L.J. Mannon is the author of several short stories including “My Father’s Voice,” which appeared in Chicken Soup For The Baseball Lover’s Soul, “In Pursuit of Puppy Points” published in both The Pointing Dog Journal, and as part of an anthology in Feisty Little Pointing Dog, A Celebration of the Brittany, by Silver Quill Press. She currently resides with her husband in South Jersey. She finds inspiration in her sons, her bird dogs and riding her horses in the Pine Barrens.