MEET OUR AUTHORS

KENNY PHIPPS

Dooley's Legacy

When Kenny was five or six-years-old, he scribbled on a piece of paper as well as into his mind a bucket list of things he wanted to be when he achieved adulthood:

1. Be a rodeo cowboy like his dad and uncle had been. While never turning professional he rode bulls, bareback horses, and team-roped across Oklahoma and Texas.

2. Be a scuba diver. One of his heroes was Lloyd Bridges, who starred in the sixties TV show Sea Hunt. Kenny became a scuba instructor and made hundreds of dives in Mexico, Belize, Grand Cayman, the Bahama’s, and the Florida Keys.

3. Not drown. But he almost goofed there in the Atlantic one day.

4. Have a Harley Davidson like his dads and Kenny has enjoyed exploring the Rocky Mountains on his road bikes.

5. Fly airplanes. Kenny earned his pilot’s license and owned three airplanes, an ultralight aircraft, a completely restored WWII L-2 recon aircraft, and a Cessna 170.

6. His love of flying may be a factor in the only unchecked item on his bucket list and that is skydiving. He says he sees no reason to jump out of a perfectly running airplane.

7. Write a book. Kenny has written three books, one of which won the Will Rogers Medallion Award in 2011 for Cowboy Poet. 

There’s still time left to complete his list he reasons, as there are many folks who say he hasn’t made it to adulthood yet.

Kenny was diagnosed in 1999 with Parkinson’s disease. He was forty-three and for the first time realized that he may not live forever. He knew then that time was a precious commodity and needed to use his remaining time wisely. Kenny is a charter member of the Dickson Foundation for Excellence in Education, a non-profit group that raises money to provide grants to teachers for innovative ideas in the classroom.  He also served for eleven years on the Dickson Schools Board of Education.

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JUDITH FABRIS

Sargent's Lady

The Missing Driscoll

Alternate Consequence

Judith Fabris is a native Californian, product of an all-girl high school, graduate of San Jose State University with a B.S. degree and also holds a law degree. She grew up in Glendale and Pasadena, California. Her professional career was in the securities industry and since brokerage firms didn’t send “girls? for training, she burned the midnight oil to study. When she originally received her brokerage license, she broke through the glass ceiling to become one of only 1,200 women in the United States to achieve that status. She passed and held all the necessary licenses to manage or own a brokerage firm.

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Along the way, shes been a managing editor of two magazines, a stringer for Copley News Service and an article writer and columnist for numerous magazines. She holds a lifetime California Junior College Teaching credential for personal finance and business law. She began writing in earnest to introduce and educate people about the world of finance.

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When she retired from her day job, writing became an all consuming passion. She knew she wanted to write fiction, thus began the journey to research and write and historical romance, Sargent’s Lady.

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In her spare time, she volunteers, something shes done all her life, with projects from the Junior League to PTA; from fundraising to live theater. She also served as a hospital lay chaplain. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, travel, a glass of good red wine, and most especially, the company of her wonderful family and friends. 

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JOYCE SPIZER FOY

O. J. 's Co-Defendant in Vegas

From Gumshoe to Cyber Sleuth

Blitz Your Book to a Best Seller 21st Century

It's Just a Spleen and a High School Ring (Harbour Pointe Mystery) (Volume 3) 

From Selma to the Super Bowl The Story of a Boy from the Bottoms

Can a Sperm Swim Backwards?

The Cost of Innocence 

Never Marry Your Soul Mate

His Word for Troubled Times 

Rejections of the Written Famous

The Cross Country Killer

I'm Okay, You're Dead

The Cop Was White As Snow

Power Marketing Your Novel: Marketing and Promoting Fiction and Nonfiction 

Only Make Believe: My Life in Show Business

Joyce investigated cases involving millionaires, movie stars, and mobsters during her 37 years as a private investigator. She’d work in 11 states before retiring to the Palm Springs area and began her writing career. Armed with her PhD in marketing and an interest in writing, she met such notable teachers as Ray Bradbury, Rod Thorp, James Frey, and Charles Schultz. Eventually, she completed the Harbor Pointe Mystery Series, a trilogy fictionalizing several of her own real-life cases. Joyce has written, co-written, or ghost written more than 30 more books. Her first play, Valley Confidential was nominated in 12 categories for the 2005 Desert Stars Awards.  Power Marketing Your Novel won the IRWIN 2000 Award in 2000. Only Make Believe (the life story of MGM sensation, Howard Keel) won the Hollywood Book Festival Award in 2007. In 2000, Congresswoman Mary Bono gave her a Woman of Distinction Award. In 2003, the Desert Post Weekly named her one of the Top 25 Women in the Coachella Valley to Watch. Along with Emmy-award winner, David Holman, they own Hollywood East Productions. They’ve written several screenplays that are in development. A life-long Dallas Cowboy fan, she helped get former Cowboy #70 Rayfield Wright’s authorized biography Wright Up Front in print. With his father, she wrote former Cowboy #80 Tony Hill’s book published in fall 2009—From Selma to the Super Bowl. An updated edition of her Award-winning marketing book, Blitz Your Book into a Best Seller was published in 2016 followed by her private investigation manual, co-authored with a Canadian PI, Debbra Macdonald,  offering valuable insights on investigative studies in The United States and Canada. From Gumshoe to Cyber Sleuth. In addition to touring and teaching creative writing around the U.S., Joyce has several feature films and TV shows in development. In Spring 2015, Joyce was hired as Senior Editor and Acquisitions Manager for A Vegas Publisher, LLC. She now resides in Las Vegas, and belongs to Book Publicists of Southern California and SPAWN.

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DOUGLAS A. DAVY

The Luminous Eggs of Aryll-8

To Douglas A Davy, born on a wheat farm in North Dakota,  science fiction and his visual energy perceptions seemed perfectly natural. Douglas trained his public lecturing skills with a B.A. in Drama and English, then continued  independent studies focused on parapsychology, meditation, life after death, ancient cultures, religions, human energy work, and an encyclopedic array of metaphysical knowledge and experience. His writings seek to stretch human perceptions of conspiracy theory,  planetary changes, and unexplained phenomena of the Seen and Unseen.

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DEBBRA MACDONALD

The Cost of Innocence

From Gumshoe to Cyber Sleuth

Ms. Macdonald released her first fictional novel in 2013 titled The Cost of Innocence, which was based on her own investigative stories. Ms. Macdonald has learned firsthand the marketing techniques that will assist other writers to success. Debbra and co-author Joyce Foy are co-authors on  Private Investigator manual for North America and Canada titled From Gumshoe to Cyber Sleuth.

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Debbra Macdonald has over 30 years of experience in investigative services in the civil, corporate and insurance areas. In practical terms, she handles in- depth file reviews and management, locate witnesses, statement taking and analysis. She specializes in background investigations, including social media, public searches, and inquiries. Ms. Macdonald has also investigated organized fraud rings and staged accident cases along with clinic inspections, misuse and abuse of medical coverage and service providers.

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Ms. Macdonald has served as a subject matter expert in establishing training standards for Ontario private investigators. She has held the seminar chair of the Canadian Association of Special Investigation Units (C.A.S.I.U.) that hosts the largest annual insurance fraud seminar in Canada. She has held the position of President of the Council of Private Investigators in Ontario (C.P.I.O) and assisted the Ontario government in the development of regulation, certification and training standards for private investigators. Ms. Macdonald currently sits on the board of the Council of International Investigators (C.I.I.). She is also currently the chair of the National Fraud Consortium (NFC), an initiative of CASIU aimed at developing Canadian fraud investigator training and credentialing.

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