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AUTHOR'S CORNER Annamaria Alfieri is the author of City of Silver, a historical mystery published last August by St. Martin's Press to critical acclaim. Writing as Patricia King, she is also the author of the short story "Baggage Claim," in the anthology Queens Noir, a volume of Akashic Books' award-winning Noir series. Her five books on business subjects include Never Work for a Jerk, which was featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and the current Monster Boss. She lives in New York City. You can visit her at www.annamariaalfieri.com.
Julie Alley
Donald Bain is the author/ghostwriter of over 100 books, including the best-selling “Murder, She Wrote” series of 34 murder mysteries, and “Coffee, Tea or Me?” which sold more 5-million copies worldwide. His autobiography, Murder HE Wrote: A Successful Writer’s Life, was published in 2006 (Purdue University Press). A Purdue graduate, he was named one of the university’s Distinguished Alumni in 2003. A member of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, and recipient of its 2007 Grand Master Award, he’s also a member of Mystery Writers of America, the National Academy of Television Arts & Science, and the Authors Guild.
A former private detective and once a reporter for a small weekly newspaper, Gayle Bartos-Pool has one published book, Media Justice, and several short stories in anthologies, LAndmarked for Murder and Little Sisters Volume 1. The former Speakers Bureau Director for Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles, she is also a member of Mystery Writers of America. Her latest short story appears in the anthology, Dying in a Winter Wonderland, which was voted one of the Top Ten of Softcover Books as selected by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association (IMBA) of 2008.
Mike
Befeler turned his attention to fiction writing after a career in high
technology marketing. His debut
novel, RETIREMENT HOMES ARE MURDER, was published January, 2007.
The second novel in his Paul Jacobson Geezer-lit Mystery Series, LIVING
WITH YOUR KIDS IS MURDER, appeared April, 2009. Mike is active in organizations
promoting a positive image of aging. He holds a Master’s degree from UCLA and
a Bachelor’s degree from Stanford. He
grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii, and now lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife,
Wendy. See http://www.mikebefeler.com.
JAMES SCOTT BELL is the bestselling author of Deceived, Try Dying, Try Darkness, Try Fear and several other thrillers. He served as the fiction columnist for Writers Digest magazine and has written three bestselling craft books for Writers Digest: Plot & Structure, Revision & Self-Editing and The Art of War for Writers. Jim attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where he studied writing with Raymond Carver. A former trial lawyer, Jim now writes and speaks full time. He lives in Los Angeles. His website is www.JamesScottBell.com.
Mysti
Berry has won awards as a screenwriter, technical writer, short fiction writer
and novelist. Mysti's short fiction has been published in
"Switchback," the online literary journal sponsored by University of
San Francisco. She was an invited reader during the 2006 LitQuake festival in
San Francisco, has been included in published anthologies, and teaches for
University of California at Berkeley Extension in the writing program. Mysti is
a board member of Sisters in Crime Northern California chapter, and has
presented to that group. The only member of her family to drop out of high school, Mysti was the only one of her siblings to graduate from college. She graduated UC Santa Cruz with a B.A. in linguistics and University of San Francisco with an M.F.A. in writing.
Eric is an award-winning short story and screenwriter. His debut novel One Too Many Blows To The Head is co-authored with JB Kohl (The Deputy's Widow) despite the fact they live on opposite coasts. One Too Many Blows To The Head has been praised by the likes of Megan Abbott and Steve Brewer and is available from Second Wind Publishing. Eric's short fiction will appear in the upcoming anthologies Murder on The Wind and Harbinger *33. More info can be found at www.ericbeetner.blogspot.com Eric is also a TV and film editor, director and producer who lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two daughters.
Michael
A. Black Author
of:
Rhys
Bowen currently writes two series, the Molly Murphy Mysteires, set in
turn-of-the-century
A graduate of
Richard Brewer
Barry
Broad Barry is deep into writing a sequel to Eve of Destruction, tentatively entitled Requiem for the Damned, which centers on the modern slave trade in Sub-Saharan Africa. Barry grew up in southern
Born in Canada, Pat Brown and approach to life was tempered in the forges of Los Angeles and after eight years in the unheavenly City of Angels she was endowed with a fascination for the darker side of life and the professionals who patrol those mean streets. Most of her writing work involves police officers for whom she has endless respect and fascination. Occasionally she breaks out and writes about the sweeter side of life. She considers those eight years a life time's worth of experience that she mines regularly in her novels. She is not afraid to explore the darker sides of her characters and the worlds they inhabit, including the ones most people are afraid to walk down alone at night. She is the author of two series, one, the L.A. stories, have LAPD detective David Eric Laine walking those streets.
