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Biographies, websites, blogs, and social media pages of participating members of the Christian Authors Guild.
The CAG is proud of each member and his or her continuing writing accomplishments. Here are some of our members below and what types of writing activities they are doing these days.
Member note: If you are a member and would like to participate on this page with your bio, website, blog, or social media pages, please contact our CAG Website Director, Betty Booker at: mailto:Betty@babooker.com.
Deborah Crawford: Deborah enjoys each enlightening moment she spends with the inspiring members of Christian Author’s Guild. As a wife, mother, and grandmother, she also delights in the inspiration from her family. But having experienced a mother’s heartache over the choices of a prodigal daughter, she desires to encourage families living with children making poor life choices. She leads a Bible study and prayer group with mothers interceding for their children. Trying to reach mothers outside her local area, she posts promising messages of hope weekly on her blog. For more information about her heartfelt mission for mothers with prodigals, mailto:deborahrdcrawford@gmail.com
Cynthia L. Simmons hosts Heart of the Matter Radio and does regular podcasts called CAG Spotlight in which she interviews authors and VIPs in the writing industry. A past president and vice-president, the membership granted her Lifetime Membership in 2009 for her numerous contributions to CAG and its members.
A beloved wife and mother of five, author, speaker, and retired nurse, Cynthia is a dynamic person with a wide variety of interests and abilities. While promoting her first book, she had interviews on radio and TV across the nation and was nominated for 2008 Georgia Author of the year. Her newest book released in October, 2016 is a mystery about the banking in the Confederacy titled Pursuing Gold. http://www.clsimmons.com
Betty Booker is a wife, a mother, and a grandmother. She enjoys encouraging and helping people to discover their gifts and talents.
Betty has been a member of Christian Authors Guild since April 2016, and is both their Webmaster and Treasurer.
She is currently working on two women’s fiction projects to be followed by a fantasy trilogy: Battle of the Kings. http://babooker.com/
Marcus Beavers is a long time member of CAG who once served as CAG’s chaplain. He has contributed to all of CAG’s published works.
In recent years Marcus has written three novel length detective stories, and one novel length adventure story that takes place in Nicaragua.
He has also written numerous short stories in early years of CAG membership.
Dan Barton has written multiple stories and poems for FanStory.com under the pen name Dr. Nad.
He helps Christian men who feel disqualified, re-capture their God-given dreams so they can live fulfilled.
Mission Statement: To Facilitate Transformational, Defining God Moments!
Vision Statement: Engaging the world to become a place where all of Christ’s Followers know and share their HIStory.
S.C. Merritt is a Cozy Mystery Author whose stories feature southern female sleuths, plots with a twist and a little sprinkle of romance. The Sweetwater Springs Southern Mystery Series is set in a small Alabama town full of quirky characters, delicious restaurants and lots of murder. Yummy recipes are included in each book!
The Bucket List Mysteries feature two retired friends who purchase an RV and hit the road, marking off destinations on their lists and running into murders along the way.
When not writing, she is traveling, watching classic movies and tv shows or collecting flamingos.
She lives in Georgia with her husband and miniature Schnauzers, Izzy and Allie and dreams of living in a tropical locale someday.