Jeff worked for 35 years in every aspect of the IT industry despite starting college in music and ending in philosophy.  He began his career programming something called a “personal computer” and ended as the lead engineer in two major areas of California’s largest government data center.  He has directed a church choir in the recording studio, groups of boys at summer camps, and many USA Swim meets. 

His youthful accomplishments include class III whitewater kayaking, SCUBA diving on a Coast Guard warning day, and skiing double-diamond in a blizzard.  During high school, he was even a guitarist in a rock band.  Artistically, he is the proud owner of a professionally produced CD of his own music compositions.  

Along the way, he spent many years studying ballroom dance, achieving a Full Silver certification.  At home, he may be fixing his old truck, building a fence, or rewiring his house.  He loves camping by a mountain lake or hanging with his kids, bonus kids, grandkids, and fiancée. 

His house is stocked with a room full of Legos, a huge toy soldier collection, slot cars, hundreds of old movies, and history books.  He remains an armchair philosopher and his writing shows that.

Karen A. Phillips writes humorous, fun, action-packed mysteries. She has several short stories published in various anthologies. Her characters are engaging and fearless. The Rocky Nelson Boxing Mystery series features an amateur sleuth who boxes . . . and yes, Karen also takes boxing lessons.

Visit her at www.KarenAPhillips.com.

Jim Guigli began writing with single sentence entries for the 2005-2006 Bulwer- Lytton Fiction Contest. From thousands, one of Jim’s 63 entries was selected as the Grand Prize winner. It was about a beautiful, mysterious woman visiting the small office of an impoverished private detective, Bart Lasiter. Benefits from winning the Contest included world-wide notice, print, radio, and TV interviews.
Though the Contest is about writing a bad opening sentence to a non-existent novel, people kept asking, “What about the rest of the book? What happens to Bart Lasiter?”
After hearing those question too many times, Jim took that one sentence and created the Old Town Sacramento fictional world of Bart Lasiter, and Lasiter
Investigations. Since then, Jim has published a Kindle novelette, Bad News for a Ghost, and published flash fiction, short stories, and a novel, Under the Black Flag – Piracy Is Not a Victimless Crime. Many of these stories have won awards.
Jim lives nearby in Carmichael with his wife, Fran, and a female Yellow Labrador
Retriever.

Born in Columbus, Ohio, Julie’s first taste of literary acclaim came in seventh grade as editor of the class newspaper. Seeing her work in print whetted her appetite for writing pieces she could share with others.

A few years later, Julie wrote and delivered a speech at high school graduation. After graduating with a music degree from Ohio State, she played in orchestras and then returned to college.

The rigors of researching and writing a thesis for her master’s degree in natural resources, while intellectually satisfying, did little to satisfy her creative side.

Decades of public school teaching and thousands of lesson plans later, Julie determined to return her focus to writing from the heart. Now retired from teaching, she enjoys bringing characters to life in ways that inform and entertain.

Julie’s website: juliesniderauthor.com

Substack: juliesniderauthor126.substack.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61558129713848

Dan Jerger, aka Gideon D. Asche.

Dan grew up outside the US, in Europe, and in Asia, attending private British schools as the child of a senior American diplomat. He served two enlistments in the US Army before being recruited by a NATO human intelligence group operating in Eastern
Europe.
Nine years as an intelligence operator behind the Iron Curtain is the subject of Dan’s first t book, published under the pseudonym Gideon D. Asche – JINNIK – The Asset,
Muddy Boots Press 2018.
Gideon D. Asche is the name Dan lived under for eight years in the field. In October of 1987, Dan was compromised and arrested. He spent the next five months as the unwilling guest of soviet security services.
Released in 1988, Dan lives quietly with his wife, two Great Pyrenees, and his mountains, devoting his time to writing, avoiding humanity, and converting cheap wine into urine.