​Author Candi Sary graduated from the University of California, Irvine. She has been in the finals of several writing competitions, including the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Her novel Black Crow White Lie won Reader Views Literary Award, a CIBA, and was First Runner-Up in the Eric Hoffer Book Award. It was made into a short film by Chase Michael Wilson. Her new novel Magdalena will be released by Regal House Publishing in the summer of 2023. A mother of two adult children, Sary lives in Southern California with her husband, a dog, a cat and several ducks. She can often be found surfing and paddle boarding in the waters of Newport Beach. She is a proud owner of a Little Free Library. LittleFreeLibrary.org