<p>Eve Gaal is the author of the romantic novel Penniless Hearts. She writes at www.evegaal.com, as a freelance writer after several decades in the newspaper business. Her work has been published in The Los Angeles Times and also The Daily Pilot where she had an ongoing column. Her humor and poetry is scattered among various anthologies and journals such as Writing for Peace which featured her travel story in DoveTales-An International Journal for the Arts-"Nature" edition.<br/><br/>Born in Boston but a longtime Californian, she lives in the Inland Empire with her husband and two Chihuahuas.</p>