“The Perennial Writers Conference”
Kathryn Atkins ABOUT KATHRYN Kathryn Atkins is a native Californian. She attended UC Berkeley for a BS in Marketing and an MBA. After a long corporate career, she changed gears, opened a business writing firm, Writing World, and then began writing fiction. She joined the Long Beach chapter of the non-profit 501(c)(3) California Writers Club … Read more
Thomas M. Wing ABOUT THOMAS A 1984 Naval Academy graduate, Thomas M. Wing retired after serving 32 years as a Navy Surface Warfare officer. He’s now a full-time writer of nautical fiction, both historical and modern. He has completed two novels and has begun work on a third. Unable to constrain himself to a single … Read more
Dot Caffrey ABOUT DOT Born and raised in New York, mostly on Long Island not “The City”, Dot Caffrey moved to California after high school and now describes herself as a ‘Californian by choice not chance’. She did a three-year stint in the Navy before going to college and getting a Microbiology/Medical Technologist degree.Her father … Read more
Nancy Cole Silverman ABOUT NANCY Nancy Cole Silverman spent nearly twenty-five years in news and talk radio, beginning her career in college on the talent side as one of the first female voices on the air. Later on the business side in Los Angeles, she retired as one of two female general managers in the … Read more
Jen Rogers ABOUT JEN Southern California based freelance writer and blogger Jen Curnutt, formerly Jen Rogers, (Jen33Travel) is an avid camper and outdoor enthusiast who likes nothing more than grabbing her tent, escaping into the remote wilderness, and completely unplugging from the world around her while enveloped in the beauty of nature. Her entire life, … Read more
Karen Sue Walker ABOUT KAREN Karen Sue Walker writes cozy mysteries, allowing her to spend time researching murder methods, baking, and playing with her rescue dog, Kit. She has published the four-book Bridal Shop Mysteries and the first in the Haunted Tearoom Mystery Series with more to come soon. Karen also assists other authors in … Read more
Ann Yvonne Casas ABOUT ANN Ann Casas writes in order to satisfy that creative muse that won’t stay quiet when present yet remains elusive until challenged by the author’s life experiences. She writes memoirs, children’s stories, poetry and books that are a product of her personal journey. She enjoys sharing what she has encountered and … Read more
Thomas D Butler ABOUT THOMAS Thomas Butler is an author and educator in Santa Ana, California.A graduate of CSULB, he has taught English at the high school level since 2005. He is an active member of several writers groups and associations, and has designed courses and curriculum to help support young writers.Thomas’s first novel, Some … Read more
Anne Moose ABOUT ANNE Anne Moose was raised in Sacramento, California and received a BA in Social/Cultural Anthropology from U.C. Berkeley. She authored her first book, “Berkeley USA,” in 1981, and her second, “Arkansas Summer,” in 2017. Thirty-plus years of writing and editing happened in between, mostly in small publishing and the software industry. “House … Read more
A.E. Wasserman ABOUT A.E. The daughter of a newspaperman, A.E. Wasserman wrote her first novella at age 14 and never stopped writing. She has received numerous awards, including top honors from Writer’s Digest for her work. A.E. Wasserman’s current mystery/thrillers, THE LANGSFORD SERIES, have garnered international attention. [Think Sherlock Holmes meets Downton Abbey.] After graduating from The Ohio … Read more