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Roxanne Kind Zambrano ABOUT ROXANNE Roxanne is a writer, actor, director, and teacher at Saddleback Community College. Search for:

Dirk B Sayers ABOUT DIRK Dirk’s path to authorship wasn’t quite accidental, but almost. Through tow previous careers, first as a Marine officer and subsequently as a corporate trainer Dirk started more stories than he finished. But during the 2008 financial meltdown, his employer filed for Chapter 11 protection. Along with many others, Dirk was … Read more

Allene Symons ABOUT ALLENE Allene Symons is the author of Love in a Time of Caterpillars: A Memoir of Monarchs and Caregiving (Forked Road Press, February 3, 2024), as well as Aldous Huxley’s Hands: His Quest for Perception and the Origin and Return of Psychedelic Science (Prometheus Books, 2015). Her other books are Nostradamus, Vagabond … Read more

Dirk B Sayers ABOUT DIRK Retired Marine officer, former corporate trainer turned author and cranky old guy. Search for:

Amy A Dunkleberger ABOUT AMY A native of Washington, D.C. and longtime California resident, my debut novel After the Blue Rain, set in postwar L.A., came out in late 2022 under my pen name A.D. Price. If there’s truth to the old saw about writing being a journey not a destination, then I’ve been a … Read more

Bruce Carlin ABOUT BRUCE Bruce Carlin is an accomplished executive in the healthcare and retail industries. He started his own company in 1998, focused on delivering healthcare as a consumer service rather than the cold and disjointed product it has been historically. Long worked alongside him, an unassuming but diligent professional who applied wise financial … Read more

Barb DeLong ABOUT BARB Barb loves reading, writing, and animals, not necessarily in that order on any given day. She writes contemporary and paranormal stories of love, laughter, and magic, and you know there’ll be a feature creature in there somewhere. Her short stories appear in several anthologies, including Secrets of Moonlight Cove, Love for … Read more

Alexander David Rosenstein ABOUT ALEXANDER I am the son of Soviet dissidents and came to the US from Odessa, Ukraine on a refugee visa without knowing any English. Fortunately, I was able to overcome the language barrier and earn my undergraduate and Doctorate degrees in the US. Subsequently, I was awarded a scholarship to Oxford … Read more

Fred J. Klein ABOUT FRED Fred is a member of the Southern California Writer’s Association, OC Writers, and Hometown Reads. He has had some short stories published and a humorous book, Memoirs of a Road Warrior, for sale on Amazon.com. Fred writes from his experiences as a salesman, laboratory technician, food service worker, writer, drummer, … Read more

Cynthia Kern OBrien ABOUT CYNTHIA Ask me about Markybook.com now available for Pre-Order! Cynthia Kern OBrien is the author of the A True Story by Granny debut picture book series: I Used to be a Fairy; The Tooth Fairy and the Baby Elf; and I Don’t Want to Go to Preschool. A grandmother of three, … Read more