Lake Country Authors

Authors of Lake Oconee who live and live it up in middle Georgia.

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Meet six authors who enjoy the laid-back lifestyle and tall-pine beauty of Georgia’s lake country. Though they work in different genres and styles, they share a love for  writing, story telling and reaching out to readers in creative, entertaining ways. Take a minute to get acquainted with Lake Country Authors.  You’ll find more information on each of them on following pages. Also, visit their Lake Country Authors Blog!

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George Heiring is a master story teller whose work appears in national and regional publications. His travel pieces are based on his adventures in exotic world locations. His children’s book, I Will Stay With Yourecounts the learning-to-fly trials of young goldfinches and is available at www.Blurb.com. In his newest book, The Seasonal Heart, he captures the warmth and vitality of the holidays in essays, poems and short stories and can be purchased by contacting George at gwheiring@plantationcable.net

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Don Mobley Adams grew up in southwest Georgia and was an in-house lawyer for Delta Air Lines for 25 years before retiring in 1993. In 2005, he published his first novel, The Sawdust Pile, based on the author’s experiences in the context of racial and societal turmoil in the deep South. Living now on Lake Oconee in middle Georgia, he is a founding member of the Greensboro Writers’ Guild and he continues to write humorous essays, fiction and poetry.

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Foods serve as a memory trigger for Joan Thomas Ungerleider, author of Cooking With The Cherry Tomato Lady.  In her cookbook memoir, she dishes up 200 recipes along with tales of friends and family, including her spunky grandmother, the original “Cherry Tomato Lady.” Ungerleider, a former newspaper editor, publishes a newsletter for grandmothers at her website, www.cherrytomatolady.com    
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Lou Jones is a former Marine and Caterpillar Inc. Business Manager. Before he retired, his published writings earned commendations and a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to business literature. From Microbe to Consciousness is a recently published collection of his poems. And Then The Monarchs Flew Away is his first novel.

A lifelong runner, Lou has completed 25 marathons. He and his wife Toni reside at Reynolds Plantation on Lake Oconee, Greensboro, Georgia.

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Gail Vail has been an avid painter and writer for most of her life. Born in Nebraska, she earned a B.A. in Business and pursued a career in marketing and human resources with IBM. Her career ultimately brought her and her husband, Hugh, and children to Atlanta. Raising a family, combined with a professional career, sidetracked her love of painting and writing for a time. Now retired, she has again picked up her pen and her brush. Seasons on Lake Oconee, her first published book, is followed by The Seasonal Heart, in collaboration with George Heiring. Both are available from her at gvail@plantationcable.net

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Dr. Davis L. Temple, Jr., grew up in Mississippi and went to Ole Miss where he studied pharmacy and eventually received a Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry.  He spent a long career in the pharmaceutical industry but on retirement became an avid writer of fiction.  His first three novels, Two Letters Then Booger Den (2002), winner of the Mississippi Authors Award for 2004, Preacherman (2005), and Voodoo Storm (2008) reflect the author’s southern heritage—growing up in the land of William Faulkner and other great southern writers like Willie Morris who first encouraged Davis to write something.  His recent novel, Dose of Insanity (2010), reflects a dramatic shift in genre and draws heavily on his experiences in the pharmaceutical industry.  In this story, a potential miracle drug for the treatment of psychiatric disorders goes really wrong.  Greed trumps scientific judgment and death and mayhem result.
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