Published Authors W to Z
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 W to Z. 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.
John Hamilton Waaser, see also Jay Hamilton (Non-Fiction)
Lake Butler, FL
Union County
Business Website: https://www.cpubfl.com/
Email: jhwaaser@gmail.com
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jhwaaser
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-waaser-2bbb44149/
John Hamilton Waaser is a Lake Butler nonfiction author and retired motorcycle journalist who served as the Eastern U.S. Contributing Editor for Cycle World magazine through the mid-to-late 1970s. He is a partner with fellow North Florida author Jay Hamilton, profiled on the G and H page of this directory, in Crossroads Publishing of Florida, a small Union County press the two run together producing practical how-to titles, drawing on Waaser’s decades of journalistic background to keep their nonfiction well-researched and detail-oriented.
Memory Improvement: Easy Ways to Quickly and Naturally Improve Learning, Studying, Reading and Retention – 2016 (Smashwords only)
Treating Fatigue: Using Essential Oils, Herbal Teas and Supplements to Battle Fatigue and Increase Energy – 2016 (Smashwords only)
Building Confidence: How to Act Like You Know You Can do This! – 2017 (Smashwords only)
Photographic Composition – 2017
Kenneth Wald (Non-Fiction/Memoir)
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
Website: https://GhostsOnTheWallBook.com
Amazon Profile: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Kenneth-D.-Wald/author/B001ITRHNA
Facebook Profile: https://www.facebook.com/ken.wald.35
Kenneth Wald is a Gainesville author and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Florida, where he also held the Samuel “Bud” Shorstein Professorship of American Jewish Culture and Society and served as director of the Center for Jewish Studies. His scholarly books on religion and politics in the United States, Great Britain, and Israel earned him the university’s Teacher/Scholar of the Year award, and his most recent academic work, The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism, won the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies in 2020. Late in his career he turned to memoir with The Ghosts on the Wall, an account of how the Holocaust shaped three generations of his own family, the Schönwalds, built from his grandparents’ letters and his parents’ recorded recollections.
The Ghosts on the Wall: A Grandson’s Memoir of the Holocaust – 2024
The Foundations of American Jewish Liberalism – 2019 (National Jewish Book Award, American Jewish Studies, 2020)
Religion and Politics in the United States – 2018
The Politics of Gay Rights – 2000
Delores Leggett Walker (General Fiction)
Mayo, FL
Lafayette County
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/deloreslw
Amazon Author Page: https://amzn.to/4kyuy9e
Delores Leggett Walker is a longtime Mayo resident and local historian whose fiction draws on her deep ties to Lafayette County. Her Promise trilogy, published across the mid-2010s, gave way to her longer-running Destiny Diaries series, which has continued for nearly a decade with one new installment roughly every year or two, alongside a stand-alone collection of family stories.
Legend of Promise – Aug 2013
Gathering Promises – Aug 2014
Promises Kept – Aug 2015
Destiny Diaries Series
Sailor (Book 1) – Aug 2016
Daughtry (Book 2) – Feb 2019
KerryLynn (Book 3) – Oct 2020
Zac (Book 4) – Nov 2021
Rockette (Book 5) – May 2023
Rick (Book 6) – Aug 2024
Daddy’s Supper Tales – Nov 2017
Mitty Walters (Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Suspense)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Website: http://mitty-walters.com/
Email: mittywalters1@gmail.com
Personal Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/mitty.walters1
Amazon Author Profile: https://www.amazon.com/Mitty-Walters/e/B00KYAZOBG
Mitty Walters is a Jacksonville sci-fi, fantasy, and suspense author whose two published novels, Breaking Gravity and Breaking Destiny, arrived five years apart in the mid-to-late 2010s. A third title, Whiskey Tango Hotel, has been announced for some time but remained unpublished as of the most recent check of this page.
