Baggott is the award-winning author of 17 books under her own name, as well as pseudonyms Bridget Asher and N.E. Bode. In addition to The Pure Trilogy—for which the film rights have recently been acquired by Fox 2000—Baggott is best known for penning bestsellers like Girl Talk...

The party in power often loses seats in off-year election cycles, and In Florida’s predominately Democratic 2nd District, incumbent Democrat Allen Boyd is deemed vulnerable...

“I’ve been to Florida many times,” Baldacci says. “I have friends who moved to the Emerald Coast, and I remember going there years ago...

“My main mission is to write enjoyable, Christ-centered books that tell the stories, people and places of Old Destin. It’s a different Destin today in my children’s eyes than it was for mine growing up here. They tell me they can’t even imagine it..."

Jack E. Davis—award-winning author, distinguished educator and faculty member at the University of Florida—is one of several prominent artists chosen for the Escape to Create month-long residency program held annually in Seaside. While here, Davis has been lecturing, leading classroom discussions and getting back into the comforting water of the Gulf...

Sandestin resident Leah Speer—along with Katrina Epp of Rifle, Colorado—wrote a book together. They held meetings in the company of crying babies, clingy toddlers and persistent preschoolers. In two years, the pair of moms completed the book and built a business in the early hours before the kids woke up, during naptime and late at night...

Mixing media is part of Antoinette (Toni) Drago’s nature. Born in Las Vegas into a military family (her father was an engineer with the Air Force), Drago spent her childhood traveling, including Okinawa and Washington, D.C. At age 9, her family moved to Fort Walton Beach, where she went to school at Oak Hill, Pryor and Choctaw, and attended OWCC...

Robbie L. Rogers has a story to tell about an intriguing aspect of the world undetected, or ignored, by many...