Raven West is the author of Red Wine for Breakfast, First Class Male, Undercover Reunion, and Vashti’s Daughter.

Her short stories have won awards from several literary publications, writer’s clubs and the Ventura County Fair.

She has been a frequent guest on radio, podcasts and cable television and was a featured speaker “A Hanukkah Miracle for Modern Times” at the 2018 USA Storytellers Project.

In 1999, she was the winner of the Ventura County Writers Club Short Story contest and won First Place at the Ventura County Fair for her short non-fiction “A Hanukkah Miracle for Modern Times”

West has appeared as a guest on numerous radio and cable TV broadcasts. She’s been a book-signing author at Book Expo Association (BEA) in both New York and Los Angeles as well as a featured author at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival and Santa Barbara, Ojai and Ventura County book fairs.

Her published novels include:
Red Wine for Breakfast – a romantic tale of intrigue and betrayal between two morning talk-show hosts at a Los Angeles radio station.

First Class Male  – a romantic mystery involving a rural postmaster, a writer and a district attorney set in the majestic mountains of upstate New York and the concrete jungles of downtown Manhattan, and

Undercover Reunion– a Man From U.N.C.L.E. retro-fiction story surrounding two women who attend their 30th high school reunion, only to be recruited by the “real” spy organization they used to play as children in order to bring down an international crime organization headed by their former classmate.

Vashti’s Daughter – After a mysterious manuscript appears on her desk and at her home, Anna is haunted by dreams where she is living in 366 BCE. With the help of reincarnation experts, archeologists and a Kabbalist Rabbi, Anna discovers she is, in fact, Adara, the reincarnated daughter of Queen Vashti.

Risking her company and budding relationship with book’s author, Dr. Nathaniel Braverman, a Middle Eastern Studies professor at Brandeis University, she must find a way to break an ancient curse put on her and fulfill a vow she made centuries ago, before her 30th birthday in the present, that will finally bring her true happiness in love and change the world’s view on a biblical heroine. 

Non-fiction Memoir by Robin C. Westmiller, J.D.  – Rescuing Ruby: How I Rescued My Father from Greedy Cousins, Thieving Attorneys and the Florida Guardianship System

You can read interviews, book reviews and more on her website: ravenwest.net