Growing up in a straight laced Southern family, I was always fascinated with casinos. In my twenties on a summer hiatus from teaching in North Carolina, I drove to California and became a dealer at Caesars in Lake Tahoe. My mother highly disapproved of my working in a casino, "a place so bad it has 'sin' in the middle."
Thankfully the paper from Palm Springs disagreed with my mother. The Desert Sun raved, "As if often the case, the author pulls from real-life experiences to create a worthy piece of fiction. And her own life is a vivid kaleidoscope of adventure. Casino Queen arrives at the perfect time when crime-solving tales that revolve around strong female protagonists aren’t just a luck of a draw. They’re downright successful. (See TV’s
Avis M. Adams lives in Oregon and has had several YA novels released by The Wild Rose Press, as well as a romance novella, Her collection of poetry was released in 2019. She teaches English at Green River College, and belongs to the Flamingos Revised Critique Group, and is an active member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association and Willamette Writers. She lives in Portland, Oregon, where she writes, hikes, kayaks, gardens, and spends as much time as she can with her granddaughter.
L.B. Griffin, born and raised in Bath UK absolutely loves writing fiction. She is happily married and surrounded by her family in Wiltshire.
She has always written around the full-time paid job and pays tribute to everyone she has taught and met along the way. They have been her inspiration to write.
Whilst her stories touch upon social issues, and the harsher realities of life, they are filled with gentle hints of romance. Her women are strong, courageous, and yet easy to identify with and have simply touched the hearts of many.
Griffin’s debut novel, Secrets, Shame and a Shoebox was released world-wide mid-2021, and immediately received rave reviews. The sequel, The Twenty-One-Year Contract, also standalone, continues to receive fabulous 5