Robin Burcell, an FBI-trained forensic artist, has worked as a police officer, detective and hostage negotiator. The Bone Chamber is her latest international thriller about an FBI forensic artist. Face of a Killer received a starred review from Library Journal. She is the author of four previous novels. Visit her website at: www.robinburcell.com/
Teresa
Burrell has dedicated her life to helping children and their families in both
the courtroom and the classroom. As an attorney in You can obtain more information about Teresa or her novel, THE ADVOCATE, on her website at www.teresaburrell.com
Ex-policeman. Ex-soldier.
International tennis player. And
full-time crime writer. Author
of twelve novels and a novella Colin Campbell is a retired police officer in
West Yorkshire, having tackled crime in one of the With five books published in the UK, and one (Blue Knight, White Cross) due out in the US, he counts Lee Child, Reginald Hill, Caroline Carver, and Stephen Booth among his fans. PUBLISHED WORK:
Stephen
J. Cannell An Emmy award-winning writer/producer and Chairman of Cannell Studios, Cannell is one of the most prolific writers in television history. In a highly successful career that spans three decades, he has created or co-created more than 40 shows, of which he has scripted more than 450 episodes and produced or executive produced more than 1,500 episodes. His hits include /The Rockford Files//,/ /Greatest American Hero//, //The A-Team//, Hunter, Riptide, //Hardcastle & McCormick//, //21 Jump Street// , Wiseguy, //The Commish/, /Profit, /and the hit syndicated shows,/ Renegade/ and /Silk Stalkings/. During the past few years, Cannell has received numerous honors including the Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award from the Writers Guild of America and the Marlowe Lifetime Achievement Award from Mystery Writers of America, the NATPE Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award, and the 2008 Final Draft Hall of Fame Award which recognizes entertainment industry luminaries who foster the art of screenwriting and nurture and inspire the creative process. In addition to the Emmy, Cannell has won the People’s Choice Award and the Saturn Award – Life Career Award. An unstoppable creative force, Cannell is also a savvy businessman. In 1979, Cannell formed his own independent production company, Stephen J. Cannell Productions, in order to achieve creative control over material he was writing and producing. Seven years later, he formed The Cannell Studios to oversee all aspects of the organization's operations. Having surpassed the $1 billion mark in production outlays, the studio experienced remarkable growth and diversification in such areas as production (films, mini-series, commercials), merchandising, and first-run/off-network programming. Cannell still owns the worldwide distribution rights to more than 1,000 hours of Cannell-produced series and TV movies. Cannell Studios is currently producing a slate of independent films. /The Poker House//, /written and/ /directed by actress Lori Petty recently debuted at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Other projects in development or filming include feature films of Cannell TV shows, /The A-Team/, /21 Jump Street,/ and /The Greatest American Hero//. / Having overcome severe dyslexia, Cannell is an avid spokesperson on the condition. A third generation Californian, he currently resides in the Los Angeles area with his wife, Marcia, their children, and grandchildren. Fans of Stephen J. Cannell can learn more about his television shows, books, and film projects at his web site, www.cannell.com
Barbara Cardone
British born Meg Chittenden is a hard-core cozy author. She has spent most of her writing life searching for mean streets but hasn't found any, due to having no sense of direction. She has however, won several awards, including an Anthony award for "best short story," and the Pacific Northwest Writers Achievement Award. A convention junkie, Meg has spoken at conferences and conventions all over the United States. She has published over a hundred short stories and articles, and 38 books, most of which have been reprinted in several foreign countries. She is the author of the Charlie Plato Mystery Series, and "How to Write YOUR Novel." "More Than You Know," which received the "Otter" award, and "Snap Shot," both standalone suspense novels, are her most recent novels, both from Berkley. Her most recent short stories are "The Trombone Player," in the June (2009) issue of EQMM, and "Dead on the 4th of July," in the ACWL anthology--"Murder Past and Present," published last September.
