Listed alphabetically by first name
Anne Janzer
Anne-Marie Strohman
Bill Froehlich
Catherine "kiki" Kornreich
Charlotte Alexander
Cindy Neuschwander
Colby Zabrycki
Jennifer Franco Smith is a member of Rough Writers of Cambria. Jennifer has two published poetry books. She is currently working on a children's books series and a recipe poetry book.
Visit her website at jfsbooks.com
Dave Congalton
Deb Donig
Debbie Black
Debbie Black knows first-hand the value of a good writing group. A columnist for Estero Bay News, and published author of the middle grade series Sara and the Ghost Clothes (beginning with Deetjen’s Closet), she confesses that she wouldn’t be writing at this level without the support of her writing group of nine years, The Bookshelf Writers. “I truly believe there’s no greater tool in a writer’s toolbox than a good writers group—fellow writers who’ll read your work, comment with kindness and honesty, and support you through all the disappointments and the celebrations.” She’s a long-standing member of SLO NightWriters, Women’s Fiction Writers Association, and SCBWI. Her popular blog series “RV Camping in Your Own Backyard” appears in Estero Bay News and on www.debbienobleblack.com.
Douglas Garland
Ed Cobleigh
Eric Jason Martin
Heidi Shadix-Pieros
Jenna Johnson
Fantasy Author. Swordswoman. Chicken Mama. These are just a few of the titles Jenna Elizabeth Johnson proudly goes by. She is the author of over a dozen novels, novellas, and short stories, including the award-winning Legend of Oescienne series, the Otherworld series, and the Draghans of Firiehn novella series.
Besides writing fantasy adventures featuring domineering dragons, headstrong heroines, brooding Celtic warriors, and all the magical creatures in between, she is a competitive HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts) practitioner, participating in longsword tournaments whenever she gets the chance.
During her down time, Jenna can be found exploring the open spaces of California’s Central Coast, camping in Yosemite National Park, reading books and webcomics, or hanging out with her flock of overly-affectionate lap chickens.
Jim Seybert
John Lamb
Kathe Tanner
Katy Dore
Katy Dore is the screenwriter and creator of THE UNSUNG, a historic drama about Mary Ellen Pleasant, which has production attachments from Quincy Jones Productions, Flavor Unit and Goldmann Pictures. Favoring the stories of the people history books fail to mention, Katy once turned down an invitation to have lunch with Queen Elizabeth to go camping with “regular folks.” No regrets! Based in San Luis Obispo, California, Katy writes both TV and features specializing in historic content with contemporary relevance. She completed her undergraduate studies at Stanford University and her MFA at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. When Katy isn’t writing or directing, you can find her playing tennis, hiking or fly-fishing.
Katya Cengel
Katya Cengel is a features writer and author based in California. Her work has appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, New York Times Magazine and Marie Claire among other publications.
She is the author of Eric Hoffer Academic Press 2023 award winner, Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) 2020 winner and Foreword Indies 2019 winner “From Chernobyl with Love” as well as three other nonfiction titles including the new release "Straitjackets and Lunch Money".
She has been awarded grants from the International Reporting Project, the International Women’s Media Foundation and the International Center for Journalists and received a 2022 Society for Features Journalism Excellence-in-Features Award.
Kevin Carr
Laure-Anne Bosselar
Lauren C. Snowden
Laurie Woodward
Luke Johnson
Mara Purl
Marc Cortez
Marc Cortez is an author, entrepreneur and long-time veteran of the solar, electric vehicle, and energy storage industries. As one of the solar industry’s early brand architects, he has been working on the front lines of the climate change industry for decades. He has raised over $20M for multiple startups, and is currently the Founder/CEO of Liquid8, a water conservation startup. Mr. Cortez is also a professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
Climaturity is a new look at the climate through the pragmatic lens of a long-time renewable energy industry veteran. Neither a climate deather nor climate denier, Mr. Cortez discusses a mature and pragmatic approach down the middle aisle to help address our climate problems. Above all, he advocates for a truthful, transparent, and no-tricks approach to the climate, where half-truths are completed, science limitations are put into context, and politicians are held accountable. Climaturity was written to help craft a new narrative down the bi-partisan middle, where we address climate problems head-on with real truths and pragmatic solutions.
