Authors

Ray Deptula is a native of Wells, Maine, and a graduate of Maine Maritime Academy in Castine, Maine. He spent 24 years in the U.S. Navy as a helicopter pilot and a political-military office in Europe. He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island with a Master of Arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies. Those Damned Yankees is the first series of books Ray has published, having conceived of it while taking a Revolutionary War elective course at the Naval War College.

Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist who graduated Brown University and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is a New York Times Bestselling Author of 16 books, including Living the Truth, The Seven Wonders (co-authored with Glenn Beck) and Trump Your Life. He was the host of the nationally-syndicated Dr. Keith Ablow Show (Warner Brothers) and then, for a decade, a national Fox News Network Contributor on topics including psychology, business and politics. He has also appeared hundreds of times on The Today Show, Good Morning America, 20/20, Oprah, Dr. Oz, Inside Edition and a host of other national television broadcasts. Dr. Ablow was the creator and on-air expert for Cancel Contagion, which aired during 2021 on Newsmax TV. He has been a columnist for the New York Post and the Washington Post, as well as a frequent contributor to USA Today, The New York Times, Newsweek and many other publications. He is the founder of www.pain-2-power.com, a coaching platform that gives individuals and businesses the tools to actualize their true goals and highest potential.

Nathan Powell is a seasoned parks and recreation executive, husband of 32 years, father of three grown sons, and a proud grandfather. While continuing in his public leadership career of more than a decade, he discovered a new passion for writing—born from a lifelong love of history and storytelling. His debut novel, Shielding the Fall, blends faith, romance, and the true events of a WWII bomber crew into a deeply personal exploration of love and courage.

Nathan holds a Master of Science in Parks and Recreation Administration and is a certified Parks and Recreation Executive. When he’s not writing, he enjoys photography and shares his work under the hashtag #enjoygodscreation on Instagram.

Born from real events and heartfelt questions about war, faith, and healing, his stories aim to illuminate the quiet strength found in moments of struggle—and the ways we are shielded, even as we fall.

A former crime reporter, Lori Duffy Foster was born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of New York State, where a piece of her heart remains. Her previous novels include NEVER LET GO, a thriller, and the Lisa Jamison Mystery Series. Her books have been nominees or finalists for Agatha, Silver Falchion and Shamus awards. Lori is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, The Historical Novel Society, International Thriller Writers, The Finger Lakes Authors & Readers Experience and Pennwriters. After several moves about the country with her family, Lori now lives and writes in the hills of Northern Pennsylvania. Look out for two new novels in 2026 and 2027 from Speaking Volumes LLC, SPRING MELT, an historical courtroom drama, and NO STRANGER HERE, a thriller.

Marcus Pelegrimas (Marcus Galloway) has worked in several different genres of fiction including western, mystery, horror and fantasy. He has ghostwritten entries in a popular western series. His own western series (written under the pseudonym Marcus Galloway) includes THE MAN FROM BOOT HILL series. His short fiction can be seen in various anthologies including Desperadoes, Guns of the West, Mystery Street, Greatest Hits, and Hear the Fear on audiocassette.

Marcus Galloway (Marcus Pelegrimas) resides in West Virginia where he is hard at work on his next novel. He is a graduate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the author of several series including The Man from Boot Hill, The Accomplice and Snake Oil.

James C. Work grew up in the Fall River Valley a few miles from Estes Park, Colorado. After going to Colorado State University for two degrees and finishing a University of New Mexico Ph.D in studies of Victorian England’s literature and culture, he returned to CSU on a “temporary” teaching assignment that lasted thirty years. Around 1980 or so his literary interest shifted from the Victorian poets to Western American writers and within ten years he had published a major textbook in Western American literature and had been elected president of the Western Literature Association.

After her early life and university education in Canada, Michelle Spring moved to England, where she held posts as Professor of Sociology at Anglia Ruskin University and as Royal Literary Fellow at both Newnham College and Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. She published scholarly books (on reproductive technologies,  politics and education) under the name Michelle Stanworth. 

David Myles Robinson has always had a passion for writing. During the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, while in college, Robinson worked as a free-lance writer for several magazines and was a staff writer for a weekly minority newspaper in Pasadena, California, called The Pasadena Eagle. However, as he himself admits, upon graduating from San Francisco State University, he decided against the ‘starving writer’ route and went to law school, at the University of San Francisco School of Law. It was there that he met his wife, Marcia Waldorf. After graduating from law school in 1975, the two moved to Honolulu, Hawaii and began practicing law. Robinson became a trial lawyer, specializing in personal injury and workers’ compensation law. Waldorf eventually became a Circuit Court judge.

Diana Louise Webb, who has a Juris Doctorate degree and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, is a survivor of 12+ unjust years in federal prison, and a tenacious victor, having successfully navigated a life-threatening disease. She also is the daughter of a German child survivor of East Prussia, who fled the Soviet occupation during the evacuations of 1944. Her experience with adversity has made her even more resilient, a living testament to the cliché: “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger.”