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Below are several who have published with Adducent, by name and by role. Nearly all of them wrote their own manuscripts and engaged us to bring them to a professional standard and into print. Several arrived on the recommendation of someone else on this list.
Flag and general officers
Eleven, across the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. Two four-star officers.
| Admiral William J. Fallon, USN (Ret.) | Former Commander, U.S. Central Command; Vice Chief of Naval Operations; Commander, U.S. Pacific Command; Presidential Envoy to Japan. Decisions, Discord, and Diplomacy |
| General Richard “Butch” Neal, USMC (Ret.) | Former Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. What Now, Lieutenant? — Commandant of the Marine Corps Professional Reading List |
| Lieutenant General Rick Waddell, U.S. Army Reserve (Ret.) | United States Military Academy, Class of 1982. Former Deputy National Security Advisor to the President; Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Director for European Security Affairs, National Security Council; Commanding General, 76th Operational Response Command. The Army — Low Intensity Conflict; Wars: Then & Now; In War’s Shadow — three titles |
| Vice Admiral Barry M. Costello, USN (Ret.) | Former Commander, U.S. Third Fleet; President, The Costello Group. Fortune Favors Boldness — Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading List |
| Vice Admiral William D. Sullivan, USN (Ret.) | Former U.S. Military Representative to NATO; Vice Director for Strategic Plans and Policy, Joint Staff; Director for Strategy and Plans, U.S. Pacific Command. SEA DETAIL, USS Dauntless |
| Vice Admiral Tom Church, USN (Ret.) | Former Naval Inspector General; Commanding Officer, Naval Station Norfolk; longest-serving Budget Director of the Navy. Fixing Washington |
| Rear Admiral Greg Slavonic, USN (Ret.) | Former Acting Under Secretary of the Navy; 18th Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower & Reserve Affairs); President and CEO, Blue Water Strategies |
| Rear Admiral Henry C. “Hank” McKinney, USN (Ret.) | Former Commander, U.S. Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Flotsam & Jetsam |
| Major General Harry W. Jenkins, USMC (Ret.) | Former Director, Expeditionary Warfare, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; former Chief of Staff, 2nd Marine Division; former Legislative Assistant to the Commandant. Challenges |
| Major General Irene Trowell-Harris, USAF (Ret.) | Former Director, Center for Women Veterans, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Sky High; Bridges |
| Major General Arnold L. Punaro, USMC (Ret.) | Former Commanding General, 4th Marine Division; former Staff Director, Senate Armed Services Committee (14 years); CEO, The Punaro Group. IF CONFIRMED | An Insider’s View of the National Security Confirmation Process |
Senior officers and service academy graduates
| Colonel Kerry C. Kachejian, U.S. Army (Ret.) | United States Military Academy, Class of 1982; Managing Director, Black Knight Advisors. SUVs Suck in Combat; The Paperboy; Here We Go Again: Avoiding the Quagmire of Rebuilding After Major Conflicts — three titles |
| Captain Robert S. Wells, U.S. Navy (Ret.) | Special Advisor for National Security Affairs, Office of the Vice President of the United States; Naval Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs. Commanding Officer, USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) during Operation Enduring Freedom, and USS Lewis B. Puller (FFG-23). Two Defense Superior Service Medals, two Legions of Merit. Adjunct Professor, University of Arizona and the Elliott School of International Affairs. Voices From the Bottom of the South China Sea |
| Steve Bailey, U.S. Army | Commandant’s List graduate, U.S. Army Infantry Officer Candidate School; Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman’s Badge, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry; J.D., Tulane University School of Law. WE WERE THERE: Vietnam — memoir, rebuilt as creative nonfiction |
| Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Fabiano, USMC (Ret.) | Rose from the enlisted ranks to graduate from the U.S. Naval Academy; retired after 22 years. Two tours in Iraq; served throughout the Middle East with Central Command. In January 2010, led 54 U.S. military mentors into Liberia — the first joint team of its kind, and the premier mentoring program in Africa |
| Raul Armando Interiano | United States Military Academy, Class of 1982; former U.S. Army officer; President, Interiano-Hubbard, Inc. The Black Crusade |
| Lieutenant Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.) | Attorney (retired). Bare Feet, Iron Will; Living the Juche Lie; Doomsday Iran — three titles |
| Donna McAleer | United States Military Academy, Class of 1987; former U.S. Army officer; Class President and Admissions Field Representative, West Point; board member, West Point Association of Graduates; M.B.A., Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. Porcelain on Steel: Women of West Point’s Long Gray Line |
National security and government
| Lieutenant General Rick Waddell, U.S. Army Reserve (Ret.) | Former Deputy National Security Advisor to the President — see above |
| Captain Robert S. Wells, U.S. Navy (Ret.) | Special Advisor for National Security Affairs, Office of the Vice President of the United States — see above |
| Richard Gerard Irwin | Forty-five years at the Central Intelligence Agency, the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and in the private sector. Senior Special Operations Program Officer and Security Officer, CIA, 1977–2005; first Chief of Security of the CIA Counterterrorism Center; served under eight Directors. Director of Incident Management at the White House Office of Homeland Security and the Homeland Security Council, and a principal advisor to Secretary Tom Ridge at the Department of Homeland Security. Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Goldbelt, Incorporated. KH601, plus five private legacy publications — six engagements |
| Grace Flores-Hughes | Vice Chair, F&H 2 Inc.; Senior Advisor, Acuity International |
| Rear Admiral Greg Slavonic, USN (Ret.) | Former Acting Under Secretary of the Navy — see above |
| Major General Arnold L. Punaro, USMC (Ret.) | Former Staff Director, Senate Armed Services Committee — see above |
Law
| Charlie Papavizas | Partner and Chair, Maritime Practice, Winston & Strawn LLP; J.D., George Washington University. Journey to the Jones Act: U.S. Merchant Marine Policy 1776–1920 |
