Diane Pershing

For years, Diane Pershing made her living as an actress and singer. She was extremely content in these professions, except for one problem — there was way too much down time, and she worried that her brain was atrophying. She’d been a voracious reader since childhood, so she took up pen and paper and began writing, first for television, then as a movie critic, then as a novelist. She started her first romance in the spirit of “What do I have to lose?” As an actress, she was already used to appearing foolish — what was one more time? She was lucky enough to sell that first romance and many more since. Along the way, her books have won some awards, including The Golden Quill, the Aspen Gold and the Orange Rose, and she’s been a finalist for the prestigious Romance Writers of America’s Rita Awards. Diane is happy to report that there is no more down time in her life; indeed, with writing and acting — and teaching classes in both — she now faces the dilemma of not having enough time, which she says is a quality problem indeed. She lives in Silver Lake, California, with her two cats, Gilbert and Sullivan, and waits patiently for her real children, Morgan Rose and Ben, to give her grandbabies.