Michelle Christensen is the author of La Pâte a Bombé. After working in the film and music industry for ten years, she became a stay-at-home mom. When it was time to return to work, she followed her dreams of becoming a pastry chef. She earned her associate's degree in patisserie from Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena, California. She's worked at some of the best restaurants and bakeries in Los Angeles and is currently a pastry chef at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica, California.
Michelle lives with her husband and three children in Santa Monica. When she's not running or looking for the next best recipe, she's a roadie for her kids' band.
Maureen Anne Jennings has worn the hats of a journalist, copywriter, editor, publishing consultant, media relations manager, book festival director, and Fillmore East staffer. She owns more than 100 hats, not all of them work related. After the obligatory waitressing during college, she squandered a few years behind the bar at various dives in lower Manhattan. She also owned and operated a pub in northern California. Be careful what you write about. Her short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Traveler’s Tales Italy, Cartwheels on the Faultline, and Saltwater Sweetwater as well as various periodicals. She graduated from Fordham University summa cum laude in comparative literature and still reads as many novels as she possibly can. She
