilogy
The Wary Heart (Book 1) – May 2014
Secrets in the Night (Book 2) – June 2014
The Healing Heart (Book 3) – Aug 2014
Tales of Love and Mystery: A Collection of Short Stories From the Heart – July 2013
Snowbird Christmas Vol. 2 (Holiday Stories to Warm Your Heart) – Aug 2013
Love’s Last Laugh – June 2015
My Way: Swimming Against the Tide – Nov 2015
