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1 Personal Fact SheetDarlene Quinn

Personal:

Only child Born and raised in Long Beach, California

Fantastic Mother who read every draft of my early fiction. She passed away before her time in 1994

91 year old father, a former aircraft engineer, cattle buyer, then long shoreman who lives with hisCavalier King Charles spaniel at Bixby Towers in Long Beach.

Birthday June 17, 1939

Married, 2 children (an adopted son and a hearing impaired daughter), 2 step children, and 11grandchildren. (Got acquainted with my husband at our high school reunion)

Resides in Long Beach, California

School: Graduated from Wilson High School in Long Beach, CA

Bachelor of Arts: Education/Psychology University of California-San Jose

Graduate Business Courses: University of Washington--Seattle, WA

Experience: Director of Personnel/Organization Development---Bullocks Wilshire

Corporate Director of Training--Bullock's (Major West Coast retailer)

Member of the task force to form magnet schools in Los Angeles.

Taught seminars on interviewing skills, time management, listening and negotiating skills

Director of self-improvement, modeling and charm courses, as a private contractor for Bullock'sand Robinson's Department Stores

Created public relations, personal appearance, and self-esteem courses for hospital personnel(Pacific Hospital, Pioneer Hospital and Artesia Medical Group).

Assisted in research on Frontal Temporal Dementia for UCSF (my late husband fell victim to FTDten or more years before he passed away in 2005)

Pageant coordination for Miss Long Beach portion of Miss Universe

Speaker and commentator for community organizations and the underprivileged and OrangeCounty (self image, public relations, beauty, and fashion.)

Taught in the public school system (K-8th)

Activities and Organizations: Reading and story telling is a life long passion

Love to go out dancing and have the perfect partner to do so

Took up skiing, again, recentlyo Belongs to a number or organizations: Treasurer of Southern California Writers

Association, Long Beach Yacht Club, Romance Writers' of America, Assistance League, BalboaSki Club, National Writers' Association, Toastmasters, John Tracy Clinic, Chairman of our WilsonReunion Committee, past president of Parents Adoption League and past Vice President of theBoard of Directors for the Ocean Club

Professional: Author of two novel (Webs of Powerand Sizzling Cold Case).

Assisted Buddy Ebsen in writing his first novel and other writing projects.

Published articles Inskeeping World and Savvy Magazine(time management, interviewing,management, listening, and negotiating skills were the major focus.)

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Next novel, Twisted Webs, is the sequel to Webs of Power.