Our Authors

Robert Donaldson

<p>I'm a cat daddy native to Northern Virginia for 70 years. I love Washington DC.</p><p>My hobbies, in no particular order, are walking, cooking, photography and golf. Now I can add writing to the list.</p><p>This story came from a dream I had over 30 years ago.</p><p>I wrote it so I could dedicate it in memory of my soulmate. (2023)</p><p>I'm still living in Northern Virginia with my two cats. Hobbies are still the same: Golf, Cooking, Walking, Photography, and Writing. (2025)</p><p>Everything is still the same. I'm just a little bit older. (2026)</p>

Steve Evans

<p>S. Robert Evans lives with his wife in Northern California's wine country. Before embarking on a writing career, he spent over thirty-five years in the legal profession as a prosecutor, defense counsel, and judge. When not writing, he and his wife enjoy the area's outdoor activities, good food, and wines.</p>

Susan Muniz

<p>Residing in Oregon's Cascades, Susan Muniz lives with her husband, her two dogs, and two horses. Her formative years in Princeton, NJ, near the Institute for Advanced Study, where Einstein lived and worked, kindled her pursuit of truth. She was drawn to exploring the forested paths that Einstein himself once frequented. Immersed in literature, philosophy, and mysticism, she studied Kierkegaard, Goldsmith, and Taoism. Her journey to comprehend the world and teach others is rooted in her lifelong quest for understanding.</p>

Paul Monahan

<p>Paul Monahan has inspired thousands of golfers at many levels to think in fresh ways about optimizing their play on the course through his work over the past eight years as the mental game coach for Graves Golf Academy.</p><p>In addition to his work in golf, Paul is a respected leadership and human performance coach, impacting clients across multiple domains. His mission is to help his clients become more aware of the thought patterns that create success for them so that they can show up at their best and realize their potential in any moment.</p>

Ron Veto

<p>As a young boy growing up in Los Angeles, Ron Veto, soc., fell in love with the camera. His interest was the genesis of a career in the motion picture industry that spanned over fifty years. Veto, a fifty-year gold card member of Hollywood's Local #80, worked as a feature key/dolly grip, beginning his career as a background movie extra in television shows such as Room 222 and feature films, including The Godfather. He transitioned to stunt work in films such as Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and The New Centurions before joining the International Cinematographers Guild #600 when he was thirty-nine. Veto was later inducted into the esteemed Society of Camera Operators as a working Steadicam operator.</p><p>Veto's skills as a Los Angeles County certified scuba diver and an aerial, vehicle, and rollercoaster camera mount specialist helped open doors for him to make movies around the world on land, in water, and in the air. He's worked alongside Hollywood greats such as Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, and Sly Stallone. He is the co-owner/creator of "The Original Slider™" camera movement system, which changed how films are shot worldwide.</p><p>Veto is a published photographer, inventor, travel writer, and author. His photography has been featured in various gallery exhibitions in and around Los Angeles.</p><p>He stays busy swimming, traveling the world with his Nikons, and promoting "The Original Slider." (ronvetophotographs.com, theslider.com)</p>

Madhuri Murlikrishnan

<p>Madhuri Murlikrishnan is a Silicon Valley tech and product leader, merging technology with creative pursuits in media and entertainment. As an artist and founder of Flute Theory, she empowers underprivileged causes through performing arts, boasting over 50 stage performances. An accomplished singer-songwriter and choreographer, Madhuri has produced over 10 original pieces and music videos featured on major platforms like Spotify and YouTube. Recognized in publications like the Times of India and the NYC Journal, she uses her art for social good. A fervent advocate for women's empowerment and diversity, she frequently speaks at top technology conferences.</p>

