DIANN MILLS
Award-winning author DiAnn Mills is a fiction writer who combines an adventuresome spirit with unforgettable characters to create action-packed, suspense-filled novels. DiAnn’s first book was published in 1998. She currently has more than fifty books published.
Her titles have appeared on the CBA and ECPA bestseller lists and have won placements through the American Christian Fiction Writer’s Carol Awards and Inspirational Reader’s Choice awards. DiAnn won the Christy Award in 2010 and 2011.
DiAnn is a founding board member for American Christian Fiction Writers and a member of Inspirational Writers Alive, Romance Writers of America, and Advanced Writers and Speakers Association. She speaks to various groups and teaches writing workshops around the country. DiAnn is also the Craftsman mentor for the Jerry B. Jenkins Christian Writers Guild.
She and her husband live in sunny Houston, Texas.
DARLENE FRANKLIN
Award-winning author and speaker Darlene Franklin recently returned to cowboy country—Oklahoma. The move was prompted by her desire to be close to her son’s family; her daughter Jolene has preceded her into glory. Darlene loves music, needlework, reading, and reality TV. Talia, a Lynx point Siamese cat, proudly claims Darlene as her person. Darlene has published several titles with Barbour Publishing.
DARLENE MINDRUP
Darlene Mindrup is a full-time homemaker and home-school teacher. Once a ‘radical feminist,’ she fanned her independent streak in the army, then turned into a ‘radical Christian’ after a heart changing encounter with the Lord. Darlene lives in Arizona with her husband and two children. She believes ‘romance is for everyone, not just the young and beautiful.’ She has a passion for historical research, which is obvious in her detailed historical novels about places time seems to have forgotten.
TAMELA HANCOCK MURRAY
Tamela Hancock Murray lives in Northern Virginia with her two daughters and her husband of over twenty years. She keeps busy with church and school activities, but in her spare-time she’s written seven Bible trivia books and twenty Christian romance novels and novellas.
LYNETTE SOWELL
Lynette Sowell’s early love of books sparked her love of story and sense of adventure. She works as a medical transcriptionist for a large HMO during the day. In her spare time she loves to write, read, travel, and spend time with her family. Lynette hopes she’s earned the title of honorary Texan after making it her home for nearly fifteen years. Its wide skies and open spaces have fed her creativity. She lives with her husband, two kids by love and marriage (what’s a stepkid?), and a herd of five cats who have them all well trained. You can visit her Web site at www.lynettesowell.com.
MICHELLE ULE
Navy wife Michelle Ule is a writer, genealogist, and Bible study leader. She graduated from UCLA with a degree in English Literature and married a submarine officer whom she followed all over the world with their four children. Michelle lives in northern California with her family.
KATHLEEN Y’BARBO
Kathleen is a multipublished award-winning author of Christian fiction who also writes under the name Kathleen Y’Barbo. A tenth-generation Texan, she holds a marketing degree from Texas A&M University and a certificate in paralegal studies. She is the former treasurer of American Christian Fiction Writers, as well as a member of Words for the Journey Christian Writers’ Guild, Inspirational Writers Alive, Fellowship of Christian Writers, Writers’ Information Network, Houston Paralegal Association, and the Writers’ Guild. The proud mother of a daughter and three sons, she makes her home with her husband in Oklahoma.
Kathleen’s historicals often include settings in the Old West, which is her favorite topic for research. From Texas Rangers to Arizona outlaws, she loves learning about the Old West and the men and women who settled there.