About the Authors
		A mother & son co-writing team? Whoever heard of such a thing? No one that I know... that is until Lamar & Mary Agnes Fine came along. The mother and son co-writing team from the peaceful, little North Georgia town of Chickamauga didn't plan to be authors, at least Lamar didn't. As a young lady, Mary Agnes had dreamed of a career in writing, but the responsibilities of making a living, raising a family, and operating her own income tax service caused her to table that dream for many years. In 1961 after the birth of her son, she left her job as a legal secretary to become a stay-at-home mom. She had always done tax returns for friends and family, and soon thereafter started her own income tax service, which grew to be the largest tax service in the Chickamauga area. Lamar grew up in the tax business, as Mary Agnes' offices were located in one side of the family home. Lamar worked part-time with his mom in the tax business during college, then joined her full-time after graduation. They were joined in the practice by husband & father, W.C. Fine, after his early retirement from Combustion, Engineering in 1985. Then in 1998, the Fines retired from the income tax business to pursue their writing. While writing had always been a dream of Mary Agnes, such was not the case with Lamar. Lamar describes himself as "a kid who wouldn't even read a book, unless it was about baseball." He got into writing purely by accident. A childhood friend, Frankie Brooks, got Lamar interested in songwriting, and one night an idea for a song got a little lengthy, and to make a long story short, the 3 minute song turned into a 424 page novel... Yesterdays' Gone. The co-writing partnership between Lamar & Mary Agnes also happened by accident. One day while writing a section that he "just couldn't get right," Lamar showed his work to Mary Agnes and asked, "What am I doing wrong?" Mary Agnes read the section, smiled and said, "Lamar, you're trying to write a woman's emotions from a male perspective." Mary Agnes offered to re-write the section, and when she returned it to him, it was exactly what he had unsuccessfully tried to write. Lamar knew a good thing. He and his mom had worked well for twenty years in the tax business, so he asked her to join him in the writing. "That was the point the book really took off. I had some good ideas, but until Mom joined me in the writing, they were just that... ideas. By working together we were able to 'bounce ideas off each other,' as well as have both the male and the female point of view. Without Mom getting involved, Yesterday's Gone would never have been completed, and it certainly wouldn't have been as good." While unique, the mother and son co-writing team has worked well. Their first novel, Yesterday's Gone, has been the 1999, 2000, and 2001 Regional Novel of the Year. Their new book, I Remember, will be released in February, and they have a third book, What Might Have Been, which is almost complete. They also have plans for two other books, a sequel to Yesterday's Gone called Yesterday's Tomorrow, as well as a sequel to I Remember.