Rebecca Inch-Partridge is a speculative-fiction author and freelance editor. She has been critiquing science-fiction and fantasy manuscripts for over 15 years. She works as a slush-pile reader for Amazing Stories, the world’s oldest science-fiction magazine, and is a frequent panelist at sci-fi conventions. To listen to her audio stories for free go to www.ripartridge.com

  

 

Dorajane Apuna-Grummer is a new writer and learning as fast as she can.  She published her first book under the Pen Name, Jo Donahue. It is an action-adventure Historical Western Romance.  She is working on a series of Western books and has a Mystery planned for NaNoWriMo month.  An active member of the Sacramento Romance Writers, she works full time as an expert witness for the courts on Catastrophic Injuries as a Nurse Life Care Planner.  She loves to write, knit, and drink lots of hot tea.

  

 

Barb Chandler is a transplant from Des Moines, Iowa. She has formerly been employed as a Psychotherapist on a Crisis Unit and also as a Suicide Prevention Counselor. After moving to California, she couldn’t find a job in her chosen profession. So, with the aid of a critique group, she taught herself how to write. She has written nonfiction for a local newspaper and for national magazines. She has self-published a memoir about her experiences as a hotline counselor.

  

I was born Carol Christina McLaughlin in Grass Valley, CA, 1948.  As a young girl, I enjoyed exploring the woods near my home.  The woods created the setting for my children’s fiction “Tales of Wonder Woods”.  At the age of ten, my father found employment in Rocklin, CA; we relocated there.   I married Ken Smith in 1967.  There were four children born in our marriage and later, eight grandchildren.  

I love travel and adventure.  I have hiked into the Grand Canyon; I ventured into a back packing trip in a dormant volcano “Haleakala”; other adventures included a trip to Alberta Canada; a trip into the wilds of Alaska and other great places.

Tales of Wonder Woods began as a story I told to my grandson Val. In 2009, I began to write “Tales of Wonder Woods”.  The book was completed in 2019.  I believe in my book and feel strongly that “Tales of Wonder Woods” is good reading for kids in this particular era. Now that I am retired, I am writing another children’s fiction about the Antebellum period into the Civil War.

 

  

Adele Tarantino, who writes under the pen name of Adele Lawrence, says:

“A retired teacher, I’ve enjoyed working in various schools on the San Francisco Peninsula–from elementary through adult education.  With BA in Education and MA in Sociology, my interests are widely varied, as is my writing.  I’ve been long-time editor of a newsletter promoting opportunities for women and girls.  My ultimate joy was teaching a Memoir Writing class for Seniors.  My Life’s theme: Write On!”