ACTIVE MEMBERS (in alphabetical order)
SHAWN E. BELL
Shawn E. Bell is
an American author, screenwriter, publisher, naturalist, and software designer
currently living in Newport Beach. www.shawnebell.com.
Greta Boris is
the author of The Wine and Chocolate Workout - Eat, Drink and Lose Weight and
co-publisher of the inbox magazine, Inspiring Women. She worked in the fitness
industry for close to 20 years as a personal trainer, weight management coach,
and Health and Wellness Director for a YMCA. She is currently working on a
supernatural thriller and a series of stories she is hoping will establish a
new genre, Cozy Horror. You can find her at GretaBoris.com, on Facebook and
follow her on twitter at @gretaboris.
DEANNA CAMERON
DeAnna established O.C. Writers in November 2012. She is the author of two historical novels, "The Belly Dancer" and "Dancing at The Chance," both from Berkley/Penguin. Before turning to fiction, she worked as a journalist, writing and editing for several Southern California newspapers and magazines. She’s also the founder and editor of LitCentralOC.com, an online magazine for local writers. www.DeAnnaCameron.com.
C.D. CHILDERS
C.D. Childers
holds a master's degree in library and information science, and is a former
young adult services librarian and academic librarian. After years of writing
and publishing in professional and academic circles, she is currently writing
her first YA novel. She lives in Orange County with her husband and very
spoiled dog. Follow her on Twitter (@cd_childers) or visit
http://www.cdchilders.com.
HEATHER G. COMAN
Heather G. Coman
has a degree (and license) in civil engineering. However, she found she liked
writing about engineering more than doing it. Since that discovery, she's been
working as a freelance editor for everything from engineering papers to romance
novels (and you better believe she nitpicks the physics in the science
fiction). She writes a weekly "Editing in the O.C." column for LitCentralOC.com. www.heathercoman.triskpub.com.
R.N. CRANE
R.N. Crane lives
in Orange, California. He graduated from UCLA with a Ph.D. and has served as an
engineering consultant for several companies, working on vehicle navigation
systems. During that time, he published over 100 papers and reports and was
awarded a patent. His work gave him the opportunity to visit many countries in
North America, Europe and Africa. He recently retired from engineering to
pursue fiction writing. He has two published novels on Amazon, B&N, Apple,
and other ebook sites. Information about his books can be found at
www.RNCbooks.com.
LAURA DRAKE
Laura Drake is a city girl, who never grew out of her tomboy
ways, or a serious cowboy crush. She writes both Women's Fiction and Romance. The Sweet Spot, the first novel in her, Sweet on a Cowboy Series, was released by Grand Central in May, Nothing Sweeter, in December. Her
"biker-chick" novel, Her Road
Home, was released by Harlequin's Superromance in August. Laura
resides in Southern California, though she aspires to retirement in Texas. She
gave up the corporate CFO gig to write, full time. She's a wife, grandmother,
and motorcycle chick in the remaining waking hours. @PBRWriter, http://WritersintheStorm@Wordpress.com,
https://www.facebook.com/LauraDrakeBooks,
and http://LauraDrakeBooks.com.
