Helen Sedwick

Writer and lawyer Helen Sedwick has thirty years of experience representing businesses and entrepreneurs. Her historical novel, Coyote Winds, has earned five-star reviews from ForeWord Reviews and Compulsion Reads. When she self-published the novel, she could find no handbook to help indie authors with legal issues ranging from copyright protection to taxes. So she wrote that book: Self-Publisher’s Legal Handbook. Her mission is to keep writers out of court and at their desks writing new books. http://helensedwick.com

Linda Loveland Reid  is Past President of Redwood Writers branch of CWC. She is author of two published novels. Linda is Chair of the Redwood Writers Play Contest and Festival Fundraiser. She is also an instructor for Sonoma State University’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, teaching an art history class that she designed. In addition, Linda is a painter and director of community theater. She is founder of a family insurance business and says her motto is “Live ’til you tilt!”

http://lindalovelandreid.com/

Barbara Santos

Barbara Santos is the marketing director of the San Francisco Writers Conference. She is also the author of three books: The Maui Onion Cookbook, Maui Tacos Cookbook and Practice Aloha. She was a co-director of the Maui Writers Conference.

http://redroom.com/member/barbara-santos/media/images/barbara-santos-sfwc

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Sherry Joyce

Sherry Joyce is romantic suspense author, who enjoys that genre as well as mystery and crime writing. Her debut novel, THE DORDOGNE DECEPTION, is based in the Dordogne, Perigord region of Southwestern France, Bordeaux, San Francisco, England and Switzerland. Before Sherry wrote the novel, she spent a significant part of her pre-retirement business career as editor-in-chief for several high-tech company newsletters. Retiring as Vice President of Human Resources in 2000, she founded SJDESIGNS INTERIORS, and continues residential and light commercial interior design work on a part-time basis for custom builders and clients in the Bay Area, El Dorado Hills, Folsom, Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Carmel Valley and Dallas, Texas.

She has written articles for several publications, with work published in GENTRY, BUILDER ARCHITECT, NATIONAL KITCHEN AND BATH, and coffee table books on interior design. Her design work has frequently been featured as an award-winning designer with articles published by the Interior Design Society, NKBA and ASID. Her work is featured in a college textbook, THE FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERIOR DESIGN. Currently, she is a feature writer for BEHIND THE GATES magazine, serving Serrano, El Dorado Hills, CA. A story about the value of adopting a senior dog will be the opening chapter of a new book called THE SPARTACUS PROJECT, soon to be released by the Westie Rescue of Orange County, CA.

Renting a castle in 2005 with her husband and their friends, she was writing postcards in the top floor of a turret when lightning struck, blowing out the power with the force of a huge explosion. This experience was the incentive to “pay attention” and turn the frenzy of the terror she experienced into a contemporary romantic suspense novel. Having traveled widely through France, England and Switzerland, and having lived in the Bay Area for more than 30 years, IN 2013 she focused on writing a novel which had been a life-long passion. She and her husband Jim and their West Highland terriers moved to El Dorado Hills in 2009. Frequently a featured speaker at book clubs and Library events in and around the Sacramento and Placerville area, she is at work on her second novel, while endless plots swirl in her head when she hits the pillow at night. Do all writers sleep less, or not at all? http://www.sherryjoyce.com/

Sherry Nadworny

Sherry Nadworny is a recent transplant to California from her native Boston via a short stint in Charlotte, NC. She began her career as a news writer for television and radio. For the past twenty years, she has been a public relations professional and freelance writer for healthcare and arts organizations, writing feature stories, press releases, video scripts, grants, brochures and almost anything that requires a “writer for hire”. In her free time, and to keep her out of the Mall, she writes fiction. She serves as Treasurer for WNBA-SF Chapter.

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Linda Joy Myers is president of the National Association of Memoir Writers, and a therapist for 35 years. She’s the award winning author of Don’t Call Me Mother—A Daughter’s Journey from Abandonment to Forgiveness, The Power of Memoir—How to Write Your Healing Story, The Journey of Memoir and Becoming Whole—Writing Your Healing Story. Don’t Call Me Mother and Becoming Whole were finalists in the ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award. Linda co-teaches the program Write Your Memoir in Six Months, and offers editing, coaching, and mentoring for writers. www.namw.org. Blog: http://memoriesandmemoirs.com

Elise Frances Miller

Elise Frances Miller’s novel, The Berkeley Girl, In Paris 1968 (Sand Hill Review Press), is available now in Kindle at Amazon, and will be out in print this summer, 2016. Elise’s stories appear in The Best of Sand Hill Review, several editions of the Fault Zone series and The Sand Hill Review (2007, 2010), for which she served as fiction editor in 2008. Her prize-winning memoir was published in The Times They Are A-Changing: Women Remember the 60s and 70s (2013). Miller’s dossier includes teacher, university communications director, and art critic and columnist (Los Angeles Times, Art News and San Diego Magazine).

Read about her novel and about Berkeley and Paris in 1968 on her website: elisefrancesmiller.wordpress.com