Anne Margaret Perry, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, FNP-C, CLNC, CEN, NRP, CP-C, is a nationally recognized medical educator, nurse practitioner, paramedic, clinical strategist, editor, and creative director whose career spans more than 30 years in healthcare, education, executive leadership, and professional development. Known across multiple industries as The Salty Goddess, Anne Margaret brings clinical precision, strategic clarity, and a healthy intolerance for useless fluff to every project she touches. As Editor and Cover Artist of Wait. What?! I'm Joining the Military?!, Anne Margaret worked closely with author and U.S. Navy veteran Rob Wronski to preserve the authenticity, humor, candor, and hard-earned wisdom of his voice. Her editorial focus was simple: ensure the book remained honest enough to matter, practical enough to use, and clear enough to guide prospective service members and their families through the often-confusing journey from initial interest to military service. Drawing upon decades of experience in emergency medicine, education, program leadership, workforce development, and high-stakes decision-making, Anne Margaret approaches nonfiction publishing with both empathy and exacting standards.
She is particularly drawn to authors who possess genuine expertise, lived experience, and something meaningful to teach, rather than merely something noisy to say. Anne Margaret is the Founder and CEO of Salty Goddess Ventures, a multi-vertical enterprise encompassing publishing, media, consulting, education, and professional development. Through Salty Goddess Press, she develops practical nonfiction titles that combine purpose, personality, instruction, and enough wit to keep readers awake while learning something useful. Her editorial fingerprints appear across books, workbooks, curricula, professional guides, continuing education programs, and leadership resources designed to create confidence in competence. When she is not editing, publishing, teaching, podcasting, or correcting someone's unfortunate relationship with punctuation, Anne Margaret can be found in South Carolina surrounded by family, dogs, bees, books, bold ideas, and unwavering loyalty to the Buffalo Bills. GO BILLS! Her mission remains beautifully uncomplicated: remain brave enough to live audaciously authentic, preserve a worthy legacy, elevate worthy voices, and make damn certain the story does not suck.