The Desert Nights, Rising Stars
Writers Conference

HelenKay Dimon is a divorce lawyer turned full-time author of over forty romance novels and novellas. Her award-winning books have been showcased in numerous venues, including The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune, and her books have twice been named “Red-Hot Reads” and excerpted in Cosmopolitan magazine. She is an RT Reviewer’s Choice Award winner and RITA® Award winner in romantic suspense. She has taught romance writing and fiction writing at UCSD extension and MiraCosta College.

Deloris’ sister gave her a historical romance the summer of her freshman year of high school. She was still reading it as she watched the sun came up the next day and she has been an avid romance reader ever since. It took her four years to find the courage to submit her first novella to Siren Bookstrand and after a month she received her first contract. She has written and published two other books since then. She still considers herself a new writer with a lot more to learn.

Kris Tualla, a dynamic award-winning author of historical romance and suspense, has created a 30-novel dynasty with The Hansen Series. A member of Romance Writers of America, the Historical Novel Society, and Sisters in Crime, she was a guest instructor at the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. In 2019 Kris was inducted into the Colorado Authors Hall of Fame for her “Camp Hale Series” and two of those WWII novels have been optioned for a screen project.