Author Appearance

Dr. Melissa Moncrieffe, who writes under the pen name “L. Samuels”, grew up in Texas and appreciated the valuable lessons she learned throughout her childhood. She spent summers traveling or studying abroad, enjoying the wonderful cultures and places of different people and lands.

A daughter of the borderlands, scholar and creative writer Norma Elia Cantú currently serves as the Norine R.and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio.

Jack Carr is an author and former Navy SEAL. He lives with his wife and three children in Park City, Utah. He is the author of The Terminal List and True Believer.

Camaron Brooks is a former TV reporter. She worked in local TV news in Texas starting in 2007. She was nominated for a Lone Star Emmy in 2011. She appeared on the KTLA College Audition in 2006. She is the author of Studio Baby: Adventures of a TV Reporter Turned Stay-At-Home Mom.

Marc Grossberg is an observer and a listener. He has a passion for his family, friends, and clients, and for books that entertain and provoke him. He has practiced law in his native Houston for over fifty years.

Cliff Etheredge was born in Roscoe, Texas on September 21, 1942, to Pete and Hilda Etheredge. He had one brother, Jay. Cliff graduated from Roscoe High School and Texas Tech University. He then began farming with his dad in the Wastella community northwest of Roscoe. He was a member of the Texas National Guard for six years. In 1972, Cliff was severely injured in a farming accident resulting in the amputation of his right arm.