See also: Cathy Waldron I am a native of New Hampshire. My debut novel, in Polyester Pajamas, won the NH Writers' Project 2013/2014 Readers' Choice Award for outstanding work of fiction. I'm thrilled to now be co-authoring with Bill Bishop who grew up in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. He served 30 years in the USAF before retiring to the Panhandle of Florida. He has a very unique and engaging style of writing. I'm presently co-authoring several novels with him.