Published Authors L and M
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 L and M. 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.
Kassandra Lamb, a.k.a. Jessica Dale (Cozy Mysteries/Non-Fiction)
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
Website: https://kassandralamb.com/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/kassandralambauthor/
Email: lambkassandra3@gmail.com
Amazon Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/Kassandra-Lamb/e/B006NB5WAI
Kassandra Lamb is a Gainesville mystery author and retired psychotherapist who draws on more than twenty-five years of clinical practice to write psychologically grounded cozy mysteries. Her long-running Kate Hunting Mystery Series follows a former counselor turned private investigator through a decade of cases, while her Kate on Vacation novellas send the character on lighter international escapades and her Maria Banks and Buddy series pairs an amateur sleuth with her scene-stealing dog. Under her own name she has also written a practical guide for first-time authors, Someday Is Here!, drawing on her own path into independent publishing. She also writes contemporary romantic suspense under the pen name Jessica Dale, listed separately on the C and D page of this directory.
Kate Hunting Mystery Series
Multiple Motives – Dec 2011
Ill-Timed Entanglements – Mar 2012
Family Fallacies – Jun 2012
Celebrity Status – Oct 2012
Collateral Casualties – May 2013
Zero Hero – Dec 2013
Fatal Forty-Eight – Nov 2014
Suicidal Suspicions – Oct 2015
Anxiety Attack – Feb 2017
Kate on Vacation Series
An Unsaintly Season in St. Augustine – Mar 2013
Cruel Capers on the Caribbean – June 2014
Ten-Gallon Tensions in Texas – Mar 2015
Missing on Maui – Jun 2016
Maria Banks and Buddy Mystery Series
To Kill A Labrador – April 2016
Arsenic and Young Lacy – Sept 2016
The Call of the Woof – July 2017
A Mayfair Christmas Carol – Dec 2017
Patches In The Rye – July 2018
The Legend of Sleepy Mayfair – Oct 2018
Non-Fiction
Someday Is Here!: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing and Publishing Your First Book – Jan 2016
Betsy S. and K. Ross Lee (Children’s and Historical Fiction)
Elkton, FL
St. Johns County
Website: http://www.betsyslee.com/
Betsy S. Lee and K. Ross Lee are a husband-and-wife writing team from Elkton whose work spans children’s fiction and St. Augustine-rooted historical adventure. Betsy’s Off the Track, narrated from the perspective of a retired racing greyhound, won the Royal Palm Literary Award for Children’s/YA fiction and has been likened to Aesop’s Fables for its gentle lessons about adoption and adapting to new circumstances. The couple’s joint historical novel Andrew Ranson: St. Augustine’s Pirate, set in 17th-century St. Augustine against the backdrop of European powers battling for control of Florida, also won a Royal Palm Literary Award medallion, and their unpublished novella The Relic: Jerusalem to St. Augustine took First Place for book-length novella at the same competition. Their books are sold through their own website and Barnes & Noble, with select titles also on Amazon.
OFF THE TRACK – 2007
Off to Hollywood – Feb 2007 (Barnes & Noble)
Seven Red Knots: A St Augustine Time Travel Mystery – 2013 (Barnes & Noble)
Andrew Ranson: St Augustine’s Pirate – June 2014 (Royal Palm Literary Award Medallion)
The Relic: Jerusalem to St Augustine, FL – May 2018 (Royal Palm Literary Award, First Place, Unpublished Novella)
Kari Lemor (Romantic Suspense)
St. Augustine, FL
St. Johns County
Website: https://www.karilemor.com/
Amazon Profile: https://www.amazon.com/Kari-Lemor/e/B00ON2YDI6/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karilemorauthor/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Karilemorauthor/
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/karilemor/
Kari Lemor is a romantic suspense author who divides her year between a small town in New Hampshire and St. Augustine, drawing on both settings for the close-knit communities at the heart of her fiction. A self-described lifelong voracious reader, she only began seriously writing in recent years after her children grew up and left home, and has since built two substantial series: Love on the Line, a romantic suspense line about ex-military men bonded like brothers, and the Storms of New England family drama series. She has won the Golden Rose Award in contemporary romance and been a finalist in the National Excellence in Romance Fiction contest, and is a regular featured author at Coastal Magic Convention.
