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A. J. Diehl |
| Award-winning writer A.J. Diehl is the author of a report on crime and violence in the media. She's been featured as a spokesperson on radio and television, and in newspapers such as USA Today and The Los Angeles Times.
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Alan Orloff |
| Alan Orloff (Herndon, Virginia) is a member of Mystery Writers of America and The Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Diamonds for the Dead is his debut novel. Visit him at www.alanorloff.com.
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Alice Loweecey |
| Alice Loweecey is a former nun who went from the convent to playing prostitutes on stage to accepting her husband's marriage proposal on the second date. A regular contributor to BuddyHollywood.com, she is a member of Mystery Writers of America and ... |
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Amy Patricia Meade |
| Author of the critically acclaimed Marjorie McClelland Mysteries, Amy Patricia Meade is a native of Long Island, N.Y., where she earned bachelor's degrees in English and business. She enjoys traveling, cooking and classic films, and is a member of Sisters ... |
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Beth Groundwater |
| Beth Groundwater (Colorado Springs, CO) was an avid "river rat" in the 1980s. Her book, A Real Basket Case (Five Star Publishing), was a 2007 Agatha Award finalist for Best First Novel. She is the author of several award-winning stories and holds key ... |
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Bill Cameron |
| Bill Cameron lives with his wife in Portland, OR. His short stories have appeared in The Dunes Review and The Alsop Review. This is his first novel. ... |
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C.S. Challinor |
| C.S. Challinor (Florida) was educated in England and Scotland, and has traveled extensively. Her short stories have been published in women’s magazines in the United States and the United Kingdom. ... |
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Candy Calvert |
| Registered nurse Candy Calvert (Texas) is experienced in emergency medicine. She is a contributing author to the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Nurse's Soul and has won honors in writing competitions sponsored by Writers Digest and others. ... |
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Carol Culver |
| Carol Culver is the author of over thirty books, including several bestselling Harlequin romance novels for young adults. She has a BA in French and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. A former staff member of KQED, the author resides near the Bay Area of ... |
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Charles Atkins |
| Charles Atkins is a board-certified psychiatrist who maintains a clinical faculty position at Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Atkins also worked as a consultant to the Reader’s Digest Medical Breakthrough series. He currently co-writes a ... |
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Clark Hays |
| A poet and journalist, Clark Hays (Portland, OR) was raised on a 3,000-acre Montana cattle ranch. Hays’ work has appeared in journals, magazines and newspapers. Most recently, he was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for a short story appearing in ... |
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Cricket McRae |
| A former resident of the Pacific Northwest where her novels are set, Cricket McRae has always dabbled in the kind of practical home crafts that were once necessary to everyday life. The magical chemistry of making soap, the satisfaction of canning garden ... |
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Daniel Edward Craig |
| Daniel Edward Craig, author of the Five-Star Mystery series, draws on his years working in luxury hotels to delight readers with his hilarious behind-the-scenes novels set in the hotel business, where things are never as calm and dignified as they seem. ... |
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Darrell James |
| Darrell James’s short stories have appeared in numerous mystery magazines and book anthologies, and have garnered a number of awards, including finalist in the 2009 Derringer Awards. In addition, his personal odyssey to publication appears in the ... |
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Deb Baker |
| Deb Baker (Wisconsin) grew up in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She is a member of Sisters In Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and the International Sled Dog Association, where she actively races sled dogs. Her short stories have appeared in many ... |
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Deborah Sharp |
| Like the main character in her “Mace Bauer Mysteries,’’ her family roots were set in Florida long before Disney or Miami Vice. As a native and former reporter for USA Today, she knows the spots not found on maps: Molasses Junction. Muse, ... |
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Diane Gilbert Madsen |
| Chicago native Diane Gilbert Madsen (Florida) lived in the Windy City for years and at one time was the Director of Economic Development for the State of Illinois. She has an M.A. in English literature and is an active member of two Robert Burns ... |
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Elena Santangelo |
| Elena Santangelo (Pennsylvania) is an award-winning short story writer and an avid fan of both history and ghost stories. Her mystery and ghost tales have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Murderous Intent, and in the anthology Death ... |
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Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli |
| Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli (Michigan) is a writing instructor at Northwestern Michigan College. She is the author of novels, short stories, articles, and essays. Her work has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. Buzzelli is a member of the ... |
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Elizabeth Spann Craig |
| Elizabeth Spann Craig has spoken at the Cape Fear Crime Festival on the topics of Amateur Sleuths and Humorous Mysteries, and she appears with the Carolina Conspiracy mystery writing group in panels and conferences. She enjoys blogging about ... |
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Felicia Donovan |
| Felicia Donovan (New Hampshire) is a recognized expert in the field of law enforcement technology and currently works at a New England-based police department as a civilian Information Systems Manager. Swearing by the adage “every keystroke is ... |
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G.M. Malliet |
| G. M. Malliet worked as a journalist and copywriter for national and international news publications and public broadcasters. Winner of the Malice Domestic Grant (Death of a Cozy Writer), Malliet attended Oxford University and holds a graduate degree from ... |
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Gerald Anderson |
| Minnesota native Gerald Anderson (Moorhead, MN) is a professor of British and European history at North Dakota State University. ... |
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J.B. Stanley |
| J.B. Stanley has a BA in English from Franklin & Marshall College, an MA in English Literature from West Chester University, and an MLIS from North Carolina Central University. She taught sixth grade language arts in Cary, North Carolina for the ... |
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Jennifer Harlow |
| Jennifer Harlow (Manassas, VA) earned a BA from the University of Virginia in Psychology. Her eclectic work experience ranges from government investigator to radio DJ to lab assistant. She is also a member of Sisters in Crime.
