STACY ALLEN holds an Advanced Open Water Diver certificate, with specialties in wreck diving and night diving. She has traveled to Italy many times. Her passion for adventure has taken her to six continents to explore over 50 countries. She has studied many languages, but is most comfortable with Italian and French, having studied both for many years. She has published two short stories, included in the Anthologies
Ship’s Log – Writings at Sea and
Lies and Limericks,
Inspirations from Ireland.
CLAIRE APPLEWHITE's is a graduate of St. Louis University, where she earned an AB in Communications and an MBA, Finance, and completed the Mercantile Leadership Program for Women. A past participant in the Writers Institute at Washington University, she is a contributing writer for House of Style magazine and an online reporter for Patch.com. Published works by L&L Dreamspell:
The Wrong Side of Memphis and
Moonlight Becomes You So (2009), Crazy For You (2010), St. Louis Hustle (2011). Candy Cadillac will be released in December, 2011. A book trailer is available on YouTube, Claireapplew2. Claire is the immediate passt President of the Missouri Writers Guild, a Board member of Midwest Chapter, Mystery Writers of America, and a member of the St. Louis Metropolitan Press Club, St. Louis Writers Guild, Greater St. Louis Chapter of Sisters in Crime, Ozark Writers League and Mystery Writers of America. In 2009, she organized Rouge et Noir, LLC. Please visit
http://claireapplewhite.com. for details.
DONALD BAIN is the author of more than 100 books, many of them bestsellers. He currently writes the
USA Today bestselling series of 37 original novels based upon the television series,
Murder, She Wrote. They're published by Obsidian, a new imprint from Penguin (NAL/Dutton), and are written “in collaboration" with TV's most famous mystery writer, Jessica Fletcher of "Murder, She Wrote," who exists only as a fictitious character. He has also written crime novels under the pseudonyms Nick Vasile (
Sado Cop &
A Member of the Family) & Mike Lundy (
Raven &
Baby Farm). His autobiography,
Murder HE Wrote: A Successful Writer's Life, published by Purdue University Press, is available everywhere. For more about Donald Bain, visit his website at
www.donaldbain.com.
THOMAS (TOM) COLLINS is one of the pioneer entrepreneurs of the information technology industry. The London publication, Citytech, named him as one of the Top 100 Global Tech Leaders in the legal community and he received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2010 from the US publication, Law Technology News. Find out more at
http://www.markrollinsadventures.com.
SEAN CRONIN has worked as a marketing executive at a Fortune 500 insurance company, ad agencies and multi-national market research firms. He is a musician with four Indy albums and wrote the songs that appear in
Sharp 9th. He holds a Masters degree from the University of Chicago. Read more about Sean and his Skinner Malloy Mystery Novel at
http://www.seancroninauthor.com/index.html
SYLVIA DICKEY SMITH is a novelist whose fiction has won the hearts of readers everywhere, especially in the South. She has published stories and essays in anthologies, and her Sidra Smart mystery series received terrific reviews. Her most recent release,
A War of Her Own, is a historical novel set in southeast Texas during WWII. Read more about it at
http://www.sylviadickeysmith.com/index.html
JEN ESTES is a former baseball sportswriter and the author of the Foul Ball Mystery Series starring rookie sportswriter Cat McDaniel. Read more about Jen, Cat and their deadly games of hardball at
www.jenestes.com.
LYNDA FITZGERALD has been writing all her life. She studied creative writing at both Georgia Perimeter College, where she was the winner of a Creative Writing Scholarship, and at Emory University. Lynda’s debut novel,
If Truth Be Told, was released by Five Star (Thompson-Gale) in June, 2007 and is set in Melbourne Beach, Florida. Find out more about Lynda's novels on her website
www.fitzgeraldwrites.com.
GRACE GREENE writes novels of love and suspense - always with a strong heroine at the heart of the story. In her debut novel,
Beach Rental, available in July 2011, a young woman marries a dying man for money and discovers a future worth living for - if she can overcome a threat from her past. Read more about Grace and
Beach Rental on her website at
www.GraceGreeneAuthor.com.
D.B. HENSON was born and raised in the southern United States. Her love of reading began at age six when she was given the first book in the Trixie Belden Mystery series. Shortly thereafter, she began writing stories of her own. A former real estate agent, D.B. most recently worked as the director of marketing for a construction company. During a slump in the housing market, D.B. made the decision to leave the construction industry and pursue her life-long dream of writing. D.B. and her husband currently reside near Nashville, Tennessee. Read more about D.B. Henson on her website at
www.dbhenson.com.
