Our PAN Writers

allison2 Allison Knight

Award winning author, Allison Knight began her writing career like many other authors. She read a book she didn’t like and knew she could do a better job. She grabbed paper and typewriter (computers were available back then) and announced she was going to write a book. Her children hooted with laughter.

“Yeh, Mom, when cows fly,” her daughter declared.

She took classes, joined a critique group and RWA, and wrote, rewrote and wrote some more.

When her first book sold, she came home from her teaching job to find a stuffed toy cow rotating from the ceiling fan in the family room. It seemed - “Cows did fly!”

Since that time, Allison has written and published seventeen books with a gothic anthology and another medieval romance to be release in 2010. As a long time member of PAN, Allison often speaks at writers conferences and has taught writing classes eager to share her knowledge and her love of romance novels.

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Margaret P. Cunningham

Short Stories: Magazines and anthologies including seven Chicken Soup for the Soul books.Panel member on selection committee for Chicken Soup for the Adopted Soul

Articles: A Writer’s Success Story  published in the January, 2010 issue of The Writer Magazine. 

Novel: Lily in Bloom  was released by Black Lyon Publishing in May, 2008 and was winner of the 2008 Golden Rose Award for Best Contemporary Romance.  Released in large print by Thorndike Books US/Canada and BBC Books in the UK.  She is currently working on revisions of my second novel, One True Place, to be published by Black Lyon Publishing.

Co-chairman of the Friends of the Spring Hill College Library’s Literary Series - five years.  If All of Mobile Read the Same Book Committee - two years. She grew up in Mobile, Alabama where she still lives with her husband Tom.

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Fran McNabb

Fran McNabb grew up along the beaches, bayous and islands of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and uses this setting in most of her novels. She received both her BS and an ME from the University of Southern Mississippi. After spending two years in Germany with her husband, they returned to the Coast where she taught English and journalism until taking an early retirement. She now lives on a quiet bayou harbor with her husband and cat and spends her time writing, working for Gulf Coast Chapter RWA, and presenting writing workshops.

Her writing credits include three books with Avalon (two contemporary romances and one historical romance), and numerous articles in magazines and newsletters. Visit her at www.franmcnabb.com.