Director, SCWC
Wes Albers is Director of the Southern California Writers’ Conference. During the past twenty years he has worked extensively with writers ranging from aspiring newcomers to best-selling novelists. This has included repeated contact with literary agents, professional editors, and a range of other industry professionals to help develop, evaluate, and promote quality work. His own writing draws from three decades of active law enforcement starting with field work as a patrolman to leading investigators as a detective sergeant. He has significant experience as a hostage and crisis negotiator. New York Times best-selling author Gayle Lynds (The Book of Spies) hails Wes’s novel, Black & White,” “Gritty and rewarding…A top-notch cop novel.”