Mark Coggins is the award-winning author of the August Riordan series, featuring jazz bass-playing private eye Riordian. The San Francisco Chronicle has labeled his work, "smart, stylish, sexy" and Riordan "enjoyably jaded...delicious." His latest novel, The Big Wake-Up, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, who said of the book, "Outstanding...Coggins pulls no punches." Mark lives in San Francisco with his wife Linda and their cat Taki.
Alan
Cook: Alan’s previous books include Honeymoon for Three, in which Gary Blanchard gets married but discovers that he and his bride aren’t alone on their honeymoon. In The Hayloft, which takes place ten years earlier, Gary is a high school senior trying to figure out whether his cousin was murdered. Hotline to Murder is about a telephone crisis hotline where a listener is murdered and two other listeners, Tony and Shahla, have to sort through the weird callers to determine who could have done it. Alan
lives with his wife, Bonny, on a hill in
Denise [Deni] Dietz is the author of STRANGLE A LOAF OF ITALIAN BREAD, #4 in the Ellie Bernstein/Lt. Peter Miller series. For readers who like to read a series from the beginning, Deni's "diet club" backlist has been reissued in Trade paperback. The books have been updated and re-edited. Deni calls it "writing wrongs." Deni's latest novel, SOAP BUBBLES, is a "glitzy mystery" due out this April. It includes a Grand Jury trial, and its two pregnant sleuths are affiliated with "Morning Star," a popular soap opera. www.denisedietz.com
Tyler Dilts
Adam
Eisenberg
Irene Fleming lives in Lambertville, New Jersey, with her librarian husband and their car. Writing as Kat Gallison, she has three private eye novels and five traditional mysteries to her credit. The New York Times called her writing "excitement of an off-beat variety;" Booklist, "superb black comedy;" Kirkus Reviews, "Well-bred work." Her Mother Lavinia Grey stores were the talk of the Episcopal Church. The first of Irene's new silent movie series, THE EDGE OF RUIN, is the tale of a young couple producing films on the cliffs of Fort Lee, New Jersey, in 1909. Tension mounts when their enterprise is threatened by bankruptcy, Thomas Edison, Jersey weather, and murder.
Sunny
Frazier Frazier is also an amateur astrologer. She has been involved in astrology for 35 years. Her short mystery fiction has won over 30 awards and trophies, as well as publication in mystery magazines and law enforcement magazines. Her first novel in the Christy Bristol Astrology Mysteries, FOOLS RUSH IN, received the Best Novel Award from Public Safety Writers Association. WHERE ANGELS FEAR came out in April, 2009. Frazier is a member of the Central Coast
Chapter of Sisters in Crime, as well as the Public Safety Writers Association.
She currently resides in Lemoore, CA.
Pat Gebhard grew up in Minneapolis and has lived in New York, New Mexico and at present in Santa Barbara, CA. She attended college in Ohio, California and Minnesota and has traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle and Far East, including a year in Turkey. She has been writing for years, but until the publication of her mystery Motives for Murder, she has mainly published a book and articles on librarianship and in the field of architectural history and criticism. Like the heroine in her mystery, she has lived in Berkeley, has camped at Dinwoody Lakes, WY, and been part of a music group. In Wyoming, her husband and friends ran a boys camp for several years. She has two grown daughters, one a professional Hunter-Jumper Rider and the other working for a conservation district.
M.M. Gornell is the author of two published mystery novels, “Uncle Si’s Secret,” and “Death of a Perfect Man.” Her debut novel, “Uncle Si’s Secret” received a 2009 Fiction award from PSWA. She hopes to have a third mystery, “Reticence of Ravens” out in late 2009. Besides reading
and writing, she is a potter with a fondness for stoneware and reduction firing.
Also a gardener, she is continually searching for desert adaptable plants
to nurture--especially rare fruit trees such as Jujube and Shipova.
M.M. Gornell lives with her husband and assorted canines in
STEVE HODEL spent twenty-four years with the LAPD, where as a homicide detective, he worked on more than three hundred murder cases and achieved one of the highest "solve rates" in the force. He is the author of the NYT bestseller, Black Dahlia Avenger: A Genius for Murder, which Head Deputy D.A. Stephen Kay and many other law-enforcement professionals claim has "solved the infamous 1947 L.A. murder." A sequel, MOST EVIL: The Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel, is due out in September 2009.
