Diane Rapp became an entrepreneur when she started her own dog grooming salon in Santa Barbara, California. She spent the next thirty years as a small business owner; she sold real estate, started an office supply store in Telluride, Colorado, and performed free-lance advertising design. During all those years Diane wrote stories as a cure for insomnia. She wrote short stories about dogs for a German Shepherd Dog Club newsletter, and then expanded to full length novels. After Diane and her daughter Laura co-authored a travel guidebook entitled Cruising the Eastern Caribbean (four editions were published by Hunter Publishing), Laura gave Diane the idea of writing a mystery set on cruise ships in the Caribbean. The first novel of her High Seas Mystery series is Murder Caribbean-Style, the second book in the series is Murder on a Ghost Ship. A third novel (featuring a wedding cruise to Alaska) is due for release in 2013. Diane also has a science fiction/fantasy series available. Visit QuickSilver Novels website (www.quicksilvernovels.com) to learn more about the characters in her novels and hear about new book releases.