A Kentish Man by birth, Robert Jaggs-Fowler is a priest in the Church of England, a writer, poet and a former GP. He divides his time between Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, and Cyprus. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,and with degrees in medicine, an LLM (medical law & ethics) and an MA (spirituality, theology & health), he is currently researching for a PhD (Theology) at Durham University. A former columnist for two regional newspapers and a county magazine, he has had several short stories, non-fiction and 'filler' articles published and has contributed to an American film script. He won the Lincoln Book Festival Prize for fiction in 2005 and the Fathom Prize for poetry in 2010. He has written book reviews for a major magazine publisher, has been a regular contributor for an American travel website, and published his first collection of poetry, 'A Journey with Time', in 2008, with his second collection, 'On Quarry Beach' following in 2017. His first novel, 'Lamplight in the Shadows' was published in January 2015. His musical interests include playing the piano, alto and tenor saxophones and classical guitar. He is currently working on his second novel and third collection of poetry. Meanwhile, he relies on the practise of medicine to keep the garret warm and to ensure good supplies of printer ink and malt whisky.

Walt Pilcher and his wife, Carol, an artist, live in High Point, North Carolina, have three children and six grandchildren, and attend Grace Church in High Point. Walt holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Stanford University. Although a two-time victim of corporate downsizing long before it was cool (not unlike his protagonist, Mark Fairley), he eventually became president of two major apparel companies in the U.S. (including L’eggs Products – the pantyhose in plastic eggs) and one in Japan, although not all at the same time, and lived in Tokyo for 14 months during which two comedians were elected as governors of Japan’s biggest cities. We are not making this up.

Walt’s comedy writing career overlapped his business writing career, and it was often impossible to tell them apart. Published works include On Shallowed Ground, including Dr. Barker’s Scientific Metamorphical Prostate Health Formula® and other Stories, Poems, Comedy and Dark Matter from the Center of the Universe and the comedy novels Everybody Shrugged, The Accidental Spurrt®, and Killing O’Carolan (the latter two comprising The Mark Fairley Mystery series), all from Fantastic Books Publishing. His non-fiction book, The Five-fold Effect: Unlocking Power Leadership for Amazing Results in Your Organization (WestBow Press), was a First Horizon Award finalist in the 2015 Eric Hoffer Book Award competition.

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