Anita Garner is a lifelong broadcaster and writer, raised in the Deep South, where she traveled and performed with her evangelist family’s musical group, The Joneses, at tent revivals and churches and radio stations. (www.thegloryroad.com)

She hosted shows in several cities and a nationally syndicated weekly radio entertainment special.  She spent decades as the female voice for KCET-TV, PBS in Hollywood.

Anita won a John Steinbeck short story award for “Hank Williams Was A Friend Of Mine” and a Marin County artist’s grant for the project.  Her short story, “Still Life” is included in the Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction compilation, 2015. Anita’s essay about a slice of life in a small Arkansas town appeared recently in Reminisce Magazine

She writes often about the Deep South and food and music and posts at http://theagingofaquarius.com/ag_blog/ and at Instagram (nitafaye3941)  Her book, “The Glory Road:  A  Gospel Gypsy Life” has been acquired by the University of Alabama Press. Publication date to be announced.

 

Author R. A. Cabral is a Sacramento native and a published author of fiction, and dozens of news and feature articles.

In 2011, his novella The Miracle of the Christmas Wish Holder was published, and four years later Rick adapted it into an audiobook dramatization with local actors. He has published one other novel, The Pitch, and two Kindle e-books: Barnstormin’ Across America: The Bustin’ Babes and Larrupin’ Lous, and Against All Odds: How The River Cats Became Sacramento’s Hometown Team. Several other non-fiction pieces have been published in SABR’s Baseball Research Journal, Sacramento Bee and Sacramento News & Review.

Rick is currently marketing a historical fantasy The Curse of Queen Califia and finishing a screenplay titled After Life.

 

 

 

Dennis Mahoney is the author of Protector of the Refugee Planet, the first in a series of novels about vigilantes seeking justice throughout the galaxy in the 30th century.  He has been writing stories since the age of 6, when he composed his own comic book series on paper napkins.  Later he graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, served a hitch in the Navy, earned a law degree from the University of Santa Clara, did research & writing for a Justice of the California Supreme Court, and pursued a career as an environmental attorney with the State of California.  He has received two awards from the Sacramento Friends of the Library, one for a children’s picture book and one for the first chapter of a novel.  His main writing focus now is science fiction.  More about his novel is on his website at dennismahoneystorycrafter.com.

 

 

 

For more than two decades after receiving an MFA in Screenwriting from the American Film Institute, Lonon Smith was a screenwriter/script doctor for hire in in the Hollywood film industry (along with writing the occasional series episode).  A screenplay based on his first novel is currently optioned for a film. Two of his plays have been nominated for best original script by the Sacramento Area Regional Theater Association, and his open adaptation of Stevenson’s “Treasure Island” won that award in 2018. His current novel “Dirt on Fire,” set in the Stockton area, was completed in 2020 but not yet published.

 

Marsha Robinson is the author of four children’s books about a young girl who rescues animals. The first book, Rescuing Humphrey, was inspired by a Sebastopol goose that became the girl’s buddy. Together they go on to rescue two raccoons, three miniature donkeys, and four river otters.

Over the last five years, Marsha has taught a literary academy, “Creativity Gone Wild!” which is an after-school program for students in grades First through Fifth. Her goal is to help each student write and illustrate a twenty page book, and so far 135 students have created books. Each child receives a copy of his or her book and autographs a copy for the school library.  Marsha is currently writing a travel memoir about her adventures in France. The trip was planned by her French friends, who chose not to share information about where they would go or what they would do on any one day, which made every day a surprise. She hopes to have the manuscript finished and ready for publication by Fall of 2018.