Author Platform Panel
Friday June 21, 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Moderator Marla Miller’s experience in traditional publishing inspired her to work with writers on the road to publication.
Brook Ashley is the author of Dare Wright and The Lonely Doll, which features more than four hundred of Dare’s own photographs and an array of other illustrations. Brook Ashley tells Dare’s story as no one else can as she was Dare’s goddaughter, lifelong friend, and guardian during her final years. She grew up in Wright’s magical New York universe of Edith and The Bears.
A former child actress, Brook is a Realtor and a magazine writer in Santa Barbara, CA.
Bee Bloeser is the author of Vaccines & Bayonets: Fighting Smallpox in Africa amid Tribalism, Terror and the Cold War. With wide-eyed ideals and two young children, Bee eagerly followed her husband to Africa where he helped eradicate smallpox, in the 1970s. What she encountered there deepened her love for Africa, while it eroded her naïveté.
Bloeser now lives in California and is building an impressive speaking career in the wake of the publication of her book. She would like to return to Africa.
Hendrika de Vries is the author of the award-winning memoir When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew. She was a child in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam when girls were to be housewives and mothers, but when her father was deported to a POW camp in Germany and her mother joined the Resistance, she learned to become an empowered woman.
She’s a retired Jungian-oriented therapist who used dreams and intuitive imagination to facilitate recovery. As an adjunct professor at Pacifica, she helped many students discover their personal mythologies.
Yvette Keller is the planet earth authority on Douglas Adams literary tourism and the author of the Douglas Adams’ London guide from Herb Lester Associates.
Her short fiction leans toward SF/Fantasy at an extravagantly relaxed angle. You can find her work in literary magazines such as Enheduanna, Imitation Fruit Literary Magazine, and The Santa Barbara Literary Journal. For fun, Yvette time travels in self-made historical costumes, reads constantly, and performs in short-form improv and live storytelling shows.
