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. Please click here to visit her website.

Christie is married with two grown sons. She now lives in Dana Point, California but has lived in London, Amsterdam and Mexico City. She has had two award-winning novels published, as well as short stories and poetry. In addition, she has completed four other novels and worked as a professional writer for large Orange County corporations. Her new work, Lucky Dog, won the 2006 Fresh Voices Award. Her world travels give life to Sonata’s adventures in Snowflake Secrets. She is now working on a romance and a sequel.

 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 four 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 is currently working on a western.

 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.  They have just completed a moving account of Len's serious wounding and recovery. Lu is currently working on a mystery novel, and Len is creating a series of 1st person short stories of inanimate objects and an "autobiography" of their dog, Gina. Luanna co-wrote Snowflake Secrets. Visit her site at Whiskey Creek Press.

For many years Kathy and her husband lived on the East Coast of the US. They traveled extensively, and Kathy and her writing partner Barbara Clayton documented the special places they discovered. The result was a series of New England travel guides. Kathy has since relocated to the opposite coast and lives with a view of the Pacific Ocean. She has written a mystery which is ready for publication.