Founder
Antoinette May
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Antoinette May
Photo by: Sue Sparks
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Antoinette May, Gold Rush Retreat Founder, is a critically acclaimed
biographer who turned to fiction with Pilate's Wife, a tale of the Roman Empire.
The novel, published in November 2006 by William Morrow, has been translated
into 17 languages. She has recently completed a second novel, The Sacred
Well.
Antoinette's non-fiction includes the New York Times best seller, Adventures of
a Psychic and Witness to War, an award-winning biography of the Pulitzer prize
winning journalist Marguerite Higgins. She was the 1997 recipient of La Pluma de
Plata, an award conferred by the Mexican Government for the best travel article
on their country.
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Pilates Wife
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Faculty
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Kevin Arnold
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Kevin Arnold
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Kevin Arnold has published 50 poems and short stories in such literary
magazines as the Seattle Review, the California Poetry Journal, The Beloit
Fiction Journal, and a book of poetry.
He's recently completed and is actively marketing two novels, The Sureness of
Horses and White Man's Blues.
Arnold recently received a Master of Fines Arts in Fiction from San Jose
State University. He is the long-term President of Poetry Center San Jose, with
headquarters in the historic home of California poet Edwin Markham. PCSJ is
the parent organization to California Poets Festival and the national literary
journal Caesura.
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Sally Ashton
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Sally Ashton
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Sally Ashton is a poet, teacher and editor of the DMQ Review, an online
journal featuring both poetry and art. Recent poetry and reviews have
appeared in Mississippi Review, Dos Passos Review, Another Chicago
Magazine and Sentence: a journal of prose poetics.
A chapbook, These Metallic Days, was released in January 2005 from Main
Street Rag. Sally earned her MFA from Bennington Writing Seminars. She is the
recipient of a 2004 Artist Fellowship, Poetry, from Arts Council Council Silicon
Valley.
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Helen Bonner
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Helen Bonner
Helen Bonner is the author of a memoir, The Laid Daughter, and short stories
published in Loonfeather, Dust & Fire, Thema, Wellspring, Writers Forum and True
Confessions.
Her plays, Mary's House, Black Hart and the Licorice Gang and
Hamlet the Musical, have been performed by Sierra College, Bemidji State
University, and Mountain Ranch Community Theater. A screen play, A Higher
Loyalty: the Jeannette Rankin Story, is currently under option.
Bonner is
retired from the creative writing faculty at the University of Minnesota.
Her new fiction includes the novels, Cry Dance, The Dolphin Girl and MsDemeanors.
hbonnerbooks.com
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The Laid Daughter
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Tom Johnson
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Tom Johnson
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Tom Johnson's 30-year career path in journalism is one that regularly moved
from the classroom to the newsroom and back. He worked for TIME magazine in El
Salvador in the mid-80s, was the founding editor of MacWEEK, and a deputy editor
of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
His areas of interest are analytic journalism,
dynamic simulation models of publishing systems, complexity theory, the
application of Geographic Information Systems in journalism and the impact of
the digital revolution on journalism and journalism education.
He is the founder
and co-director of the Institute for Analytic Journalism, Santa Fe, New Mexico."
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Rose Lerma
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Rose Lerma
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Rose Lerma lost her job in 1991 and decided that was exactly what she
needed to get serious about writing. An idea had been floating around in her
head for an historical romance.
Nine months later the book was finished and she
began the painful process of collecting rejections. After six complete novels,
Rose finally got her break from Champagne Books, an e-publisher.
Seducing Annie
came out in June of 2007. Flower of Passion will be out this May, and she just
sold a novella entitled The Christmas Message scheduled for holiday
publication.
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Seducing Annie
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Lucy Sanna
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Lucy Sanna
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Lucy Sanna
Lucy Sanna, author of both fiction and nonfiction, has found success in a
number of venues, ranging from self-help books and scientific magazine articles
to erotica. She has recently completed her first novel and is now working on her
second.
Lucy's popular twin set of self-help books
- How to Romance the Woman You Love… The Way SHE Wants You To: (Random House)
- How to Romance the Man You Love… The Way HE Wants You To (Random House)
have held their place on
bookstore shelves for more than ten years. In the meantime, they've been
picked up by major book clubs and published in six languages.
Lucy published her first two books while working full time in a
corporate environment and raising her daughter as a single parent. "If I can
do it, anyone can!" she says. Lucy loves to help others see how they, too, can
find a way to create a successful writing life.
With an education in English literature, a background in marketing, a nose
for research, and a passion for sensual detail, Lucy easily moves through time,
place, and voice, bringing both creative fancy and authenticity to her work.
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Naida West
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Naida West
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Naida West lives, writes, and conducts a publishing business in the
California Gold Country. A life-long writer with a Ph.D. from the UC, Davis, she
gave up teaching sociology, and then lobbying in Sacramento, to write full time.
Inspired by the history of her ranch and the artifacts she has found, her
award-winning novels are perennial sellers and required reading in colleges
across the U.S., and the U.K.
A storyteller and sought-after speaker, Naida is
completing the third big novel in her California trilogy. The market success of
her books allowed her to establish Bridge House Books, a nationally distributed
publishing house with award winning writers.
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Deborah Todd
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Deborah Todd
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Deborah Todd
Author of the new book, Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light, Deborah Todd is a veteran award-winning designer, writer, producer, and director in the interactive arena, with 14 published games and 20 published titles to her credit since 1991.
Her new book, published by A K Peters, debuted at year Game
Developer's Conference in San Francisco.
She has worked with some of the industry's top publishers and Hollywood studios, including Disney Interactive, Disneyland, Fox,DreamWorks, Discovery Channel, MGM/UA, Columbia, Warner Bros., Nickelodeon, The Learning Company, Humongous Entertainment, Broderbund,
Mindscape, Houghton-Mifflin, McGraw-Hill, Random House, and Steven Spielberg's Starbright Foundation.
Her projects have garnered such awardsas the ABA Book Sellers Choice New Media Award, the ComputEd Best Interactive Story Award, Child Magazine's Best Software of the Year Award, Parenting
Magazine's Software Magic Award, and U.S. News and World Report's Top 12Titles of the Year.
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2008 Gold Rush Writer's Conference coming to Mokelumne Hill May 2, 3 & 4
