Published Authors P and Q
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 P and Q. 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.
Marcus Pactor (Fiction)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Website: marcuspactor.wordpress.com (no posts since 2013)
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marcus.pactor
Marcus Pactor is a Jacksonville fiction writer who teaches at the University of North Florida and earned his MFA from Texas State University. His debut collection, Vs. Death Noises, won the 2011 Subito Press Prize for Fiction and drew a striking endorsement from Southern literary icon Padgett Powell, who called him “a young twisted fellow from Jacksonville” producing the best new fiction he’d seen in some time. His second collection, Begat Who Begat Who Begat, includes the story “Megaberry Crunch,” selected for Best Small Fictions 2021, and his work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Heavy Feather Review, and The Collagist, among others. He also contributed to the local anthology Fifteen Views of Jacksonville.
Vs. Death Noises – 2012
Begat Who Begat Who Begat – 2021
Gertie Poole (Children’s Fiction) – 1954-2011
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Gertie Poole was a Jacksonville author and devoted Navy wife who began writing fiction later in life and published two novels despite living with blindness. Her debut, The Realm, imagines a magical community fleeing persecution to build a hidden world of its own, and its sequel, Magic Trash, follows a banished elf serving out a sentence in a Florida trailer park when a string of murders forces her into an unlikely investigation, blending fantasy with dark comedy. She passed away on March 30, 2011, with her literary career just beginning to take off.
The Realm – Oct 2007
Magic Trash – April 2008
Karen White Porter (Children’s Books)
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
Amazon Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/Karen-White-Porter/e/B00N5JF59Y
Book Series Website: emotatude.blogspot.com (not updated since May 2017)
Facebook Author Page: Karen White Porter Author (friend request required; only one post since Aug 2018)
Karen White Porter is a Gainesville children’s author and Nationally Board Certified Teacher who founded her own school, Loga Springs Academy, after a 25-plus year teaching career that took her from New Jersey and New York to Scotland and Shanghai. Her long-running Emotatude series, several volumes co-authored and illustrated with her daughter Christi Grace Porter, gives children concrete tools and characters for navigating fear, grief, anger, and joy, and her 2023 Royal Palm Literary Award for Best Picture Book recognized that body of work. She is a member of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville and a regular presence at the Sunshine State Book Festival, where she performs puppet shows featuring her books’ characters.
Live Wide Open: When a Life Purpose Intersects with Our Own – July 2015
Countdown to Navidad: A Family Christmas Across Borders – Nov 2018
Turtle One and Turtle Two – Aug 2014
Emotatudes Series
What to Do When You Get the Bejeebers Scared Out of You: A Bejeeber Maintenance Manual (Book 1) – Feb 2014
How to be Heebie Jeebie Free: A guide to help children and adults cope with fear, disgust, and gross things (Book 2) – Aug 2015
The Secret of Warm Fuzzies: Opening Your Heart to Love and Warmth (Book 3) – June 2015
Cranky Crandle’s Crazy Conniptions: How to Deal with Conniption Fits – Sept 2016
How Gregory Deals with a Case of Grief (Book 5) – Nov 2018
Anne and Amy’s Anger Emotatude: How to Find Your Power in the Midst of Anger (Book 6) – May 2017
Joy Springs Forth: A Guide to Finding Joy (Book 9) – Oct 2018
Fear Walking: The Fear Emotatude – May 2020
Emotion Mandalas: Finding Feelings Through Art (Book 12) – July 2020
Emotion Mandala Coloring Book: Color Your Feelings – Aug 2020
Compassion: Making the World Better with the Compassion Emotatude – Feb 2021
It Matters: A Caring Emotatude (Book 13) – Feb 2021
Frustration: Crandle Copes with the Conniption Emotatude (Book 14) – Feb 2021
A Blue Emotatude Christmas – Sept 2021
I Feel… When… Series
I Feel Angry When You Eat My Cookie – Oct 2022
I Feel Confused When Rules Change – April 2023
I Feel Magical When I Pretend – Jan 2024
Finding the Goddess Within: Working with the Moon Influences Of 2024 – Nov 2023
Janet Post, a.k.a. Janet Schrader, see also Gabe Thompson (Western/YA Fantasy/Mystery/Romance)
Live Oak, FL
Suwannee County
Email: jschrade52@yahoo.com
Website: https://jpostauthorsimple.site/
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/jschrade52
Janet Post is a Live Oak author who writes across an unusually wide range, from Cracker-style Florida westerns to YA fantasy and mystery, often collaborating with her son Gabe Thompson on the Vagrant Chronicles and other co-written titles. Her westerns Alligator Gold and Cracker Justice both draw on the particular culture clash of cattle ranching in Florida rather than the more familiar Texas plains, while her guide The Young Adult Writer’s Journey, published under Janet Schrader-Post, shares craft advice with newer writers.
