Julie is an award-winning watercolor artist and writer. She has earned the Pen Woman Award in Children's Literature and two awards in the Top 100 writers in Writer's Digest. Currently working on three children's novels and ten picture books, she has been published in the Tenney Times, Capistrano Valley News, Orange County Register, World of Watercolor. Her art has been published in Splash 6, Southwest Art, Local Arts, Art Talk, Art of the West, Simi Valley News, Art of the American West, Orange Coast Magazine. Please click to visit her website.

 Italian-born Maria G. Swan loves to write. At fourteen, she received her first award for a short story. Although most of her credits are for non-fiction, mystery is her true love. Swan is fluent in Italian, French and English. Presently she lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she sells real estate while working on her next book, scheduled for publication with Dorchester Publishing. Please click here to visit her website.

 Christie is married, lives in Dana Point, California, and has a BA degree in English. She has had two books, short stories and poetry published, has completed five novels and has been employed as a professional writer for a large Orange Country, California corporation. She is currently writing a new novel, Lucky Dog, which was a finalist in the 2006 Fresh Voices Awards.

 Harvey, born in Wisconsin, moved to Arkansas from Laguna Beach, California in 1999 with his wife, Ann. He is a pharmacist, licensed in three states, and hopes to make a living in writing. He has had three books, short stories, a poem and an article published and is working on another book. He has also co-written a screenplay currently entered in three contests, and three short stories also entered in contests. He runs, walks and plays basketball and has just published his mystery, Cherokee Murders.

 Michigan native Margie was a newspaper columnist who had occasional magazine assignments before "retiring" to rear two sons. Her Marine husband's many career upgrades found them living on both coasts and in-between. Their bridge hobby provided instant new friends, even in foreign lands.  It still works in California where they live today.

  Both native Californians, Len and Lu met while working together at a Bob's Big Boy restaurant. They had been married about a year when Len was drafted to serve in Vietnam.  Their moving account of Len's serious wounding and recovery called Promises Kept: From Tragedy to Triumph is currently under submission. Lu is working on a mystery novel, and Len is creating 1st person stories of inanimate objects.