James Holmes
Jim Holmes is a partner in resident at the Los Angeles office of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold and chairs that firm's Media, Entertainment and Sports Law Practice Group. He is the immediate past chair of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Media Privacy and Defamation Law General Committee and is a member of the section's Committee on Diversity in the Profession. Mr. Holmes is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the California Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and he has received a commendation from the California Bar Association for his pro bono work for Los Angeles HIV and AIDS Legal Services Alliance. He is also a really big fan of murder mystery and courtroom novels. Author, “It Is Time For Involvement – It Is Time For Leadership,” ABA/TIPS Diversity Committee’s Embracing Diversity Newsletter, July 2009. Co-author, “'Family Guy's' 'Star' Turn: The Satirist's Fair Use Conundrum,” IP Law360, June 2009. Author, “An Employee’s Right to Privacy Regarding Text Messaging,” ABA TTIPS Media, Privacy and Defamation Law Committee Newsletter, Summer 2008. Author, “Anti-SLAPP Statutes: California Moves toward the National Consensus,” TortSource, Fall 2007. Co-author, "Adding Value in this Unique Field," fifth chapter, Entertainment and Media Law Client Strategies: Leading Lawyers on Case Strategies, Exceeding Client Expectations, and Negotiating Deals (Inside the Minds), Aspatore Books Staff (October 2007). Editor, "Conducting Discovery in an Electronic World: Electronic Data and Discovery," Continuing Education of the Bar - Civil Discovery Practice, Chapter 4. Presenter, “Legal Matters in the Music Industry – Contracts and Lawsuits: Two Views to Your Music Industry Agreement,” South By Southwest Music Conference. Mr. Holmes has also made widely marketed presentations on Buss v. Superior Court, on California Civil Code section 2860, and image and identity misappropriation claims in media and advertising
Wendy
Hornsby:
In September of 2009, Wendy Hornsby brings Maggie MacGowen back with In the Guise of Mercy, published by Perseverance Press, September 2009. After many years working with a large New York-based publishing
conglomerate, Wendy is feeling perfectly spoiled by Perseverance, a venerable imprint from publisher Daniels and Daniels.
Critics describe Wendy Hornsby’s mysteries as “refreshing, real, and raunchy” (NY Times), “unusually poignant” (LA Times), and “powerful writing and… equally thought-provoking story” (Publisher’s Weekly). The Cleveland Plain Dealer declared, “No mystery novelist since Raymond
Chandler may have captured downtown
For further information about the author and her books, go to WENDYHORNSBY.com.
Dorothy Howell has written for two decades, selling 25 novels to three major New York publishing houses. Her books have been translated into dozens of languages, with sales reaching 3 million copies worldwide.
PURSES AND POISON, the latest mystery featuring fashion sleuth Haley Randolph, is available in hardcover from Kensington Publishing.
HANDBAGS AND HOMICIDE, Dorothy's debut mystery, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and is now available in paperback.
Foreign rights to the series have sold in the U.K., France and Thailand. The books are also available in Large Print and on the Kindle.
Dorothy has sold 23 historical romance novels, most under the pen name Judith Stacy. Her titles include a No. 1 on the Barnes & Noble Historical list, the line's Top Seller of the Year, and a RITA Award Finalist.
She's a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Romance Writers of America.
Visit her Web site at www.DorothyHowellNovels.com
Elizabeth James Aliza Kellerman
For Toni L.P. Kelner, coming to Los Angeles isn't just fun and promotion, it's research for her mystery series. Kelner is the author of the "Where are they now?" mysteries, featuring Boston-based freelance entertainment reporter Tilda Harper, and what better place to research the formerly--and currently--famous, than LA. Who Killed the Pinup Queen?, the second in the series, was released in January. Kelner is also the author of the Laura Fleming series, which won a Romantic Times Career Achievement Award; a prolific writer of short stories, including the Agatha Award winner "Sleeping With the Plush;" and the co-editor of urban fantasy anthologies along with Charlaine Harris. Death's Excellent Vacation comes out in August. Kelner lives north of Boston, Mass. with author/husband Stephen Kelner, two daughters, and two guinea pigs.
