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is the publisher of Prospect Park Books and the editor of Hometown Pasadena, Hometown Santa Monica and At Home Pasadena. She’s also the author (or co-author) of four other books:
Mammoth from the Inside:
The Honest Guide to Mammoth & the Eastern Sierra (Prospect Park Books)
Storybook Travels: From Eloise’s New York to Harry Potter’s London,
Visits to 30 of the Best-Loved Landmarks in Children’s Literature (Three Rivers Press)
The Unofficial Guide to California with Kids (IDG), now in its 5th edition
The Eclectic Gourmet Guide to Los Angeles (Menasha Ridge Press)
Over her writing career Colleen has specialized in both the hedonistic (restaurants and travel) and the virtuous (health, fitness and outdoor sports). She’s been the L.A. restaurant critic for Westways magazine for more than a decade and was the restaurant critic for L.A. Style in its heyday. She was the food editor for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate and the American editor of the acclaimed Gault Millau guidebooks. She has also written for everyone from Bon Appetit, Shape and Family Fun to the Los Angeles Times and the Boston Globe. A sixth-generation Southern Californian, Colleen is a skier, surfer, mom, tennis player, traveler, hiker, music lover, food lover, and entrepreneur. She lives in Pasadena with her husband, Darryl Bates, a TV editor and computer consultant, and their teenage daughters.
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uncovered scores of fabulous houses, cottages and apartments for the upcoming At Home Pasadena, and she wrote about architecture, antiques, flea markets, Caltech professors, museums, music and more for Hometown Pasadena. Jill is also the author (or co-author) of four other books, all for HarperCollins:
Twins! Pregnancy, Birth and the First Year of Life
Caring for Your Premature Baby
Raising Twins
Twins! 2nd Edition
Jill started her professional life as a singer in a ‘70s rock band, later transitioning to the only-slightly-more-stable business of writing. Her love of architecture led her to become the managing editor of American Bungalow magazine for several years; she’s also a ghostwriter for experts in such fields as medicine and business, as well as a longtime trustee of the board for Sequoyah School. A dedicated swimmer, gardener, cineaste, cook, reader, and music lover, Jill is a Staten Island native who has lived in Pasadena for more than twenty years, sharing a shingled Craftsman house with her husband, jazz musician David Arnay; their writer son, Miles, lives in Chicago but visits home often.
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discovered the most wonderful gardens in Pasadena and environs for At Home Pasadena, and she expounded on history, horticulture, famous people, art, entertainment, and the Doo Dah Parade for Hometown Pasadena. Sandy has written for Seventeen magazine, drive-time radio hosts, and the Universal Press Syndicate, and she was a segment producer for “The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson,” “2Hip4TV,” and several other TV shows. In her youth she worked on “Late Night with David Letterman,” and John Belushi yelled at her when she was an intern in the early days of “Saturday Night Live.”
Sandy is a real Renaissance woman—not only is she a writer, but she’s also a wholesale florist, chicken rancher, silversmith, garden consultant and mom. She lives in Altadena with her husband, comedy writer Tom Gammill (“The Simpsons,” “Seinfeld”), and their teenagers.
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covered (among other things) architecture, education, shopping and life among the famous for Hometown Santa Monica. A Silverlake native and 20-year resident of the Palisades, Tippy is often found hiking the Santa Monica Mountains with her dog, Willie. Originally a PR executive, Tippy worked on three Oscar ceremonies. She’s now the programs coordinator at USC’s University Club, not to mention a writer and the mom of Caroline, Max and Zach.
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is Hometown Santa Monica’s resident expert in beaches and local history. She’s a longtime Santa Monican who went to Pali High and grew up playing volleyball and bodysurfing at State Beach. Now an editor for the L.A. County Museum of Art, she has worked for everyone from the Los Angeles Times to Los Angeles magazine. On weekends you’re sure to find Margery and her daughter, Adelaide, on the beach.
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uncovered the best restaurants, wine merchants, art galleries, cultural events and nightlife for Hometown Santa Monica. She’s a renaissance woman with a philosophy degree, a background in fine-arts management, an MBA, a cookie business, a diploma in patisserie arts, a food-writing career (features for the Los Angeles Times and a syndicated column for the Tribune syndicate) and a forthcoming book (Supper Underground, coming fall 2008 from Sasquatch Books)—and she’s barely 30! She lives in Santa Monica with her writer-comedian husband, Kevin.
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wrote about the literary, athletic and children’s scenes for Hometown Santa Monica. A true native (born at Santa Monica Hospital), Nancy has been an editor for practically every magazine in town and is now a freelance writer who’s happily AWOL: Always West of Lincoln. She lives in Ocean Park with her son, Robby, and she takes frequent breaks from the writing life to play tennis, hike Temescal Canyon, hit the Sunday Main Street farmer’s market, and meet friends for a martini at Chez Jay or the Galley.
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wrote about kids’ stuff, sports, fitness, ethnic restaurants, and wine shops for Hometown Pasadena. She’s also the author of three other books:
The Making of Disney's Animal Kingdom Theme Park (Hyperion)
The Making of Hong Kong Disneyland: Magic at Work; (Disney Enterprises)
The Making of Hong Kong Disneyland: Magicians at Work; (Disney Enterprises)
Mel was the founding arts editor of Pasadena Weekly; a columnist for Pasadena Weekly and Nine to Nine; a show writer, consultant and Imagineer for Disney; and an editor for the Occidental Alumni magazine. An alum of Occidental College, she served on its board and was president of the board at Sequoyah School. Mel is passionate about writing, reading, adventure travel, food, skiing, yoga, and her family, which includes husband Joe Rohde, a lead designer at Walt Disney Imagineering, their two sons, and a dog named Betty.
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ccovered shopping for Hometown Pasadena. During her 30-year career as a journalist (for everyone from Time and Fodor’s to Shape and Fit Pregnancy), she has written about travel, fitness, the jewelry business, health, and pregnancy. The latter area of expertise has dominated her career in the last decade, and she is currently the editor-in-chief of Plum, a lifestyle magazine for pregnant women over 35. Mary Jane and a partner have also recently launched a literary agency representing West Coast authors. But what she really loves to do is shop, and she does it well; she’s also a devotee of Pilates, vegetarian cooking, travel and reading. Mary Jane lives in Pasadena with her husband, psychiatrist Stuart Shipko, and their teenagers.
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