Zelda Benjamin lives in South Florida with her husband and a chocolate Lab. Zelda has published three books for AVALON: Chocolate Secrets,  Brooklyn Ballerina, and Chocolate Magic, all in the Love by Chocolate series.

Mary A. Benton spent her childhood on a dairy ranch in California’s Central Valley. She has worked as a farmer her entire life, and continues to live in her beloved “country home” in the middle of a walnut grove. Winds of Time is Mary’s first...

D.J. Bishop was born better than fifty years ago, the sixth of seven children, to a bigger than life cowboy father and hard-working mother, right square-dab in the middle of cattle country. The nearest town was several miles away and a place seldom visited. Much...

Clifford J. Blair, prolific AVALON author, passed away unexpectedly on April 28, 2001 at the age of forty-seven. During his remarkable writing career he published twenty-six Western and adventure novels, twenty-three of which were with AVALON. A native Oklahoman, he lived all his life in...

Alison Blake is a lifelong art and horse lover who spends as much time at the stables as she does in art galleries. She is also a playwright who has had her plays produced on both the East and West coasts and a few places...

Amy Blizzard is a freelance writer and Indiana native. She is currently a staff member for the online radio station and magazine Dixie Streams. In her spare time, she enjoys music, art, theater, medical dramas, and spoiling puppies and kitties with love and affection. The...

Beate Boeker is a product manager by day and a writer by night. She’s also married and the mother of an energetic kid. If you mix Latin and German, Beate Boeker literally translates as “happy books,” and, with a name like that, what else could...

Johnny D. Boggs once played hooky from high school to watch Fort Apache, and spends most of his vacations traipsing around historical sites, ghost towns. and boneyards in the American West. His works have appeared in Boys' Life, Louis L 'Amour Western Magazine,and other publications. A...

Janet Boling is a former newspaper reporter and editor who is now public information manager for the Village of Tinley Park, Illinois, where she lives with her husband in their “empty nest.” In her spare time, she enjoys being with family, sports, reading and creating...

Though not an Arizona native, Rebecca Boschee has lived in the Valley long enough for her blood to have thinned. Born with an appreciation for the ridiculous and an endless supply of humor based partially on her own clumsy tendencies, Rebecca found her writing voice...