Published Authors N and O
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 N and O. 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.
Jennifer Nestor (Children’s Books)
St. Augustine, FL
St. Johns County
Author Website: https://JenNestorAuthor.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jennestorauthor/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jennestorauthor
Jennifer Nestor is a St. Augustine children’s author whose 2024 debut, Jane Escapes to the Jungle of Individuality, encourages young readers to embrace what makes them unique. As a newer voice in the directory with a single title so far, she represents the kind of emerging local author the North Florida Writers Tour aims to support as her catalog grows.
Jane Escapes to the Jungle of Individuality – 2024
Cheryl Norman, a.k.a. Cheryl Clark (Christian Romance/Suspense/Cookbooks)
Lake City, FL
Columbia County
Food Blog: https://hastytasty.blog/about/
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Cheryl-Norman/author/B002BMMYQ8
Cheryl Norman is a Lake City author who, by her own account on Goodreads, has now retired from writing fiction after a long career spanning romantic suspense, sweet category romance, and cookbooks. Her debut mass-market romantic suspense, Restore My Heart, set in the classic car restoration world, earned her a mention in Publishers Weekly as one of ten new romance authors to watch, and Running Scared scored a perfect rating from Romance Reviews Today. She later shifted from suspense to gentler, faith-inflected romance with her Drake Springs series, and continues to blog about food at Hasty Tasty Meals, the spirit behind her line of practical cookbooks.
Full Moon Series
Full Moon Honeymoon (Volume 2) – 2001
Last Resort (The Full Moon Series Book 1) – 2002
Full Moon Lullaby (Book 3) – 2003
Mustang Sally Series
Restore My Heart – 2007
Reclaim My Life – 2009
Rebuild My World – 2011
Drake Springs Series
Return to Drake Springs (Book 1) – June 2016
Foster Care (Book 2) – 2016
A Dose of Romance (Book 3) – Nov 2015
Tender Loving Care (Book 4) – Dec 2015
Drake Springs Memories (Book 5) – Nov 2015
Other Romance Novels
Running Scared – 2008
Storms of the Heart – Wings ePress (sequel to Full Moon Honeymoon)
Running Out Of Time – Nov 2013 – OUT OF PRINT
The Wedding Day Collection – Contributor – 2013 – OUT OF PRINT
The Heart of Christmas – Christian Romance Anthology – 2013 – OUT OF PRINT
Christmas Blessings – Contributor – 2014
Cookbooks
Hasty Tasty RV Meals – 2006
Recipes for Recovery – 2011
Chef Cheryl’s Hasty Tasty Meals – Jan 2014
Mallory O’Connor (Fiction/Historical/Non-Fiction)
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
Email: oconnormallm@gmail.com
Website: https://oconnorartllc.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mallorymoconnor/
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Mallory-M.-OConnor/author/B073QXR5LQ
Mallory O’Connor is a Gainesville writer, art historian, and musician, and Professor Emerita of Art History at Santa Fe College, where she taught for twenty years alongside the University of Florida. Born in Illinois and raised on a ranch along California’s American River, she drew on that landscape for her historical American River Trilogy, which follows three immigrant families through the turbulent mid-century decades. She has also launched a paranormal eco-thriller series beginning with Epiphany’s Gift, which won First Prize at the Los Angeles Book Festival, and co-authored a food-and-art memoir, The Kitchen and the Studio, with her artist husband John O’Connor. A former Vice President of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville, she has appeared as a guest on Jolene’s Book and Writers Talk podcast.
Fiction / Paranormal
Epiphany’s Gift (First Prize, Los Angeles Book Festival)
Fiction / Historical — American River Trilogy
American River: Currents – March 2017
American River: Confluence – Sept 2018
Non-Fiction
Florida’s American Heritage River: Images from the St. Johns Region
Lost Cities of the Ancient Southeast
Local Lives In A Global Pandemic
The Kitchen and the Studio: A Memoir of Food and Art (with John A. O’Connor; FAPA Silver Award)
Janis Owens (Novelist, Memoirist, Folklorist and Storyteller)
Newberry, FL
Alachua County
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Janis-Owens/author/B000APG4TG
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Owens
Janis Owens is a North Florida novelist, memoirist, and folklorist born in Marianna and raised across the Deep South before settling on a farm in Newberry. A University of Florida graduate who studied in Harry Crews’s celebrated creative writing workshop, she made her debut with My Brother Michael in 1997, which won the Chautauqua South Fiction Award for Best Novel and launched the loosely connected Catts family trilogy continued in Myra Sims and The Schooling of Claybird Catts. Her 2012 novel American Ghost won a Florida Book Award silver medal, and her most recent book, Hidden in Plain Sight, is a work of history examining the 1916 Newberry mass lynching, the very town where she lives. Her essays and book reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Writer’s Digest, and novelist Pat Conroy once called her one of the finest novelists of her generation.
Myra Sims – 1999
The Schooling of Claybird Catts – 2009
American Ghost – 2012 (Florida Book Award, Silver Medal)
My Brother Michael – 2013 (Chautauqua South Fiction Award, Best Novel)
Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of the Newberry Mass Lynching of 1916 – 2021
Martha B. Owens (Fiction)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Email: owensmartha344@yahoo.com
Facebook: facebook.com/AuthorMarthaBOwens (last updated 2019)
Martha B. Owens is a Jacksonville author of inspirational Christian fiction whose two-book story follows Cathleen O’Connor’s discovery of family secrets in Ireland and the ripple effects of love and loss across a generation. Charlie’s Last Wish introduces the story, and its sequel, Picking Up the Pieces, continues the family’s journey through grief toward faith and renewal. Both titles are currently out of print, and no newer work or active social presence has surfaced.
Charlie’s Last Wish – Aug 2015 – OUT OF PRINT
Picking Up the Pieces – Dec 2016 – OUT OF PRINT
[Last updated 06/25/2026]
