Stacey Gustafson is the bestselling author of Are You Kidding Me? My Life With an Extremely Loud Family, Bathroom Calamities, and Crazy Relatives, ranked #1 Amazon in Parenting & Family Humor and Motherhood. She’s also an inspirational speaker, blogger and comedian. Her short stories have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, seven books in the Not Your Mother’s Book series, as well as Midlife Boulevard, Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop, Pleasanton Patch, Bay Woof, and Better After 50. She writes the blog, Are You Kidding Me?, where she dispenses her humorous take on kids, husbands, parents and everything in between.

She has been featured in The Monthly, East Bay’s Premier Magazine of Culture and Commerce as “The New Erma Bombeck,” The East Bay Times, and Toastmasters Magazine.

Her awards include Erma Bombeck Humor Writer of the Month, California Writers Club, Tri-Valley Branch, winner of 2015 Prose Contest, Semi-Finalist in the 2015 Kindle Book Awards, Advanced Toastmaster Bronze award, and Best Comic of the Month at Tommy T’s Comedy Club. She performs stand-up throughout the East Bay.

She lives in Pleasanton, CA with her college sweetheart, Mike, and a white furball named Stanley who loves peanut butter treats. Visit her popular blog at StaceyGustafson.com and Twitter @RUKiddingStacey.

The author is a retired professor of mathematics from San Jose State University,formerly referred to as the poet in the Math Department. She began her writing career by by completing "Brad Pitt Won't Leave Me Alone,: by her late son, Shannon Hamann, an award-winning poet. Mom was thrilled her submission of his dark poetry collection, "Deathdoubledactyl" won Pavement Saw's Transcontinental Poetry Award.

Her first novel, "Inhabited," combines her hometown setting with her favorite beach-read author making it Garrison Keillor meets Stephen King. Her short works have been published in a number of anthologies She launched her second novel, "Lower World" in November 2017, and is the first of a trilogy. The sequel is planned to appear later this year. No matter whether supernatural or fantasy her novels and stories contain characters loved by readers. Find more about her writing and follow her blog at ewritessite.wordpress.com

After 30 years in local government in departments as varied as collections, social services, and law enforcement, Camille decided to give it all up for the glitz and glamor of freelance journalism. Her work has been featured on the Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop website, and popular women's blogs, including midlifeboulevard.com.

Camille's short fiction and non-fiction appears in a number of collected works. She recounts a near fatal attempt at DIY in "Jolt of Reality" published in Not Your Mother's Book...On Home Improvement. "Neurotic in Lisbon" in Clash of the Couples tells the tale of a dream European vacation gone horribly wrong. In "Not Your Mother's Book...on Working for a Living, Camille's "Slip of the Tongue" describes her dream job turned nightmare while employed with the local sheriff's office.

Camille lives in Northern California with her husband. She has an awesome daughter and an adorable grandson.

Follow her humor blog at www.camilledeferthompson.com.

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My blog tells the background of Anya Pavlovitch’s, the main character in the Red Asscher series. It’s listed in three acts in descending order located at the bottom right column of my blog: redasscher.com/blog. Please feel free to write a comment.

Ms. Chinick's first novel, RED ASSCHER~Living in Fear winner of Writer Advice 2013 for “Scintillating Starts” and took GOLD for best thriller at 2014 Global eBook Awards.

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Julaina Kleist-Corwin is a teacher, speaker, and writer. She has been a presenter at the San Francisco Writers Conference and an emcee at various live events. Julaina has won several fiction writing awards. Her work is published in The California Writers Club Literary Review, Harlequin's 2012 and 2013 Christmas anthologies, and other collections. She writes Women's Fiction, Non-fiction, YA, and multidimensional mysteries. She published Written Across the Genres, a collection of stories, essays, poems, and collaborative stories.

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Julaina lives in the S.F. Bay Area with her husband. She likes to go on nature walks and take photos for posting on Instagram. Visit her blog: www.timetowritenow.com and follow her on Instagram: julaina6578.