DAVID J. WALKER is the author of ten published mystery/suspense novels. His most recent book is Too Many Clients, a 2010 release from Severn House. This is the fifth book in his “Wild Onion, Ltd.” series, featuring a wife/husband private eye team. The sixth book in that series, The Towman’s Read more…
Terence Faherty is the author of the Edgar-nominated Owen Keane series, which follows the adventures of a failed seminarian turned metaphysical detective. He also writes the Shamus-winning Scott Elliott private eye series. Two new titles were published in the Elliott series in 2011, a short story collection, THE HOLLYWOOD OP Read more…
D.E. (Dan) Johnson, a graduate of Central Michigan University, is a history buff who has been writing fiction since childhood but had to hit his midlife crisis to get serious about it. His first novel, a historical mystery entitled The Detroit Electric Scheme, was published in September 2010 by St. Read more…
Sam Reaves has written seven Chicago-based crime novels, most recently Mean Town Blues. As Dominic Martell he has penned a European-based suspense trilogy. Reaves has traveled widely in Europe and the Middle East but has lived in the Chicago area most of his life. He has worked as a teacher Read more…
Jess Lourey is the author of the Lefty-nominated Murder-by-Month mysteries set in Battle Lake, Minnesota, and featuring amateur sleuth, Mira James. November Hunt, the seventh in the series, hit shelves March 2012. In a starred review, Booklist says, “It’s not easy to make people laugh while they’re on the edge Read more…
Amy Knupp lives in Wisconsin with her husband, two sons and five cats. She graduated from the University of Kansas with degrees in French and journalism and feels lucky to use very little of either one in her writing career. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, buying books in Read more…
Born in California and raised in the Midwest, Carrie Lofty met her English husband while studying abroad–the best souvenir! Since completing her master’s degree in history, she has been devoted to raising their two precocious daughters and writing full time. Carrie’s historical romances for Zebra and Carina Press have all Read more…
R. M. Ryan is the author of Vaudeville in the Dark, a recent book of poems. The NY Times said Ryan writes ” . . . like the best poets . . . at the junction of rapture and rupture.” In addition, Ryan is the author of a novel, The Read more…
Anjie Kokan is an internationally published and award-winning writer who has worked with writers of all ages in a variety of venues, including the Carroll Academy, the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater’s High School Creative Writing Festival, Wisconsin libraries, and public and private schools in Wisconsin and Illinois. Her work has Read more…
Born and raised in Indiana, JoLynne Ricker Whalen graduated from Purdue University with a B.A. degree in elementary education. A member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), she has published stories in Highlights for Children, Children’s Digest, and Hob-Nob. Her story “Belly Flops and Gutter Balls” Read more…