Breaking Gravity – 2014
Breaking Destiny – 2019
Whiskey Tango Hotel – announced, not yet published
Joan T. Warren (YA Historical Fiction/Non-Fiction)
Fleming Island, FL
Clay County
Website: https://joantwarren.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jtwHeart2Heart/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joantwarrenmhsot/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/31422868.Joan_T_Warren
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0C3FGJ7GG
Joan T. Warren is a Fleming Island author whose Instagram handle hints at a professional background in occupational therapy, a field reflected directly in her handwriting activity book for young children. Her debut historical fiction title, The Bent Tree Path, takes on the Trail of Tears as a “secret” history, while her guided journal offers a structured 12-week path through inner healing, showing a writer equally comfortable in narrative fiction and practical self-help.
The Bent Tree Path, Book One: A Secret Trail of Tears (2024)
My Road to Recovery: A 12-Week Guided Journal for Inner Healing (2023)
Gwen Watkins (Children’s/Christian Writer)
Mayo, FL
Lafayette County
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/Gwen-Watkins/e/B079WQRQC5
Gwen Watkins is a Mayo author of Christian-themed children’s fiction and devotional journals. Her Jesse and Friends series follows a recurring young cast through gentle, faith-centered stories, while The House on Wheels and the Girl from Across the Street centers on the theme of true friendship across difference. Her Scriptural Promises Daily Journal has gone through at least two printings, suggesting steady, ongoing interest from her readers.
The Trip (Jesse and Friends) – 2017 – OUT OF PRINT
Jesse And Friends (Book 2) – 2018
The House on Wheels and the Girl from Across the Street: A Story of True Friendship – 2019
Journey to Faith – 2015
Scriptural Promises Daily Journal – 2017 and again 2019
Doug Weldon (Sci-Fi)
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
Website: http://www.dougweldon.media
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Doug-Weldon-artist-and-author-1488394134745562/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doug.weldon/
Amazon Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/Doug-Weldon/e/B01HVO41HK/
Doug Weldon is a Florida-native science fiction author and fine arts graduate who lives and works near the University of Florida. His debut, Indravati, launched a space-opera series following the crew of a freighter starship through alien border conflicts and shipboard sabotage, drawing favorable comparisons for its blend of hard and soft science fiction and its richly imagined trading guilds and alien societies. He has cited Poul Anderson, Glen Cook, and John Scalzi as influences, and when not writing can often be found canoeing Florida’s rivers in search of ice age fossils.
A Science Fiction Adventure of the Starship Indravati
Indravati (Book 1) – 2016
Fractured Minds (Book 2) – 2017
Flowers of Genocide (Book 3) – 2022
Blue Neural Nights: A Sci-Fi Adventure Through Virtual Reality – 2023
Lynn S. Westhoff (Fantasy Romance)
Gainesville, FL
Alachua County
Website: https://lynnwesthoff.com/
Amazon Profile: https://www.amazon.com/stores/L.-S.-WESTHOFF/author/B0DMGLNNKW
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lsweshoff.author
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lswesthoff.author
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/L.S.Westhoff
Lynn S. Westhoff is a Gainesville fantasy romance author launching a planned trilogy with her 2024 debut, Chronicles of the Time Bound Warrior. The second installment, Flames of Rebellion, was in editing as of the most recent update to this page, with a third and final volume, War of Realms, planned to close out the series.
Chronicles of the Time Bound Warrior (Book 1) – published 2024
Flames of Rebellion (Book 2) – in editing, expected 2025
War of Realms (Book 3) – planned as the epic conclusion
June Weltman (YA Mystery)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Website: https://www.juneweltman.com/
June Weltman is a Jacksonville author who works for the Florida Times-Union and published a single young adult mystery in the early 2000s. No additional titles have been located since.
Mystery of the Missing Candlestick – 2004 – OUT OF PRINT
Linda Whiddon (Sci-Fi/Fantasy)
St. Augustine, FL
St. Johns County
Website: linda-whiddon.blogspot.com — no posts since 2011
Amazon Author Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/Linda-Whiddon/e/B004KA5ZHE
Linda Whiddon is a St. Augustine science fiction and fantasy author whose Moem Chronicles unfolds across four books between 2006 and 2014, building a mystical, prophecy-driven fantasy world. She also published a single entry in a planned Jessie Blade Mysteries series the same year her Moem Chronicles began, though no further installments followed.