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Jess Lourey |
| Jess Lourey is the author of the Lefty-nominated Murder-by-Month mysteries set in Battle Lake, Minnesota, and featuring amateur sleuth Mira James. Jess has been teaching writing and sociology at the college level since 1998. When not raising her wonderful ... |
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Jessie Chandler |
| Debut author Jessie Chandler is the Vice President of the Twin Cities chapter of Sisters in Crime. She runs a Lesbian Fiction book group at True Colors Bookstore, an independent, feminist-themed bookshop in the Twin Cities. In her spare time, Chandler ... |
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Jim Lavene |
| Bestselling authors and award-winning photojournalists, Joyce and Jim Lavene, are a husband and wife team who started writing novels in 1999 and have had more than 40 books published to date. In addition to their books, the Lavenes have published hundreds ... |
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Joanna Campbell Slan |
| Joanna Campbell Slan (Washington, D.C.) is an international authority in the scrapbooking community. She is the author of over ten books on the subject, and her work has appeared in all of the industry's top magazines. In 2004, Slan founded a contest for ... |
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Joe Moore |
| Joe Moore is a former marketing & communications executive and two-time EMMY® winner with 25 years experience in the television postproduction industry. Joe serves on the International Thriller Writers board of directors as Co-President. He writes ... |
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Joyce Lavene |
| Bestselling authors and award-winning photojournalists, Joyce and Jim Lavene, are a husband and wife team who started writing novels in 1999 and have had more than 40 books published to date. In addition to their books, the Lavenes have published hundreds ... |
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Julia Buckley |
| Julia Buckley (Illinois) has taught high school English for sixteen years and is married with two sons. ... |
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Karen MacInerney |
| Critically acclaimed author Karen MacInerney also teaches writers' workshops and drives a mean carpool. Her book Murder on the Rocks was selected as an Agatha nominee for Best First Novel. When she's not writing or chauffeuring children, she loves to ... |
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Kathleen Ernst |
| Kathleen Ernst (Madison, WI) is an award-winning author, educator, and social historian. She has published fourteen novels and one nonfiction book, earning her nominations for the Agatha Award, among other honors. She served as project ... |
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Kathleen McFall |
| Kathleen McFall (Portland, OR) is a journalist with a master’s degree in filmmaking from The American University. She was awarded a fellowship for fiction writing from Oregon Literary Arts. ... |
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Keith Raffel |
| Keith Raffel is the author of Dot Dead and Smasher. As counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Keith Raffel held a top secret clearance to watch over CIA activities. As a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he founded UpShot Corporation, the ... |
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Kit Frazier |
| Kit Frazier (Austin, TX) is a two-time first place winner in the Writers' League of Texas and San Antonio Romance Authors Emma Merritt awards. She is the managing editor of a regional magazine and participates in search and rescue missions with the ... |
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Leonard Goldberg |
| Leonard Goldberg (Los Angeles, CA and South Carolina) is the internationally best-selling author of the Joanna Blalock series. His critically acclaimed novels have sold more than a million copies worldwide. Goldberg is a consulting physician affiliated ... |
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Lisa Bork |
| Lisa Bork holds a bachelor’s degree in English and an M.B.A. in marketing, and worked in human resources and marketing before becoming a stay-at-home mom. When her children entered school fulltime, Lisa turned to writing to fill her days and ... |
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Lois Winston |
| Lois Winston (Westfield, NJ) is an award-winning author of romantic suspense and humorous women's fiction. She worked for several years as a crafts editor, and is also an award-winning designer of needlework and crafts projects. Visit her online at ... |
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Lynn Sholes |
