J.J. Arcanian, author of Three Illusions, is a seasoned technical writer and founder of a 27-year business consulting company. In his spare time, he enjoys woodworking and studying philosophy. He credits his Asperger’s syndrome with his heightened state of introspection, evaluation, observation, and problem-solving. Three Illusions, inspired in part by the works of Plato, Socrates,
Victor Bahna is the author of the horseracing thriller, Heliacal Star. Raised just a few miles from Long Island’s Belmont Park racetrack, Victor Bahna fell in love with horse racing in high school. Today, he owns two broodmares and manages a small racing partnership under the stable name of Royal Victory Thoroughbreds. He is also
Beth H. Macy, author of Moscow Nights Return, the first book in the Moscow Nights trilogy, boasts a storied background with countless creative pursuits. Hailing from a family of artists, Beth is an accomplished painter with works in collections from New York to Australia. Her talent in the visual arts extends from oil and acrylic
Rebecca Anne Nguyen is an award-winning author, playwright, freelance writer, and speaker. She is the author (with Tom Voss) of Where War Ends: A Combat Veteran’s 2,700-Mile Journey to Heal (New World Library), a 2019 Foreword Indies Book of the Year Silver Award winner for Autobiography & Memoir. Her fiction debut, THE 23RD HERO, is
JOEL GEIDERMAN, author of The Plasma Cell Report, has been practicing medicine for more than forty years. Joel is currently a professor at both Cedars-Sinai and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; and for the past 30 years, he has been the co-chair of Emergency Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
For as long as she can remember, Meredith Walters, author of This Animal Body, has wandered in forests looking for animals and magic and writing stories about what she found. Her life adventures have included volunteering for a nonprofit in Mexico, studying literature at UC Berkeley, getting an MBA, and working for a social enterprise