DeAnna established O.C. Writers in November 2012. She is the author of two historical novels, "The Belly Dancer" and "Dancing at The Chance," both from Berkley/Penguin. Before turning to fiction, she worked as a journalist, writing and editing for several Southern California newspapers and magazines. She’s also the founder and editor of LitCentralOC.com, an online magazine for local writers. www.DeAnnaCameron.com.C.D. CHILDERS
C.D. Childers
holds a master's degree in library and information science, and is a former
young adult services librarian and academic librarian. After years of writing
and publishing in professional and academic circles, she is currently writing
her first YA novel. She lives in Orange County with her husband and very
spoiled dog. Follow her on Twitter (@cd_childers) or visit
http://www.cdchilders.com.Heather G. Coman
has a degree (and license) in civil engineering. However, she found she liked
writing about engineering more than doing it. Since that discovery, she's been
working as a freelance editor for everything from engineering papers to romance
novels (and you better believe she nitpicks the physics in the science
fiction). She writes a weekly "Editing in the O.C." column for LitCentralOC.com. www.heathercoman.triskpub.com.R.N. CRANE
R.N. Crane lives
in Orange, California. He graduated from UCLA with a Ph.D. and has served as an
engineering consultant for several companies, working on vehicle navigation
systems. During that time, he published over 100 papers and reports and was
awarded a patent. His work gave him the opportunity to visit many countries in
North America, Europe and Africa. He recently retired from engineering to
pursue fiction writing. He has two published novels on Amazon, B&N, Apple,
and other ebook sites. Information about his books can be found at
www.RNCbooks.com.LAURA DRAKE
Laura Drake is a city girl, who never grew out of her tomboy
ways, or a serious cowboy crush. She writes both Women's Fiction and Romance. The Sweet Spot, the first novel in her, Sweet on a Cowboy Series, was released by Grand Central in May, Nothing Sweeter, in December. Her
"biker-chick" novel, Her Road
Home, was released by Harlequin's Superromance in August. Laura
resides in Southern California, though she aspires to retirement in Texas. She
gave up the corporate CFO gig to write, full time. She's a wife, grandmother,
and motorcycle chick in the remaining waking hours. @PBRWriter, http://WritersintheStorm@Wordpress.com,
https://www.facebook.com/LauraDrakeBooks,
and http://LauraDrakeBooks.com.
NYX GOLDSTONE
Nyx Goldstone is
a writer of all sorts, from script to blog to ghost. When the Santa Ana resident isn't word
slinging or studying Entrepreneur business at California State University,
Fullerton, she can be found hunched over her desk, weaving together jump rings
into chainmaille pieces. www.nyxgoldstone.com.
J.J. Gow is a
clinical researcher, a freelance writer, a wife, a mother, a photographer, a
family chef, an explorer, a reader, and she has a passion for creative writing
for children and young adults. She is a contributing writer under the pen name
Hertha Crystal for Yahoo. Her writing will be published in the Story Sprout
Anthology by the Children's Book Writers of Los Angeles (fall 2014). Currently,
she is plotting a YA historical novel and revising the first draft of her
middle-grade fantasy fiction. She is an active member of O. C. Writers and two
critique groups. She lives in Orange County with her family. She is on Facebook
at https://www.facebook.com/WriterJJGow and
https://www.facebook.com/YAandTeenLit. You may follow her on Twitter @WriterJJGow
and @HerthaCrystal.
DWAYNE R. HERBERICH
Dwayne R. Herberich is a retired California police officer who has been a licensed private investigator for more than 30 years in eight Western states. He has completed his first novel, written and produced a documentary about surviving armed gunman situations and has a pending U.S. patent. Having grown up in California, he is in the process of relocating to the Dallas, Texas area.
As a licensed speech-language pathologist, I've written thousands of clinical reports - and some of them contained fabulous fiction. Now I write for fun and freedom of expression. Flash fiction, short stories, and personal essays have been published in devotionals, magazines, newsletters and newspapers. My work has also been included in these anthologies: Open to Interpretation, The Biscuit, She Writes, O.C. Writers and Wisdom Has a Voice: Every Daughter's Memories of Mother. I completed a road trip novel and am awaiting agent responses. Cross those fingers, eyes and toes, please. I relish oral reads, including Dime Stories, and I'd love to come to talk with your groups of writers/readers. I have an extensive public speaking resume. I write when I feel blue; I write when I feel black; and then I feel all better...with posts several times a week on my blog at pjcolando.com. I'm told there's sunshine in my voice. MICHELLE KNOWLDEN
Between 1992 and
2011, Michelle Knowlden published 14 stories with Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery
Magazine that featured hypochondriac detective Micky Cardex and two stories
that did not. The 1998 story "No, Thank You, John" was nominated for
a Shamus award. Many of these stories have been included in anthologies and
translated in multiple languages. She also published a science fiction story
for the More Amazing Stories anthology (Tor) published in 1998. In December,
Michelle published the first novella in a quartet of Abishag mysteries, SINKING SHIPS, on Amazon Digital Services. Also, she has published Young Adult SF with
Neal Shusterman; an X-Files novel ("Dark Matter") for HarperCollins
in 1999 under the name Easton Royce; and an e-novella, "Unstrung," in
Neal's Unwind world, published by Simon & Schuster July 2012. In 2011,
Michelle left an engineering career of many years to write full-time.
