Larry K. Collins

Lorna Lund and Larry Collins were raised in Alhambra, California. Larry studied engineering at California Polytechnic College in Pomona, and Lorna majored in English at California State College at Los Angeles. They have been married for over forty-seven years. Larry worked on various projects throughout the United States and around the world. Lorna was employed in Document Control, Data Management, IT Change Management, Editing, and Technical Writing. They were both on the team that built the Universal Studios Japan theme park in Osaka. 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 cozy mysteries are, Murder…They Wrote and Murder in Paradise (finalist for the EPIC eBook Award for best mystery). Several more mysteries are planned. Larry's short story collection entitled Lakeview Park(published in December 2011). Lorna’s first solo novel is the fantasy/mystery/romance called Ghost Writer.