Editor- Susan Tuttle
Susan Tuttle was a "slightly twisted" author, professional book editor, writing mentor and teacher, She was born and raised in Buffalo, New York and began writing at the age of 10. In 2003 Susan picked up and drove across the country to California's Central Coast, where she joined San Luis Obispo NightWriters (SLO NW), a prestigious writing organization in San Luis Obispo County. Susan was elected president of NightWriters in June of 2007, and has served as Treasurer. She has also served as vice president and president of the Central Coast Chapter of Sisters in Crime (SinC). Through the years she was an unwavering influence upon so many other writers. Her passing has left a gaping hole in the writers’ firmament that may never really be filled and yet it will ever be a well that so many of us can go back to, replenishing those insights and lessons as we progress.
Book Cover Artist-Nancy Jo Randall Middler
Nancy Jo studied painting from a young age with her mother and took private lessons. This influenced her to teach art classes for young children. In the 1970’s she followed her dream by attending Chicago Art Institute of Fine Arts and Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana with a major in BFA in painting. She married and moved to Hanover, Indiana at a crossroads in her life. Nancy Jo’s accomplishments include a two-time Chautauqua poster winner for 2007 and 2021. She also participated in several plein-air events in Madison, Indiana. Her work has been shown in several galleries throughout Indiana. She develops artistic signs for businesses and personal commissioned work. Nancy Jo can be contacted at babybuzzardlanding1@gmail.com and and on Facebook.
The author of Wild Canyon
Edward J. Longstreth
Ed Longstreth lived in forty-one homes by the age of forty-one. He has several hobbies including, surfing, fishing, golfing, ping-pong and of course motorcycle riding. His passion for writing took off during his financial meltdown and the 2007 mortgage crisis. He began researching the risks involved in investing to understand why he lost it all and how to never do that again. In 2012 he published a 107,000 word, non-fiction financial risk assessment book called, The Joy in Wealth. During that time he had a dream which sparked his fictional writing. His other published works include three short stories; Sugar Junkies, Boys Will Be Boys and Just Call Me Jim, published by Tolosa Press and in The Best of SLO Nightwriters Anthology.
His new novel, "Wild Canyon" was inspired by a dream of flying and a love for adventure obtained while growing up in Elyria, Ohio. A childhood filled with adventures in the woods, making forts of all kinds, rock jumping into the Black River, sledding down icy slopes and playing every board game he could find has provided an abundance of experiences to write about. For the last 6 years, Ed has finally settled down in the sleepy country hills of Nipomo, Ca.
Dennis Eamon Young
Former President, Art Director and Photographer for SLO NightWriters. 2019 President of Sisters in Crime, Central Coast Chapter. Dennis is a writer and professional photographer living in Shell Beach with his wife Carol and a herd of Nikon cameras. Though he photographs everything, he specializes in portraiture such as author headshots and book covers, commercial and landscape photography. He works on his stories between photo assignments.
Dennis began his photography career in New York City, shooting magazine and advertising assignments. He is currently at work on mystery novels entitled "The Girl with The Gun Is Gone, Again” and “Golden Guns and Silver Medals: A Corbyn Cochran Mystery”. He is Executive Producer of Central Coast KIND Magazine, for which he writes and photographs. Some of his published short stories:"Morgan and The Storm Queen" - Woodstone Journal, "Found in Translation" - Tolosa Press, "Last Call" - Tolosa Press, "The Very Best of Gifts" - Tolosa Press, “Nothing to Lose, Nothing to Ask For” - Tolosa Press, “Halloween Is Forever” - Tolosa Press and a book: "The Best of SLO NightWriters in Tolosa Press 2009 -2013" a Group Anthology.
Email: photodennis44@gmail.com Phone: 805-540-1271
Judythe A. Guarnera
Judythe Guarnera, author of Twenty-Nine Sneezes, has been published in three Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies, eight others, and in numerous online and print publications. She has edited four of those anthologies, as well as novels and many shorter works.
Besides writing a monthly column for writing organization newsletters for twelve years, she has been a regular presenter at their meetings, and facilitated critique groups for five years.
At eighty-two, she says “I don’t have time to fiddle with another three-hundred page novel. My joy now is in writing short-fiction, non-fiction, essays, memoir, and poems.” Collections of her shorter work will be available on Amazon by mid-2022.