Before Susan began writing for publication in 2001, she had a sixteen year career in City Government, enforcing local laws and ordinances. "My passion has always been writing," she says, "and now it's a dream come true to be doing what I love." Today she enjoys her life to the fullest, balancing her writing and teaching. Many of Susan's published articles and book reviews can be found in "Upscale Traveler," "Good Old Boat," "Cruising World" and "Latitudes and Attitudes" Magazines. Her two monthly columns ran in a local boating newsletter, "The Arrowhead LOG", for more than two years. "Waiting is Murder," Susan's mystery short story, is included in the anthology, "Little Sisters Volume 1," released late 2007 by Shannon Road Press. Her nonfiction short story, "Dispatched", is included in the anthology "The Simple Touch of Fate, How the Hand of Fate Touched Our Lives Forever," and is also included in a newly released short story collection "The Mystery of Fate: Common Coincidence or Divine Intervention?" (February 2010). A private eye mystery and a nonfiction book about sailing are just a couple of the many writing projects she has in the works. Susan was awarded a Writing for Publication Certificate and holds a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice and a Bachelors Degree in Organizational Leadership, Public Administration. She currently resides in Southern California, with her husband and family.
Lenny Kleinfeld Lenny Kleinfeld started out as a playwright; at 23 he co-authored the story and wrote the scripts for the Warp trilogy, which ran for a year in Chicago and a week on Broadway. He reviewed theater for the Chicago Reader, was a columnist for Chicago magazine, wrote humor and fiction for Playboy. In 1986 he wrote a screenplay, which Michael Douglas bought. That and the other five he sold have yet to see the light of screen. In 2009 he became a novelist. Shooters And Chasers is a comedy of manners and guns, set in Chicago, Los Angeles and the Central Coast wine country. "Spellbinding debut...Appealing heroes and villains, a quirky love story, wit, style, suspense, plus all the authenticity of an Ed McBain procedural."-Starred Kirkus Review. "Smart, intriguing and very funny."-Chicago Sun-Times. "Dazzling debut."-Mystery Scene Magazine. "Sembra destinato a diventare il caso dell'anno...perché è puro divertimento." ("Seems destined to become the event of the year...because it is pure entertainment.")-Libri di Thriller Cafè
Bette Golden Lamb is
unmistakably from the
J. J. Lamb went from engineering major to journalism major to a budding Associated Press career. The U.S. Army intervened, locked him in a room to guard secret documents, providing table, chair, typewriter, and a lot of time to write short stories. Afflicted by the seeing-your-name-in-print virus, he sold an OPB series featuring gaming specialist PI Zachariah Tobias Rolfe III. Cohabitation and collaboration with wife Bette Golden Lamb later produced Bone Dry, a medical thriller, and Heir Today…, an international thriller (Five Star). Both are being re-issued in early 2010 as e-books (SynergEbooks) and audio books (Books in Motion). Also in 2010, watch for a new co-authored Lamb thriller and another Zach Rolfe PI adventure. Visit www.twoblacksheep.us.
Deborah J Ledford's debut suspense novel Staccato, recently released by Second Wind Publishing, is now available. A three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize, her award-winning short stories appear in the print publications: Arizona Literary Magazine, Forge Journal literary magazine, Twisted Dreams Magazine, Anthology Builder, Sniplits, and four anthologies including two mystery collections published by Red Coyote Press. Deborah invites you to visit her website: www.DeborahJLedford.com
Paul Levine’s current novel is "Illegal," a tale of human trafficking on the Mexican border. He is the author of the "Solomon vs. Lord" legal thrillers, which have been nominated for the Edgar, Thriller, Macavity, and the James Thurber awards. He also wrote 20 episodes of the CBS military drama "JAG." Currently, he is working on a new "Jake Lassiter" novel. http://www.paul-levine.com
Best-selling author of eight novels, four in the Neil Gulliver and Stevie Marriner "Affair" series and four stand-alones, including the newly-released THE TRAITOR IN US ALL. A 2009 Derringer Award winner for his short story, "The Quick Brown Fox." Frequently featured in the Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock mystery magazines. Voted an Ellery Queen Readers Award favorite three years in a row. Short stories in "year's best" anthologies five years running. Plays staged at RiverPark Center, Owensboro, KY, and nominated for "Angie" awards of the International Mystery Writers Festival two consecutive years. More: www.robertslevinson.com
William Link
D.P.
Lyle He
has worked with many novelists and with the writers of popular television shows
such as Law &
Order, CSI: Miami, Diagnosis Murder, Monk, Judging Amy, Peacemakers, Cold Case,
House, Medium, Women’s Murder Club, and 1-800-Missing.
