About the Authors

georgia james

Georgia is a hopeless romantic and wine country enthusiast. Formerly, a senior executive in the entertainment industry, she turned strategist for local non-profit organizations to help them reinvent and thrive.

To fulfill her creative side, she became a freelance writer for Wine Country This Month, and the Sonoma Index Tribune and now, is blog writer for winecountrydiaries and HeartWorks Press.

She splits her time between Sonoma, California, and Chicago, Illinois with her husband, two grown sons, one dog, and two cats. James holds a BA in Spanish literature. Home Sweet Sonoma, a love story set in the wine country, was a labor of love and joy!

When she’s not reading, she’s writing, with more love stories to come!

deborah lynn parrish

Deborah began writing romance novels on her mother’s old green Smith Corona typewriter at the age of 11. Her heart's calling was put on hold to raise her daughter, who's become a successful business woman in her own right. After three decades of masquerading as a financial executive, Deborah’s lifelong dream was reawakened and realized with her first published novel, Home Sweet Sonoma. With her musician husband at her side, she lives in coastal West Marin surrounded by nature's bounty. When she’s not busy dreaming up a steamy love story, she's capturing joy-filled moments through her lens as a lifestyle photographer.

Deborah and Georgia had a blast writing this story, convinced they couldn’t have done it without each other's encouragement. Having been friends for 20 years, their passion for good love stories finally showed up on the page. Home Sweet Sonoma is really about their shared love affair with romance and the little things in life that truly matter, like small towns, wine and song, pies (lots of pie), sunsets, walks in the park, kissing and of course, the behind-the-curtain passion that is the juice of life.