Our Authors

Betsy Ashton

Betsy Ashton writes about her experiences mentoring women throughout her professional consulting career. She used this experience in crafting the story about Mad Max Davies. She writes feature articles for Laker Weekly, part of Roanoke Times. She is also active in many writers groups and clubs and is the First Vice President of the Virginia Writer’s Club. Visit the writer’s blog.

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Dayna Bailey

Dayna Bailey has been passionate about writing and telling stories since she was three. As a preschooler, she would dictate short stories for her mother to type, and wrote her first short novel at the age of twelve. Since then, she has completed eleven other long works, including Perfection, which she finished at age fifteen. Dayna plans on attending medical school to become a surgeon in the future, and is currently a high-school senior in McLean, Virginia. Visit the author’s website.

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Mark Bland

Mark started his writing adventures when his play Love Around the Poisoned Dollar went into production in 1973. He then became a German teacher in the Virginia Beach Schools. Mark also was an Assistant Professor for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where he is now in his 30th year, instructing classes in Humanities, English, and Psychology. In 2008 he was awarded Instructor of the Year for the Hampton Roads area.

Bland has published numerous outdoor articles for several magazines, including Virginia Wildlife. After winning an NFIE (National Foundation for the Improvement of Education) grant in 1994, for Chess for Cognitive Development, Mark went on to  publish several chess articles and the book The Four Chessmen (2001), included in this collection.

In 2010 Mark was a winner in the “America’s got Stories” contest for the short story Teufel’s Bridge. Knights, Castles & Kings is his first collection of novels.

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Melanie Bragg

Melanie Bragg is the author of HIPAA for the General Practitioner, published by the ABA Solo, Small Firm & General Practice Division. Her upcoming book Defining Moments: Insights Into the Lawyer’s Soul will be published by the American Bar Association Flagship Division. Melanie is the Chair of the Book Publications Board of the American Bar Association Solo, Small Firm & General Practice Division. She is a lawyer/mediator practicing general civil law, who has devoted her life to the representation of children, the elderly, and mentally disadvantaged people. In 1994 Bragg formed Legal Insight, Inc. and in  2012, she launched Success for all Seasons, a coaching/speaking business.

Visit the author’s website.

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T Campbell

T Campbell is the author of the world’s largest “New York Times-standard” crossword puzzle, as well as the sci-fi crossword collection Crossworlds and various puzzles in anthologies edited by the nationally syndicated Peter Gordon and Benjamin Tausig. An award-winning editor and author of nine graphic novels, Campbell does the Times crossword with his father every Sunday. Visit the author’s website.

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Paul Clancy

Paul Clancy has been a journalist for over forty years, part of the time in Washington where he covered national politics and wrote biographies about Watergate Chairman Sam Ervin and House Speaker Tip O’Neill. He worked for The Charlotte Observer, USA Today and The Washington Star. In 1993, Clancy moved to Norfolk and became editor of Calypso Log, the magazine of the Cousteau Society. In the mid-nineties Clancy went to work for The Virginian-Pilot, covering water-related issues – sailing adventures, diving, sunken treasure and sunken ships, to mention a few. His coverage of the excavation of the turret of the ironclad ship Monitor led to his writing Ironclad: The Epic Battle, Calamitous Loss, and Historic Recovery of the USS Monitor. He has also written Historic Hampton Roads: Where America Began. Paul Clancy works and lives in Norfolk Virginia with his wife, Barbara. Visit the author’s website.

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Stephen D. Cork

Colonel Stephen D. Cork U.S. Army (Retired) enjoyed a successful military career of nearly twenty seven years. While working as the Commandant of the Academy, Colonel Cork penned a fictional short story titled Take That,  published by The Pepper Tree. He wrote a novel in 2006 titled Fat Chance (aka Knight Moves). This was the first novel published in the Jenny O’Shane thriller series and became highly popular in the Sarasota community. Colonel Cork retired from the Military Academy in 2011 to devote more time to his writing. His current projects include publishing the second Jenny O’Shane novel (Sir, I Can Explain), preparing charter applications for new charter schools in Florida, and writing the third book in the Jenny O’Shane thriller series (This Is A Goat Rope).