The Moem Chronicles
Moem: The Beginning (Book I) – July 2006
Moem the Mystical Prophesies (Book II) – Aug 2012
The Long Kill – Part One (Book III) – Oct 2012
The Long Kill Part Two (Book IV) – Jul 2014
Jessie Blade Mysteries Series
A Murder in Oak Creek Canyon (Book 1) – 2006
Jonnie Kidd Whittington (Historical Fiction/Children’s Fiction)
Mayo, FL
Lafayette County
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JonnieKiddWhittingtonBooks/
Personal Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jonnienotes
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jonnie-Whittington/author/B002F87OK4
Jonnie Kidd Whittington is a Mayo author whose work spans Christian spiritual-warfare nonfiction, a multi-generational family saga in her Kidd Family Series, and the Katy Kidd’s Family Adventures line of nostalgic children’s coloring and activity books. Her fifth Kidd Family installment, Heartbreak, takes on the deeply personal subject of her son’s struggle with addiction, marking a notably candid turn in an otherwise nostalgic and faith-centered body of work.
Build Your House – Jan 2002
Protecting Your House from Pests: A Woman’s Book on Spiritual Warfare – Aug 2012
Kidd Family Series
Kidd and Spitfire Doll – January 2012
Kidd’s Daughter: Another Spitfire (Book 2) – July 2013
Kidd’s Daughter Becomes a Woman (Book 3) – October 2014
Kidd’s Daughter: The Preacher’s Wife (Book 4) – December 2017
Heartbreak: My son’s battle with drugs and alcohol (Book 5) – Aug 2021
Katy Kidd’s Family Adventures
Katy Kidd’s Old Fashioned Games and Toys (Coloring Book 2) – April 2016
Katy Kidd’s Family Adventures (Coloring Book 3) – January 2017
Life in the Good Old Days: Coloring Book (Volume 1) – July 2016
Old Fashioned Games and Toys – July 2016
The Long Scary Keyboard (Volume 3) – January 2017
Dr. Michael Wiley (Fiction/Non-Fiction)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Website: http://www.michaelwileyonline.com/
Email: mwonline@bellsouth.net
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Michael-Wiley/e/B001HQ0TKW/
Personal Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/michael.wiley1
Dr. Michael Wiley is a Jacksonville mystery and thriller author who has taught literature and creative writing at the University of North Florida for twenty-five years, directing the creative writing program there. Raised in Chicago, he set his Shamus Award-winning Joe Kozmarski private detective series in the city’s old neighborhoods before relocating his fiction to Northeast Florida with the Daniel Turner thrillers and his more recent Franky Dast and Sam Kelson mystery series, both nominated for the Shamus Award for Best Novel. His short stories have appeared in Best Mystery Stories of the Year and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and under the pen name Michael George he wrote the Changing Light Prize-winning verse novel Find Your Own Way Home.
Joe Kozmarski Detective Novels
The Last Striptease – Oct 2007 (PWA/SMP Best First Novel)
The Bad Kitty Lounge – Mar 2010
A Bad Night’s Sleep – Jun 2011 (Shamus Award, Best Hardback, 2012)
Daniel Turner Thrillers
Blue Avenue – Dec 2014
Second Skin – Dec 2015
Black Hammock – Jun 2016
Sam Kelson Mysteries
Trouble in Mind (Book 1) – Nov 2019
Lucky Bones (Book 2) – June 2020
Head Case (Book 3) – March 2021 (Shamus Award nominee, Best Novel)
Franky Dast Mysteries
Monument Road – Dec 2017 (Shamus Award nominee, Best Novel)
The Long Way Out – Jan 2023
- Morris Williams (Non-Fiction)
Lake City, FL
Columbia County
Personal Facebook: facebook.com/hmorriswilliams (no posts since 2012)
Website: http://hmorriswilliams.com/
- Morris Williams is a Lake City author whose work centers on local newspaper history and Columbia County photographic retrospectives. He co-authored Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute with Kevin M. McCarthy, also profiled in this directory on the L and M page, and his books circulate primarily through local channels: the Columbia County Public Library, the Florida Gateway College Library, and, for his most recent title, Hunter Printing in Lake City.
