Wayne Edmiston is a fourth-generation Californian, a fifth-generation teacher, and an Eagle Scout. He served in the Air Force for almost four years, including an 11-month tour in Vietnam (1969) as a crew chief for an RF-101 Voodoo aircraft, and honorably discharged as a Staff Sergeant; he is a life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW.)
He earned his bachelor’s degree and a California State teaching life credential at Chico State College. Throughout his teaching career, Edmiston focused on special education.
He taught both academic and vocational subjects in four of California State’s correctional institutions. As a correctional educator for 21 years, he wore many hats, including acting academic supervisor, senior librarian, literacy coordinator for GED and college distant learning programs, chief GED examiner, and assistant literacy supervising Laubach tutor–trainer, and was a member of the State Planning Panel for Corrections with California Literacy for five years. He spent two more years as the community living skills facilitator for the state mental hospital at Atascadero.
Both he and his wife, Jacque, are ordained New Thought ministers with Centers for Spiritual Living and teach Science of Mind principles. They are nondenominational wedding officiants and respect all couples, including LGBTQ families and prison inmates.
Their website: http://www.onespiritbeachweddings.com/
As a writer and author, the screenplay version of Edmiston’s family-oriented, science fiction story, Unfatally Dead: to Thaw or Not to Thaw? was a finalist in two contests. Both the play and the subsequent, expanded book depict a fascinating time-traveling journey of two icons, Samuel Clemens (known worldwide as Mark Twain) and Walt Disney, accompanied by Eepia, a new soul.
Wayne has also written a children’s book, Ellie and Her Elephant, Diary of the Savant Triplets (sci-fi and metaphysical), Crisis at Paradise Eye-land (adult metaphysical thriller) and is working on a multi-part “thrillology” drawn from personal metaphysical experiences he has fictionalized to protect some of the characters, living or not. Other works are in progress. Ellie and Diary will soon be available as eBooks, Crisis will be both paperback and eBook.
Edmiston is involved with reader’s theatre at the South County Historical Society in San Luis Obispo County, also screeners for the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival. He and his wife, Jacque, reside on California’s Central Coast with their Lhasa Apso-mix dog, Sophie.
Find Wayne on the web at www.wedmiston.com.