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Angela Correll

Angela Correll is a seventh generation Kentuckian. She has written over fifty columns for local newspapers about life, family, and farming and holds a Master’s Degree from the University of Kentucky in Library Science. She owns a shop on Main Street in Stanford, KY, selling handcrafted goat milk soap and other local products. Angela and her husband Jess are partners in the Bluebird, a farm to table restaurant, promoting food produced in a humane, sustainable and natural way. She combines her passion for hospitality and historic preservation by renovating historic homes into guesthouses. She lives on a farm with her husband, Jess, and an assortment of cattle, horses, goats and chickens. This is her first novel.

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Jo-Ann Costa

Jo-Ann Costa studied her craft at the knees of her clannish Alabama kin, who are among the most accomplished at fabricating outlandish tales. Thus trained as a storyteller, Ms. Costa honed her compelling voice while serving in executive roles for a mega-corporation founded by the late Howard Hughes. While there, and with higher stakes, she invented tales of a different sort. Since then, Ms. Costa has once again deployed her trademark spin with her debut novel, The Bequest of Big Daddy. Visit the author’s website.

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Rue Elliott

Rue Elliott started her writing career by telling herself bedtime stories. Eventually, she progressed to actually putting words on paper, starting many a tale and finishing none, with new ideas continuously stepping in to vie for her attention. Finally, in the summer of 2010, she completed her first novel.

She has studied under authors Tim Farrington and Janine Latus, and belongs to the Writer’s Unleashed critique group. Her work has also appeared in the magazine The Quotable.

In addition to her work as a writer, Rue is a glass artist. When she is not spinning tales, she can be found in her workshop with either kiln or torch.

Educated at Marshall University, she believes that learning never ceases and constantly looks for ways to improve her craft.

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My Haley

Growing up under her grandmother’s watchful, wise tutelage, My Lewis Haley spent her early childhood in South Charleston, West Virginia, before her parents moved the family to Columbus, Ohio. While working her doctorate in Communications at Ohio State University, My was inspired by a speech the author Alex Haley delivered on campus. After receiving her PhD, she set out on her next goal: to work with the renowned author. Impressed by My’s drive and talent, Haley gave her a major assignment—to assist him in writing the remaining two-thirds of a book that was long overdue to his publisher. Within a matter of months together they completed the work and that book, Roots, catapulted Alex Haley to international fame. My and Alex married in 1977, and over the years collaborated on many of his projects, including the miniseries Roots: The Next Generation. After Alex’s death, My Haley immersed herself in writing pieces based upon growing up with her grandmother and writing screenplays for feature film and TV. Visit the author’s website.

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William Elliott Hazelgrove

William Elliott Hazelgrove is the best selling author of three novels, Ripples, Tobacco Sticks and Mica Highways. His books have received starred reviews in Publisher Weekly, Book of the Month Selections, ALA Editors Choice Awards and optioned for the movies. He was the Ernest Hemingway Writer in Residence where he wrote in the attic of Ernest Hemingway’s birthplace. He has written articles and reviews for USA Today and other publications. His latest novel Rocket Man was chosen Book of the Year by Books and Authors.net. He runs a political cultural blog, The View From Hemingway’s Attic.

Visit the author’s websites:

www.theviewfromhemingwaysattic.com

www.williamhazelgrove.com

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Michael Helms

E. Michael Helms is a USMC combat veteran. His memoir of the Vietnam War, The Proud Bastards, has been called “As powerful and compelling a battlefield memoir as any ever written . . . a modern military classic,” and has been in-print for most of the past 20 years. His work has also appeared in the books: Semper Fi: Stories of U.S. Marines from Boot Camp to Battle (Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003); Soldier’s Heart: Survivors’ Views of Combat Trauma (The Sidran Press, 1995); and Two Score and Ten: The Third Marine Division History (Turner Publishing, 1992).

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Mike Herron

Son and Grandson to renowned adventurers, he is an accomplished big-game hunter and world-wide angler. Mike is also a founding member of the one of the top rugby clubs in America, the Norfolk City Blues, and he continues to play actively with the Cardinals R.F.C., the top master’s club in the United States. Mike has written a screenplay about American rugby players in the 1920s. He lives with his wife in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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Dan Hoffler and Joe Coccaro

Dan Hoffler is a commercial real estate magnate whose Virginia Beach, Virginia company, Armada Hoffler, has built marquee office towers, hotels, and retail hubs in major cities along the East Coast. He is an outdoor enthusiast and marksman who has hunted big game on five continents. A graduate of Campbell University in North Carolina, Dan has served as a director on several state and private boards, including The Shaw Group, a Fortune 500 company. Dan has four children and lives on Virginia’s Eastern Shore with his wife, Valerie.