Some Stuff I Wrote: A Collection of Newspaper Columns, 1992-1994 – 2001
Old Florida Memories: A Photo Retrospective of Greater Columbia County, Florida – 2007
Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (Co-author with Kevin McCarthy) – 2009
Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn’t – 2018 (available through Hunter Printing in Lake City)
Terrence “Terry” L. Williams (Suspense/Mystery)
Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
St. Johns County
Website: http://www.tl-williams.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authortlwilliams
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tlwpvb
Terrence “Terry” L. Williams is a Ponte Vedra Beach thriller author and 30-year veteran CIA operations officer whose Logan Alexander series draws directly on a clandestine career spanning Asia, Europe, Central Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East. His debut, Cooper’s Revenge, grew out of a novel-writing course and went on to win a Florida Authors and Publishers Association Silver Award, while his third book, Zero Day: China’s Cyber Wars, earned both FAPA’s President’s Gold Medal and a Royal Palm Literary Award Silver. Before his intelligence career, Williams taught at the University of San Carlos in Guatemala, trained the Imperial Iranian Air Force for Bell Helicopter, and taught at Bunka University in Tokyo, giving his thrillers an unusually well-traveled, firsthand authenticity.
Logan Alexander Series
Cooper’s Revenge (Book 1) – Dec 2013 (FAPA Silver Award, Mystery/Suspense)
Unit 400: The Assassins (Book 2) – Jan 2014 (FAPA Silver Award)
Zero Day: China’s Cyber Wars (Book 3) – Jan 2017 (FAPA President’s Gold Medal; Royal Palm Literary Award, Silver)
The Last Caliph (Book 4) – July 2021
Supreme Threat (Book 5) – Sept 2021
Shantina Wilson (Contemporary Romance/Mystery)
Lake City, FL
Columbia County
Grew up in White Springs, now lives in Lake City. No author website.
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Shantina-Wilson-774938829248680/
Personal Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/shantina.wilson.3
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shantina_incredibleauthor/
Shantina Wilson is a Lake City contemporary romance and mystery author, raised in nearby White Springs, with a substantial catalog built mostly through independently published titles released steadily between 2012 and 2022. Several of her earlier books are now out of print, but her two most recent titles, Think Before You React and Blacq Coffee, remain available.
Think Before You React – July 2012
Blacq Coffee – March 2022
Out-of-Print Books
Wanted: Never Mix Business with Pleasure – April 2013
Spoiled – May 2015
Deion Washington – April 2016
A Hard Pill to Swallow Part 1 – Jan 2017
A Hard Pill to Swallow Part 2 – Aug 2017
Secret Eyes – 2019
Amos Darryl Wimberley (Mysteries/Suspense)
Graduated from Lafayette County High School in Mayo, FL; currently resides in Austin, TX
Lafayette County (origin)
Website: darrylwimberley.com — last updated 2017
Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Darryl-Wimberley/author/B001HMNMX2
Darryl Wimberley was born in St. Augustine and grew up largely in Hastings and Mayo, graduating from Lafayette County High School, where he was a football standout and academic honoree before heading to the U.S. Air Force Academy and, eventually, a Ph.D. in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas at Austin, where he now lives. His five-book Detective Barrett Raines series follows a Black special agent for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement through cases set along the Big Bend Gulf Coast, while his stand-alone literary novels have drawn some of his strongest acclaim: A Tinker’s Damn won the ForeWord Magazine Award for Best Literary Novel in 2001, and The King of Colored Town, set amid the Civil Rights movement in a fictionalized Florida Panhandle town, won the first-ever Willie Morris Award for Fiction in 2008.