| Lynn Sholes has worked as a writing trainer for Broward County Schools and Citrus County Schools in Florida. Before writing thrillers her interest in archaeology led her to write historical fiction under the name Lynn Armistead McKee. Lynn is a member of ... |
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M. J. Zellnik |
| A native of New York City, M. J. Zellnik was seduced by Portland's beauty and colorful history after an initial stay in 1995. She enjoyed learning more about her adopted home while writing Murder at the Portland Variety, her first novel, and is ... |
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Maddy Hunter |
| Maddy Hunter (Madison, WI) has endured disastrous vacations on three continents in the past five years. Dutch Me Deadly is the seventh novel in her critically acclaimed, bestselling Passport to Peril Mystery series. The first six titles are available from ... |
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Maggie Sefton |
| Maggie Sefton (Fort Collins, CO) is the author of the best-selling Knitting Mysteries (Penguin). Her books have spent several weeks on the Barnes and Noble bestseller list and the New York Times bestseller list. ... |
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Mark Terry |
| Mark Terry (Michigan) is a full-time writer and editor. The author of a collection of mystery novellas and a crime novel, he currently reviews books for The Oakland Press. Terry also has a degree in microbiology and experience with infectious disease ... |
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Nina Wright |
| Nina Wright is an award-winning playwright and novelist. She is the author of the Whiskey Mattimoe mystery series (Midnight Ink), Homefree (Flux), and other fiction for adults and younger readers. When not at her keyboard, Nina leads workshops in writing ... |
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Richard Greener |
| Richard Greener (Atlanta) is a former broadcast industry executive, an award-winning essayist, and recipient of the coveted CEBA Award for excellence in business. Born and raised in New York City, the author resides in Atlanta with his wife of ... |
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Robin Allen |
| Robin Allen holds a BA degree in English from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She worked in restaurants and bars to pay her way through college. If You Can't Stand the Heat is her first novel. ... |
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Rudy Stegemoeller |
| Rudy Stegemoeller (New York) is a lawyer and has won minor poker tournaments in Las Vegas and Atlantic City. He is the co-author of How to Win a Million, a satirical guide to gambling and family life. ... |
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Sebastian Stuart |
| Sebastian Stuart (Cambridge, MA) has been a full-time writer for more than twenty years. He is the author of plays, screenplays, political satire, and critically acclaimed novels, and was the credited ghostwriter of the novel Charm! (Hyperion), which ... |
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Stephen Parrish |
| Stephen Parrish (Germany) is a cartographer and gemologist. The Tavernier Stones is his first book. Visit him online at www.stephenparrish.com. ... |
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Sue Ann Jaffarian |
| Sue Ann Jaffarian is a full-time paralegal who lives and works in Los Angeles. A member of Mystery Writers of America and Sisters In Crime, Sue Ann is the author of three mystery series—Odelia Grey, Ghost of Granny Apples, and Madison ... |
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Susan Goodwill |
| Susan Goodwill (Michigan) has been involved in community theatre for years. She is a graduate of the Writers Retreat Workshop and a member of Sisters in Crime and Mystery Writers of America. Brigadoom is her first novel. ... |
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Terri Thayer |
| Terri Thayer (San Jose, CA) has quilted for more than twenty years. She teaches and works in a local quilt shop, is vice president and program chair of the Santa Clara Valley Quilt Association, and is a board member of the oldest quilt museum in the U ... |
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Tom Schreck |
| Tom Schreck’s novels are based on his experience as a former director of an inner city drug clinic and a professional boxing judge. Officiating fights at Madison Square Garden and elsewhere, he appears on HBO, Showtime, and ESPN. Schreck also ... |
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Vicki Doudera |
| Vicki Doudera is a million-dollar broker with a busy coastal firm handling luxury real estate. She is the author three nonfiction books on real estate and the Darby Farr Mystery Series. Her debut mystery, A House to Die For, was selected to the Best of ... |
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