Joe Coccaro is executive editor of Koehler Books and a former deputy managing editor of The Virginian-Pilot newspaper in Norfolk, Virginia. In his thirty years as a journalist, Joe has won more than a dozen individual writing awards for business, investigative and news reporting. He is a graduate of Syracuse University.

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Lloyd Johnson

With special interest in the current Middle East, retired surgeon Dr. Lloyd Johnson turned to fiction writing, putting out two books, with a sequel in the works. He is a member of Seattle writing group, and blogs regularly on Israel/Palestine subjects. Johnson is a Clinical Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington in the Department of Surgery. He is Fellow in the American College of Surgeons, and past president of the Seattle Surgical Society. He authored 26 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals/texts. He has worked and traveled extensively overseas, including Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and served for six years as volunteer executive director and board member of a humanitarian NGO in Central Asia. The author lives in Edmonds, Washington.

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Bruce Jones

Upon his first visit to The Big Easy in 2004, Bruce Jones’s fascination with the legend of the Ursuline Convent inspired this debut novel. With additional research trips and a love for classic horror films, Bruce crafts a captivating and disturbing tale, creating an amalgamation of fact and fiction. Visit www.thelostreflection.com for details about Bruce, the New Orleans experience, and many novel extras. Bruce owns Studio Optix. As a master Optician he has taught, written and performed various lectures for the optical community. His thesis on Age Related Macular degeneration was accepted by the American Board of Opticians in granting him the designation of Master Optician. This is his first novel.

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John Koehler

In 2005, John published his first book, Bipolar by Koehler, about living with bipolar syndrome. Since then, he has given many talks around the state and in schools to help people better understand how to survive brain illness and avoid suicide. In 2007, Koehler published Benjamin: the Road to Capernaum, a novel based on a crippled man in the Bible who was healed by a certain Jewish rabbi. Then came  My Inflatable Heart in 2008, a collection of short stories about Capernaum and life recollections. In 2011 Koehler pitched a change up with The Case of the Russian Maids, a detective mystery that takes place in his home town of Virginia Beach.  Billy Blue Sky is his latest work, a novel due to be released in January of 2013. It is the story of a 10-year-old boy with Down syndrome who is suddenly able to heal people.

Married since 1982 to his college sweetheart, Patty, an art teacher at Old Donation Center for the Gifted and Talented, John is the proud father of Kimmi and Danielle and grandfather to Lilli and Eli. John lives and works in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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Jay Lang

Jay Lang is a 38 year Radio & Television Broadcast veteran, President/CEO of Smooth Jazz  America  Broadcasting, Station Manager at Hampton University’s 88.1 WHOV in Hampton, Virginia, Air Personality at Washington, DC’s 96.3 WHUR,  an accomplished songwriter, internationally known voiceover talent with Studio Center Worldwide Audio and host of “Lights Out Hampton Roads” on 88.1 WHOV broadcast nightly worldwide.  In addition to working on air, he became entertainment editor for Night Moves Magazine from 1982-1986, Host/Producer of Soundtrack, a weekly TV entertainment show on WWBT 12/ Richmond, worked films, produced recordings, promotes concerts, and served as producer/host of Hampton Roads Weekend Magazine (a weekly one hour public affairs program). Active in the Audio/Video Ministry at his spiritual home, First Baptist  Church Of Glenarden. He is also Founder & Chairman of the H J Lang Foundation, seeking to soon establish itself as a 501C3 non-profit organization focused in 3 areas: music and arts, healthcare research, and education.

