Bios and Details

Anne Louise Bannon will speak about the life of a medical doctor in the 1870s. Anne has made not one, but two careers out of her passion for storytelling. Both a novelist and a journalist, she has an insatiable curiosity. In addition to her mystery novels, she has written a nonfiction book about poisons, freelanced for such diverse publications as the Los Angeles Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Backstage West, and edits the wine blog OddBallGrape.com. On the fiction side, she writes a romantic serial, a spy series, and her Kathy and Freddy 1920s mystery series. Her most recent title is Death of the Chinese Field Hands, set in Los Angeles, 1871. She and her husband live in Southern California with an assortment of critters. Visit her website at https://annelouisebannon.com/.

Historical romance author Linda McLaughlin credits her grandmother for her love of history, which kindled her desire to become a writer, amateur genealogist, and historical researcher. She loves all-things-history but has been published in various genres, including romantic fantasy and science fiction. She writes historical and Regency romance novels under her real name, and spicier romance under the pseudonym, Lyndi Lamont. A retired librarian, she lives in south Orange County. Her most recent novel is Lily and the Gambler. She will discuss Victorian mourning etiquette. Visit her website at https://www.lindalyndi.com.

The daughter of a newspaperman, A.E. Wasserman wrote her first novella at age 14 and never stopped writing. She has received numerous awards, including honors from Writer’s Digest for her work. A.E. Wasserman’s current mystery/thrillers, The Langsford Series, have garnered international attention. After graduating from The Ohio State University, she lived in London, then San Francisco. Currently she resides in Southern California with her family and her muse, a Border Collie named Topper. Visit the author’s web site at http://www.aewasserman.com/index.html. Her topics will be gunshot wounds, concussions, and Indigenous people’s medicine.

Jeri Westerson will discuss life and death in Victorian London. Jeri is the prolific author of 14 Crispin Guest Medieval Noir Mystery novels, historical novels, and three paranormal series: Booke of the Hidden, an urban fantasy complete with demons and angry gods; the Enchanter Chronicles, a gaslamp/steampunk series with a magician, daemons, and a Scotland Yard special inspector; and Moonriser, a werewolf mystery series set in Huntington Beach with a surfer with a werewolf problem who solves crimes with the help of a Voodoo coven. Jeri also wrote the Skyler Foxe LGBT Mysteries under the name Haley Walsh. 

Colleen Adair Fliedner is the author of three nonfiction history books, hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, and an award-winning historical novel, In the Shadow of War: Spies, Love & the Lusitania. Her latest work is a popular history book, Fascinating True Stories from Old California, which should be published early in 2021. Being hired to work as a professional research historian for the California State University system was a dream come true for Colleen, who still loves to dive deep into her research to come up with accurate, yet entertaining stories. She will discuss why and when there was a need to establish a hospital in the Los Angeles area, and why the County finally built a poor farm to house the overflow of sick and dying patients from the hospital. It was also a place that would also provide a place to house the growing indigent population and the mentally ill.

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