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I’m fairly quiet and look like such a mild-manner author…of ten books…but still. If you can ever get me talking, though, I’ll be happy to tell you:
1. My husband—truly the love of my life—and I met on eHarmony…13 years ago.
2. I’ve been to all 50 states as well as 70+ countries – and counting. I’ve also lived in every continental time zone, in/near New York City, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, and Topeka. Yes, one of these is not like the others.
3. I perform improv on a regular basis.
4. I can fly a plane and I actually aced the FAA (Fed Aviation Admin) exam, which has to be my most surprising feat because I’m not exactly known for being mechanical or technical.
5. I’m a scuba diver.
6. I’m an award-winning documentary filmmaker. I accompanied a group of veterans to Viet Nam and filmed them doing humanitarian work, going back to their Areas of Operation, and healing their wounds of war. That was definitely one of the biggest honors of my life.
7. More along the movie vein, I was an extra in a few films, including Sister Act with Whoopi Goldberg, plus I worked in talent management in LA for a bit.
8. My height is all in my legs, so if you meet me when I’m sitting down, you’ll be very surprised when I stand up…I’m 5’11. (Before we met, my husband wrote out a list of all the things he wanted in his wife, and one of them was “she’s between 5’10” and 6’ tall.” Uhhhhhhh…way to call me in!) Also, when people meet me after initially knowing me just online, they often say, “You look so much shorter in your Facebook picture!”
9. I’ve known, worked with, and interviewed some amazingly cool people, even including heads of state. Some names you might recognize are Peter Tork, Barbara Marx Hubbard (no relation to L. Ron), Jean Houston, and Thich Nhat Hanh.
10. My husband and I have this thing for the world’s fastest roller coasters.
I also want to add the main thing I learned from my heroine, Missy: look at this being-a-human thing as if with new eyes as often as possible to keep up the gratitude and appreciation for the big, the small, and even the Starbucks Caramel Macchiatos.
Love to laugh? You’ll enjoy this feel-good tale.
A starbeing skyrockets to Earth from the other side of forever with a specific assignment: to help steer humanity away from the collision course it’s on. But we all know how travel can get drastically diverted–instead of landing in Washington, D.C., where she could assist on a grand geopolitical scale, she ends up in…Kansas!
Wrong place, right time? Join our shero on this whimsical journey as she pursues her purpose as well as discovers the beauty of life and love on Earth.
Enjoy an Excerpt
Ohhhhhhhh—what a strange place this is! Loud noises, awful smells, strange beings looking at me.
The woman struggles to lift her hand just a few inches off the bed, clearly shocked to see it. Oh. Right. I’m one of those strange beings now.
She stares up at the group staring down at her.
This is odd. Do humans just stare at each other?
“Well, you’ve had a very, very long journey back here,” the doctor says.
You’re not kidding.
“We should give you some time,” the doctor continues.
When can I go back in the other direction?
“Don’t push her,” the doctor emphasizes to the other three humanoids. “Give her lots of time and space.”
Time and space. Oh, you have no idea.
“Where am I?”
The group, obviously ecstatic that she can talk but dismayed by her question, turns to the doctor.
“Missy, yer in a hospital room. You had a terrible accident a few months ago, and we thought we lost you at one point. But yer a tough survivor and fought yer way back here.”
That’s truer than you know.
“Perhaps we should just let her sleep some more,” the doctor tells them. “That’s when most of the body’s healing takes place.” She ushers them out of the room. “Amnesia can be a strange, strange thing,” the doctor starts to say. “The brain—” But she shuts the door and the voices are muffled.
Ohhhhhhh, I have a feeling I’m not in the Andromeda galaxy anymore.
About the Author: 
I’m a fun-loving, world-traveling, high-flying, deep-diving, and living-to-the-max author of eight books. When I’m not flying planes, scuba diving, climbing every mountain (on the back of my husband’s motorcycle) or riding the world’s fastest roller coasters, you can find me in my writing nest with a view of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains out the window. I’ve lived all over–from both oceans white with foam, to the prairie, and now to the mountain. Yes, a little backwards, but what the hey.
