Check out the amazing authors participating in The Sunshine Tour! Click on any of the book covers for more information about the book.
J.A. Souders was born in the heartland with an overactive imagination and an over abundance of curiosity that was always getting her into trouble. She first began writing at the age of 13, when she moved to Florida and not only befriended the monsters under the bed, but created worlds for them to play together.
Because she never grew up, she decided she’d put her imaginary friends to work and started writing. She still lives in the land of sunshine and palm trees with her husband and their two children. Renegade is her first novel and surfaced November 13, 2012.
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Lucienne Diver is the author of the popular Vamped series for young adults. Her short stories have been published in anthologies by Baen Books, and she contributed an essay to the Dear Bully: 70 Authors Tell Their Stories anthology from HarperTeen. Diver lives near Tampa, Florida, where she works as a literary agent.
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Danielle Joseph is the author of SHRINKING VIOLET from MTV/Pocket Books and INDIGO BLUES and PURE RED from Flux Books. SHRINKING VIOLET debuted as the movie RADIO REBEL on the Disney Channel in 2012 starring Debby Ryan and is now available on DVD! Danielle has worked as a movie theater usher, toy demonstrator, radio DJ and many other jobs—all great material for her books.
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Jenny Torres Sanchez
Before writing her debut novel Jenny Torres Sanchez studied English at the University of Central Florida and taught high school for several years. Her students were some of the coolest, funniest, strangest people she's ever met and credits them for inspiring her to write YA. She currently writes full-time and lives in Florida with her husband and children.
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Karen Amanda Hooper
Karen was born and bred in Baltimore, frolicked and froze in Colorado for a couple of years, and is currently sunning and splashing around Florida with her two beloved dogs. She's addicted to coffee, chocolate and complicated happily-ever-afters.
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Heather Burch writes paranormal young adult novels for Zondervan, Harper Collins Publishing. Her YA novel Halflings released to critical acclaim in January 2012. Guardian, book two in the Halflings Series released in October 2012. The series has garnered praise from USA Today, VOYA Magazine, Booklist, Romantic Times and Publishers Weekly. An X-Men fan and a hopeless romantic, Heather wanted to tell a story of extraordinary young people and the struggles of saving the world. She lives in Florida where she writes full time and has conversations with fictional teenagers. Every. Single. Day.
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Jessica Martinez lives in Orlando, Florida, with her husband, her two children, and her violin. She spends her days writing, running, and teaching her children to be music lovers. She is the author of
Virtuosity and
The Space Between Us.
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Gaby Triana is the author of four humorous novels for young adults—
Backstage Pass,
Cubanita, The Temptress Four, and
Riding the Universe (HarperCollins).
Backstage Pass earned an IRA Teen Choice Award in 2006 and praise from Booklist, School Library Journal, and Publisher's Weekly.
The Temptress Four, about four best friends on a graduation cruise, is a favorite of high school seniors and was one of HISPANIC MAGAZINE'S Good Reads.
She lives in Miami with her husband and three children and is currently finishing another young adult novel called SUMMER OF YESTERDAY.
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Christina Diaz Gonzalez is the author of the award-winning and best-selling children’s novel, THE RED UMBRELLA. Ms. Gonzalez’s debut novel (the story of a 14 year old Cuban girl who is sent to the U.S. in 1961 as part of Operation Pedro Pan) showcases the generosity of the American spirit and highlights the pain of losing one’s homeland. Reviewers from publications such as The Washington Post, Publisher’s Weekly and School Library Journal have praised the book as being exceptional, compelling and inspirational. Her second novel, A THUNDEROUS WHISPER, was released in Fall 2012.
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Anna Banks grew up in a small town called Niceville (yes, really). She now lives in Crestview, Florida, with her husband and their daughter.
Of Poseiden is her debut novel.
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I've been a writer as long as I've been able to write, but I didn't make a conscious decision to "be" a writer until fairly recently. For that you should probably be thankful.
I was born in Germany, grew up in Ohio, went to college at Ohio State University, got married to someone really great, bounced from Maine to Michigan and back to Ohio for awhile. Now I live in Florida with my two mostly grown kids, two dogs, and a pirate. For real.
I've worked as a morning radio personality, a newspaper reporter, and spent all my summers in college working at an amusement park. There I gained valuable life skills, including counting money really fast, directing traffic, jumping off a moving train, and making cheese-on-a-stick. Also, I can still welcome you to Frontier Town. Ask me sometime.
These days I work as a bookseller at a Very Big Bookstore. And I write.
Kristen Simmons has a master’s degree in social work and is an advocate for mental health. She lives with her family and their precious greyhound Rudy in Tampa, Florida.
You can read more about her on her
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Laura L. Sullivan
is a former newspaper editor, social worker and deputy sheriff, who
writes because that's the easiest way to do everything in the world. She
is a lifelong resident of Florida (except for a misguided couple of
years roughing it in the woods of Kentucky) and lives in Pinellas County
with her son. She is the author of the YA historical fantasy DELUSION,
the YA historical LADIES IN WAITING, and the MG fantasies UNDER THE
GREEN HILL and GUARDIAN OF THE GREEN HILL. Her next book, the historical
comedy MORNING STAR, will be out in 2014. Laura also writes the
Pinellas County nature blog Lu and B: Two With Nature, along with her 6-year-old son.
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Laura L. Sullivan
is a former newspaper editor, social worker and deputy sheriff, who
writes because that's the easiest way to do everything in the world. She
is a lifelong resident of Florida (except for a misguided couple of
years roughing it in the woods of Kentucky) and lives in Pinellas County
with her son. She is the author of the YA historical fantasy DELUSION,
the YA historical LADIES IN WAITING, and the MG fantasies UNDER THE
GREEN HILL and GUARDIAN OF THE GREEN HILL. Her next book, the historical
comedy MORNING STAR, will be out in 2014. Laura also writes the
Pinellas County nature blog Lu and B: Two With Nature, along with her 6-year-old son. 
ok, will ALL of you be on the tour? I think this is great! I hope to get our work book club to come to one of these appearances, we are between Palm Beach and Miami. I LOVE that we have so many awesome writers in Florida!
ReplyDeleteThey will all be on the tour, but not all of them will be at every stop. We'll update that info soon
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