| Duyen Nguyen, Esq. | Law Offices of Duyen Nguyen, San Jose, California. Three novels published with Adducent |
| Lieutenant Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.) | Attorney — see above |
Business and technology leadership
| Dr. J. Phillip “Jack” London | Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board, CACI International Inc. (NYSE) — a $5.7 billion technology services company with 23,000 employees in 155 offices worldwide; Chief Executive Officer 1984–2007. Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.); United States Naval Academy graduate; doctorate, George Washington University. Character: The Ultimate Success Factor; Ever Vigilant, published posthumously |
| Dr. Jennifer London | Ph.D. in psychology, The Ohio State University; postdoctoral education in marketing, University of Pittsburgh School of Business. Profiles in Character; The Movers & Shapers: Seven Founding Fathers of the United States of America (October 2026); co-author, Ever Vigilant |
| Bill Ault | Twenty-year technology President and CEO; Founder, CareerPathing.co. Compassion and Command |
| Jim Barratt, CPA, CFF | Forensic accountant; former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement accountant. Earn Trust: Changing Selling Into Helping |
| Richard Gerard Irwin | Former President and CEO, Goldbelt, Incorporated; President and COO, Culmen International — see above |
| Lieutenant General Rick Waddell, U.S. Army Reserve (Ret.) | Former Managing Director for South America, BG Group; Chief Executive Officer, Anglo Ferrous Metals, Brazil — see above |
Four titles with the Londons, across two authors. Jack London’s Character: The Ultimate Success Factor, which went to a third printing, and his memoir Ever Vigilant, published after his death. Dr. Jennifer London’s Profiles in Character, and The Movers & Shapers, publishing in October 2026.
Public policy and philanthropy
| Tamara Lucas Copeland | Past President, Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers — an association of more than 100 foundations and corporate giving programs in the Greater Washington region. Former President of Voices for America’s Children and of the National Health & Education Consortium; former Legislative Director to Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott. Daughters of the Dream |
Academic and professional
| Dr. Daryl Cumber Dance | Professor of English, Emerita, Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond; recipient of the Zora Neale Hurston Award and the Sojourner Truth Award. Land of the Free Negroes; Remembering Paule; and others |
| Dr. Curtis L. Odom | Executive Professor of Management, D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University. Eight titles published with Adducent, most recently Change Optimized |
| Richard D. Parker, Ph.D., M.P.A. | Ph.D., University of Alabama; business professor. U.S. Naval Reserve; former Director of Public Affairs, Commander Navy Recruiting Command. Leadership Lessons from Monty Python and the Holy Grail |
And beyond this list
114 titles published since 2000. Our authors also include scientists, physicians and surgeons, CIA officers, Fortune 500 executives, a United States Senator and a member of Congress, and entrepreneurs and business professionals — across twelve countries.
Some engagements are confidential, and some clients are not named here by their own preference. That is part of the work.
Fourteen of those titles arrived as standard nonfiction and were rebuilt as creative nonfiction.
Private and family publications
Not every book is written for the market. Some are written for a family, a unit, or a closed circle — and those are published privately, under our Familia and Amici imprint, without distribution and without our commercial name on the spine.
They are produced to the same standard as everything else.
“My husband had completed his memoir just a few months before he died, and I wanted to have it published for the family… Dennis treated this private memoir as if it were a new book from a best-selling author. His professionalism, attention to detail, responsiveness to my wishes, and his dedication to excellence regarding every aspect of the book, including the design of the book jacket, were outstanding… Thank you, Dennis, for publishing my husband’s story. It is a treasure.” — Mary Jo Bieberich
One client has published five private family titles with us.
Two of their books are on U.S. military professional reading lists
Fortune Favors Boldness, by Vice Admiral Barry M. Costello, USN (Ret.) — Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading List, one of twelve titles. The manuscript had been declined by Naval Institute Press before we worked with Vice Admiral Costello and published it.
What Now, Lieutenant?, by General Richard “Butch” Neal, USMC (Ret.) — Commandant of the Marine Corps Professional Reading List, after the memoir was rebuilt as creative nonfiction.
A reading-list selection is not a review a client can arrange, a prize an author can enter, or a placement a publisher can buy. It is a service deciding its own officers should read the book.
How people arrive here
Vice Admiral Costello came to us on the recommendation of Vice Admiral Tom Church and Vice Admiral Bill Sullivan, both of whom had published with us first. He said so himself:
“I came to Dennis Lowery on the recommendation of my friends Vice Admiral Tom Church and Vice Admiral Bill Sullivan. I had reached out to them after having less than positive experiences with other publishing entities. They assured me of Dennis’ professionalism, his attention to detail, and his ability to bring one’s project to life… He was very responsive, had a ‘can do’ attitude, and allowed us the freedom to bring Fortune Favors Boldness to life with recommendations, without any heavy-handed edits others might have imposed… I’d be happy to speak directly to anyone looking to follow our footsteps with Dennis.” — Vice Admiral Barry M. Costello, U.S. Navy (Retired)
That is the shape of most of this list. In a community this small and this careful, a recommendation carries further than anything a firm can say about itself — which is why we would rather show you the names than describe them.
Who endorses these books
The books on this list carry cover endorsements from three former service and cabinet secretaries, six four-star officers, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a former Director of Central Intelligence, the chairman and chief executive of Avon Products, and Mike Krzyzewski.
Those are not our clients. They are the people who read the finished books and put their names on them.
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