He
is a practicing Cardiologist in Orange County,
California. Visit
his website, The Writers’ Medical and Forensics Lab, at www.dplylemd.com
Mary Jane Maffini rides herd on three protagonists and
series: Charlotte Adams is a professional organizer in upstate
Annette Mahon lives in Paradise Valley, with her husband and their spoiled Australian Shepherd. A former librarian, Annette likes to think that she's moved from tending the library shelves to filling them, as both of her publishers sell primarily to the library market. Annette writes the St. Rose Quilting Bee mystery series where a group of quilters in Scottsdale, Arizona, solve mysteries over the quilt frame, and romances with Hawaiian settings. Visit www.annettemahon.com
Michael
Mallory Visit www.michaelmallory.com Now available: "Iwao Takamoto: My Life with a Thousand Characters" by Iwao Takamoto, with Michael Mallory --"One of the richest autobiographies I've ever read by someone in the animation field,"--Leonard Maltin
Ken Mercer is the author of Slow Fire, to be published in February 2010 by Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press. Ken was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1962 and began writing professionally at the age of 17. He has written for newspaper, magazine, radio, television and feature films. Slow Fire is his first novel. He lives in Northern California with his wife and daughter, where he is at work on the new novel featuring Will Magowan, coming from Minotaur Books in 2011. You can learn more at kenmercer.com
CAMILLE MINICHINO has published eight novels in the Periodic Table Mystery series, and four in the Miniature Mystery series (writing as MARGARET GRACE). Camille received her Ph.D. in physics from Fordham University. She has had a long career in research, teaching, and writing. She is currently on the faculty of Golden Gate University in San Francisco, and on the staff of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Camille is on the boards of the California Writers Club and NorCal Sisters in Crime, and a past president and member of NorCal Mystery Writers of America.
Len Moffatt
Boyd Morrison is a Seattle-based author, actor, engineer, and Jeopardy! champion. His debut thriller novel, THE ARK, will be released in the US and over a dozen foreign markets in 2010. Two of Boyd’s standalone paperback originals and the hardcover sequel to THE ARK will be published in the US by Simon and Schuster in 2010/2011. Please visit www.boydmorrison.com.
Kris Neri’s novels include High Crimes on the Magical Plane, Never Say Die, and the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity Award-nominated
Tracy Eaton mysteries, Revenge of the
Gypsy Queen, Dem Bones’ Revenge
and the forthcoming Revenge for Old
Times’ Sake. She has also published a short story collection, The
Rose in the Snow: Tales of Mischief and Mayhem, and she is a two-time
Derringer Award winner and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee for her short
fiction. Kris teaches writing online for the prestigious Writers’ Program of
the
Chantelle Aimée Osman is a published author, currently working on two mystery novels, and a screenwriting guide to be released in October. As president of A Twist of Karma Entertainment (www.twistofkarma.com), a ?lm development company that provides consulting services for script editing, marketing, casting, and all other development aspects, she speaks on screenwriting and selling at various writing conferences around the country. Chantelle is also known as "Spooky" Siren, one of the three founding sirens of The Sirens of Suspense, a group of award-winning authors who united their diverse backgrounds and voices to blog about all aspects of writing, publishing, and life (www.SirensofSuspense.com).
Renee Paley-Bain Renée Paley-Bain collaborates with her husband Donald Bain on the “Murder, She Wrote” series of original mystery novels. She also freelances as a non-fiction book doctor. Earlier in her career, she worked as a public relations professional, newspaper editor and reporter, and advertising and speech writer. Having written about crime in her newspaper days, today she describes murder and mayhem from a (thankfully) fictional point of view. She is a member of the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, the Romance Writers of America, and the Authors Guild.
Ann Parker lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and slings scientific and corporate verbiage by day while writing historical mysteries at night. Her award-winning Silver Rush mystery series, featuring salon owner Inez Stannert, is set in the 19th-century silver mining boomtown of Leadville, Colorado. LEADEN SKIES is the latest in the series, after SILVER LIES (Willa Literary Award winner) and IRON TIES (Colorado Book Award winner). The series is published by Poisoned Pen Press. Website: http://www.annparker.net
L. M. Quinn works and lives in L.A. Fiction is her passion, but she's also delved into book reviews and travel writing (published in ELLE and Travel 50 & Beyond magazines). Her short story, “A Not So Clear Case of Murder,” was published in Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery (Arte Público Press, March 2009). Read more about L. M. Quinn and Hit List on her website: www.writingame.com.
