Michael Weddington served as a regional sports reporter for USA Track & Field. His writing experience included authoring a ghostwritten history of the Olympiad for Griffin Publishing—Official Olympic Publisher of the Atlanta Games (Olympism, 1996); created the first graphical exercise and health log book (The Log, 1995; sold over 10,000 copies) in the health & fitness industry for Griffin Publishing; co-created and co-authored with Barry Perilli (National Road Race Encyclopedia, 1997) the first encyclopedia of our nation’s most storied running events, as co-published by Griffin Publishing and USA Track & Field.

In recent years, Michael has taken an interest in writing academically on higher education and college & career counseling topics (he has co-authored an article in the Journal of Studies in International Education on the academic experiences of Saudi female graduate students at a U.S. university, as well as numerous related articles on his LinkedIn page at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelweddington Currently, Michael is venturing into fiction for the first time, with a particular interest in Fantasy/Science Fiction. He has also taught several storytelling seminars at the college level on how to adapt the elements of Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero’s Journey’ for writing, filming, teaching and counseling formats.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dänna Wilberg is a local award-winning short film maker, who produced and hosted two local TV programs in Sacramento, California, PARANORMAL CONNECTION and STORY CONNECTION for fifteen years. Dänna has three published romantic suspense novels, “The Red Chair”, “The Grey Door” “The Black Dress” featuring Psychotherapist Grace Simms, and has been published in four anthologies, one in London. Her current works in progress include a paranormal suspense series based on her short film, “Borrowed Time”, featuring intuitive Suzanne Cash, and a feature film script about “Undue Influence”, based on the true story of Phillip Suttles, a war hero who fell victim to the very people who were appointed by the court to protect him from grifters.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob Irelan’s 2018 novel, Angel’s Truth, One Teenager’s Quest for Justice, marks the first time he has knowingly written fiction. But his commitment to writing stretches back to the late 1950s, when he majored in Journalism at the University of Maryland. Following 10 years of newspaper and magazine reporting and writing, including stints at The Wall Street Journal and Nation’s Business magazine in Washington, DC, he spent 32 years in corporate public relations for a Fortune 500 family of companies, the last 12 as the corporate officer directing that function. In retirement, he taught a public relations course for two years at University of the Pacific and for five years at University of California, Davis, Extension. Each course focused on writing as the quintessential communications tool. Bob is at work on another novel. He lives with his cat, Jocko, in Rancho Murieta, CA, Email: golfbob@calweb.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonnie Gault-Blue recently retired from working as a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and she is now writing pieces for the memoir that has haunted her thoughts for the last few years. It is about her time living in a community in Scotland. As well she writes stories of nature.

She has had one article published in The New Times, out of Seattle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas lives in the Sierra Foothills. She studied at Santa Clara University where she was an English major. She is a nine-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a seven-time Best of the Net nominee. In 2012 herchapbook, Before I Go to Sleep won the Red Ochre Chapbook Contest. In 2018 her poem A Mall in California took 2^nd place for the Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. She is the author of numerous chapbooks and six full-length collections of poetry, including Epitaph for the Beloved, (Finishing Line Press) and Alice in Ruby Slippers (Aldrich Press) slated for publication in 2019. Her work has appeared in a wide variety of online, print publications and anthologies, including: The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, Poets and Artists, War, Literature and the Arts. She is the Editor for The Orchards Poetry Journal and a member of the Sacramento Poetry Center Board of Directors and the Saratoga Author’s Hall of Fame. According to family lore she is a direct descendant of Robert Louis Stevenson.