PAULA LIGHT
Paula Light is a
writer in Orange County. She writes short stories, novels, and the
occasional poem. She loves cats, cupcakes, mob movies, glittery rainbows, and
dark humor. She has two amazing daughters who live in Northern California. She also writes
romance/mild erotica as Anna Fondant.
FRANK PRAY
I'm a committed writer, but was recently released with
medication. I’ve been writing as a first love since 2011. I have always loved
writing, but like so many, avoided my core passion. So much for the wasted
years. My focus has been on acquiring the tools of the craft, taking writing
classes, and connecting with other committed writers, and, well wadda ya know,
writing. My focus is across genres, learning from each. I completed a detective
novella in March 2013, called Delusions,
and a science-fiction short story, Nano,
in 2012. I also write regularly for my
blog: http://www.frankswriting.blogspot.com.
I belong to a weekly prompt writing group, OC Writers’ Guild. I’m currently
immersed in completing my first novel-length story, called Mary Celeste Magdalena, a story of a woman resisting but yielding
to an unexpected spiritual call. (Wrong number?) I’m 62,
live in Irvine, have an adult daughter, no pets, divorced, and practice
employment law by day. I enjoy comedy,
classical music, theater, museums, and book discussions.
Cynthia
Romanowski holds an MFA in fiction from UC Riverside's low-residency program in
Palm Desert. She is a former prose editor of The Coachella Review and was
recently selected to participate in the 2014 Emerging Voices Show for the New
Short Fiction Series in Los Angeles. Her stories are forthcoming in MARY: A
Journal of New Writing and The Whistling Fire. She has written for Great Taste,
The Daily 49er and the Union Weekly. She lives in Huntington Beach, and is at
work on a collection of linked short stories.
TAMMY SALYER
Tammy is an
inveterate verbarian who spends her day surrounded by the written word, both
hers and others'. As an ex-paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, her
stories are often as gritty as a grunt's pile of three-week-old field gear. Her
military science fiction novel "Contract of Defiance" is the first
book in the Spectras Arise trilogy and debuted to acclaim in spring 2012.
"Contract of Betrayal" follows, and the final book, "Contract of
War," completes the trilogy. When not hunched over her writing desk, Tammy
runs and bikes silly miles in the playground of Southern California and spends
an inappropriate amount of time watching Henry Rollins videos on YouTube. Visit
her blog at www.tammysalyer.com to sign up for her newsletter and be the first
to know of contests and new releases. Or, stop by and say hi on Twitter
@TammySalyer.
A founding member
of O.C.Writers, Katherine Sartori's dream of writing novels dates back to her
childhood. Her debut novel, THE CHOSEN SHELL, was published in 2013, and has
earned a 5-star rating from Amazon. The book was inspired by Sartori's years as
a nun from age eighteen to twenty-three. After leaving the convent, Katherine
spent over 30 years writing for Fortune 500 corporations and teaching writing
at California State University, Fullerton, CA. Now retired, she has published
several travel articles and a short story which appears in The Cup of Comfort
Book for Single Mothers. Now, when she isn't traveling the world with her
husband Joe, she is busy completing her second novel, LILY and Eve. www.katherinesartori.com.RYAN K. STANSIFER
Daddy.
Author. Gamer. Reader. Dreamer. Ryan has been writing since elementary school
and gaming even longer. Growing up on science fiction and fantasy, he began
pursuing his passion for writing in 2000 with the first draft of The Orion Project: Descent. In 2009, he
rewrote it for National Novel Writing Month, and it's a great deal better now.
