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Welcome Best-Selling Historical Fiction Author Denny S. Bryce!

Denny S. Bryce is a bestselling, award-winning author of historical fiction. Her titles include Wild Women and the Blues and The Other Princess: A Novel of Queen Victoria’s Goddaughter, as well as four other novels, including her most recent release, The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander. A former marketing and PR firm owner and professional dancer in New York City, she is now an adjunct professor at Drexel University, teaching in its Master of Fine Arts program. Denny is a frequent speaker on writing craft and process, diversity in literature, and women’s history. She is a member of the Historical Novel Society (HSN), Women’s Fiction Writers Association (WFWA), and Tall Poppy Writers, a women’s author collective. She currently resides in Savannah, Georgia.

We are thrilled to have Denny joining us at the 2025 TANP Book Festival!

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Historical Fiction Author, Ane Mulligan, Joins 2025 TANP Book Festival

Ane Mulligan lives life from a director’s chair—in community theatre and at her desk creating novels. Entranced with story at age three, at five she saw PETER PAN onstage and was struck with stage fever. When her passions collided, an award-winning, bestselling novelist emerged. She believes chocolate and coffee are two of the four major food groups. She lives in Sugar Hill, GA, with her artist husband and a rascally Rottweiler. Find Ane on her website, Facebook, and Instagram.

Ane will be sharing her Georgia-based historical novels with other authors of the Georgia History panel.

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Set in The South!

T. I. Lowe is an ordinary country girl who loves to tell extraordinary stories. She is the #1 international bestselling author of nearly twenty published novels, including her recent critically acclaimed novel, Under the Magnolias, and her debut breakout, Lulu’s Café. She lives with her husband and family in coastal South Carolina.

T. I. will be joining other Southern storytellers at the TANP Book festival on January 25, 2025!

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“Hallmark-Worthy” Sweet Southern Romance

USA Today Bestselling author Ciara Knight writes Southern Grace to Western Embrace with over 60+ books enjoyed by over a million readers.

Ciara’s contemporary stories are hailed as “Hallmark movie-worthy.” The popular Sweetwater County series takes readers into a southern town filled with family trials, friendly competition, and community love.

For more information on her books, to read excerpts, and learn more about the person behind the stories visit Ciara’s website at http://www.ciaraknight.com. You can also connect with Ciara on Twitter @ciaratknight, or “Like” her on Facebook (ciaraknightwrites).

We are so pleased that Ciara will be joining the 2025 TANP Book Festival!

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Popular Multi-Genre Author William Rawlings to Return to 2025 TANP Book Festival

William Rawlings is a sixth-generation resident of Washington County, Georgia. A retired physician, he is an avid world traveler, photographer and prolific writer, including nine novels and six works of nonfiction focusing on Southern history. Rawlings has been awarded three Georgia Author of the Year in the fields of History and Suspense Fiction. For more information, please visit his website at http://www.williamrawlings.com.

William will be sharing about his non-fiction offerings on a Georgia History panel at 2025 TANP Book Festival in January.

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Jayna Breigh, Author of Romantic Legal Drama, Joins TANP 2025

Jayna Breigh is a retired attorney, now residing in the Southeast, with over a decade of litigation and trial experience in Los Angeles. She has enjoyed speaking at Christian women’s conferences, hosting Bible studies, and homeschooling her children. When not writing, Jayna enjoys word puzzles and British period dramas.

Jayna’s novel, The Hunted Heir, releases just one day prior to the 2025 TANP Book Festival! Get it hot off the press!

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Best-Selling Middle Grade Author, Chris Negron, Returns to TANP Book Festival

Chris Negron is the author of several novels for children, including Georgia Author of the Year finalist and Sakura Medal nominee Dan Unmasked. His latest novel, Underdog City, released in the fall of 2023, again from HarperCollins. He holds a Computer Science degree from Yale University, but it was his years of playing Dungeons & Dragons in friends’ basements that inspired him to write stories about the things he loves, including comic books, baseball, competitive cooking shows, and dogs. Visit him at chrisnegron.com.

If you missed seeing Chris last year, you are in for a treat. Make sure you come hear him and other Middle Grade authors at the 2025 TANP Book Festival.

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Perry Page Turners Welcome Children’s Author And Devotional Writer Julie Lavender to The 2025 TANP Book Festival

Georgia native Julie Lavender is a journalist, author, speaker, former teacher and homeschooling mom, and wife to her high school and college sweetheart, David, but her most favorite hats are “mommy” and “grandmommy.” Those four, previously-homeschooled students, two girls and two boys, are now college-graduated adults living farther away than she’d like. She enjoyed welcoming two sons-in-love into the family, as well as three precious grandchildren. Julie loved being a military wife for twenty years while David served as a medical entomologist for the Navy. Her family lived in nine homes in six states before retiring from the military and settling in Statesboro, where David worked as a wildlife biologist at Ft. Stewart Army installation for sixteen years before retiring. Now Julie and David enjoy visiting the kids, traveling, putting together puzzles, and hiking. Julie is the author of Strength for All Seasons: A Mom’s Devotional of Powerful Verses and Prayers, Children’s Bible Stories for Bedtime, 365 Ways to Love Your Child: Turning Little Moments into Lasting Memories, and other books. She also writes for magazines like Guideposts, The Old Schoohouse, Mature Living, and Focus on the Family’s Clubhouse for Kids. Julie enjoyed sharing her parenting book as a guest on Focus on the Family Broadcast.

Julie will be sharing her books at the TANP Book Festival January 25, 2025

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Small Town Stories from Larry Ninas

Larry Ninas (pronounced nine-us) was born and raised in west central Georgia and east central Alabama. A retired Naval Officer and public school teacher, he and his wife Lynne live on a small farm in LaGrange, Georgia. They share their home with three cats (Sammie, Honey Bear, and Nellie Bell), an adorable Anatolian Shepherd named Molly, and a Nubian goat named Lilac. When not writing, Larry loves to hike, take and edit photographs, blog, podcast, and drink coffee. His favorite authors are Jan Karon and JR Tolkien. Larry and Lynne have two children who are grown with families of their own. Larry loves to write about discipleship, exploring, and growing closer to God. You can keep up with his writing and books at HTTP://yonderbook.wordpress.com.

Come meet Larry at the 2025 TANP Book Festival in January! Larry will be a participant of a multi-genre panel of Georgia authors.

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Rick Maier Brings Georgia History to Life in Historical Novel Set in North Georgia

Rick Maier moved to Georgia in the 1980s to advance his career in finance. Since retiring, he splits his time between Macon and Blue Ridge, visiting with his children and grandchildren, hiking, writing, and playing pickleball. His newest historical novel, Willow And The Boys is set in the North Georgia Mountains.

Rick will be joining other authors on the Georgia History panel.