Audrey Balzart, President
Audrey Balzart is a military retiree and disabled veteran who found her calling as a writer when starting her second life. With a love for all forms of storytelling, she earned her BA in 2017 from Nevada State College in Visual Media – Digital Cinema. With several short stories published, she is currently editing her first novel in her YA SciFi “AJ Silver Misadventure” series as well as working on three romantic screenplays.
Lauren Tallman, Vice President
Currently a resident of Las Vegas, author Lauren Tallman was born in Lithuania, came to America via Italy, resided in Israel for thirty years, and landed in Las Vegas in 2006. She is Vice President of the Henderson Writers Group and a member since 2009. Her stories were accepted into six HWG anthologies. Lauren founded the Erotic Writers Group of Las Vegas in 2014. She is a monthly columnist and podcaster for The Vegas Voice.
Her book How To Have An Affair And Not Get Caught went worldwide and relaunched in 2020.
Lauren unleashed the erotic Harem of the Dragon in 2020 receiving vast praise by readers around the world.
Taste the Kiss Feel the Fire, Lauren’s erotica group’s anthology, was released in October 2021.
Come Again? was released in December 2021 contains Lauren’s personal erotica works.
She is presently researching her newest novel, yet to be announced.
Lauren Tallman a/k/a Lady Tallman, Lady of Glencoe
Author of “How To Have An Affair and Not Get Caught”
“Harem of the Dragon”
“Come Again?”
“Taste the Kiss Feel the Fire”
‘Erotic Vegas’ columnist and “Seniors Still Do It” Podcaster on The Vegas Voice
https://www.thevegasvoice.net/
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Donna DeVargas – Secretary, Treasurer
Jo Wilkins, Education Coordinator, Conference Coordinator
Jo Wilkins(AKA – J.A. Wilkins), founder of the Henderson Writers’ Group and the contact who brought the Las Vegas Writer’s Conference to life, serves as Chief Executive Officer and Acquisitions Editor for Mystic Publishers, Inc., runs the companies DBA’s, Ink & Quill Publishers, a commercial publishing house (for General Genres’) and NewLink Publishing (for Horror, Sci-Fi and Fantasy), and Vision Novels, for authors who want backroom help to self-publish without a vanity press. She co-authors, the Tyranny Series (Sci-Fi) with, R.R. Draude. She has one murder mystery, Dealing Out Death, and has sold short stories to places like KNPR’s “Making Nevada Home”. She is published in over 16 anthologies. She also teaches beginning and intermediate author technique classes in Henderson, NV.
Wolf O’Rourc, Grant Coordinator
SAC (Special Author in Charge) Wolf O’Rourc mines his years in cybersecurity and fascination with politics, finance, and sex to create stories pitting quirky characters with high-tech gadgets against evil villains with vile weapons. His Zazztra series follows a Vegas casino host turned super-heroine through the sordid underbelly of crime at home and abroad. Wolf’s Cyber series explores the secret world of bits and bytes through the eyes of a pink-haired hacktress. His techno-thrillers reflect the 23 places he has lived and studied the polyglot people that populate his fiction.
In real life, he frequents the Henderson Writers Group, the Romance Writers of America, Sin City Writers Group, and the Las Vegas Screenwriters Group. On the Net you’ll find him at WolfORourc.com or WolfORourc at the fashionable social media channels.
Ned Barnett, Publicity Coordinator
I wanted to be a writer since high school, and I’ve been blessed by having made my living writing for employers and clients for most of my adult life. I have published 38 books – including non-fiction business books, science fiction, historical fiction (as well as a number of barely-successful screenplays) and more than a dozen ghost-written books for clients. My career has focused on publicity and marketing, non-profit fund-raising and membership development for a variety of foundations and other non-profits. I currently work as a writing, publicity and marketing consultant for authors and small businesses, as a ghostwriter, and as a book developmental/content editor and writing coach. Finally, I have several books in the works – a non-fiction book on how to succeed as a book-writer (which my editor just told me is actually three books – so it’s back to the drawing board to edit into three different books), and a private detective mystery novel. My business website is https://www.barnettmarcom.com
Michelle Smith, Membership Development Coordinator
Diana Fedorak, Newsletter Editor
Diana Fedorak is a speculative fiction writer from Las Vegas, Nevada. Born in Saigon, South Vietnam, she grew up in a Pan Am Airways family who frequently traveled overseas. She enjoys writing complex characters in high-stakes science fiction and fantasy worlds. Her short stories have appeared in multiple literary magazines.
Diana’s debut novel, Children of Alpheios, was released by the The Wild Rose Press in 2023 and won numerous awards. When she’s not writing, she spends time in her own universe with her husband, two children, and their German Shepard.
Dave Woolston, Webmaster
Brooding and resourceful vigilante, clad in jeans and a tee-shirt, dark yet easy going persona, fighting fearlessly for writer freedom everywhere.