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Skye MacQueen

Skye MacQueen believes that you are never done growing. She spent the beginnings of her life in the panhandle of Florida. Skye moved with her parents to Israel when she was a teenager. She traveled a lot before and after her Traumatic Brain Injury which happened in college. Skye believes that her travels have helped her to understand life. Skye has worked with the North American Brain Injury Society since it began and is now the Family Liaison. She is on the board of Aviso Surf Boards. Skye has worked on several films, and enjoys the entertainment industry. Some of the most satisfying work that Skye does is her non-profit, 501c3 Skye’s the Limit Foundation. www.skyes-the-limit.org

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Steven March

A former reporter for The Outer Banks Current, Stephen March is a professor of English at Elizabeth City State University. His published books include the novels Armadillo, Catbird, Strangers in the Land of Egypt, and Love to the Spirits, a collection of stories. Armadillo won the Texas Review Press Prize in the Novella and Love to the Spirits won the Independent Publisher Prize for Short Fiction. March’s short stories have appeared in New Orleans Review, Tampa Review, The Texas Review, Carolina Quarterly, the William and Mary Review, Seattle Review, Rio Grande Review, and South Carolina Review, among others. He is a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC-Greensboro, was a former resident of Kitty Hawk, NC and now resides in Elizabeth City, NC. Visit the author’s website.

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Mike Murphy

Michael Murphy lives in Arizona with his wife of forty years, four dogs, five chickens and a feral cat. Goodbye Emily is his eighth novel. Visit the author’s website.

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Janna McMahan

Janna McMahan is the national-bestselling author of three previous novels—Calling Home, The Ocean Inside and Decorations. A finalist for the Flannery O’Connor and the Mary McCarthy awards for short fiction, McMahan’s short stories and non-fiction have been published in numerous magazines and journals. Visit www.JannaMcMahan.com for more information or visit her on Facebook.com/JannaMcMahan and twitter.com/JannaMc.

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Evan Meekins

Evan Meekins is a freshman at  James Madison University and majoring in Physics.  “The Black Banner” is his  first manuscript in what promises to be a series in fantasy fiction for young adults. He is from Virginia Beach.

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Al Midgett

Al Midgett, a lifelong Virginia Beach local, stumbled on his true calling back in 1993 when his life took a scary turn with the birth of his dramatically premature son, Matthew. Al and his wife Marge, awed by the power of community love and support, decided to “give as good as they got,” and ever since Al has made philanthropy both his life… and his living. As the founder of The Noblemen, he recounts the stories, adventures, successes, setbacks and exciting plans for the organization’s future. Al lives on Sherwood Farms in Back Bay with his wife Marge – and countless critters! This is his first book.

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Dr. Charles Parker

Dr Charles Parker – A writer, nationally recognized speaker, (Deep Recovery, ADHD Medication Rules, CorePsych Blog), a neuroscientist certified for SPECT brain imaging, and a practicing child and adult psychiatrist with more than 43 years of experience in clinical practice. From psychoanalysis to psychopharmacology, Parker brings a unique perspective and passion to the changes that must be made in the current diagnostic and treatment protocols for psychiatric conditions in general, and ADHD most specifically. He knows the territory not only from direct experience with active practice clients, but from those many years, since ’96, lecturing to medical colleagues on the science and applications of psychotropic meds for several pharma companies. His cutting edge interest in the dramatic advances in molecular and cellular physiology associated with effective brain function teach professionals and clients at every level about cognitive and emotional imbalance. Parker’s mission is compelling and persuasive: brain science translation into common sense packages for everyday use.

His CorePsych Blog has won numerous ADHD writing awards over the years, and set new standards for the diagnosis and treatment of Executive Function Disorders. This is his second book. Dr. Parker works and lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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Archana Prasanna

Archana Prasanna is a Washington, DC native, but has experienced living in England and India. Growing up around the world has been a source of inspiration for her writing. Archana has an undergraduate degree in Political Science from Virginia Tech and a J.D. from Syracuse University. She began writing news articles that appeared in The Washington Post, pr.com, and The Collegiate Times. Ganges Boy is her first novel.

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Dr. Thomas K. Tsao

Dr. Tom Tsao is a Board Certified psychiatrist who still continues to practice in Virginia Beach, Va. at Atlantic Psychiatric Services, a practice he founded in 1982. Over the years he has taught and supervised students, interns and residents from the doctoral program at Regent University and the Eastern Virginia Medical School where he was a member of the founding faculty (1973). In 2006 Dr. Tsao was honored by the American Psychiatric Association when he was elevated to the status of Distinguished Life Fellow “in recognition” of his “significant contributions to Psychiatry.” His body of work spans decades from the sixties to the present. Dr. Tsao feels truly lucky and blessed to have shared stretches of life’s highway with so many thousands of his “kids” as he likes to call them, to witness and believe that he, in some small way, helped them grow up to be happier and emotionally healthier adults. This work is intended to be his “gift” to all those who want to better understand their children, themselves and relationships.

