Southern California Writers Association

Victory is a professional fiction writer as well as a professional editor. Her website at http://www.crayne.com explains her editing services.

Victory has sold two short stories:

1) "The Twelve Minute Clock" to NewMyths.com in Issue 11 June 2010.

2) "Heat" to NewMyths.com in Issue 17 on Dec 2011.

She is currently writing her third science fiction novel, Relucant Spy, which will be a combination of science fiction, murder mystery, and espionage thriller.

Polly Dunn writes non-fiction for her day job and has been published in professional magazines.  She has fun writing humor and short stories.  She used to think that she had a novel in her, but has since decided that it is probably just leaking out one short story at a time.  She has been a member of the SCWA since 2003 and likes to tell new members that she just attends meetings for the lunch.  She does love the lunches, but loves her fellow members and writing even more.

Brennan Harvey is an award-winning author, capturing first place in the International Writers of the Future Contest for the first quarter, 2010. His novelette, "The Truth, From a Lie of Convenience," is available in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol 27 at Amazon and local bookstores.

Brennan has served as the Meeting Coordinator for the Southern California Writers Association, Membership Chairperson for S.F. Novelist, and is the Organizer of the Long Beach Writers Meetup group. He has attended the La Jolla Writers Conference and Literary Orange since 2007 and attended Uncle Orson's Writing Class in 2008. He attended his first Nebula Awards Ceremony (as an observer) in 2009.

Steven Jackson is a professional writer, focusing primarily on novel writing in the thriller genre, but also taking on projects involving stage plays, screenwriting, short stories, technical writing, interviews, business writing, public relations and marketing pieces.  I have a Master of Professional Writing degree from the University of Southern California.

Rita Lee Lloyd is a first time author and a long time survivor.  After many years in the corporate world, Rita was encouraged by friends and family to share her personal experience as a *Suddenly Single Over Forty Female.  Surviving with style grace and sanity intact, has been a real challenge, and Rita delightfully shares her “rules” for doing so successfully in her first book "How to Survive in the 21st Century as a S.S.O.F.F.* "  A little book with a BIG  message! 

A native Californian, Rita currently lives in Orange County, CA.

I discovered my passion for writing in my mid-forties. I'm a mom of three sons, a wife, author, and a risk-taker.

Freeways to Flip-Flops: Our Year of Living Like the Swiss Family Robinson, is a travel memoir about how our family took the plunge to change our life. In 2004, my husband and I uprooted our three sons aged 16, 13 and 10 and moved from a materialistic life in Orange County, California to a simple, more meaningful life in Belize, Central America.

Have worked as a writer for:

Simon and Schuster, as a writer of coffee table books, which also have been selected by guilds and clubs as special selections;Times Mirror Corporation, as a business and features journalist for their NY and Connecticut newspapers; Voice Magazine, which is published in more than 100 countries; and many topical magazines and e-zines.

I have also worked in the film exhibition business for many years and happily work for Regency Theatres as a District Manager for Orange County and parts of LA County.

Have won awards from film studios for marketing efforts, and have a great passion for movies from the silents to the present, and recently served as co-chairman of the West Coast Film Festival, and also serve as programmer for the Classic Film Night Series at the Regency South Coast Plaza Village Theatre that has been ongoing for many years.

In younger days I was at the original Woodstock, and consider that experience as my first

Kathy Porter is a national and international award winning author and speaker. 

Kathy's first book Earth's Ultimate Conflict won the Indie Excellence Book Award, the Best Book Award, and the international book award for Science Fiction.  

“I will always hold Earth’s Ultimate Conflict close to my heart.”

                        ~Ray Bradbury

                        Award winning author an legend

Darlene Quinn is an international award winning author and speaker from Long Beach, California.

Webs of Fate, winner of the Readers Favorite Award for General Fiction, is the prequel to her Award Winning Web Series. Webs of Power, the first novel in the series is the winner of the 2009 National Indie Excellence Award for General Fiction. The highly anticipated sequel, Twisted Webs, is the 2011 International Book Award Winner for Fiction and Literature, as well as the Winner of the 2011 National Indie Excellence Award for General Fiction. Darlene is currently working on Unpredictable Webs.

Darlene is a past keynote speaker and a staff member for the Southern California Writers Conference.

Honored as the keynote speaker for this year’s Braille Institute Library Open House, Darlene’s books will now be available as audio books for the vision impaired.

Charla Spence is a freelance nonfiction writer and business consultant who leverages her years ‘real world’ business and personal life experiences on topics which are relevant and helpful to her audiences. Some of her published works include:
Cousin Jess Motor Tours’ - Self-guided Audio Tour of Orange County, CA (CD), Tandem Surfing (book), a SCUBA training manual, various newsletters and trade publications as well as internal and external papers and business plans.

Charla's lastest project was the development of the Don't Forget Personal Healthcare Record.  The PHR, available for adults or children, is an easy to use organizational system to help you to "take charge" of your own healthcare and help you care for others.

Tales of Urban legend and Keltic fantasy.

Born in Los Angeles, Mariana has a Bachelor's degree in psychology from the Univ. of the Americas, in Puebla, Mexico. After college, she worked as a pianist/singer performing in Japan and Morocco, as well as the US. She sharpened her wit booking comedy in LA, then found her own voice as a storyteller finalist in the nationally acclaimed Moth GrandSlam. She is the author of the Veronica Bennett series; stories of a singer who falls into accidental crime in Happy New Year, Darling!, and Stars or Stripes 4th of July, won National Indie Excellence award for chick lit in 2011. Wince-worthy Tales is an audio CD of true stories.

She says that her second choice of a career as writer turned out better than her dream of becoming a ballerina. "Unlike dance, you can practice while lying in bed with a bag of chips." She lives in a So. CA beach town with her songwriter husband, Paul Williams. Her son and daughter have left the nest and have been (almost) replaced by two calico cats.