Alligator Gold (Cracker Western) – 2009
City of the Dead – 2013 (out of print)
Cracker Justice – 2020
The Young Adult Writer’s Journey (as Janet Schrader-Post) – 2018
Spellcast Waters – 2018
Let There Be Dragons – 2020
Doorway to Hell – 2020
The Vagrant Chronicles (Co-Writer with Gabe Thompson)
Vagrant (Book 1) – 2016
Mutant (Book 2) – 2018
Descendants (Book 3) – 2022
Voodoo Child (Co-Writer with Gabe Thompson) – Aug 2018
Valley of the Golden Mummies (Co-Writer with Gabe Thompson) – Dec 2018
The Jungle and Other Tales Anthology – 2020
Sarah Price (Christian Romance/Fiction/Non-Fiction)
Archer, FL
Alachua County
Amazon Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/Sarah-Price/e/B00734HBQM
Website: http://www.sarahpriceauthor.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/sarahpriceauthor
Facebook: http://facebook.com/fansofsarahprice
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/sarahpriceauthr/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SarahPriceAuthor
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/SarahPrice
Sarah Price is one of America’s best-known authors of Amish fiction and, with more than seventy titles to her name, by far the most prolific writer in our entire directory. Born into a Mennonite family with roots in Pennsylvania tracing back to the 1700s, she began living among Amish communities in Lancaster County in 1978 and has drawn on that firsthand experience ever since, including a celebrated series of Jane Austen retellings set in Amish country, beginning with First Impressions, her take on Pride and Prejudice. She holds advanced degrees in communication, marketing, and educational leadership, is an ordained minister, and was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013, the same year she began writing full-time from Branded, her thirty-acre ranch in Archer where her daughter trains and rehomes wild mustangs. Her novels have repeatedly topped Amazon’s overall and religion bestseller charts and the ECPA Christian fiction bestseller list.
The Adventures of a Family Dog Named Peek-a-boo
A Small Dog Named Peek-a-boo – 2011
Peek-a-boo Runs Away – 2011
The Amish Classics
First Impressions – 2014
The Matchmaker – 2015
Second Chances – 2015
Sense and Sensibility – 2016
Mount Hope – 2016
Newbury Acres – 2017
The Amish Cookie Club
The Amish Cookie Club – 2019
An Amish Cookie Club Christmas – 2019
An Amish Cookie Club Courtship – 2020
Amish Fairytale
Belle: An Amish Retelling of Beauty and the Beast – 2017
Ella: An Amish Retelling of Cinderella – 2018
Sadie: An Amish Retelling of Snow White – 2018
Amish Circle Letters
Amish Circle Letters – 2013
Amish Circle Letters II – 2014
The Amish of Ephrata
The Tomato Patch – 2012
The Quilting Bee – 2012
The Hope Chest – 2013
The Clothes Line – 2013
Amish of Lancaster
Fields of Corn – 2012
Hills of Wheat – 2012
Pastures of Faith – 2012
Valley of Hope – 2012
Amish Quilts of Indiana
Annie’s Quilt – 2018
Becky’s Quilt – 2018
Carolyn’s Quilt – 2019
Dottie’s Quilt – 2019
Esther’s Quilt – 2020
Fruits of the Spirit: An Amish Christian Romance Soap Opera (17 episodes, 2021–2023)
Episodes 1–12 – 2021
Episodes 13–16 – 2022
Episode 17 – 2023
Plain Fame
Plain Fame – 2012
Plain Change – 2013
Plain Again – 2013
Plain Return – 2015
Plain Choice – 2016
Plain Christmas – 2016
Shire Halls
The Gentleman of Shire Hall – 2021
The Wedding at Shire Hall – 2021
The Lady of Shire Hall – 2021
Standalone Novels
Gypsy in Black: The Romance of Gypsy Travelers – 2011
Postcards from Abby – 2012 (no longer in print)