In addition to collaborating on theTales of the Sierra series with her husband, she continues to write in a philosophical or humorous bent about happenings in today’s world and memories that pop into her head.
Connecting through communication, a key concept in her life is accomplished through her many years as a volunteer, twenty of which have been as a mediator. Her volunteering fuels her writing.
Steven L. Kliewer
Steve Kliewer, a retired geophysicist, and educator has been fascinated with the Sierra Nevada all his life. He is part-owner of the historic Cliff Camp property situated in a remote area of the forest beyond the far reaches of civilization.
Steve's fascination with the natural world led him into physics, chemistry, geology, astronomy, engineering, and technology. He loves to learn and learns best when he is sharing his knowledge with others.
Steve also writes apps for iPhone and iPad. Visit Apple's App Store for "Precise Audiobook Player" (a full-featured audiobook player), and "Crystal" (A detailed introduction to the marvelous world of minerals and crystals).
Evelyn Cole
Evelyn Cole, MA, MFA, poet and resident of San Luis Obispo County, CA, is a failed sea kayaker, a successful cook, failed businesswoman, successful teacher and professor, failed webmaster, successful ping pong champ, failed golfer and successful traveler, wife/lover, mother, and occupant of this planet who wears her poetic license on her car, her head in the sand, and her heart in her pen.
She has published one textbook on levels of abstraction, two books of poetry, and five novels, "For the Sake of All Others," "A Tough Journey," "Gambling for Good Mail," "Hurricane Love" and "The Underbelly," subtitled "Dr. Jacquelyn and Mrs. Hyde." Online she is known as "The Whole-mind Writer" for her series of essays on ways to tap the power of the subconscious mind and for her Astrological, Philosophical Cooking Blog.
David Brandin
Member, United States Press Association; Public Safety Writer’s Association; NightWriters; Former Vice President; Computer Science and Technology Division , and Information Systems and Management Division, SRI International; Fellow and Former President, Association for Computing Machinery. Author: Willful Intent (A Novel), The Horns of Moses (A Novel), Project Moses (A sequel), The Lodge-A Tale of Corruption (A Novel), The Earthquake Prophet (And Other Stories), WINGS (Flash Fiction Stories; and Co-author, The Technology War, a trade book on global IT competition (also in Japanese).
David Georgi
David better known as “The Garden Dude” is a Professor at Emeritus California State University, Bakersfield. He seeks to educate people about growing their own veggies in small spaces using sustainable methods. It also includes methods of veggie storage and preparation
Anne R. Wyatt
Wyatt is a housing policy planner, who writes on housing and housing policy, and Executive Director of Smart Share Housing Solutions, a San Luis Obispo non-profit housing agency. Her book, Downward Mobility: Revisiting Shelter, a look into shelter and American dreams, is available on Amazon. Anne can be reached at: anne@smartsharehousingsolutions.org
Missed by so many-Virginia Lasher
The late Ginger Lasher was a native Californian and lived on the Central Coast near two of her favorite places, the beach and the railroad tracks. She has traveled by trailer all over the states and eastern Canada and has lived in Maine, New York, Newfoundland, Canada and Washington D.C.
Her book, The Secret of Crooked Creek, an exciting adventure she wrote in 2005 won the Shamrock Gold Award for best chapter book of the year.
The Unforgettable-Claire Phillips Gordon
The late Claire Phillips Gordon was born in Los Angeles in 1919, the daughter of William E. Phillips and Reba Phillips. She graduated Los Angeles High School at age 16, having skipped two years. She attended UCLA, where she was a member of the Alumni Association, and received her degree from UC Berkeley in 1939. While secretary for Duke Ellington in New York City, she met her future husband, Irving Gordon, a songwriter for Ellington, and composer of the song "Unforgettable" for Nat King Cole. After a divorce, she married Kenneth Williams Fertig, known as Ken Williams, actor and radio/TV announcer. Following his death, she married William Joe Peel, who survives her, along with two sons from the first marriage, William P. Gordon, Ph.D., Richard Gordon, and a grandson, Jonathan Gordon. She is the author of several books, including "Boy Meets Horn," "My Unforgettable Jazz Friends," "The Color of Music," and had just completed a historical novel about the role of Jews in Columbus' voyage to the New World. She died peacefully in her sleep on June 3, 2016, at the age of 97 in Arroyo Grande, California