Mary Kay Andrews is the pen name of Avondale Estates resident Kathy Trocheck, a lover of all things holiday related whose latest book is a yuletide romance called "Bright Lights, Big Christmas." ...

Before Mary Kay Andrews became a New York Times bestselling author of 28 books, she was Kathy Hogan Trocheck, a features writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Andrews got her start at the ...

Kathy Hogan Trocheck. Trocheck, a St. Petersburg native, is known to readers as Mary Kay Andrews, the author of Spring Fever, Savannah Blues and Summer Rental.

After 14 years as a journalist, Kathy Hogan Trocheck left newspapers to begin writing mysteries. "I had never thought about writing a novel," she said. "But I had two young kids and I realized that… ...