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Local Authors
There are writers all around you. Support your locals!
I've enjoyed getting to know other writers in the western PA area, the area where John McDonald, author of the suspenseful Travis McGee books was born. Also from western PA (by birth or experience) came Willa Cather, Michael Chabon, Rachel Carson, Nellie Bly, Annie Dillard, Mary Roberts-Rinehart, David McCullough, and many others.*
Listed are authors in the area who I've come to know through joint book signings or finding each other online or through contacts. If you're an author who lives between Erie and Pittsburgh, send me a note and I'll add your website.
Ammy Achenbach: A Few of the Many Adventures of Oliver Toliver is Ammy's first book aimed at young boys. Main author link still to come.Gloria Clover: Gloria writes romance, speculative fiction, and devotionals. She's been recently signed with Desert Breeze Publishing.
Todd Crawford: Todd is a high school senior with three books out already! Look for the supernatural in his work. Link still to come.
TC Conner: TC is known as The Write Gardener, a master gardener also known to write some poetry. He also plays a mean acoustic guitar. See the Mandolin Whiskey reference below.
Phil Hartsock: Phil does some fiction and some non-fiction, both experience-based. Along with some smooth lead vocals for his band Mandolin Whiskey, he's been known to play the mandolin.
Colleen Hroncich: author of The Whistling Irishman: Danny Murtaugh Remembered is Murtaugh's granddaughter who wrote this loving tribute to the legendary Pittsburgh Pirates manager.
Liana Laverentz: Liana's contemporary romances are award-winning (and I would tend to call them at least part literary, although she doesn't!).
Marilyn McCall: Marilyn writes non-fiction, PA-based. Like history? Check out her work.
Thom Rogers: Thom is author of the Toby series, an historical adventure based in western PA, for the young and young at heart.
Anne Slanina: Anne features Annie Mouse in children's stories, both fiction and reality-based learning adventures.
*source: Famous Writers & Authors from Pittsburgh