2026 Board of Directors
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President
Patti was an army brat and lived all around the world before settling in Gloucester, Virginia. There, she and her husband Greg raised three daughters and numerous cats and dogs.
After retiring from two area history museums, Patti finally had time to fulfill her dream to write a novel. Now she’s written five. Her books are about family and emotional connections, though the latest is about murder!
When not writing she enjoys wildlife photography, gardening, and researching family history on Ancestry. She and Greg also love to travel. They’ve been checking off their bucket list.
Vice President
JT Hine
JT is a writer, translator and life-long cyclist. His first published book was a translation in 1962. He published travel articles and self-help booklets for freelancers and career-changers. His speculative fiction includes six novels and two short-story collections. On his blog, he shares sea stories (memoirs) and short stories each week. Fifteen years in Italy, twenty-four years in the Navy, and ten years at UVA, have inform his writing.
Memberships: Authors Guild, PEN Center America, the Alliance of Independent Authors, Chesapeake Bay Writers, the Virginia Writers Club, the American Translators Association, and Sisters in Crime. He was the CBW coordinator of the Golden Nib competition in 2024.
Treasurer
Bradley Harper
Brad is a retired US Army Colonel and pathologist with extensive experience in autopsies and forensic investigation.
A life-long fan of Sherlock Holmes, upon retirement Brad received his Associates in Creative Writing from Full Sail University, to help him write his first book–A Knife in the Fog–a book that he’d always wanted to read.
Brad was an Infantry officer before medical school, worked in the Pentagon, and learned to speak five languages. Yet, he also happily plays Santa each Christmas (with his loving wife as Mrs. Claus). It is this juxtaposition of exploring the body, mind, and humanity that allows Brad to share universal truths with his readers–on the page, or through book talks.
Secretary
Diana Farrar Caron
Diana’s writing is influenced by the stories of Mary Shelley, Jules Verne, Orson Welles, Rod Serling, Gene Roddenberry, and more. The main characters in her first novel were named for her favorite matinee villain, Vincent Price.
Diana worked for the Federal government and in the business side of book and magazine publishing with magazines such as Smithsonian/Air & Space, Caribbean Travel & Life, and Colonial Williamsburg’s Trend & Tradition magazines, and more.
Retired in Williamsburg with her husband, Edmond, and feisty Pomeranian, Theodore Roosevelt (aka Teddy Bear), she’s working on a sequel to Vincent and the Grief Masters called, Forbidden Fruit, and a third book of personal short stories.
Immediate Past President
Richard Easton
Richard D. Easton has published articles about the origin of GPS in various space-related publications. He holds an MLA from the University of Chicago. His father, Roger L. Easton, led the Space Applications Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory from the Vanguard satellite era to the early days of GPS development.
Directors at Large
Mary Shipko
GingerAdelstone
Robert Whitehall
AdamDeAngelo - Current Webamster