Spence Taylor

<p>Spence M. Taylor, M.D. is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Integral Leaders in Health—a Public Benefit Corporation dedicated to medical care reform and physician autonomy/leadership. More than just an author on the topic, Dr. Taylor has a 40-year career devoted to leadership as a military officer, senior executive, surgeon, full professor and clinical researcher.</p><p>Previously, Dr. Taylor led the Greenville Health System (GHS) — now a part of Prisma Health. He was the first physician to be named president in the 107-year history of GHS — a health system with nearly $3 billion in annual operating revenue, 8 hospitals, 1,600 beds, 16,000 employees and an emerging academic health center.</p><p>During his career as an academic leader, Dr. Taylor served as surgical residency program director, department chair and chief executive of an employed medical group of 2,200 doctors and other providers. As its Planning Dean, Dr. Taylor led the development for the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville – North America's 136th LCME accredited medical school. He next led the effort to bring the Clemson University School of Nursing to the medical school campus, creating the nation's 100th Academic Health Center as recognized in 2013 by the Association of Academic Health Centers.</p><p>An acclaimed national physician leader, Dr. Taylor is a member of every significant academic surgical organization. He was elected as a director to the American Board of Surgery (ABS) in 2011 and served as Chair of the ABS from 2018-2019—one of the most influential and prestigious leadership positions in American surgery. He also is a past president of both the Southern Surgical Association and the Southern Association for Vascular Surgery.</p><p>Dr. Taylor is the recipient of multiple teaching awards and the author or co-author of over 120 peer-reviewed publications, multiple book chapters and two books. Additionally, Dr. Taylor often lectures across the country on the role of physicians as leaders in medicine—a topic to which he has devoted his entire career.</p>

Mark Durm

<p>Dr. Mark W. Durm, Professor Emeritus, taught critical thinking, statistics, and physiological psychology at Athens State University in Alabama. His scholarship has been widely cited, and a Japanese television documentary featured research he co-authored with Jane Sweat on police departments’ use of psychics. A Desert Storm veteran, Durm served in the Tennessee Army National Guard at the Tennessee Military Academy and the 300th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. He currently heads a real estate investment company and continues to research and write. He enjoys life on his farm in Athens, Alabama, and spending time with his three children, who are the joys of his life.</p>

Clarence Edwards

<p>Clarence Edwards is a self-employed domestic and international senior law enforcement and security consultant. He is a retired United States General Services Administration assistant commissioner who directed the national law enforcement and security operations of the Federal Protective Service; former chief of police for Montgomery County, MD, and Maryland’s first African American county police chief; retired officer in charge of the Montgomery County Maryland National Capital Park Police; and retired United States Park Police major.</p><p>Edwards holds a Master of Science degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Continuing Studies and a Bachelor of Science degree from the American University in Law Enforcement. He is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute, the FBI National Executive Institute, Pennsylvania State University’s Justice and Safety Institute, and the FBI National Academy, and he is the former president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives.</p><p>Edwards is an experienced CEO with extensive experience directing critical law enforcement, security, and contingency management operations at the county, bi-county, and federal levels of government. The Maryland Transportation Authority Police retained his services to provide police bias prevention training to all members of its police department. He also assisted the Maryland Transit Police to review and revise its operations protocols and policy guidelines. He has also taught law enforcement, security, and antiterrorism courses in the Republic of South Africa, Botswana, Uganda, Greece, the Bahamas, and Trinidad and Tobago for the United States State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security Antiterrorism Assistance Program.</p>

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Ron Blum

<p>Ron Blum dedicated 20 years to military service in the Army, Army National Guard, Army Air National Guard, and Army Reserves. After returning from Vietnam, he worked primarily as a building trades teacher for the Michigan Department of Corrections and ran his own construction company. A skilled residential builder, he spent years remodeling homes. Now retired, Ron enjoys reading and spending time with his two golden retrievers in his childhood hometown, where he met his wife, raised three children, and celebrated 53 years of marriage.</p><p>A lifelong reader, Ron hopes you enjoy the story of Ethan and Nicole as they navigate young love, separation, and the trials of war. Ethan's journey through training, combat in Vietnam, and his struggle to reconnect with himself after returning home reflects the emotional toll of war and the enduring power of love.</p>