Linda
Reid
John Maddox Roberts
Sharon Rowse writes historical and contemporary mysteries set in Vancouver. Her debut novel, The Silk Train Murder, set in 1899, was nominated for an Arthur Ellis Award. Currently working on the sequel, she's also being drawn back to present-day by a character who just won't go away. Visit her at www.sharonrowse.com
Priscilla
Royal, author of six books from Poisoned Pen Press in the Prioress Eleanor
and Brother Thomas medieval mystery series, grew up in
Ona Russell holds a PhD in literature from UC San Diego. She lectures nationally on the topic of "Literature and the Law" and is a regular contributor to Orange County Lawyer magazine. She has been published in newspapers and literary anthologies, and is the author of two 1920s legal mysteries, O'Brien's Desk and The Natural Selection. Ona was named a finalist for The Natural Selection-a story set against the backdrop of the Scopes trial-by the prestigious 2009 California Book Awards, fiction category. She lives in Solana Beach, where she is at work on her third Sarah Kaufman mystery situated in 1920s Los Angeles.
MORGAN ST. JAMES co-authors the comical Silver Sisters Mysteries series with her real-life sister. It began with the award-winning “A Corpse in the Soup.” “Seven Deadly Samovars” was released in September 2010. “Vanishing Act in Vegas” is in work. Find her short stories in multiple anthologies, including two Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Two new novels, “Devil's Dance” and “The Devil’s Due,” written under the pen name Arliss Adams, are scheduled for 2010 publication, along with three short stories in anthologies. Memberships include Sisters in Crime/LA, Sisters in Crime/Southern Nevada, Henderson Writers Group and Public Safety Writers Association. She edits “On The Prowl”, the SinC/SNV newsletter, writes columns for www.examiner.com and www.perpetualprose.com and is a frequent speaker and panel member. Visit her websites: www.morganstjames-author.com and www.silversistersmysteries.com
Cindy Sample began her thirty year career in the mortgage industry as a receptionist, eventually becoming CEO of a nationwide company. After one too many mergers, she decided murder would be more entertaining than mortgages. Cindy's experiences with on-line dating fueled the concept for her first humorous mystery, DYING FOR A DATE, available June, 2010. Her series set in the California gold country features Laurel McKay, a divorced loan underwriter who joins a dating agency called "The Love Club," encountering far more bodies than a soccer mom should. Cindy writes a humor column entitled "Hot Flash" for the Gold River Community Newspaper. She is past president of Sacramento Sisters in Crime and co-chair of Left Coast Crime 2012 which will be held in Sacramento. Email her at cindysample@aol.com. www.cindysamplebooks.com
Novelist,
screenwriter, playwright Thomas B. Sawyer was Head Writer/Showrunner of the hit
CBS series, Murder, She Wrote, for which he wrote 24 episodes.
Tom has written 9 network TV pilots, 100 episodes, and has been Head Writer/Showrunner
or Story Editor on 15 network TV series. He wrote, directed and produced the
cult film comedy, Alice Goodbody, is co-librettist/lyricist of Jack,
an opera about John F. Kennedy, backed by the Shuberts, that has been performed
to acclaim in the US and Europe. He is publisher of Storybase 2.0
writer’s software. The best-selling mystery/thriller, The Sixteenth Man,
is his first novel. Both his book, Fiction Writing Demystified,
and Storybase are Writer's Digest Book Club Selections. His
latest thriller is the best-selling No Place to Run. He's taught
writing at UCLA, at other colleges and universities, at numerous major writers
conferences, and online at
Maggie Sefton is the New York Times Bestselling author of the Berkley Prime Crime Knitting Mysteries. The seventh in the series, DROPPED DEAD STITCH, June 2009, was Barnes & Noble #4 Bestselling Hardcover Mystery, staying on their bestseller list for five months. Publisher's Weekly has said about the series, "Readers will enjoy visiting with Kelly and her knitting buddies, who, in their carefree way, resemble the cast of Friends." Website: www.maggiesefton.com Blog: www.cozychicksblog.com
L.J. Sellers is an award-winning journalist and editor and the author of the Detective Wade Jackson mystery/suspense series. Her first two books, The Sex Club and Secrets to Die For are in print, and the third book, Thrilled to Death, will be released in August. Passions of the Dead and The Baby Thief will be published in 2011. When not plotting murders, L.J. enjoys cycling, social networking, attending mystery conferences, and editing fiction manuscripts.
