Havasu Magazine's
Editor & Publisher 

            Havasu Magazine’s editor and publisher, Bobbi Holmes, is also a writer and photographer, who moved to Lake Havasu with her parents in 1968. She first ventured into journalism as the co-editor of her high school newspaper at Lake Havasu High School. In 1976, she earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree at California State University of Fullerton, with a degree in Communications, and an emphasis in photography.
            From 1985 to 1991, she published the California based monthly community newspaper, Mountain/Hi-Desert Guide, and the full color publication, Wrightwood Magazine.
            In 1991, when her father became terminally ill, she sold Mountain/Hi-Desert Guide and returned to Lake Havasu with her family, to help her parents operate Havasu Palms, Inc., the oldest resort on Lake Havasu.
            In 1995, she published Where the Road Ends, a history of Havasu Palms. The book is sold at the Havasu Museum and online at Amazon. In 1999, she launched Havasu Magazine, Lake Havasu's first online magazine.
            For six years, she worked in real estate with her husband, Don Holmes, specializing in commercial and residential real estate. She became a Certified Commercial Sales Specialist (CCSS), and was a Graduate of the REALTOR® Institute (GRI). During her time in real estate, she served as the public relations chairperson of the Lake Havasu Association of Realtors.
            While Don Holmes is currently an associate broker with Arizona Turquoise Properties, Bobbi Holmes left real estate in 2008 to pursue her interests in writing and photography. In 2011 she started ABC Photography, a Havasu based business, specializing in informal event photography and digital editing services.
            She also creates websites, through her company Robeth Publishing, LLC, and is the webmaster for the local museum.
            In December of 2011, Bobbi Holmes published her contemporary romance, Lessons, under the pen name Anna J. McIntyre, and is currently working on a sequel, entitled The Senator’s Secret. Lessons is available in eBook format and print, sold online at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and other venues.
            Bobbi and Don Holmes have strong ties in Lake Havasu City. Her mother, Caroline Johnson (who was one of the owners of Havasu Palms), lives in Lake Havasu City, as does Don Holmes’s mother, Doris Castro.  Their children, Robert “Scott” and Elizabeth Holmes, both graduated from Lake Havasu High School.
            Today, their son, Scott, lives with his wife, SeAnne, in Bend, Oregon, where Scott has an Outback Restaurant and SeAnne is working to get her nursing degree. Don and Bobbi’s daughter, Elizabeth, is a professional graphic artist and lives with her husband Joe Mackey, who is in the Coast Guard. They have one daughter, Addison. Currently they are stationed in Alaska.
            Don and Bobbi Holmes live in Lake Havasu City with their Australian shepherd, Lady and Spooky the Halloween Cat – both pets are featured in their own line of greeting cards.