New here, but thought I'd toss my specialties in the ring in case they'd be helpful.
- Sailing (25- to 45-foot range, coastal and Caribbean deliveries, club racing, living aboard)
- Firearms (I'm a pistol instructor, specialize in teaching women, but also more than passing knowledge of most handguns, modern rifles and shotguns - and please please please do not allow your characters to use the term "assault rifle" or "machine gun." Let me help you be accurate and specific!)
- Marine sciences (coastal ecosystems, critters, flora, what I don't know off the top of my head I can get you an answer on in 24 hours)
- Raising boy/girl twins (mine are now 27 and I lived through it. So did they.)
- Raising a non-twin (it's tough being the only kid in the house not having a birthday, and other struggles in feeling left out. Mine is 25)
- Understanding and communicating with a deaf dog (King Charles Spaniel, age 10, deaf since he was 6 mos. old)
- Hormone hell - women approaching 50 (to some degree as I'm still navigating this and sometimes have questions too, sorry for the TMI)
- Most things military (Mother was a WAC, my other half is a retired Army Ranger, brother-from-another-mother is active duty career Navy, another career AF, retired; marines you're on your own)
- Searching for a missing biological parent
- Small circulation/regional magazine publishing
- Coastal Georgia (have also lived in Florida, Missouri, and spent time in Ohio, Indiana, California, Ireland, Grenada, Bonaire, and Aruba)
- Hurricanes (been through a few, stayed)
- Volunteering with the Red Cross in disaster services
Happy to help as I will likely call on several of you!
Things I'm going to need help with - paternity testing, 14 yr-old-girls in today's world, FEMA hurricane damage claims (can probably get locally, but easier from other writers who understand "what if" questions), police response to a domestic shooting, and some general psychology questions so I can be more accurate in what drives my antagonist.
I noticed that others haven't posted their potential areas of need so if I'm out of line in doing so, I'm sorry. Let me know and I'll edit.