800x600 Lorna Lund and Larry Collins grew up together in Alhambra, California. Larry studied engineering at California Polytechnic College in Pomona, and Lorna was an English major at California State College at Los Angeles. They have been married for over fifty-five years. Larry spent many years as an engineer working on projects throughout the United States and around the world. Lorna was employed in Document Control, Editing, and Technical Writing. They both were employed in Osaka on the Universal Studios Japan theme park. Larry was a Project Engineer, responsible for the Jurassic Park, JAWS, and WaterWorld attractions. Lorna was the Document Control Supervisor in the Osaka field office. Their memoir of that experience, 31 Months in Japan: The Building of a Theme Park was a 2006 EPPIE finalist, named as one of Rebeccas Reads Best Nonfiction books of 2005. Their mysteries, set in Hawaii, are Murder…They Wrote and Murder in Paradise. The latter was a finalist for the 2012 EPIC eBook award. They plan several more in this series. Dominic Drive is their latest collaboration. Lorna co-wrote a series of sweet romance anthologies, set in the mythical town of Aspen Grove, Colorado, with friends Sherry Derr-Wille, Christie Shary, Luanna Rugh, and Cheryl Gardarian: Snowflake Secrets (a finalist for the Dream Realm and Eric Hoffner awards), Seasons of Love, Directions of Love (winner of the 2011 EPIC eBook Award for best romance anthology), An Aspen Grove Christmas, The Art of Love, and …And a Silver Sixpence in Her Shoe. Lorna wrote Ghost Writer, Jewel of the Missions: San Juan Capistrano (illustrated with the paintings of Robert L. Schwenck), and Lola, The Parrot Who Saved the Mission.  Larry’s collection of short stories is entitled Lakeview Park. His latest project is his sci-fi series, The McGregor Chronicles with eight books completed. He iw working on Book 9. Together they wrote The Memory Keeper,, a historical novel set in San Juan Capistrano, California in the 1800s, told from the point-of-view of a Juaneño Indian They are working on the sequel, Becoming the Jewel..  All their books are available from the publishers, on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, their website (www.lornalarry.com) and other online book outlets. Follow Lorna’s blog at http://lornacollins-author.blogspot.com. Lorna & Larry now reside in Dana Point, CA where Larry enjoys surfing as often as possible, and Lorna spends time with family and friends. They have several more books in the queue. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}

On July 20, 2005, the authors were featured in a front page news article in the Orange County Register. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8642523/
31 Months in Japan: The Building of a Theme Park is currently entered in several writing contests and was a finalist for the 2006 EPPIE award for nonfiction. It has receved many excellent reviews, and can be found on online bookstores throughout the world.