Love on the Line Series
Storms of New England Series
Forgotten Dreams: A Christmas in New England Story
Stand-Alone and Anthologies
Secrets Under the Sun: Last Chance Beach Romance
A Witch by Chance: A Written Fireside Short Story
I Looked Away: Fireside Short Story
Jolene MacFadden, see fiction pen name L.J. Green (Non-Fiction Writer)
Live Oak, FL
Suwannee County
(Native Floridian, born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida)
Author’s Website: https://jolenesbooksandmore.com
Author’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jolenesbooksandmore
Author’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jolenesbooksandmore/
Author’s Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/jolenemacinjax/
Author’s TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jolenesbooksandmore
Author’s YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/Jolenesbooksandmore2669
Author’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jolene-macfadden-kowalchuk
Author’s Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8647889.Jolene_MacFadden
Amazon Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/Jolene-MacFadden/e/B00O2JNQ7Y
Jolene MacFadden is the founder and editor of the North Florida Writers Tour, owner of Southern Dragon Publishing in Live Oak, and host of Jolene’s Book and Writers Talk podcast, now in its fifth season. A native Floridian raised in Jacksonville, she has spent over 30 years in digital marketing and built Southern Dragon’s consulting practice around helping authors develop their platforms, while pursuing a Master’s degree in Social Media at the University of Florida. Her non-fiction work focuses squarely on that expertise: practical guides on book marketing, branding, and the business side of being a published author, alongside a series of activity books for families camping at Florida’s public lands. She also writes steampunk-flavored historical mystery romance under the pen name L.J. Green, listed separately on the G and H page of this directory.
Books Published by Author
Insider’s Guide to Campground Hosting in Florida Parks: Free Campsites for Volunteers – Oct 2014
Top Ten Ways to Market Your Book for FREE – May 2020 (also available in audio format)
Author’s How to Brand You and Your Books – 2022
Workbook Series
Book Review Workbook: Practice Makes Perfect – Become a Professional – June 2021
Limericks – Create Your Own: Workbook – June 2021
Daily Business Appointment and Social Media Planner – November 2022
Kids Camping in Florida Activity Books
Suwannee River State Park: Activities, Games, Record Your Adventures and Share – June 2021
Anastasia State Park: Activities, Games, Record Your Adventures and Share – December 2021
Faver Dykes State Park: Activities, Games, Record Your Adventures and Share – Sept 2023
Florida Caverns State Park: Activities, Games, Record Your Adventures and Share – Sept 2023
Harry Mann (Historical Fiction)
St. Augustine, FL
St. Johns County
Website: harrymannauthor.blogspot.com (not updated in a number of years)
Harry Mann is a St. Augustine historical fiction author whose three-book Carroll Family Saga follows a single family across generations, moving from Molly’s opening installment in 2013 through Generations two years later. His blog has gone quiet for some time, and no newer titles or active social media presence have been located.
Molly (Carroll Family Saga Book 1) – May 2013
Brothers (Carroll Family Saga Book 2) – Aug 2013
Generations (Carroll Family Saga Book 3) – Sept 2015
Debi Matlack (Fiction/Paranormal)
Fleming Island, FL
Clay County
Email: debikayem@hotmail.com
Website/Blog: debikayem9.wixsite.com/thepenwhore (last updated 2 years ago)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DebiMatlack/
Debi Matlack is a Fleming Island author and self-described native-born Floridian who brings a wry, self-deprecating humor to her author bios as much as to her fiction. Her Blackwater Creek series opens with Old Dogs, while her Lucky Cat Shop duology follows Maeve Kavanaugh, who inherits her grandfather’s junk store along with a family legacy of supernatural abilities and generations-old danger. Reviewers have praised her research into protection charms, psychics, and ritual lore woven through the series.
