Colleen Dunn Bates is the author/co-author and/or editor of a number of guidebooks and travel books, including Storybook Travels and Hometown Pasadena. She left the writing life behind, however, to be the publisher and editor of Prospect Park Books in Los Angeles. Prospect Park publishes best-selling, award-winning fiction, mysteries, cookbooks, gift/humor books, and regional titles and is now owned by Turner Publishing in Nashville, Tennessee.