Amish Faith: An Amish Christian Romance – 2013
An Amish Buggy Ride – 2014
The Divine Secrets of the Whoopie Pie Sisters (with “Whoopie Pie” Pam Jarrell) – 2014
An Empty Cup – 2015
Secret Sister – 2015
Into the Amish – 2016
Cowgirl Cat – 2016
The Faded Photo – 2017
Heavenly Blues – 2017
Shattered Mirror – 2018
Mending Fences: An Amish Christian Romance Adapted from Romeo and Juliet – 2018
Short Stories/Novellas
An Amish Christmas Carol – 2012
A Christmas Gift for Rebecca – 2014
Non-Fiction
Plain & Simple Traditions: Amish & Mennonite Holidays – 2014
Pink Umbrellas: The 12 Days of Devotion – 2015
Anthologies
Writing a Novel Anthology – 2014
The Amish Christmas Letters – 2018
Robin Pullen (Playwright and Children’s Stories)
Fernandina Beach, FL
Nassau County
Website: https://pullenplaywright.com/
Amazon Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Robin-Pullen/author/B0D8VJTYVY
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pullenrobin/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robin.pullen.9003
Robin Pullen is a Fernandina Beach playwright and teacher of gifted and special needs students whose national theater credits long preceded her move into children’s books. Her musical Women of Roswell won Best New Play at the Georgia Theater Conference, and Paint!, her musical about Marc Chagall, won the National Children’s Theatre Festival and is published by Concord Theatrical. Her 2024 children’s book, Caro’s Comet, grew out of her own musical about astronomer Caroline Herschel, the first woman to discover a comet and earn a salary as an astronomer; the musical itself was a 2024 Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights semifinalist and has toured schools and museums, including a stop at Jacksonville’s MOSH. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a featured author at the Sunshine State Book Festival.
Caro’s Comet: The Celestial Cinderella – 2024
N.L. Quatrano, a.k.a. Nancy L. Quatrano and Lynn Kathleen (Non-Fiction/Mystery)
Hastings, FL
St. Johns County
Website: http://nlquatrano.com/
Business Website: http://ontargetwords.com/
Nancy L. Quatrano, who also writes as N.L. Quatrano and Lynn Kathleen, is a Hastings author and professional editor who founded her editing and ghostwriting business, On-Target Words, in 2007 after more than thirty years in corporate America. Recognized as 2010 Woman of the Year by the National Association of Professional Women, she has authored or co-authored 21 books across mystery fiction, inspirational non-fiction, and craft guides for new writers, including her Point and Shoot Mystery Series and several co-authored titles with Daria Ludas and Caroline Wolff.
Point and Shoot Mystery Series
Murder in Black and White (Book 1) – Aug 2015
Still Shot (Book 2) – Nov 2016
Yellow Ribbon – Oct 2015
Contributor to Anthologies
The Method Writers – Dec 2017
Snowbird Christmas: Holiday Stories to Warm Your Heart (Volume 1) – Nov 2012
Snowbird Christmas: Holiday Stories to Warm Your Heart (Volume 2) – Aug 2013
Snowbird Christmas: Holiday Stories to Warm Your Heart (Volume 3) – Nov 2015
With Daria Ludas (Co-Author)
30 Shades of Dead: A collection of mysteries to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Sisters in Crime – Oct 2017
Merciful Blessings (Amazing Grace Trucking Company Book 1) – Feb 2018
Keeping Faith (Amazing Grace Trucking Company Book 2) – Mar 2021
Always Chasing ‘Em: Short Mysteries – 2020
With Caroline Wolff
Tell the Children: The ministry of an ordinary woman – Nov 2013
One at a Time – Nov 2013
[Last updated 06/25/2026]
