Larry and Lorna Collins were raised in Alhambra, California where they attended grammar school and high school together. Larry went to California Polytechnic College in Pomona, and Lorna attended California State College at Los Angeles. They have been married for forty-five years and have one daughter, Kimberly.
Larry is an engineer and spent many years working on various projects throughout the United States and around the world. Lorna worked in Document, Data, and Change Management, and Technical Writing.
From 1998 to 2001, they lived in Osaka, Japan to work on the Universal Studios Japan theme park. Larry was a Project Engineer, responsible for the Jurassic Park, JAWS and WaterWorld attractions. Lorna worked in the Osaka field office in Document Control.
Their memoir of that experience, 31 Months in Japan: The Building of a Theme Park was a 2006 EPPIE finalist and named as one of Rebeccas Reads Best nonfiction books of 2005. It is five-star rated on Amazon and is available in e-book, paperback and hardbound formats.
Their mystery, Murder… They Wrote, was published in August, 2009 by Whiskey Creek Press and finished 4th in the Preditors & Editors Reader Poll. They are at work on three sequels.
In addition, Lorna has written four anthologies with friends Christie Shary, Luanna Rugh, Sherry Derr-Wille and Cheryl Gardarian: Snowflake Secrets Seasons of Love, Directions of Love, and An Aspen Grove Christmas. They are currently working on two more.