Charles David Sutherland signs his books as C.D. Sutherland. Across three decades, he flew B-52s for the Air Force, where he was known among his fellow warfighters as The Chuck. Then he turned novelist with his "The Chronicles of Susah" series novels, which shook up the fiction world as they defied conventional classification. They blended action and emotional tension with technology and spiritual intrigue in a coming-of-age story wrapped in an epic adventure set in the antediluvian age marking the birth of a new literary genre. His readers called it Antediluvian Steampunk and declared C.D. Sutherland to be its father. If you like Biblically-based action adventures for all ages, then look at his books—you'll be glad you did.
Born in the Virginia foothills to a coalminer's son, who long ago joined the Navy to escape a life in the dark Appalachian mines, C.D. Sutherland also joined the military. After high school, he served in the Air Force for thirty-two years, seeing much of the world, flying jets, and doing other things most men have only dreamed about doing.
C.D. Sutherland married the love of his life, and they are well into their 45th year. The two of them are raising a couple of their grandsons. While C.D. Sutherland is a Baptist deacon, author, and ACFW Louisiana chapter President and project manager, he is also the owner and executive editor of Narrow Way Press, LLC, a small independent publishing company. His philosophy for life is to "do the best you can with what you have to work with."
His power verse is:
"I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." (Philippians 4:13 KJV) *
(*note: You can too!)
Beverly Flanders lives in Shreveport, Louisiana. She was born in Kokomo, Indiana, but spent a nomadic childhood as an Army brat. She has dabbled in various forms of writing since winning a poetry writing contest in junior high school. Her frequent moves and experiences living in different cultures and circumstances have given her plenty of material to develop into stories.
She graduated from Ferrum Junior College, Ferrum, Virginia, and attended Indiana University with the career goal of becoming a teacher. Those plans changed when she met her husband at IU, moved to Mansfield, Louisiana (her husband's hometown), and raised three perfect children. Those children went on to create strong, God-centered homes and six even more perfect grandchildren.
Although she never became a paid professional, the opportunities to teach and write followed her. As a parent and an active volunteer in her church and community, she has a steady flow of ideas to work with. She used her writing skills to teach children in Sunday School—she often wrote plays based on familiar Bible stories for her classes to perform. In her community, she was a volunteer tutor in the Literacy Volunteers of America program. Writing short stories and poems was part of her lesson plans. In her family, she had the responsibility of overseeing the care of six relatives with various forms and stages of dementia for sixteen years, so she became a reluctant expert in Elder Care. Two of her short stories are based on the heartbreak of watching loved ones decline as victims of this terrible disease.
When her husband died in 2009, she moved to Shreveport to adjust to her new life as a widow. She joined a new church and found a place of service in teaching a delightful group of Senior Adult ladies. A friend encouraged her to rekindle her love of writing by joining ACFW-LA. Her association with other writers and incredible support from family and friends inspired her to write devotionals and six published short stories.
Whatever her outlet of expression, God has enabled her to use her writing toolbox in ways she never imagined.
Judy Burford is a charter member of ACFW Louisiana and has served as president, vice-president, and secretary. She has five short stories and her personal salvation testimony published in various anthologies. A Special Touch of Grace is her self-published collection of stories of missionaries. The Cross Murders is a novel, written by a deceased friend, which she edited and had published.
A resident of Gloster, Louisiana, a small farming community in DeSoto Parish, Judy and her husband, Hall, are parents of two daughters, each of whom is married. They have four grandchildren and one grandson-in-law. They hosted nine exchange students who have given them eleven bonus grandchildren.
Former dairy farmers, Judy, Hall, and their oldest daughter, Holley, run a beef cattle farm. Agriculture is one of her passions.
Traveling is another passion she shares with her husband. Their trips have taken them to Lithuania, where Lara, their younger daughter, and her husband live and work as missionaries; Germany, Finland, and Brazil, to the homes of exchange students; and mission trips to China, Niger, and Alaska. The COVID shut-down and limited travel has been hard to deal with. With a trip scheduled for September 2021, Judy is hoping to take to the skies again.
She also enjoys cooking, especially with vegetables from the family garden. Cooking for her family and others has been a great way to endure some of the pandemic restrictions.
Judy and Hall are very involved in Gloster Baptist Church, which is conveniently located across the street from their house. They lead a young adult small group.
When writing, Judy enjoys the way characters take on life and personalities of their own. Her coming-of-age story, Step In, surprised her by leading its characters, and her, along the Oregon Trail. She enjoyed researching the trail, a new venture for her, so the facts that she included would be true.
Carole Lehr Johnson is a veteran travel consultant of more than 30 years and has served as head of genealogy at her local library. Her love of tea and scones, castles and cottages, and all things British have led her to immerse her writing in the United Kingdom, whether in the genre of historical or contemporary fiction.
She is a member of the American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and the president of her local chapter. She and her husband live in Louisiana with their goofy cats. Permelia Cottage is her first novel.
Tammy Kirby is an internationally published author. In 2018 she released her debut novel, His Grace Forgiven. This is the first book in the Victorian Inspirational Romance series, Haven House, which placed second in the 2016 Great Beginnings Contest. Since then, she has completed three consecutive books in the Haven House series and is working on the fifth and last book at present.
In between working as an ER nurse and writing Victorian Romance, she has authored two Scottish Time travel short stories and co-authored a third. Because she believes God has a sense of humor, and laughter really is good for the soul, you will always find humor in her works.
Most of the crazy things her characters go through already happened to her or someone in her family, occasionally a friend, and perhaps a villain or two might have taken on characteristics of someone who treated her with less than brotherly love. (wink, wink).
Tammy makes her home in NE Louisiana with her husband. In her free time, she drinks tea, eats orange slices, swears she's going to get on the treadmill, and writes beneath the surface about broken people finding hope, happiness, and forgiveness through Jesus Christ.
Eileen Copeland is a wife and mother of two grown children. A grateful Christ-follower, she loves to encourage others with the sure knowledge of God's love.
As a certified road-tripper, she enjoys traveling with her husband to various parts of the country. She hopes to make it to all fifty states one day. Her favorite destination is anywhere there is a beach or snow-capped mountains.
After working her day job as a Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Eileen often retreats to a book where she can enjoy the world of a favorite writer or immerses herself in her own writing. On days off, you might find her visiting her three grandchildren and their parents (a daughter and son-in-law).
She and her husband, along with their dog Cricket, reside in Shreveport, Louisiana.