PHYLLIS JOHNSON, a native of Virginia, is the co-author of
inkBLOT, a YA suspense novel, written under the pen name, Johnson Naigle with writer, Nancy Naigle. This is Phyllis's debut novel. She is an internationally published author, poet and freelance photojournalist. Her published collection of poetry titled,
Being Frank With Anne, has received rave reviews by teachers and high profile individuals like Virginia's Poet Laureate Caroylyn Kreiter-Foronda and the 2007 Pulitzer prize winner for poetry, Nathasha Tretheway. Learn more at
www.phyllisjohnson.net.
DAVID E. KNOP is a retired Marine officer and a lifelong student of Native American mythology. Dave is a member of Sisters in Crime, Southwest Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and Public Safety Writers Association. To find out more about visit his webpage at
http://davidknop.net/.
MARILYN MEREDITH is the author of over thirty published novels, including the award winning Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery series, the latest
Invisible Path and
Bears With Us from Mundania Press. Writing as F. M. Meredith, her latest Rocky Bluff P.D. crime novel is
Angel Lost. Find out more about Marilyn and her books on her website
http://fictionforyou.com.
NANCY NAIGLE writes love stories from the crossroad of small town and suspense. In her upcoming
novel,
Out Of Focus, a mother gets snagged in a web of friendship and betrayal while
desperately searching for her missing son.
Out Of Focus ~ November 2011. Find out more at:
www.NancyNaigle.com.
A SCOTT PEARSON is a surgeon at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he teaches on the importance of the patient's narrative in medicine. He is the author of the novels
Rupture and
Public Anatomy. Read more at
ascottpearson.com.
RICK REED is a twenty-plus-year veteran police detective. During his career he successfully investigated numerous high-profile criminal cases, including a serial criminal who claimed thirteen victimes before strangling and dismembering his fourteenth and last victim. He recounted that story in his acclaimed true-crime book,
Blood Trail. Read more at
http://www.rickreedbooks.com/.
SANDRA ROBBINS, a former teacher and principal in the Tennessee public schools, writes mystery and romantic suspense for the inspirational market. With three books on the market at present and five more releasing, she is presently working on a suspense series set on a barrier island off the coast of North Carolina. Read more at
http://sandrarobbins.net or
www.sandrarobb.blogspot.com.
D.D. SCOTT is an Amazon and Barnes & Noble Top 100 Bestselling Romantic Comedy and Humorous Mystery Author. She's also a Writer's Go–To–Gal for Muse Therapy, plus the #1 Amazon Bestselling Author of Muse Therapy: Unleashing Your Inner Sybil and the Co–Founder of The WG2E – The Writer's Guide to E–Publishing – your destination site for Everything E–Publishing, and Founder of The RG2E – The Reader's Guide to Epublishing – the destination site for all–things E–reading. You can get all the scoop on me, my books, my Muse Therapy Online Classes and Live Workshops, plus juicy tidbits too on my site...
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CLAY STAFFORD has been a writer and filmmaker for almost three decades. His productions for
American Blackguard and PBS can be seen in over fourteen languages. Best known in the literary world for his adaptions of classic works for children, he has sold over 1,000,000 copies of his books worldwide. Read more at
www.ClayStafford.com.
SHEILA L. STEPHENS, former ATF&E Special Agent, holds an MS in Criminal Justice and is obtaining a PhD in Forensic Psychology. She is a criminal justice professor, a private investigator, consultant and author. Her
Everything Book of Private Investigation is a wonderful reference for all types of investigations. Read more at
www.SaferSecurityInc.com.
JADEN E. TERRELL, the author of a private detective series featuring Nashville P.I. Jared McKean, is a member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Private Eye Writers of America, and the Tennessee Writers Alliance. She is a former special education teacher and a graduate of the Citizen Police Academy. Read more at
www.ElizabethTerrell.com.
MILTON TOBY is an author and attorney based in Central Kentucky. He is the author of
Dancer's Image: The Forgotten Story of the 1968 Kentucky Derby and five other non-fiction books about Thoroughbred racing and equine law. A frequent presenter on copyright, publishing contracts, and other topics at national, regional, and local writers' workshops, Milt currently serves as Chair of the American Society of Journalists and Authors' Contracts Committee and as a Contributing Editor for The Big Thrill, the online newsletter of International Thriller Writers.
Thrillers: 100 Must Reads, nominated this year for Edgar and Anthony Awards, includes Milt's essay on
The Rose of Tibet, written by one of the best thriller writers no one has ever heard of, Lionel Davidson. His website is
www.miltonctoby.com.