My bestselling and award-winning novels go as high and deep as I do—they’re profound yet funny; playful although poignant; heart-opening and heart-lifting; thought-provoking and inspiring; and edgy while universal. I’m also a screenwriter and award-winning filmmaker and humanitarian.
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Rose Trewin is on the run. Pursued by memories of her father, she runs from city to city, seeking normalcy. But Rose can’t escape her past, or the magic running through her veins, the magic that allows her to slip through the shadows unnoticed. The magic her father once used to mold her into a mercenary sent to destroy his enemies.
Natalie Johanson grew up and lives in the valley of Salt Lake City surrounded by the beautiful Rocky Mountains. Her days are spent trying to herd her two cats, Holmes and Watson. Natalie’s summers are spent camping with her fiancée or doing obstacle races with her best friend. She usually spends her winters hiding from the snow. This is the first of what will hopefully become a trilogy, but sometimes the characters do what they want.
The image Plotser 1 shows my first outline for Lion Dancing for Love, a novella. If you look at the table on the right-hand page, my table is five rows long and four columns deep. Each square has a number in the top left corner to indicate the chapter. In the top right corner, you will see a scribble that says Ca/Co or Co/Ca indicating point of view. I decided to give both my heroine and hero a voice in each chapter, so Ca/Co equals Caitlin first and then Corey whereas Co/Ca indicates the reverse. Each square contains a few scribbled key words indicating what is going to happen in that chapter. You will note the detail trails off significantly toward the end!
Plotser 2 is a revised outline. It’s much tidier as everything started coming together. However, if I was the kind of person who crossed all my Ts and dotted all my Is, I would have done another draft. You can see chapters sixteen to twenty-one are covered in corrections. I honestly can’t remember what I mean by a “swing” declaration and chapter twenty-one definitely takes place the morning after the ball as opposed to the evening of. Working in pencil is freeing as nothing feels set in stone.
Scott Yonge exploded onto the national consciousness at the 2001 Garrett Awards and quickly rose to legendary status on the wings of his music and his whirlwind romance with independent film actress Michelle Zoe. What should have been a perfect life was interrupted by an ultra-right wing militant group called the American Freedom Force and its leader, Colonel Randall, who forces Scott to choose between his life and that of his son. After his heroic sacrifice, his family is left to pick up the pieces and forge ahead to a future in the vacuum he left behind.
Travis was born and raised in the prairies of Saskatchewan, lived in Calgary for over 25 years and presently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Rachel is a writer and biologist. As a kid she got hooked on all things animal, vegetable, and mineral. To complicate matters, she was hatching up stories before she could hold a crayon. Once she discovered biology it was all over. Ever since her first class in 7th grade when she refused to dissect a frog, a little voice in her head said: You gotta share this amazing stuff about how nature works, and ask if we really need to harm it. The little voice only got fiercer once she went to college and worked with captive dolphins and Beluga whales, then got to see wild killer whales only a few weeks later. From then on it was an all-out quest to convey the wonders of nature, while pointing out the serious problems of our very bad habit of dominating others and the Earth. She’s been a card-carrying science writer for twenty years. The Blackfish Prophecy is Rachel’s first book.
After narrowly preventing the destruction of Cold City, PI Bellamy Vale needs a rest. Or rather, he needs a plain and simple vanilla case—no monsters or otherworldly creatures involved!
Cristelle Comby was born and raised in the French-speaking area of Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva, where she still resides.
We recently moved to our new home near Charleston, South Carolina. Four of my books are set in Charleston, and I’ve always enjoyed the Carolina beaches. I now have the opportunity to walk on the beach almost every day and to photography the ocean, the sea birds, and the marshes that I love.
