Darlene Weingand

Welcome Darlene to the Santa Clara County Branch of the National League of American Pen Women

Member in Letters and Art since 2010

I am grateful for the warm welcome I received as a new member of the Santa Clara County

Branch.# I joined NLAPW when I lived in Hawai’i. After I relocated to Oregon, I changed my

membership to At Large.# At a National zoom meeting, I met Luanna Leisure and she

invited me to join the Santa Clara Branch.# I look forward to many years of meeting and

greeting present and new members. It is inspiring to interact with so many talented women.

After doing academic writing during my 20 years as a Professor at the University of

Wisconsin-Madison, I retired to Hawai’i in 1999. A decade later, I began being aware of an

interesting fantasy story line in my mind and began writing it soon after. It was an

occasional hobby for another decade and then the book became impatient with me and

began to seriously nudge me. Since I began “listening” to the book, the writing has been a

fun and all-encompassing part of my life.

A Crystal Saga Series: Books one and two, Tamara’s Crystals and Genesis Explored are

combined into one book, with more books in the works. Available on LuLu.com and soon to

Amazon.com