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Omar Tyree

Omar Tyree, a New York Times best-selling author and a 2006 Phillis Wheatley Literary Award winner for Body of Work in Fiction, has been cited in 2009 by the City Council of Philadelphia for his work in Literacy, and has published 18 books with 2 million copies sold worldwide. With a degree in Print Journalism from Howard University in 1991, Tyree has been recognized as one of the most renowned contemporary writers in America. He is also an informed and passionate speaker on various community-related and intellectual topics. Now entering the world of literacy programs, business seminars and feature film making, Tyree is a tireless creator and visionary of few limitations. For more information on his work and titles, please visit the website.

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John Quarstein

John V. Quarstein is an award-winning historian, preservationist, lecturer, and author. He served as historian for the city of Hampton’s 400^th anniversary. He previously worked for thirty years as the director of the Virginia War Museum and as consultant to The Mariners’ Museum’s MONITOR Center.

Quarstein has been involved in a wide variety of historic preservation initiatives including the creation of Civil War battlefield parks like Redoubt Park in Williamsburg or Lee’s Mill Park in Newport News as well as historic house museums such as Lee Hall Mansion and Endview Plantation. His current preservation endeavors feature the Rebecca Vaughan House, Lee Hall Depot, Causey’s Mill, Big Bethel Battlefield and Fort Monroe. John Quarstein also serves on several boards and commissions such as Virginia Civil War Trails, Virginia War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission Advisory Council and the Newport News Sesquicentennial Commission.

John Quarstein is the author of fourteen books, including FORT MONROE: THE KEY TO THE SOUTH, A HISTORY OF IRONCLADS: THE POWER OF IRON OVER WOOD, BIG BETHEL: THE FIRST BATTLE, and THE MONITOR BOYS: THE CREW OF THE UNION’S FIRST IRONCLAD. His newest book is SINK BEFORE SURRENDER: THE CSS VIRGINIA. He also has produced, narrated and written several PBS documentaries, such as JAMESTOWN: FOUNDATIONS OF FREEDOM and the film series CIVIL WAR IN HAMPTON ROADS, which was awarded a 2007 Silver Telly. His latest film, HAMPTON: FROM THE SEA TO THE STARS, is a Bronze Telly winner. His current film projects are PYRATES OF THE CHESAPEAKE and TREAD OF THE TYRANTS HEEL: VIRGINIA’S WAR OF 1812 EXPEREINCE.

Quarstein is the recipient of the national Trust for Historic Preservation’s 1993 President’s Award for Historic Preservation; the Civil War Society’s Preservation Award in 1996; the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s Jefferson Davis Gold Medal in 1999; and the Daughters of the American Revolution Gold Historians Medal in 2009. Besides his lifelong interest in Tidewater Virginia’s Civil War experience, Quarstein is an avid duck hunter and decoy hunter and decoy collector. He lives on Old Point Comfort in Hampton, Virginia, and on his family’s Eastern Shore farm near Chestertown, Maryland.

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Michael Simone

Michael Simone is the founding and Senior Pastor of Spring Branch Community Church in Virginia Beach, VA. His first ministry assignment, in 1972, was working with street kids in East Harlem, NY. He teaches Religious Studies at Saint Leo University, South Hampton Roads Center. Michael is also a psychiatric hospital chaplain, leading spirituality groups. His doctoral work is in Marriage and Family. He wrote the study guide for Couples Who Pray and is a speaker for Marriage, Single Adult and Men’s conferences. His passion is bringing faith and life together through speaking and writing. Spring Branch, a member of the Willow Creek Association, is a premier host site for the Global Leadership Summit. Michael loves baseball and played on the Field of Dreams movie site in Dyersville, Iowa.  The author lives and works with his wife, Gail, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. He walks Bodie and Wilson three times a day.

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Robert J. Walker

Robert J. Walker was the third Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON). He was born in Baldwin, New York, attended grammar and high school in Oxford, New York, and enlisted in the Navy in 1948.

After just eight years of active service, he was promoted to Chief Petty Officer, later promoted to Master Chief in 1963. Walker was sworn in as the third MCPON on September 26, 1975.

