Meera Lester has worked in the writing, publishing, and film industries for over 25 years. In 1983, she and her husband Steve launched the Northern California-based organization Writers Connection. Meera planned the writing/publishing seminar programs and recruited the faculty members to teach the diverse workshops. She also served as executive editor of Writers Connection’s monthly newsletter. She directed dozens of conferences each year that featured New York and West Coast editors, agents, and successful authors such as Mary Higgins Clark and Robert B. Parker. Over the next decade, she helped many writers find agents and/or editors for their manuscripts. Her approach to seminars was simple: she wanted instructors to give writers the nuts and bolts of writing a great manuscript and then specific information on how and where to market it.

Relying on insights from her friends and business associates in the Los Angeles film industry, Meera planned and recruited speakers for Selling to Hollywood , a conference she and her husband launched in Los Angeles in the 1990s. The conference focused on how to write great scripts and get them into the hands of producers and others who could "green light" them. Her conference networking events provided access to insiders working in all areas of the film industry. The conference rapidly attracted screenplay writers from around the world. It was only after her husband needed a heart transplant that the Lesters sold the highly successful conference.

As a member of California Writers’ Club (CWC), the oldest professional writing organization in the state, Meera worked with her husband Steve and other CWC members to plan and direct two of that group’s summer conferences—one was the most successful in the then 70-year history of the club.

After Steve passed away in 2002 at age 46, Meera began to write nonfiction books for Rockport Publishers, Fair Winds Press, and F&W Publications/Adams Media. Since 2003, she has written ten books. The Everything Law of Attraction and 1001 Ones to Do Good will be released in 2008 and Meera is currently writing a new book.

She recently moved from California to Miami where she is learning to speak Spanish and cook Latin American foods.  She loves her home's proximity to New York, the Caribbean, and Europe.

Photo courtesy of
Katerina Lorenzatos Makris
Kefalonia, Greece