Blackwater Creek Series
Old Dogs – Book 1 – Oct 2012
The Lucky Cat Shop Series
The Lucky Cat Shop – Book 1 – Feb 2016
Little Big Cat – Book 2 – Sept 2017
Christine Mazurk (General Fiction/Romance)
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
St. Johns County
Website: http://christinemazurk.com/
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christine.mazurk
Christine Mazurk is a Ponte Vedra Beach businesswoman and Ironman triathlete whose fiction often draws directly on her endurance-sport life. Her debut, Passion’s Race, grew out of a real health scare involving a tumor in her own leg and the question of whether she’d keep racing if she lost it, reimagined through her protagonist’s choice to leave a career and go pro. Her Mystical Series blends romance with psychic elements and well-researched supernatural detail, and she has also contributed to two anthologies, Sisters of Spirit and Identity, alongside her novel The Chase Is Over.
Mystical Connections – July 2013
Passion’s Race (Passion’s Series Book 1) – Oct 2014
Passion’s Spirit (Passion’s Series Book 2) – Oct 2015
Sisters of Spirit (An SOS Anthology Book 1) – Contributor – Re-Released April 2018 (originally published Jan 2013)
Lana McAra, former pen name Rosey Dow (Non-Fiction/Mystery/Romance)
Live Oak, FL
Suwannee County
Website: https://www.lanamcara.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lana.mcara2/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lanamcara2/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lanamcara/
Lana’s Fiction Writer’s Podcast: https://amzn.to/4iy8332
Amazon Profile for Rosey Dow: https://amzn.to/4hyy40V
Amazon Profile for Lana McAra: https://amzn.to/4h9w5jD
Goodreads for Lana McAra: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18656030.Lana_McAra
Bookbub for Rosey Dow: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/rosey-dow
Bookbub for Lana McAra: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/lana-mcara
Lana McAra is a Live Oak author who publishes mystery, romance, and practical non-fiction, having written for years under the pen name Rosey Dow before transitioning to her current byline. A mother of seven who homeschooled her large family, she draws on that experience directly in her non-fiction, alongside a budget-conscious recipe collection and a guide for women leaving narcissistic relationships. Her historical Trent Tyson mystery series, originally published as Rosey Dow, continues under her new name, and her 2025 craft guide How to Write a Novel That Sells reflects her own long path through traditional and self-publishing.
Non-Fiction
How to Write a Novel That Sells: From Concept to Publication – 2025
Homeschooling Lifestyle: Homeschooling a Large Family – 2021
Real Food on a Budget: Mom of 7’s Private Selection of Recipes for Good Food on a Tight Budget – 2021
Never Date A Narcissist Again: 5 Steps To Let Them Go Without Saying No – 2020
Fiction
The Englewood Medium: Shaken But Not Stirred
Reaping the Whirlwind (A Trent Tyson Historical Mystery) – published under Rosey Dow, republished 2023
Kevin M. McCarthy (Non-Fiction)
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
Website: kevinmccarthy.us (last updated Sept 2017)
Email: ceyhankevin@gmail.com
Kevin M. McCarthy is a Gainesville author, retired University of Florida English professor, and one of the most prolific chroniclers of Florida history in our entire directory, with more than thirty published or co-authored books spanning four decades. His subjects range across the state’s lighthouses, rivers, pirates, African American history, college football, and small towns, including multiple deep dives into University of Florida history and Gators football lore. A former Peace Corps volunteer in Turkey, he has also written on Turkish castles and history, and his 2015 Autobiography offers a capstone account of a career devoted almost entirely to documenting Florida’s past for general readers.