Tinker’s Damn – Nov 2000 (ForeWord Magazine Award, Best Literary Novel)
The King of Colored Town – Aug 2011 (Willie Morris Award for Fiction, 2008)
Kaleidoscope – Aug 2011
A Seeping Wound – June 2016 – OUT OF PRINT
Paul Bunyan – May 2017 – OUT OF PRINT
Detective Barrett Raines Mysteries
A Rock and a Hard Place (Book 1) – July 1999
Dead Man’s Bay (Book 2) – July 2000
Strawman’s Hammock (Book 3) – Nov 2001
Pepperfish Keys (Book 4) – July 2007
Devil’s Slew (Book 5) – Mar 2011
Vickey Wollan (Sweet Romance/Mystery Fiction)
DeLand, FL
Volusia County
Website: https://vickeywollan.wordpress.com
Facebook author page: https://facebook.com/vickeywollanauthor
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/authorvickeywollan/
LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vickeywollan
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/vickeywollanauthor.bsky.social
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@vickeywollanauthor
Vickey Wollan is a DeLand sweet romance and mystery author whose annual Snowflake Christmas series has become a holiday-season staple, expanding nearly every year since 2020 with a new character-focused installment. She has also launched a contemporary mystery series with Her Mentor’s Revenge and is a frequent contributor to the First Coast Romance Writers’ anthology programs, placing stories in the Romancing the Holidays, Romancing the Tropics, and For the Love of Winter collections.
Holiday Sweet Romance
A Snowflake Christmas (2020)
A Snowflake Christmas – The Nutcracker (2021)
A Snowflake Christmas – The Elf (2022)
A Cheery Christmas Collection – Nov 2023
Mystery Fiction
Her Mentor’s Revenge: A Lainey Shea Story – May 2024
Contributed
Romancing the Holidays – Volume 1: “An Elf’s Challenge”
Romancing the Holidays – Volume 2: “The Secret Santa Surprise”
Romancing the Holidays – Volume 3: “A Boat Built for Two”
Romancing the Tropics – Vol 1 – July 2023
For the Love of Winter – Sept 2024
Carrol Wolverton (Non-Fiction/Self-Help/Historical Fiction)
Orange Park, FL
Clay County
Amazon Author Profile Page: https://www.amazon.com/Carrol-Wolverton/e/B0032NQC6I
LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carrol-wolverton-59a145b/
Carrol Wolverton is an Orange Park author whose range spans frugal-living self-help, young adult fiction confronting teen dating abuse, and historical fiction set in the nation’s oldest city. Her Living Cheap & Loving It series addresses budget-conscious living for general readers and seniors alike, while Freud in St. Augustine takes a more literary turn, examining homelessness and wealth side by side in the Ancient City. She lives in Orange Park with her husband and, by her own account, an ornery cat.
Living Cheap & Loving It, Tomatoes in the Flower Bed – Sept 2008
Raylaina, the story of a teen with an abusive boyfriend – Feb 2011
Back Bay Boston Basement – 2012
Method Weight Management 2: How Not to be a Fat Cat – May 2013
Freud in St. Augustine: A Novel of Homelessness and Wealth in the Nation’s Oldest City – July 2014
Living Cheap & Loving It for Seniors: What’s That Green Stuff in the Spaghetti? – Sept 2015
Real Estate, Sex, & the World Beyond – Sept 2016
Tracy Woodard (Non-Fiction)
White Springs, FL
Hamilton County
Email: tracy.woodard@gmail.com
Tracy Woodard is the manager of the Hamilton County Public Library in White Springs and author of a single local history title documenting the town’s past. Reflecting its niche, hyper-local audience, the book is sold only through Florida’s Nature and Heritage Tourism Center in White Springs and the local library rather than through standard retail channels.
The Documented History of White Springs – Nov 2011 (available only at Florida’s Nature and Heritage Tourism Center in White Springs and the local library)
Towanda J. Young (Romance)
Jacksonville, FL
Duval County
Website: towandayoung.blogspot.com (hasn’t posted since 2011)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/towanda-young-b23a8923
Towanda J. Young is a Jacksonville romance author with a single published novel, A Romance in the Cottonfield, released in 2011. No further titles or active web presence have surfaced since.
A Romance in the Cottonfield – March 2011
[Last updated 06/25/2026]
