Mary S PalmerAs a world traveler, who has visited all fifty of the United States and every continent except Antarctica, Mary S. Palmer is uniquely qualified to write a book explaining how Tourism Writing benefits the big business of tourism. She is an accomplishe, award-winning author. She graduated Cum Laude from the University of South Alabama and obtained a Master of Arts Degree with a Concentration in Creative Writing. She has had twelve books in different genres published, along with short stories, essays, poems and two plays. Her two most recently published books were George Wallace: An Enigma, a biography, and a second edition of Time Will Tell, science-fiction. In 2014, Raisin' Cain won the Southeastern Literary Tourism Initiative Award and in 2017, her short story The Concrete Block Wall won the Hackney Award. Mary is also a lecturer in English at Faulkner University and a member of the adjunct faculties at Coastal Alabama College and Huntingdon College. She uses incidents from her travel experiences in her books. Read More Read Less