Mark Parsons
Mark Parsons has written primarily non-fiction for several years, penning over two hundred articles for national publications as well as a pair of non-fiction books before turning to book-length fiction.
His first YA novel ROAD RASH (Knopf/Random House) was named to the ALA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults list, as well as Bank Street College’s Best Children’s Books of the Year list.
His new YA novel, THE 9:09 PROJECT (Delacorte/Random House) explores the healing power of art. Kirkus gave it a starred review and calls it “A brilliant literary portrait…wryly funny, extremely intelligent, and sweetly romantic.”
Website/Blog/Contact: MarkHParsons.com
maryann grau
Neil Hebert
Rebecca Langston-George
Rebecca Morgan,CSP, CMC, CVP, VMP
Rebecca Morgan, CSP, CMC, CVP, VMP is an international speaker, trainer, consultant and bestselling author of 28 books. Two have sold over 250,000 copies each and have been translated into 9 languages. She's appeared on 60 Minutes, Oprah, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes.com, National Public Radio and USA Today as well as international media.
She's created more than 500 products, from books, ebooks, webinars, special reports and recordings. She's created a genre of books called "slooks" that melds presentation slides with content. She'll share her ideas on how you can turn some of your non-fiction content into other products.
Rick Pieros
Rick Pieros has been traveling the rural and wild areas of the western United States since his youth. Drawn to the remnants of the American West’s rich and colorful past, Rick switched from a path solely pursuing nature photography to follow his passion for documenting the quickly vanishing artifacts of the western experience.
Rick owned and operated Wild Spirits Nature Photography studio on historic Main Street in Park City, Utah until 2007. He published his first book, Park City Past & Present in 2011. Rick's other book titles include Jackson Hole Past to Present, Park City A Portrait, and Zion National Park Past and Present. Rick lives on the central coast of California with his wife Heidi and their two daughters, Hailey and Ivy.
Robert Pimm
Sara Roahen
Sara Roahen writes, edits, coaches, teaches, and otherwise dabbles in storytelling—for fun and for hire.
She wrote a memoir, "Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table," and co-edited "The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook." Her work has additionally appeared in "Saveur," "Bon Appetit", "Tin House," "Oxford American," and "Garden & Gun" magazines, and in/on a host of other magazines, newspapers, books, and web sites. Her blog, "Memories on the Page," contains a trove of tips and prompts for memoirists and life story writers.
Sara holds a copyediting certificate from UCSD and currently teaches life story writing through Cuesta College’s Emeritus program.
Teena Booth
Teresa Rhyne
Teresa J. Rhyne is a lawyer, animal lover, coffee addict, wine devotee, writer, vegan, avid reader, and breast cancer survivor, though definitely not in that order.
Teresa J. Rhyne is also the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “The Dog Lived (and So Will I),” a surprisingly hilarious memoir about her dog and her both surviving cancer. The sequel, “The Dogs Were Rescued (and So Was I)” won the Pat Santi Memorial award from the Dog Writers Association of America. Her newest book, “Poppy in the Wild: a lost dog, 1500 acres of wilderness and the dogged determination that brought her home” continues her tradition of writing humorously about tragedies that happen to her and her dogs. Tragedy plus time plus cute dogs equal heartfelt comedy.She is currently at work on a novel, and yes, there's a dog in it.She splits her time between Riverside and Paso Robles, California, where she lives with her long-time partner, Chris, and their three rescue beagles, Roe, Percival, and Poppy.
Teri Bayus
Tonya Strickland
Valentina Petrova
Wendelin Van Draanen
Wendelin Van Draanen is an international-award-winning, bestselling author of more than thirty novels, all published by Knopf/RandomHouse. Her titles include the long-running Edgar-winning Sammy Keyes mystery series, and Flipped, which became a Warner Brothers feature film. A former classroom teacher and the mother of two, her first non-fiction book, Hope in the Mail, Reflections on Writing and Life, is part memoir, part craft guide, and part publishing insight, designed to inspire writers to keep pursuing their dream. Find more info at www.wendelinvandraanen.com