Susan Shea
Elizabeth Sims is the author of the Rita Farmer mysteries (THE EXTRA, THE ACTRESS) and the Lambda Award-winning Lillian Byrd mysteries. She is also a Contributing Editor at Writer's Digest magazine, where she specializes in the art and craft of fiction. Her formative years were spent investigating the lives of Nancy Drew, Laura Ingalls, and Sherlock Holmes, as well as making gunpowder in the basement with her chemistry set. Now, as a published crime author, she's living proof that studying literature and misbehaving with reactive compounds can work out. She's a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Mensa International.
Linda Joy Singleton is the author of over 30 YA mystery/paranormal series
including the spooky DEAD GIRL trilogy and THE SEER series which features a
psychic sleuth. Linda also collects vintage girl series books (over 5,000 in a
personal library) and co-wrote a Judy Bolton mystery with her mentor Margaret
Sutton.
Author of the seven Margot O'Banion & Max Skull mysteries, Kit Sloane's offbeat stories chronicle the intricacies of Hollywood filmmaking from the point of view of her protagonist, feature film editor Margot O'Banion and her significant other, director Max Skull.
A longtime member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and Mystery Women of the UK, Kit was named one of Mills College's Literary Women. Kit and her professor husband live on a hilltop horse ranch in Northern California's sublime wine country.
Judith Klerman Smith
Kelli
Stanley’s second novel, City of City
of Kelli’s
debut novel, Nox Dormienda, won the
Bruce Alexander Award and was nominated for a Macavity. She lives in
Cole Thompson
Author of biographies, reviews, and suspense, West tackles starting over and staying young in FOREVER FATAL. In her humorous 2009 mystery, Aggie Mundeen enrolls as a "mature" grad student at San Antonio's University of the Holy Trinity to take Aspects of Aging. At Forever Fit Health Club, she wrestles with detestable machines to shape up. Then she stumbles into murder. When she draws the killer's attention, she defies police and concocts schemes to expose the culprit. Rollo K. Newsom PhD, editor of Lone Star Sleuths, writes "I love this book!" Elizabeth Hilborn says West's style is "wonderfully entertaining." Midwest Book Review calls the mystery "creative and original, well worth a read." www.nancygwest.com
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Alan
Cook began writing books after he abandoned the computer industry (or it
abandoned him). His latest mystery/suspense novel is Run
into Trouble. A footrace along the 
Adam Eisenberg is the Commissioner of Seattle
Municipal Court and the Author of A Different Shade of Blue: How Women
Changed the Face of Police Work. Before taking the bench, Commissioner
Eisenberg was a criminal prosecutor, a civil trial attorney, an advocate on
mental health and domestic violence issues, and a Los Angeles-based
entertainment journalist. His writing include extensive behind-the-scenes
coverage of Ghostbusters, Terminator and several Indiana Jones
files; and feature interviews with George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, James Cameron
and Oliver Stone. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times, The
Denver Post, Los Angeles Daily News, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Twilight Zone
Magazine, American Cinematographer, Cinefantastique and Cinefex.
As Commissioner, he currently presides over criminal and traffic court
matters. A Different Shade of Blue is his first book. 
Published
internationally, Wendy Hornsby is the author of eight mystery novels, six of them in the Maggie MacGowen series,and many short stories. Her work has been honored time and again.
Michael Mallory is the author of the “Amelia
Watson” series, which encompasses the collections The
Exploits of the Second Mrs. Watson and The
Adventures of the Second Mrs. Watson, and the novel Murder
in the Bath.
Linda Reid is a physician,
journalist, and author. She has written for TV and for the Los Angeles
Times, Washington Post, Woman’s Day, Huffington Post, and Salon.com as well as
many other publications and web sites. She has also hosted interview/talk
programs on TV and radio, bringing an authenticity to "Dead Air"s lead
character, Sammy Greene. Linda and her co-author Deborah Shlian use the
telephone and internet across the miles from Los Angeles to Boca Raton to
develop and write their Sammy Greene mystery thriller series. "Dead
Air" is the first book in the series, and has been named the winning
Thriller/Adventure in the USA Book News, Best Books 2009 Competition.
