TVWI Library of Local Authors

The Temecula Valley Writers and Illustrators community is home to storytellers, artists, poets, historians, dreamers, and creators of every kind. This page highlights books published by our Professional-level members—works born from passion, perseverance, and imagination. From fiction and memoir to children's books, poetry, art, and beyond, we invite you to discover the voices and visions that make our creative community unique.

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Children

K-POP Demon Detectives Book 1: Tokyo Takedown

Stacia Deutsch

April 2026

A mystery-filled detective series for middle grade fans of K-pop and the hottest animated movie of the decade!

Children

Promise Pets: The Adopt a Pup Plan

Stacia Deutsch

February 2026

Two kids want to adopt a dog… what could possibly happen?! Chaos, of course.

Children

Wake up, Little Seed

Amanda Morrow

February 2026

Award-winning author Sarah Philpott, PhD, wife of a hard-working farmer, invites you to learn about life on the farm!

Fiction

Covid Canines, a novella

Diane M. Cole

January 2026

Like the heroine of Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables, Cosette the canine began life as the underfed offspring of a stray in Perris, not France but a hot dusty town in Southern California. Her rescue saved a starving dog as well as the people who took her in during the Covid pandemic.

Non-Fiction

Walter Vail, Arizona and California Rancher

Rebecca Farnbach

November 2025

This book is a collaborative biography started by one of Vail's family members in the 1970s and completed by one of Vail's great-grandsons and three historians, five decades later.

Fiction

The World's Best Christmas Light

Amanda Morrow

September 2025

Spark little readers' holiday spirit with The World's Best Christmas Light! In this rhyming, read-aloud board book, a family sets out to find the best Christmas lights in town. But the colorful displays and animated figurines can't compete with the brightest light of all--God's love shining through

Children

More, Trees, Please!

Amanda Morrow

February 2025

Trees are beautiful, useful, and important! Join a little girl in this Step 1 Comic Reader as she shares the many wonderful things about trees and how we need more, please! Comic Readers are told almost entirely in action-packed dialogue! Simple, graphic, paneled layouts introduce emergent readers.

Children

God (Little Sunbeams)

Amanda Morrow

November 2024

Celebrate how God shows us His love in small and big ways with this adorable Peek-a-Flap board book! Packed with fun lift-a-flap surprises, this book highlights all the ways God shows His love. Short prayers and thoughtful, open-ended questions found under every sturdy flap allow little ones to thin

Children

From The Farm, To Our Table

Amanda Morrow

April 2024

From former WWE Superstar, Sarah Rowe, a celebration of family farms and the homesteading lifestyle!

Mystery

Golf Clubbing, a murder mystery

Diane M. Cole

January 2024

Who killed Petunia Payne, treasurer and rules czar for Rainbow Canyon Women's Golf Club? This tongue-in-cheek whodunnit shows women golfers and local law enforcement at their best and their worst, but never boring.

Non-Fiction

Flavors of the Temecula Valley Wineries

Rebecca Farnbach

September 2023

This full-color, beautifully photographed book is a wine-pairing cookbook with recipes selected to enhance the flavors of a red and a white wine selected from each of the Temecula wineries. It includes a brief history of winemaking in the region, and a short history of each winery.

Mystery

Sperm Whale Tale

Diane Marie Cole

September 2022

Dr. LaMont DeWitt has figured out a way to fatten his wallet as well as serve his church and his own eternal life: By using his own sperm to make babies galore. We can only hope that Carma catches up with him.

Memoir

From Rag to Riches, Ruin & Revival, My Times at The Salt Lake Triiune, 1972 & Beyond

Diane Marie Cole

November 2020

This historical memoir brings to life personalities from a unique place during tense times -- and offers the kind of inside information on Utah that is often accessible only through gossip or nosey news reporters like the author. It's history. It's personal. It's funny. It's real.

Other

Writing Alone and Other Group Activities

Scribes Divided

November 2020

Twelve original works of fiction, six essays exploring the importance of writing groups, plus “behind the scenes” interviews with the authors teach the value of working with others.
No matter how personal an endeavor, good writing is never truly a solitary undertaking.

Literary

In the Shadow of the Wasatch

Diane Marie Cole

September 2020

It was bad enough that the Cook family didn't belong to the Mormon ward that dominated their neighborhood. Even worse was the a family tragedy that shaped their dreams and followed them for the rest of their lives.

Literary

Dancing With Prayers in My Feet

Rebecca Farnbach

February 2019

This is a collection of Rebecca Farnbach's best works of award-winning poetry, short stories, and articles. Some are fiction, and others are nonfiction history and memoir-related. Many pieces ponder one's time and place in the universe and the immortality of one's legacy.

Fiction

Dread Naught but Time

Scribes Divided

November 2018

The unshakable specter of Time hovers over each of the 26 tales in Scribes Divided’s second anthology.
These timeless stories inspire, terrify, delight, and explore living our lives second by second, until our time expires.
Dreading death? Taxes? Please.
Dread naught but time.

Fiction

Writings to Stem Your Existential Dread

Scribes Divided

January 2018

Scribes Divided presents an anthology of fifty-three memorable flash fiction tales.
In this book, award-winning authors from around the world will terrorize, mesmerize, and tantalize you into forgetting for a moment your Existential Dread.

Children

The Friendship Code #1 (Girls Who Code)

Stacia Deutsch

August 2017

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This fun, accessible series is perfect for anyone interested in STEM and coding, published in partnership with the organization Girls Who Code.

Children

Chick, Chick, Chickens!

Jennifer Moramarco

May 2017

OK, so there really isn't a plot to this tale, but the chickens don't seem to mind. In fact, they love that they play a starring role in this fun-to-say-fast silly tribute to chickens and other ch... well, give it a read. And then read it again faster. Bock!

Biography

James Phillips, DD, MD,

Rebecca Farnbach

March 2017

James Phillips was a luminary Christian who inspired the Christian Sunday School movement globally. When he died, his obituary was printed in the New York Times, and in London and Calcutta. In the US, a church is named the James Phillips Memorial Church in his honor.

Fiction

Images of America: Temecula

Rebecca Farnbach

January 2006

I have compiled these Images of America books with contributing co-authors: Temecula, Old Town Temecula, Temecula Wine Country, Murrieta, Murrieta Hot Springs, and Fallbrook.
These books follow a template designed by the publisher and are excellent sources of photos as well as short descriptions.

Children