Walker was a staunch defender of enlisted personnel and also a strong advocate of re-establishing the esprit de corp of the Navy.

His awards and decorations include the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, National Defense Service Medal (2 awards), United Nations Korea Medal, Presidential Unit Citation (Korea), and 7 Service Stripes.

Walker retired September 28, 1979, and has been active following his retirement, serving as President of the Non-Commissioned Officers Association. In 1990, Robert J. Walker Hall, the home of Operations Specialist “A” School at Fleet Combat Training Center Atlantic, Dam Neck, Virginia was named for him.

Robert Walker is married to Fran Walker; they have six children, Kathy, Linda, Robert, Jr., Teri, Michael and Michelle; 12 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. MCPON Walker lives in Virginia Beach, Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay.

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Dr. Larry E. White and Anne H. Harrell

Larry E. White is a practicing child neurologist at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters in Norfolk, certified in Pediatrics and Neurology/Child Neurology. In practice now for over 30 years, his medical school training was in Memphis at the University of Tennessee, followed by pediatric training at David Grant USAF Medical Center in California. After four years in general pediatric practice he did additional training in neurology and child neurology at the Medical College of Virginia and Eastern Virginia Medical School, serving as a child neurologist in the Air Force. After a 14 year military career, he returned to Norfolk as a civilian in 1988. Dr. White’s prior writings include pamphlets for new parents, guides for pediatric house staff, one book chapter and two dozen abstracts and articles. This is his first book.

Anne H. Harrell is a wife to Mark W. Harrell Sr, and mother of six children. Five of Mark and Anne’s children have mild to severe mental disabilities. Anne is presently a student in Ashford University and is double majoring for a BA degree in English Communications and Journalism, and is expected to graduate in the spring of 2013.  The Harrell’s lost their oldest daughter Cynthia on January 1, 1997 to a seizure disorder. Anne has written many articles for print and the Web. This is her first book.

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Jennifer Willows

Jennifer Willows is a college student currently residing in Portland, Oregon. She was born and raised on a horse farm in Olympia, Washington and has attended a private Christian school her entire life. Jennifer loves animals, but especially horses, cats, and Jellyfish. She also has a deep interest in Psychology, and hopes to one day help hurting people find freedom from their disorders without the use of drugs. In addition to writing, Jennifer’s hobbies include music, art, reading, and Power lifting. In 2010, Jennifer earned second place in the Washington State High School Power Lifting Tournament, but has not lifted since due to a shoulder injury. She hopes to return to this sport soon though, and plans to take up cycling and intramural Tennis as well. Jennifer’s favorite book is The Pickwick Papers By Charles Dickens; her favorite TV show is Monk, and her favorite Disney movie is The Great Mouse Detective.

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Bascom Wilson

Born and raised in Louisiana, Bascom Wilson traveled the globe courtesy of the U.S. armed forces.  After his retirement, he earned a graduate degree and entered the corporate world as a telecommunications consultant.  He decided to share his knowledge as an associate professor at a local community college.

Bascom has been married since 1974 to his soul mate, Nina, a registered nurse. They have  three fantastic children and seven  grandchildren, all whom reside in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area. Misguided Justice is Bascom’s first novel, and is part of the Beach Murder Mystery line.

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Danny Woodall

Danny Woodall has written for LifeWay’s Bible Express and Essential Connections, has a monthly column in the Christian Online Magazine, and has contributed to several anthologies. He is also working on an anthology called, “Thank You For Your Hero” along with author, Melanie Stiles. Woodall has a degree in education from Lamar University. He has worked with children for over thirty years and has three children with his wife Arlene. This is his first novel.

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Marlene Zeffereys

While living in Malaysia, author Marlene Zefferys published several books on education; co authored Secrets of a Rainbow Goddess, a romantic, adventure novel; and Khymer Bronzes From the 9th to the 15th Centuries, and Thai Customs and Etiquette. She first became aware of the devastation of international animal smuggling while living in Malaysia where she was coordinator of the Malaysian American Commission on Educational Exchange advising center. Exposed to frequent reports of exotic animals taken from the rain forests of S.E. Asia she took the cause to heart and wanted to make a difference. She has a BS/PreMed degree in Zoology from the University of Manitoba and has worked in medical research and education in the U.S. and Canada.