Sandy Malone Author Sandy Malone is best known for starring in TLC's reality TV show "Wedding Island" and writing hundreds of wedding advice columns that were published in BRIDES, WeddingWire, and HuffPost. She wrote a DIY wedding planning book in 2016 that was traditionally published, and she released her new fiction series - Gem of the Golden Isles - in April 2024. She has also ghostwritten books for well-known reality TV stars (including a Real Housewife). Most recently, she was editor of The Police Tribune. Sandy got her journalism degree at The Ohio State University and was a reporter and editor for major news publications, including the Wall Street Journal, before she returned to her hometown of Washington, DC, for a career in public relations and government affairs. She began planning destination weddings professionally after her own was nearly a disaster, and ended up planning more than 500 weddings in the Caribbean in 11 years with her retired SWAT-commander husband. After Hurricane Maria wiped out her wedding business, Sandy went back to writing full time. Sandy and her husband, Bill, live on Jekyll Island, Georgia, with their coonhound Sherlock.

"Christmas on Jekyll" is her fifth fiction novel. She's working on a new crossover series titled "Under the Oaks" for release in 2027. She also has a new stand-alone novel, titled Thicker Than Blood, that will be released this October.