Grammar and Usage: A Rapid Review – 1980
Saudi Arabia: A Desert Kingdom – 1986
The History of Gilchrist County [Florida]: The Little County in the Middle of Nowhere, that is Close to Everything – 1986 – out of print, available through the Gilchrist Co. Historical Society
Florida Stories – 1989
More Florida Stories – 1989
Florida Lighthouses – 1990
Nine Florida Stories by Marjory Stoneman Douglas – 1990 (Editor)
The Book Lover’s Guide to Florida – 1992
Thirty Florida Shipwrecks – 1992
African Americans in Florida – 1993
The Gators and the Seminoles: Honor, Guts and Glory – 1993
Twenty Florida Pirates – 1994
Black Florida – 1995
Baseball in Florida – 1996
Guide to the University of Florida and Gainesville – 1997
Lighthouses of Ireland – 1997
A River in Flood and Other Florida Stories – 1998
Alligator Tales – 1998
Georgia’s Lighthouses and Historic Coastal Sites – 1998
Native Americans in Florida – 1999
Christmas in Florida – 2000
Fightin’ Gators: A History of the University of Florida Football – 2000
Ocala – 2001
Babe Ruth in Florida, Second Edition – 2002
Florida Outhouses – 2002
Aviation in Florida – 2003
Honoring the Past, Shaping the Future: The University of Florida, 1853-2003 – 2003
Apalachicola Bay – 2004
Over Southeast Florida – 2005
St. Johns River Guidebook – 2005
Cedar Key, Florida: An Illustrated History – 2006
African American Sites in Florida – 2007
Cedar Key, Florida: A History – 2007
Florida Outhouses: An Ode to the Shack in the Back – 2007
Historic Photos of University of Florida Football – 2009
Micanopy, Florida: An Illustrated History – 2009
Suwannee River Guidebook – 2009
Hillsborough River Guidebook (Rivers of Florida) – 2011
Remembering University of Florida Football – 2011
Caloosahatchee River Guidebook – 2012
Antioch on the Orontes: An Illustrated History – 2013
Castles of Turkey – 2013
Hamaca Happenings at Cross Creek – 2013
North Florida Waterways – 2013
South Florida Waterways – 2013
The Historic Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation: An Illustrated History – 2014
The Autobiography of Kevin M. McCarthy – 2015
St. Luke the Evangelist: An Illustrated Biography – 2015
Drayton Island: An Illustrated History – 2016
Gators and Seminoles: A Football Rivalry for the Ages (Images of Sports) – 2016
The Galata Bridge in Istanbul: An Illustrated History – 2016
Melrose, Florida: An Illustrated History – 2017
Col. Will G. Merrill, Jr. (Non-Fiction)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Colonel (Retired) Will G. Merrill, Jr. is a Jacksonville author and decorated West Point graduate, Class of 1958, who served eleven years overseas in Germany, Vietnam, Korea, and Greece before retiring from the U.S. Army in 1989. His decorations include the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal, and four Meritorious Service Medals. His first book, 9/11 Ordinary People: Extraordinary Heroes, draws on interviews with more than sixty people directly involved in the September 11 attacks, including New York’s mayor and senior police and fire officials, and was named Florida Writers Association Book of the Year as well as Book of the Year by militarywriters.com. His second book continues the theme with stories from Afghanistan and Iraq, and won First Place in History at the Royal Palm Literary Awards.
9/11 Ordinary People: Extraordinary Heroes: NYC – The First Battle in the War Against Terror! – Jul 2011
Ordinary People: Extraordinary Heroes – Afghanistan and Iraq: The Face of War – March 2017
Ron Miller (Historical Fiction/Non-Fiction)
Yulee, FL
Nassau County
Website: http://www.ronmillerbooks.com/
Email: rgmiller59@gmail.com
Amazon Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/Ron-Miller/e/B001KMMNZM/
Ron Miller is a Yulee author whose published work spans a planning survey from the late 1960s through short fiction and a historical novel decades later. Horse Bones collects twelve tales, while Callie Kinser of Brush Creek follows a single character through a rural Appalachian-flavored narrative.
Eday and Hoy: A Development Survey – 1969 (out of print)
Horse Bones: 12 Tales – 2008
Callie Kinser of Brush Creek – 2014
Marie Morton (Romance)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mmortonwlms/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marie.mortonwilliams/
Amazon Profile: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marie-Morton/author/B0CM1KR6GZ
Marie Morton is a Jacksonville romance author who has built her published presence through contributions to the First Coast Romance Writers’ anthology series, placing stories in consecutive Love of Winter collections before publishing her own stand-alone romance, A Twist of Fate at the Matchmaker’s Inn, in 2025. Her steady run of releases over three years suggests an author still finding her independent footing after starting out in the local romance writing community’s group projects.