He’s written more than 5 0 works, including published poetry, novellas, short
stories and several novels. In 2011, he won an Honorable Mention in Blizzard’s
Global Writing Contest for "Ashes over Stormwind.” Set in the universe of
World of Warcraft, it is the story of General Marcus Jonathan fighting to
survive as Deathwing sweeps down upon Stormwind at the beginning of the
Cataclysm. Ryan lives with his wife, Laura, and their perfect little girl,
Caitlyn Jessica, in Southern California with one very strange cat who always
asks questions. They are expecting their second daughter – Talissa – on Nov. 5,
2013. You can find more information and a sample of his writing at www.ryankstansifer.com.
WENDY VAN CAMP
Wendy Van Camp, a founding member, is the writer behind the blog No Wasted Ink, a platform for her writing career and a place for authors to learn about the craft of writing. She makes her home in Southern California with her husband and an Australian Shepard. Wendy enjoys travel, camping, bicycling, gourmet cooking and gemology. She started out as a novelist, but moved into television production during college and remained in that field for 15 years as a corporate producer and director. Later, she started a small artisan business to sell her original jewelry creations and returned to writing by publishing articles about jewelry making and gemology. Currently, Wendy has gone full circle and has returned to being a novelist. She is working on a steampunk science fiction trilogy and various science fiction short stories. http://nowastedink.com.
Wendy Van Camp, a founding member, is the writer behind the blog No Wasted Ink, a platform for her writing career and a place for authors to learn about the craft of writing. She makes her home in Southern California with her husband and an Australian Shepard. Wendy enjoys travel, camping, bicycling, gourmet cooking and gemology. She started out as a novelist, but moved into television production during college and remained in that field for 15 years as a corporate producer and director. Later, she started a small artisan business to sell her original jewelry creations and returned to writing by publishing articles about jewelry making and gemology. Currently, Wendy has gone full circle and has returned to being a novelist. She is working on a steampunk science fiction trilogy and various science fiction short stories. http://nowastedink.com.JOYCE WARD
Joyce Ward
stopped stirring up trouble in the corporate world a few years ago and now
satisfies her appetite for mayhem in the fictional world. When she isn't
working on one of her cozy horror, paranormal romance or historical western
manuscripts, she can usually be found hanging out with her family in San Juan
Capistrano. She has published several short stories in various anthologies, and
she's an active member of Orange County Chapter of Romance Writers of America, as well as O.C. Writers.J.D. WEBER
J.D. Weber is a
Huntington Beach resident who spends a lot of time in a movie theater (because
she's paid to do so) and in libraries, for which she is not paid.HERB WILLIAMS-DALGART
Herb
Williams-Dalgart is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter and blogger based
in Orange County, where he lives with his wife, their children and the family
dog. He holds an English degree from UC Santa Barbara, with an emphasis in
creative writing, and a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA's Writers'
Program. He completed the novel-writing curriculum at UC Irvine Extension, and
studied under local author, Louella Nelson, herself the author of many popular
romance novels. Williams-Dalgart also
studied in England at Birmingham University and the Shakespeare Institute of
Stratford-upon-Avon. The grandson of a World War II veteran, Williams-Dalgart
grew up with a fascination for the time period. Pairing that interest with his
love of travel-with a particular fondness for France-he was inspired to write
the historical novel, "The French Girl's War," telling a unique story
of danger, sacrifice, and hope. www.herbthewriter.com.
BETH YARNALL
Best-selling
author Beth Yarnall writes mysteries, romantic suspense, and the occasional
hilarious tweet. She's a member of the Orange County Chapter of Romance Writers
of America and O.C. Writers, and she lives in North Orange County with her
husband, two sons, and their rescue dog, where she is hard at work on her next
novel. For more information about her and her novels, please
visit www.bethyarnall.com.
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All O.C. Writers are welcome on this page. If you'd like to be included, please send a 150-word or less bio and a picture to DeAnna Cameron at ocwritersnetwork@gmail.com.
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