A Southern California girl from the Garden Grove suburbs who began her obsession with creative writing as a student in her elementary school circa 1970s, Marsena Shane began her literary career as soon as she graduated high school and gained her first job, a local book store clerk, before a women's fitness tutor introduced her to a New York publisher at Critic's Choice Paperbacks who published her first novella in mass market paperback, Sweet Dreams, Lady Moon. She became both a ghost writer and a work-for-hire, publishing her own series of fitness self-help books soon after, starting with Great Legs in Six Weeks (1988) which became The Easy Way to Great Legs, the '90s heart health book Your Heart Belongs to You, as well as Nancy: A Reagan Biography (formerly Nancy: Biography of the First Lady). Her works of fiction include June Park, The Martian Coal Miner, and The Jupiter Possums, all part of her Romantic Planets science fiction/romance series. Currently, Ms. Shane now lives in Northern California with her many beloved cats, a canary, resident wild possums, and a bearded dragon. She is also working on further stories for Romantic Planets.