Contributions to First Coast Romance Writers’ Anthologies
For the Love of Winter 1 – Anthology – 2023
For the Love of Winter 2 – Anthology – 2024
A Twist of Fate at the Matchmaker’s Inn – 2025
Tia Mosby (Children’s Book)
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
Website: http://tiamosbybooks.blogspot.com/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/tia.mosby
Book Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ExtraordinaryAnnie
Tia Mosby is a Gainesville children’s author whose picture book, Extraordinary Annie, the author recommends purchasing directly through Barnes & Noble or by contacting her personally. She also offers supplementary school worksheets free on her website, suggesting an author with an interest in the educational, classroom-facing side of children’s publishing alongside the book itself.
Extraordinary Annie – best purchased via Barnes & Noble or by contacting the author directly
Tammy Mowrey (Illustrator/Children’s Fiction)
Branford, FL
Suwannee County
Amazon Author Profile: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B08Q5W1JQH/about
Author Email: angelthm@outlook.com
Facebook Personal Profile: https://www.facebook.com/tammy.mowrey.3
Tammy Mowrey is a Branford children’s author and illustrator whose debut picture book, The Original Mr. Phelps, carries a simple message of self-acceptance for young readers: that what makes you different is what makes you original.
The Original Mr. Phelps: What makes you different makes you Original! – Feb 2024
Nancy H. Murray (Fiction/Non-Fiction/Children’s Fiction)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Website: http://www.nancymurrayauthor.com/
Email: Nan7960@comcast.net
Personal Facebook: facebook.com/nancy.murray.7737 (hasn’t posted since 2013, aside from a 2017 photo)
Nancy H. Murray is a Jacksonville author whose work spans local history, children’s fiction, and disaster-themed storytelling for young readers. The Madonnas of St. Augustine documents a little-known piece of local religious and artistic history, while The Night the Elephants Cried tells a children’s story set against the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and Gullah, The Nawleans Cat Meets Katrina folds Hurricane Katrina into an animal-centered narrative for young readers.
The Madonnas of St. Augustine: A Remarkable History – 2013
The Night the Elephants Cried: A Story of the Tsunami – 2008
Gullah, The Nawleans Cat Meets Katrina – Oct 2011
Mary of the Candles: A La Leche Sketchbook – publication date unconfirmed; available only through the author’s website
Eric Musgrove (Historical Fiction/Non-Fiction)
Live Oak, FL
Suwannee County
No longer has a website; personal Facebook page not updated since 2015.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eric.musgrove.399
Eric Musgrove is a seventh-generation native of Suwannee County and the county’s official historian and records manager through the Clerk of Court’s office, a role he’s held since 1998. He has chaired the Suwannee County Historical Commission since 2014 after joining as its youngest-ever member in 2003, and his local history work has drawn coverage from the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Chicago Tribune. He writes a weekly historical column for the Suwannee Democrat and has authored five books on the county’s past, including Reflections of Suwannee County, Suwannee Memories, and the historical novel There Let Me Live and Die, in addition to the two titles below.
Suwannee County (Images of America) – Nov 2011
Lost Suwannee County – July 2017
Max Myllan (Mystery/Suspense)
Palm Coast, FL
Flagler County
Facebook: facebook.com/Max-Myllan-1423556264566983 (nothing posted since creation)
Max Myllan is a Palm Coast mystery and suspense author behind the Blue Collar Assassins series, which follows working-class hitmen named for their day-job trades. Online activity for the author appears to have gone quiet not long after the series began, with no updates to social media or a working website found in recent searches.
Blue Collar Assassins Series
The Carpenter – March 2014
The Electrician – Sept 2014
[Last updated 06/25/2026]
